By Veganism! Note that the A.P. story says “apparent” food poisoning is suspected. I’m not so sure …
I’m not implying that 60 year old Kucinich’s not even 30 year old wife would have married for money and gotten antsy you understand, any more than the media is implying that Fred Thompson’s wife is a gold digger, but I like to keep an open mind.
h/t Drudge
Not so much lectures as rambles on. It’s a funny clip until you realize that in his tenure as recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan he set loose dozens, if not hundreds, of racist anti-American terrorists on innocent Black Americans:
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The stunning hypocrisy of a man who was a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan pretending to be worried about terrorism on American soil is hard not to notice, even for diehard Dems. They’ll keep voting for him though, that’s just how the Democrat party rolls.
h/t Hot Air
This from yet another depraved miscreant with a Jihadist blog on WordPress. This post argues that Muslims should fight the Jihad regardless of what the outcome will be. In other words bloodshed for it’s own sake dressed up as a religious duty:
We should do something not because it will make us win or because of the outcome, but we should do it because Allah tells us to do it. Then we should leave the results to Allah. We are soldiers of Allah; we should forget about the outcomes and do it because Allah orders us to do it. We leave everything in the hands of Allah. We don’t know the ghaib. In addition, we do not judge our actions based on the outcome to figure out whether or not we were right or wrong. Instead we judge our actions based on whether they conform to Allah’s command or not. For example, a Muslim who converts a non-Muslim to Islam; it shouldn’t be said about him, “That person is such a good da’ee because he brought someone into Islam.†We don’t judge him as a successful da’ee because of the number of people he brought into Islam. We judge him on if he’s giving da’wah according to the way of Rasoolullah (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam) or not. If his da’wah is based on Rasoolullah’s way, he has succeeded even if no one accepts his da’wah. In addition, he is doing it wrong if it is not according to Rasoolullah’s (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam) way even if loads of people are becoming Muslim. Look at Nuh (‘alayhis salaam); was he successful or a failure?
According to these standards, he’s a failure; and it is un-Islamic to say that. On the Day of Judgment, we know that some of the Ambiya will come with very few followers and some will come with no followers whatsoever. Can we say they failed? They are the nabi and lived for da’wah. He did what Allah told him to do and therefore he is correct. Therefore, we don’t judge on the outcome nor should we attempt to change the style of the Prophet (sallallahu ‘alayhe wassallam) because “We live in new timesâ€.
This is a significant flaw in the Ummah today; we judge everything according to the outcome. That is how Islamic Movements even function! It may have to do with Western influence. We are treating our Islam like a business; they judge their success based on the outcome. If they aren’t making much money at the end of the day, then something’s wrong and they have to look into it. We cannot treat our ‘Ibadah like this; we do things because Allah told us to do it whether it leads to a good outcome or a bad outcome; that is up to Allah. We cannot control the results.
Remember that when this vicious troglodyte is speaking of being commanded by Allah, he’s talking about Allah’s mouth pieces the Imams who turn Muslims loose on the unsuspecting public for fun and profit. What the author (this pearl of wisdom is taken from some jihadi pamphlet) is saying is that Muslims should be unthinking tools of the Imams, never questioning the edicts that are handed to them no matter how savage or merciless.
It is this sort of Nazi-esque acquiescence to authority that allows so much death and evil to be perpetrated by the Islamic community, and why “good” Muslims make bad neighbors. They are totally willing to abdicate moral responsibility for their actions, whether it is rape, murder or cannibalism, if they can find an Imam or scholar who will support them.
This is proof of the bloodthirsty nature of Islamists. They look for any excuse to act out their base impulses and delve into evil.
The FBI is investigating an alleged human smuggling operation based in Chaparral, N.M., that agents say is bringing “Iraqis and other Middle Eastern” individuals across the Rio Grande from Mexico.
An FBI intelligence report distributed by the Washington, D.C. Joint Terrorism Task Force, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, says the illegal ring has been bringing Iraqis across the border illegally for more than a year.
Border Patrol officials in the area said they were unaware of the specifics of the FBI’s report, and federal prosecutors in New Mexico told ABCNews.com they had no current cases involving the illegal smuggling of Iraqis.
The FBI report, issued last week, says the smuggling organization “used to smuggle Mexicans, but decided to smuggle Iraqi or other Middle Eastern individuals because it was more lucrative.” Each individual would be charged a fee of $20,000 to $25,000, according to the report.
As AllahPundit points out, that’s more than ten times the going rate charged by coyotes to smuggle people. He also points out that Hot Air has been on to the terror from the south angle for a while, especially thanks to their man Clint Taylor.
Banks of the Potomac has been detailing the rise of the Islamo-Marxist axis in Latin America for a while, with the Bolivarian Axis ally itself closely with Iran, Libya and the various terror groups who share their anti-American, anti-Western views.
Mexico is currently under siege by radical leftist elements from within, which are supported by American radical groups who provide logistic, political and in some cases physical support. The World Worker’s Party, the hidden hand behind A.N.S.W.E.R. is one such group.
In such a climate, it is troubling to think that Islamists may have crossed our border with the help of their fellow anti-Americans, who likely wouldn’t have helped them cross if they didn’t think it would further their own violent agenda. These potential Jihadis are likely being sheltered and aided right now by the various “peace” groups who would love to see another devastating attack on American soil.
This is the future of all American’s luxuries if we don’t elect more Republicans into the house and the senate, to be taxed out of existence for the “greater good” as determined by some rich guy. From The St. Petersburg Times:
Eric Newman punches the numbers on his calculator and gapes at the results one more time.
It’s no mathematical error: The federal government has proposed raising taxes on premium cigars, the kind Newman’s family has been rolling for decades in Ybor City, by as much as 20,000 percent.
As part of an increase in tobacco taxes designed to pay for children’s health insurance, the nickel-per-cigar tax that has ruled the industry could rise to as much as $10 per cigar.
“I’m not sure in the history of man, since our forefathers founded the country in 1776, that there’s ever been a tax increase of 20,000 percent,” said Newman, who runs the Tampa business founded by grandfather Julius Caesar Newman. “They had the Boston Tea Party for less than this.”
When it comes to tobacco sales, cigars are just a speck compared to cigarettes. In 2006, the nearly 400-billion cigarettes sold domestically dwarfed the 5.3-billion cigars.
But cigars are intertwined with Tampa’s lineage.
Though the local industry has shriveled from foreign competition and domestic consolidation, cigarmaking still employs more than 1,000 in Tampa. About 900 work at the factory, offices and warehouse of Hav-a-Tampa, owned by foreign tobacco giant Altadis.
Newman machine-makes 35,000 cigars a day at 16th Street and Columbus Avenue and imports hand-wrapped varieties from Latin America. He estimates Florida makes or imports 80 percent of the cigars consumed in the United States and predicts devastation if the new taxes are approved this summer.
Many casual smokers are well heeled enough to plunk down $10 for a premium puff. But would they pay $15 to $20 for the same pleasure?
“Why don’t we just go out of business?” Newman said. “Here, you can run our company, Mr. Government.”
Here’s the source of the controversy: The Democrat controlled Congress has sought an extra $35-billion to $50-billion for the state children’s health insurance program. The program distributes payments to the states to help buy coverage for kids not poor enough for Medicaid.
A 150% tax on cigarettes is also being floated. After that they’ll move on to coffee, ketchup and finally a hefty tax on tea.