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Another example of the kind of barbaric inSANITY that we are fighting in Iraq...  Now a Danish cartoonist is being hunted like an animal because he depicted the prophet Mohammed as a man with the body of a dog.  http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57434>

Enjoy the following:

In a statement issued on Saturday by Al Qaeda in Iraq, the group's leader, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, called for the killing of Vilks and his editor Ulf Johansson, reports Al Jazeera.

"We are calling for the assassination of cartoonist Lars Vilks who dared insult our prophet, peace be upon him, and we announce a reward during this generous month of Ramadan of $100,000 for the one who kills this criminal," he said.

"The award will be increased to $150,000 if he were to be slaughtered like a lamb."

 

This brutish contract is symptomatic of an evil that desires nothing less than world domination.  These freaks want to kill this cartoonist.  If you, reading this, are not a muslim, then they want to kill you.  And your infidel family.  Convert or die.  And if you don't think this is their aim, you are naive.

They were here in 1993 in the basement of the World Trade Center.

They were here in September of 2001.

They'll be back if they're not stopped. 

 

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Mary Jane and I will be traveling 2500 miles back to Pennsylvania for my 29th (LOL) Millersburg Area High School class reunion this weekend. The class is using the occasion of Millersburg's huge bicentennial celebration this Summer to gather all of us in, so organizers decided to grab us a year early instead of waiting for our 30th.

Here's where we're headed...

A shot of one of the ferryboats that crosses the Susquehanna at Millersburg...

I'll report on the weekend when we return!  Tell us your kooky reunion stories

 

All right, bureaucrats.

 

Time to give us all a good explanation.  Why do Arizona schools begin their year so early?  What is the purpose of killing much of the month of August?  (One of our daughters will start the 2007-2008 school year on July 31!)  Yikes!

 

I hate to be one of these "good ol' days" types, but didn't most of the parents of today's students start school each year just after Labor Day or very near that date? Didn't we enjoy the whole Summer before trudging back in September?

 

I don't want to move into the year-round school debate; this topic isn't related to it.  I can't understand, however, why families are pinched out of so many weeks of vacation possibilities.  I don't think Arizona kids attend more days of school than other states (apx. 180 per year?).  They get a crazy long "Fall Break," though.

 

Problem is, most of us have relatives in states with normal summer breaks, and it's a pain in the neck to tell them, "Umm...  Nope.  August is out."  They can't beLIEVE it.

 

So someone fill me in with a logical answer.

It's time to begin referring to suicidal freaks like this VA Tech killer as cowards. Cowards.

It's time for police, politicians and anyone who makes a public statement about events such as today's tragedy to call these psychopaths what they are: gutless cowards.

Let anyone else who might be contemplating a similar "big finish" to his life that he won't be remembered as a daring anti-hero, but as a weak-minded quitter.

I don't even want to hear the word "gunman" on the news unless it's preceded by the word "cowardly." These nutjobs believe that the days following their deaths and those of their victims will be filled by the wonderings of pundits about what precipitated the act. Let's begin to let them know that no one will care to delve much deeper than the innate cowardice that prevents these killers from even sticking around and owning up to their killing.

Cowards.

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We're about to be treated to another round of crocodile tears and crybaby hype as the "Flight 300 Imams" advance lawsuits against US Airways and, apparently, several fellow passengers.

 

These six Muslim clerics were prevented from continuing on the second leg of a Phoenix-bound flight after nervous passengers alerted US Airways officials to what they thought was "suspicious behavior" by the men on their first flight.

 

Let's see if the nervous passengers had any reason to call attention to the imams' actions: 

• the men gathered together to pray on the floor of the terminal outside their gate, often shouting "Allah"
• once seated and in flight, the clerics began changing seats and speaking in Arabic (although all speak English), eventually positioning themselves near all exits
• some of the men asked for seat-belt extenders (straps with heavy buckles on the ends) although none of the men is large enough to require the additional belt length,and in fact, none even attached the extenders, but put them on the floor at their feet (according to flight attendants)

 

The imams are suing for suffering "fear, mental pain, inconvenience, humiliation, embarrassment, emotional distress, financial injury including lost business profits."

 

Come ON. 

 

If my 86-year-old Irish-English mother-in-law must be patted down at terminal security because (I assume this is the reason, unless it's strictly recreational on the part of the TSA) perhaps she's a terrorist, then might not the nerves of post-September 11th travelers be jangled a bit when confronted by the above actions in combination?  Really.  Let's engage in come common-sense thinking!

 

I'm so SICK of the elevation of victimhood to high art.  These six imams should be ASHAMED.  Lawsuit...  Get lost.

 

Here's how they could've gotten all of America behind them:  Hold their post-flight press conference.  Tell the assembled reporters, "We're tired.  We're hungry.  We're aggravated.  We're glad to be back home.  But we understand how our behavior might have been misinterpreted.  We're no more terrorists than any of you, but, sadly, the world has recently become a much scarier place.  We deplore the terrorism that gives rise to that fear, and we realize that because of who we are and how we look, we may be singled out for extra attention.  C'est la vie.  Thanks for understanding that we just want to get some sleep."

Wouldn't that have gone a lot further in promoting "understanding" and "tolerance" than their petty, vindictive, vengeful lawsuit?  Indeed.

 

Let me tell you...  If jetliners had been flown into Vatican City by a group of insane Swedes, I'd expect to be pulled out of line and carefully searched every time I flew to Rome.  Or Milan.  Or anywhere in Italy.  I'd think that my looks just might fit the profile of the whack-jobs, and that the Italians were just being cautious.  I might grumble after the sixth wanding of the trip, but I'd put it down to the cost of looking like I look in a world where some blond freaks did some dirty, dirty things.

 

Grow up, fellows.  Set aside your lawsuit before a judge with some decency tosses you and your lawyers out on your ears.  You'll get no sympathy from a jury that has to take off their shoes and have air puffed up their skirts at O'Hare.

 

Man, do I hope a judge with some (here I go again) common SENSE throws out any lawsuit brought against the city of Tempe or its police force by the two litterers who were asked to rap their way out of a ticket.

Come ON. Do we all know that the guys TOLD the officer that they were aspiring RAPPERS? They TOLD him so. Volunteered the information. Have we seen the video? Do they look humiliated? Heck, they look like they're getting their break on American Idol. Digging the opportunity!

So, here we go again. The kind of attorney that inspires anger at and jokes about attorneys will champion the cause of these two injured fawns, trying to get them the payday "they deserve."

How I wish the judge would look all three of them in the eye and say, "Get out of my courtroom. You're wasting my time and the people's money. I mean it. Get out."

Wouldn't you be ashamed to admit that you felt "injured" by being asked to showcase the talent you're so proud of? Are these guys such crybabies that they actually feel they've been INJURED? No. They don't believe they've been injured. If they bring the suit, they'll prove themselves to be greedy opportunists, looking for something for nothing. A payday. I've never seen a city that exalts the idea of "getting what you deserve" as much as this one.

Go cut a record, crybabies. See if anyone will buy it. It's called capitalism.

Not opportunism.