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Big Government : American Rancher X - Part 1

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:33:10 +0000

Know how to knock the wind out of the drug cartels? Know how to bankrupt them? Know how to slice a few percentage points from the crime rate? It's simple so Washington won't go for it, for that would mean relinquishing political power and conceding it was wrong and that it's spent billions of taxpayer dollars pointlessly on the "war on drugs.". Repeal all drug laws. Abolish the FDA. Abolish the DEA and fire every last snarky gun-toting, chemical-spraying, crop-destroying goon in it. No retirement benefits. No fringies. Just turn them loose into the real world where they'd need to make an honest living, doing productive work. There was Prohibition. It created gangs and encouraged crime. Al Capone and Company. No one learned anything from that failed experiment in government-enforced puritanism. The economic laws governing prohibited alcohol apply equally to prohibited drugs. Before the DEA, before the federals turned nanny, before prohibitions and controls drove "illegal" drug prices through the roof, drug-related crime was virtually non-existent. Then the fire-fights down Arizona way will cease.

NewsReal Blog : Let’s All Wear “I Am a Muslim” Pins to Protest “Islamophobia”

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:02:08 +0000

Ravings: Thank you for seconding my position. Today, one can take Islamophobia as a sign of mental health. Can one say as much about Muslims? Not really. There are the run-of-the-mill, average, next-door-neighbor kinds of Muslims, who use Islam as a kind of turtle shell in which to retreat from the responsibility of thinking, of asserting rational values, of living like normal human beings. They live in a state of abject, literal selflessness. Allah commands them. Allah guides them. Allah owns them. Then there are the Muslims who can’t stand the pressure of hiding under the turtle shell; their “selves’ break out of the shell and emerge as vipers to strike with the venom that is the core essence of Islam: death for the sake of death, destruction for the sake of destruction, killing for the sake of killing. They hate their own existence and that of others who are more successful in living. Islam is possibly the most nihilist creed on the face of the earth.

NewsReal Blog : Let’s All Wear “I Am a Muslim” Pins to Protest “Islamophobia”

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:44:07 +0000

Thanks. What's troubling are the 6,000 clueless ones who signed up on that woman's Facebook page to wear the hijab in support of Muslims. And I mean "clueless." They live in a free country, not in a despotic one. They don't get it that Islam isn't just "another religion," like the Amish; it's tyranny over the self, over one's freedoms. You can bet that they'd have second thoughts if they were forced to live under true Islamic conditions, and faced the prospect of being stoned to death for disobedience or the slightest infraction of "custom." Or, maybe they wouldn't have second thoughts.

NewsReal Blog : Let’s All Wear “I Am a Muslim” Pins to Protest “Islamophobia”

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:20:30 +0000

If I were in the least show-offy, I'd have a big pin made up that read, "I'm an Islamophobe...and a Naziphobe, a Communophobe, a Fascistophobe, an Obamaphobe," and flaunt it at my own peril. Islam is a system of theocratic totalitarianism. So, of course I'm phobic about it. And I don't trust anyone who submits to it, least of all Americans who convert to it (and there are plenty of them). Islam is like Spandex that fits neatly over one's mind, suffocating it, because Islam doesn't require thought, or value judgments, or having any value beyond Allah and conformity. Islam attracts those who don't wish to have the responsibility of thinking, those who wish to submit to a form of mental sado-masochism with a smile..

Big Government : What's the Matter with Menthols?: The Latest from the War on Cigarettes

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:12:47 +0000

I challenge the contention that there's not "an American who doesn't know smoking isn't good for you." Typical Republican me-too "defense of freedom." Smoking is good for you, regardless of its alleged ill-effects, because it's a freedom. Further, the whole second-hand smoke argument used to ban smoking in bars, restaurants, and businesses for the sake of pseudo-hypochondriacs (they have a right to eat and drink in a smoke-free envirnoment, don't you know, never mind private property rights), has as much scientific foundation as the argument for global-warming. It's government "science" that will kill us, not smoking or sugar or soft drinks or transfat. And it's government "science" that is lopping off our liberties, one by one. .

Big Journalism : NewsBusted: Which God Does Obama Really Worship?

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:05:05 +0000

One of your best, Jodie. Keep slamming our vacation-happy President. You must wonder why he's spending so much time out of the Oval Office. Could it be that the office of president isn't the Cloud Nine rapture he expected it to be? And I think it's great that not even incumbant Democrats want him to soapbox for them. He's a hex and a liability.

Big Hollywood : 'Piranha 3D' Review: The First Masterpiece of 2010

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:14:08 +0000

I saw that one, too, but while I don't recall the DeVito line, I don't doubt its truth. Hollywood is stuck in a rut of its own making. It refuses to receive a good, original idea -- and it's doubtful anyone there anymore would even recognize an original idea -- without putting it through the re-write and re-cast process to keep a bunch of over-paid hacks employed. Every so often something halfway decent manages to squeeze through the barbed wire of stale political correctness and elude the guns of the left-wing guard tower. Then they presume that they'll "give the public what it wants," repressing the doubly damning knowledge that first, what the public wants they'll never approve or vet or produce, and second, that they really don't know what the public "wants."

Big Peace : Journalistic Malpractice: Time Magazine’s Bobby Ghosh and CNN’s Ali Velshi on 'Cordovan E

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:58:56 +0000

Good article, and the references to the alleged "Golden Age" of Islam in Spain are especially important. They knock the stuffings out of the contention that Islam can be "reformed" to behave civilly to other creeds and races than "Arab," and explodes the idea that Muslims can do it themselves without prompting. They can't. Their creed, the Koran, the Hadith, requires them to be self-made zombies ready to make war on anyone who doesn't want to be a submissive zombie. Islamic "jurisprudcen"? It's a contraction in terms.

Big Hollywood : 'Piranha 3D' Review: The First Masterpiece of 2010

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:34:43 +0000

I watched the trailer you provided. Looks strikingly like a remake of the first "Jaws," but with a multitude of smaller "jaws" and babes in jeopardy and a black guy as the town sheriff. Why in hell should I want to see it? I also watched the trailer for "What If...?" and THAT looks like a remake of "It's a Wonderful Life," but turned inside out, coupled with elements of "Defending Your Life." Good God, is Hollywood so bankrupt that all it can do is recycle movies from the past?

Big Peace : Obama Ramadanadingdong

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:58:02 +0000

Islam is more a political ideology than a religion or creed. Its critics, apostate Muslim and non-Muslim, know this, for otherwise they wouldn't feel compelled to weigh in on the subject. What politicians ever felt compelled to defend Quakerism, or Amish-ism, Scientology, for example, the way they do Islam?. I can't think of any. There is no hidden agenda woven into those creeds' tenets. A totalitarian one is woven through the whole fabric of Islam, in the Koran and the Hadith. Obama, Bloomberg, Cuomo, and other politicians focus on the religious face of Islam, and ignore the far more important political face of it. This is for two reasons: it earns them brownie points with liberal/leftists (and with Muslims, of course), and because they are nascent totalitarians themselves. Examine their statist careers. Of course they're friendly to Islam. It is their own brand of deception a kind of infidel taqiya.

Big Hollywood : Mosque-eteers and Fox News Fears

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:58:27 +0000

Big Peace has an article today on how the State Department is using taxpayer money to build or refurbish mosques, overseas. Go here for the story. http://bigpeace.com/cderussy/2010/08/12/u-s-state.... But then the State Department, ever since FDR"s time, has never bothered to read the fine print of the Constitution and the First Amendment. I mean, not even FDR sanctioned tax revenues to build Nazi Glee Club buildings in Germany or France.

Big Hollywood : Mosque-eteers and Fox News Fears

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:31:34 +0000

Thanks. I've left the admin a note.

Big Hollywood : Mosque-eteers and Fox News Fears

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:28:15 +0000

The claim would hold up in court if the judge knew his Constitutional law and if the prosecuting attorney knew it, as well. They would also see a problem with the state selling or leasing any state property to one faith or to a gaggle of religious groups. The state -- whether federal, state, or local -- is prohibited from promoting any creed, period. It especially applies to multiple creeds. I agree that property rights in New York is a craps shoot. Bank of America and the New York Times had perfectly good commercial property condemned by the state so they could erect their new office buildings. Then there's the Atlantic Yards issue. I'm glad I don't own property in New York. .

Big Hollywood : Mosque-eteers and Fox News Fears

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:02:29 +0000

Administrater: I replied to T. Rav and Lebowski with the understanding that my email address wouldn't be published. I followed the instructions that went to my email address, and all they said is that I should just hit "reply." There were no other instructions. What's the deal?

Big Hollywood : Mosque-eteers and Fox News Fears

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:35:17 +0000

Mr. \"Lebowski\": I just sent this reply to T. Ray:

T Ray: I understand your confusion. But, to act to offer any creed any kind of government assistance -- money subsidies, property, or other special favors, it needn't be so blatant -- is to promote one creed over another. In short, to establish, de facto, a state religion.A government needn't pass a law to establish one. All it needs to do is favor one over another by circumscribing the law.I understand that a Greek Orthodox church near GZ was damaged on 9/11, but has not received permission to repair or rebuild the church. Yet the Landmarks Preservation Commission, an NGO that has political clout, together withMayor Bloomberg, other politicians, and now Governor Paterson, have all more or less favored Islam over all other creeds. Bloody wars were fought in Europe for centuries because the state favored oneChristian religion over another. The separation of church and state established by theFounders was ingenious, for this country has experienced no religious wars, which tend to be more vicious than any other kind. Paterson, Bloomberg, and others are bypassing the First Amendment by a stealth just as insidious as Islamic jihad. Frankly, I think they're completely clueless and ignorant of the Constitutional ramifications of their endorsement of the GZ mosque. And probably indifferent to those ramifications.

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Big Hollywood : Mosque-eteers and Fox News Fears

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:31:15 +0000

T Ray: I understand your confusion. But, to act to offer any creed any kind of government assistance -- money subsidies, property, or other special favors, it needn't be so blatant -- is to promote one creed over another. In short, to establish, de facto, a state religion.A government needn't pass a law to establish one. All it needs to do is favor one over another by circumscribing the law.I understand that a Greek Orthodox church near GZ was damaged on 9/11, but has not received permission to repair or rebuild the church. Yet the Landmarks Preservation Commission, an NGO that has political clout, together withMayor Bloomberg, other politicians, and now Governor Paterson, have all more or less favored Islam over all other creeds. Bloody wars were fought in Europe for centuries because the state favored oneChristian religion over another. The separation of church and state established by theFounders was ingenious, for this country has experienced no religious wars, which tend to be more vicious than any other kind. Paterson, Bloomberg, and others are bypassing the First Amendment by a stealth just as insidious as Islamic jihad. Frankly, I think they're completely clueless and ignorant of the Constitutional ramifications of their endorsement of the GZ mosque. And probably indifferent to those ramifications.

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Big Hollywood : Mosque-eteers and Fox News Fears

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:24:35 +0000

Enough has been written about Rauf’s duplicity, but not much about Demure Daisy. She’s a regular columnist for the Washington Post’s “On Faith” feature. http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/paneli.... She is a master of taqiya, or the Koran-sanctioned art of lying to infidels and other non-believers. One of the many truths about Islam is that apostates are condemned to death, the grizzlier the better. Or, to put it in good old American advertising vernacular: Islam is the Roach Motel of religions. You can check in, but you can’t check out.

Big Hollywood : Mosque-eteers and Fox News Fears

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:24:20 +0000

This is what you should be using as an argument against the Ground Zero mosque, not any kind of machismo or other emotionalism. To wit: The First Amendment prohibits the making of any law “respecting an establishment of religion.” Beginning with a case heard in 1925 (Gitlow v. New York), the Supreme Court held that that Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment holds every state to the restriction stated in the First Amendment. So, Governor Paterson was in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments by offering the GZ mosque developers “state property” on which to build it, just as our State Department has usurped both Amendments by “sponsoring” Imam Feisal Rauf’s “good will” and “outreach” junket to the Mideast. Focus on the important, crucial issues, not on how you can annoy Feisal and Daisy, the dissimulating, two-faced Islamic Odd Couple.

Big Hollywood : CAIR’s Hollywood Crusade

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:04:00 +0000

I ought to be in pictures.

Big Hollywood : CAIR’s Hollywood Crusade

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:57:29 +0000

You're welcome. Ed "Sparrowhawk" Cline