Friday, July 15, 2005

 

Harry Potter May Save Our Children!

How? Reading.

With our saturated world of xbox, ps2, ds video machines and video games...with cartoon networks and kids tv programs all over cable, with school, homework, playtime (if any)...when do they read? When a Harry Potter book comes out. Now I know the Pope wrote a note (before he was the Pope) and worries about Harry Potter and the message. Please, lighten up. As if Harry is undermining Chrisitianity. I would really think he should worry more about Islam than Harry.

So were the kids who watched and adored Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs harmed because of the witch? And the Wizard of Oz? And? And? And? Get the point? It is fantasy, imagination, and kids intuitively know this. Trust me....reading a Harry Potter book or watching one of the movies will not make your kid a devil worshipper. Rather, just might make your kid a reader. And readers are leaders!

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Thursday, July 14, 2005

 

Islamic Terrorism Roots

In the beginning was the word...oh wait, that is Christianity...I want to talk about Islamic Terrorism. Ok...readjusted now. In the beginning was the Muslim Brotherhood, the seminal group for Islamic Terrorism founded in 1928 in Egypt. Their slogan was The Quran is our constitution. This organization is the mother of all the Islamic movements we see today. Their leading author, for lack of a better word, was Sayyid Qutb who, while jailed in Egypt, wrote books that established the foundation for the Salafi jihadist movement. The Salafists, also known as Salafis, are Islamic fundamentalists who believe that Islam should be restored to its most pure origins as written in the Quran. The majority of Salafists are not violent. Salafist jihadism is the name European counterterrorism officials have given to the prevailing ideology that inspires Al Qaeda and other Islamic radicals in Europe and elsewhere. UBL flows from this river.

Now with the fastest growing religion on the Eurpoean Continent today being Islam; combine that with the EU's borderless union and America has yet another problem. Under the Visa Waiver Program, which allows citizens and permanent residents of most European countries to travel to the U.S. basically unrestricted, terrorists can easily and legally enter the United States. Names you might recognize from past news...Richard Reid, the shoe bomber on the plane, and Zacrias Moussaoui, a jailed 9/11 co-conspirator, came into America under this program.

And with the Southern Flank a virtual sieve...in fact so much so that Al Jazeera T.V. is going to Mexico to make a documentary about how easy it is to get into the U.S. from Mexico, and America has a real problem that no one ...absolutely not one damn elected official will address.

I say to you now...the blood of the next attack on America is on their heads!!

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Monday, July 04, 2005

 

NEVER MORE IMPORTANT WORDS SPOKEN

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain (George III) is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

The full text of the Declaration of Indepedence is found here.

And if you want to hear it acted out, skip on over to hashmark13.

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Sunday, July 03, 2005

 

They Are Watching Us


A developing solar system that appears to be keeping an eye on us.

Looks familiar to me. Can anyone say...Lord of the Rings?