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New Rules for Old Farts

Posted By Zombie On March 13, 2012

New Rules for Old Farts

If you remember when health insurance was optional, you are an old fart.

If you are polite to strangers, you are an old fart.

If you've ever changed a typewriter ribbon, you are an old fart.

If there was only one fat kid in your class, you are an old fart.

If you think "Occupy" is a verb and not a noun, you are an old fart.

If you just want to be left alone, you are an old fart.

If you remember when only sailors had tattoos, you are an old fart.

If you remember when civil rights meant equal rights, not reverse discrimination, you are an old fart.

If you've never uploaded naked photographs of yourself, you are an old fart.

If you know how to spell, you are an old fart.

If you ever waited to hear your favorite song on the radio, you are an old fart.

If you remember when being radical meant hating the government, rather than relying on it, you are an old fart.

If you know how to get there better than that GPS contraption, you are an old fart.

If you've ever felt shame, you are an old fart.

If you still feel a twinge of dread seeing a phone number with a lot of "9″s and "0″s, you are an old fart.

If you think a nice warm day is just a nice warm day and not proof of impending doom, you are an old fart.

If you ever paid for your own condoms, you are an old fart.

If you know how to fix mechanical devices, you are an old fart.

If the phrase "turn of the century" makes you think of the year 1900, you are an old fart.

If you had a blue mohawk in 11th grade, you are an old fart.

If you remember when Top Gun actually sat in the plane, you are an old fart.

If you've ever bought something with cash, you are an old fart.

If you don't go all the way on the first date, you are an old fart.

If you remember when being a Democrat meant being anti-communist, you are an old fart.

If you remember when "books" were made of paper, you are an old fart.

If you've ever played pinball, you are an old fart.

If you remember when sex scandals would ruin a starlet's career, you are an old fart.

If you've ever gotten on an airplane without first being searched, you are an old fart.

If you even know the meaning of the word "bipartisan," you are an old fart.

If you you don't have a Facebook page, you are an old fart.

If you do have a MySpace page, you are an old fart.

If you've ever used the word "gay" to mean carefree or joyous, you are an old fart.

If you still haven't scraped that "I believe you Anita!" sticker off your bumper, you are an old fart.

If you kept a few leftover French francs and German marks the last time you visited Europe, you are an old fart.

If you think self-esteem is earned rather than a birthright, you are an old fart.

If you remember when the media at least pretended to be impartial, you are an old fart.

If you ever ate at Sambo's, you are an old fart.

If you still have some bell-bottom pants way back in your closet from the first time they were cool, you are an old fart.

If you remember when every quarter had an eagle on the back, you are an old fart.

If you hold the door open for ladies, you are an old fart.

If you remember when tech support answered without an accent, you are an old fart.

If you can't remember why you used to laugh at the phrase "You bet your sweet bippy," you are an old fart.

If you remember when being on welfare was embarrassing, you are an old fart.

If you know what VHS stands for, you are an old fart.

If you admire successful people, you are an old fart.

If you know what "the blue dress" refers to, you are an old fart.

If a teacher ever smacked you on the knuckles with a ruler, you are an old fart.

If you ever paid for pornography, you are an old fart.

If you think school should be taught in English, you are an old fart.

If you still think music comes on these black vinyl disks called "records," you are an old fart.

If you played with toy guns when you were a kid, you are an old fart.

If you've ever visited a public library, you are an old fart.

If you remember when Apple was a small struggling company, you are an old fart.

If your debate coach taught you to see both sides of an argument, you are an old fart.

If you still have some of those 8-track tapes in the garage, you are an old fart.

If you love your country, you are an old fart.

If you remember when budgets were measured in billions, not trillions, you are an old fart.

If you want to go back to measuring budgets in billions like we used to, you are really an old fart.

If you remember when campus revolutionaries fought against The Man, and weren't yet The Man themselves, you are an old fart.

If you'd welcome a death panel at this stage, frankly, you are an old fart.


Update

(Thanks to the following people for suggesting new entries: Fausta, Ringo, Col. Lingus, Allston, Jeannette, Randy CA, Renard.)

If you actually paid off your mortgage, you are an old fart

If you tried to copy Evel Kneivel with your Stingray bike, you are an old fart.

If you've ever owned an encyclopedia, you are an old fart.

If you remember singing Christmas songs in public school, you are an old fart.

If you ever smoked a cigarette on an airplane, you are an old fart.

If you still think there are only two genders, you are an old fart.

If you don't pollute because you give a hoot, you are an old fart.

If you ever used a phone booth, you are an old fart.

If you still haven't quite gotten the hang of Pong, you are an old fart.

If you ever ate candy cigarettes, you are an old fart.

If you ever got out of the car to open the garage door, you are an old fart.

If you ever judged people by the content of their character, you are an old fart.

If you ever turned a knob to change the station, you are an old fart.


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New post on Fellowship of the Minds

Ever Wondered Why Chimps Throw Poop?

by Dave

Me neither, but somebody in the federal government must have really had a knot in their boxers wanting to know, as last year they spent $592,000 of our money in an effort to find out why.

Via moneymorning.com:

Why Chimps Throw Poop… And 17 Other Examples of Government Waste

February 22, 2012

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning

Never mind the $15 trillion national debt; the government blew $592,000 on a study last year to figure out why chimpanzees throw poop.

That's just one example of government waste described in a recent book by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK. His "Wastebook 2011" features 100 examples of needless or ill-advised government spending.

It adds up to $6.9 billion that America can't afford. And while such waste is just a fraction of the federal government's $3.8 trillion budget, a country that needs to borrow 36 cents of every dollar it spends should not be throwing money away on non-essential research.

Like why chimps throw poop.

Here are 17 other things the government wasted tax dollars on last year:

17 Ways Government Wastes Your Money

1. Exporting Elmo: The U.S. Agency for International Development provided $10 million to a Pakistani arts organization to adapt "Sesame Street" for Pakistani toddlers. The money will also help pay for the creation of 130 episodes of the show.

2. Dragon Robots for Preschoolers: The National Science Foundation spent $131,000 on robot dragons designed to mimic human responses to help teach preschoolers language skills. Apparently interaction with real humans was deemed inadequate.

3. Virtual Mummies: Thanks to a $25,000 federal grant, visitors to the Milwaukee Public Museum will now be able to experience a "3-D high-definition, full-color true holographic or holographic-like exhibit of a virtual mummy unwrapping."

4. Dead Man's Party: Those who complain federal employment benefits are already too generous won't be pleased to learn that many government workers keep receiving payments long after they've died. The Inspector General for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management says "the amount of post-death improper payments is consistently $100-$150 million annually, totaling over $601 million in the last five years."

5. Cowboy Poetry: It's hard to recall John Wayne reciting verse in any of the many Westerns he made, but cowboy poetry is a big enough phenomenon to have its own annual celebration. And this year taxpayers helped pay for it courtesy of a $50,000 contribution from the U.S. government.

6. Promiscuous Quail: The National Institute of Health gave the University of Kentucky $176,000 to determine if Japanese quail are more likely to have sex when high on cocaine. The study is scheduled to last through 2015.

7. Happiness is ... Social Media: Another National Science Foundation grant for $198,000 paid for a University of California-Riverside study of "motivations, expectations and goal pursuit in social media." Among the questions the study seeks to answer: "Do unhappy people spend more time on Twitter or Facebook?"

[...]

16. Chinese Puzzle: The Chinese economy is second only to that of the United States. And China holds billions of dollars in U.S. debt. So the U.S. government sent $17.8 million in aid to China last year to improve the Asian giant's social services and clean up its environment. That makes sense, right?

You will find the rest of the list here.

And we wonder why we are spinning in the bottom of the financial toilet bowl as a nation, as you can be sure the eighteen things listed here are not even scratching the surface.

-Dave 

Dave | March 14, 2012 at 3:45 pm | Tags: big government, government waste, national debt | Categories: Idiots, Insanity, The Powers That Be | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-d8y

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New post on Doctor Bulldog & Ronin

Transparency in Action: Obama's Secrecy Over Wine List Stifles U.S. Exports

by doctorbulldog

How's that transparency in government working out for all you Libtards?:

After Pouring a $300 Bottle, White House Mum on Wine
Ends state dinner tradition of releasing info about the wine list
By Kate Schwartz,  Newser Staff

(Newser) – Last night, British PM David Cameron enjoyed his very first taste of March Madness, compliments of President Obama. At tonight's state dinner, he'll likely enjoy some American wine as well—but don't expect too many details about the winery, year, or appellation. That's because Obama put a stop to the tradition of revealing said info after his third state dinner ... following a brouhaha over the price tag.

In honor of Hu Jintao's visit, the Chinese president was served a 2005 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon from Washington state that garnered a 100-point Robert Parker rating. The White House didn't say how much it paid per bottle, but it originally retailed for $115, and was selling for $300 and up by the time of the Jan. 19, 2011, dinner.

So when Angela Merkel was honored at a state dinner in June, the released menu said nothing more than "an American wine will be paired with each course."

Ditto for South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak's Oct. 13 menu.

And while the move may ostensibly make sense ("they're probably sensitive to displays of wealth at a time when the economy is not firing on all cylinders," says one wine expert), many argue the move hurts, instead of helps.

Promoting top winemakers "is good for America," says one wine editor, and Bloomberg notes that state dinners provide a prime opportunity to show China and other new big wine importers what the US has to offer.

To wit, Quilceda Creek saw a "pretty significant" uptick in Asia after Hu's dinner

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What is your plan?

 

Just thinking out loud here......

 

Assume Obama is re-elected. We know his goals are to convert the USA as we know it, to what has failed in Europe's past of a combination socialistic Marxist type society.

 

Under this type of government he will reign until he is over thrown as the dictator, and an election of a President as we know it will be history.

 

The same as Hitler took power the public desired a change in their lives, so has Americans sought a change in their government.  History does repeat itself.

 

So, how and what will change as we know it, as we grew up to know freedom in America and as our children will know it?

 

1.  Capitalistic enterprise will cease.

2. Private home ownership will end.

3. Transportation will revert to horse and buggy, bicycle, or moped in order to be "Green".  The oil industry will be owned by the Government, as will all industry and commerce.

4.  Food will be rationed and monitored by your RFID implant as to what you buy and sell, as will your location by GPS.

5.  All weapons & firearms will be destroyed.

6. Religion will only be Muslim and Sharia Law will replace our Cannon Law.  All non Muslims will be executed as threats to the Allah.

7. All women will be circumcised to please Allah, and will be considered non essential.

8. All Jews will be slain quickly.

9. All crops, food & livestock &  shelter will be owned by the government.

10. All non Muslims will become slaves.

11.  The Internet will be banned.

12. Fox news will be banned.

13. Only state owned tv & news.

 

For the first time in history the Russians & Arabs have joined forces against the Jews.  Iran will bomb Israel before the November elections and World War III will begin.

Obama will use the war to "Save America", and be re-elected.  Same old method of creating a problem and then solving to be the good guy.

 

After America surrenders to Russia & Arabs the Chinese will step in and change the US monetary system since we owe them the Twenty Trillion Dollars Obama has indebted us to them.  Part of the theory of the Art of War, let your enemies kill each other.

 

So what is your survival plan?

Your money is worthless.

You car has no gas.

Your food pantry is empty.

You no longer have a home.

And you no longer have your FREEDOM !

 

What legacy did you leave your kids?

 

 

 

 

 

 


 


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Pro-American Hacker's Attack Threatens to Expose Anonymous
12 March 2012 | 04:56 PM ET | Paul Wagenseil, SecurityNewsDaily Managing
Editor
http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/1613-jester-qr-code-twitter-anonymous.html

As if things couldn't get any worse for the hacktivists of Anonymous, the
self-described patriotic hacker who calls himself The Jester has struck
another blow.

He claims to have broken into many smartphones belonging to Anonymous
leaders and copied incriminating text messages, emails, address books and
other data - data that he may have already passed on to the authorities.

The Jester's intricate, multilayered attack, which took place over five days
last week, sounds almost too good to be true, and some online commenters
have derided it as a hoax.

But security experts say it's definitely doable, and demonstrates just how
valuable the data housed on iPhones and Android phones can be to hackers and
identity thieves.

"My unofficial and initial thought is that it seems entirely plausible,"
Jonathan Zdziarski, a forensic researcher with Oak Park, Ill.-based Via
Forensics and author of "Hacking and Securing iOS Applications" (O'Reilly
Media, January 2012), told SecurityNewsDaily. "And since most of his targets
are probably jailbroken, I can imagine they'd be lagging behind a couple iOS
versions."

"The short answer: possible: yes, likely: yes," said Georgia Weidman, an
Android security researcher with Bulb Security LLC, in an email exchange.
"Impressive: maybe, maybe not."

"I'm inclined to believe he's done what he says he's done," Barrett Brown, a
journalist and unofficial Anonymous spokesman whose own phone was one of the
targets of The Jester's hack, told SecurityNewsDaily. "This is someone who
has spent a great deal of time engaging in 'opposition research' on
Anonymous and associated individuals, and he has a wide network of very
talented contacts, so one would imagine that he'd eventually pull off
something effective."

Many steps, a single goal

For more than a year, The Jester (@th3j35t3r on Twitter) has been a thorn in
Anonymous's side, taunting the movement's organizers even as he attacked
some of the same targets. But his main targets have been English-language
websites that recruit followers for al-Qaida and other militant Islamic
movements, and he has claimed to have developed tools that let him knock
such sites offline single-handedly.

On Friday evening (March 9), The Jester used his blog to detail an
complicated hack against devices running Android as well as Apple's iOS,
which is found on iPhones and iPads.

"At the beginning of this week, just hours before the news of Hector
Monsegur's arrest broke, many of you will have noticed that my Twitter
profile pic changed from the usual 'Jester Mask' to a QR code," The Jester
wrote on his blog Friday. (Monsegur was revealed last Tuesday as "Sabu," a
leader of the Anonymous spinoff group LulzSec who'd been working with the
FBI for the past several months.)

QR codes, as regular SecurityNewsDaily readers know, are a security
nightmare. The two-dimensional barcodes, which pop up in ads and on product
packaging, are meant to whisk your iPhone or other smartphone to a
promotional website. However, they could just as easily take you to a
website loaded with malware aimed at your smartphone.

That's exactly what The Jester says he did.

"Anyone who scanned the QR code using their mobile device was taken to a
jolly little greeting via their device's default browser hosted on some free
webspace," he wrote on his blog. "The greeting featured my original profile
pic and the word 'BOO!' directly below it."

But embedded in that page was hidden code that exploited a known
vulnerability for Apple's Safari and Google's Android and Chrome Web
browsers. (That known vulnerability has supposedly been patched in the
latest versions of iOS and Android, but as both Weidman and Zdziarski
pointed out, many smartphone users either don't or can't update their own
phones.)

The hidden website code connected to another server, which was running a
network diagnostic tool called Netcat.

"When anyone scanned the original QR code using an iPhone or Android device,
their device would silently make a TCP shell connection back to my remote
server," The Jester wrote. "Like a phone call, if you like."

Next, The Jester said, Netcat checked if Twitter software was installed on
the target phone. If so, the script would check for a linked Twitter
account, then send that account's user name back to The Jester's server.

"As for using QR codes to launch browser-based exploits, Jester's
explanation is correct," Weidman said. "Mobile Safari has to run unsigned
code since Web pages, PDFs, etc., are not all signed by Apple, and if you
couldn't look at webpage on your iPhone, everyone would buy Androids."

Crossing the line?

So far, there's nothing explicitly illegal or even, arguably, unethical
here. The Jester's software has only been listening to see how much
information a social-networking app will give up. Many "proof-of-concept"
hacks developed by security researchers are similar.

The next step is where it gets malicious. The Jester said his script
cross-checked each harvested Twitter user name against a "hit list" of
Twitter accounts associated with Anonymous news sites and chat rooms,
Islamist recruiting sites and WikiLeaks.

"His payload checking Twitter names for the victims he wanted and then only
targeting them is something I find pretty clever," Weidman said. "As for the
privilege escalation and dumping info off the phones, this is pretty
standard in a jailbreak/root or malicious attack. This is common in mobile
malware."

Like The Jester himself, many hacktivists associated with Anonymous, LulzSec
and similar groups communicate mainly via Twitter. (The Justice Department
has begun to subpoena Twitter for the real names behind many accounts.)

Two known individuals were also on The Jester's hit list: Barrett Brown and
Rhode Island state Rep. Dan Gordon, whose apparent chumminess with Anonymous
had raised The Jester's ire.

("I had no idea it was something one could scan, much less with their
phone," Brown said of the QR code. "The FBI took my phone last week anyway,
so it wouldn't have mattered if I had.")

"If the prerequisite conditions outlined above were met and the device's
Twitter client WAS associated with an account on the '[hit] list,'' things
got very interesting," The Jester wrote on his blog. "Another script fired
elevating permissions and raping the SMS logs, call logs and phonebooks and
(as long as the user was using the default out of the box email client)
emails stored within."

In other words, if the Twitter user name matched one on The Jester's enemies
list, then a second piece of programming tried to take over the targeted
phone. If it succeeded, it would access archived SMS text messages,
incoming- and outgoing-number logs, archived emails and address
books/contact lists, then send all that data back to The Jester's server.

"Creepy?" The Jester asked rhetorically on his blog. "Only if you are
naughty."

Good guys vs. bad guys

The Jester wrote on his blog that this "sting" went on for five days, until
another Twitter user noticed the embedded code and asked him about it. But,
he wrote, that was long enough to gather a lot of data.

"Over 1,200 curious netizens scanned the QR code," he wrote. "Of those, over
500 devices reverse-shelled back to the listening server. Of those, a
significant number were on the '[hit]-list' and as such treated as valid
targets."

As for the justification for all this, The Jester was very clear.

"EVERYONE else without exception was left totally 'untouched' so to speak,"
he wrote. "This was a proof-of-concept QR-code-based operation against known
bad guys, the same bad guys that leak YOUR information, steal YOUR
[credit-card numbers] and engage in terror plots around the world. I do not
feel sorry for them."

Today (March 12), The Jester posted an encrypted 143-megabyte file
containing all the data he'd extracted to MediaFire, a file-sharing site.

"It's encrypted with my PGP public key," he wrote, referring to a common
encryption standard. "Have fun with that."

In a private communication, SecurityNewsDaily asked The Jester why he'd
encrypted the information rather than post it in regular, plain text.

"I encrypt my [data] dumps as a matter of course because I am not the same
as my detractors who drop personal info all the time," he replied. "The
right people have the plain text dump. It would be highly irresponsible of
me to be dropping anything in the open."

But The Jester wouldn't let on to what he hoped to accomplish by doing this.

"Many folks are trying to analyze and prod at my methods," he told
SecurityNewsDaily. "The truth is they don't know me, can't find me and
speculate as to how I do my thing.

"Everything anyone says (good or bad) is based on assumptions and
conjecture," he added. "That's the way I like it. Nobody has any firm ground
to stand on."

Without knowing what's in the data dump, it's hard to assess how much damage
the information could do to Anonymous, or to the various al-Qaida-affiliated
websites also targeted.

"[It] would depend on who exactly was compromised," Brown said.

Asked whether The Jester's tactics were justified, Brown was equivocal.

"It's certainly justified within the context of this particular engagement,
one in which things get hacked, people get monitored, documents get stolen
and apartments get raided," he said. "I'm certainly a legitimate target for
such things."

Is the FBI listening?

However, as SecurityNewsDaily pointed out to both men, The Jester with this
action has moved beyond attacking Jihadi sites and trying to establish the
identities of Lulzsec members to targeting known U.S. citizens with malware.
Was he worried that doing so might put him in the cross hairs of law
enforcement?

"As far as LEA's [law enforcement authorities] taking an interest in me, we
will have to wait and see," he told SecurityNewsDaily.

Brown doesn't think The Jester needs to worry, as long as he sticks to
attacking perceived enemies of the state.

"I'm not convinced he's upset U.S. law enforcement at all," Brown said.
"You're allowed to break all sorts of laws if you do so in the interests of
national security.

"Like me, that particular congressman [Rep. Dan Gordon, actually a state
representative] is no friend of the national security state," Brown added.
"As such, we're legitimate targets. Remember that this is a country in which
the Justice Department set the Team Themis/Wikileaks affair in motion. If it
weren't such a country, Anonymous wouldn't be necessary."

The Jester doesn't sound too worried that a SWAT team's going to bust down
his door any time soon.

Reminded that Twitter was receiving subpoenas for information on users, he
replied, "There is no identifying information held in my profile, and I
never connect even close to directly. It's a rule of mine."

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Islamist Watch is devoted to unveiling and combating "Lawful Islamists" who exploit our Constitutional freedoms to incrementally and non-violently undermine American and Western values while imposing aspects of Sharia law, creating special rights for Muslims, preventing criticism of Islamists, intimidating moderate Muslims, depriving women and non-Muslims of their civil and Constitutional rights, and creating "no-go" autonomous zones within the United States and other Western countries.

Lawful Islamism is a radical and supremacist interpretation of Islam that seeks to destroy Western society from within -- culturally and politically rather than violently. Methodically and patiently. With words not bullets. Activism not bombs.

The goals of Lawful Islamists and Islamic terrorists are the same. Only their methods differ.

Islamism in the News: 02/16/12 – 03/14/12:

Government

  • "Al-Qaeda Bar Advancing Inside Department of Justice," by J. Christian Adams. PJ Media, March 5, 2012. (Remember the infamous "American Taliban," John Walker Lindh? President Obama has appointed his attorney to the number three position at the Department of Justice.  Before coming to the Justice Department, Tony West and his San Francisco law firm represented some of the most radical Islamic terrorist causes. What could go wrong?)

Law Enforcement

Co-opting Politicians – Chris Christie's Continuing Islamist Problem

  • "The Roots of the Christie-King Border War," Jonathan S. Tobin. Commentary Magazine, March 6, 2012. (Christie and King found themselves lining up with two competing Muslim factions: Christie with extremist groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), who oppose all efforts to investigate homegrown Islamist terror, and King with those Muslims like Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, who have taken the position that American Muslims have a responsibility to root out radicals.)
  • "Chris Christie is Clueless in Claiming He Didn't Know About NYPD Anti-Terror Intel," New York Daily News Editorial, March 7, 2012. (Meanwhile, everyone else in New Jersey state government did.)
  • For background on Chris Christie's disturbing ties to New Jersey's Islamists, including appointing a terrorist-defending Islamist attorney to a Superior Court judgeship, preventing the deportation of an imam who was a member of both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, refusing to take a stand against the ground zero mosque, and endorsement by CAIR, see:
  • "Governor Christie's Dirty Islamist Ties," Daniel Greenfield. Sultan Knish, January 16, 2011.
  • "Chris Christie Has a Muslim Problem," Terry A. Hurlbut. Conservative News and Views, June 28, 2011.

Courts: Sharia vs. the First Amendment in Pennsylvania

  • "The Sharia Court of Pennsylvania," by Andrew C. McCarthy. National Review, February 24, 2012. (A state judge in Pennsylvania has dismissed an assault and harrassment case against a Muslim defendant who admitted attacking the victim. Magistrate Judge Mark Martin ruled that Talag Elbayomy's Sharia defense — what he claimed was his obligation to strike out against any insult against the prophet Mohammed — trumped the First Amendment free speech rights of the victim. Includes an extensive court transcript. Martin has threatened to hold the victim in contempt for recording the proceeding.)
  • "Pennsylvania Judge Throws Out Charge For Harassing Atheist While Calling The Victim A Doofus," by Jonathan Turley. Res Ipsa Loquitur, February 24, 2012. (Includes video of the assault. The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech of all American, even "doofuses."

American Laws for American Courts

  • "Bizarre Verdicts Could Fuel Rep. Larry Metz's Anti-Sharia Bill," Kenric Ward. Sunshine State News, February 28, 2012. (Florida's "anti-Sharia" legislation received some added impetus last week when a Pennsylvania court bowed to Islamic sensibilities and acquitted a Muslim defendant of assault.)
  • "The Necessity of Anti-Sharia Laws," Robert Spencer. American Thinker, March 13, 2012. ("As Thomas Jefferson said, it doesn't matter whether my neighbor believes in one god or seventeen; it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.  It is only when my neighbor believes that his god commands him to pick my pocket or break my leg that his beliefs become a matter of concern for those who do not share them.")

Women's Rights

Media Bias and Free Speech

  • "Will There Always Be an England?" Bruce Bawer. FrontPage Magazine, March 7, 2012. (The Director-General of the BBC admits to double standards and fears when it comes to covering religion. In 2010, the BBC claimed  a weekly global audience of 241 million people for its international news services.)

Free Speech

  • "Free Speech vs. Islamists: Why the West is Losing. A Steady Retreat Worldwide," by Adam Turner. PJ Media, March 12, 2012. (Back in 1989, most in the Western world were shocked by the threat against Salman Rushdie, and after some hemming and hawing eventually came out in support of his right to say what he wanted to say about his own, lapsed religion. Today when Islamists threaten free speech, Western intellectual elites actually join in the effort.)
  • "Gainsborough [England] Man Jailed Over Anti-Islam Images In His Flat Window," Gainsborough Target (UK), March 9, 2012. (Sometimes speech is unpopular, but should people be sent to jail over it? In England, as in Europe, people can literally go to jail for what they say if some prosecutor decides that some group finds it offensive. These cases are subjective and selectively prosecuted. In the US, the First Amendment provides absolute protection for the free exercise of expression, unless it's ethnic intimidation in the context of specific threats against specific individuals. Islamist groups such as CAIR want to bring Europe's laws against free speech to the US. And they want to be the ones to decide what's offensive and who goes to jail.) 
  • "U.K. Thought Police Send Man to Prison," Bruce Bawer. FrontPage Magazine, March 14, 2012. (Analysis of the Gainsborough case. Notes a "chillingly Orwellian understanding of the concept of freedom, which has its roots not in Magna Carta or the Enlightenment but in Sharia.  When [prosecutors] say that it is 'essential that everyone in our community is free to live without harassment,' [they] mean nothing more or less than this: that it is the right of Muslims in Britain to live in a society free of criticism of their religion."

Moderate Muslims Defend NYPD

  • "Muslims at Rally: NYPD Surveillance Keeps Us Safe," Associated Press via Fox News, March 5, 2012. (Rally organizers say the danger is clearly coming from within the Muslim community and that it's up to other Muslims to help law enforcement stop the threat. They said Muslims do not want to give up civil rights and are behind transparency in police work, but it is wrong to suggest that all Muslims are somehow afraid of the NYPD.)
  • "Muslim Journalist Defends Surveillance by NYPD, Says Some Muslims 'Use Religion as Cover,'" Catherine Herridge. Fox News, March 13, 2012. ("We're saying that you can't go into our mosques, you can't look at our Muslim organizations, you can't even look at Muslims because that's to target us," she told Fox News. "But the truth is, we do have a problem in our Muslim community." Hat Tip: Innavich.)

Hamas-Linked CAIR

 

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UNPRECEDENTED! Marines forced to disarm in combat zone over fear for Leon Panetta's 'safety'

by barenakedislam

"Hey, Leon, don't ever turn your back on those Marine killing machines"

In a highly unusual move, around 200 U.S. Marines were asked to leave their weapons outside the tent where U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was set to speak during his trip to Afghanistan on Wednesday.

MSNBC (H/T Joel M)  Although the military said the order was not given in response to Sunday's shooting of 16 Afghan civilians allegedly by an American soldier, it possibly underlined how high tensions were running after the incident.

Maj. Gen. Mark Gurganus  said he had given the order because the two dozen Afghan soldiers also there were unarmed and he did not want to treat them differently. (CRAP)

According to reporters at Camp Leatherneck, the Marines were waiting to hear Panetta's speech when they were abruptly told by their commander to get up, leave their weapons, including M16 and M-4 automatic rifles and 9 mm pistols, outside and return unarmed.

"All I know is I was told to get the weapons out," Sergeant Major Brandon Hall told The New York Times. Asked why, he replied, "Somebody got itchy, that's all I've got to say. Somebody got itchy; we just adjust."

Military officials in Washington told NBC News' chief Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski that the decision to disarm the Marines was indeed significant. "It sends the wrong message" that Marines can't be trusted in the presence of the secretary of defense," one told him. Miklaszewski also told NBC's Chuck Todd Wednesday that the move was "highly unusual" and that Marines in combat zones are always supposed to have weapons within their reach.

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