Fighting Stupidity Since 1992

Another terror plot foiled, this time in Germany.  New Al Qaeda plot to blow up planes on September 11′ smashed, from the The Daily Mail:

Police have smashed a suspected al Qaeda terror cell nursing a “profound hatred of US citizens” plotting to bomb civilian and military jets.

The force of the planned explosions would have been worse than the train bombings in Madrid and the Tube and bus attacks in London on 7 July, 2005, according to German security sources. Those attacks killed 191 and 52 people respectively.

A great job by the German authorities to bust these punks.  The only question I had after reading the story was are there really al Qaeda cells out there that don’t harbor a profound hatred of the US? Isn’t that some sort of prerequisite to join these pansies? 

Are we just making up the name’s of our enemies now? Report: Wanted Taliban leader killed in raid:

KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters)- A wanted Taliban insurgent leader in Afghanistan, Mullah Brother, was killed Thursday in a U.S.-led raid in the southern province of Helmand, the Afghan Defense Ministry said, citing ground commanders.

Brother served as a top military commander for the Taliban government until its removal from power in 2001 and was a member of the movement’s leadership council led by its fugitive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar.

When they identified the body did it go something like this?

Soldier 1: Wow did we blow the crap out of that guy! Who was he?

Soldier 2: I don’t know but he sure looks like that dude from Lost that calls everyone “brother”.

Soldier 1: He does! Go with it. List him as Mullah “Brother” then, the Cap will get a kick out of that one, he loves Lost. Any other unidentified bodies we can call “Charlie?”

Unfortunately for historical accuracy and Lost fans who can’t get enough tie ins to the show, Reuters appears to have missed the quotation marks from the original report; leaving the rest of the world to wonder, who was that Mullah, “brother”?

Michelle Malkin is wishing Sen. Craig a nice retirement: Buh-bye, Larry Craig

California Conservative describes the left’s insane Iraq protest on the 9/11 anniversary: Spoiling For a Fight

LGF is hot on the Christian riots in Australia ;)  Massive Christian Riots Rock Australia (Not Really)

And most importantly ESPN is reporting Jason Campbell will start the final preseason game for my Redskins: Campbell recovering from bruised knee, to start for Skins

Presidential hopeful and full time hair product model John Edwards thinks America is ready to give up driving SUV’s.  North Carolina ABC 13 has the story: Edwards: Americans should sacrifice their SUVs

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles.

The former North Carolina senator told a forum by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, yesterday he thinks Americans are willing to sacrifice.

Why should we stop John?  Because you asked us nicely?  Hogwash.  Despite the article title of this post I don’t begrudge Edwards’ compensation for his previous work (our legal system does need some serious fixing but that is a story for another day).  He worked hard and made his money, end of story.  On the same hand though, the rest of America also works hard for what they have and if they choose to drive an SUV over a gay magnet  Prius more power to them.  Are we really going to allow the government to tell us what kind of car we can buy?  This is America, home of the automobile, it’s not going to happen here John, unless you sue every American who chooses to exercise their free choice. 

Muslims in the Khost province of Afghanistan are all worked up again, this time over a soccer ball with the Saudi flag on it.  The US dropped the balls into a village for the children to play with but apparently the balls weren’t good enough for them.  The soccer balls had the flags of many different countries printed on them including the Saudi flag.  U.S. apologizes to Afghans for soccer ball snafu:

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The U.S. military said Monday it regretted any offense it may have caused by giving out a soccer ball with the word Allah written on it as part of a public relations exercise in Afghanistan.

At least one of several balls dropped by helicopter to children in eastern Khost province had a small picture of the Saudi Arabian flag. The flag features in Arabic script the Islamic declaration of faith, which contains the words Allah and the Prophet Muhammad.

So let me get this straight, it is ok to murder Christian missionaries in your country but it isn’t ok to kick a soccer ball with the word Allah on it?  What happens when Americans start burning the Saudi flag much like the Muslim world is so fond of burning ours?  Am I the only one who finds it ludicrous how easily offended these people are?  Why is it again that CAIR offers “sensitivity” training to government workers but neglects to “train” their fellow believers in the fine art of being “sensitive”? 

I vote we start using the ball in MLS play, that would at least raise awareness for the league around the world.  We would then have Beckham and a cool ball that pisses off our enemies.

LGF has more on the story here and Michelle Malkin here.

South Korea, in a decidedly secular move, has chosen to bow to terrorist demands in order to save the live’s of 19 Korean missionaries. MSNBC.com has the story: Taliban, S. Korea reach agreement on captives:

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban agreed Tuesday to free 19 South Korean church volunteers held hostage since July after the government in Seoul agreed to end all missionary work and keep a promise to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

Sadly South Korea will learn the lesson many a country has, most recently Spain, that appeasing thugs and butchers only validates that their methods work. It does nothing to curb their ways, it just gives the scum another talking point for their crap movement.

I can not imagine that the 19 missionaries being released would want to be freed under the terms that South Korea has agreed to. Doesn’t stopping future Christian missionary work in Afghanistan make the loss of two missionaries less significant? It was important enough for them to sacrifice their lives to spread God’s word, so wouldn’t a better response be to flood the country with more missionaries? I’m just saying, we are in a religious war and the only thing the enemy fears is the Truth that is Jesus Christ.

Michelle Malkin has more here and more over at LGF here.

I don’t get the madness of illegal immigrant’s and their supporters. I’m sure by now everyone knows about Elvira Arellano, an illegal Mexican immigrant, who sought sanctuary in Chicago at a Methodist church for a year. She was recently deported back to Mexico after speaking at a rally in Los Angeles. So what does the moonbat do back home? How about go before the Mexican congress and whine about the injustice of being deported. From USAtoday.com, Mexican Senate sides with mom deported from USA:

MEXICO CITY (AP) A Mexican Senate committee passed a measure Wednesday urging President Felipe Calderon to send a diplomatic note to the United States protesting the deportation of an illegal migrant who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year.

The committee also approved a scholarship to help her 8-year-old U.S.-born son, Saul, who is an American citizen and stayed in the United States.

So let me get this straight, the Mexican government will give asylum to suspected murders that would face the death penalty here in the US, but we don’t have the right to deport those who break our laws back to the country they came from? Elvira continues on:

“For me it is very important that our government take a strong stand to defend all of us who decide to migrate to another country,” she said.

Hmm, so every time you break a law in the country you want to migrate to, you expect your previous country to step in and pressure your new country to let you off the hook? This chick is absolutely nuts! If Mexico is such a great place and a protector of your perceived freedom to break another countries laws when ever those laws prevent you from doing what you want, why did you leave Mexico in the first place? Maybe we can start trading some of the liberal scum that clogs this nation’s arteries for more cheap labor. How many day workers can I get for Cindy Sheehan?

Las Vegas is currently scrambling to meet their future water needs which they will apparently fall short of as early as 2010. Lasvegasnow.com has an article up here that describes a bit of the problem:

There is a serious problem with the future of our water supply. New data shows the drought worsening, and proposed water projects falling short of the future needs.

The warmest July on record in Las Vegas with an average of 107 degrees and half of the normal rainfall for the month didn’t help. This is a race against the worsening drought. A race against population growth and a race against running out of water in Las Vegas.

Very interesting and very alarming, since I love going to Vegas. Problem is the article is ever so slightly misleading. From the National Climatic Data Center web site located here:

However, the persistent atmospheric pattern that brought cooler than average temperatures to the East contributed to record and near-record warmth in the West. The warmest July since statewide records began in 1895 occurred in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. Nevada had its second warmest July and Arizona and Utah their third warmest Julys on record. Alaska was 1.2F (0.7C) warmer than the 1971-2000 mean in July.

Maybe it is all the global warming hysteria lately that leads people to believe that the weather is more extreme than in years past but that doesn’t excuse lazy reporting. This article leads one to assume that global warming is one of the factors contributing to the problem. Unfortunately for you chicken little’s that believe global warming will destroy us, the average July temperature in Las Vegas is 106 degrees. I’m not a mathematician but if 107 is the second highest and 106 is the average, it would have to be pretty close to 106 every July to have 106 as the average.

So why point out a possible simple mistake that would usually not change the story much if any? Because I fear this is intentional information propaganda to influence people’s belief in global warming. A single story in and of itself is not enough but when there is a steady stream of information seemingly attempting to sway one’s opinion we must do what we can to counter balance it. Perhaps it really is as simple as people being more sensitive to weather change these days or it could, as I believe, be part of a sinister attempt to cripple this country.

Little Green Footballs has a link up about a Dutch Catholic Bishop suggesting Christians should pray to Allah: Dutch Catholic Bishop: Christians Should Pray to Allah. The full article is available here: Let’s call God Allah.

The Bishop of Breda, Tiny Muskens, wants people to start calling God Allah. He says the Netherlands should look to Indonesia, where the Christian churches already pray to Allah. It is also common in the Arab world: Christian and Muslim Arabs use the words God and Allah interchangeably.

Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. Let’s all start blaspheming God’s name, I’m sure that won’t have any negative repercussions. I’ll probably take a lot of flak for saying this but I just don’t believe that the majority of Catholic leaders are Christians. For that matter I don’t believe a majority of those who call themselves Catholics are Christians either. Catholicism perverts the belief in Jesus Christ by minimizing His role in the Church. Praying to Mary, atoning for your sins through your priest, and setting up a head of the Church in the form of the Pope are just a few of the things that lead me to believe that Catholicism is leading people astray from Christ, not bringing them to Him. But hey, go ahead and start praying to Allah… I actually don’t see where that will make much of a difference eternally for you anyway.

Update:

Didn’t want to leave the post the way it was without adding a little depth. The reason for my skepticism regarding the Catholic faith is found in John 14:6:

Jhn 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

It may seem an over simplification to use one verse to dispel the rituals of an entire religion but I believe that most things really are simple, it is human nature to complicate things. In this passage it is clear that Christ is our Savior, there is no alternative to salvation without Him. No matter how many Hail Mary’s one does or how closely one follows the rulings of the Vatican, one can not truly be a Christian without Christ as the sole focus. If you’re skeptical or angry over my conclusion here, please click the link above that will take you to the Blue Letter Bible. Read through John chapter 14, all of the book of John, or the entire Bible to find out if I am wrong in saying the rituals of the Catholic Church that I have pointed out are not based in Scripture.

A few days ago I wrote about the proposed increase to the Federal gas tax, Maintain roads? Let?s raise taxes!!. Today, here’s the most absurd tax I have ever heard of from CBS2Chicago.com, Alderman Wants To Tax Bottled Water:

As CBS 2’s Kristyn Hartman reports, Ald. George Cardenas (12th) wants to slap a tax of up to 25 cents on the cost of every bottle to help close a $217 million budget gap.

“People enjoy jogging or driving with a bottle of water. There’s a cost associated with this behavior. You have to pay for it,” said Cardenas, one of Mayor Richard M. Daley’s staunchest City Council supporters.

Luckily this is a local Chicago issue but I believe it is a good example of the tax everything mentality that more and more politicians seem to have. By the way Mr. Cardenas, we do pay for the “behavior” of having a bottle of water and I am also sure that the city of Chicago gets a small cut in the form of sales tax from our “behavior”.

While this seems pretty crazy, we really have no one to blame for politicians finding more and more things to tax except ourselves. When a majority of the population thinks a tobacco tax is justified because they view the product being taxed as “evil or bad” this kind of crap happens. There will always be someone out there who doesn’t like a product for whatever reason and a politician will view that product as a new revenue stream. You’ve been hoodwinked America, you let the cat out of the bag and now there is no turning back.