Seriously. He should embrace his muslim heritage. He already made a great start by turning in his old name he was known as-which was “Barry”. He went back to his father’s names; all three muslim names. Why deny the truth? Why make muslim women who were sitting behind him, MOVE? What is he trying to prove with all of this except maneuver to fit the polls? This guy is twisting and turning like a wind sock with a helocopter overhead.

At the Wallstreet Journal and referred to at Free Republic.

Some have boiled it down to; we know all we need to know; Obama is a phony.

It’s virtually impossible to follow the flip flops. Thanks to Gateway Pundit, and more there.

Calling Michelle Malkin, Charles Johnson, A.J. Strata, Ed Morrissey, Richard Fernandez and Ace of Spades

When the Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93 was unveiled in September 2005, these six high profile conservative bloggers were instrumental in raising the public protest that forced the Memorial Project to agree to a redesign. Charles Johnson stayed with the story until the summer of 2006, and Ace has done two links since 2005, but for the most part, these conservative heroes seem to have decided that the “circle of embrace” redesign is okay.

It is NOT okay. Architect Paul Murdoch described his original Crescent of Embrace design as a broken circle. The redesign is still described as a broken circle, and the unbroken part of the circle (the crescent) remains exactly as it was in the original design.

In particular, the giant crescent still points to Mecca, and the repetition of this Mecca orientation in the crescents of trees that surround the Tower of Voices part of the memorial proves that the Mecca orientation is intentional. That makes the giant crescent a mihrab: the Mecca-direction indicator around which every mosque is built.

The planned memorial is a terrorist memorial mosque. This is an enemy plot, every bit as ambitious in its own way as the 9/11 attacks. To stop this re-hijacking of Flight 93, we need our frontline bloggers to rejoin the fray!

The only change: the design now includes a broken off part of the circle

The design drawings were recolored to make it look as if significant changes were made, the but only actual change was the inclusion of an additional arc of trees, said to represent a broken off part of the circle:

Crescent of Embrace left. Circle or Embrace right. The only actual change is the additional arc of trees on the west side of the memorial. (Click for larger image.)

Notice that this extra ark of trees sits to the rear of a person facing into the giant central crescent. That is the equivalent of laying down a Muslim prayer rug (called a small mosque) in front of some trees. The prayer rug is unchanged. You can plant as many trees around a mosque as you want to. It will still be a mosque.

“Broken circle” is Park Service’s official story

In the original design, the broken off part of the circle was removed entirely. Now, as Memorial Project Superintendent Joanne Hanley reiterated last week, a broken off part of the circle is included:

The trees surrounding this “circle of embrace” are missing, or broken, in two places; first, where the flight path of the plane came overhead (which is the location of the planned memorial overlook and visitor center) and second, where the plane crashed at the Sacred Ground (depicted by a ceremonial gate and pathway into the Sacred Ground).

She is describing the two ends of the additional arc of trees. It is broken at both ends.

Both the theme and the geometry of the original Crescent of Embrace design remain as they were. The terrorists still break our circle, and they still turn it into a giant Mecca oriented crescent.

Those who raised the hue and cry about the original design ought to be equally concerned that the original design remains completely intact in the phony redesign. Come on heroes. Your help is NEEDED!

Animation superimposes the redesign, then withdraws all but the changes. (Click for larger version.)

Come to the August 2nd meeting

If you can make it to Somerset PA on Saturday August 2nd, come help Tom Burnett Sr. tackle the hijacker! (Mr. Burnett announced trip, and his willingness to go to jail if necessary, in this audio clip from the Mancow Muller radio show (25 seconds. And here is Tom talking about the heroism of his murdered son, Tom Jr. Audio 45 seconds).

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The majority of what I write about here on the blog is my politics. But recently I’ve been blessed with some new toys; a macbook, which has introduced me to imovie and a number of other fun tools, and a new Canon elph camera, which has propelled me back into taking pictures –something I started doing with an older digital camera about 5 years ago. The elph, though, has brought me into the modern world with digital imaging, and reintroduced me to my love of nature; and in particular, birds.

(I tried uploading them and they’re too large, so allow me some time to figure out here on the mac - how to make them smaller.)

This is a relatively large contingent of cormorants, and I can’t figure out if it’s a number of bachelors hanging together, as one might often see with adolescent mallard ducks, or if this is an extended family. The only other place I’ve observed cormorants is at the Palatine Nature Center - but when I’ve seen them there, it’s only been a solitary bird; not a group of cormorants, like this. In this particular area (which you can see off the Elgin O’hare), there is marshland, so one is prone to see white egrets, or herons there, too.

Notice the white egret in the upper left hand portion of this photo, taken from my side (or what I like to term the condo side) across from the peninsula. We have a number of redwinged blackbirds around who don’t like the presence of egrets or herons and harrass the hell out of them until they go away. I’ve never quite been able to understand quite why redwinged blackbirds are so irritated by egrets or herons, since it seems obvious both egrets and herons are interested in underwater prey; but perhaps egrets or herons would be interested in blackbird eggs or nestlings if they weren’t bombarded by heckling from those annoying little redwinged blackbirds.

Egrets and herons like to hunt close to the edges of our peninsula across the way from my condo; and we see a lot of nesting geese swimming in the water here, also, as in these photos. (Redwinged blackbirds seem misplaced here, since there are no reeds, rushes or cattails.) Right now, the goslings are still showing a slight bit of their short-lived yellow down. I don’t see any geese over where the cormorants are. I wonder if the water moves too much for them, or just exactly why the area isn’t conducive to nesting geese. Where the cormorants were standing appeared to be a shallow area where they could simply stand instead of tread water.

When I was on the shore there, they jumped in the water and made a beeline straight for me. They must have been under the mistaken impression that I was there for the purpose of feeding them.

When they realized I had no bread to give them, they turned and swam away.

These birds grow so rapidly that it won’t belong before they are ugly light grey gawky looking creatures with short wing buds that look like deformed mutant replicas of their parents.

Eventually, they grow out of that awkward stage, but much beyond this stage, the young birds remain ugly until their adult plumage starts to grow in.

I didn’t even know we had birds like this here in Illinois until I moved out to Streamwood, which was largely farmland at that time–20 years or so ago, now. I grew up in Park Ridge, and when I was counting birds there in my little notebook, I would count sparrows, starlings, robins, and assorted songbirds, an occasional bluebird or goldfinch (on rare occasions during the summertime, hummingbirds), grosbeaks and cardinals, an occasional indigo bunting and pigeons down by the railroad tracks, which built nests under the viaduct. Pigeons seemed to not appreciate our backyards, which was lucky for us.

We did have a neighbor once, who raised pigeons. Why someone would do that is beyond me. I’d rather raise any number of other types of birds if I were to take it up as a hobby; something like fancy cockatiels or English parakeets; most definitely with an indoor aviary.

But when I was young, Park Ridge was a city suburb of Chicago, and there was no farmland. By contrast, when my dad grew up there, it was primarily farmland and he was able to observe chickens being slaughtered for dinner as a kid. He still tells some of those stories as though they happened yesterday. From my point of view, it’s relatively hard to imagine how much a town can change within a mere generation. Still, I managed to still see an occasional red tailed hawk, sparrowhawk, or falcon. Birds like those used to take advantage of the many trees we had in the neighborhood, and the rodent and rabbit populations.

For a while, I was noticing beavers around Streamwood wreaking havoc and decimating some of the wooded areas. We are surrounded by woodlands here, which consists mostly of forest preserves. People who own land here are beginning to sell it off because of how property values have jumped in the last 25 years.

Now although for the past 20 years, Streamwood has been rapidly building up and ridding itself and the neighboring areas of farmland, we still have some dairy farms in Elgin, and some stables in Elgin along with other relatively close cities.

I’ll probably be taking pictures of some of those when I get the opportunity, too.

These photos are unretouched, but I’ve been playing around with retouching and will probably put some enhanced photos up as time goes on. What fun this is!

DELAWARE ATTORNEY BACKS OUT AT 5:15 PM: Atty Knows I Cannot Find Replacement In Time

This was all a ruse in order to back Sinclair into a corner so he would not have representation.

Richard Wier is a democrat and has given money to the Biden political campaign, along with his homemaker wife.

Since this Larry Sinclair saga is so political, the attacks on him are politically motivated, the attackers are openly Obama supporters, it would seem to me that Larry should never entertain the notion that someone who is a democrat or a democrat supporter would back him up in any way.

They are setting him up to take another fall…and Larry should be prepared for this, despite what it is they’re telling him. Most of what they say are lies, anyway, in order to lead him down the primrose path.

Delaware Arraignment Continued/Official Complaint To Be Filed Against Attorney Wier

What I find amusing is this:

As an added note I would like to state that all the Obamablogonots who were threatening to appear at the Court House for the purpose of harassment and intimidation, did not show.

Well of course they didn’t. The threats are about scaring Larry…not because they intend to really DO something. But the threats shouldn’t lull us into believing that nobody will EVER do something…that OSWALDO guy who promises to kill him sounds intent upon doing so.

The problem with those threats is…Sinclair is a dying man, so if he dies because of his afflictions, there will forever be doubt as to the true reason for his demise, even if an autopsy concludes there was ‘no foul play’.

Donald Young, a 47-year-old choir master at former Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ—the same congregation that Obama has attended for the past 20 years. Two other young black men that attended the same church—Larry Bland and Nate Spencer—were also murdered execution style with bullets to the backs of their heads—all within 40 days of each other, beginning in November 2007. All three were openly homosexual.

Another questionable Obama associate is openly homosexual. That person is Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, who was listed during the 2008 campaign as being part of Obama’s “technology initiative.”

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It is no wonder Obama has separated himself from TUCC. This the Obamablognots will have to carry to their graves; despite Obama’s political maneuverings, these suspicious murders and Larry Sinclair’s allegations…will go down in history as a controversy swirling around the Obama campaign.

I join Reverend James David Manning in praying for Sinclair’s safety.

The ruse by the Delaware attorney leaves Sinclair with no options in terms of securing legal representation for the Delaware problem…as far as I can see. Sinclair himself says

Please be advised that I am still in need of retaining legal counsel and the fact that I was able to post the retainer with Mr. Wier can and most likely will cause the Court to rule I am not entitled to a Public Defender.

What a mess.

Update: NEW COUNSEL RETAINED AND NOT GUILTY PLEA ENTERED

I don’t know how he does it! Good for him!!!! Larry certainly is one tenacious guy!!!

The narrative from leftists regarding the war is so hysterical, paranoid and anti-American, as Dave Horowitz said in his recent speech “How Democrats and Radicals have Betrayed Our Country” it isn’t just mere dissent, it’s treason. The fact that overthrowing our government is considered ‘free speech’ makes one wonder what, in the long run, it will ultimately cost us.

Recently there was a video by Michael Crook on youtube, where he visited a military cemetery in South Jersey. In that video, he spit on soldiers’ graves, said they didn’t accomplish anything, and called them leeches on the government payroll, saying their deaths made the families ‘rich’. When I made a phone call to the cemetery, asking what is being done about public acts of grave desecration, I was assured that the legal department was handling it, and that the entire staff had watched it. There are former military people working there, and it turned their stomachs. Crook had the audacity to spit on the graves of WWII veterans and others while a woman was there with her child, paying their respects. One thing that seemed interesting was he was looking around, apparently afraid he might get caught, and whispering to his handheld camera while he was conducting this ‘experiment’. Instead of speaking loudly as if he thought he was really entitled to this hatred of America’s military and longheld military burial traditions, it appeared as though he was excited that he was doing something this radical and expected that he might get caught and thrown out of there. Or perhaps that’s just what an America-loving individual is thinking while watching him conduct his bit of political theater. This is not much different than another group that attends funerals with their America-hating rhetoric; the Westboro Baptists.

When someone joins a Michael Crook or revolutionary communists in being ‘against the war’, I think it’s important to remind them where this rhetoric comes from. That this should be the regular party line of people in Congress is worse than disturbing.

The point is, whether you’re a marxist or anarchist who is bombing recruiting centers, or claiming your against the war without a sign in your hand, aren’t the sentiments virtually the same?

How can you be ‘against the war’ but support our men and women in uniform? It’s a very odd position that completely cancels out the ’support the troops’ idea. If you go back to the actual ideology of the organizations like Code Pink which bring us protests against waterboarding (which isn’t being used anymore), these people are for ‘change’ - the change that socialist revolution would bring. They are against our government because it isn’t a carbon copy of Castro’s. They support ‘free health care’ that comes from a government that enslaves the people and a government that seeks out its opposition and puts them in front of a firing squad.

It’s quite ironic that anti-war demonstrators or people who parrot the anti-war demonstrators lines, don’t realize what it is they’re saying or where it comes from.

Wesley Clark recently attacked John McCain’s vietnam service, which I found to fall in line with the liberal attack on all those who serve; depicting them as monsters and baby killers, and whose Soviet-style redliners like the Iraq Veterans against the war, depict as victims of a predatory system which doesn’t give out enough benefits. It is odd to me that Clark was in command at Ft. Hood when Clinton signed a waiver to the Posse Comitatus Act, (which prohibits the military from using its arms against American citizens within our borders).

What happened at Waco was the death, mostly by fire, of at least 82 men, women and children, including two babies who died after being “fire aborted” from the dying bodies of their pregnant mothers.

It is not known if Clark was actually physically at WACO when this all happened, but it is not in dispute that he was in command and the resources from the military were from Ft. Hood. Isn’t it also interesting that the former NATO commander speaks fluent Russian? If you read the article Wesley Clark: General Issues by Lowell Ponte, you will get an idea about Clark’s creepy background. Of all the people to throw someone’s patriotism in question, or call into doubt the dignity of someone’s military service, where Clark is concerned, you should consider the source.

Another example of the role he’s played in past conflicts comes from the same article:

In June 1997 President Clinton appointed him Commander in Chief of the United States European Command and SACEUR, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, in command of the forces of NATO, a position Clark would hold until May 2000.

As SACEUR General Wesley Clark would collect a truckload of honors. He would also prosecute Clinton’s war siding with Muslim Kosovars against Serbian Christians in the Balkans.

This war was largely fought from high altitude aircraft to minimize American casualties, an approach that increased civilian casualties on the ground.

Clark soon acquired a reputation as someone who lied about such casualties, lies reported even by Time Magazine.

(Emphasis mine.) It is no wonder that he’s considered a hero of the left. But here is a man who seems to have lived up to the leftists’ description of what the military accomplishes in conflicts - targeting innocent civilians. Where is the outrage?

For once, I’d like to see them be positive about something; but that will happen when they are running the country from the presidency down to the House and Senate; and similar to nazi Germany, any dissenter will have been thrown in jail. You may laugh, but I see that as the direction we’re headed in…when we have examples of honorable men who’s served our country like Lt. Ilario Pantano or the Haditha 8 brought up on charges for doing the job they were sent to do, based on the lies of known terrorists.

The most recent disgusting news byte in this mad struggle with the left is granting Islamic terror suspects access to our courts. For more information on that, read “The Man Behind The Attack on Guantanamo”.

We are the frog in the frying pan, and as all these groups and organizations turn up the heat, the apathetic American picks up his latte at Starbucks, drops his kids off at soccer and piano lessons, fills up his SUV, and seems unaware and uninformed.

Will it be after we’ve completely lost our freedom and the progressives have forced upon us their vision of the US Constitution in 2020 that Americans will realize they should have been more involved?

I hope not, but they are well on their way to making the ‘dream’ a reality.

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