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A recent article in the UK Telegraph offered insights into the many ways that Islamists in Baghdad are making life, by increments, miserable for citizens of the city.
Ice producers, crucial in helping people survive in Iraq’s 115 degree summer heat, have recently suffered several murders from their ranks. The reason: Their product was not available during the time of Mohammed.
Street venders who sell the popular Middle Eastern food falafel have also lost two of their own in the past few weeks, with other venders now closing their stalls. The same reason is offered by the Islamists, namely, that falafels did not exist at the beginning of Islam. Those who laughed off the warnings are now lying in Baghdad cemeteries.
Islamists have also warned Baghdad residents who wear goatees to shave or else. That prohibition, subject to a visit from a vigilante death squad, is due to the fact that goatees originate from a “Jewish facial hairstyle.” The article states that barbers have been busier than usual, after a 17 year old was murdered the other month for ignoring the no-goatee warning.
Mayonnaise is also in the sights of the self-appointed morality police. Like goatees, mayonnaise has a Jewish connection. Mayonnaise is made in Israel. Therefore, it, too, joins the long list of things haraam, forbidden to Muslims, according to the Islamists’ playbook. Needless to say, most restaurants are holding the mayonnaise, with or without the customer’s request.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
Ice? What about all those mountains they have there and it does snow and thus there must be ice as well. I think that is BS about the ICE, just an excuse to kill someone probably.
How ’bout knives? I’ll bet they’re made in Israel, too. Gonna quit whacking throats?
So is oxygen, it comes from trees roots in Jewish soil and watered with Jewish water. I suggest that if this offends you that you stop breathing now.
Hmmmm here are some other things that were not around during their freakazoid Muhammad’s time:
AK-47s
automobiles
IEDs
airplanes eg: Boeing 757 and 767
radios
televisions
the internet
modern medicine
cell phones
telephones
nuclear weapons
I guess that leaves: camels and swords.

Thank you Dry Bones for the perfect cartoon for this.
UN panel says Israel’s operation in Gaza violates human rights laws
The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday deplored Israel’s military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as breaching international humanitarian law.
By a vote of 29-11 with five abstentions, the council approved the resolution proposed by the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference after it was amended to suggest the Palestinians also had a responsibility to refrain from violence against civilians.
“It is absolutely unacceptable” that the resolution only names Israel, Israeli Ambassador Itzhak Levanon told The Associated Press.
Switzerland said Thursday that armed Palestinian groups should be called to account in a proposed UN resolution blaming Israel for violence against civilians.
Earlier in the week, Switzerland said that Israel has been violating international law in its Gaza offensive by heavy destruction and endangering civilians in acts of collective punishment banned under the Geneva conventions on the conduct of warfare.
Switzerland proposed the amendments in an emergency session of the UN body, which decided last week as one of its first acts to make it a priority to examine Israel’s human rights practices in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The emergency session, which began Wednesday, had to be carried over until Thursday after reservations arose about the Muslim states’ proposal, which singled out Israel for breaches “of international humanitarian law and human rights law in the occupied Palestinian territory.”
Israel’s ambassador to the UN’s European headquarters in Geneva called the session “a planned and premeditated” attack on his country, and said it continued the anti-Israel bias set by the discredited U.N. Human Rights Commission, which was phased out this year.
This bull is incomprehensible! Israel has shown unbelievable restraint.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
First I have to say that I HATE the UN. And I resent that it is on our land and that we have anything to do with it. I totally resent it!!!!!!!!!
Apparently they don’t feel that firing rockets into Israeli schools or suicide bombers blowing themselves up in pizza parlors are a “breach of humanitarian law”. The U.N. won’t be happy until Israel is destroyed and the Jewish race is wiped out. How else can you explain this absurdity? And I will add also that the U.N. is an enemy of the United States, Israel, and freedom lovers the world over.

Egypt primes children for jihad
Egyptian cleric tells children’s TV show: Come on to the jihad, encourages child-soldiers to join holy war
Yaakov Lappin
An Egyptian Islamic cleric working for the state ministry of religious endowment has used a children’s television program to encourage young children to strive for holy war.
During program, made available by the Arabic translation service MEMRI , the cleric told a story about Muslim children in history keen to “sacrifice” themselves and kill “infidels” for the cause of Islam.

“Let’s listen to a very beautiful story to learn about the courage of a child, and how, when a child is brought up in a good home, and receives proper education in faith, he loves martyrdom, which becomes like an instinct for him. He can never give it up,” Sheik Muhammad Nassar told children on the program, which aired on the Al-Nas television channel.

“This story, my friends, is a beautiful story. Abu Qudama was the commander of the army of the Muslims, when they fought the Byzantines. The Byzantines had a very, very large army, whereas the Muslims did not have many fighters. So Abu Qudama walked down the alleys and streets, among the poor, calling: ‘Come join the Jihad,’ ‘Come join the Jihad,'” Nassar said.

‘Take my boy to the jihad’

He continued: “A woman said to him: ‘Abu Qudama, I have a boy. I will give him to you. Take him with you to war.’ He asked: ‘Is he still a boy?’ She said: ‘He is 15 years old, and his father was martyred in the previous war. Since his father’s martyrdom, he sits day and night, praying that Allah grant him martyrdom.'”

The Muslim commander is described as “praising Allah” for receiving the child-soldier from his mother.

Describing the participation of children in jihad, Nassar said: ” Sa’id shot the first arrow, killing one (infidel). With the second arrow, he killed another infidel, and with the third, he killed a third. Then he was hit by an arrow, and fell to the ground as a martyr. He achieved the martyrdom for which he yearned. A little later, he drew his last breath. Sa’id, the 15-year-old child, was martyred for the sake of Allah. He died happy.”

On a previous broadcast on Egyptian television in 2002, a three and a half year-old girl was asked to describe Jews. “They are apes and pigs… our God said so,” was her reply. The girl’s answer was enthusiastically received by the program’s host. “Allah be praised. May our God bless her. No one could wish for a more devout girl. May God bless her and her parents,” the host said.

Palestinian militant factions behind the kidnap of an Israel Defense Forces soldier pulled out of negotiations for his release after Israel rejected their 6 A.M. ultimatum, a Hamas leader in Gaza said Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Israel said Tuesday that its refusal to negotiate with the militants holding Shalit remained unchanged, despite the expiration of the deadline.
“The militant groups withdrew their representative from the talks with the Egyptian mediators,” Hamas’ Osama al-Muzaini said.
The groups had given Israel until 6 A.M. Tuesday to agree to the release of 1,000 Palestinians in its jails in exchange for Corporal Gilad Shalit, seized in a cross-border attack nine days ago that left two of his comrades dead.
“They the militant factions may kill him, take him to another country or may hide him. All options are open,” al-Muzaini said.
Olmert: No one attacking Israel will be immune.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert again ruled out negotiations with Shalit’s kidnappers Tuesday, warning that the IDF would target all militants involved in his abduction.
“We will strike all terror elements and all those who strike the State of Israel will not be immune,” Olmert told a business conference in the Negev.
“We will operate with all our might, but we won’t give in to blackmail,” Olmert said. “We won’t negotiate with terror elements and we won’t let anyone believe that kidnapping is a tool to bring Israel to its knees.”
Olmert told the conference that he had instructed the IDF to continue with its ground offensive in Gaza and urged the public to be patient:

“We need to know how to purse our lips and how to deal a winning strike,” he said. “We will do both of these, we will prevail and we will bring Gilad Shalit back to his parents, his family, to those who love him.”
Interior Minister Roni Bar-On on Tuesday warned the Hamas-led Palestinian government that the “sky would fall on them” if they harmed Shalit.
“Hamas well understands … that the sky will fall on them if they harm Gilad Shalit,” Bar-On said.
“Nothing has changed from our standpoint,” Justice Minister Haim Ramon told Army Radio on Tuesday. “The right thing is not to give a prize to terror, not to give in to terror, but the opposite.”

Wild Thing’s comment…….
The release of 1000 for 1 soldier? Nope, not gonna happen. Good for you Israel, I am proud of you!

An anti-war activist dressed as the Grim Reaper demonstrates in front of the White House in Washington July 3, 2006. Activist Cindy Sheehan and ‘CODEPINK’ launched ‘Troops Home Fast,’ a hunger strike to protest the war.

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Wild Thing’s comment……Are you feeling bloated, a little overweight?
Is it getting harder and harder to do the antiwar peacenik walks and the long hours of standing on the road near the President’s home in Texas?
Is your CODE Pink t-shirt more snug then it was when you first bought it with your money from welfare?
Are all those fast food meals that George Soros buys for you to keep you holding up your “hate the troops” signs, adding on those extra pounds?
Have no fear……..Hollyweird has the answer……it is the new and improved Diet for socialists, communists and traitors to America. ( Democrats)
The old version, established by Dick Gregory, (has been comedian and whatever the hell he was) that came out during the Vietnam war has been upgraded. It no longer comes with your own LSD. Nor is it delivered by a flower painted beat up van, and shower deprived drivers with burned out brain dead sidekicks passing out daises along the route.
This new and improved diet is the Aider and Abettors Diet manufactured by Democrats and advertised for free by the Media. You didn’t think a Democrat would pay for anything did you?
But wait it gets better…….the organizers are calling for a “rolling fast.” This is when “fasters” take turns “fasting.” Secondly, one of the touted supporters is sponsoring a picnic on the day the “fast” begins with a picnic called the Willie Picnic (after Willie Nelson).

US stars align in anti-Iraq war hunger strike

Star Hollywood actor-activists including Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon and anti-war campaigners led by bereaved mother Cindy Sheehan plan to launch a hunger strike, demanding the immediate return of US troops from Iraq.
As Americans get set to fire up barbeques in patriotic celebration of US Independence Day on July 4, anti-war protestors planned to savour a last meal outside the White House, before embarking on a ‘Troops Home Fast’ at midnight.

“We’ve marched, held vigils, lobbied Congress, camped out at Bush’s ranch, we’ve even gone to jail, now it’s time to do more,” said Sheehan, who emerged as an anti-war icon after losing her 24-year-old son Casey in Iraq.

The hunger strike was the latest bid by the US anti-war movement to grab hold of American public opinion, after numerous marches, vigils and political campaigns.
Despite polls which show the Iraq war is unpopular and many Americans are skeptical of President George W. Bush’s wartime leadership, peace protests have not hit the opinion-swaying critical mass seen during Vietnam War.

“We have been continually sheltered from the actual cost of war from the beginning,” said Meredith Dearborn, of human rights group Global Exchange, explaining how anti-Iraq war protests have stuttered.

While 2,526 US soldiers have died since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to an AFP tally based on Pentagon figures, the impact of the deaths has rarely dominated headlines.
While it is not unusual to see an Iraq-war veteran or amputee in an airport for instance, or newspaper features on horrific injuries inflicted by roadside bombs in Iraq, the United States hardly feels like a nation at war.
Some protestors and experts in public opinion put that down to the absence of the Vietnam War style conscription draft, which means only professional soldiers or reservists can be sent off to war.

“We have done everything we could think of to end this war, we have protested, held marches, vigils … lobbied, written letters to Congress,” said Dearborn.

“Now it is time to bring the pain and suffering of war home. We are putting our bodies on the line for peace.”

Perhaps the only time the anti-Iraq war movement captured lasting coverage was in August 2005, when Sheehan and supporters pitched camp outside Bush’s Texas ranch, where the president habitually stays in high summer.
Even then, the fiercely partisan debate unleashed may have harmed Sheehan, who faced fierce fire from conservative groups and radio talk show hosts, as much as it hurt the Bush administration’s image over Iraq.
The hunger strike will see at least four activists, Sheehan, veteran comedian and peace campaigner Dick Gregory, former army colonel Ann Wright and environmental campaigner Diane Wilson launch serious, long-term fasts.

“I don’t know how long I can fast, but I am making this open-ended,” said Wilson.

Other supporters, including Penn, Sarandon, novelist Alice Walker and actor Danny Glover will join a ‘rolling” fast, a relay in which 2,700 activists pledge to refuse food for at least 24 hours, and then hand over to a comrade.

So far the lastest doing this are: Fasters now include Cindy Sheehan; actress Susan Sarandon, environmentalist Diane Wilson; comedian Dick Gregory; singer Willie Nelson; Dr. Bob Edgar, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches; Dr. E. Faye Williams, National Chair of the National Congress of Black Women; Colonel Ann Wright; Iraq veteran Geoffrey Millard; Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization for Women; and CODEPINK cofounders Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans and Gael Murphy.
Here is the nice little list of fasters, you will see many familiar names and please note the ones that serve in our governement………… lmao!
Other Faster’s:
Cindy Sheehan
Dick Gregory
Willie Nelson
Alice Walker
Danny Glover
Dolores Huerta
Susan Sarandon
Sean Penn
Ed Asner
Michael Franti
Eve Ensler
Graham Nash, singer/songwriter
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
British MP George Galloway
Canadian MP Libby Davis
Michael Berg, Father of Nicolas Berg, who was killed in Iraq
Ann Wright, colonel and former US diplomat
Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon whistleblower
Ray McGovern, former CIA Analyst
Lt. Ehren Watada, Iraq war resister
Carolyn Ho, Mother of Lt. Ehren Watada
Jeff Key, Iraq Veteran
Fernando Suarez del Solar, Guerrerro Azteca
Michael McPherson, Veterans for Peace
Geoffrey Millard, Iraq Veterans Against the War
Dede Miller, Gold Star Families for Peace
Jane Bright, Gold Star Families for Peace
Joe Colgan, Gold Star Families for Peace
Brian Willson, Vietnam Vet
John McNamer, Vietnam Vet
Paul Kangas, Veterans for Peace
Andy Shallal, Iraqi Americans for Peaceful Alternatives
Samina Faheem, American Muslim Voice
Raed Jarrar, Iraqi analyst, Global Exchange
Rev. Bob Edgar, National Council of Churches
Rev. Joan Campbell
Rev. Al Sharpton
Rev. Lennox Yearwood
Arun Gandhi, President, Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence
Rev. Graylan Hagler, Plymouth Congregational Church
Rev. Noemi Mena, Hispanic Ministries
Rev. Tony Campolo
Fr. Louie Vitale, Franciscan priest
Karen Dolan, Cities for Progress
John Cavanagh, Marcus Raskin, Phyllis Bennis – Institute for Policy Studies
Jeff Adachi, San Francisco Public Defender
Renee Saucedo, Immigrant Rights Lawyer
Jim Hightower, Writer
Howard Zinn, Author
Greg Palast, Author
Vandana Shiva, Author
Marianne Williamson, Author
Diane Wilson, environmentalist/author
Julia Butterfly Hill, environmentalist
Paul Hawkins, environmentalist
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch
Rae Abileah, CODEPINK
Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange and CODEPINK co-founder
Tiffany Burns, CODEPINK
Jodie Evans, CODEPINK co-founder
Katie Heald, CODEPINK
Nancy L. Mancias, CODEPINK
Gael Murphy, CODEPINK co-founder
Farida Sheralam, CODEPINK
Maggie Rose, CODEPINK Charlotte Mecklenburg
Maggie LeBlanc, CODEPINK Wichita
Kim Gandy, National Organization for Women
Olga Vives, Executive Vice President, NOW
Dr. E. Faye Williams, National Congress of Black Women
Laura Flanders, Air America talk show host
Gabby Hoffman, actress
Miyumi Ota, artist
Kathy Engel, Poet
Peter Yarrow, Musician
Rae Goddess, Artist
Francisco Herrera, singer/songwriter
Will Durst, Political comic, talk show host
Patch Adams, Peace Doctor
Jonathon Tasini, U.S. Senate candidate, New York challenging Hillary Clinton
Kevin Zeese, U.S. Senate candidate, Maryland

“Missile blow up. Me so sad…”
North Korea fired Taepodong missile which failed
Tue Jul 4, 2006 5:12pm ET
By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea launched a long-range Taepodong-2 missile and two small Scud-type missiles within a two-hour period, but the long-range missile appears to have failed, a diplomatic source told Reuters on Tuesday.
CNN also reported that a Taepodong had been fired.
The Taepodong 2 missile, which had been under intense scrutiny by the United States and other western powers, appeared to have failed in flight, the diplomatic source said.
A Pentagon official told Reuters North Korea appeared also to have launched at least two small Scud-type missiles, but not the intercontinental ballistic missile that has been a focus of international concern.
“This appears not to be the launch of the missile that’s been so widely reported of late,” said the official, who asked not to named. He referred to the small missiles as “lesser variety” Scud types.
The official spoke before reports that the third, long-range Taepodong missile firing had been reported.
Japan’s NHK TV reported the first of the two smaller missiles landed in the Sea of Japan about 375 miles from Japan.
A Japanese government official confirmed the launch but said it was unclear if it was a Taepodong ballistic missile.
Japan’s Defense Minister reported separately that a second missile had been fired, according to NHK.
An Air Force facility protecting the nerve center of U.S. homeland defense at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, had been on heightened alert, the U.S. military said, amid persistent reports that North Korea may be set to test-fire the long-range missile.
The commander of U.S. Northern Command ordered the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, which rings the bunkered operations center, to take “necessary security precautions commensurate with its missions,” said Michael Kucharek, a spokesman for the U.S. Northern Command.

Wild Thing’s comment……
The Clinton Administration allowed North Korea to obtain nuclear weapons, so these former Clinton airheads should just shut up.

Sierrahome has made a video, a gift to all that have served. These are many of our friends, we know them from this blog and other blogs like Sondra K’s, and Beth at MVWRC and Vinnie at Vince aut Morire.
The people in this video are special people that have served our country and continue to serve today as they have still want to make things right for America. Just as all of you that are Veterans do and have done as well.
Thank you Sierrahome and thank you to all our Veterans and those serving now.
Sierrahome has kindly said I could save the video to my storage place and post the link here for all of you to visit.
Just CLICK HERE to Watch the Video.

Thank you U.S. Armed Forces You Keep the Flag Flying Proudly

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Wild Thing’s comment…….Below is something special a Vietnam Veteran friend of mine sent to me. He has been fighting Agent Orange but wanted to share this and thanks each of you for your service to our country.Thank you my dear friend.

“Little Stitches”
by NamVet3 tours
When I was a kid, I used to walk to the movie house. I’d look at the flag in the courthouse square. I always will remember how good it made me feel. My feelings actually went beyond just a good, warm feeling, the sight of that flag made me feel safe, and loved. That flag has always made me feel that way.
The sight of that flag always made me think that I could do anything, and so many times it proved my feeling right. I used to take the flag down at our house when I was a kid. I remember feeling the stitches and thinking that it is a piece of many cloths, sewn together by delicate thread. But, when it was all together it was a symbol of the greatest love, and the greatest strength this world has ever seen.I remember thinking that as long as I could see that flag I would always be home.
When I was a young lad of 19 years I went half way around the world to fight a war for that flag, and all it stood for. I was scared, and I was lonely, till I saw that flag, then I was home. I was eating dinner with my family, I was kissing my girl goodnight, I was looking at the stars in my backyard. As we left base camp for a 3 week patrol I would stand, silent and still, for a moment looking at the flag. A tear would come to my eye, and a prayer on my lips…”God, make me good enough to die for my country if I must, and make me good enough to live for it if I can”.
Well, He must of had a higher purpose for me, because here I am, typing this. Today I raised that flag, just after dawn. I took it in my hands and I looked at those little stitches that hold together those pieces of cloth. I had a shudder of life run up my spine, and a tear came to my eye. A great banner of many cloths held together by those little stitches. That flag protects me, and my family. It makes us feel safe, it brings us home, it gives us comfort, it binds us together and makes us one. Those little stitches holding together those pieces of varied cloth, they bring me home and protect me.
As my flag took it’s first breath of the morning breeze it snapped and started flying, proudly in that breeze. I felt so safe standing there under it. It was shouting it’s defiance against enemies, it was waving it’s call of unity and freedom for all Americans. It reminded me that I was a part of the greatest thing that mankind has ever done. I could almost hear those little stitches say…”We’ll hold these pieces of cloth together, and we’ll do it as long as it takes. When we are done, and we can’t do it anymore there will be more of us to do this thing again, and again, and again”.
These are the little stitches that keep our nation together. They are you and I, they are your neighbor, and your crazy cousin. They are the comments and posters at Theodore’s World , and all the “faithful”. We’re all little stitches that hold together the pieces of cloth that make up our nation. When we see it, we feel safe, and we walk home, unafraid.

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I invite you to watch this Video of our troops in Iraq and the Charlie Daniels Band.

Please click
on photo above to watch the very special Video
– Thank you

“Simply by living in their presence
I’ve seen true goodness,
I’ve been in the company of angels.”
– Bruce Kay Brown
Charlie Daniels Band

From Wild Thing

4 July is not just a day to party, cook out,
go to the beach, or recreate in a myriad of ways.
4 July has a much more profound meaning.
4 July is all about: Belleau Woods,
Inchon, Khe Sahn, Guadalcanal, Kuwait,
Tarawa, Chosin Reservoir, Grenada,
Bougainville, Hue City, Panama, Iwo Jima,
Somalia, Beirut, Peleilu, and many
other places where the price of freedom came due.
4 July is a day of celebration in our nation
precisely because of what so many unsung
heroes were willing to do
in order to make it so.
4 July comes and goes every year,
overshadowed often by summer vacations
and busy schedules.
4 July, however, brings to the forefront
in many hearts, the knowledge of what America might be
if not for the courage, sacrifice,
and dedication of the finest of her sons and daughters.
4 July is a day for every Veteran,
and those serving, to receive the recognition
that should come from a people,
who owe the precious gift of freedom to these gallant warriors
and servants of our Constitution..
4 July is a day in which we,
the “protected,” stand and salute you.
Your efforts often go unrewarded and unrecognized
in a manner befitting you.
4 July is a day for at least myself
and those like me to attempt
to honor these men and women properly
and to say, “Thank You.”
What you have done, and continue to do
every day, makes it possible
us to celebrate on 4 July,
and to live in “The Land Of The Free.”
We can never repay you sufficiently for this privilege.
May God bless each of you!

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