Death to all Juice

Death to all Juice

I’ve been telling my son’s school for years this stuff was no good. All sukkar, no fiber. But some are deluded into thinking it’s actually the right drink for a healthy body, especially if it’s 100%. What bunch of nuts!

Saw this first at Pax Parabellum. Go say hi.

Breathtaking double standard

I still never cease to be amased at the great lengths, the winding and circuitous explanations, the idiosyncrasies and contradictions people try to wind their way around in condemning Israeli defense while propping up Gazan (and other) terroristic rage.

Just from curiosity, I wonder what it would take for Arabs and Muslims in large scale to admit that Israel was justified in military action against Gaza? That pounding Israeli civilian facilities, such as apartment buildings, hospitals and synagogues is not the honorable action so many make it out to be (while condemning the same of Israel when there are Hamas weapons stored in such facilities). I am sometimes torn between throwing up my hands in disgust and continuing the debate when I see forum “discussions” and when I know there is no way we can ever, ever allow Israel to be left to their own devices.

Is “amasement” the right word to use? It just doesn’t seem strong enough for the disgust and contempt I feel when people who watch Hamas attack, say, apartment buildings, demonstrate when an Israeli bomb falls on a Palestinian home. One could tell these people until one was blue in the face that the Palis were warned by the Israelis hours ahead of time, that weapons were being stored in that home–one could talk until Armageddon and still the justification just gets more intense until it finally ends with accusations about how one-sided and Islamophobic one is. Why do these people have nothing to say about how Hamas hides weaponry behind women and children, in schools, even ambulances? Where is the rage over that? Where is the anger over children slaughtered because they were deliberately placed in harm’s way by the government that claims to represent them?

Or: [As] Danny Gillerman, outgoing Ambassador to the United Nations [said, "]When Christians kill Muslims, it’s the Crusades. When Jews kill Muslims it’s murder, and when Muslims kill Muslims, it’s like talking about the weather. Nobody really cares about it[.]“

The killing by Taliban of 14 Afghan children is yet the latest in a a years-long series of travesties committed against Muslims that few seem to take notice of. A commenter at Jihad Watch had it right when remarking, “[N]o one cares about murdered children unless Israel or the USA can be blamed.” After all there are political connections to be made, strategic manueuvers to pull off and newspapers to be sold.

And now, with the current Israeli aerial assault on Hamas, it naturally is a “Holocaust.”

Are Americans unknowingly propping up sharia law?

I saw the following Moonbattery article via Tammy Bruce’s website; it’s the first I’ve heard of this topic and will be looking into it more. If this is true, it is simply a disgrace and Americans ought to register their displeasure in large numbers. If anyone has any related info or links, please feel free to leave in comments section. Thanks.

Bailing Out Sharia

Here’s another one to file under Your Tax Dollar at Work:

The U.S. government’s bailout of the American International Group is helping promote Shariah law, a lawsuit filed in federal court in Michigan alleges.

The suit — brought with the support of the Thomas More Law Center, a non-profit law firm that promotes conservative Christian values — claims that making U.S. taxpayers comply with Shariah, the Islamic legal framework based on the Koran, is unconstitutional.

This month, AIG announced that it would offer Shariah-compliant homeowner insurance policies, known as takaful, to U.S. customers through one of its subsidiaries. To be Shariah compliant, companies cannot earn interest and must agree to send a percentage of their revenue to Islamic charitable groups.

“Islamic charitable groups” often finance terrorism.

The lawsuit — by Iraq war veteran Kevin Murray, on behalf of U.S. taxpayers, against Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and the Federal Reserve — claims that by subsidizing AIG, the federal government is conveying “…a message of endorsement and promotion of Shariah-based Islam … and [a] message of disfavor of and hostility toward Christianity and Judaism.”

In September, the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve took a nearly 80-percent stake in AIG when it injected $150 billion to help prop up the troubled company.

But what’s $150 billion of someone else’s money? Apparently it’s not enough to keep AIG afloat; some expect it to sink within the year despite the mountains of our money the government shovels at it. Bailing Out Sharia

Here’s another one to file under Your Tax Dollar at Work:

The U.S. government’s bailout of the American International Group is helping promote Shariah law, a lawsuit filed in federal court in Michigan alleges.

The suit — brought with the support of the Thomas More Law Center, a non-profit law firm that promotes conservative Christian values — claims that making U.S. taxpayers comply with Shariah, the Islamic legal framework based on the Koran, is unconstitutional.

This month, AIG announced that it would offer Shariah-compliant homeowner insurance policies, known as takaful, to U.S. customers through one of its subsidiaries. To be Shariah compliant, companies cannot earn interest and must agree to send a percentage of their revenue to Islamic charitable groups.

“Islamic charitable groups” often finance terrorism.

The lawsuit — by Iraq war veteran Kevin Murray, on behalf of U.S. taxpayers, against Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and the Federal Reserve — claims that by subsidizing AIG, the federal government is conveying “…a message of endorsement and promotion of Shariah-based Islam … and [a] message of disfavor of and hostility toward Christianity and Judaism.”

In September, the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve took a nearly 80-percent stake in AIG when it injected $150 billion to help prop up the troubled company.

But what’s $150 billion of someone else’s money? Apparently it’s not enough to keep AIG afloat; some expect it to sink within the year despite the mountains of our money the government shovels at it.

See the original article here and Tammy’s site here.

Hassan Abu al-Ashbal: Come to love, Obama

Brought to my attention by an Egyptian who refers to this tool as a “terrorist.” Video sans volume lacks for nothing except a lot of screaming.

“Leader of the world”–bet Obama really enjoyed that part.

OK, so a “three-fold message”:

You are invited to join Islam
You will be bestowed with glory and honor for your conversion and that of your followers
Remove infidel armies from Muslim lands or prepare to meet those who seek death

Well, OK then.

There are actually a number of people who believe Obama already is a Muslim, and the topic has sort of been done to death. Occasionally it putters through my mind as well, although not for the religious factor. In my opinion Barack Obama is a liar–beyond the margins of already-established political practice–and his radical leanings do not inspire confidence in me that he will even make an effort to persuade the ACLU, Freedom from Religion and other groups of the same bent to stop their tyrannical assault on religion in the US, particularly Christianity.

Obama himself doesn’t seem to care all that much for his own alleged Christianity. He sat in the church of a racist American hater, but never heard what the guy was saying? Did he bring a pillow along with him to church every week?

Early in November I managed to catch a bit on the radio that Obama, who left this church to avoid being slammed for associating with Jeremiah Wright, America hater in question, has “for now” ceased his search for a new church during this transition time. (So much for multi-tasking.) Must be really important to him.

Around the same time I read an article in Wide Awake Cafe about the lack of Christmas in the Obama household:

During the unending presidential campaign one item that stood out in plain sight but was never questioned by any American reporter was the fact that the daughters of Barack Obama were not given Christmas gifts by their parents.

Not one gift.

Does that mean there was no tree in the home of Barack and Michelle Obama? After all, one would think that if there were a tree in the home that it would have been incredibly cruel to the children if there were not at least two gifts under the tree on Christmas morn for the daughters.

No stockings at least? No lumps of coal?

What does this portend for our nations’ celebration of Christmas?

Will Christmas still be a National Holiday?

Will the next four years be an era of four seasons but never Christmas?

Although People Magazine let slip the news about the Obama’s cultural lifestyle in their lovingly portrayed puff piece the national news media ignored it.

However, the Brits noticed and ran with it.

In a magazine interview Obama and his wife Michelle revealed that one of their steadfast house rules is not giving Christmas or birthday presents to Malia, 10, and Sasha, seven.

The couple explained that they spend “hundreds” on birthday slumber parties and want to “teach some limits”. Santa Claus is still permitted to deliver seasonal gifts however.

The girls are also given an allowance of just $1 (50p) a week for performing household chores, according to People magazine. Those chores include making their own bed, setting and clearing the dinner table and putting themselves to bed by 8.30pm.

So Santa is still in the mix. Gives us some hope I suppose. But only seasonally. Not at Christmas.

Still unsettling, given the slip of the tongue a nervous Obama had in a George Stephanopoulos interview earlier this summer while speaking about his “Muslim faith.” The ever helpful George immediately corrected him and of course, everyone in the media gave Obama a pass.

So, yes, Virginia there may still be some hope. But not so for many of the adults in this country who could see beyond the slogans of hope and change.

No Christmas, eh. OK. Not my problem. It’s their household. I’ll just file it in a folder close to the one that houses the information on how Obama stripped the US flag off his plane, refused to put his hand on his heart for the pledge, and couldn’t be bothered to go see our brave soldiers on an overseas visit because he had to go work out. It’s a different folder, of course, because the Christmas issue truly is their business, whereas the other discrepancies are offensive instances. It’s weird to me that he claims to be a Christian but doesn’t do Christmas, but hey, it’s his life, right?

How much of this respect does anybody think will be reciprocated? His bright ideas about what he thinks we ought to be teaching our children, threatening to effectively abolish Catholic hospitals if they won’t be forced to act against their religious principles, previous assaults on the First and Second Amendments–the man has demonstrated an intolerance and plain disregard for what Americans care or worry about. Yet the type of people he schmoozes (or announces his aim to) are those such as this raving cleric who talks about any religion other than Islam being a “life of humiliation”; “fabricated” and “null and void”; “religions that were abrogated by the sharia of Mohammad.”

So we have a choice of trying to figure out if he acts this way because he is secretly a Muslim or just an asshole. If he goes for the toaster–say, by about January 15th or so, enough time to make a poignant announcement and allow some collective freaking out–I suppose he will show himself to be both. Of course said freak out will be accompanied by cries of racism and bigotry–everything’s racist and bigoted when you don’t agree with the anointed one–by those who simply don’t or won’t recognise deceit in any form.

We don’t need the whole “Is he Muslim?” distraction. His established predilection for intolerance of attitudes not his own is enough to make us wonder if Christmas will be practically illegal by December 2010, and if he will reach out for the love al-Ashbal offers.

I wonder how long it will take Obama to “revert” to Islam. If he keeps up with his heavy thinking and important soul searching, he’ll have done it by about January 15th, just in time to find the need for an Inaugural copy of the Koran.

Update: Check out Atlas Shrugs and Pamela Geller’s analysis of an “article” called…well, I can’t name the title. It contains words I despise when put together, and I won’t utter or type them. So you’ll have to look yourself. I’ll say, though, that I am still deciding about AGH. I read her book American Muslims and still recall her rejection of the argument that women wear hijab by choice. Is Pamela right that Asma engages in taqiyya?

OT, but I’m thinking about a line from the piece re: supporting other Muslims being the reason the religion has “survived.” I’ve heard many times people insist that charity should only go to other Muslims, and disapproved of my insistence to donate things to a local women’s shelter. (They’ve been my focus for many years.) I disapprove of such hypocrisy. All people deserve aid, not just Muslims.