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Anwar al-Awlaki

Today, it was announced that Anwar al-Awlaki, an American born radical Muslim terrorist leader was splattered over a portion of the Yemeni desert by a couple of Hellfire missiles launched from a drone overhead.  Now comes the controversy.  Since he was a "citizen", was he denied his rights to due process?  CAIR, Ron Paul , Dennis Kook-cinich and few "civil liberties" organizations seem to think so.

Should we have waited to capture him and try him in some federal court?  Did he deserve to be arrested and read his rights?  Did the Government over-step its bounds by summarily executing him by remote control?

I say no!  And not just no, but a resounding HELL NO!!!

Anwar al-Awlaki was no longer a citizen as far as I am concerned .  I don't know about the law, but if there is not a provision that states that if you take up arms against this country, you have forfeited any and all rights you once had as a citizen, then there damn sure should be one.

Suppose al-Awlaki wasn't a leader in Al Qaida.  Suppose he was a just another radical jihadi and he and a group of his buddies decided to attack an embassy.  Suppose the Marine guards repelled the attack and in so, doing waxed al-Awlaki.  Would there be an outcry about a fair trial?  Probably not.

Anwar al-Awlaki was more like a high ranking officer instead of a low-level bullet catcher.  Al-Awlaki recruited and directed others to attack the United States in some way, shape or form.  What is the difference between him actually pulling the trigger, or getting others to do his dirty work?  To me, it's no difference.

Al-Awlaki was a traitor.  He chose to denounce the United States and swore to cause us harm.  At that point, he was done.  He might have been born here, but he spent his formative years in Yemen.  He came back here for college on a student visa and a Yemeni passport.  He has done nothing but preach hate and violence since then.

Al-Awlaki got what was long overdue.  Obama made the right decision.  One of the few, but he did the right thing.

Welcome to hell, Anwar!

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The Deal

When I read that this budget deal was a victory for the Tea party Movement, I knew it was crap and boy, is it one hell of a crap sandwich!  If this was a victory for the Tea Party, I sure don't see it.  There are triggers in there that will could devestate the Military by cutting their budget by up to 50 percent!  The military budget could stand to be cut a bit, but 50 percent is insane.

At Red State, they have a post up called "9 reasons to Oppose Boehner 4.0".  You can go read it for yourself.  I just shook my head.  This is so watered down and so easy to manipulate, it's as if Harry Reid dictated it.

Kick the can down the road, make some innocuous cuts and put a trigger in there to raise taxes almost at will.  Obama smells like a rose.

Disgusting.

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Nidal Hasan Is A Terrorist

Pure and simple, Nidal Hasan is a terrorist.  At what point he decided to become one is secondary, but it's time to call it what it is and get on with ensuring we don't have a repeat performance if there are others out there with similar tendencies.  Instead, we seem to be poking our collective heads into the sand hoping to find some reason he would commit such a heinous act rather than address the idea that it is a free-lance terrorist hit.

Liberalism has caused us to become too civilized.  Instead of acknowledging that there is evil in this world, we are forced to look for other causes to justify the evil that men (and women) do as if there was some underlying mental illness. 

Obviously, I'm not a trained psychologist or a psychiatrist.  That said, I do understand that there is mental illness and it sometimes does cause people to do bad things - even kill people.  Those people are the ones who truly don't understand the magnitude of their crime.  We also have a tendency to think that everyone values human life like we do.  Like it or not, our cultual understanding of the sanctity of life comes from our Judeo-Christian history and culture.  Life is holy and precious to us. Not everyone in the world sees it that same way.  As Hasan put it:

"We love death more then [sic] you love life!"

To us, that is crazy.  To the Islamist, it makes sense.  This life is nothing and if you can advance your god's reach by killing yourself while killing others, your reward will be that much greater. 

Radical Islam is not about peaceful coexistence.  It is not about allowing you to believe differently.  Some morons (and that is what they are) try to equate conservative Christianity with the likes of the Taliban or other Islamic Radicals in order to somehow put all believers into the same jar.  They point to the odd violent nutbot who kills an abortion provider and try to make Christians out to be some sort of western jihadist.  It's doesn't work and almost the whole of Christianity condemns such actions unlike the whole of Islam.  There are some who denounce the actions of the Jihadists, but most sit in in silence.

Hasan did not act out of some vicarious PTSD.  To say  that is an insult to those good soldiers that actually suffer from PTSD.  Hasan acted with all due malice and forethought.  I suspect that he expected to die in the process, but fortunately, that did not happen.  It just came across the wire that he will face 13 counts of premeditated murder. 

I'd like to see him charged with domestic terrorism as well.  Certainly, if he is convicted on the 13 counts of murder, he will most likely receive the death penalty and the terrorism charge won't add to that.  What it will do is officially label him as a terrorist.  If nothing else, that will negate the PTSD crap.

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Breathes There The Man With Soul So Dead

In reading about Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers and their secret life as Communist spies, the words to the most famous verse to Sir Walter Scott's poem, Lay of the Minstrel,came to my mind:

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
"This is my own, my native land!"
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.

I don't know what they were paid to sell out their homeland or if they just did it out of shear hatred for the country that gave them free birth and the freedom to choose their path.  I don't know what kind of guilt filled their minds and destroyed their souls.  He was a blueblood, born into money. It's all part of the idiotic, rich-white-guilt syndrome that affects so many liberals.  You can just feel it oozing out of this passage in his diary:

"I have become so bitter these past few months. Watching the evening news is a radicalizing experience," he wrote in his diary in 1978, referring to what he described as greedy U.S. oil companies, inadequate health care and "the utter complacency of the oppressed" in America. On a trip to Cuba, federal law enforcement officials said in legal filings, Myers found a new inspiration: the communist revolution.

And as with most wealthy liberal people, they feel guilty because they have so much, but are not willing to give up their life of money and privilege.  Rather than slough off their wealth and help people using their own money, they assuage their guilt by demanding that the government do the job.  They were good little liberals who felt that the mean old US Government should be taught a lesson.

Their plan was to eventually sail to Cuba where they would presumably  be given some kind of hero's welcome. 

The couple told the agent they eventually wanted to sail to Cuba, according to the court documents.

"Our idea," said Kendall Myers, "is to sail home."

The fact never probably occurred to them that that no one, not even their new country (had they made it), would ever really trust them.   If they'd sell out their country once, they might do it again.

Now, home will be a federal prison somewhere.  They will most likely die there.  It's unfortunate that it probably will not be at the hand of the executioner, because at 72 and 71, they don't have that much longer on this earth.  Whatever time is allotted them, they will face it alone, each in their individual cell.  Their boat, their nice home, their cars and their life together will be memories. Their graves should be in a prison cemetery.

The last six lines of the verse should be on their tombstones if they have one:

HERE LIES #202 and 123

Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The [wretches], concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence [they] sprung,
Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.

No names and no dates.  They deserve no more; they probably deserve much less.  Such should be the fate of the traitor.

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The UN Will Destroy The US If They Get The Chance.

While you are being distracted by the kabuki theater of AIG outrage, guess what is going on at the United Nations:

A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.

(Go here to read the UN Document - but only have a strong stomach.)

What this does is essentially stop the economies of developed nations in their tracks and send them backwards about 75 years.  In the mean time, it transfers the wealth of those nations to the poorer nations.

In the same bland manner, the note informs negotiators without going into details that cap-and-trade schemes "may induce some industrial relocation" to "less regulated host countries." Cap-and-trade functions by creating decreasing numbers of pollution-emission permits to be traded by industrial users, and thus pay more for each unit of carbon-based pollution, a market-driven system that aims to drive manufacturers toward less polluting technologies.

The note adds only that industrial relocation "would involve negative consequences for the implementing country, which loses employment and investment." But at the same time it "would involve indeterminate consequences for the countries that would host the relocated industries."

In other words, industrialization would be severely limited.  If a manufacturer moved to a more hospitable country, it's exports good be limited by high tariffs.

Not part of this note, but certainly an important influence is this from Nicholas Lord Stern, an ex British treasury official:

In an influential but highly controversial paper called "Key Elements of a Global Deal on Climate Change," British economist Nicholas Lord Stern, formerly a high British Treasury official, has declared that industrial economies would need to cut their per capita carbon dioxide emissions by "at least 80% by 2050," while the biggest economies, like the U.S.'s, would have to make cuts of 90 percent.

Stern also calls for "immediate and binding" reduction targets for developed nations of 20 percent to 40 percent by 2020.

To meet Stern's 2050 goals, he says, among other things, "most of the world's electricity production will need to have been decarbonized."

The only way most of the world's electricity generation could meat that goal is to turn off the power plants.  Unless there is some immediate replacement  on the horizon, we will never make that goal in 40 years.  It certainly won't be by wind power.  You couldn't build enough towers at 1 to 2 megawatts each to replace the existing carbon based plants. 

This has little to do with the environment and everything to do with Socialist wealth redistribution.  If this treaty is implemented by the United States, we will become a third world country with no jobs, no hope and a despotic leader.  We may even devolve into separate regional banana republics ruled by war lords.

Whatever the case, the communists will have won and America will have ceased to exist in any recognizable form.

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AIG Is the Whipping Boy

I was waiting for the wife to come out of the store so I fired up the cell phone and it's rudimentary browser and checked the news.  The top story that I saw was that 19 states have joined forces and they are all now going to investigate AIG for their bonuses.

We already know that the bonuses were contractual and legally executed.  We all know that contracts are supposed to be sacrosanct.  It one of the foundations of our country's legal system.  Contractual obligations are so important that they are specifically mentioned in the Constitution.

Article one, section 10 says:  No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

The ironic part of this clause is that during the Articles of Confederation days before the Constitution, it was common for state legislatures to pass laws canceling the debts of influential people.  To prevent this practice, the above language was inserted to prohibit the rich from getting a fee pass.  The only way a contract can be broken is through bankruptcy and in case you didn't know, there are no state bankruptcy courts.  Bankruptcy courts are Federal courts. 

The Democrats inserted language into the bailout bill specifically allowing these bonuses to happen and Obama signed it.  Whether we like it or not, bonuses are a common way for companies to reward or retain people.  The military often doles out re-enlistment bonuses to people in critical skills jobs.  It's a fairly common practice and everybody does it.  It's not illegal or even immoral.

Why this warrants 20 State attorneys general to investigate this is beyond me.  Somebody ought to investigate these AGs for fishing without a license!  It's a fishing expedition and I would guess the states are thinking they might play a little lawsuit roulette and hope they get some kind of pay out.  There's lots of bailout money that could possibly go their way and they are apparently willing to sue AIG to get it.

Keep your eye on the AIG Bonuses folks, not on the rape of our country by Obama and the Democrats.  The Democrats are expanding government at a rate never before seen and it will probably mean the end to this country as we know it and the beginning of the short slide into anarchy.  If things don't come to a screeching halt soon, we will probably be Zimbabwe or Somalia on a grand scale.

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Obama Hope - Hope Your Lights Come On!

This Video is making it's way around the web:

Did you here that?  Obama wants to bankrupt the coal industry.  49% of the electricity used in this country comes from coal and he wants to bankrupt the industry. 

People, we are not going to get energy from nothing.  There are risks and obstacles in every technology.

It is physically impossible to build enough wind plants to generate enough electricity for us!

As you may recall, Biden said (and it's in this video) that Obama would stop the building of coal plants.

This is the change you are voting for.  Obama wants to change our whole way of life.  Obama is a Socialist and people that is patently anti-American!!!!  But you are either too stupid or too blind (which equates to the same thing) to care. 

Hope you like that Mao jacket because that is what is in our future.

Just another reason why Barack Obama should never, ever be allowed within  a mile of the oval office!

Yeah, I'm pissed.

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Denver Protests Starting- Live blogging

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Folks, the Moonbat convergence has started.  Fox has a live feed.  You'll have to click the link on the page. One of the MC's just said he supported the troops that turned their guns on their superiors. 

Here is a screen shot of a speaker and it looks like the two people in front are some kind of "security".  They look a bit menacing. The speaker is calling the cops Pigs.  Yep - smells like 68.

Now they are trotting wheeling out Ron Kovic - he of "Born on the Fourth of July" infamy fame.  While I respect him for his service and sacrifice, he is patently un-American.  OMG!  The Whole World's Watching chant!  1968!  Deja moo!  Looks like the same bull!

(All Times PDT)

9:17 AM The whitest Black Panther you ever saw is railing against the war - Yawn

9:24 AM  Someone named Larry Holmes is now referring to Katrina as the Katrina Genocide. 

9:40 AM  Cynthia (Cop Slapper) McKinney is now addressing the crowd. Who'da thunk she would be there?

9:44 AM  Cynthia is demanding we be like Venezuela.

9:47 AM  It's Chuch!  The disgraced professor Ward Churchill!

He's about as Indian as my dog.

9:50 AM  There is a war against everyone by the US!  The Indians, the Middle East, South America.  My we are busy!

9:56 AM Rosa Clemente, McKinny's Veep is now up.  She's a lunatic lefty and the voice of the so-called Hip-Hop Generation.

10:04 AM  Nothing new with this Commie broad.  Same Crap, different mouth it's spewing from.

10:05 AM  Clemente states that if everyone in Puerto Rico  could vote, she and McKinney would be in the White House.  Yeah, right.  The idiot doesn't understand Presidential elections at all.

10:14 AM  The Dead Presidents are ranting rapping.

10:15 AM  The Fox feed seems to have been cut

10:20 AM  If the feed comes back, I'll continue.

10:30 AM  Fox appears to have ended the show.  Too bad.  They removed the lingk from the home page.

11:00 AM  Fox Channel 31 has live video from their news chopper going on.  They are filming the protesters as they march.

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Thank You Canada!

(CNN) -- A U.S. soldier who deserted to Canada will not face persecution if he returns to the United States, Canada's refugee agency ruled Wednesday.

National Guard Sgt. Corey Glass, 25, says he fled to Toronto in 2006 after serving in Iraq because he did not want to fight in a war he did not support.

"What I saw in Iraq convinced me that the war is illegal and immoral. I could not in good conscience continue to take part in it," Glass said Wednesday. "I don't think it's fair that I should be punished for doing what I felt morally obligated to do."

Glass, who's still on active duty and is considered absent without leave, applied for refugee status at the Canadian border in August 2006 on the grounds of objection to military service.

But Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board denied his application for refugee status Wednesday, prompting the Canadian Border Services Agency to issue a June 12 deportation order.

Welcome home, asshat!  And hopefully you'll get to at least one year of hard time for every month you were in Canada to think about the ones who did go and the guy they had to send to replace you. 

But you won't think about them, you selfish bastard.  You'll whine and cry about how you are being mistreated.

I don't care, so long as you are behind bars.

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A Question For The Obama Campaign

UPDATE Feb 12:

Obama's campaign has issued this statement:

"The office featured in this video is funded by volunteers of the Barack Obama Campaign and is not an official headquarters for his campaign."

If that statement was any weaker, the letters would fall off the screen.  Can you imagine a McCain volunteer with a Confederate Flag and McCain giving a statement like that?

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If you ever have the opportunity to wander into a campaign office of just about any Presidential candidate, you’d expect to see American flags hung around the walls along with various election posters and signs. It’s as American as, well, apple pie.

There are a lot of things one would expect NOT to see in a Presidential campaign office here in the United States. One of those things would certainly be a Cuban flag with a picture of Ernesto  "The Butcher of la Cabaña" Guevara de la Serna (better known as Che) superimposed upon the face of it.

I don’t know if the official Obama campaign is aware of this, nor do I know if Obama himself is aware of this or supports it. However, a question needs to be asked.

In every Presidential campaign it seems, Republicans are asked if they support South Carolina flying the Confederate battle flag. It’s not like they have one in a campaign office somewhere.  Never mind that the Confederate flag was hoisted by the Democrat and erstwhile segregationist Ernest “Fritz” Hollings, it seems that it is somehow the Republican's fault.

Why shouldn’t we be asking the Obama campaign about a Cuban flag with the picture of a murdering thug on it being displayed in his Houston campaign office?

Putting up the symbols of Communism is as bad as someone hanging up a Nazi flag. Both systems are responsible for killing untold millions of people. Can you imagine the furor in the press if a supporter of John McCain was to display a swastika in a campaign office? Even if McCain condemned it, fired the whole office staff and personally smashed it to pieces with a sixteen pound sledgehammer, it wouldn’t be enough for some folks. The taint would be there.

The news report did say that they would be replaced by paid staffers next week. I wonder if they will see that monstrosity hanging on the wall and toss it in the trash where it belongs. I would really like to know.

Where is the outrage?

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Please get the word out. The more blogs the better!

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