Cao’s note: Amil Imani is a member of the ex-muslim movement. You can find his website here. From time to time, he sends me something he has written to share with the world.

Is hope for help a distant dream?

By: Amil Imani

The passion for power to dominate, to control and to rule one’s fellow humans is an ancient impulse. It goes back to medieval times when certain characters had the desire to force their will upon those around them.

Islamic Republic is not an exception to this rule. They, too, have ruled over defenseless Persians for the past 26 years, with iron fists and with absolute power. It has caused millions of people to flee their country. For those remaining, have been subject to mass executions, thousands upon thousands of fabricated arrests, thousands of people torn away from their homes and thrown into prison. They have been subjected to torture, made to confess to the crimes they never committed, and then either exterminated or sent back to medieval Islamic torture chambers where they simply faded away. It is difficult for many people to even talk about these horrible tragedies.

In 1979, upon returning from his long exile, Ayatollah Khomeini set the stage for gaining absolute power via primitive Islamic rules and by employing hundreds of thousands of overzealous revolutionary guards and militia police repression against opposition elements within the country. The machinery of coercion went to work against the Iranian people who had fought a long fight against the totalitarian regimes and who were unaware of the plot of one the greatest terrorist minded individuals of the twentieth century. The year 1979 was the beginning of the rejuvenation of the evil empire of Islam. (more…)

Cao’s Note: As my regular readers know, I support and respect Ron Paul’s position on issues. He is RIGHT ON with the Constitution and the Federalist Papers as they were originally written. I wish more in Congress took their oath to defend the Constitution seriously.

HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS
BEFORE THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

November 20, 2004

Where To From Here?

The election of 2004 is now history. It’s time to ponder our next four years. Will our country become freer, richer, safer, and more peaceful, or will we continue to suffer from lost civil liberties, a stagnant economy, terrorist threats, and an expanding war in the Middle East and central Asia? Surely the significance of the election was reflected in its intensity and divisiveness.

More people voted for President Bush than any other presidential candidate in our history. And because of the turnout, more people voted against an incumbent president than ever before. However, President Bush was reelected by the narrowest popular vote margin of any incumbent president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916. The numbers are important and measurable; the long-term results are less predictable. The president and many others have said these results give the President a “mandate.” Exactly what that means and what it may lead to is of great importance to us all. Remember, the nation reelected a president in 1972 with a much bigger mandate who never got a chance to use his political capital. (more…)

Being that I’m not much of an Oprah fan and my mom is, at Thanksgiving, she raved about a product called “Airborne Effervescent”. She said it was developed by a school teacher who was sick and tired of getting sick from her students during the winter months. Mom is a big one for the natural remedies, having had a long career as a nurse and appreciating the benefits of whole food and as close-to-scratch-as-possible cooking. Which makes her a pain in the a$$ if she comes over for dinner, if you know what I mean. But anyway, I digress.

It’s an herbal formula, and it comes in a packet that you use kind of like Alka Seltzer. It also comes in tablets. But I saw my dad use it like alka seltzer. It’s an immune system booster. I just love these natural herbal remedies, when I was in High School, I worked at a natural food store. I’m getting some for my guys and me. My dad took it right before we had our Thanksgiving dinner.

Click here if you missed the link (above).

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November 29, 1947 - November 29, 2004

This BlogBurst piece is cross-posted by participating websites, to commemorate a milestone in Israel’s history. The list of the participating sites is appended at the end of this post. Cao’s Blog, together with 67 other blogs, commemorates today the UN vote in favour of establishing a Palestinian Jewish state and a Palestinian Arab state in the former British Mandate of Palestine. Among other objectives of the BlogBurst is this: We wish to shine the light of fact on a subject that has become the focus of Radical Left, Far Right, Arab-Islamist, Mis-informative Jew-Hate in the guise of ‘Anti-Zionism’.

Today is the anniversary of the UN vote on resolution 181, which approved the partition of the western part Palestine into a predominately Jewish state and a predominately Arab state. (It is vital to recall that the UN partition plan referred to western Palestine, to underscore that in 1921 the eastern part was ripped off the Jewish National Home by the British Government and handed over to the then Emir Abdullah.)

The partition plan was approved by 33 to 13, with 10 abstentions.

The 33 countries that cast the “Yes” vote were: Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Byelorussia, Canada, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Iceland, Liberia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine, Union of South Africa, USSR, USA, Uruguay, Venezuela. (Among other countries, the list includes the US, the three British Dominions, all the European countries except for Greece and the UK, but including all the Soviet-block countries.)

The 13 countries that chose the Hall of Shame and voted “No” were: Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Yemen. (Ten of these are Moslem countries; Greece has the special distinction of being the only European country to have joined the Hall of Shame.)

The ten countries that abstained are: Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Mexico, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia.

On November 30, 1947, the day following the vote, the Palestinian Arabs murdered six Jews in a bus making its way to Jerusalem, and proceeded to murder another Jew in the Tel-Aviv - Jaffa area. This was a prelude to a war that claimed the lives of 6,000 Jews, or 1% of the total Jewish population in 1948. This toll is the per capita equivalent of today’s Canada losing 300,000 lives, or the US losing 3,000,000.

The object of the war, launched by the Arabs in the former Palestine and the armies of Egypt, Tansjordan, Syria and Lebanon (with help from other Arab countries), was to “throw the Jews into the sea”. As the partition map indicates, however, rather than annihilate the Jewish population, the Arabs ended up with less territory than they would have gained by peaceful means.

In addition to the bloodshed in nascent Israel, immediately after the UN vote, Arabs attacks their Jewish neighbours in a number of Arab countries, the murders in Syria’s Aleppo being the best known.

Bruised and bleeding, Israel prevailed nonetheless. May our sister-democracy thrive and flourish.

List of participating sites, in alphabetical order of site name

Anti Idiotarian Rottweiler
Arkansas Bushwacker
Armies Of Liberation
Biurchametz
Blimpish
Blithered
Blog Willy
Blue Rev
Canadian Comment

Cao’s Blog
Catholic Friends of Israel
Christian Patriot
Christian Action for Israel
Clarity and Resolve
Crusader War College
Cuanas
Danegerus
Daniel Davis
Flig

Harald Tribune
Heretics Almanac
Hidden Nook
History Nerd
IceVikings
I Love America
Instant Knowledge News
Israpundit

JPundit
Jersusalem Posts
Leaning Right News
Lindasog
Live Journal
MCNS
Martinipundit
Mererhetoric
Motnews

Mugged By Reality
Mystical Paths
My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Naebunny
NetWMD
Nice Jewish Boy
Peaktalk
Protect Our Heritage
Reaganesque
Red Tigress

Riteturnonly
Shimshon9
Solomonia
Spitball Defense
Supernatural
Tampa Bay Primer
Techie Vampire
Texasbug
Tex The Pontificator
The Autism homepage

The Conservative
The Seal Club
Wackingday
Who’s Your Rabbi
Voxfelisi
Yoan Hermida
Weblog of a Wondering Jew

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Diana Duyser talks about the grilled-cheese sandwich she cooked 10 years ago, Wednesday at the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Fla., before turning it over to the new owner. The sandwich sold for $28,000 on eBay.

This is the stupidest story I’ve ever heard and it keeps getting worse!

MIAMI, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ — The grilled cheese sandwich that bears the image of the Virgin Mary is going on tour. Millions of visitors have seen it on the eBay Web site and now the sandwich is coming to a town near you. See the AMAZING Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich for yourself, witness the miracle of the image and learn about its incredible power.

Gimme a break. It’s just a sandwich.

Sheesh there are a whole lot of people out there who need to get a life. Seriously.

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Raven’s post on this is pretty funny. I don’t appreciate Clinton, and I got a pretty funny email from Human Events called: “Build your own Clinton library”.

These are some of the recommended books:

Because He Could, by Dick Morris

Rewriting History, by Dick Morris

High Crimes and Misdemeanors, by Ann Coulter

Legacy, by Rich Lowry

Losing Bin Laden, by Richard Miniter (the author of Shadow War: How Bush is Winning the War on Terror)

That’s the only Clinton Library I’ll ever visit: My own, which reveals the truth behind what he did while he was in office and more info on how despicable he and Hill are.

My own addition to this library would be:

Hillary’s Secret War, by Richard Poe

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Saddam’s an Outkast: Hey Allah!

Saddam from Iraq

Stupid and funny is good sometimes, right?

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This is a great petition: Let’s get the ACLU off taxpayer dole –Legal group awarded 1/2 million of our tax dollars for ridding courthouse of 10 Commandments. Click here for petition to stop taxpayer funding of the ACLU. Click here to read more about it. IMHO, the taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for an atheist agenda when this country was founded on moral principles.

In mid-November, the ACLU won this through the courts: Military Bases are barred from Boy Scout Sponsorship -click here for the article. Visit Hans Zeiger, who himself was a boy scout. He wrote this piece called “Boy Scouts Banned on Bases”. Click here for the article.

The Department of Defense cannot expect to win wars abroad if it is capitulating to the demands of political correctness at home. Our armed forces must be aligned with the standards of character that make America worth fighting for.

Americans who care about our nation’s moral condition and national security must contact the Department of Defense and tell them to stand up for the Boy Scouts. Send a comment to Secretary Rumsfeld – tell him that he must do everything possible to reverse this settlement with the ACLU.

Join with other Americans in expressing that the Ten Commandments should be legally displayed in all public places. It is important that we have a moral basis for our laws. The Ten Commandments are in essence the foundation for our laws. Should the foundation be destroyed, the building will fall. Click here to show your support.

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NOW I get it. A big stinking “red flag” should go up for you any time you hear someone refer to themselves as a “progressive”. Click here and here for Joseph Farrah’s articles on Congress’ Red Army Caucus. Telling signs of a”Progressive” website: “Moveon.org”, “Michael Moore”, ACLU affiliation, lamenting the plight of the poor repressed Gays, are often featured and complaints about Halliburton.

Many times, these self-proclaimed “progressives” have ties to or admit they are a “proud member of the ACLU”. It’s no wonder my talking about God at Thanksgiving brought at least two of them out from under a rock the other day (click here for some of that exchange in ‘comments’).

So, let’s take a look at the ACLU. But before that, I’d like to remind everyone of this: (more…)

I just joined the TTLB Ecoteam, (headed up by our friend NZ Bear) entering into the “Friends of Iraq Bloggers’ Challenge”. I know that by myself I didn’t have a chance competing against the big dawgs, so I’m joining #3, NZ Bear.

Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News
Spirit of America: “a Web-based humanitarian project that almost anyone can endorse, regardless of one’s stance on the wisdom of the war.”

Major General Jim Mattis, USMC
“The initiative and focused support provided by Spirit of America is beyond anything we have experienced. You have significantly impacted our ability to do good and, I fervently hope, reduce the potential for combat.”

Click here for a link where there’s an explanation of what it’s about.

Officially, it will go from December 1 through December 15, but we will accept donations right now!

Basically, leading bloggers are competing to raise funds to benefit the people of Iraq. 100% of all donations go to needs selected by these bloggers. Many of our projects support requests made by Americans serving in Iraq (Marines, Army, SeaBees) for goods that help the Iraqi people. Other projects directly support Iraqis who are on the front lines of building a better future for Iraq.

The donations from our team are going to an unrestricted fund. Donating to this fund means your donation will be applied wherever the need is greatest. Your donation may be used to fund any Spirit of America project and may be used to pay for the organizational/administrative expenses that provide the capacity to do everything we do. Unrestricted donations provide us the most flexibility to direct funds to where they will have the greatest impact.

Click here for a list of projects funded by the Spirit of America blogger challenge project.

If you’re a blogger, I invite you to join the team, click here.

Click here to make a donation that will apply to our team’s total.

About Spirit of America
Some of our supporters see Spirit of America as a way to help people who have suffered from repression, terrorism and war. Others see us as a way to support our troops by helping them succeed with their mission. And others see Spirit of America as a way to contribute to the war on terror and advance freedom, progress and peace. We are all of those things.

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Pat Tillman, photographed in Puyallup, Wash., on June 2003, was killed in Afghanistan early this year in April.

Pat Tillman walked away from a 3.6 million dollar contract from the Arizona Cardinals after 9/11 to join his brother in the U.S. Army. Earlier this year, Tillman was killed in Afghanistan. Many of those who serve our nation in a part-time capacity never flinch, never complain, and are happy to go fight when Uncle Sam calls them. Most may not leave a career in NFL football, but they do leave their jobs, families, and friends behind to protect our country at home and abroad when asked. For their service we are thankful.

Sports Illustrated is taking votes on Sportsman of the Year. Pat Tillman is on the short list, but is running third. Please go and vote for him here. Tillman gave his life for the country he loved. Now let’s do something for him.

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From a strictly mathematical viewpoint it goes like this:

• What Makes 100%?
• What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?
• Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?
• We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%.
• How about achieving 103%?
• What makes up 100% in life?

Here’s a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:

If: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Then:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

and

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

And

B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

AND

look how far ass kissing will take you.
A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G

1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that while Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it’s the Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top.

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Rusty has the images of the Geneva Convention Violations here. I have the powerpoint presentation if you’d like it, just email it to me and I’ll send you a zip file.

Let’s take a look at what the other side’s been up to. Looks like numerous weapons caches and the slaughterhouses complete with blood stained walls and sand that was used to clean up the blood. I heard as you approached one of these buildings you could smell it before you went in.

These are pictures of how our enemy has been operating in Fallujah. Rusty has a little commentary on these images, including the Chevy Suburban registered in Texas, that they were turning into a car bomb.

Interesting; I don’t remember any C-BS stories on this.

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These stories of sanitizing our culture from any mention of God are all over the place. Here is another one (click here).

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California teacher has been barred by his school from giving students documents from American history that refer to God — including the Declaration of Independence.

Hat tip: Conservative Eyes (click here).

Put these things together and what do you get?

A growing number of retailers are banning the Salvation Army bell ringers (click here).

Big corporations back Gay Big Brothers and Sisters (click here).

“We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools…in your youth groups, in your movie theatre bathrooms…wherever men are men together. Your sons will become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us.” - homosexual activist Michael Swift

Wow, and the Agressive Progressive says I’m promoting hate. With the kind of rhetoric these progressives are using, I have to wonder if they are professional activists for the left. (click here)

There is an active assault on family values in our schools, with Gay Activism including Gay Activism having to do with the Boy Scouts. (click here) Here’s another article on how the homosexual activists are targeting our children (click here) by going after the Boy Scouts and 4-H Clubs.

In August 2000, the president of the Toledo chapter of PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) who led an anti-Boy Scout rally there, turned out to be a convicted child molester. John Helmstreet, who admits to being a homosexual, had organized a protest in front of a Boy Scout council building. It turns out that Helmstreet confessed in 1992 to molesting a 10-year old boy. When asked if he thought the Scouts should exclude homosexuals, he did not respond. GLSEN was a co-sponsor of the protest. Helmstreet is still listed on the Toledo PFLAG web site as chapter chairman. That chapter meets, ironically, in an Episcopal church.

A school social worker who was a leader of the Chicago chapter of GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) was arrested last August in an Internet investigation. Dave P. Thomas of Chicago was charged with indecent solicitation of a child. The boy, who was identified as being between 13 and 16, had met with Thomas on many occasions for sex.

What’s amazing is how openly supportive the homosexual community is about sex with children. There are few attempts to mask this and in fact, it’s frequently flaunted. The grand marshal of the 1999 “gay” pride parade in San Francisco was Harry Hay. Hay was one of the founders of the “gay rights” movement back in the 1950s and ’60s. Hay has been openly supportive of the pedophile group NAMBLA, the North American Man/ Boy Love association, and marched in their parade in 1993.

K-Mart back in the porn business-Much of the music (with parent advisory stickers on it) promotes activities such as killing parents and law officials, gang-raping girls, and having sex with animals. Many also include the most vulgar profanities.

Procter and Gamble is actively pushing the homosexual agenda. (click here)

George Soros teaches the FBI tolerance. If you don’t want to read through the whole article, just click here and take a look at the FBI’s definition of who’s a terrorist.

Christians, who were peacefully demonstrating with their Bibles and signs, are arrested in Philadelphia. (click here) You don’t have to read that whole thing, here’s the main thrust of it:

On October 10, a group of 11 Christian activists, ranging in age from 17 to 72, were arrested during the city’s “Outfest”–a pro-homosexual event, staged to celebrate “National Coming Out Day.” Led by a controversial evangelist named Michael Marcavage, founder of “Repent America,” the group arrived at the event carrying protest signs, Bibles, and hymn books. As they conducted their evangelism, they were confronted by a militant homosexual group calling itself the “Pink Angels”.

According to an account published by Agape Press (A Christian news service), the homosexual radicals harassed the Christian activists, “screaming obscenities, hooting and whistling to drown out their message. Some of the Pink Angels carried large signs alongside the Christians to block their message and prevent them from speaking with other Outfest attendees.” (These incidents were captured on videotape.) In short order, the Philadelphia Police Departments’ Civil Affairs Unit ordered that the Christians be arrested and taken into custody. (click here)

Marcavage and his associates were charged with a variety of offenses, including “ethnic intimidation”–a second-degree felony “hate crime”–”criminal conspiracy”, and “possession of instruments of crime” (which would apparently refer to the bibles and protest signs) Pennsylvania’s “ethnic intimidation” law includes “sexual orientation” as a specially protected category.

Hmmm. I wonder what the “pink” in “Pink Angels” means. NOT.

Sen. Kennedy wants power over the US Constitution. He organized a federal lawsuit - a legal maneuver that, coming from a member of the United States Senate, is WRONG, UNCONSTITUTIONAL, and UNPRECEDENTED in our history. If Sen. Kennedy wins the lawsuit, this one Senator will acquire virtual “veto power” over the President’s appointments of judges. (click here)

I think we’ve got a big problem.

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May your stuffing be tasty, may your turky be plump,

May your potatoes and gravy have nary a lump.

May your yams be delicious, may your pies take the prize,

May your Thanksgiving dinner stay off your thighs!

GOOD EATING TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOODNIGHT.

And may God Bless you and your family!

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