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Sunday, 22 October 2006
Brief Haitus
My Home Computer is acting up. Actually that is an understatement. It may be seriously fried.

That means I may for awhile be limited to posting during what breaktime I have at work. Or by using my work computer after my day is finished.

The following is not an understatement as to my reaction to this.


From Ramblings of an Ordinary






Anyone who can identify just pop a word in the comments.
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Friday, 20 October 2006
My Avatars
Someone on an International Forum, that I post one frequently has found a very interesting facial feature recognition program. They have input some of our profile photos and come up with correlations between our facial features and those of celebrities.

I find my Avatars to be very flattering.




How Cool is that I look like Bob Dylan, Mark Harmon, Kenneth Branagh, Jack Brabham, Patrick Swayze, James Doohan! Scotty from Star Trek!! and George Clooney.



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POWs LAWSUIT COULD FORCE KERRY TO COME CLEAN ON VIETNAM ?WAR CRIMES? CHARGES
From Newsmax to my email inbox to you.
Dear NewsMax Reader:

Please find below a message from our sponsor, The Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation with a letter from Col. George E. "Bud" Day, USAF (Ret.) Former POW and Medal of Honor Recipient. They have some important information to share with you.

Thank you.

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POWs LAWSUIT COULD FORCE KERRY TO COME
CLEAN ON VIETNAM ‘WAR CRIMES’ CHARGES


When John Kerry slandered an entire generation of men who fought in Vietnam he branded them as "war criminals." Today, much of the same thing is being said about our young men and women in Iraq.


Now, a lawsuit filed in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas will test the very foundation of Kerry’s anti-war persona for the first time.  It isn’t dubious medals or Kerry’s disputed service record in Vietnam that is being called into question. This time Kerry may finally be forced to answer for the events that launched his public career, one that made him an anti-war hero for many American liberals and a turncoat for millions of Vietnam veterans.


The lawsuit (Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, et al. v. Kenneth Campbell, et al.) challenges the basis, the factual accuracy of then Lt. (j.g.) Kerry’s acrimonious testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971.  It was there Kerry’s public career was catapulted with his now ubiquitous portrayal of American soldiers as murderers, rapists and torturers "who ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam . . . [and] razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan."


For the anti-war, anti-American protesters, the American soldiers are the "terrorists," and the enemies are the victims of a barbaric U.S. military which tortures and murders defenseless civilians.


That false premise, one of the most vicious and enduring smears spawned by Kerry 35 years ago, will also be put to the test once Kerry’s true "Band of Brothers" are put under oath in a Philadelphia courtroom.


The background to this lawsuit is long and complex, but even a condensed version is rich in irony and poetic justice.


It had it roots in 2004 with the documentary Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal.  Many may recall the film, although it is probably best known for not being seen, suppressed after Sinclair Broadcasting Company courageously announced it was going to air the documentary in its entirety.  Thanks to Kerry and his liberal colleagues in the Senate and their enablers in the mainstream media, Sinclair was browbeaten into withdrawing the film, its broadcast license threatened by a Kerry campaign manager in 2004. The film’s producer, Carlton Sherwood, a Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award-winning investigative reporter, interviewed former POWs for the documentary.


I was among those whom Sherwood, a decorated Marine combat veteran himself, asked to participate in Stolen Honor.  I was a POW for nearly six years, held in North Vietnam prison camps, including the notorious Hanoi Hilton, a place of unimaginable horrors — torture, beatings, starvation and mind-numbing isolation.  When Kerry branded us "war criminals," he handed our captors all the justification they needed to carry out their threats to execute us.  Thanks to Kerry, Jane Fonda and their comrades in the anti-war movement, our captivity was prolonged by years.  The communists in Hanoi and Moscow couldn’t have had a better press agent to spread their anti-American propaganda.


To guarantee Stolen Honor would never be seen by anyone — not even theatre-goers — the producer was slapped with a libel and defamation lawsuit. 

That lawsuit was filed by a long-time anti-war disciple of the Massachusetts Senator.  He was one of Kerry's key war crimes "witnesses," one of several on whom Kerry claims he based his Senate testimony.


The lawsuit put a unique spin on the definition of defamation, claiming that Stolen Honor had damaged the public reputations of himself, Kerry and others by simply quoting their own words and criticisms of America during the Vietnam war!


The POWs and the wives of POWs who participated in Stolen Honor refused to abandon the facts conveyed in the film. For some of us, it was the first time since our release by the Communists in 1973 that we were able to have our voices publicly heard, to tell our stories about the consequences of Kerry’s treachery.  In 2005, we formed a nonprofit organization, the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation (VVLF), to gather records, documents and other materials to form a fact-based, educational repository for students and scholars of Vietnam history and to tell the true story of the American soldiers in Vietnam.  The VVLF’s mission is "to set the record straight, factually, about Vietnam and those who fought there."


For our efforts, we were promptly sued by two long-time anti-war Kerry followers and VVAW members. It was clear that Kerry not only wanted to punish us for Stolen Honor; he intended to use surrogates to sue us into permanent silence and financial ruin.


Forced to spend huge sums to defend ourselves from these frivolous lawsuits, we have filed a countersuit against these Kerry surrogates and intend to reveal the truth about the lawsuits and their sponsors.  We believe that we can prove that the purpose of nearly two years of litigation was to protect John Kerry, to drain us financially and spiritually, and to prevent us from setting the record straight.


At stake is ultimately nothing less than the integrity of the American military in Vietnam, the honor of the men who served their country, the nobility of those who gave their lives, and the truth of America’s history in Vietnam. Until or unless we do correct the existing record, the American military may never be free of the myths and smears of Vietnam, its honor and integrity cleansed as it fights to defend freedom at home and around the world.


Our mission is hardly over. We hope you will join us in fighting this battle . . . for our soldiers, then and now.  For more information about Vietnam, the foregoing litigation, or to make a donation, please access the VVLF website now — Go Here Now.


Col. George E. "Bud" Day
Director and President,
Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation


Col. George E. "Bud" Day, USAF (Ret.,) was a POW in North Vietnam for five years, seven months and 13 days.  He served in three wars (WWII, Korea, and Vietnam) and earned the Medal of Honor.   He is the Air Force’s most decorated living veteran.  He is the Director and President of the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, Inc., an organization created to better educate and inform the public about the Vietnam War, its events, its history, and the men and women who sacrificed to serve their country. Please go here to read Col. Day’s statement in its entirety.


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Reality checks: some responses to the latest Lancet estimates
Once again it seems the Lancet has released a new Study, just before an American election. That is not an unjust claim they have stated as much, that was the reason for the timing of it's release.

As to be expected, the opinions line up.

Some will believe anything as long as it is damaging to America.

Some will refuse to believe anything that is damaging to America.

But some will actually analyze the data.

To which both sides, will claim that the analysis is biased. All to be expected.

Except

When one of the Preeminent Anti=Stop the War-NOW NGOs releases a statement that they think the Lancet study is so fatally flawed as to be worthless, and indeed constitutes a grave disservice to the Anti-War movement, it must be taken under consideration.

The Iraq Body Count Org is by no means a center of Neo-Con militarism. Quite to the contrary they definitely oppose the War, but they do seem to have a radical degree of intellectual honesty.

It is from their website I take the following.



Reality checks: some responses to the latest Lancet estimates


Hamit Dardagan, John Sloboda, and Josh Dougherty

Summary




A new study has been released by the Lancet medical journal
estimating over 650,000 excess deaths in Iraq. The Iraqi mortality
estimates published in the Lancet in October 2006 imply, among
other things, that:




  1. On average, a thousand Iraqis have been violently killed every
    single day in the first half of 2006, with less than a tenth of
    them being noticed by any public surveillance mechanisms;


  2. Some 800,000 or more Iraqis suffered blast wounds and other
    serious conflict-related injuries in the past two years, but less
    than a tenth of them received any kind of hospital treatment;


  3. Over 7% of the entire adult male population of Iraq has
    already been killed in violence, with no less than 10% in the
    worst affected areas covering most of central Iraq;


  4. Half a million death certificates were received by families
    which were never officially recorded as having been issued;


  5. The Coalition has killed far more Iraqis in the last year
    than in earlier years containing the initial massive "Shock and
    Awe" invasion and the major assaults on Falluja.




If these assertions are true, they further imply:






In the light of such extreme and improbable implications, a
rational alternative conclusion to be considered is that the
authors have drawn conclusions from unrepresentative data. In
addition, totals of the magnitude generated by this study are
unnecessary to brand the invasion and occupation of Iraq a human
and strategic tragedy.



Contents




Download Press Release (pdf)



I will conclude with a section of the Concluding remarks

We would hope that, before accepting such extreme notions, serious consideration is given to the possibility that the population estimates derived from the Lancet study are flawed. The most likely source of such a flaw is some bias in the sampling methodology such that violent deaths were vastly over-represented in the sample. The precise potential nature of such bias is not clear at this point (it could, for example, involve problems in the application of a statistical method originally designed for studying the spread of disease in a population to direct and ongoing violence-related phenomena). But to dismiss the possibility of such bias out of hand is surely both irresponsible and unwise.

All that has been firmly documented as a result of the Lancet study is that some 300 post-invasion violent deaths occurred among the members of the households interviewed.


I have provided the links for those who wish to read the statement in toto.

Rather than stick their fingers in their ears, close heir eyes and start chanting Nyah nyah Nyah nyah.

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Thursday, 19 October 2006
There Are Things Worse Than 8 Years of Bill Clinton.
There have been a few people who are upset at the Republican Party.

There has been some mention about punishing the RNC by staying away from the polls in a few weeks.

I will say this, if they are displeased with the actions of a Republican controlled Congress, will a Democratic controlled government be better?

We have seen the results of a generation of that.

Their intentions may be good, the results of their actions may be a disaster, if carried out.

Yes I know Winning through Defeat worked at the Alamo. But it was a tad hard on the troops there.

We cannot afford to willingly give the Democrats control of the House and Senate until the '08 Elections.

We may end up giving them control, unwillingly, and while I do not think they can take us beyond the point of no return, who wants to risk it.

I was never more brought to an awareness of the consequences until I read in Confederate Yankee Democrats Plot Impeachment and President Pelosi at Flares into Darkness.

Yes I want you to contemplate these small factoids.
the ultimate goal. H. Res. 635, H. Res 636, and H. Res 637 are the numbers of the bills introduced to impeach Bush and Cheney. If the Democrats can't win the White House any other way I guess they will try a little coup.


Most of the posts link to a Frontpage Magazine Article,The Coming Impeachment

A plan is in place to censure and impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Orchestrated and organized by the radical Left and Congressman John Conyers, Jr., this plan is ready to go should the Democratic Party take control of the House of Representatives in November.



I do think Ace of Spades said it best in The Coming Impeachment Of Bush
Impeached. Over the NSA eavesdropping program.

And, of course, global warming.

Maybe people should vote or somethin'


Because, there are things worse than 8 years of Bill Clinton (the results of the last time folks decided to punish the Republican Party), and one of those worse things could be Nancy Pelosi as President of the United States.

Think about it, and if that sends cold chills down your spine? Maybe you should,

vote or somethin'

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Wednesday, 18 October 2006
J'ACCUSE !
I am bumping this post up. Mainly because there is post on a website that is on the extreme other side of the political spectrum that I occupy which has a very good article on this same subject. Odd how two people on oppisite sides of a political fence can agree on individual rights and abuse. Or maybe not odd. More the way things should be?

From abyss2hope: A rape survivor's zigzag journey into the open inWhen Programs To Protect Victims Fail

In so many cases of violence against women, the systems that victims interact with or that are designed to help victims are designed by people who have no first hand insight into the problem they are trying to deal with or well-designed programs get approved but then become little more than a shell because there isn't a political need to provide effective programs.

We wouldn't allow a highway system to be designed with no one on the design team who will ever go on those roads and no one who has gone on the existing roads. We also wouldn't spend millions to build roads and then have little or no funding to keep the roads in good repair and expect everyone to say the system works well. continued


Beware The State Bearing Gifts.

I want you to keep those words in mind, "Beware The State Bearing Gifts", you who read the tale, I am about to unfold.

I originally thought to use them as the title of this exposition, but instead, thought it more fitting to call this polemic J'ACCUSE!, the immortal words of Emile Zola, the great French novelist,as they appeared in a Paris literary newspaper, L'Aurore (The Dawn) on Thursday, Jan. 13, 1898, ".

When he wrote his accusations in a letter to the President of France denouncing the sacrifice of the Rights of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, on the Alter of State Expediency.

" No other newspaper article has ever provoked such public debate and controversy or had such an impact on law, justice, and society."


I do not hope to create such a conflagration, but I do hope to ignite a spark, in a few, and maybe those few can nurture it, spread it and carry it much further than this small insignificant blog.

I am going to relate a tale of the suppression of the rights of one woman, to an extreme that surpasses even the injustice done to ALFRED DREYFUS.


A story, so bizarre, so convoluted, that when she approached other organs of the State, for succor, no one believed her!


There exists in Canada a program called NIVA (New Identities For Victims of Abuse). This is a noble endeavor, it had admirable aims, but,

When Candace unwillingly enrolled in a secret government protection process which offers Battered Women facing possible deaths in the hands of violent partners new identities to escape the abuse, little did she know that she was "jumping from the frying pan into the fire"!


Yes you read correctly unwillingly enrolled , against her wishes, terrorized into entering a program, and making sacrifices, that her situation did not warrant, and then abandoned. Her very identity ripped from her, forced to exist in a limbo of legal non-existence.

The man,whose abuse had prompted her to approach the State for Justice and Protection, paid for his actions, was punished, how?

With absolutely nothing. No repercussions, no penalties, no fines, nor even prosecution.

Candace, instead was the one who sacrificed, everything.

Everything but the breath in her body and her child, and even in that last instance the State did not even take the precaution of assuring her legally total custody rights to her child.

I will provide links to more complete details of this story, which if read by any right thinking person, will lead to only one conclusion.

This woman was violated in every possible way that it is possible to be violated.

Appealing to the State for Justice and Protection, Candace received neither Justice, nor Protection, instead the State stripped her of everything of value to her, her rights, her identity and her dignity.

There is a word in English to describe such a violation, That word is RAPE

J'ACCUSE !

I ACCUSE the State of the Institutionalized Rape of the Woman Known as Candace.

Read her story and weep.

Come with me now on a Journey of Discovery. I warn you it will be a Dark Journey, because it is a Journey into the Belly of the Beast that is the State gone rogue.

Some Great Men once wrote these words.

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


They wrote them, because in All Government there lies a potential for abuse and when the Juggernaut of the State forgets that it is the Servant of the People, instead of their Master, steps must be taken.

Do I advocate that NIVA be abolished? No it's intent is good, but as we shall see it must be altered because it has gone terribly wrong.

My Journey of Discovery of this truth began with an email

Hi kdan,
i am trying to help this woman if you could do a story and help I would appreciate it, can you let me know. It is so bad she has no clothes and no bed, furniture, little food, etc. She emailed me and being I been in NIVA I know what it was like and it is this bad, so please if you can help let me know and do more to get it out. The story at the like can be condensed I have Margaret permission to do so and it no problem you could even do a different angle. Anything really
Do you mind if I cc to the the email also
if any questions please email back
Look forward to hearing from you
Holly
Holly's Fight for Justice
http://fightforjustice.blogspot.com
Thank you for any help
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/832211.shtml


I have had an internet acquaintance with the author of that email for some time and her story is also daunting. Daunting and evidence of experiences that qualifies her to make statements on this issue, and judgments of the validity of the statements of others.

Here are just a few items from her past.

"America's Most Wanted John Walsh...aired the story, which helped bring a serial rapist flight from justice to an end!"

READER'S DIGEST for published her personal story.

Holly's Fight for Justice
Victim of a serial rapist, the young woman from Red Deer, Alta., determined to bring her attacker to trial.

Those who know Rasai's case attribute his arrest to Holly's fight not to let the file be forgotten. "Holly actually forced institutions to do their jobs," says Scott Newark, executive director of the Canadian Police Association.

Holly's case and others like it also helped change Canada's Immigration Act. Would-be immigrants like Rasai can now be turned away if officials believe they committed a crime outside Canada punishable here by a jail term of ten years or more.

Holly has since started a new life in a new city. Reflecting on her crusade, she says: "Either you're going to live with the pain and deal with it, or you're going to die from it. If I had not fought to see Rasai caught, I would have died inside."



In a world where people commonly think one person cannot make a difference, Holly made a difference, forced the Law and Society to correct Injustice and now she is trying to do that for others.

Another person on this stage is MARGARET AKULIA,
Margaret Akulia was sponsored as a student refugee to Canada by WORLD UNIVERSITY SERVICE OF CANADA. Since immigrating to Canada in 1987, Akulia has held various positions and worked in different capacities, including and not limited to working as a Counsellor, Advocate; Human Rights Officer with the Canadian Human Rights Commission; Administrator; Community Development Consultant; Trainer; Researcher; Grassroots Educator, Group Facilitator, STORY TELLER and ENTREPRENEUR. Her ongoing work includes advocating for change and implementing solutions in areas adversely affecting disadvantaged and historically marginalized groups


Margaret Akulia is an African born Canadian Social Justice activist with a multidisciplinary background. Since immigrating to Canada in 1987, Ms. Akulia has held various positions and worked in different capacities, including serving as a Board of Director for various organizations and groups advocating for socio-economic solutions in areas adversely affecting disadvantaged and historically marginalized groups, locally and globally.


Both of these women have vast personal experience with the issues of Abuse and Social Injustice, to an extent that dispels any thought that this story is one of exaggeration.


A VICTIM TWICE: CANDACE? STORY OF SPOUSAL ABUSE AND "LIVING UNDERGROUND" THROUGH A GOVERNMENT PROTECTION PROCESS KNOWN AS NIVA (NEW IDENTITIES FOR VICTIMS OF ABUSE) - STORY WRITTEN BY MARGARET AKULIA, AS TOLD TO HER BY CANDACE

 


Note: Candace? Story is a true story. However, names have been changed to conceal identities.


To obtain a fuller version of the story, please
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To receive a periodic ENEWSLETTER, INFORMATION AND UPDATES; by Email about Candace' Story and otherTRUE STORIES;told in script, art and film format ;as ;recounted by the subjects themselves and  written ;by MARGARET AKULIA please
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You can also send a ;request ;through our CONTACT INFORMATION

To make a donation of any amount for Candace and her daughter Amelia, please contact MARGARET AKULIA by Email at
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CANDACE' STORY SUMMARY AND
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Monday, 16 October 2006
Mantra of the Mentat Nerds
Topic: Sci Fi

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion,
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
The hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning,
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion


Taken from Frank Herbert's Dune.

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire
speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in
motion.
Piter De Vries





I saw a tee shirt with that on it at ICON 31 I need one just like it! ;-)
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The Lancet lies...
Those are words used in the title of an article by an Iraqi named Omar who has a blogsite called

Iraq the Model the full title of what he wrote is


Responding to the Lancet lies...
When I read the report I can only feel apathy and inhumanity from those who did the count towards the victims and towards our suffering as a whole. I can tell they were so pleased when the equations their twisted minds designed led to those numbers and nothing can convince me that they did their so called research out of compassion or care.

To me their motives are clear, all they want is to prove that our struggle for freedom was the wrong thing to do. And they shamelessly use lies to do this…when they did not find the death they wanted to see on the ground, they faked it on paper! They disgust me…

This fake research is an insult to every man, woman and child who lost their lives.
Behind every drop of blood is a noble story of sacrifice for a just cause that is struggling for living safe in freedom and prosperity.


Those are the words used by Omar as a reaction to the Lancet study. The whole is worth reading. The blog itself is worth study. It will contain information, and sentiments you will never find in Mainstream Media reporting, and anyone who has not had their mind made up for them with agit-prop soundbites would have to ask themselves,"Why has this been hidden, covered up, suppressed ignored.

But it is true it is an emotional reactions, so there will be many who can comfort themselves that the Lancet study has facts and numbers on its side.

But does it really? It has claims but few will have looked at its facts They will read the different variations of the numbers 600K, 650K, 655K and will look no further.

The Lancet Study itself can be found on the Lancet site. Registration if free.Study estimates 655 000 excess Iraqi deaths since start of war


For most that would be complicate, involved and confusing.

Omar also wrote down his thoughts on a website called, Politics Central. Its title is a little longer. J'accuse: Iraq the Model responds to the Lancet Lies, again Omars essay is more emotional and subjective, rather than objective.

But in the comments section, one commenter brings up some very revealing statistics. Their claim can be verified in the Lancet site itself.

Soldier's Dad : states this,
I'll shoot a hole in the Lancet Study.

The mortality rate in the EU is 10.10/1000.

The Mortality rate in the US is 8.5/1000.


The mortality rate in Hungary is 13/1000

The world average mortality rate is 8.5/1000 per year.

The Lancet study uses a "baseline" mortality rate of 5.5. Half the mortality rate of Europe.

After all their fancy interviews...the Lancet Study comes up with a mortality rate for Iraq that is statistically the same as Hungary.

I must have missed it, but Hungary hasn't been at war for decades. The EU has been at peace for 60 years. They have the worlds best healthcare.

But their baseline mortality rates are more than double Saddams Iraq.

It is really easy to come up with a huge "excess deaths" number if one believes that no one ever died of anything in Iraq prior to 2003.


Iraq was an idyllic socialist paradise...unequaled since the Garden of Eden during Saddams reign.

Just ask Saddam...and not those pesky Kurds or Shiites that were mass murdered.

But then...so was the Soviet Union except for those 10's of millions that just magically "disappeared".

There is no lie too great that the hardcore leftist communists wouldn't tell.


So for those who have accepted the Lancet study as gospel and a smoking gun to denounce America with?

You must also accept as the truth that the Iraq mortality rate before the Invasion, was almost half of Europe's and in addition thirty-five percent lower that Americas. I have give above a link to the Lancet website and the study for those who wish to verify this claim. Some will not go to that much trouble, the Lancet Lies are too convenient.

Anyone who can still claim in the face of those numbers that the Lancet Study has any relationship to the truth has no idea what that word means.

There definition is instead, anything that can damage America, with no desire for what the truth really is or what the Iraqis feel.

There are those who truly want peace, at times I disagree with their opinions, but there are others who do not really care about Peace, they do not care about the Iraqi People, they merely care about how to damage America.

George Orwell once said.

"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me.'"" -


Those who support Oppressive Totalitarian Regimes out of naivety are one thing, those who do it out of malice for America are another and some of them are Americans

This is nothing new, they have been with us from the beginning of the Republic.

Samuel Adams spoke of such:

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us
in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down
and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon
you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.


We have an election coming up, I hope people find out about these facts and before they pull that lever, fill in those spaces, they ask themselves.

How would Samuel Adams Vote?

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UPDATE: Denmark Exports Soaring
After blogger Judith Klinghoffer and an army of Davids declared a "Buy Danish" campaign to combat the Muslim boycott. The Guardian says "fervent rightwing Americans" participated in the buying spree and implies that the cartoonists were responsible for the deaths of 139 people.(like it was the cartoonists who killed those people instead of the ones who shed their blood, how like the Progressive TransNazi viewpoint)


For your listening pleasure while you browse

"Der er et yndigt land" (There Is A Lovely Land)


Words by: Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager
Music by: Hans Ernst Kr?yer
Adopted: 1844

"Derer et yndigt land" was first performed for a large gathering of Danes in 1844, and became popular quickly with the Danish people. It was adopted later that year by the Danish government as a national anthem, but not the sole national anthem. This anthem is on equal status with "Kong Christian",which is both the national and royal anthem.

When the Danish anthem is usually performed or sung, the first verse is played in its entirety, then it is followed by the last four lines of the last verse. (This is true whether the lyrics are sung or not



Recentlty I have been posting music to Illustrate the Diversity of America, this week I have a different motive to express Solidarity with DENMARK


I maintain my Support of Denmark, and will later today, post links to and my thoughts about a Danish Editorial "We are being pissed upon by Per Nyholm "

I think I shall title my Post, "There is no "But" in "Freedom of Speech".




When I first started upon my journey through the blogverse I created a
Statement of Purpose
Now upon reading it, one can realize that I did not hold to every detail of that original statement, but from it's basic premise, I have never swayed, in my belief that the Blogs are in fact the Committees of Correspondence of the Second American Revolution.

And that it is a Revolution of Information, no longer can we afford and allow elite gateways to control what we can see, hear and discuss.

For I believe that those bloggers who find their way, here and in particular from the Blogs associated with Sam.

HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY.

Some of us are more Serious, some of us are more lighthearted and some post the common ordinary things that make one smile and recall that Life without the simple things to treasure is meaningless.

And it is important that all have a platform from which to speak.

As I understand this process you can link to this post and trackback to this post on ANY subject or post you think important. It is open. I will repeat this every Monday.

The Committees of Correspondence welcomes your intelligent comments. And also welcomes you to join the

OPEN TRACKBACK ALLIANCE


This week I also have shortened my usual introduction for a more inportant message.




In it's struggle for Freedom of Speech.

Sign the Petition NOW!

JEG opstille hos Danmark!




45245 Total Signatures 12:45 AM CDT October 02, 2006 We can do better pass the word~!




From Agora a call to Support the Manifesto online by signing another Petition, why not sign both?


MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism
Created by Mark Jefferson on March 1st, 2006 at 5:42 pm AST

After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all. "

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Friday, 13 October 2006
Najis Unclean Things
We seem to be having yet another incident of bogus religious outrage from Muslims wanting to insinuate Sharia Changes into our society.

It would appear that some Cab drivers in Minneapolis-St. Paul object to fares who have possession of alcohol because they claim their religion forbids them to transport it.

Actually their religion forbids them to touch or consume it because
alcohol is one of the ten items listed as
Najis Things or Unclean.

But then, as you can see by this list so are Kafir

Najis Things





84. * The following ten things are essentially najis:



So my question is, If they cannot transport alcohol because it is Najis (Unclean), how is it they can transport a Kafir(Non-Muslim)??

Reminds me about the Piglet flap last year and the demand that Pig Images be hidden so as not to offend Muslims, but no mention of Dog images which turn out to be SEVEN times more unclean than Pigs or Kafir for that matter.

I wrote a few things about this subject last year.

First Piglet Then Lassie?????????

Let's check out a few things on Muslim doctrine as it regards the Unclean.

Removing Impurity How to cleanse oneself of pig-related impurity

With regard to how to cleanse oneself of pig-related impurity, some scholars are of the view that it should be washed seven times, one of which should be with earth, by analogy with dogs.

But the correct view is that pig-related impurity should be washed only once. Al-Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said in his commentary on Muslim (Sharh Muslim): ?Most of the scholars were of the view that pig-related impurity does not have to be washed seven times. This is the view of al-Shaafa?i, and it has the strongest evidence.?



With us so far? Pigs are Unclean, but DOGS are really unclean. It is true some Muslims think Pigs may be as Unclean as Dogs, but while this is disputed by others, they all agree that touching a Dog, requires washing 7 times.
This is what Shaykh Ibn ?Uthaymeen thought most likely to be correct, as he said in al-Sharh al-Mumti?, 1/495): ?The fuqaha? (may Allaah have mercy on them) likened (pig-related) impurity to dog-related impurity, because pigs are dirtier than dogs, so the ruling should apply even more so.

This is a weak analogy, because pigs are mentioned in the Qur?aan and they existed at the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and there is no report which likens them to dogs. So the correct view is that pig-related impurity is like any other kind of impurity, and there is no need to wash seven times, one of which should be with dust or dirt.?


Now this next part is of much interest.
The correct view concerning washing other types of impurity is that whatever will remove the impurity is sufficient, and there is no specific number of times it must be washed.


There are other considerations as to whether or not the Najis, Unclean item contaminates a Muslim
Simply touching something impure does not make the body impure,


unless there is some wetness either in the impure substance or on the body.

Shaykh Ibn Jibreen said:

If the body or clothes are dry and touch something impure that is also dry, that does not matter, because the impurity is only transferred when it is wet. Fataawa Islamiyyah, 1/194

Based on this, the hand does not become impure simply by touching these gloves that are made of pigskin, unless the hand or the gloves are wet.

If the hands become impure by touching the pigskin when there is some wetness, then you have to wash your hands. It is sufficient to wash them once, because there is no command to wash something impure seven times, one of which is with dust or dirt, except in the case of impurity caused by a dog.

So the Muslim should strive to keep his body and clothes clean and pure, and avoid wearing these gloves that are made of pigskin, because that involves touching something impure and exposes his hands and clothes to the risk of becoming impure, which would affect the validity of his prayers. But if he needs to wear these gloves because he cannot find anything else, then it is permissible for him to wear them, so long as he is careful to avoid contaminating his body or clothes, and he hastens to wash off any impurity if he gets it on him, so that he does not transfer it anywhere else or forget to wash it off his hands or clothes



So what does this all boil down to?

Well it appears that the indignation over images of Pigs, with no mention whatsoever about Dogs was totally bogus.

Indeed being around these items is of no consequence, touching them is of no consequence, unless they are wet and make the hands of the person wet.

Indeed as you can see above it is permissible to touch that which is Najis, Unclean if it cannot be avoided, they just have to wash their hands afterwards.

Now as to the alcohol? Who is going to make a Taxi Cab Driver handle the bottle?

And since the fare if a Non-Muslim is just as Najis, Unclean as the Alcohol?

Oh by the way not ALL Alcohol is even Najis, Unclean.

Alcoholic Liquor



112. * All Alcoholic liquors and beverages which intoxicate a person, are najis and on the basis
of recommended precaution, everything which is originally liquid and intoxicates a person, is
najis. Hence narcotics, like, opium and hemp, which are not liquid originally, are Pak, even when a liquid is added to them.


113. All kinds of industrial alcohol used for painting doors, windows, tables, chairs etc. are Pak.


114. If grapes or grape juice ferments by itself, or on being cooked, they are Pak, but it is
haraam to eat or drink them.


115. If dates, currants and raisins, and their juice ferment, they are Pak and it is halal to eat
them.



Cool, it is ok to eat fermented dates and raisins, smoke pot and even mix opiates with a liquid and drink it? Beer is out though.

Unless of course it is taken for medicinal purposes.









Beer (Fuqa')


116. * Beer, which is prepared from barley, and is called 'Ab-i-Jaw', is haraam, but there is
Ishkal in it being najis. But barley water which is medically prepared, and is called 'Maush-
Shaeer', is Pak.


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