A plea from Tom Burnett Sr. to the wonderful people of Somerset

(The ad copy below is running in tomorrow’s Somerset Daily American.)

My son Tom confronted a terrible moment of truth. Faced with a plot against our nation, he and the other heroes of Flight 93 fought back, and at the cost of their lives, foiled that plot to destroy the White House or the Capitol. Now it is time for the rest of us to face our moment of truth. Flight 93 has been re-hijacked, and I am requesting that if you can, you go down to the public meeting of the Memorial Project at Somerset Courthouse Saturday, sign up to comment at the end, and demand that a proper investigation be conducted.

THIS was no accident:

The Memorial Project held an open design competition in time of war, inviting the entire world to enter. Guess who joined in? That group of trees that sits roughly in the position of the star on an Islamic flag is the crash site. Who do YOU think is being memorialized here?

A second Islamic feature that I also protested when I served on the Stage II jury is the minaret-like Tower of Voices, formed in the shape of a crescent, with its top cut at an angle so that its crescent arms reach up into the sky.

Upturned crescents are a standard mosque adornment in many Muslim countries.

Every iota of this original Crescent of Embrace design remains completely intact in the so-called “redesign.” That is why Congressman Tancredo asked the Park Service this autumn to scrap the existing design entirely. Instead of getting rid of the giant crescent as Tancredo demanded back in 2005, architect Paul Murdoch only disguised it with a few surrounding trees.

Also remaining are those damned 44 glass blocks on the flight path. (There were forty passengers and crew and four Islamic terrorists on Flight 93.) The Memorial Project acknowledges the 40 blocks inscribed with the names of my son and the other heroes, and they acknowledge the three inscribed with the 9/11 date, but they pretend not to know about this one: the huge glass block that dedicates the entire site.

When this 44th glass block is pointed out, Project Partners say that it can’t be counted with the other blocks because it is not the same size. What? Because the capstone to the terrorist memorializing block count is magnificent, that is supposed to make it okay?

For every Islamic or terrorist memorializing feature of the crescent design, the Park Service has another equally phony excuse. Please read the exposé below of the Park Service’s fraudulent investigation, and please come to the meeting on Saturday to demand state and Congressional investigations into the Flight 93 memorial.

Tom Burnett Sr.

February 2008

PDF of ad copy here.

Non-locals who want to help, please contact your senators and representatives!

At the GOE Oregon website here.

It was a beautiful sunshiny day in Oregon when I visited the Iraq-Afghanistan Memorial at the Capitol in Salem. The pictures don’t reveal the 15 degree temperatures that made your teeth chatter. This was my first trip to view the memorial that had my youngest son’s name engraved in the cold gray granite.

Hearbreaking. Read the rest; it’s so touching-it made me cry. Her son was the first navy seal to lose his life in Operation Iraqi Freedom. This is a woman - who, unlike Cindy Sheehan, is turning the loss into something positive. It’s too bad more politicians don’t feel as that governor does.

The cowardly scumbag.

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — Gary Michael Hilton pleaded guilty Thursday to killing hiker Meredith Emerson, and was sentenced to life in prison.

He wore a bulletproof vest while he was facing sentencing. I guess he was afraid someone might try and hurt him!

He was charged with kidnapping with intent to harm and malice murder in Emerson’s January 4 death.

The 24-year-old University of Georgia graduate disappeared on New Year’s Day while on a hike in the North Georgia mountains with her dog.

Dr. Kris Sperry, the state’s chief medical examiner, concluded Emerson died of blunt force trauma to the head and was decapitated after death.

This is beyond the imagination. I can’t imagine the type of person who would do this kind of thing; and what’s worse, we don’t seem to consider the crimes they commit as serious enough to warrant protecting the public - sometimes we let them go!

Recently there was a memorial service for her and her dog was there.

This is heart-rending and pisses me off.

Mostly because we’re going to waste money keeping this piece of crap alive..when he not only took an innocent girl’s life, but..he is suspected of at least one other murder.

I don’t want my taxes going toward keeping murderers and rapists alive.

May God bless her boyfriend, all those who loved her, and her family.

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AP.

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — One al-Qaida’s top commanders in Afghanistan and a key liaison with Taliban, Abu Laith al-Libi, was killed according to a Web site used by militant groups.

“We congratulate the Islamic nation for the martyrdom of the sheik, the lion, Abu Laith al-Libi,” said the banner which appeared in a section of the Web site reserved for affiliated militant groups and is not open to public posting.

The Washington-based SITE Institute which monitors militant sites noted that it seems “the announcement of his death has been confirmed to the forum administrators.”

The attack that killed al-Libi appeared to have taken place in Pakistan.

Pakistani intelligence officials and local residents said that a missile hit a compound in a village about 2.5 miles outside Mir Ali in North Waziristan late Monday or early Tuesday, destroying the facility.

Interesting that this announcement would be coming out of Cairo.

Al-Libi was an al-Qaida training camp leader who has appeared in many Internet videos and who the U.S. says was likely behind the Feb. 2007 bombing at the U.S. base at Bagram during a visit by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney that killed 23 people.

It would be great if it were true that he is dead; however the blast left bodies barely recognizable. Locals claimed foreigners were targeted in the attack. One intelligence official in the area, who spoke on condition of anonymity (this phrase is always suspect), said the bodies of those killed were badly mangled by the explosion, making it difficult to identify the victims. 12 people were estimated to have been killed, including Arabs, Turkmen from central Asia and local Taliban members.

Maj. Chris Belcher, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, said last year that al-Libi was a guerrilla fighter “knowledgeable about how to conduct suicide bombing missions and how to inflict the most civilian casualties.” He had probably directed “one or more terror training camps.”

In a tacit admission that terror camps have continued to operate on Afghan soil since the Taliban regime’s ouster more than five years ago, Belcher said al-Libi had been the subject of “especially close focus” by U.S. intelligence since 2005, when U.S. forces destroyed a militant training camp believed set up by al-Libi in the eastern province of Khost.

But he described al-Libi as “transient,” moving where the Libyan thinks he can count on support.

“Terrorists like al-Libi use the rugged terrain of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to conceal themselves while they plan violent insurgent activities. Our sources indicate that Abu Laith al-Libi favors tribal regions, including North Waziristan,” Belcher said.

North Waziristan is a lawless enclave in neighboring Pakistan where last year the Pakistani government reached a peace deal with pro-Taliban militants. U.S. officials have since expressed concern that al-Qaida could be regrouping in Pakistan’s border zone.

The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan was re-opened by Karzai to make it easier for his terrorist friends.

Yet the fact that it isn’t practiced anymore doesn’t prevent leftists from wailing about it incessantly.

WSJ Opinion

If Senate Democrats thought Attorney General Michael Mukasey was someone they could push around to score political points, yesterday they discovered their error. The new AG stood his ground on the legal war on terror, despite five hours of grandstanding over an interrogation technique that the CIA doesn’t even practice anymore.

What a waste of taxpayer money!

Mr. Mukasey was true to his promise during confirmation hearings to investigate the legality of government interrogation practices. And so yesterday he certified that all techniques currently in use are legal. However, in a letter to the Senate, he added that, “I do not believe it is advisable to address difficult legal questions . . . in the absence of concrete facts and circumstances.”

This displeased some of the Senators, who accused him of dodging the waterboarding issue. But Mr. Mukasey is right to avoid hypothetical legal judgments over something that is no longer practiced. The former judge was careful to point out that legality depends on context, and he couldn’t judge the actions of others in 2002 without knowing the circumstances.

You can’t ‘dodge’ an issue if it doesn’t exist anymore. Only three people were ever waterboarded, anyway. It was never even a common practice, as leftists seem to want to believe.

The most effective use of waterboarding, according to current and former CIA officials, was in breaking Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, known as KSM, who subsequently confessed to a number of ongoing plots against the United States.

A senior CIA official said KSM later admitted it was only because of the waterboarding that he talked.

Ultimately, KSM took responsibility for the 9/ll attacks and virtually all other al Qaeda terror strikes, including the beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

“KSM lasted the longest under waterboarding, about a minute and a half, but once he broke, it never had to be used again,” said a former CIA official familiar with KSM’s case.

The techniques for interrogation that are now left available to CIA interrogators are “longtime standing,” which includes exhaustion and sleep deprivation with prisoners forced to stand handcuffed, with their feet shackled to the floor.

CIA officers subjected themselves to the waterboarding technique and lasted an average of 14 seconds before caving in.

This is yet another pathetic example of how hateful leftists are circumventing any available method to pursue the enemy and prevent another terrorist attack on American soil.

The political left has made “waterboarding” a proxy for the ‘torture-of-enemy-combatants^© claim -of course, done by the evil BushRovianHalliburtonconspiracy^TM, which the Demonrats seem to think is a winning political issue for them. Prodding Mukasey to declare he’s concluded ‘waterboarding’ is “illegal” would prompt Democrats to flog the Bush administration from now until the election in November with ‘even Attorney General Mike Mukasey says it’s illegal!”

What a disappointment this must be for them.

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Judge in Atlanta Resigns From Courthouse-Shooting Case - The Washington Post:

ATLANTA — The judge presiding over the murder case of the man charged with killing four people in a 2005 shooting rampage that began inside a courthouse said Wednesday that he is stepping down from the case.

Superior Court Judge Hilton Fuller cited recent media reports referring to a New Yorker magazine article quoting him as saying of the defendant, Brian Nichols: “Everyone in the world knows he did it.” The quote was made in the context that Nichols’s attorneys were employing an insanity defense.

Fuller, a retired DeKalb County judge who was asked to take the Nichols case after all Fulton County judges recused themselves, has been criticized for decisions in the case related to defense funding issues.

Cynthia Tucker at The Atlanta Journal Constitution:

Nichols escaped from the custody of a Fulton County deputy while he was on trial for allegedly raping an ex-girlfriend; authorities say he went on to kill four people — a judge, a court reporter, a deputy and a federal officer. After he was caught, he told police that he was a “soldier on a mission,” striking out against a criminal justice system biased against black Americans.

I can’t blame the judge for saying ‘everyone knows he did it’. He did it out in the open, there was no question that it was Nichols who killed the judge, court reporter, deputy and federal officer.

WJAC:

A reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution was also injured during the incident, WSB reported. Authorities said the reporter, identified as Don O’Briant, was pistol-whipped and assaulted while the suspect was trying to get away. The reporter was taken to the hospital but his condition was not immediately available. The suspect apparently fled in the reporter’s car, described as a green Honda Accord with a tag of 658 4YN.

He was dumb enough to do all of this - and even beat up a reporter from the AJC.

There was a lot more to it than that; what sickened me was the fact that he was being held originally for the crime of raping and sodomizing his ‘fiance’ for hours. And as I recall he did something similar to his hostage, Ashley Smith, for seven hours. I thought this was a screaming example of political correctness because the officer who escorted him to court was a 100-pound grandma, and they had removed his shackles so it wouldn’t sway opinion in the courtroom to think he was ‘guilty’. He was guarded by a tiny little female - and he’s not only a criminal, he’s built like a linebacker and weighs 210 pounds.

But they assigned that little lady to “guard” him, anyway, which made no sense at all.

Previous, here and here.

From CNN.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — A federal judge has thrown out a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the failure of levees in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

So when is the suit going to be filed against the Environmentalists for preventing the Army Corps of Engineers from upgrading the levees?

NRO: Greens Vs. Levees

a suit filed by environmental groups at the U.S. District Court in New Orleans claimed the Corps had not looked at “the impact on bottomland hardwood wetlands.” The lawsuit stated, “Bottomland hardwood forests must be protected and restored if the Louisiana black bear is to survive as a species, and if we are to ensure continued support for source population of all birds breeding in the lower Mississippi River valley.” In addition to the Sierra Club, other parties to the suit were the group American Rivers, the Mississippi River Basin Alliance, and the Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi Wildlife Federations.

It would seem to me that those environmentalists should be held responsible for the devastation after Katrina and the failure of the levees.

The lawsuit was settled in 1997 with the Corps agreeing to hold off on some work while doing an additional two-year environmental impact study. Whether this delay directly affected the levees that broke in New Orleans is difficult to ascertain.

But not that difficult to visualize. Ignoring the problem and pretending it will go away isn’t really a strategy. There are consequences to the choices we make in this world, despite leftists’ blindness of that fact.

But it is just one illustration of a destructive river-management philosophy that took hold in the ‘90s, influenced the Clinton administration, and had serious policy consequences. Put simply, it’s impossible to understand the delays in building levees without being aware of the opposition of the environmental groups to dams, levees, and anything that interfered with the “natural” river flow. The group American Rivers, which leads coalitions of eco-groups on river policy, has for years actually called its campaign, “Rivers Unplugged.”

Not addressing the levee problem had a direct impact on New Orleans after Katrina.

If we bring back wetlands and swamps, we’ll have a terrible mosquito problem. And then we’ll be fighting again about the use of DDT.

From the Berkeley Daily Plant-Demonstrators get space to protest

Posted Wed., Jan. 30—The question of dedicating space—a parking space—for Code Pink’s weekly demonstrations in front of the downtown Berkeley Marine Recruiting Center (MRC) raised hackles at Tuesday night’s Berkeley City Council meeting, when Councilmember Gordon Wozniak likened the demonstrations there to protests at abortion clinics.

“There’s a line between protesting and harassing,” Wozniak said, referring to possible harassment of recruits.

There’s no line here, though; this is harrassment. Code Pink has openly and defiantly defaced military recruitment offices in the past.

See Zombietime’s old post on Code Pink’s Berkeley Recruitment office harrassment here.

Wozniak was the lone vote in opposition to a resolution authored by Councilmembers Linda Maio and Max Anderson designating a parking space in front of the recruiting center for the demonstrators from noon to 4 p.m. every Wednesday for six months.

It’s too bad…there should be a lot of voices to back him up on this. This means - at least to me - that there should be an opposing viewpoint displayed in a nearby vicinity.

The dedicated parking space “is showing favoritism to one side of the argument,” Wozniak said, adding, “My concern is giving a parking space in front of the Marine Recruiting Center seems confrontational.”

While Dori Schmidt, whose husband owns The Berkeley Review, a test preparation business above the MRC, told the council that the demonstrations disrupt the business with their noise, other public speakers supported the parking space designation.

“It’s not favoritism,” said PhoeBe Sorgen, a member of Code Pink and the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee. Rather, it’s following the Berkeley “tradition to stand up for peace,” she said.

It sure IS favoritism.

Bob Meola, a veteran who has staffed hot lines for military personnel trying to leave the service, told the council that use of the parking space will help the demonstrators deliver the truth to possible recruits.

“People get lied to. They don’t get the jobs and training” they’re told they will get, Meola said. “It’s a community service to warn youth about the criminal liars.”

Anderson spoke as a former Marine who had protested the Vietnam War, addressing the unfair advantage of the Marines that have “millions of dollars at their disposal to bombard the nation with propaganda.”

Councilmember Betty Olds, who originally intended vote against the resolution, said she changed her mind, especially listening to one of the speakers who is a 90-year-old peace activist. Olds said it would have been hypocritical of her to oppose the resolution, since she, like many others in Berkeley, “found a psychiatrist who said their kids were all crazy to get them out of the [Vietnam] war.”

Olds added, “The Marines ought to have had the sense not to come here.”

The council also went on record calling on the governor to withdraw the California National Guard from Iraq, asking Congress to reaffirm the existence of the Armenian Genocide and adopting a policy, where practical, to cease purchases form Chevron Corp. They also raised meter parking fees from $1 to $1.25 per hour, made Berkeley a sanctuary for medical cannabis users and dispensaries and approved both the city manager and Police Review Commission reports on prevention of criminal activity by police.

Along with their hatred of the military, they hate cops, too. Just like the Clintons.

Mychal Massie at WND:

It seems to matter little where I go or who I am with, the question I am repeatedly asked many times with breathless anticipation is: “What do we do if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency and/or who can beat Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton?”

Those of you with whom I correspond already know my feelings, but for those who do not, let me make my position unequivocally clear. I don’t care who wins the Democrat presidential nomination, and I don’t care, as such, if Obama or Clinton win the Holy Grail of politics. I care that the Republican Party doesn’t have a candidate I can support as a true conservative left in the race.

I am a conservative, but I’m not an ideologue – nor is my vote governed by fear. That is to say, I will not vote for a Republican nominee to whose positions I am vehemently opposed and/or whom I do not trust, just to keep Obama or, more likely, Clinton out of the White House.

Fear is a powerful motivator that can be used to coerce well-intentioned persons, groups or even the entire nation into making incredibly poor decisions – and the Republican National Committee is not above using same. The idea that I must abandon my moral compass and vote for a candidate I could not find more objectionable – in order to shut out a liberal candidate who bears little or no substantive difference to the one I voted for – is offensive to me.

Read the rest.

I’ve noticed that I’m not the only one who feels this way…! And that’s a very sad commentary.

On a tip from Kat.

Mychal Massie is chairman of the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives-Project 21 – a conservative black think tank located in Washington, D.C. He is a nationally recognized political activist, pundit, columnist and the former host of the widely popular talk show “Straight Talk.” He has appeared on Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NBC, Comcast Cable and talk radio programming nationwide. A former self-employed business owner of more than 30 years, he is also a member of the conservative public policy institute National Center for Public Policy Research.

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City Calls Marines “Unwelcome Intruders”

SAN FRANCISCO – The City of Berkeley, California has passed two resolutions attacking the United States Marine Corps, calling the Marines, “uninvited and unwelcome intruders in the city.”

The Berkeley City Council voted to condemn the Marines on Tuesday night (January 29th) as part of a campaign by anti-war activists to shut down a U.S. Marine Recruiting Center located in the city of Berkeley.

The votes by the Berkeley City Council were immediately condemned by Move America Forward (website: www.MoveAmericaForward.org), the nation’s largest grassroots pro-troop organization.

“It is disgraceful that in the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, anti-military activists would attempt to silence the same military men and women who serve this country and give their lives to protect the free speech rights of all Americans, including these ungrateful and despicable people on the Berkeley City Council,” said Melanie Morgan, Chairman of Move America Forward.

The actions by the Berkeley City Council followed continuous protests by Code Pink and other anti-military organizations that vandalized and defaced the U.S. Marine Recruiting Center in September 2007.

One of the two resolutions passed by the Berkeley City Council last night granted a parking spot in front of the Marine Recruiting Center to be used by anti-military activists to harass Marine recruiters. The anti-military activists would not need to apply for a sound permit for the next six months – allowing them free reign to disrupt the day-to-day operations by the Marines.

Move America Forward organized a counter-protest in support of the Marines last October that attracted over 400 pro-troop supporters who stood in solidarity of the Marine Recruiting Center.

“We have hundreds of thousands of military men and women serving honorably overseas to protect our freedoms. Imagine how they feel when they go to turn on the news and see that they are being stabbed in the back by shameful people here at home, it’s disgraceful!” said Catherine Moy, Executive Director of Move America Forward.

This release posted here at Move America Forward.

CONTACT: Mary Pearson: (916) 441–6197 or Email: mary@MoveAmericaForward.org

***Register your complaint with the City of Berkeley via Phone or Email - CLICK HERE!!

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Code Pink Bitch Lawyer Drafts Law Regulating Recruiters Like Porn Shops

Berkeley wants to treat military recruitment offices like porn shops

Recruiters all but outlawed in Berkeley

Ignorant Berkeley Liberals

I have an idea.

Remember the movie ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK?

How about we support the military recruiters leaving Berkeley?

How about we agree that Gitmo be shut down?

How about a barbed wire fence to keep the moonbats-particularly the lawyer-moonbats- in - and we ship all the terrorists there? Let’s tell them they have a personal invitation to go visit KOS at his house.

I’m sure the members of Code Pink will have no problem with that - they LOVE the terrorists. They sent $600,000 worth of cash and supplies to Fallujah with the full knowledge and consent of left-wing Congressman Henry Waxman, D-CA.

Maybe Waxman should join them in Berkeley…and the Sheehag, too.

Recently somebody put up a blog encouraging people to boycott Chuck Norris, the celebrity that endorsed Huckabee, mainly because of Huckabee’s position on separating AIDS patients from others (quoting the government) claiming that AIDS patients aren’t dangerous to people who come into contact with them.

Right. That’s why people who deal with AIDS patients have to wear gloves…and dentists wear gloves. Ever wonder why that is?

The other reason was because he opposes the theory of evolution… I guess this guy never stopped to consider the fact that JUST MAYBE not everyone has been brainwashed sufficiently enough to believe unequivocally in the ‘THEORY’ as FACT.

Now an ethics complaint was filed against Huckabee over private fund donors.

LITTLE ROCK (AP) - An ethics complaint was filed Monday against Mike Huckabee accusing the former Arkansas governor of violating state law by not revealing donors to a private fund used to raise money for his official portrait.

It’s interesting how-Whitewater, illegal Chinese donors, Rezko, the Keating Five, chappaquiddick-and numerous other things don’t seem to phase other politicians…

How much could a portrait have cost, anyway?

From Reuters.

At first I thought this headline was a joke or a satire. I imagined a dandelion or a sunflower spitting seeds at cows in a field that were deemed unfit mothers. Feminist cows who decided not to have little cows so they could pursue their careers or something.

And when I got into the article it was still hard to tell what it was, because they were talking about waterboarding cows and making them get up to walk to the slaughterhouse.

I’ve heard about how they treat chickens…so this isn’t coming as much of a surprise…from a PETA-like perspective.

Except for the fact that we’re being TOLD that we’re eating healthy beef…and now it’s coming out that we’re probably eating tainted sick beef from sick cows …which leads me to believe that there’s probably some of that mad cow disease out there and the government is - as usual - lying to us.

Oh wait, this is for elderly people, needy families and school lunches! Well, it’s probably okay then.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Humane Society said on Wednesday a California slaughterhouse was using a range of torture including waterboarding to prod unfit animals into the slaughterhouse so they could be processed into food that may have ultimately ended up in school lunch programs.

That’s a weird sentence.

The Humane Society displayed a video from its own undercover investigation that it said showed abuse by workers at the Hallmark Meat Packing Co of Chino, California. However, the name of the plant was not visible in the video.

The video showed workers kicking cows, ramming them with forklift blades, applying electric shocks and even using a hose to simulate the feeling of drowning so the animals would revive long enough to pass federal inspection.

What kind of inspection is that? Do they keep the inspectors in a closed office with no windows until the cow stumbles to its feet, or is the ‘inspector’ helping? I can’t figure out how this works.

“The attempt was to make them so distressed and to cause them so much suffering that these animals would get up and walk into the slaughterhouse,” Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, told reporters, [sic]

With the way greens feel about animals, it’s just hard to tell what’s going on here.

This is one of the weirdest damned articles I’ve ever read.

He said the plant’s use of injured and sick cows was not an isolated incident in the United States and he called on the USDA to tighten regulations regarding the ban on processing of “downer” cows.

Give us more government! Government is our savior!

SHEESH.

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From Jihadwatch:

I’ve just signed a contract with Regnery Publishing for a new book, tentatively entitled Stealth Jihad: How the Islamic Agenda Is Advancing Without Guns and Bombs. It is set right now to appear in November. All I have to do between now and then is write it.

LOL…but it sounds as though he has a clear idea as to what it’s going to be about.

Islamic experts in the Pentagon — fired at the insistence of high-ranking Muslim officials for refusing to sugarcoat the truth about Islamic jihad. The ACLU allying with Muslim groups to make war on public celebrations of Christmas. Presidential candidates advised by Muslims who tell them to soft-pedal anti-terror efforts. American citizens sued for reporting suspicious behavior by Muslims in airports. Accommodation of Muslim religious practices in public places, at taxpayer expense. Muslim cab drivers refusing to carry passengers with alcohol, and Muslim checkout clerks refusing to handle pork products — and even Bibles (they’re “unclean”). Islamic charities funding violent jihad — abetted by non-Muslim politicians anxious to court Muslim constituencies. Islamic advocacy groups silencing all those who dare speak about these issues — with the willing complicity of a clueless leftist mainstream media.

You left out what thing: the Flight 93 Memorial and how ‘experts’ on Sharia and dhimmitude are advising the Park Service and duping the families of the victims. Since it’s slated for construction in 2008, maybe a picture of the final mosque could be included in this book…or a picture of muslims going on a pilgrimage to pray to the AQ martyrs at the largest North American Mosque by a factor of 100~right there in Shanksville, PA!~

It’s all part of the stealth jihad: initiatives to advance the jihadist agenda not by means of guns and bombs, but through a series of initiatives designed to acclimate Americans to downplaying anti-terror initiatives, accommodating Muslim practices, and making special exceptions for Islamic law — while being cowed by cries of “bigotry” into dropping all resistance to these phenomena. The result? An America completely subjugated under Islamic law — just the way Osama bin Laden wants it.

Stealth Jihad will lay bare all the many ways in which this undercover jihad is advancing, and call upon Americans to resist it — before it’s too late.

I can’t wait!~

From Ezra’s blog

This morning (yesterday-the 29th) I was interviewed on the “Mancow” show out of Chicago. It’s the second-highest-rated morning show in American radio. When I was on hold waiting for my interview, I listened to the show for a few minutes. I’ve never heard radio like that before, ever — extremely fast paced; fun; musical; smart; interactive; hilarious. It was like a mix between Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern and Rick Dees. I loved listening to it, and wish he was on air in Canada, too. You can catch my clip here.

I love Mancow.

The reason is because Israel is the guest of honor. From the AKI:

Turin, 29 Jan.(AKI) - The Union of Arab Writers has written a letter of protest at the designation of Israel as a guest of honour for the next edition of the Turin International Book Fair, Italian daily Corriere della Sera reports.

The letter slams Israel’s invitation to the event - timed to mark the 60th anniversary of the Jewish state - at a time when its economic blockade is crippling the Gaza Strip, according to prominent Iraqi author Younis Tawfik, quoted by Corriere della Sera.

The Union of Arab writers has also written a letter to the Union of Italian writers, asking it to clarify its position over Israel’s invitation to the Turin book fair - Italy’s largest.

“In any case, this is a book fair, this is not the United Nations, it is not a political office. The Israeli writers that we invited are usually critical toward their government,” said the director of Turin’s book fair, Ernesto Ferrero in a response.

“The fact that other writers are talking about their freedom of expression, seems to me incredible,” he added.

Bearing in mind Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn’s experiences we shouldn’t expect anything less.

Are the voters smoking crack?

I’ve been on the wagon since 1992…but a drink sure looks good right about now.

And it’s 5:30 in the morning.

From Old War Dogs-”Not so Fast there, McCain!”:

Up front, as a Vietnam veteran, I will readily concede that I respect John McCain for his service to his country, first as a naval aviator and POW in Vietnam, then for his long years in our national Congress. I even will admit to the fact that I somewhat admire McCain’s desire to effect some sort of political reconciliation with the Democrat party. That being said, I must also make it very clear that I do not support certain decisions McCain has chosen on his pathways to political advancement.

Now that the Senator has won primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina and the network pundits are proclaiming he may well be the Republican “Comeback Kid,” I am reminded of an old Army joke about a platoon sergeant faced with the prospect of breaking the terrible news to one of his young charges, Private Jones, that the soldier’s mother has just passed away. The sergeant calls his platoon into formation and barks out the order, “All of you with living mothers take one step forward.” Then after a momentary pause, he mutters, “Not so fast there, Jones.” That’s my take as a veteran and a conservative Republican on this new political development: “Not so fast there, McCain.”

My first and biggest beef with John McCain is that when a very brave group of Vietnam veterans who had served with John Kerry stood up to say that Kerry’s self-serving portrayal of his war record was patently false, that his blanket charges of war crimes against them were absurd, and that his testimony in Congress was used by the North Vietnamese to further torture McCain’s fellow POW’s, Senator McCain airily dismissed these courageous men and sided with his Senate pal. Playing conciliator in the national media, McCain despicably denounced the Swift boat veterans’ ad as dishonest and dishonorable, hinting that they were pawns of George Bush and the Republican right.

Like all the leftists in the MSM, John McCain never gave these true American heroes even the least opportunity to defend their claims. As a veteran who had suffered more than most to defend our constitutional right of free speech, McCain inexplicably used his powerful office and national presence to ally himself with the repressive forces of mainstream media to suppress that right to men who had risked their lives in combat to preserve it. It was one of the bitterest betrayals the Swift boat vets and the millions of us Vietnam veterans supporting them would have to endure. We expected treachery from the MSM and Kerry’s campaign, but not from John McCain.

What I can never reconcile in my mind, my heart or my soul, is how this naval aviator, POW and true war hero, could so easily turn his back on his fellow sailors, combat veterans all. In the name of political expediency, and a sorely misguided attempt to lay to rest all the troubled ghosts of Vietnam that his treasonous Senate colleague was primarily responsible for creating, John McCain turned his back on the true heroes and sided with a phony vet with phony medals and a suspect discharge.

Never mind that I disagree with McCain on immigration, taxes and his unconstitutional McCain-Feingold bill; that’s all merely politics and has nothing to do with honor and loyalty to those who served bravely alongside you in combat. Nope, that’s not the issue. But I’m putting the Senator on notice right now; if you should somehow get the Republican nomination, you are gambling with the votes of millions of veterans like me unless you repudiate your reprehensible siding with the traitorous, treasonous John Kerry. I have never stayed home on Election Day in protest of a distasteful candidate, but this could be the first time for me and many Vietnam vets, again turning our backs on a fellow vet who turned his first.

The Senator should read the excellent recounting of how a determined few veterans, whom he disgracefully defamed, defeated his old buddy, John Kerry, in the 2004 campaign. In ‘To Set the Record Straight,” authors Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler, lay it out, page by page, what the concerted efforts of a few honorable patriots with an unrelenting resolve can accomplish in the arena of national politics.

Like the old platoon sergeant, I would caution, “Not so fast there, McCain!”

Russ Vaughn
Vietnam 65-66

The crescent-topped tower

Not all of the Islamic symbolism in the Flight 93 memorial is hidden. One of the things that Tom Burnett Sr. protested from the beginning was the overtly minaret-like Tower of Voices. The Tower is formed in the shape of an extruded crescent, and even has its top cut at an angle so that its crescent arms reach up into the sky, similar to the upturned crescent motif seen atop minarets all over the world:

Up tower view (left) shows the Tower of Voices to be formed in the shape of an Islamic crescent, covering about 2/3rds of a circle of arc, with a circular inner arc. The top of the tower is cut at an angle (right) so that the crescent arms reach up into the sky.

This sky-reaching crescent is a standard mosque motif, seen from the Abdul Gaffoor mosque in Singapore:

… to Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland:

… to the Uppsala mosque in Sweden:

There is no way that the Islamic shaped crescent atop architect Paul Murdoch’s minaret-like tower is an accident, any more than THIS could possibly be an accident:

That’s before you even get to the hidden stuff, like the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent; the 9/11 date placed in the exact position of the star on an Islamic crescent and star flag; or the fact that the Tower of Voices turns out to be a year round accurate Islamic prayer-time sundial:

Every particle of the original Crescent of Embrace design remains completely intact in the Bowl of Embrace redesign, which only disguised the original crescent with a few irrelevant trees.

That Islamic crescent reaching up into the sky is completely undisguised. How can anyone abide this?