The Things You See At A Beach In Tel Aviv

This first came to light in May and has taken the world by storm.  Members of the Israeli military are required to carry their weapons at all times if they are taken outside their base. "But if she is on patrol in the snap," viewers wondered, "it's unclear why the soldier has opted for swimwear rather than a military uniform." One blogger further asked "Where does she keep her spare bullets?"

That question is a good one.

Where does she keep her spare bullets?

Free Speech Conference in Brussels

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com



Hat tip Brussels Journal, Europe News DK, MRC-TV, Gates of Vienna and Vlad Tepes

In the below-linked article from Gates of Vienna, the writer, Baron Bodissey, describes his participation in a conference for civil liberties a week back in Brussels. The conference, which involved a visit to the European Parliament, had to do with freedom of speech in Europe. It gives a great insight into the state of free speech in Europe, the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights of 1990 by the Organization of the Islamic Conference-now the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, as well as another recent conference in Istanbul-attended by none other than Hillary Clinton, in which the OIC is seeking a UN mandate for criminalize any criticism of religion-specifically Islam. I urge the reader to pay close attention to what the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights says. It all has to be in conformance with Sharia.

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.ca/2012/07/slouching-towards-brussels-redux.html

In addition, the video below from MRC-TV and Vlad Tepes features American writer Nidra Poller, who lives in Paris, speaking in Brussels on the topic of Islamic anti-Semitism and censorship.

http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=50434

I should add that the woman sitting on Ms Poller's right in the above video is Elisabeth Sabaditish-Wolff of Austria, who was recently prosecuted, convicted and fined in an Austrian court for her criticism of Islam.

Now read the text of a speech by Ingrid Carlqvist of Sweden as she describes what has happened to her country. (Hat tip Europe News DK)

http://europenews.dk/en/node/56566


Also keep in mind that the OIC is a 56-member-nation bloc-the largest voting bloc-within the UN. The international legislation they are seeking is already largely in effect in many European countries.

Add that to the self-imposed censorship of the American media, and what you have is what Ms Poller spoke of, a wealth of information known by those who take the trouble to do the research, but not known to the public at large because our leaders and the media will not educate the public truthfully for fear of being labled Islamophobic. As a result, we now tolerate another phobia-anti-Semitism- silently in the name of our own twisted sense of tolerance.

A Latma Moment

While on holiday and not producing a regular show, there are skits and songs being produced.  This is one:




In this sketch, Googleheimer, played by Noam Yacobson – who plays virtually all of Latma's fictional characters – gives a revealing monologue that sums up Googleheimer's world view.

While leftist satires like Channel 2's Eretz Nehederet routinely demonize nationalists on prime time television and even on El Al planes, the left does not seem as good at taking satire as it is at dishing it out, even if it is only a YouTube satire with a relatively limited audience.

Oppenheimer took exception to a previous Latma skit and accused the nationalist camp of "systematically and cunningly… attempting to portray whoever does not think like they do as anti-Israeli, as a traitor, as an enemy within."

"I find myself battling dark forces that try to put things in my mouth that I never said," he complained.

Latma editor-in-chief Caroline Glick said in response: "Oppenheimer is a hypocrite. We are a satirical program with a satirical message and he is a serious person. This is a person who calls an entire sector in Israel 'a cancer in the heart of the nation,' not in a skit, but in a serious article he published. So there is no need to get worked up over what he said."

The Latma team has received awards and had been in advanced negotiations with Israel's goverment-sponsored Channel One television for a permanent slot on TV, but the negotiations failed.

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Amazing Math Quiz...Reveals Your Favorite Movie

Stolen from The Last Refuge

I’m very good at math, so I did it in my head, then on paper, and finally on a calculator just to confirm my numerical capabilities. Each time I got the same answer, and sure enough: it is my very favorite movie ever.
DO NOT cheat and look at the movies. Do YOUR math, THEN compare the results to the list of movies at the bottom. You will be AMAZED at how scary true and accurate this test is.


1. Pick a number from 1-9.
2. Multiply by 3.
3. Add 3.
4. Multiply by 3 again.
5. Now add the two digits of your answer together to find your favorite movie (of all time) in the list of 17 movies below:




1. Gone With the Wind
2. E.T.
3. Blazing Saddles
4. Star Wars
5. Forrest Gump
6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
7. Jaws
8. Grease
9. The Obama Farewell Speech of 2012
10. Casablanca
11. Jurassic Park
12. Shrek
13. Pirates of the Caribbean
14. Titanic
15. Raiders of the Lost Ark
16. Home Alone
17. Mrs. Doubtfire


Now, isn’t that something?

Calling for prayers for a fellow blogger and his wife: Urgent and please read!

This from my good friend Patriot USA at Patriot's Corner

This is a call for prayer.

I am posting this on behalf of a fellow blogger whom I have never met.

He goes by the name Cool Change. His wife and best friend has been dealt a most serious blow that could happen to anyone of us. CC's wife was just diagnosed with advanced stage four cancer.

If you would be so kind as to go to his site, Tranquility Lost and leave a note of encouragement for CC and wife. They are going to war and if you are so inclined, please pray for CC's wife, him and all who may be in their family.

Personally, I do not know anyone who has not been touched by cancer.

The power of prayer, no words can describe what prayer can do.

Thanks for your prayers and time.

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Please take a minute or two and say a prayer for this woman and her family.  Stage 4 cancer is almost always terminal, thus both she and her family are facing the final journey.  With your prayers, this family can face whatever is to come upon them.


Thank you!

Earth-Directed X-Flare And CME

WARNING!!!!!

Big sunspot AR1520 erupted on July 12th around 16:53 UT, producing an X-class solar flare and hurling a CME directly toward Earth.  Forecasters expect the cloud to arrive on July 14th.  Its impact could spark moderate to severe geomagnetic storms, allowing auroras to be seen at lower latitudes than usual.


For one thing, it hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) directly toward our planet. According to a forecast track prepared by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the CME will hit Earth on July 14th around 10:20 UT (+/- 7 hours) and could spark strong geomagnetic storms. Sky watchers should be alert for auroras this weekend.

The explosion also strobed Earth with a pulse of extreme UV radiation, shown here in an image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:

The UV pulse partially ionized Earth's upper atmosphere, disturbing the normal propagation of radio signals around the planet. Monitoring stations in Norway and Ireland recorded the sudden ionospheric disturbance.

Finally, solar protons accelerated by the blast are swarming around Earth. The radiation storm, in progress, ranks "S1" on NOAA space weather scales, which means it poses no serious threat to satellites or astronauts. This could change if the storm continues to intensify.

For more information check with Space Weather.

Adopt a Lucky Black Cat... They have superpowers!

In honor of my new Grandkitty (Picture and name coming soon.).

10 Reasons You'd Be Lucky To Own A Black Cat...

Wednesday's Hero: SEAL Chief Petty Officer Donald McFaul

This Post Was Suggested By Michael




SEAL Chief Petty Officer Donald McFaul

32 years old from Bend, Oregon

Sea-Air-Land Team 4 (SEAL-4), Golf Platoon, Naval Special Warfare Task Unit PAPA December 20, 1989



Donald McFaul enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1975 and began working as engine specialist. In 1978 he began his Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL(BUD/S) training and was assigned to SEAL Team One upon graduation did three tours of duty conducting special operations. He left the Navy in 1985 but returned in '88 and was assigned to SEAL Team 4. He was deployed to Panama in December of 1989. On December 20 he was KIA during the capture of Paitilla Airfield in Panama City. For his action that day he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. And in 1998 the USS McFaul was commissioned.

The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Navy Cross (Posthumously) to Chief Engineman Donald L. McFaul (NSN: 541641184), United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism while serving as Platoon Chief Petty Officer of Sea-Air-Land Team FOUR (SEAL-4), GOLF Platoon during Operation JUST CAUSE at Paitilla Airfield, Republic of Panama on 20 December 1989. Chief Petty Officer McFaul's platoon was an element of Naval Special Warfare Task Unit PAPA, whose crucial mission was to deny to General Noriega and his associates the use of Paitilla Airfield as an avenue of escape from Panama. After insertion from sea by rubber raiding craft, Golf Platoon was patrolling toward their objective, a hangar housing General Noriega's aircraft, when they were engaged by heavy small arms fire. Realizing that most of the first squad, 25 meters north of his position, had been wounded, he left the relative safety of his own position in order to assist the wounded lying helplessly exposed. Under heavy enemy fire and with total disregard for his personal safety, Chief Petty Officer McFaul moved forward into the kill zone and began carrying a seriously wounded platoon member to safety. As he was nearing the safety of his own force's perimeter, he was mortally wounded by enemy fire. Chief Petty Officer McFaul's heroic actions and courage under fire saved his teammate's life and were an inspiration for other acts of heroism as the assault force prevailed in this decisive battle. By his extraordinary bravery, personal sacrifice, and inspiring devotion to duty, Chief Petty Officer McFaul reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives just so others may get to enjoy freedom. For that I am proud to call them Hero.

Those Who Say That We're In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don't Know Where To Look.

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

Where Is This?

Arabs shopping but where?  Dearborn, MI?  Egypt?  Syria?

Where is this?

Central Public Library.  Egypt?  Syria?  Jordan?  Saudi Arabia?

Where is this?

Nice Hotel.  Las Vegas?  New York?  Los Angeles?

None of these pictures are where you expect them to be.  Find out where they are here.  You will be surprised!

It Has Been 65 Days!

Every day since Ted Kennedy gave the Obamas Bo his schedule, his picture was open for the world to see.  Yet for the last 65 days nobody has seen, no word about where the dog is.

Is he alive?
Is he happy?
Is he digging up Michelle's garden?

Where is he?

You are looking well fed Mr. President!

Did you eat the dog?

Let's Help Eric Allen Bell

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com



Recently, I have had the opportunity to meet film maker Eric Allen Bell. As my readers may know, Eric is heavily involved in the Murfreesboro, Tennessee mosque project. When he initially traveled to Murfreesboro to make a documentary on the construction controversy, he was supportive of the local Muslim community's right to build a place of worship. Yet, the more he learned about the project, the people behind the mosque, and their questionable connections, Eric turned against the mosque project. He is now speaking out publicly about what he has learned-and at great personal cost as his letter below outlines.

For taking another view, Eric, who had described himself as a liberal, has been turned on by his "friends" in Hollywood. Not only that, he has endured threats against himself and his family. At this point, it is an act of courage for Eric to continue to speak out. Most recently, Eric appeared on Fox and Friends to discuss his experiences (which I have posted).


As I stated, I have met with Eric, and I am confident that he holds no animus toward Muslims as people. Yet, he has shown great moral and personal courage in speaking out because he feels so strongly about the jihadist Islamic movement to impose Islam on others. He has learned like the rest of us that there are many so-called Muslim leaders who are spreading a deceitful message to the public (stealth jihadists). 


At this point, Eric needs our help. I have sent what I can, and I hope when you read this letter, you will send what you can. Eric is a valuable asset in the anti-jihadist movement, and we need his work to continue. Here is Eric's letter.
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"On July 4, 2010 I began production on a documentary called, “Not Welcome” believing I would expose the problem of “Islamophobia” in America.  Along the way I was hijacked by the truth about Islam.  Since that time I have committed myself to using media to expose the truth, about the most brutal political and legal system in the world – Islam.  And it has cost me everything.

I believe strongly that history will show that the threat coming from Islam is the defining issue of our time – and that us so-called “Islamophobes” will be remembered as the voices of reason.

Instead of continuing with a documentary that simply was not true, I gave my financial backers their funding back and I started writing articles about Islam.  So far, every single one of those articles has gone viral, worldwide.  And I am just getting started.  Some of this material has broken out of the Counter Jihad bubble and been seen in the Examiner, the Huffington Post, USA Today and Fox News.

I have gone on the radio over and over to educate the public about the threat the Muslim Brotherhood in America presents to us, as they try to “destroy the West from within”.

I have received so many threats that I can no longer remember them all – but in the beginning there were more than a few sleepless nights.  But in time, my fear turned into a fierce determination.

I have paid the high price of telling the truth about Islam, and continue to do so.  And I am not ashamed by what I am about to tell you and what I am about to ask of you.

I have lost most of my Liberal friends.

I have lost my reputation in Hollywood.

I have lost my livelihood.

Most of my family members no longer talk to me.

I had to sell my car in order to pay my rent - and it's that money is now gone.

I am late on every single bill.

But I have not allowed any of this to stop me.  In fact, I am in the process of writing a book about my awakening on this vital issue, with a call to action to all civilized people to stand up to Islam using the best weapon we have available to us – and that is information.

Although there are several publishers now interested in publishing my yet unfinished book, I have not accepted an advance – because with an advance comes editorial control which I am not willing to give up.
I refuse to tow the media party line and refer to acts of terrorism as “radical Islam”.  The truth is that if Mohammed were alive on 9/11, he would have sanctioned the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.  Mohammed would have sanctioned the over 19,000 acts of Islamic terrorism that have occurred since.  These terrorists are not “radical Muslims” they are just simply devout – following the “highest moral example” in Islam.

New mosque construction in the United States, funded primarily by foreign Islamic sources that are hostile to the United States, has doubled since we were attacked on 9/11.  This is in keeping iwth a tradition of 1,400 years of Islamic conquest.

So, I have created a website called Global Infidel TV (www.Globalinfidel.TV) to make information about the human rights abuses in Islam available, in primarily video format for the short attention span.  It is worth noting that I had created another website, for another cause, which has had 27 million visitors in the past 2 years.  I bring that experience, commitment and expertise to this project as well.

I have created a website called Mosque Confidential (www.MosqueConfidential.com) where I have received a treasure trove of leaked documents and emails which I am using to expose mosques which are involved in Stealth Jihad.  Certain members of the media have become sympathetic to our cause when they see what I have to show them and have expressed a commitment in helping with this cause in any way they can.

I am building bridges, strengthening alliances and never taken my eye off the prize - we just simply must end Sharia in America and dramatically reduce its power in the world overall.  I am committed to this cause, as I know you are as well.

I have met with elected officials and shared with them what I have learned and engaged them in the process of taking action, specifically against the mega mosque in Murfreesboro, TN.  Using our own laws, our media, and without violating any laws or anyone's civil rights, we will make an example out of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro.

Recently I appeared on “Fox and Friends” and told the truth about Mohammed.  Minutes after airing, I received a call from the producers saying that the viewer feedback was so immediately positive that they wanted to know if they could announce right then, live, that I would come back tomorrow.  I was invited back the next day for 2, longer segments, where I was able to expose to 2 million people, live on national television, the names of Muslim Brotherhood operatives at the Murfreesboro Mosque, based on my findings - and I was able to demonstrate that you do not have to be afraid to just simply tell the truth when it comes to Islam.

And now I REALLY NEED YOUR HELP!

Contrary to what CAIR and their front organizations are publishing about me, I am not on anyone’s payroll.  In fact, in order to continue with this work, I need to be able to pay for my hotel room, occasional security, and other basic costs involved with staying the course on this path which I feel called to - and I'm out of money.

It is critical at this time that we send a loud and resounding message to the foreign Islamic infiltrators, such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Saudi Arabia, that this is not Sweden or Norway or the UK.  This is the United States of America and we will not stand by idly while outside forces attempt to impose Islamic law on our society, on our educational system, our media, our culture, our laws.  I am committed to playing a critical role in this process, but I need your help and I need it today.

Please, if you can afford to donate anything at all, now more than ever, I really need your help.
I have created a Donate button on both www.MosqueConfidential.com and on www.Globalinfidel.TV using PayPal.  You do not need to have a PayPal account, just a credit or debit card to do your part, to help support my work, in spreading this vital information to the sleeping masses.

These are my short term needs.  In closing, it is also worth mentioning that I need some major backing to execute a more long term plan, to shine the light on the attempted Islamization of the West.  I welcome any dialogue with anyone who feels called, to throw their hat in with me and become a partner in this important cause.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.   You can donate right now by clicking this link:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=AGBKX882X9PJY

Also, please feel free to contact me at any time at: Eric@BellMedia.org

Best,

Eric Allen Bell
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Remembering 7/7

Yesterday was the 7th anniversary of the Terrorist attack on London by a group of Muslims.  These terrorists were not from the poorest of nations or were uneducated yokels, but where native Brits, educated and living in comfort and plenty.  There goes that argument that poverty and illiteracy are the causes for terrorism.

These homegrown terrorist chose their day well.  London was suppose to the be crowded with people celebrating the granting to London of the 2012 Summer Olympics.  That celebration was cancelled and when it happened, it was very subdued.

52 Innocent people were murdered by 4 Muslim terrorists.  52 people who were just going through life without a care in the world.  They were:

James Adams, 32 Lee Baisden, 34 Samantha Badham, 36  Phil Beer, 22  Ania Brandt, 41   Michael Stanley Brewster, 52  Ciaran Cassidy, 22  Rachelle Lieng Siong Chung For Yuen, 27  Benedetta Ciaccia, 30
Elizabeth Daplyn, 26  Jonathan Downey, 34  Richard Ellery, 21  Anthony Fatayi-Williams  David Foulkes, 22
Arthur Edlin Frederick, 60  Karolina Gluck, 29  Jamie Gordon, 30  Richard Gray, 41  Gamze Gunoral, 24
Lee Harris, 30  Giles Hart, 55  Marie Hartley, 34  Miriam Hyman, 31  Ojara Ikeagwu, 55  Shahara A Islam, 20
Neetu Jain, 37  Emily Jenkins, 24  Adrian Johnson, 38  Helen Jones, 28  Susan Levy, 53  Sam Ly, 28
Shelley Mather, 26  Mike Matsushita, 37  James Mayes, 28  Anne Moffat, 48  Colin Morley, 52  Behnaz Mozakka, 48  Jennifer Nicholson, 24  Mihaela Otto, 46  Shyanuja Parathasangary, 30  Anat Rosenberg, 29
Philip Russell, 28  Attique Sharifi, 24  Ihab Slimane, 24  Christian Small, 28  Fiona Stevenson, 29
Monika Suchocka, 23  Carrie Taylor 24  Mala Trivedi  Laura Susan Webb, 29  William Wise  Gladys Wundowa, 50

May G-d Avenge Their Deaths!!

In a few weeks the 2012 Summer Olympics will open and let us pray that no terror attack occurs.

A Big Thank You

To all who has donated to the Monkey in the Middle Fund.

Your generosity has touched me greatly.

Thank You!

New Kangaroo Court For Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani

Please keep this man in your prayers.  Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, jailed for being a Christian and preaching Christianity in Iran has been tried and sentenced to Death.  Yet pressure from the world has forced the Iranians to give him another Show Trial in their Kangaroo Courts.

A new court date has been set for Youcef Nadarkhani, the Iranian pastor on death row who has been imprisoned for nearly 1,000 days, but his supporters remain in the dark about what it could mean for his ultimate fate, FoxNews.com has learned.

Nadarkhani, 35, is scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 8, according to Jordan Sekulow, executive Director of the American Center for Law and Justice, which has been closely monitoring the case.

“We do not know the purpose of the appearance or the likelihood of new charges,” Sekulow told FoxNews.com. “We want to dispel any rumors that his current apostasy charge, for which he was sentenced to death, has been removed. Until the regime unconditionally exonerates and releases Pastor Youcef, his apostasy charge stands.”

The length of Nadarkhani’s imprisonment will reach 1,000 days on Sunday, said Sekulow, who remains hopeful that growing international attention will lead to his unconditional release.

“Our global support to free Pastor Youcef continues to grow,” he said. “Our Tweet for Youcef campaign now reaches more than 2.5 million people a day in more than 220 counties and territories."

Nadarkhani, a pastor in a network of house churches, has been jailed since being arrested on Oct. 13, 2009, after he went to his son’s school to complain about them starting mandatory Koran classes. He was then charged with apostasy from Islam. He was found guilty by the Iranian Supreme Court and sentenced to death in 2010 and has been imprisoned ever since.

Present Truth Ministries, a Minnesota-based organization, said in a statement Thursday that Nadarkhani will likely be tried for crimes against security in September.

“Our sources in Iran have informed us that Youcef has been officially notified of a new trial for crimes against national security in September,” the ministry said. “We assume by implication that this means the charges of apostasy have been dropped since the new charges have been issued, but we have no confirmation of that.”

In May, Nadarkhani thanked his supporters in a letter released by Washington-based human rights group American Center for Law and Justice.

“First, I would like to inform all of my beloved brothers and sisters that I am in perfect health in the flesh and spirit,” the letter read. “From time to time I am informed about the news, which is spreading in the media, about my current situation … or campaigns and human rights activities which are going on against the charges which are applied to me.”

An apostate, according to Islamic Sharia law, has three days to recant. Nadarkhani has refused to do so and sources close to the matter say executions in Iran can happen at any time, often without notice. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution earlier this year condemning his imprisonment and calling for his immediate release.

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The Iranian government has already convicted Pastor Nadarkhani of treason, opposing Islam, preaching Christianity, operating a brothel, and whatever else these brain-dead idiots can think of.

The truth is that Pastor Nadarkhani is guilty of leaving Islam, becoming a Christian, and preaching Christianity.  All that are crimes holding the death penalty in Iran.  One cannot be any faith other than Muslim or one will be killed.

Youcef Nadarkhani is guilty of believing that Islam is based on lies and that he has chosen a different faith.  That is all.  Not a crime in a civilized nation, but who ever said that any Muslim nation is civilized?

When Musicians Were Worthy Of Our Adoration!

I received this from my good friend Poppy.  She is from Galesburg, Illinois and now resides in Scotland.

When Sousa came to Galesburg

 

All over the country, this July 4th, bands will be playing the music of John Philip Sousa, and espe­cially his “Stars and Stripes Forever,” the “National March” of the United States and what some would say is the best march ever written. Sousa wrote that march in 1897, and citizens of Galesburg were among the first to hear it, with the composer conducting, when Sousa and his band performed in Galesburg on a winter evening in 1898.

Sousa, an America-born son of Portuguese and Bavarian emigrant parents, studied music from an early age, including violin and music theory. Also from an early age, he began to perform and compose music of a sort we would now call “light clas­sical.” He also grew into a profi­cient conductor – of theatrical orchestras, of the U.S. Marine Band starting in 1880, and then of his own group, Sousa’s Band, starting in 1892.

From the beginning, with his own band, Sousa hired the best musi­cians available, many of them European and many with expe­rience playing in profes­sional orchestras. Before long the group’s repu­tation was such that it was the aspi­ration of many a young American musician to play in it. Sousa himself even­tually became a celebrity, known for his dramatic conducting. (Otis Skinner said that Sousa was “away ahead of all of us” as a performer, though the great actor noted that Sousa’s skilled musi­cians had some­thing to do with his success.)

At the time he performed in Galesburg in 1898, Sousa had reached a high point in his career. His band had become an immense success, and it would soon start a series of European tours. Sousa was, for a time, “The world’s most widely known musician,” according to the “New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musi­cians.” When they came to Galesburg, Sousa’s band was on a tour that had already taken them through New England, part of Canada and now the Midwest.

The Evening Mail adver­tisement for the Galesburg perfor­mance, billing Sousa as “The March King” (an appel­lation still used today) notes that the band would perform at the Audi­torium on North Broad Street in Galesburg on the evening of February 10th, 1898. The adver­tisement also includes a picture of the conductor and says that tickets for the perfor­mance, part of the band’s “Twelfth Semi-Annual Tour,” are $1 for the Lower Floor, 75 cents for the Balcony and 50 cents for the Gallery.

The glowing account of the concert in the next day’s Evening Mail notes that the band played to “a packed house,” “won enthu­si­astic applause” and played twelve encores, “an unusual concession for any profes­sional Company.” The encores, though, were part of Sousa’s usual, crowd-pleasing practice. His printed program often listed only about 10 pieces, but the band’s custom was to perform encores after almost every scheduled selection.

That evening’s program was described as mostly “popular” music, though it included band arrange­ments of music by Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, and perfor­mances by a “violiniste,” Jennie Hoyle, and soprano Maude Reese Davis. There was also a trombone solo by Arthur Pryor, Sousa’s assistant conductor who was to go on in later years to lead a popular band of his own.

No doubt the concert included many examples of Sousa’s specialty, military marches. Only a few are mentioned in the news­paper account, including “El Capitan” and “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” (That title was later to be used for a movie based on Sousa’s life).

The Evening Mail account ends with praise for Sousa the conductor and his “rare exhi­bition of skill. The great band plays as one piece, in perfect time and harmony.” Sousa’s music and the skill of his band in performing it made him immensely popular. Perhaps it captured the nation­al­istic spirit that was building in the country at this time.

Only five days after the Sousa Band’s appearance in Galesburg, the battleship Maine was sunk in Havana harbor, beginning the Spanish-American war. In the months ahead, the band would play patriotic concerts for wildly enthu­si­astic crowds in many cities. In May, in Cleveland, they accom­panied the Ohio National Guard unit to the depot as the troops left for the war, one of the few times Sousa’s ensemble func­tioned as an actual marching band.

Sousa went on for many years as America’s most popular band­leader and patriotic music composer, though his best marches, such as “Semper Fidelis,” “Wash­ington Post,” and “Liberty Bell” were all composed in the late nine­teenth century. They are still familiar to millions of amateur musi­cians who play in high school or municipal bands.

While in Galesburg, the Sousa Band appar­ently stayed at the Union Hotel, across the street from the Audi­torium. The desk clerk at the hotel, James Otway, kept an auto­graph book, now in the Galesburg Public Library’s Special Collec­tions Room, in which Sousa left a memento of his visit. There is the signature of “the March King” and above it the musical notation for a few measures of his newly composed and now immortal “Stars and Stripes Forever.”

That was a time of patriotism, a time in which love of country was not an obscenity.  It was a time in which our musicians promoted the idea of nation, of country.  Instead of looking at the past in terms of "Ugly American", they saw the promise that this nation gives.

Our so-called celebrities could learn a lesson from John Philip Sousa.  Instead of damning America, they should get down on their knees and thank G-d that there is an United States of America.  Especially on July 4th.  And every day.

Please Sir, Will You Donate

To Monkey in the Middle.

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Obama's "Civilian National Security Force"

Hat Tip to Faultline USA

Obama's "Civilian National Security Force"
All Dictators Need their Own Police Force
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

Four years ago this month -- on July 2nd, 2008 -- Obama delivered a speech in Boulder, Colorado in which he promised the creation and establishment of a "Civilian National Security Force."  He further promised it would be "just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded as the US Military."

It is well known amongst dictators, the world over, that a private army is necessary to control the great unwashed masses over which they force their rule.

We have seen Obama steadily assume dictatorial powers over apathetic Americans in just three and a half years.  He has all but hushed the people's voice in government, the US Congress, by simply by-passing them and ruling by executive order -- just like any other two-bit dictator.  Some feel even the US Supreme Court has lost the steel from its collective spine under withering pressure from our budding domestic dictator, Obama.

If one did not know better, one would think there is a move afoot to institute a complete Marxist insurgency in America with Obama at the top -- and  -- at the leading edge.

"The things done in every Marxist insurgency are being done in America today." ... Retired Lt. General William G."Jerry" Boykin says in a new video he has just released .  Boykin is a decorated former Delta Force Commander, US Deputy Under Secretary for Defense, and a recipient of the Purple Heart. 

General  Boykin is troubled by Obama's promise of a "Civilian National Security Force."   Boykin says the formation of such a force is included in the thousands of pages of the Obamacare Law, AKA:  "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."   Boykin says such a police force would be at Obama's disposal and is similar to national police forces socialist tyrants used to complete their revolutions. SOURCE

Then -- there is the expected drive by Obama to regulate private gun ownership within the US, plus the nationalization of some leading industries, and even stricter regulation of key financial sectors of the US economy -- and a pattern begins to emerge.

Boykin says all these moves by Obama fit the model used by societies when they move to Marxism.  SOURCE
 There is an excellent article on this at:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/hero-general-obama-following-castros-plan/ 

We urge you to visit the site above and, while there, view General Boykin's video.  It is jaw-dropping.

These private armies/secret police forces have had different names throughout history but their records drip with blood and power and tyranny.

Lets look at just a few:

The Praetorian Guard was a special force of household troops used by Roman Emperors.  Augustus saw the need to establish a body of soldiers explicitly loyal to himself. Following the death of Sejanus the Guards began to play an increasingly ambitious and bloody game in the Empire. With the right amount of money, or at will, they assassinated emperors, bullied their own Prefects, or turned on the people of Rome. In 41 Caligula was killed by conspirators from the senatorial class and from the Guard. The Praetorians placed Claudius on the throne, daring the Senate to oppose their decision.

In 1925 Adolf Hitler formed his own personal bodyguard called the Schutzstaffel (SS). The SS was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The SS grew from a small paramilitary unit to an elite, powerful, force that served as the Fuhrer’s “Praetorian Guard’ the Nazi Party's "Shield Squadron" and a force with as much political influence as the regular German Armed Forces.  Built upon the Nazi racial ideology, the SS, under Heinrich Himmler’s command, is said  to be primarily responsible for many of the war crimes perpetrated by the Nazis during World War Two.

In Obama's speech in Colorado back in 2008 he said this:

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

For those of you who traipsed into the voting booth and dropped a ballot for Obama, ask yourselves this: Has Obama described a “New National Brownshirts” organization to make sure you conform to the “Change” he promised to bring -- and IS bringing?

Yes, it is called the "Civilian National Security Force.” But what will be its duties? What Obama described is another military unit separate from the current US Military.

Other countries have, or had, their national security forces.  Countries like the old Soviet Union, Cuba, China, North Korea, and Venezuela, and in the past, Hitler’s own “SS,” and let us not forget the Iranian “Revolutionary Guard.”  Glancing over this list of nations…did you happen to notice any similarities among them?       

 Alan Caruba,  a friend and fellow blogger,  said in November 2008: “Barack Obama wants to institute a Civilian National Security Force, a vast militia not unlike Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a personal army. He knows he would need such a force to protect him and to enforce his will on Americans.”  Alan went on to say: “If you want to see another civil war, just wait for this new security force to come into being. Obama would need it because the concept of Posse Comitatus forbids the use of the U.S. military to enforce laws within the nation. An army of domestic followers of “the One” would fill that need, assuming that all other law enforcement agencies failed to resist such a horrendous plan."

SOURCE:  http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2008/11/there-will-be-no-one-left-to-protect.html

Mr. Caruba is “spot on” as our Brit cousins used to say.

We have learned that ammunition sales and firearms sales are at an historical high currently within the United States. Americans are exercising their 2nd Amendment rights.  Our forefathers put that amendment in the US Constitution for just such emergencies as the one we may be seeing develop right now.

Few American gun owners are aware that both Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are leaning on the US Senate to ratify the UN's Small Arms Treaty which would regulate private gun ownership in America -- superseding the US Constitution's 2nd Amendment.  Even if the US Senate does not ratify that treaty, how sure are we that the Obama administration will not find a way to do the same thing through a Presidential executive order?

Some say the US Supreme Court will never allow that to happen.  After what the SCOTUS just did -- just days ago -- by finding Obamacare constitutional -- do you REALLY want to count on them to stand up to Obama?  REALLY?

And what's to stop our wanna-be dictator President from regulating private ownership of guns in America  -- by executive order? 

Now, here is the bone chilling truth:  SOME American citizens will be, as usual, completely happy to allow the government to do whatever it wants as long as nothing is required of them.  However, by and large, Americans will not sit idly by and allow a President (or a Congress) to go “rogue” on us without resisting with whatever means necessary.

At the risk of being referred to as some sort of Swamp Pundit, allow me to assure you it takes no special skill, no special talent, or gift, to know there will be domestic violence in America’s future. The country is ruptured now -- and seething with anger. Obama’s tossing of salt into the wound with his own “Praetorian Guard” will have no curative effect.  In fact, it could easily ignite the smoldering powder keg that is America today.  

So what do we do?

First -- make sure Obama is NOT reelected in November!  Second -- repeal Obamacare! 

Remember:  If Obama is reelected in 2012, the chances of an election, at all, in 2016 is almost nil.

J. D. Longstreet

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Does anyone remember when President Barack Hussein Obama told us that he was going to form his Civilian National Security Force Private Army?  And then like now the Lame Stream Media forgot to inform the American People.  Why does Obama need a Private Army?  Only dictators need one.

Since Obama wants a Private Army, wants dictatorial powers, enjoys the perks of his office, does anyone actually believe that when voted out of office on November 6th he will actually relinquish his office, his power.

I'm beginning to believe he will never relinquish the office of President.  We just may be stuck with King Barack the First.  G-d help us then.

Up Is Down & Down Is Up

Black is White and White is Black

I am not surprised at this.  After all they did the same for Libya's Qadaffy.

GENEVA - In the past decade, the U.N. Human Rights Council elected Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya as chair, hailed Sri Lanka’s “promotion and protection of all human rights” after its army had killed thousands of civilians, and convened an emergency session to lament the death of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder of the Hamas terrorist organization.

Even so, historians will now have to decide whether the U.N.’s flagship human rights body is about to sink to a new low.

According to a U.S.-sponsored and EU-backed draft resolution that was debated today during informal meetings at the council in Geneva, the murderous regime of Bashar al-Assad is a declared candidate for a seat on the 47-nation U.N. body, in elections to be held next year at the 193-member General Assembly.

As part of the U.N.’s 53-nation Asian group, Syria’s candidacy would be virtually assured of victory due to the prevalent system of fixed slates, whereby regional groups orchestrate uncontested elections, naming only as many candidates as allotted seats.

That’s how non-democracies like China, Cuba, Russia and Saudi Arabia won their current seats, and how Pakistan and Venezuela are about to do the same.

Fears that Syria will indeed win—in a 2013 election for a position starting the following year—appear to have mobilized the U.S. and the European Union into taking the unprecedented action of asking the council to declare in advance that a candidate country, in this case Syria, be declared inherently disqualified to join its ranks.

In a strongly-worded resolution condemning the Syrian government for committing atrocities, slated for a Friday vote, paragraph 14 “stresses that the current Syrian government’s announced candidacy for the Human Rights Council in 2014 fails to meet the standards for Council membership” as set forth in its founding charter. That Syria is a contender came as a major revelation.

Shockingly, the perfectly reasonable attempt to keep Syria away from the world’s highest human rights body was met with strong resistance.

In today’s discussions, Cuba declared itself “totally opposed,” and demanded the paragraph’s deletion, a position quickly echoed by China. It was for the General Assembly to decide whom to elect, insisted Havana.

“We don’t like to speak to country candidacies,” added Egypt. Brazil argued that the reference to council membership was “outside the scope of the resolution.”

Russia insisted that no action be taken until Assad’s candidacy was formally submitted. Likewise, India believed the subject was “premature.”

However, as noted by the Americans, the public record shows otherwise. Syria actually had declared its official candidacy in early 2011, around the time the killings began.

It was only after UN Watch revealed Assad’s bid and organized an international coalition of human rights groups to fight it that Western democracies rallied to the cause, applying heavy pressure on the Asian states. At the last minute, on May 11th last year, a deal was announced: Kuwait would replace Syria.

Assad’s U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari made clear, however, that his country had agreed only “to reschedule the timing of our candidacy,” saying they would run instead in the 2013 elections, for a three-year term.

His Kuwaiti counterpart corroborated the pact. “We agreed to exchange terms,” said Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Alotaibi. “Syria is not withdrawing,” he told reporters.

But once Kuwait’s entry ended the controversy, no one—until now—had paid any attention to the fact that Syria would actually run again soon.

Though it’s truly difficult to imagine how the Asians could, in face of all the horrors taking place, allow Syria to be one its candidates, the reality is that they did so just last year, changing their minds only after massive lobbying.

What is more, this past November Syria won unanimous election to two human rights committees of UNESCO, the U.N.’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Despite the suspension of Assad’s regime from the Arab League, the very same nations’ UNESCO ambassadors in Paris refused to allow objections to a country’s human rights record to interfere with their backroom rotation deals—lest one day the precedent be used against them. They nominated Syria, and it was duly elected.

After UN Watch campaigned against this obscenity, too, the U.S. and Britain attempted remedial action. Yet despite their best efforts, the old boys’ club could not be convinced to expel one of their own. Syria remains a full member of UNESCO’s committee to judge human rights complaints, and of its committee dealing with human rights organizations.

And unless America’s laudable effort succeeds, Syria may soon win a seat on the world’s highest human rights body as well.

Nothing surprises me when one mentions The United Nations Tower of Babel.  There the normal rules of decency and humanity are in reverse.  Kill 10,000 of your people and you are the world's top humanitarian.  But give women, and minorities equal rights and you are a mass murderer.  And if you are a Jew, then you are the worse scum on the Earth.

It is time that we stop funding this Tower of Babel.  Let the Muslim world fund them and their insanity.  It is time that we throw this Palace of Hypocrisy out of our nation.  And perhaps remove ourselves (And the rest of the Civilized World.) from this Monstrosity of Justice.

High Solar Activity

From Space Weather:

Sunspot AR1515 has grown into a behemoth more than 10 times wider than Earth. The active region is crackling with M-class solar flares and seems poised to produce even stronger X-flares in the days ahead. At least one CME is en route to Earth, and ham radio operators are reporting shortwave solar radio bursts roaring from the loudspeakers of their receivers.

Remember these are just warnings. The sky isn't falling.  Just a reminder to take precautions.

Declaration of Independence Repost

Taken from Founding Documents

The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. The birthday of the United States of America—Independence Day—is celebrated on July 4, the day the wording of the Declaration was approved by Congress.

After finalizing the text on July 4, Congress issued the Declaration of Independence in several forms. It was initially published as a printed broadside that was widely distributed and read to the public. The most famous version of the Declaration, a signed copy that is usually regarded as the Declaration of Independence, is on display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Although the wording of the Declaration was approved on July 4, the date of its signing has been disputed. Most historians have concluded that it was signed nearly a month after its adoption, on August 2, 1776, and not on July 4 as is commonly believed.

That is the accepted history of The Declaration of Independence.   Here is the full text.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

It was with this document that the United States of America was born.  And it established the basis of our Republic, formed with Divine Authority by the Creator who gave each of us these rights:  Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness.

Notice that we are not given Happiness, only the pursuit of it.  Thus it is not the government's duty or right to provide us with all of our needs.  We are not children in need of a nanny, and while it is good to get some help now and then, it is not good to depend on the government for our needs.

Part of the Founding Documents series.

Wednesday's Hero: Our Founding Fathers

On this day in 1776, a group of rebels committed an act of treason when they adopted one of the most important documents in the history of Man. No longer would we be subjects of the crown. From that day forward, we were a free nation. Free to make our own laws and live as we saw fit. Many good and brave people have fought, and died, for that ideal. So while you enjoy the cookouts with the family and the parades and fireworks, please remember the men and women who've fought, and fallen, in the name of freedom.

 Born Free by Kid Rock

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives just so others may get to enjoy freedom. For that I am proud to call them Hero.

Those Who Say That We're In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don't Know Where To Look.

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

A Bit Of Joy To Have With Your Morning Coffee

Just a little bit I saw at Simply Jews. Watch the reactions of the children.




How long did it take you to recognize the tune?  It took me 22 seconds into the video.

Wonderful music never ages and always brings a smile to your face.

Have A Wonderful Day!

Computer Alert!!!!

I normally do not accept these alerts, but this one is real.

Big Hat Tip to Israel Matzav

According to Israel Matzav wife's boss, who is very up on these things (because she has to be), this one is for real.

If your computer is not using a rogue DNS service, you will be done with this less than a minute after you click the link. If you are using a rogue DNS service, it will take you much longer, but it beats the alternative of not being able to surf the internet after July 9.

I did this for my computer, it took only a few minutes and everything checked out.   Do it before July 9th.

What is Going on in Murfreesboro?

Gary Fouse
fousesquawk
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com



Hat tip Atlas Shrugs



Atlas Shrugs is featuring an article by film maker Eric Allen Bell regarding his experience with the Murfreesboro, Tennessee mosque project. Bell, who considers himself a liberal, traveled to Murfreesboro to make a documentary about the controversy over a proposed 53,000 sq foot mosque. Initially supportive of the mosque due to his belief in freedom of religion, the more he learned, the more he turned against the project. Bell has now become an activist in exposing the forces behind the project. He has done so at considerable risk to himself and his family. Below, he describes the efforts of those involved with the mosque to influence the local schools.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/06/exclusive-.html

Not since the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 has the state of Tennessee seen such a religious controversy.

To me, this boils down to a few simple questions. If local Muslims want to build a mosque that is proportionate to the size of their community in a manner that is not disruptive to the community, they should enjoy that right. Approval should be handled as any other construction permit would be. In addition, people have a right to be concerned over the type of  Islam that is being preached, for example, Sufist vs Salafi/Wahabist. If there is an ideological connection with Hamas, that is an issue of valid concern. In addition, it appears the school board is not being truthful with the community as to its communications with mosque leaders regarding all the considerations that must be given to Muslim schoolchildren.

Eric Allen Bell has raised valid concerns, which the community has a right to be addressed.

Understanding Engineers UPDATED

Understanding Engineers #1.

Two engineering students were biking across a university campus when one said, "Where did you get such a great bike?" The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday, minding my own business, when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike, threw it to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, "Take what you want." The first engineer nodded approvingly and said, "Good choice: The clothes probably wouldn't have fit you anyway."

Understanding Engineers #2.

To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Understanding Engineers #3.

A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers.

The engineer fumed, "What's with those guys? We must have been waiting for fifteen minutes!"

The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such inept golf!"

The priest said, "Here comes the greens-keeper. Let's have a word with him." He said, "Hello, George. What's wrong with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?"

The green-keeper replied, "Oh, yes. That's a group of blind firemen. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime."

The group fell silent for a moment. The priest said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight."

The doctor said, "Good idea. I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist colleague and see if there's anything he can do for them."

The engineer said, "Why can't they play at night?"


Understanding Engineers #4. 

What is the difference between mechanical engineers and civil engineers? Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.

Understanding Engineers #5.

The graduate with a science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
The graduate with an engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"
The graduate with an accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?"
The graduate with an arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?

Understanding Engineers #6.

Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

Understanding Engineers #7.

An engineer was crossing a road one day, when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess."

He bent over, picked up the frog, and put it in his pocket.

The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn back into a beautiful princess and stay with you for one week."
The engineer took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket.

The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you for one week and do anything you want."

Again, the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket.

Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess and that I'll stay with you for one week and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?"

The engineer said, "Look, I'm an engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog - now that's cool!"

UPDATE:

Understanding Engineers #8.

A scientist and an engineer were led into a room and told to stand against one wall of the room. Standing on the opposite wall was a beautiful woman.

They were given a challenge.

Every minute, the scientist and engineer were allowed to move halfway between their current position and the woman.

They first moved halfway across the room. A minute later, they each moved halfway from the middle of the room towards woman. They repeated this several times, so that pretty soon they were both within arm's reach of the woman.

The scientist realized that no matter how much time went by, there would always be some distance between himself and the woman, so he decided to quit.

A few minutes later, the engineer kissed the woman. He explained that the distance between her and himself became too small to be significant.