Obama's Solution To High Gas Prices

With thanks to Stogie of Saberpoint for the graphic:

Stogie's post is HERE.

Get ready for America's economy to hit the skids and squeeze us all until our belly buttons rub against our backbones (gasoline prices now higher as the excerpt below is dated April 21, 2011)...

Read the rest at Always On Watch.

Ode To Joy

Female Protester Disrupts Muslim Radicals Rallying in Frankfurt

BUMPED TO THE TOP FOR THE REST OF THE DAY

She is my hero, she's ordinary ...

"I am German, and I am so sorry that someone like him can stand here and speak like Hitler."


"I am so ashamed. Where is everybody?"


"Why are people not standing up in this country of ours?"


"Why are you all keeping your mouths shut?"


"Do you want Germany to be like those countries from which they all came?"

Islamists Win; Threat Of Violence Trumps Constitutional Right

Islamists Win; Threat Of Violence Trumps Constitutional Right

From Jawa Report:

All those violent & deadly riots are finally paying off. The dhimmi judicial system in Dearborn, Michigan has ruled a protest in front of the largest Mosque in America would "breach the peace" and "incite violence."

Prepare for a new world in America. Islamists now have a precedent to stop any negative expressions of opinion against Islam.

Cartoons of Muhammad "incite violence." Women with uncovered hair "incite violence." Banning pedophilia "incites violence."

And, as you take care not to "incite violence" from the followers of the Religion of Peace™, be extra nice to your Muslim neighbor. He might accuse you of blasphemy. It makes no difference if you are innocent or not. Just the mere accusation could "incite violence."

ON GOOD FRIDAY, ROME'S MUSLIMS STAGE PRAYERS IN THE STREETS

Reliapundit has more.

What If The United States Defaulted On National Debt?

From AOL News:

The government now borrows about 42 cents of every dollar it spends. Imagine that one day soon, the borrowing slams up against the current debt limit ceiling of $14.3 trillion and Congress fails to raise it. The damage would ripple across the entire economy, eventually affecting nearly every American, and rocking global markets in the process....

[...]

Among the first directly affected would likely be money-market funds holding government securities, banks that buy bonds directly from the Federal Reserve and resell them to consumers, including pension and mutual funds; and the foreign investor community, which holds nearly half of all Treasury securities.

[...]

At some point, the government would have to slash spending in other areas to make room for any further sales of Treasury bills and bonds. That could squeeze payments to federal contractors, and eventually even affect Social Security and other government benefit payments, as well as federal workers' paychecks.

A default would likely trigger another financial panic like the one in 2008 and plunge an economy still reeling from high joblessness and a battered housing market back into recession. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke calls failure to raise the debt limit "a recovery-ending event." U.S. stock markets would likely tank - devastating roughly half of U.S. households that own stocks, either individually or through 401(k) type retirement programs.

Eventually, the cost of most credit would rise - from business and consumer loans to home mortgages, auto financing and credit cards.

Continued stalemate could also further depress the value of the dollar and challenge the greenback's status as the world's prime "reserve currency."...

Such a default would make the Great Depression look like a minuscule blip on the radar screen of economic history.

Frankly, I see no way to prepare as individuals for such a default on the part of the United States.

Our individual fates are in the hands of politicians in Washington, D.C. Isn't that comforting? **snerk**

Obama's Fundraising And RICO

From Israpundit:

Obama Fundraising May Have Violated RICO

AFL-CIO Attorney: “It is legally impossible to conduct a nationwide raffle”

by Bill Levinson

We recently sent a complaint to the Federal Election Commission with regard to the “Dinner with Barack” fundraising promotions of 2007 and 2008. The Center for Competitive Politics quoted AFSCME (part of AFL-CIO) associate general counsel Jessica Robinson on the use of raffles to raise money for political campaigns.

Ms. Robinson says unequivocally that it is impossible to legally conduct a nationwide raffle and furthermore that doing so violates the Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) statute. Racketeering includes systematic violations of any state’s gambling laws.. This means there is excellent cause to remove Barack Obama from office without an extensive foray into the Twilight Zone to find his birth certificate. If Obama for America broke the law by running an illegal Internet gambling operation, and Minnesota law enforcement is on record as saying that it did, that is cause for impeachment. Here is what Ms. Robinson has to say in her own words...

Read the rest HERE.

Not that I expect anything will come from trying to hold Obama to the letter of the law. Those who support Obama will just brush off any violation of the law that he perpetrates.

That's where we are folks. We have as President of the United States a man who thinks he is above the law.

Celtic Woman
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Other People

A piece of short fiction from Neil Gaiman:

“Time is fluid here,” said the demon. He knew it was a demon the moment he saw it. He knew it, just as he knew the place was Hell. There was nothing else that either of them could have been.

The room was long, and the demon waited by a smoking brazier at the far end. A multitude of objects hung on the rock-gray walls, of the kind that it would not have been wise or reassuring to inspect too closely. The ceiling was low, the floor oddly insubstantial.

“Come close,” said the demon, and he did. The demon was rake-thin, and naked. It was deeply scarred, and it appeared to have been flayed at some time in the distant past. It had no ears, no sex. Its lips were thin and ascetic, and its eyes were a demon’s eyes: they had seen too much and gone too far, and under their gaze he felt less important than a fly.

“What happens now?” he asked.

“Now,” said the demon, in a voice that carried with it no sorrow, no relish, only a dreadful flat resignation, “you will be tortured.”

“For how long?”

But the demon shook its head and made no reply. It walked slowly along the wall, eyeing first one of the devices that hung there, then another. At the far end of the wall, by the closed door, was a cat o’ nine tails made of frayed wire. The demon took it down with one three-fingered hand and walked back, carrying it reverently. It placed the wire tines onto the brazier, and stared at them as they began to heat up.

“That’s inhuman.”

“Yes.”

The tips of the cat’s tails were glowing a dead orange.

As the demon raised his arm to deliver the first blow, it said, “In time you will remember even this moment with fondness.”

“You are a liar.”

“No,” said the demon. “The next part,” it explained, in the moment before it brought down the cat, “is worse.” Then the tines of the cat landed on the man’s back with a crack and a hiss, tearing through the expensive clothes, burning and rending and shredding as they struck and, not for the last time in the place, he screamed.
There were 211 implements on the walls of that room, and in time he was to experience each of them. When, finally, the Lazarene’s Daughter, which he had grown to know intimately, had been cleaned and replaced on the wall in the 211th position, then, through wrecked lips, he gasped, “Now what?”

“Now,” said the demon, “the true pain begins.”

It did.

Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie had told – told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.

“Tell me what you thought as she walked out of the door,” said the demon.

“I thought my heart was broken.”

“No,” said the demon, without hate, “you didn’t.” It stared at him with expressionless eyes, and he was forced to look away.

“I thought, now she’ll never know I’ve been sleeping with her sister.”

The demon took apart his life, moment by moment, instant to awful instant. It lasted a hundred years, perhaps, or a thousand – they had all the time there ever was, in that grey room – and toward the end he realised that the demon had been right. The physical torture had been kinder.

And it ended.

And once it had ended, it began again. There was a self-knowledge there he had not had the first time, which somehow made everything worse.

Now, as he spoke, he hated himself. There were no lies, no evasions, no room for anything except the pain and the anger.

He spoke. He no longer wept. And when he finished, a thousand years later, he prayed that now the demon would go to the wall, and bring down the skinning knife, or the choke-pear, or the screws.
“Again,” said the demon.

He began to scream. He screamed for a long time.

“Again,” said the demon, when he was done, as if nothing had been said.

It was like peeling an onion. This time through his life he learned about consequences. He learnt the results of things he had done; things he had been blind to as he did them; the ways he had hurt the world; the damage he had done to people he had never known, or met, or encountered. It was the hardest lesson yet.

“Again,” said the demon, a thousand years later.

He crouched on the floor, beside the brazier, rocking gently, his eyes closed, and he told the story of his life, re-experiencing it as he told it, from birth to death, changing nothing, leaving nothing out, facing everything. He opened his heart.

When he was done, he sat there, eyes closed, waiting for the voice to say, “Again.”, but nothing was said. He opened his eyes.

Slowly he stood up. He was alone.

At the far end of the room, there was a door, and as he watched, it opened.

A man stepped through the door. There was terror in the man’s face, and arrogance, and pride. The man, who wore expensive clothes, took several hesitant steps into the room, and then stopped.
When he saw the man, he understood.

“Time is fluid here,” he told the new arrival.

Terry Jones judged wrong kind of Christian

More about the judge in the Terry Jones/Dearborn, Michigan mosque case:

http://nodhimmitude.blogspot.com/2011/04/terry-jones-judged-wrong-kind-of.html

Nice going there, Russia

A demonstration against Islam in Russia took place in Moscow, and as you'll see at The Jawa Report, a picture even shows some using nazi salutes.

Now, it could be that the AFP exaggerated that part, and the majority of the demonstrators didn't espouse in nazism. But if they did, then that's a textbook example of how not to lead a protest against Islam, and considering that the nazis did ally themselves with the ummah, it seems absurd that they would want to use anything connected to such a repulsive ideology.

And many Muslims have condoned socialism - what the nazis built their ideology on - if that's what'll help to achieve their vile goals, so why don't the Russians consider how this long time concept they've supported is just what's helping many Islamists?

Using fascist tactics is exactly what the MSM is hoping to see, so they can undermine the fight against the very fascist ideologies we're concerned about. Those Russians who did that are not helping the western case against Islamofascism one bit.

Avenging Apostate Replies To An Anonymous Commenter Who Is Smarter Than All The Rest Of Us COMBINED

Recently, we had an Anonymous commenter who believed and so proved, that he is certainly smarter than everyone else at this website, COMBINED. No doubt about it. Nope. No doubt.

Avenging Apostate replies:

Anonymous,

Alright. Clearly you’re too dumb and immature to understand that it is considered civil to not leave someone hanging and to inform people that you have read their comments or will read their comments and will come back and write a reply. You just showed your ignorance and lack of civility by replying to my two lines pre-maturely. Oh and before I continue, I just want to ask, were you trying to be funny with what you said? Because if that’s what you wanted to achieve or insult as a whole was your point, all you managed to show was that you are, at best, a dimwit idiot.

Anyway, let us get to your comments. Even though they aren’t worth replying to, I just want to have fun with them here a little bit. I am not going to respond every single word of yours because it is so intellectually low in quality that even a chimp can do better than what you did. I will just address the things that pertain to our blog.

“I would prefer if Europeans (and Black Africans and Native Americans and such) follow their rich pagan roots rather than some perverse, barbaric Semitic desert cults.”

So, what exactly are those “rich pagan roots”? Are they where people are killed for believing there is only one god and not a pantheon of gods (Socrates, through Plato)? Or are the roots that you talk about the barbarism of Germanic tribes where human rights were non existent and looting, murdering and raping were some of the ways they “earned” their living? Or more peaceful ways of congregation like putting your head under the cows right when they are about to piss, because of the belief that cow piss makes your hair healthier. Or men standing and pissing in a pond full of fish to marinate the fish in it and eat after some months (the last two things that I mentioned still happen in Iceland, maybe you’d like to drink piss here and there and move to Iceland, you got your pagan culture still in place in that country). It is funny when people like you talk about “rich pagan roots” and all you think it means is “peace on earth forever” yet you idiots have no idea how the European pagans lived and treated others.

And what rich roots in Africa? Drinking of animal blood to pass into adulthood? Killing of the strongest male to take over the tribe and women? Cannibalism?

And Native Americans—if you think bathing in each other men’s sweat is such a grand idea and a rich ritual to do (and you call us closet faggots, ha! funny), why don’t you join them and stop whining on this blog?

It shows extreme ignorance on your part when you complain about wars started by Christians, yet you are all for pagan religions. Do you really think Europeans, North Africans and Native Americans never fought? Do you really, honestly think that there was eternal peace before these religions came along? You have got to be the most ignorant person on the planet if you think that way. You might want to pick up a history book or two and learn about these “rich pagan roots” of these cultures before you start telling others to go back to them.

“I admire the Chinese and the Hindus because they kept their ancestral religions for the most part rather than worship a sick, bloodthirsty, demonic desert deity invented by the Hebrews in their own image.”

So you like the Hindu ancestral religion where a widow is burned alongside her dead husband? Nice!

“from Greco-Roman Europe and Zoroastrian Persia, through to Hindu India and Egypt and tropical Africa and the Americas and the Oceania”

Pederasty was the most common form of homosexuality in both Ancient Greece and Rome. Today it would be considered pedophilia—is that what you are trying to promote? I , personally, don’t care if someone is homosexual. People can do whatever they want with their lives but pedophilia is something I will not tolerate, whether bigots like you have a problem with that or not, I don’t give a damn!

As for other religions you mentioned, fire-worship, burning of widows, cannibalism, human sacrifices and worship of gods of war was part of the cultures you just mentioned. Shows us what kind of person you are. You have a perception of Christianity and Judaism, and you criticize these religions for the beliefs you think exist in these religions yet you are completely unfamiliar about the pagan religions that you are trying to promote here.

“But the fundamental problem with the Abrahamic cults (aside from the fact that they are founded on lies)”

This cracked me up! You are a person of contradictions. You want people to go back to the pagan MYTHOLOGIES and you have no problem with that but Abrahamic religions? Oh no no, they are based on lies.

“For the Jew, this question is irrelevant, but the Jew defaults to the former position (there is no inherent morality, only God's fiat), and this much is true (to a slightly lesser extent) for the Mohammedan as well.”

How do you mean “to a slightly lesser extent”. You really don’t know anything about Islam, do you?

“Yahweh was a pagan god in the Semitic Canaanite pantheon who craved human blood”

I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe you didn’t mean to say “Yahweh” here because, sorry to burst your idiotic little bubble but Yahweh does not appear in any Canaanite writings or history. But I am sure you just made a mistake here, just like the rest of your comment, I am sure, is a mistake.

“Of course I can despise these religions without any ill feelings towards their followers. If you see anything "moral" in the barbarous Old Testament then you are beyond human decency…”

But its fine if you think pagan religions of the past were super awesome? Where human sacrifice, drinking of blood, pedophilia etc were instituted as a daily or weekly ritual? Yeah, shows who’s really beyond human decency.

Further ignorance on your part:

“Christianity: over 1 billion worldwide
Islam: over 1 billion worldwide”

Can’t you do research before you start typing? Christianity (with all its sects): 2.2 Billion and Islam (with all its sects, including Ahmadiyyah): 1.2-1.3 Billion

And if you are now going to start whining that you don’t call Atheists Christians then I just want to remind you of your own comment that said: “Christians: Most of them are nominal believers, atheist or at least deist in all but name. Or they pick and choose what to follow.”

“Muslims had no such process [i.e. enlightenment], for reasons that are not entirely clear.”

Its pretty darn clear to me and others that know Islam. Clearly you don’t know a thing about what you’re saying.

Just for kicks, the following:

“Revolutionary movements such as the American War of Independence and the French Revolution, lead by such figures as Voltaire, Paine, Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Napoleon, Lincoln”

I didn’t know Lincoln was part of either the American War of Independence or the French Revolution. Time travel is possible!

“If you were true to your pretension of being an "Infidel" Blogger's Alliance, you can rightfully criticize Islam along with the other poisonous Abrahamic doctrines.”

Of course you are too much of a moron to know that the reason the word Infidel is used in this blog is because that is what Muslims call non-Muslims. Simple! And we “can” rightfully criticize? Who the hell are you to dictate what we can or can’t do? Get your own blog!

“Also, since you mention the Talmud, it is nothing more than sick, racist hate literature. Consider the genocidal Noahide laws!”

While ignoring the same crap that you keep repeating (rich pagan cultures, blah blah blah), I came across this gem from you. Genocidal Noahide laws. Let’s see what these horrific laws are: Prohibition of Idolatry, prohibition of murder, prohibition of theft, prohibition of sexual immorality, prohibition of blasphemy, prohibition of eating flesh taken from an animal while it is still alive, establishment of courts of justice.

I got to tell you man, I really want to annihilate some people after I read these GENOCIDAL NOAHIDE LAWS!

“The figure of Jesus Christ (who is revered by both Christians and Muslims but despised by pious Jews), was probably the only good thing about those traditions. Ironically he can be seen as going *against* the Abrahamic tradition (i.e. the nascent Jewish religion, which was of course the only thing going on in his day) in many ways. It is unfortunate that he had such great teachings yet Christians do not really pay much attention to him.”

It is strange that you think Christ’s teachings were “great” on the one hand but on the other you think the Tanakh, the Old Testament, is despicable. Funny though because Jesus said that whoever teaches anyone to not follow even the tiniest bit of THE LAW will be the least in the Kingdom of God. Most of what Jesus says is from the Tanakh, guess wikipedia didn’t tell you that fact about the Gospels. I do agree with you, however, that Christians don’t pay much attention to him. It is because of that that Christianity is a separate religion and not a sect of Judaism. Oh and on the note of you hating Talmud so much and declaring Christ’s teachings as “great”, um the golden rule that Jesus told his followers comes from Hillel (his silver rule), he is one of the Talmudic rabbis.

“"Jesus Christ... Isaiah and latter Prophets," also figure in Islam. Muslims revere those aforementioned figures as prophets as part of a succession in a line of prophets from Adam, Noah, Moses... down to Muhammad.”

I know wikipedia says so. And I know a lot of Muslims in the West say so too. But first off, Jesus is not even mentioned in the Quran. It is Isa who is mentioned. Now you and other idiots might jump up and say “Isa is Jesus in Arabic” and to that I will just say, “since you don’t know Arabic, shut the hell up!” because Jesus in Arabic is “Yesu’” not Isa. Isa is closer to Esau not Jesus (or Iesous or Yeshua or Yehoshu’ah). Second, Isaiah is not mentioned in the Quran nor the Hadiths. Ibn Kathir later accepted him as a prophet but he is nowhere to be found in authoritative Islamic writings.

Now that we are past the technicalities, I want to talk about Jesus or Isa in Islam. Muslims say they revere and love all the prophets including Isa. That’s a grand statement but it is simply not true. Isa stands against everything Jesus stands for in the Bible. Muslims don’t know about the prophets or Jesus to be able to revere them. They revere a version of these figures that is not found anywhere but in the Quran. It is like this, I can create a figure in my head and say that its you. I name that figure Andy and give that figure a personality that I think it should have. Just because I imagined you in a certain way, doesn’t really make you so. And then if I proceed to say that you are my best friend, would you agree with that claim just because I claim so?

Why is it that people like you lose common sense when it comes to dealing with Islam? Muslims claim a lot of things but those claims are either not true or are half truths. For example, the statement that they revere all the prophets is half of what they believe. The truth would be that they revere all the prophets AS THEY ARE PRESENTED IN THE QURAN. So in reality, when compared with the Bible, they don’t revere any of the prophets, they corrupt their “biographies” and use them for their own good. Another example of such half truths is the statement that Islam is a religion of peace. It is half true because Muslims don’t go ahead and explain that you will be at peace if you accept Islam as the only religion, otherwise you will be dead.

“And there is the CRUX of the problem! You criticize Christian behavior but you mentally divorce such behavior from the religion. You do not give Muslims the same treatment. When a Christian behaves in a manner consistent with a literal reading of his book of Leviticus, that is "abberant behavior" but if a Muslim acts similarly, he is simply behaving in accordance with Islam. Double standard much?”

Actually, yes. That is how it is. But again, you’re too dumb to know the difference. Let’s take the example of the Crusades. Crusades and the idea is not found in the Bible. “Fight the unbelievers and get your sins forgiven.” Yeah, not part of the Bible. (By the way, I am not against the Crusades politically. They had to be fought after 400 years of onslaught by Muslim barbarians!) So from a religious point of view, any Christian will tell you that the Crusades were either wrong or not Biblical. Because (and I am repeating myself, knowing that you are slow of mind) fighting wars to get your sins forgiven is not part of the teachings of the Bible (no not even in the Tanakh).

Now, let us take the example of Jihad. Which in Arabic, literally, means Struggle but in the Quran it is always used in the context of war. The idea of spiritual jihad is both laughable, in the way the West has been taught it, and ridiculous. “Spiritual Jihad” is only performed in case there is a Muslim who is unable to go to war either because of his own health reasons or his parents’. That is it! Otherwise, you have to go to war for Allah whether you like it or not and if you don’t then you are a hypocrite who will be punished both in this world and the one hereafter.

So, to get to the point, when Muslims blow up crap, or when they murder innocent people, it is because that is what they are supposed to do according to the Quran. People usually say, “Yes, but they kill other Muslims, surely that is not part of Islam”. Well, dimwits out there, it is! Because when terrorist Muslims blow up street stores or shopping malls or buses, they are doing so believing that the people they are killing are befriending non Muslims (since they are not out fighting them) and according to the Quran, if you befriend non Muslims then you are one of them. And so killing these treasonous Muslims is a duty instituted by both Allah and Mohammed.

We do mention on this blog and make it clear when a practice by Muslims is not according to Islam. For example, Female circumcision, even though the practice is deeply rooted in Islam culture, it is not instituted in either the Quran, the Sira, or the Hadiths (not even any of the older commentaries). Of course, you are, again, too blind to notice all of that.

The problem with Muslims, and this goes against your argument, is that they do follow their religion to the letter. And it is their religion, which gave birth to their culture, that tells them to go and kill those that don’t follow Islam (except the people of the Book who should pay the Jizya, i.e. pay tribute and if they don’t, then they should be killed). You and your type just have a hard time accepting that. Because hey, only Christians and Jews can be evil, pagans, and everyone else just wants to live peacefully. Get a clue!

“After all, Adolf Hitler was a devout Roman Catholic. (FACT!) Does Hitler's reprehensible behavior speak for all of Catholicism?”

Adolf Hitler broke away from the Church (FACT!) and in fact loudly wished that Germans were Muslim instead of Christian (FACT!). Yes, he did still think that he was Christian and that God had chosen the Arian race to rule the world. And you’re right, that does not speak for the Catholic Church because it is not in either the Bible or their Catechisms but the Quran does teach that everyone who is not a Muslim is an enemy of Allah and has in effect to be killed. Your analogy fails right away when you look at the Quran and compare that with the Bible.

Muslims and their actions represent Islam because they FOLLOW ISLAM. Please show me a specific verse that Hitler followed that helped him annihilate about 12-14 million people (Jews and others). With idiots like you, I always have to repeat myself. Its frustrating!

“What about other Wahabbists, or the Shi'ite fascist clerics in Iran? Are they loathesome?”

This is another example that shows you know nothing about Islam. People that are called Wahabis are actually Salafis. Salafis are the first 3 generations of Muslims (including Mohammed) and they followed Islam perfectly. So that is what they are doing. Following Islam to the letter. That is why they are loathsome.

“Yes. But is it fair to tar all of Islam with that brush?”

Yes it is. Because Islam has not changed either in its interpretation or practice. There are people that either don’t practice all of it or they do and those that do, they blow up crap!

“In a limited sense the Muslims have science on their side…”

Everything that you said, the statement above was the most interesting from you. Muslims have science on their side. I would really love to know what science you are talking about. Did you happen to read Maurice Bucaille recently? Oh no wait, you don’t read books. Maybe you read it on wikipedia (since you link to it so much).

"Are you yourself a Muslim? Haha! No. Are you RETARDED?"

I think the reason Pastorius asked that question was because you do talk like a Muslim. You don’t make sense and you throw around a lot of angry words and think that does the magic. Muslim tricks, dude. Learn new ones!

“For the record, notwithstanding what you THINK, do Muslims follow the example of Jesus? Most do not,”

None do actually, if they follow the Quran. Because they don’t know what he did!

“"They don't believe He was the Prophesied God Messiah of Isaiah and Psalms."

Actually Pastorius, your blatant lies notwitstanding, Muslims do believe that Jesus was the Messiah, or at least a messiah. Look it up! (Or are you to lazy to use Google?)”

I think reading and understanding are not your strong suits. Pastorius clearly said that they don’t believe Jesus is the Prophesied GOD MESSIAH OF ISAIAH AND PSALMS. That is an accurate statement about Muslims. They do not believe that Jesus is God, period! (Actually they don’t talk about Jesus, Yesu’, as I said before. But I am going to let that go for now). Why can’t you read? Your vision blurry and red with anger?

“"They believe that, in the End Times, the Jews must be killed before Allah can restore the world."
Christians have similar End Times beliefs. Just swap "Allah" with "Christ."”

BAHAHAA!!!!!!!!!!!! I think that’s enough of a reply to your idiotic statement.

“"Christians simply have not done the rampaging, raping and pillaging that Muslims have."
Btw, your usage of the past tense…”

Where the hell’s the past tense Sherlock!? I only see Present Perfect. Don’t know English either then?

“I actually agree with you much of the way with regards to Islam, I just do not spare its similarly vile cousins from similar criticism.”

That’s great. Start your own blog.

“Personally, I do not see the need for the Abrahamic religions in the modern world.”

That’s not for you to decide, now is it. Frankly, you don’t even matter in the grand scheme of things (especially because of your reasoning which is worse than an infant’s at times).

Lastly I wanted to talk about your following comments:

“With such mental midgets on this big gay blog (really why so many team members on one blog? I don't mean to be homophobic, but so many men sharing a blog, it's a little gay…

But thanks for trying, fag!

You closet faggot neoconservatives crack me the hell up!”

All of that comes from you, yet you have the audacity to say the following:

“The Abrahamic religions managed to bulldoze indigenous "pagan" cultures (from Greco-Roman Europe and Zoroastrian Persia, through to Hindu India and Egypt and tropical Africa and the Americas and the Oceania), they spread homophobia.”

If you’re so worried about homophobia, you halfwit moron, then fix yourself first and then point your finger at others.

Feel free to reply to whatever I said. I will reply (even though I will take my time) only if your comment is worthy of a reply.


PASTORIUS CUTTING IN: Just for the record, when our Anonymous commenter writes that Yahweh was a Canaanite deity, it is information such as this to which he is referring:

The hypothesis of a Canaanite deity named Yahweh or Yahwi is accepted by some Ancient Near Eastern scholars, although no direct evidence from archeology has been found. The name Yahwi may possibly be found in some male Amorite names. Yahu may be found in a place name.

 It is interesting that people who defend Pagan religion are attempting to suggest that the God of the Bible grew out of Canaanite religion. The truth is, the Canaanites worshiped the bloodthirsty god Ba'al, who demanded child-sacrifice and ritual prostitution to keep himself satiated.

TSA Porn Kings Update

Philly Inquirer:

Airport passenger screener charged in distributing child pornography
By John Shiffman

Inquirer Staff Writer

TSA officer Thomas Gordon Jr. is being held.
(Image: Government Employees (AFGE) union website)

A passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook, records show.

Federal agents also allege that Transportation Safety Administration Officer Thomas Gordon Jr. of Philadelphia, who routinely searched airline passengers, uploaded explicit pictures of young girls to an Internet site on which he also posted a photograph of himself in his TSA uniform.

Homeland Security agents arrested the TSA officer March 24, and he is being held without bail.

Although the case was unsealed Thursday, neither the indictment nor the news release mentioned Gordon's job searching airline passengers for TSA.

The arrest comes as TSA grapples with several other incidents involving screeners, including a YouTube video posted last week by parents angry about the pat-down their 6-year-old daughter received at an airport in New Orleans. TSA officials said the pat-down was proper; the parents said the girl was "groped."

Citing privacy rules, TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis would not say if Gordon has been suspended from his job, but noted that he had been in federal custody since his arrest.

"We can assure the public that he is no longer working at the airport," Davis said.

Gordon began working as a TSA screener at the Philadelphia airport in December 2005, Davis said. The airport has 900 screeners, she said.

If convicted of the child pornography charges, Gordon, 46, faces a minimum mandatory sentence of five years. The maximum prison term is 250 years and the top fine is $3.2 million.

Gordon is paid $37,000 annually as a TSA screener, records show. He has no prior criminal record, officials said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Levy, chief of his office's child exploitation unit, declined to comment Friday.

Gordon's lawyer, Elizabeth Toplin, an assistant federal public defender, could not be reached for comment via e-mail or phone late Friday.

Tipped by the Delaware County District Attorney's Office, federal agents began investigating Gordon on March 10, according to an affidavit from a Homeland Security Investigations agent.

The tip allegedly included evidence that Gordon had uploaded five explicit photographs of young girls onto the web site Photobucket.

The federal agent alleged that Gordon's Photobucket account also included a picture of him wearing his blue TSA uniform.

The indictment alleges that Gordon used at least six Facebook accounts and employed multiple names "to upload and store images of sexual exploitation of minor children."

The charges detail 104 illicit photographs allegedly uploaded over four weeks in February.

Authorities also seized from Gordon an HP laptop and a four-gigabyte flash drive that they say contained more than 600 images or movies containing child pornography, according to court filings.

Gordon's job as a TSA screener was in jeopardy last year for unrelated reasons, according to an online newsletter of the American Federation of Government Employees.

Citing a family issue, it said Gordon was having "difficulty maintaining his work schedule." The union lawyer helped convince TSA officials that a change in shift schedule resolved the problem, the newsletter said, and Gordon returned to work.

Reuters:

US launches first Predator drone strike in Libya

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States launched its first Predator drone strike in Libya on Saturday, the Defense Department said in a statement.
It did not provide details on the target of the strike, saying only that it occurred in the early afternoon local time in Libya.

Gates announced on Thursday that the unmanned aircraft would be used in Libya for Hellfire missile attacks on the forces of leader Muammar Gaddafi.

General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. plan called for keeping two patrols of armed Predators above Libya at any given time, permitting better surveillance -- and targeting -- of Gaddafi's forces. The drones are based in the region but typically flown by remote control by pilots in the United States.

The U.S. military has been using other drones to target militants along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. The drones in Libya were not taken from Afghanistan, U.S. officials said.

Syria

The Canada Press:

Death toll hits 120 after 2 days of unrest in Syria, human rights group says

..BEIRUT - The death toll from two days of violence in Syria reached 120 Saturday as security forces fired on tens of thousands of mourners who shouted for the regime's downfall during funeral processions, a human rights group said.

The mounting death toll prompted two Syrian lawmakers to resign in disgust over the killings. More than 300 people have been killed since the uprising against autocratic President Bashar Assad began more than five weeks ago.

The lawmakers, Nasser Hariri and Khalil Rifai, are from the southern region of Daraa that unleashed the protest movement in mid-March after teenagers were arrested there for scrawling anti-regime graffiti on a wall.

"If I cannot protect the chests of my people from these treacherous strikes, then there is no meaning for me to stay in the People's Assembly. I declare my resignation," Hariri told Al-Jazeera in an interview.

The resignations were exceedingly rare in Syria, where nearly all opposition figures are either jailed or exiled.

Ammar Qurabi, the head of Syria's National Organization for Human Rights, said 112 people were killed Friday and at least eight on Saturday. Friday was by far the deadliest day of the uprising.

But the bloodshed so far has only served to invigorate protesters whose demands have snowballed from modest reforms to the downfall of Assad. Each Friday, growing numbers of people in multiple cities have taken to the streets despite the near certainty that they would come under swift attack from security forces and shadowy pro-government gunmen known as "shabiha."

The heavy security crackdown on Friday and Saturday came after Assad warned a week ago that any further unrest would be considered "sabotage" after he made the gesture of lifting long-hated emergency laws, a step he ratified on Thursday.

It was a clear sign that regime was prepared to escalate an already bloody response, with nearly 300 already dead in more than five weeks.

The increasing bloodshed has drawn international condemnation.

In Washington on Friday, President Barack Obama condemned the latest use of force by Syria against anti-government demonstrators and said the regime's "outrageous" use of violence against the protesters must "end now."

Unrest was reported Saturday in Douma, a suburb of the capital, the southern village of Izraa and the nearby village of Sheikh Miskeen. The witness account could not be independently confirmed because Syria has expelled journalists and restricted access to trouble spots. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

"They prevented us from continuing our way to the cemetery," said the witness in Douma, who said he was among at least 50,000 people taking part in the funerals there.
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The Age:

11 mourners shot dead as Syrians bury their dead
April 24, 2011 - 12:34AM

At least 11 mourners were shot dead on Saturday as Syrians swarmed the streets to bury scores of demonstrators killed in massive protests and two MPs resigned in frustration at the bloodshed.

Activists said the death toll from Friday's nationwide protests could top 100, pending confirmation of a list of names, and expected fresh protests to form after the funerals.

Two independent MPs from the protest hub city of Daraa, Nasser al-Hariri and Khalil al-Rifai, on Saturday told Al-Jazeera television they were quitting parliament in frustration at not being able to protect their constituents.

Friday's deaths signalled no let-up from President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces used live ammunition and tear gas against demonstrators nationwide, witnesses and activists told AFP.

The bloodshed erupted as tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets for "Good Friday" protests to test long sought-after freedoms a day after Assad scrapped decades of draconian emergency rule.

The Syrian Revolution 2011, a driving force behind the protests, marked the tone on Saturday by posting on its main Facebook page a black banner with the word "Mourning" in English and Arabic.

It came as tens of thousands of mourners packed buses and headed for the southern town of Ezreh for the funerals of 18 people killed the previous day, a rights activist told AFP by telephone.

Another activist later said "12 martyrs were buried in Ezreh" and that two men -- Yasser Nseirat and Jamal Qanbar -- who were part of the funeral cortege heading for the town were shot dead by security forces.

Other activists spoke of five mourners killed in Ezreh and outside a hospital in Daraa, with the toll expected to rise.

"More than 150 buses left from Daraa and neighbouring villages to attend the funerals of 18 martyrs killed Friday in Ezreh," in Daraa province, an activist requesting anonymity said.

Daraa has been an epicentre of protests against the regime of Assad, who also scrapped the feared state security court on Thursday and signed a decree "to regulate" peaceful protests in the autocratic country.

Snipers also pinned down mourners in the northern Damascus suburb of Douma, killing at least five people on Saturday, a witness and a human rights activist there told AFP.

They opened fire from roof-tops as mourners marched from a local mosque to a cemetery, the sources said, adding that tens of thousands of people took part in the procession.

Activists also reported at least one person shot dead by security forces in the Barzeh district of Damascus.

A group called the Committee of Martyrs of 15 March Revolution issued a list of 82 names of people killed on Friday, but said the toll from the "massacre" could reach 100 as it tried to confirm more deaths.

Amnesty International, citing Syrian activists, said at least 75 people were killed when the "government launched its deadliest crackdown yet on demonstrators" seeking reform.

Friday's toll compared with killings on March 23 in the southern town of Daraa, when activists said 100 people died, Amnesty said.

The largest number of people were killed in Ezreh outside Daraa, and activists expected Saturday's funerals to be followed by a "huge rally against the regime."

Officially, Syria has blamed "armed gangs" for Friday's bloodshed, and state-run SANA news agency said security forces intervened using only tear gas and water cannon to prevent clashes between protesters and passers-by.

Eight people were killed on Friday in Ezreh and 20 others wounded "including security forces in an attack by criminal gangs," SANA said, adding that two policemen had died in Damascus and the central city of Homs.

The violent crackdown drew an international outcry.

Russia, Italy and Greece joined the chorus of condemnation from Washington, Paris, London, Brussels and UN headquarters in New York.

US President Barack Obama blasted Syria's "outrageous" use of violence, accusing Assad's regime of seeking Iran's aid in the brutal crackdown on the pro-democracy movement that erupted in Damascus on March 15.

"Instead of listening to their own people, President Assad is blaming outsiders while seeking Iranian assistance in repressing Syria's citizens through the same brutal tactics that have been used by his Iranian allies."

But a senior official in Damascus, quoted on SANA, rejected the charges, saying Obama's condemnation was "not based on an objective vision of the reality on the ground."

Iran also denied any involvement in putting down the protests.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Assad's government must "respect international human rights" and called for an independent probe into the killings, as France urged Syria to launch a "political dialogue without delay."

Russia, the first of Syria's allies to speak out, urged Damascus to accelerate "broad-scale political, social and economic reforms," saying Moscow views Damascus as its "friend."

Thousands of protesters chanting "freedom, freedom," and calling for the fall of the regime swarmed cities across Syria on Friday from Qamishli in the northeast to Daraa, witnesses said.

Protesters have said the decrees issued on Thursday were insufficient, insisting on the release of political prisoners and dissolution of Syria's security apparatus.

Asia One:

Two Syrian MPs quit parliament over bloodshed
AFP

DAMASCUS - Two Syrian MPs from the protest hub city of Daraa on Saturday told Al-Jazeera television they were quitting parliament in protest at the bloodshed in their country.

"I announce my resignation from parliament," Khalil al-Rifai, a deputy from the southern city said in remarks broadcast by Al-Jazeera.

The satellite channel said he became the second MP from Daraa to quit after Nasser al-Hariri, who earlier announced his resignation also on Al-Jazeera, saying he was frustrated because he could not protect his constituents.

Rifai echoed the sentiment, saying he could not "protect the people who brought me to parliament."

"I urge the president to intervene immediately," said Rifai, who became the first MP to quit since anti-regime protests in the country erupted on March 15.

At least eight people were killed on Saturday in Syria, activists and witnesses said, as tens of thousands took to the streets again to bury scores of people killed in massive anti-regime protests the previous day.

Many of those killed Friday and Saturday fell in the region of Daraa, in the south of the country.