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A German's View on Islam.
Posted by lurcherman (#19) 21 days ago (Editorial)The author of this email is Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist.
A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.
'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come.
My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'
We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of moslems just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.
It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.
The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet t
The ever-outspoken Daniels blasted the president’s “excuses.”
“If I had a drunk bus driver, for instance, and I told everybody, ‘Don’t tell me about that, I don’t want to know about it,’ and that way if we get sued I can say, ‘I didn’t know it,’ basically that’s got to be what’s happened,” Daniels said. “[But] when you hide behind plausible deniability, that is not leadership. That is cowardice. You’re not leading the country, you’re misleading the country.”
To Everything There is a Season… Memorial Day 2013 : flopping aces
Posted by gbudavid (#4) 22 days ago (http://floppingaces.net)
The origin of Decoration Day – what we today call Memorial Day – has evolved and changed through our American ages. And with that evolution came the various perspectives of celebration and acknowledgement.
Remember how we posted screen captured evidence from NewsJunkiePost’s that they had obtained information on the Yahoo Group DiggPatriot’s by hacking into the group using my account? (Here: http://therjcarter.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/newsjunkiepost-implicated-in-computer-hacking-to-breach-diggpatriots-yahoo-group/) And do you remember the response from NJP was that the supposed group insider supposedly photoshopped out their name and photoshopped in my name, all to protect their identity?
Well, apparently they also decided to make it super-duper foolproof by also finding files that I had uploaded to the group and photoshopping in the permissions to the file, so that it really, really, really covered their tracks:
MoreHackEvidence
Or, following Occam’s Razor, perhaps they had just hacked my account and gathered all their evidence that way. Or is that too unreasonable?
(Expecting the image to disappear from the original NJP article, or be replaced with a new one erasing the permissions.)
When, as Thomas Jefferson said, “Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry," why should we tolerate an administration that demands to know about every email sent and received by we the people, when that same administration illegally refuses to comply with a valid subpoena of its own communications, pursuant to a bona fide investigation into yet another atrocity perpetrated by the same administration?
And now, we are asked to tolerate a "modest encroachment on our privacy." Here's a question for you, Mr. President. How would you like the American people to engage in some "modest" application of our "regime change rifles"?
The Boy Scouts of America made history yesterday by voting to allow openly gay members into their ranks, but a New York lawmaker says they haven’t gone far enough.
If passed, the bill to “End Tax Exempt Status for Discriminatory Youth Organizations Like the Scouts” would deny tax-exempt status to any youth organization that discriminates on the basis of sexuality, gender identity, or other identifying characteristics like nationality, race, religion or body type.
Big government is a Goliath to fear
Posted by Temlakos (#7) 8 days ago (http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com)
Our big government nearly condemns a ten-year-old to death while waving through a big donor. That kind of thing makes it a Goliath to fear.
Americans gather to honor fallen service members
Posted by JAFO (#15) 22 days ago (http://news.yahoo.com)
Americans planned to gather at cemeteries, memorials and monuments nationwide to honor fallen military service members on Memorial Day, at a time when combat in Afghanistan approaches 12 years and the ranks of World War II veterans dwindles.In one of several ceremonies honoring Americans killed in Afghanistan, the city of South Sioux City, Neb., planned to unveil a statue honoring Navy Petty Officer 1st Class John Douangdara, a dog handler for the SEALs killed in a 2011 helicopter crash. His service dog was also killed in the crash and is memorialized beside him in the statue.
At the American Airpower Museum on Long Island, N.Y., a program was planned to honor Women Air Service Pilots, or WASPs, who tested and ferried completed aircraft from factories to bases during World War II. Thirty-eight died during the war, including Alice Lovejoy of Scarsdale, N.Y., who was killed on Sept. 13, 1944, in a midair collision over Texas.
"It's very important that we recognize not only their contribution to American history, but women's history," said Julia Lauria-Blum, curator of the WASP exhibit at the museum. "These women really blazed a path; they were pioneers for women's aviation. And most important, they gave their lives serving their country and must be honored like anyone else on Memorial Day."
'Gun control': The 'gateway tyranny'
Posted by Kurt Hofmann (#20) 22 days ago (http://www.examiner.com)
Whatever executive orders Obama writes, whatever laws Congress passes, and even whatever alterations are amended into the Constitution, it is We the People--down to the last three percent--who must submit to disarmament--and therefore to complete government control of every aspect of our lives--if the gateway to tyranny is to be irrevocably crossed.
On this Memorial Day, let us vow not to dishonor the sacrifices of the men and women who fought and died for our freedoms. Let us vow to keep that gateway forever closed. Let us vow to convey an unambiguous message to every government official who wishes to open that gateway:
"You shall not pass."
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State - Netflix Streaming
Posted by Fender Stratocaster (#10) 21 days ago (https://movies.netflix.com)
Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution', is a BBC six-episode documentary film series presenting the story of Auschwitz through interviews with former inmates and guards to include authentic re-enactments of relevant events. It was first televised on BBC One on 11 January 2005.
The series uses four principal elements: rarely seen contemporary color and monochrome film from archives, interviews with survivors such as Dario Gabbai and former Nazis such as Oskar Gröning, computer-generated reconstructions of long-demolished buildings as well as meticulously detailed and historically accurate re-enactments of meetings and other events. These are linked by modern footage of locations in and around the site of the Auschwitz camp.
Laurence Rees stressed that the re-enactments were not dramatisations, but exclusively based on documented sources:
There is no screenwriter… Every single word that is spoken is double — and in some cases triple — sourced from historical records.
This reflects the conception of the earlier BBC/HBO film Conspiracy, which similarly recreates the Wannsee Conference (an event briefly portrayed in programme 2 of this series) based on a copy of the minutes kept by one of the attendees, although that film also includes speculative dramatised sections.
The computer-generated reconstructions used architectural plans that only became available in the 1990s when the archives of the former Soviet Union became accessible to Western historians. The discovery of these plans is described in the 1994 BBC Horizon documentary Auschwitz: The Blueprints of Genocide.
Light-beam 'twins' take data farther
Posted by USMC_VET (#12) 21 days ago (http://www.bbc.co.uk)
FTA: "An idea similar to that of noise-cancelling headphones has proved useful in increasing the data-carrying properties of light.
Researchers reporting in Nature Photonics suggest putting not one beam of light down a fibre, but a pair, each a kind of mirror image of the other.
When recombined on the receiving end, the noise that the signals gather in the fibre cancels out.
These paired beams can travel four times farther than a single one."
Jana Jensen Starts Debate, Loses It ... Badly
Posted by FatLester (#47) 20 days ago (http://www.peteregan.org)
"Like a cat toying with a mouse that tried to steal his catnip," is probably the best one-sentence comparison I can come up with to describe my brief enounter with Jana Jensen. It started with a random Facebook friend request by someone I had no recollection of ever meeting in-person or online. Next came the direct messages attacking one of an increasingly small few genuinely good people who happen to be elected officials in Washington.
Usually one to ignore complete ignoramuses who try to divert my attention from work, I decided to make an example of this one based upon who it was she was attacking...
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