[THEFEDERALIST] There exists in this world a condiment below all others. It has all of the flavor of sawdust and the sublime texture of soap scum. Until recently, I was unaware that The Federalist, lovers of freedom, etc., was complicit in its spread. I rise today to defend America—nay, the world—against such scurrilous anti-food propaganda.
As all Americans, especially Texans, know, mayonnaise is a tool of oppression used by communists and bland-food lovers everywhere. It is a form of mind control designed to cow you into a sense of complacency about life. Food has flavor, and mayo covers that flavor up. It destroys your ability to taste.
What do you do to a food if it is too intense, and you’re not Texan? You add mayonnaise. In much the same way that salt is used to flavor food, mayonnaise is used to bland it. It is flavor’s anti-particle: it annihilates on contact. I might add that Brylcreme is much preferable as a hair dressing.
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EWW! that explains the puerile mewling of the dain bramaged. Go Frogs.
As a child when we wanted mayo on our burgers we asked for a California burger. Fun facts for all.
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I love hearing food snobs, even when I agree with them.
Home made mayo is excellent, if you have the nerve to eat raw egg. Off the shelf, the famous brand with the yellow based label works well.
Now, how in the hell am I supposed to make a (meat) salad sandwich without mayo? IMHO I make a tuna salad so good people fall off their chairs. Just how in the world can I make a BLT without mayo? Ranch..maybe, but I want to taste the B&T, ranch would mask that.
Mayo is an excellent way to add moisture back into a dry meat, such as charred hamburgers or 3 day old turkey in a turkey sandwich.
I make a rocking Russian/1000 Island dressing, base is mayo. Aioli is mayo based.
The abusers of mayo are the fast food restaurants, if what they are using is really mayo. Mayo on an Italian? get outta here.
Now, why mayo? In the olde days when people had chicken coops, what do you do with all the eggs you didn't get eaten for breakfast? Letting them spoil was a waste of food when wasting food was not expensive, it was dangerous. Different solutions emerged to most efficiently consume those calories - adding egg to pasta, using egg as a wash for breading foods, (eggs in fried rice? my Eastern food history is choppy) and mayo as a sauce, especially back in the day when bread wasn't the neat uniform stuff we see today and it would dry out and have hard crust. Mayo quite literally improved regular peoples' diet and improved the standard of living.
From the same guy that tagged Barky as a "Lightworker". Personally, I think he misspelled lightweight.
Guns are, in a word, perfect.
Guns are unparalleled, really; they are small masterpieces of precision engineering, one of humanity’s most deliberate, perfectly designed tools. There is simply no denying a gun’s intention, no possible misunderstanding of its reason for existing.
Unlike cars, knives, drugs, alcohol or any other freely available, potentially deadly items which can (and do) kill lots of people, guns are the only commercially available instrument in the world that we designed specifically for the purpose of the eradication of life. A gun’s nature is, as they say in the tech world, baked in to the hardware. It understands nothing else. Guns are objects, inanimate and unfeeling, not sentient.
Which is to say: Guns are death made physical, palpable in the hand. They are our basest, least sacred energies – hate, fear, paranoia – compressed into metal and explosives. No one holds or fires a gun without some fundamental understanding of this fact – that he could, if he so desired, kill anything he wanted, right now, in an instant – and that’s essentially all you’re supposed do with it. Guns have a deterrence value, which is beyond your characterization of the gun as having a deadly use. Without the threat of imminent death or serious wounds from its use, then anyone with any weapon -- not just guns -- can enforce their will on another.
The fact that most gun owners do not do this, and manage to resist using their guns for what we specifically created them to do, is merely incidental, and actually a kind of failure: it denies the gun’s primary objective. Gun owners actually know this, as a warped point of pride. “Hey, I own lots of guns and don’t kill things.” How nice for you. Tell it to all the dead. "Most gun owners" as in 99.999 percent of them, which is more than a failure; it is a testament to the users of guns that they do preserve life by making the possibility of death or severe injury an added element into a decision by a bad guy to impose his will on another.
If past mass shootings are any indication, gun sales in America will enjoy a nice sales surge after the Oregon massacre. Because of course the answer to all the gun deaths is always... more guns.
As the nature of a gun is the abject destruction of life, to use it merely for target practice or for “pleasure” is, essentially, to do it a disservice; you are thwarting its objective, insulting the lethal disposition we ourselves poured into the molten metal. Much like a sports car that “begs” to be driven fast, or an expensive designer dress that begs to be worn to an extravagant gala, a gun begs only to be fired at another living thing, to annihilate it. And eventually, it will be. I don't fool myself about the purpose of the gun, and target practice is simply a way to ensure that the first round through the last fired will hit its mark and stop a threat. The gun I used is transported and loaded safely, fired safely with consideration to others around me. It serves a warning to anyone that there are limits to bad behavior, and that limit is 2850 feet per second. The cavitation on impact is a bonus for bad behavior.
This is why we have the headlines all wrong: Guns are not being abused or wielded incorrectly in America. They are not “falling into the wrong hands,” ill-begotten by “evil people” and “crazies” and “psychopaths.” This is not true in the slightest. Good to know.
Just the opposite, actually. When yet another mass killing occurs, when another woman is murdered by her ex-husband (which happens every single day in America, BTW), when another despondent teen kills herself with her dad’s gun (ditto), when more males – and it is almost always males – shoot each other in the street, when more schoolchildren die at the hands of effortlessly well-armed adults, these are not tragedies. It’s exactly what we expect to happen. That also is what a fascist thinks and wants supporters to believe. The Wayne LaPierre admonition -- that the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy similarly armed with the will to use the gun -- rings true everytime we see another massacre.
The guns are, in a very real way, just fulfilling the destiny we instilled into them. They are doing exactly what we designed them to do, what we demand they do, as physical extensions of our fear and rage. You can’t shove 10 billion tons of carcinogens into the atmosphere and not expect massive outbreaks of cancer. You can’t put 300 million precision tools of death into the culture and not expect their latent, intrinsic objective to be realized, every single day. All true. Large numbers of guns available inevitably will be a proximate cause for shootings. That's math.
This is why all religious and spiritual traditions the world over agree: Guns are for cowards. They provide only the thinnest illusion of authority, the ugliest veneer of control, the most artificial aspect of authentic manhood. Like I'm going to take the advice of a lunatic who praised Barak Obama as a "lightworker" as to what is "manhood". I'll take the label "coward" just as long as you take the label "pussy". We will then see who survives a firefight. The man with a gun, or the pussy complaining about too many guns.
Proof? Simple: Just remove any gun fetishist’s (or terrorist’s, or mass shooter’s) stockpile of weapons, and watch what happens. They are instantly deflated, lost, rendered vulgar and human. All illusions of power and machismo vaporize, leaving only the base energies of hate and fear they often don’t understand, much less know how to transmute into something like kindness and love. Dr. Morford and his ten second mental health diagnosis. Try Chris Covert's two second diagnosis. Whoever wants to kill large numbers of unarmed people with newly acquired guns is like a mad dog. And guns are a cure for mad dogs.
Do you wish to pretend otherwise? To claim that guns are effective for safety, or self defense, or a warped sense of patriotism? This is not merely laughable, it’s the opposite of the truth, of established fact. When Barky leaves office, we will see who has a "warped sense of patriotism". I bet it won't be a gun owner.
Put it this way: If guns really conferred stability and protection, we’d be the safest, most peaceful nation on Earth. We are, instead, the most violent and deadly. We are viewed the world over as the most dazzling of bullies, and of hypocrites: We pretend to promote the values of democracy, peace and freedom the world over, and yet we kill one another – and anyone who disagrees with us – more horrifically, and more consistently, than any terrorist cult could ever imagine. Embrace the "we", Mark. It's your laws already on the books which constrict firearms transfers, and your loons who read and agree with what you have to say about guns, yet who will buy them and use them in the way you prescribe.
The bottom line is simple enough: America is, by every metric you can name, a far worse place for all our guns. They bring nothing of positive, uplifting value: no kindness, no strength, no peace, no divinity, no sense of community or human connection. Neither did your "lightworker", so we're even.
Quite the opposite. Guns are the antithesis of love and compassion; they advance the human experiment not at all, and in fact, shatter and humiliate it with every pull of the trigger.
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Then the primary purpose of Cars is to run people over and kill them. After all there are far more more deaths by autos than by guns.
And we are much safer than most of the world. We don't have tyrants. Women can walk down the street without fear of being raped (except in liberal enclaves like occupy camps). And there are school shootings and bombings in the rest of the world - our media just hypes ours up for their agenda.
As for Obama... I always thought it was shitworker but that's just me. He's sure been delivering it since he's been in office.
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Yo G, because it is illegal to kill some people.
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If guns really conferred stability and protection, we’d be the safest, most peaceful nation on Earth. We are, instead, the most violent and deadly.
This is, quite simply, bullshit. We are not. We are not even in the top 25. In fact, a quick google suggests the US is just a tad below the median murder rate for all the countries in the world.
The other thing missing from this frothy piece is any discussion of geography. Murder is not uniformly distributed. Roughly half the murders in the US are committed in urban black communities. Last Memorial Day weekend, over 100 people were shot in Chicago, Baltimore and New York in 3 days. But we can't talk about that because to even point it out is 'racist'. Care to bet that most of those murders were committed with unlicensed/illegal guns?
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To recognize the level of gun violence in urban America you must also recognize the causes and participants. While the stats are quietly rolled into the national record, urban recognition will not happen on Champ's watch or the watch of any democrat.
Demographics, educational failure, chronic unemployment and welfare, the narcotics enterprise and drug culture, and fatherless families all play a contributing role in urban failure and crime. Did I mention the the urban drug enterprise ?
No need to sort the apples, that would be discriminatory and racist, we'll just call the entire basket spoiled.
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Let's take this to its logical endpoint: Because the political system and the tax code have both been misused on a regular basis, they must be eradicated. They are nothing less than a national disgrace.
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When Shariah law becomes common in the US, we need to re-invoke Texas Common Law: "He needed killin'"
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Planned Parenthood kills around 300,000 people a year. Mostly minorities. Homicides involving guns maybe 10,000. So who is more dangerous gun owners or Social Workers?
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The chief reason America has remained a free country is the widespread private ownership of firearms. Individual ownership of guns made the American Revolution possible. The principal purpose of the Second Amendment was to maintain our freedom from government.
The founding fathers have much more to say about firearm ownership. Citizens have the right to live. No one has the right to deprive us of life and liberty.
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I've been having a discussion with a person who identifies himself as a Liberal. Here are his exact words, You should have to register your firearm, so that if by some chance you sell that firearm to someone who is not supposed to have a firearm, you will be held responsible."
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So that watery tart who threw me a 22 rifle, I was only a tool to fulfill Its destiny of plinking half empty cans?
And magnets are possesses by spirits who, when close, become madly in love and want to hold each other.
I have no concerns about the handgun I purchased from Mordor Armory. Its my precious.
“The only difference between Detroit and the Third World in terms of corruption is Detroit don't have no goats in the streets.”
― Charlie LeDuff, Detroit: An American Autopsy
WTF, g, haven't you been paying attention? Why do you think Obama leaves the border open? Why do you think this country encourages immigration from Third World countries? His plan, Clinton's plan, Bush's plan have all been the same: they want to turn the United States into a Third World hell hole and they are succeeding at an alarming pace. We won't be so uppity when we're all poor.
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Parts of USA are Third World?
See central California and downtown LA and San Diego.
[DAWN] THE past 10 days have been excruciating for the Afghan forces, whose grip on security remains far from firm. Their ability to rout the Afghan Taliban, without air support from NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... troops, is open to question. A run of military reverses in the embattled north showed up the chinks in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... 's security strategy and the handicaps of its law-enforcement agencies.
In Kunduz city, the Taliban scored their most emphatic victory in a decade and a half. On Monday, they stormed the city at the break of dawn and ruled it by afternoon, as the army, police and intelligence operatives beat a hasty retreat. Looking at the Taliban's steady inroads into the north over the past 13 months, the fall of Kunduz -- coming with a nagging sense of déjà-vu -- is a rude shock to Kabul.
This striking military failure has exposed the soft underbelly of the Afghan forces in dealing with the rebels, who will feel even more emboldened in the months ahead. On the contrary, the loss of territory will add to the woes of the Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. administration that has been unable to implement its ambitious reform agenda. To the president's dismay, the capital of neighbouring Baghlan province and the Zar Aab district of Jawzjan are also teetering on the verge of collapse.
More than 10 months after NATO's combat mission ended, the government forces continue to rely heavily on air support from international troops. An alarming attrition rate, a sharp rise in casualties and intensifying Taliban incursions have left the army and police spread too thin.
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[Libya Herald] The united spirit that UN special envoy Bernardino Leon has craved throughout a year of failed Libya peace talks finally arrived today -- not from Libyan leaders, but the international community.
At a conference at the UN General Assembly in New York, delegate after delegate spoke of their wish for Libya's leaders to endorse Leon's plan for a government of national accord.
The Spanish-born diplomat had originally arranged this meeting for two weeks ago, intending to celebrate the signing of a peace deal he has worked so hard to achieve. In the event, foreign ministers and diplomats did not hide their disappointment that it had failed.
John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , the U.S. Secretary of State, led off by insisting that the more than three dozen nations present were speaking with one voice, and that this voice was calling for peace.
All the other nations, a rich ensemble of foreign ministers and diplomats, echoed his call that the peace plan, now in its seventh draft, be accepted by all sides in Libya with no more changes.
The partial exception was Russia, whose own representative mentioned the need to adhere to the 11 July initialing of a previous draft peace plan, one more favourable to the House of Representatives.
But he too joined states as various as Mali and Morocco, Nigeria and Norway, Jordan and Germany, in asking Libya's leaders to back the plan, crafted over 12 months of tortuous diplomacy by Leon.
Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, chairing the meeting, made his own strong call for the plan to be signed: "The violence of the past year and a half is leading Libya down a path of death, displacement and destruction," he said. "Sadly, this is largely the result of rival groups who insist on putting petty concerns above those of the Libyan people. They are denying their country a future and have made Libya a base of instability, and a threat to regional and international security."
Meanwhile the 23-strong team of Libyan delegates who have negotiated the plan with Leon watched in silence.
Had Libya's two parliaments approved the peace deal, the delegates would have been allowed speeches, shaking hands and getting praise, maybe even garlands of flowers, from assembled diplomats.
As it was, even Libya's UN representative, Ibrahim Al-Dabashi, was not invited to speak, perhaps in case his presence would see opponents in the fragile grinding of the peace processor complain.
For Leon there was consolation from the fact that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , backers of Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... , and Egypt and UAE, supporters of the HoR, each spoke with one mind, urging peace in the interest of preventing chaos overtaking Libya.
What was missing from the multitude of speeches, most of them praising Leon and promising Libya "full support", was any suggestion of what will happen if Libyans miss their next "final" deadline for making a peace plan, which is now 20 October.
The day after that date, the mandate of the House of Representatives expires and Libya will lose its internationally recognised government, unless the parliament votes itself an extension of office.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Our country is going through difficult times.
We are hurt. Our hearts are tormented.
Every day, dozens of people are being martyred.
Every day we are losing our brothers, our sons, our dear ones.
Violence is hitting the street, knocking our door, reminding us of the darkest days of our history.
Unfortunately, a language that divides, targets and encourages violence has started to rule our country.
Today, as the Dogan Group and daily Hurriyet employees, with millions of our readers and viewers, we are here to stand against this terror and this language of violence.
As you all know, this building that we are standing in front of now was attacked on Sunday night.
Our door was broken and there was an attempt to break inside the building.
A crowd, among them the former head of a political party's youth organization and its current member of parliament, attacked our building.
We were insulted and threatened.
After the attack, they told us we should get used to such attacks.
As individuals who simply try to their job and publish properly, we learned what we should get used to the next night.
We were openly attacked again, for a second time.
Why did it happen? There is one answer: Because we are being indicated as a target.
My father, Aydin Dogan, and a number of journalists, writers and managers in our group, have been targeted for a long time with lies and slanders.
Horrible slanders include claims that we "support terror." As a newspaper whose editor-in-chief was killed by faceless myrmidons and a newspaper that was targeted by terror attacks in the past, there is no need to explain where we have stood on this issue for the past 67 years. We always stand against PKK terrorism and we will continue to oppose it in any form, whatever its name is.
What's more, nobody has a right to question our love for our country.
Two separate attacks were organized against this newspaper within 48 hours.
These attacks were a part of a systematic slander and intimidation campaign that has been ongoing against the Dogan family for a long time.
As the Dogan Group, we have been in a great struggle for the past eight years.
First, we faced an unprecedented tax penalty conspiracy.
There are currently efforts to re-open legal cases that we have already won. They made a special effort to convict us with fictitious and fabricated allegations.
Our family, which is among the top taxpayers in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , is being targeted with fictitious and fabricated allegations such as "oil smuggler," "tax dodger," and "terrorist." This is neither reasonable nor conscionable.
We know the reason for these systematic attacks very well.
The reason is our independent publishing stance, under very hard conditions.
Our readers and viewers should know something well: Being targeted in attacks of intimidation by club-swinging and stone-throwing groups cannot and will not scare us.
We are an independent publisher and we want to remain one.
We have only one goal: To make every effort to provide our readers and viewers with the correct information in the quickest time. Nobody should doubt that we will continue our duty with the same decisiveness.
For a democracy, a responsible, independent media with ethical values is like bread, like water.
It is a light in the darkness.
Everyone should protect it.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Our offices have been attacked by a mob twice and most recently writer Ahmet Hakan has been attacked, he and his bodyguard beaten earlier this week.
I have loads of knowledge about terrorist attacks, separate attacks and what precautions an individual can take but that does not stop me from being afraid. I am trying to be careful but I am afraid. I am very afraid. I am not a famous journalist like Ahmet Hakan; nobody is going to follow me home and beat me up.
By the way, creating a fake minor car accident and making a row is one of the simplest tactics used in these streets for some time. I wonder if Hakan or his body guard or his driver ever knew about it. I mean a simple driver's maneuver would have avoided the awful encounter. Why did they not lock their doors and just move? Maybe it all adds up to one second of negligence or carelessness, one moment of eclipse of reason.
Anyway, here is an interview with Dean of Political Sciences Department of Ankara University Professor Serpil Sancar. She was interviewed by Nurcan Gökdemir at daily Birgun. She spoke about the lynching mobs that attacked Kurdish citizens and workers a while ago, explaining who made up the mobs.
She said the authoritarian state was reflected on the streets as lynching groups. Here are some extracts from the interview:
"Those who we call 'lumpen' are on the streets. While the police are shutting their eyes, these lynch groups and gangs are formed.... The issue is not a debate or fight. The issue is the supervising of a mass who only believes in beating up, killing and lynching... At the root of this is the culture of violence, polarization and inciting to hostility... There are agitated masses..."
"These young people have parents who grew up on the village. Their parents migrated to big cities... They are the first or second generation in urban life...They have not benefited from the modern opportunities of the city; they have gone to middle school or high school the most; they do not have a dream of becoming a university student... All their narratives are based on family relationships; their entire life is based on violence.
Even in their love affairs, they explain it as 'I was dating a girl; she did wrong to me; I struck her.' The ordinary talk is 'I hit. I beat. I drew the knife...' Violence is so ordinary in their lives it is unbelievable..."
"This group of people is the grassroots of fascist regimes. They are able to build civilian but despotic control mechanisms on them. Unless we make this mass give up violence, professionalize them, humanize them and draw them into the rule of law, this will continue like this..."
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Thugs? We have them here too pushing one party's agenda. Ferguson, Baltimore. BlackLiveMatter. Union buses full of thugs showing up at private homes and neighborhoods. Dr. King wanted integration. Where's the power in that? Just ask the 'new white' Asians.
[NEWS.INVESTORS] In berating GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson ... a neurosurgeon who is under the impression that being brilliant qualifies him to be president.... for suggesting a loyalty test for Moslems seeking high office, CNN host Jake Tapper maintained that he doesn't know a single observant Moslem-American who wants to Islamize America. Meaning no one's rigged his car with explosives yet.
Tapper doesn't get out much. If he did, chances are he'd run into some of the 51% of Moslems living in the U.S. who just this June told Polling Co. they preferred having "the choice of being governed according to Shariah," or Islamic law. Or the 60% of Moslem-Americans under 30 who told Pew Research they're more loyal to Islam than America. If your loyalty is to Allah, whose will is interpreted by your local holy man, you're not loyal to the U.S.A., whose structure was laid out by Jefferson and Madison and Hamilton, et al.
Maybe they're all heretics, so let's see what the enlightened Moslems think. Oh, come now. Do we ever let facts interfere with an opinion?
If Tapper did a little independent research he'd quickly find that America's most respected Islamic leaders and scholars also want theocracy, not democracy, and even advocate trading the Constitution for the Koran. They're also the holy men who do the interpreting.
These aren't fringe players. These are the brass hats representing the Moslem establishment in America today.
Hopefully none of them ever runs for president, because here's what he'd have to say about the U.S. system of government:
• Muzammil Siddiqi ... issued a fatwa on Islam Online, stating By participating in a non-Islamic system, one cannot rule by that which Allah has commanded.... We must not forget that Allah's rules have to be established in all lands, and all our efforts should lead to that direction. In 2002, federal authorities raided headquarters of the Fiqh Council. However, no arrests were made, and in fact in July 2005, Siddiqi's Fiqh Council of North America publicly issued a fatwa piously stating Islam's condemnation of terrorism and religious extremism..... , chairman of both the Fiqh Council of North America, which dispenses Islamic rulings, and the North American Islamic Trust ...holds titles to the real estate assets of Islamic centers and schools in more than forty States. Properties are operated primarily for the purpose of religious worship. In addition, NAIT pools the American Muslim community’s assets under its Islamic Centers Cooperative Fund, and publishes credible Islamic literature under its American Trust Publications. Through a wholly-owned for-profit subsidiary, NAIT develops financial vehicles that are compatible with both the Shariah and American law, e.g. mutual funds..... , which owns most of the mosques in the U.S.: "As Moslems, we should participate in the system to safeguard our interests and try to bring gradual change, (but) we must not forget that Allah's rules have to be established in all lands, and all our efforts should lead to that direction."
• Omar Ahmad ...founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). He also worked for the Islamic Association of Palestine, a precursor to CAIR. He was born in Amman, Jordan. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from Santa Clara University as well as a Masters in Political Science. Says the reporter who quoted him saying the Koran must become the supreme authority in the U.S.A. is a liar, damn her..... , co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... , the top Moslem lobby group in Washington: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
• CAIR ...designated a terrorist group by the UAE... front man Ibrahim Hooper: "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future."
• Imam Siraj Wahhaj, director of the Moslem Alliance in North America ...a predominantly black organization representing Moslems indigenous to the United States, founded in 2001 by Siraj Wahhaj, believed to be a co-conspirator to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and Ihsan Bagby. The latter is currently MANA’s General Secretary. Convicted cop-killer Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly known as H. Rap Brown) was once a driving force behind MANA and continues to enjoy the organization's support. MANA seeks to establish Shariah as the governing principle of American society. MANA is part of the American Moslem Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections (AMTF), along with American Muslim Alliance, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim American Society, the Moslem Public Affairs Council, the Muslim Students’ Association of the U.S. and Canada, the Muslim Ummah of North America, Project Islamic Hope, and United Moslems of America... : "In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam."
• Imam Zaid Shakir, co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Calif.: "If we put a nationwide infrastructure in place and marshaled our resources, we'd take over this country in a very short time. . . . What a great victory it will be for Islam to have this country in the fold and ranks of the Moslems."
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Tap Tap let me down slowly through his career.
As usual, falls into the thoughtless void that is most in any "profession" that whores for money from the unions to spin propaganda.
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See also CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > FORTY-FOUR PERCENT OF NORTH CAROLINA REPUBLICANS WANT TO MAKE ISLAM ILLEGAL, SEVENTY-TWO PERCENT SAY OBAMA IS ANTI-CHRISTIAN | [Vocativ] MOST REPUBLICANS IN THIS STATE DON'T WANT A MUSLIM PRESIDENT.
Looks like Southern or SE GOP-Dem "Bible Belters" + aligned may have found something in common in this Age of Obama, + IRREGARDLESS OF ETHNIC GROUP???
[DAWN] Want to know what a united, singular approach can achieve? It received little play here, but the US-India Joint Declaration on Combatting Terrorism issued by the US secretary of state and the Indian foreign minister is a nice enough example.
In the larger scheme of things, the Sept 23 joint statement means little by way of concrete action. But it does indicate a shift in language and a new willingness to be more direct about Indian concerns.
Of the first five points in the joint statement, these were four:
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To be taken seriously by other nations there has to be a common ground of discourse and values. Unless Pakistain closes itself off from the rest of the world like North Korea it has to adhere to what the rest of the world regards as elementary rules. Maintaining terrorist organizations as an arm of the state doesn't do that. Serial lies and misrepresentations don't do that. Oppression of minorities and extremism in religion don't do that. The rest of the world doesn't "need to understand Pakistain through the eyes of the Paks." Pakistain needs to notice that it has certain obligations in its dealings with the rest of the world or the rest of the world will regard it as the pest hole it is. [NATION.PK] There is voluminous literature on the ideology, creation and politics of Pakistain. There are also some scholarly articles and books written by some prominent and prolific historians, political scientists and journalists on the subject. Almost all articles and books address the very basic issues in the history of Pakistain, ranging from the controversial moment of Partition to present-day ideological confusion in the country. Interestingly, most of the books are authored by our foreign educated scholars and some of them by the western intellectuals and social and political scientists.
A forensic examination and critical evaluation of some most-read and profound books compel us to conclude that these intellectuals and political analysts see Pakistain through the prism of the west. This perspective convinces them to brand Pakistain as a "failed state" and a "failing society". These books play a remarkable role in producing a community of educated or semi-educated so-called scholars who blatantly criticize and firmly reject Pakistain and its very ideology. Through these writings Pak state and society emerge as violent, bad boy and directionless crowd of people who simply have no working mind and are being controlled by others for their own interests.
Is Pakistain really a "rogue state" or is it simply a "misunderstood" and "misrepresented" state? Is Pak society merely a cluster of idiots who are controlled by others? Are Paks overly conservatives and do not accept any change and progress? Was the creation of Pakistain actually a "blunder" but politically a "big achievement"? Who rules Pakistain and why? Do the mullahs control everything in the country? Do religious parties represent the will of people? Is the Pak military all-powerful and all-wise?
We may not answer all the aforementioned questions in a single article but we can develop a perspective to analyze these "intellectual challenges".
Every society and state has its own social, political, legal, economic and religious history and certain dynamics that are mainly the product of particular circumstances and unique experiences. A comparative study of human societies reveals that every society responds to, and copes with, the same issue in a unique way. Political development of modern-day sovereign states also reflects the fact that they experienced different socio-political circumstances and dealt with them according to their own wisdom and understanding keeping in mind their own history, religion, belief system and public opinion. It is certain that there are no objective values which a country practices or has practiced, and therefore, the rest of the world should also practice them.
Sadly, we have been wisely and very smartly confused by terms like "global values" and "universal human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... ". In reality, these "global values" are western values and people are fooled into believing them to be universal. These so-called global values are instilled in the minds of young students and budding scholars so that they view the whole world through the prism of those values. This is the indication of smart indoctrination.
In United Kingdom, for instance, Sir Samuel Romilly accepted the challenge and started voicing against the death penalty in 1808 but the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment (1864-66) didn't decide anything to abolish it. Later on, in 1938, there was a parliamentary bill to suspend the death penalty for five years just for the experiment's sake, but the changed socio-political scenario owing to the beginning of Second World War, meant that it couldn't be sustained. In 1949, once again the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment abolished the death penalty but it was overturned. Finally, in 1965, there was a five-year suspension of death penalty on experimental basis. So, as we can see it took almost 160 years to bring a reform or change in criminal justice system of UK.
The United States of America, from Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board of Education, from Whitney v. United States to Dennis v. United States, from The Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Company to Bhopal Case, decided all issues and disputes according to their own socio-political realities and economic interests.
But our western indoctrinated pseudo scholars and some non-Paks political analysts urge Pakistain to follow others' footsteps if it really wants peace, prosperity and progress. This is an indication of smart indoctrination and mature politics played by the western giants. People often forget the fact that Pakistain has its own history, religion and belief system and one can't impose foreign values on an independent nation.
The undeniable reality needs to be understood that all concepts like "modernity" and "vulgarity" are culturally defined and have different definitions in different cultures. Everyone likes and exhibits his or her own culture. So it is almost impossible--at least in the 21st century--- to understand the politics of any society or state without first understanding its sociology. In other words, it is necessary to understand: what people think of modernity? How do they define progress and change? What is their religion? How do they think of their religion? What are their social problems? What do they like and dislike?
To conclude: if we really want to know and understand the reality behind the creation of Pakistain, the role of Pakistain's military in politics, the place of mullahs in Pak society, successful failures of the hypocrite political elite, the thinking of a common Pak, and above all, the dominant and remarkable role of the religion in the process of civilizational transition in sub-continent, we have to observe Pakistain through the prism of Paks. General (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... rightly said:"You need to understand Pakistain through the eyes of the Paks."
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No, just that there is a delay in scheduling a major asteroid impact on Pakistan. Perhaps Project Orion should be un-mothballed to redirect an appropriately sized rock. Say a few miles across?
[DAWN] FOR many years, the Pak state has alleged -- sometimes credibly, sometimes seemingly less so -- that India is involved in stoking violence and terrorism inside Pakistain. Of particular concern have been Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... over the last decade, Fata and Khyber Pakthunkhwa for several years now, and Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... for at least a couple of decades. Never before, however, has the state here tried to formally substantiate its allegations. That changed this week with the handover to UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon's office of three dossiers containing evidence of Indian involvement in Karachi, Balochistan and Fata. The dossiers were originally to be handed over to Indian officials, but after the cancellation of the NSA talks and with no meeting transpiring on the sidelines of the UNGA, the Pak government appears to have decided to take up the matter with the world body itself.
It is hoped, especially since the dossiers are to form the basis of a renewed push by Pakistain to internationalise its troubles and disputes with India, that there is indeed substantive and serious evidence contained in the documents. While the outside world, and global powers in particular, have been courting the Indian market, and India has been ramping up its diplomatic ties with the world, the fact is that as a nuclear region, potential conflict between India and Pakistain is a continuing worry for the global community. As such, bringing to light evidence of Indian attempts to destabilise Pakistain, a country already wracked by many hues of Lion of Islam violence, could possibly galvanise international attention towards the continuing and dangerous tensions in this region. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policy of effectively not talking to Pakistain is perhaps as much a danger today as the threat posed by non-state actors -- when the state itself closes the door on dialogue, all manner of hawkish and non-state elements in both countries tend to get mobilised.
Fortunately, the handover of the dossiers has not led the Pak government to also shut the door on dialogue. As Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... reiterated, his government prefers to address all issues through dialogue. But what last week's events -- be it the prime minister's meetings with world leaders; the four points mooted by him in his UNGA address; or the dossier-related actions -- do not amount to is a coherent plan for any kind of forward movement. If anything, the petulant reaction of the Indian government to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... 's four points suggests that bilateral tensions are unlikely to subside or dissipate anytime soon. Perhaps, though, in the meantime, the Pak side can work on bringing the various institutional actors on the same page when it comes to its India policy. The gap between the approaches of the civilian government and the military establishment is noticeable -- and wholly unwelcome.
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Again, now that IRAN is Amerika's OWG Co-SUperpower sibling, WE'RE-SUPPOSED TO-BE-THE -WORLD'S-FIRST-MUSLIM-NUKE-SUPERPOWER-NOT-IRAN PAKISTAN WANTS ITS "MANIFEST DESTINY" + IS ASSERTING ITS RIGHTS + AGENDUM.
Islamabad didn't unlaterally delay or halt its NUclear Agenda per the US-Soviet War just to see Iran or Other usurp its desired Muslim/Islamic Superpower agenda.
PAKISTAN = RISING CHINA = CAN IT STOP, DELAY, AMEND ITS MILPOL/GEOPOL AMBITIONS [again], OR WILL IT RISK VARIOUS REGIONAL AGGRESSIONISMS THAT COULD POTEN RESULT IN US-CHINA-INDIA MILITARY + NUCLEAR CONFLICT???
h/t Instapundit
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When the administration warned Russian president Putin he was foolishly stumbling into a Syrian quagmire, it spoke from its customary vantage of intellectual superiority. It has been constantly waving the Russian away from what they describe as an unwise choice the way an only adult in the room might speak to a child.
...President Obama has the habit of offering advice to other leaders, explaining how they should think.
...It must come as a cruel disappointment that so many world leaders disregarded his counsel in 2015, often doing the opposite of what he suggested.
...The president's frustration and anger are palpable. It is as if the world were playing a dirty trick on him. His scholarly estimate of other leaders' behavior seem all off -- and he can't figure out where his calculations have gone wrong. The NYT writes, "bristling at criticism of his own Syria policy, he rejected domestic opponents who offer 'half-baked ideas' that amount to 'a bunch of mumbo-jumbo.'"
...Yet through this ongoing rout Obama may keep insisting that his policy calculations are correct; that his domestic opponents are nothing but 'half-baked' amateurs stuffed full of 'mumbo-jumbo". Despite these pretentions he will unaccountably keep losing to Putin, Iran and even ISIS without being able to understand it. Bret Stephens, writing in the Wall Street Journal [15] called him the "unteachable president", the man perpetually convinced of his infallibility and yet whose predictions were "one hundred percent wrong. The professor president who loves to talk about teachable moments is himself unteachable. Why is that?"
The short, plainspoken answer is because he hasn't got a lick of common sense. Therefore he is doomed to keep losing to vastly weaker enemies, stumbling into catastrophes serially without ever knowing why. It's a sad sight. America so powerful and yet so helpless. IMO, Obama is the inevitable outcome of the affirmative action system
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...President Obama has the habit of offering advice to other leaders, explaining how they should think.
Offering unsolicited advice is an annoying trait. Self-righteous indignation is another annoying trait. We have been annoyed for about 8 years as I see it.
You can't judge Obama's policies unless you know his goals. Any thought that he is looking out for traditional American interests and strength have been proven false. I'm not entirely sure what his end goal is but I'll bet a lot that it is evil in most all ways.
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[DAWN] Want to know what a united, singular approach can achieve? It received little play here, but the US-India Joint Declaration on Combatting Terrorism issued by the US secretary of state and the Indian foreign minister is a nice enough example.
[NATION.PK] There is voluminous literature on the ideology, creation and politics of Pakistain. There are also some scholarly articles and books written by some prominent and prolific historians, political scientists and journalists on the subject. Almost all articles and books address the very basic issues in the history of Pakistain, ranging from the controversial moment of Partition to present-day ideological confusion in the country. Interestingly, most of the books are authored by our foreign educated scholars and some of them by the western intellectuals and social and political scientists.
Pervez 
[DAWN] FOR many years, the Pak state has alleged -- sometimes credibly, sometimes seemingly less so -- that India is involved in stoking violence and terrorism inside Pakistain. Of particular concern have been 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
When the administration warned Russian president Putin he was foolishly stumbling into a Syrian quagmire, it spoke from its customary vantage of intellectual superiority. It has been constantly waving the Russian away from what they describe as an unwise choice the way an only adult in the room might speak to a child.
