Nonessential Employees

No explanation necessary:

A Graphic Of 1000 Words

Hat tip to Franco Aragosta:

As Saul Alinsky said in his Rules for Radicals:

"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon."

Your Sunday Funny

But, really, not so funny (Click directly on the image to enlarge it):



And in Obama's own words:



Okay, then. Let's make Obama a one-term President.

Obama In Search Of His Halo

(With a hat tip to Z!)

The following political cartoon is from Sweden:



Why Obama ever had a halo in the first place is beyond me!

The Obama Grovel/Bow Gauge

With thanks to Bear Creek Ledger.

Definition of Toonaphobia

Brought Back To Life

The Mythical Creature

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No Retreat, No Surrender

Throw Them into the Fire They Started

Bosch Fawstin

The Muslim Obsession With Cartoons

From this source in Canada:

Police in Halifax are investigating a complaint about a political cartoon that some members of a local Islamic group claim is a hate crime.

The cartoon, published April 18 in the Chronicle Herald newspaper, depicts a woman in a burka holding a sign that reads, "I want millions," and she says, "I can put it towards my husband's next training camp."

The cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon is a reference to Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal, a woman from Nova Scotia whose husband was arrested in 2006 in an anti-terrorism raid. Qayyum Abdul Jamal was released from jail after charges against him were stayed on April 15.

Zia Khan, director of the Centre for Islamic Development in Halifax, said the cartoon goes beyond what can be considered free speech.

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Dan Leger, the Herald's director of news content, said the cartoon does not take aim at all Muslims.

"The whole purpose of that cartoon was to comment on the outrageous demands of this individual for compensation long before any hearing into her case had ever been held," he said.

In an interview with the Herald before the cartoon ran, Jamal said she wanted to sue the federal government for what her family has gone through and told the reporter, "I want millions," Leger noted.

"[MacKinnon] depicted her exactly the way she looks and used her own words, and that's the genius of cartooning that you're able to do that," he said.

Leger said he first heard of the Islamic group's concerns when the newspaper was contacted by police.

What would Muslims have thought of Thomas Nast?

His engravings chronicled the American scene from the Civil War period to the turn of the century. They highlighted every major national event and issue, the political process, elections, and scandal in the government. The American scene was ripe in subject matter for Nast. The country was fast becoming an industrial nation; railroads were spreading, factories were being built, and cities were fast becoming crowded with immigrants that supplied cheap labor. Scandal was everywhere. Elections were being rigged. One of his most famous political cartoon attacks was aimed at Boss Tweed.

If Nast had turned his attention to caricaturizing and satirizing Muslims, they'd have started another cartoonifada.

(Crossposted yesterday to THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS)

Past Nazi propaganda & today's Islamic propaganda compared: Then And Now, Parts I & II (Videos)

"Patriotic Kiwi", the executive producer, describes Part I:

In September 2005, Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a series of cartoons about Prophet Mohammed. This event lead to violent protests by Muslims worldwide in February 2006. The embassies of Denmark and Norway were torched. 139 people were killed in Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The rioters justified their acts claiming the publication of the cartoons was a grave insult to their religion. Muslim countries called for limitations to the Freedom of the Press in the West to avoid offending their sensitivities.

But seldom is the question asked: Is the Islamic press itself free from bigotry?

In this video, we explore the similarities between the cartoons published in the Islamic world, and those published during the Nazi era.

These two videos have been around for a while but there is a renewed public interest in this topic. Then And Now Part II: ''Child abuse in the shadow of radical Islam'', as well as links to several other important related articles and videos, may be seen Here.

How to Draw Muhammad

I found this one here and it tickled my funny bone.

The Real Suicide Bomb

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multiculturalism:

A philosophy that recognizes ethnic diversity within a society and that encourages others to be enlightened by worthwhile contributions to society by those of diverse ethnic backgrounds.

There is nothing wrong with multiculturalism. In fact, it is wonderful. It makes the world a better place. It enriches everybody. But plain, across-the-board multiculturalism is incomplete. It is missing one simple distinction, and that makes it blind.

Multiculturalism is great. Blind multiculturalism can get us all killed.

The missing distinction is mutuality. It is great to tolerate other religions or ethnic customs if the people following those religions and customs also tolerate ours. It is a self-inflicted injury to tolerate them if they do not tolerate ours. And it is suicide to tolerate a culture or religion that actively tries to undermine or destroy ours.

Read more: How a Tolerant Country Can Avoid Being a Doormat for Intolerant Countries