Highschool students outside Montebello High School celebrate on May 1st. Yes, that is the American flag, flown upside-down under the Mexican flag, violating at least 2 rules of protocol and the patriotic sensibilities of every American with an ounce of red blood.

Crux!

Somebody once asked, "Why does Iran want nuclear capabilities"? And a lot of people were wondering why Iran needs nuclear capabilities. I believe Iranian armed forces joint chief of staff, General Hassan Firouzabadi put it most succinctly:

"When a people master nuclear technology and nuclear fuel, nothing can be done against the."

With a voiced foreign policy that calls for Israel (which happens to be a sovereign nation) to be wiped off of the map, I have to wonder if there isn't a bit more to General Hassan Firouzabadi's words.


Iran says nuclear drive is unstoppable


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Cartoon Angst?

Coloradoconservative.com has an excellent piece on the continuing debacle played out by the religious mis-fit. Dennis Prager at townhall.com also has some good ideas about the whole idea of freedom of speech that we as Americans have fought, bled for and protected for over two centuries. And as a Christian, American, and a crusader of sorts, I believe that we should respect the religion of Islam, as well as Hinduism, Budhism, Satanism, and every other religion out there that has adherents to its precepts. Oh, did I forget CHRISTIANITY! How dare me forget the very God of existence and salvation in my roll call of beings to be worshipped and adored. But to me it seems that Christianity has not only been put on the back burner for many years, but seen as a source and point of contention, ridicule and abject blasphemy. That isn’t what really bothers me though. What really gets under my skin is that the very people who have denied God and His existence for many, many years are falling all over themselves trying to prostate their-selves towards Mecca. Why, because a religious cult might have nuclear weapons and in lieu of annihilation we should bow to the old God become new. I don’t think so.
It makes my heart glad to know that the liberals and atheists aren’t so hard hearted after all. But may I postulate that with all of the antagonism toward Christianity, and if Christianity is the “way to God and heaven”, then whatever is not Christ centered isn’t from God or going to Heaven. With this being said, The religion of Islam isn’t just a juxtaposition of Isaac and Ishmael, but an enemy of God, and if, therefore an enemy of God, an enemy to half of the America or better that does believe in Him.

With that being said let me submit a corollary. Had this been before the death and resurrection of Christ, I imagine that we would have a mandate to wipe out the Infidel, taking no prisoners and leaving nothing of theirs to be found or used. But with the advent of the resurrection we have a new mandate. Christ said that there is no way to the Father except through Him and that he who believed on Him should have everlasting life. He also said that He did not come to earth to condemn its people but to save them and grant them an eternal life with the Father. He goes to His fathers house to prepare a place for us. The last I checked, this implied in no way that we should annihilate any other religion but offer to every being on this earth the grace and love that God himself shows to all people.

There are those that would submit that Islam is a peaceful religion. Peace is accomplished through a sense of self-worth and security that comes from knowing the Fathers heart. With the current state of affairs in the State of Islam, I have to wonder who their father really is.

And Then There Were Three.

Through a Looking Glass

For those of the world who have seen the movie “Fight Club”, or read the book that it
was based on, this may not seem so incredible.  Or maybe you have just been paying attention to the increasing number of so called rogue institutions that have cropped up since say, oh, World War 2.  What is amazing though, is that it seems that there are a couple of options here.  Either nobody of consequence is actually paying attention, or, it is taking a bureaucratically and purgatorial amount of time to profligate a policy of protection against the possibilities of perpetual border sniping and infiltration.

Take a look at these articles and see if they come together for you as they did for me…

Is A War Going On In Texas?
Street gangs, a transnational security threat
Recruitment, redemption in the MS-13
http://dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3386933
For a great commentary with images see:
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004363.htm
Also try:
http://www.searchconservative.com/search.php?q=drugs+and+border+crossing&scBtn=Search
And:
http://www.searchconservative.com/search.php?q=+border+crossing&scBtn=Search

Meanwhile, Back in Byzantium...

In David Fromkin's book, "A Peace to End All Peace", he makes a corollary
between the unrealized causes of World War One and Middle East tensions
that weren't so apparently prevalent, or easily discovered, due to an
inability to gather intelligence in a region that here-to-for had not been
mapped for the West.
Forward almost a century...In the Middle East there is a new leader - one who has acquired nuclear capabilities. (Before,and after) Whether that capability was transferred from a former regime during the U.N's elusive "cooling off" period or not remains to be revealed by those in the know, when it is safe and convenient to do so. Nevertheless, he is a new player on a global Block and for all appearances intends to wield a power either for himself or at the behest of another that could winnow the Earths flock...

Islam, in a sense is a religion that adheres to the view that human nature
is inherently evil and that there is a just and contrite punishment for
whenever and however that evil might decide to show itself. In order to
keep control of its' adherents, it must subvert any notions that might
question its validity. Which is why intellectualism and "free thought" are
ideas that are shunned rather than promulgated for the good of those involved,
and it's leaders have a propensity toward isolationism and fear.
It comes off as an amalgam of a failed version of communism confounded even
more by the words of a vociferous and punishing God spoken through none other
than a prophet.
All of this rather than just another version of an abusive authoritarian.
For now we'll call it a variation on a scheme.


Added by Colorado Conservative. Image appears at Chronwatch.
Iran confirms uranium enrichment
http://www.2la.org/syria/iraq-wmd.php
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040816-011235-4438r.htm
Iran seeking to draw western Afghanistan into its sphere of influence

Iran news feed

It's 2006. Do you know where your sentiments lie?

It's 2006. There are children in pre-school and kindergarten and even some first- and second-graders who don't remember a thing about 9/11. They don't remember the sickening pull in everyone's gut when they saw the towers burst into flames or the long collapse down, down, down, down into dust. It's been a while hasn't it?

Given all this time has passed, isn't it time we call a truce in the War on Terror? We no longer fear going outside and life again centers on Super Bowls and political grandstanding over things like judicial appointments. We don't need to fight anymore...or do we?

Let's take a look at what we've accomplished...

• Afghanistan and Iraq have the first real chance at succeeding in crawling out of their political hell after our military invasions. Come on, folks. You really think they were better off under Omar and the scurvy little spider called Saddam?
• Al Qaeda has not had the resources to launch a major attack in the western hemisphere
• Spies and traitors (and they are) have been apprehended, from the Shoe Bomber to Jose Padilla.
  
• Hussein, trial antics aside, stands a slight chance of losing his head to the religion he paid lip service to. Megalomaniacs and supermen beware.

Let's not be remiss to review what we've thus far failed to do...

• Usama bin Laden still has not been captured, although his health is very, very questionable. Mullah Omar and friends are likely keeping him company.
  
• We did not prevent the Spanish train bombings of 3/11/04 (not 2 years distant), nor the London Underground bombings of 7/7/2005, only 214 days ago as of this writing.
• Iraq managed to spirit away it's WMD to Syria. Iran, not to be left out, is ramping up it's nuke program. By the way, Michelle Malkin makes a great point of how this fury against the Danish is Iranian pressure on the IAEA.
  
• Our southern border leaks like a sieve and one can easily wonder if a vial of smallpox has made it's way in. If you thought a suicide bomber was bad...

Clearly, we are not safe. Physical safety from your enemies depends on chance or God (depending on your beliefs). We have much work we could be doing to increase our safety but aren't. Tighten the borders? Oh, but then we'd tick off the produce industry for taking all their illegal--I say immoral--and cheap labor. Force Syria to cough up the WMDs? Not without Israelis standing with guns in the middle of Damascus conducting a search. The French wouldn't stand for that, and everyone loves the French.

Relentless pressure is the only option we have. We must keep it up.

Results

This is one of the better dissertations that I have found so far.
Finally,
Somebody that realizes that this goes back much further than our current
Views would hold

The University of the Holocaust: On Anti-Semitism Now

Just a Thought

I have a theory that Islam is as angry as it is with the West because a proportional amount of the West is so intent on portraying a "Capitalist Christ" that they have forgotten how to extend the reality of His Resurrection.

Sharon Illness Creates Political Upheaval

Political Dilemna

What will it take?

…War is an old habit of thought, an old frame of mind, an old political technique, that must now pass as human sacrifice and human slavery have passed. I have faith that the human spirit will prove equal to the long heavy task of ending war. Against the pessimistic mood of our time, I think that the human spirit - for all its dark side… - is in essence , heroic.

Herman Wouk


There are those who have seen the ravages of destruction. There are also those who have authored with all of their strength what that destruction might have entailed. We must also be remindful to the thought that there are those that have done neither… yet all have wearied in one respect or another for the same soil.

We are in a time in which we are re-writing history, a history that our future will look back upon and question just as we have done and will continue to do, what was it really for? And the question will in our future, just as it has in our past, be wont for an answer, an answer that is understanding of the queries of those who have suffered with all of their varying degrees of sacrifice, an answer that realizes that what we become effects civilization from Bangkok to Boston, and all points North to South, an answer that begs for the spirit of Human to transcend beyond the wages of the destruction that it is so apt to accommodate.

Despite all of the darkness that surrounds our thoughts and perceptions, what will we have become? Will we have made this orb a better place? The tides of time have ebbed and flowed through eons past, yet here we are - with all of our civil unrest and panderings for whatever a conscience can dictate - here we are.

It is said that every generation has its own curse. This notion dictates that whoever we are, whatever we become, we carry that curse with us. It should follow then, that every soul would seek a cleansing from whatever burden it carries. For this reason, do we try to become heroes? Or do we individually decide to make a collective attempt at merely being decent to one another. Or will it become nothing more than an implicit, “It’s your soul, you decide”?

I sit here with a maelstrom of thought, and an incompatible unrest for the reprehensible form of dialectic that is evolving around me, yet I have to believe with all of what is in me, that either despite the dialectic, or in spite of ourselves, each and every one of us should at least have the desire to become larger than the Conundrum, and cultivate an innate wont for the betterment of our souls at large.

We are a great nation, with great virtues, and limitless resourcefulness. We may have the desire to be the heroes of old become new, and we may have a notion that one hero may be better than someone else’s, but the juncture we are at demands that we realize that we are a great nation, and that it will take all of our virtue and every bit of our resourcefulness to maintain it.


Andrew G. Eppler
Right Decision ; Wrong Rules
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/9393
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_secrets_privilege
http://www.law.harvard.edu/publications/evidenceiii/rules/509_proposed.htm

Waggle

Waggle----- Original Message -----
From: Mom Stout
To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@webtv.net
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 8:52 AM


TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Ni! ntendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO BE STRONG AND DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!



You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.


Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

PaxDeficit

The world is in a Melee.
Globalization is the topic of discussion. And
even amidst the turmoil and confusion, proponents and combatants alike have failed to realize the incredible deficit that has been created by some form of collapse in every world society in the last decade, which negates the functionality as well as any complicity for any form of globalization to be effective.

Our anxieties and wants have ridden ahead of us, not to scout out a course of action or to look for a foe, but rather to show our absolute inequities and ineptitudes. If there is a globalization process with any functionality, this is what we as ‘Human’ have accomplished.

If there were a plan as some have speculated for globalization to come about as some beast or Leviathan, we have succeeded in setting that plan back at least a sesquicentennial just with the devices of our anger and obstinance.


We, as almost every culture on earth, have adopted a sort of view that says “We must be governed”. Is this a reality? Some would argue against a notion that at least one person must have the right to our every ‘freedom’ in order for the chaos to stop. With this argument comes the notion of manipulation and consignment. So who will it be? Who will define the citizenry? Will it be Mao? Gorbachev? Blair? Bush?
Or will it be some sort of Hydra that exists for our containment? One to whom we can bow to - a bailiff that transports us to the better place? And who will own the Hydra? Or will it be nothing more than an etherium that the nonspiritualists have concocted?

Where will we fit as human? Who’s concept of the Global Community accords everyman his freedoms? There is an awful amount of anti-American sentiment coming from every quadrant of the chaos. Have mistakes been made? Probably. We will always have those. Every generation has its sentiments. Every generation believes that they could do better or are doing better. This isn’t a phenomena attributed to any social class or defined by longitude and latitude. It is the tenacity of Human to succeed and procede.

What globalization offers us is an evolution. Can revolution work? Sure Stalin for one accomplished this. I am sure that his idea of class structure and civilized community was his idea of the people themselves being happy, clothed and fed. But globalization has the earmarks of being an effort. The effort is to eradicate the deficits.
Can our effort lead us to a point in the “Collective Human” where every being will look every other being in the eye and if not hold everything that that being stands for at least equal if not before the desire to be? Will every communication be in accord with an equal estimate of self and the other?

Communication and technology have played an incredible role in the globalization process. Without it, Indochina and America alike would not have had the recent windfall that was viewed from one end of the globe to the other. It seems that there is a dichotomy between becoming closer geographically, and retaining any kind of nationalistic view or identity. When a person sells a product or sends an electronic communication from one end of the globe to the other, those players shorten the distance between our selves.
We are no longer an American or a Tasmanian but some outer-worldly other. The culmination of everything that we as Human have strived for. Neighbors yet strangers, retaining and re-cultivating some fraternal bond which creates an identity as a whole, but retains the ability to still say ‘I’.

There are those that believe that the spirit can reach and search the eternities. And that by doing so can cultivate and evolve into what the answers would be. There are those who don’t believe in spirit. They will also contrive the answers for the better being.
But only in time.
And only when it is absolutely necessary.
Out of necessity and the demise of deficit will globalization give its rebirth.

Globalization

Mortality and Post Cold-War Thought

I believe that Bush and Kerry did the right thing in waiting until the next day to solidify the math on the election. Both Leaders were doing what was necessary to maintain stability in a time of adversity. If I didn't see so many Cold War tactics being used with the situation surrounding Mr. Arafat... I would think that They were just trying to maintin the stability in a time of adversity.

Balkan Crescent Punch

I am seeing maybe a few similarities between how kosovo was handled and how Iraq was handled. Can we create order out of chaos?