At what point do you yank your kid from gov't schools?

We homeschooled before it was cool. It was 20 years ago and we withstood the heat, if you want to call it that. The anti-homeschooling talking points du jour back then were: "...but what about the 'socialization?' yada yada yada, ad nauseum." It was a bogus speculation back then and it's even moreso now. In fact, the gov't "educators" are pretty quiet these days because homeschoolers out perform virtually every gov't schooled kid. The opportunities available to homeschoolers these days are mind boggling, but that's for another post.

As the gov't schools further degenerate and the teacher's unions dig in their heels against school choice, more and more parents have to ax themselves (o', sorry, I went to gov't schools), at what point do I yank my kiddo out of the snares of the gov't indoctrinators, er, teachers?

In California, according to a WorldNetDaily piece, Christians are being urged to pull their kids out of the gov't schools as a massive wake up call. Can you imagine what would happen if parents actually did that?

Hells bells, parents...you should have yanked 'em a decade or so ago!

Read the WND piece and ask yourself why your kid is still in a gov't indoctrination center?

Which Side Are YOU on?

My apologies to Darrell Ankarlo for not being a regular listener, but I just happened to tune in to KLIF as he was going off the air yesterday morning and he's one unhappy camper. He's not going to take it any more and he's going to do something about it.

He's fed up with the illegal immigration issue which no one seems to be doing anything about. His motivating factor was a caller who stated that the illegals streaming into the southwest are being called "new arrivals" while the citizens are being called racists!

"New arrivals!" That's where we are in this politically correct world where the ones who are the most put off by this nonsense are so busy working to pay our confiscatory taxes that we don't have time to be outraged at our effete, emasculated politicians who dare not offend the so-called "new arrivals" for whom they would do anything just to get their vote (even if the vote is illegal!) while turning their backs on the ones "who brung 'em to the dance" (the word "whore" comes to mind!) .

Enter Darrell Ankarlo.

Apparently he's no stranger to movements. He led the Tennessee Tax Revolt a few years back when the citizens rightly set the politicians straight and made them put the quietus on an unwelcome state tax increase.

Well God bless Darrell Ankarlo...he's starting another movement...in fact he's declaring war!

Hot damn! This might be fun! I love it when passions run high and politicians run scared.

Find out what's going on at Ankarlo's website and join in the cause!

Run, Hillary, Run!!!!

Thanks to Lucianne.com for this one. Heh heh!

What's not to understand about the Islamofascists?

Why do the leftists refuse to recognize the Islamofascists for what they are? Is it fear or do they truly lack a basic understanding of what the enemy is all about?

Doug Giles, Townhall columnist and voice of Clash Radio doesn't mince words about what the enemies have in mind:

"The Islamofascists would love nothing more than to turn the American Dream into a nuclear nightmare. And this Islamic ill will is wished upon all Americans, not just the hawkish conservatives.

Get it right, you who still don’t get it, these bug-eyed, helix-missing, religious zealots (someone must have pee’d in their gene pool), do not, I repeat, do not give a camel poop about:

Whether you’re gay or straight,

Whether you drive a Hybrid or a Hummer,

Whether you are a svelte Paris Hilton or a roomy Southern Baptist,

Whether you lean politically left or right,

Whether you’re Bill Clinton or Bill O’Reilly,

Whether you wear a cross, a star of David or a pentagram, and lastly,

Whether you’re black, white, yellow, red or brown.

All of these oxygen thieves have one desire for the American collective and that is . . . our death.

Yes, these Islamic evolutionary holdovers don’t give a flip about us, our nation or our way of life; and there is nothing, nothing, we can do to dissuade them from seeking our demise other than to obliterate them on their turf and on our terms.

There are no bargain chips to play, no olive branches to extend and no chance in hell that they’ll dial down enough so that we’re able to do a Coke commercial with them. No matter what any politicians say and no matter how much pot the peacemakers smoke, there is zilch we can do to get the likes of al-Qaeda to al-Cool It. We cannot do anything to appease them because we have nothing that they want."

How can the appeasers on the left be so blind to the reality? How can they think they can negotiate with people who demand that we convert to Islam or die? Like Giles and so many others on the right are warning us; someday these madmen are going to have nukes! Then what?

The left had better come to the realization that they have every bit as much to lose in this war as we do. But first they need to figure out that we're in a real live war, and for their own sorry sake, they better start fighting the Islamofascists instead of siding with them.

There's more to Giles' column. Be sure to read the whole thing.

And while we're on the subject of the radical practitioners of the "Religion of Peace," you must visit Alexandra's latest post over at All Things Beautiful titled, "Converting To Islam At Gunpoint Is Harmless."

Wake up, folks!

Nowhere But Texas

Every now and then you have to stop and smell the roses, or in this case admire the amazing East Texas cloud formations. These were taken between Tyler and Dallas just off I-20.





All photos were taken by moi, rich glasgow, with my trusty little Canon Power Shot A520.

Muslim Glory Predicates Apocalypse

Alexandra, over at All Things Beautiful has a disturbing post about Iran's "Thug-In-Chief Ahmadinejad's" insistence that Israel "must be removed:"

If he ever became the supreme decision maker in his country, [Ahmadinejad] would "sacrifice half of Iran for the sake of eliminating Israel," Giora Eiland, Israel's former national security adviser, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. [...]

The 49-year-old Iranian president, he said, "has a religious conviction that Israel's demise is essential to the restoration of Muslim glory, that the Zionist thorn in the heart of the Islamic nations must be removed. And he will pay almost any price to right the perceived historic wrong. If he becomes the supreme leader and has a nuclear capability, that's a real threat."

Go to her blog to see and read the rest of her post; it's visual and verbal fusion of often disturbing art with disconcerting news of the day. There's no other place like it.

The Power of Prayer...Consider This!

I just received this from my friend, Rosy Halley, who mails out an extensive prayer line each Friday:

Someone has said that if Christians really understood the full extent of the power we have available through prayer we might be speechless. In WWII, there was an advisor to Winston Churchill who organized a group of people who dropped what they were doing every day at a prescribed hour for one minute to collectively pray for the safety of England, its people and peace.

There is now a group of people organizing the same thing here in America.

If you would like to participate, every evening at 9:00 pm Eastern Time (8:00 pm Central) (6:00 pm Pacific), stop whatever you are doing and spend one minute praying for the safety of the United States, our troops, our citizens, and for peace in the world.

Our prayers are the most powerful asset we have. Together, we CAN make a difference!

Thank You, and may God Bless America and all who are seeking peace!

Who does the Left hate more...Wal-Mart or al Qaeda?

A foolish question? Of course it's foolish but stop and think what the left has become...the lapdogs to the Moveon.organ, George Soros types. They are the party of Michael Moore, Howard Dean, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi and Jimmy Carter, remember?

They even have a candidate (Joe Biden Jr.,D-Del) actively declaring the dems to be "an enemy of the mega-box store." Clearly they have lost touch with their constituency who shops twice a week at the hated chain.

When it comes to the war on Islamofascists, they have an inflexible policy, if elected, of "cut and run." They'll stand against the hoards of Wal-Mart, but run like a Frenchman in occupied France when it comes to facing down the Islamofascist enemies. (Heaven help us all if they EVER become the majority!)

So, Human Events would like to know, who do the dems hate the most; Wal-Mart or al Qaeda? Go there and cast your vote on who you think they hate the most.

Here's what I'd like to know; how do they feel (feelings being more important than thought, by the left) about being known as the party with no solutions, only hate for George Bush. How do they feel when they are made fun of for being utterly vacuous, ideologically. How do they feel when they see who leads their party? How do they feel about Cindy Sheehan being a role model? How do they feel when Jimmy Carter gives traitorous interviews abroad?

Maybe they should stop feeling and start thinking!

Rich Lowry, over at National Review Online has more about this "brilliant" strategy of bashing the "eeeeevil Wal-Mart."

Is Anything Worse than Profiling?

Cox & Forkum, the editorial cartoon of choice around here, draw it like it is once again.

Crazy Horse fund drive to go national

A Crazy Horse Memorial fund drive is about to go national:

CRAZY HORSE, S.D. - Crazy Horse Memorial will start its first national fund drive this fall.

The sculpture was started by the late Korczak Ziolkowski, who dreamed of honoring American Indians by carving a 563-foot-high likeness of Sioux warrior Crazy Horse into a granite mountain in the southern Black Hills.

The work began 1948. Ziolkowski died in 1982.

His widow, Ruth Ziolkowski, and their family have continued the work.

The sculpture now brings in millions of dollars every year, mainly through admission fees, and the family has held to Korczak's admonition to refuse government help to complete the project and instead rely on private enterprise.

The project is a huge undertaking and it's one everyone should see if they are anywhere near Mt. Rushmore. The fact that they have always and will continue to refuse government funds is an additional attractive feature to this landmark.

Read the entire article and if you can't go there you can visit the Crazy Horse Memorial website. It's pretty awesome!

Embryo-safe stem-cells: What's not to celebrate?

What's this...Embryo-safe stem-cells? What a breakthrough! Now we won't have to destroy embryos in order to harvest stem-cells and everyone should be happy, right? Well, not so fast.

The entire embryonic stem-cell "movement" has one purpose; to give legitimacy to abortion. How can I be so sure? Because not one disease has successfully been treated by embryonic stem-cells, and contrary to popular belief, embryonic stem-cell research has been going on since the 1950's. There are no restrictions to privately financed research, only government financed research. The pro-abortion crowd wants the government to finance research in order to thwart any future ban on abortion.

For more than 50 years, no embryonic research has promised anything, much less the miraculous cures that were promised in the last presidential campaign (Senator Edwards said Christopher Reeves would be walking if the dems won the Whitehouse).

Whereas adult stem-cells have proven to be quite effective:

Although there has been research on both adult stem-cells and embryonic stem cells since the fifties, only adult stem-cell research has produced any cures--and lots of 'em. Adult stem cells have been used for decades to treat dozens of diseases, including Type 1 diabetes, liver disease, and spinal cord injuries. Currently, adult stem cells are used to treat more than eighty different diseases. (Ann Coulter, Godless--The Church of Liberalism, pg 192)

The Left hates this kind of news:

Some opponents of the research said the method still doesn't satisfy their objections and many stem cell scientists and their supporters called it inefficient and politically wrong-headed.

But a spokeswoman for President Bush, who vetoed legislation last month that would have allowed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, called it a step in the right direction.

Be sure to read the whole story; it may well be that neither side will be altogether happy with this finding which may even lead to more experimentation with embryonic stem-cells.

Judge Anna Diggs Taylor: Conflict Of Interest?

The Stop The ACLU blog is covering a story about Judge Anna Diggs Taylor. She's the one who struck down the Wiretap case last week. Seems there may be a conflict of interest and she didn't bother to recuse herself:

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and judicial abuse, announced today that Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, who last week ruled the government’s warrantless wiretapping program unconstitutional, serves as a Secretary and Trustee for a foundation that donated funds to the ACLU of Michigan, a plaintiff in the case (ACLU et. al v. National Security Agency). Judicial Watch discovered the potential conflict of interest after reviewing Judge Diggs Taylor’s financial disclosure statements.

According to her 2003 and 2004 financial disclosure statements, Judge Diggs Taylor served as Secretary and Trustee for the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (CFSEM). She was reelected to this position in June 2005. The official CFSEM website states that the foundation made a “recent grant” of $45,000 over two years to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan, a plaintiff in the wiretapping case. Judge Diggs Taylor sided with the ACLU of Michigan in her recent decision.

According to the CFSEM website, “The Foundation’s trustees make all funding decisions at meetings held on a quarterly basis.”

“This potential conflict of interest merits serious investigation,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “If Judge Diggs Taylor failed to disclose this link to a plaintiff in a case before her court, it would certainly call into question her judgment.”

See the rest of the story at the above linked Stop the ACLU blog.

Playing the West like a Fiddle

...or a dumb animal, in this case. Which ever way you look it, Cox & Forkum show how
we're being played with; manipulated like paralyzed bafoons. Until we begin playing offensively, we'll continue to play right into their hands, exemplifying the fool.

Kofi's Self-Doubt?

It may very well be that the secretary-general over at Turtle Bay is having some doubts about his dubious bureaucracy...or it could be that Texas Fred is having a little fun at Kofi's expense. I hope the former!

Still, you have to admit that the handsome lapel button (available at our "Reject The U.N." online store) Kofi appears to be wearing is quite complimentary to his coat and tie. In fact, I can't recall Kofi ever looking more spiffy than in this pic.

Netanyahu calls for Inquiry

According to a piece in the Jerusalem Post Binyamin Netanyahu has called for a commission to find out what mistakes were made and why in the most recent fighting in Lebanon:

Opposition chairman Binyamin Netanyahu called for the formation of a state commission of inquiry on Tuesday to investigate the mistakes of the war in Lebanon.
Netanyahu made a point of acting statesmanlike during the war and even served as a frequent spokesman for Israel in the foreign press. But he changed his direction Tuesday by criticizing the way the war was handled.

"We have to learn lessons from the war," Netanyahu said in an interview with Channel 2. "With this many inadequacies, there is no choice but to form a state commission of inquiry. If we don't learn lessons, there will be another round [of war] that will not end well for Israel."

A lot of people in Israel and America were wishing he would have been at the helm during this war and when this inquiry is completed, the Israelis en masse, may realize that Netanyahu is the man who can lead them to victory next time. They can't afford to be bullied by the U.N. or the U.S., for that matter. When they decide to go to war they can no longer accept anything but a clear-cut victory.

Fox News Crew Still Missing

UPDATE: New Group Claims Fox News Kidnappings



Still no word from anybody regarding the whereabouts of FoxNews reporter Steve Centanni and his cameraman Olaf Wiit.

Well, not exactly. Michelle Malkin, the hardest working lady in the media, is following the story and like me, wonders why this kidnapping hasn't garnered more attention, not to mention outrage!

I blogged about this last weekend here, but the story still hasn't taken off. Maybe Malkin can light some fires out there to call massive attention to the plight of these guys.

Surely something has to be happening behind the scenes that we don't know about! You would think that when Americans are taken hostage by terrorists, it would immediately trigger some covert response by a handful of elite anti-terror types trained for this sort of thing. Let's hope that's happening!

Cast your vote For or Against Hillary

Don't wait for November '08 to cast your vote for Hillary, do it right now courtesy of TIME Magazine. Go there and scroll down to the TIME Poll and let her know what you think about her.

Hizbullah: Zionist regime will be destroyed

Think the war is over? Think again! While the creepy U.N. winks at Hezbollah while they're busy rearming and scolds Israel for breaking the cease-fire, Hezbollah plan Israel's destruction:

A conference was held on Sunday in Tehran under the banner "Clarifying the results of the Lebanon war and the future of the Middle East". During the conference, Hizbullah's representative in Iran, Muhammad Abdullah Sif al-Din said: "We think this war has one significance and it is the destruction of the Zionist regime."

Clearly the cease-fire should never have come about. Hopefully the IDF is taking measures on how they can more effectively knock out critical weapons stashes and terrorist big wigs when the battle inevitably resumes.

Praying aloud gets man jailed

These days, "enlightenment" seems to be directly proportionate to the intolerance of religious freedom; the Christian religion, that is. By this measure, Canada is becoming one of the most enlightened countries in the West.

In Calgary, a man helping street people has been arrested for praying aloud. You read it right...praying aloud:

Maybe if Artur Pawlowski had been holding a flag of the outlawed terrorist organization Hezbollah, Calgary Police would have left him alone.

Perhaps had they seen him on a street corner smoking crack cocaine -- or selling it -- they would have turned the other cheek, as is so often the case.

But Pawlowski was clearly doing something much more provocative Wednesday afternoon on the corner of 17 Ave. and 8 St. S.W. He -- along with about six other people -- were praying and reading the Bible.

If this weren't so tragic, it would be hilarious.

Iwo Jima Photographer dies

Joe Rosenthal, the photographer who captured the immortal image of the soldiers raising the flag in Iwo Jima, has died at the age of 94:

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94.

Rosenthal died of natural causes at an assisted living facility in the San Francisco suburb of Novato, said his daughter, Anne Rosenthal.

"He was a good and honest man, he had real integrity," Anne Rosenthal said.

His photo, taken for The Associated Press on Feb. 23, 1945, became the model for the Iwo Jima Memorial near Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The memorial, dedicated in 1954 and known officially as the Marine Corps War Memorial, commemorates the Marines who died taking the Pacific island in World War II.

The photo was listed in 1999 at No. 68 on a New York University survey of 100 examples of the best journalism of the century.

Be sure to read the rest of the piece and if you ever go to Washington DC, the Marine Memorial is one of those "don't miss" attractions in the DC area. It's much larger than you probably imagine. It's an awesome sight. What an incredible experience it must have been to have caught that image on film.

The MSM is all atwitter at the arrival of the sick freak from Thailand

So what gives? The MSM is all agog and atwitter over the arrival of the perverted twit who claims to have "murdered and loved" Jon Benet Ramsey (hello?!). I was loathe to blog about this and bring further undo attention to this freaky little maggot, but as an observer I can't help but comment on the disproportionate coverage this guy is getting.

What's with society that seeks out this sicko?

Couple his popularity with the fact that he was able to fly "business class", unshackled and able to enjoy the culinary delights of international flight unencumbered makes one wonder what's up with the legal system. Who paid for his comfy flight?

Just to keep things a bit in perspective, does anyone remember the survivors of the Branch Davidians massacre who were publicly perp marched in all their shackled humiliation to let the world know that they were utterly subdued by the jack-booted thugs of the Janet Reno/Bill Clinton administration?

Don't ever forget Janet Reno and how she treated the Branch Davidians.

And look how they're treating the disgusting, self-admitted, sexual deviate. What is he, some kind of hero to the MSM?

Why aren't we hearing about Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig?

It's been over a week since two of FoxNews' people were kidnapped. Has anyone heard a peep about these guys? Why not. This has been bugging me for the past week but apparently Michelle Malkin is the only other person who is wondering what's going on.

So what's up? Why isn't FoxNews raising all kinds of hell? Or CNN for that matter. What gives here?

More ways to "Reject The U.N"

The movers and shakers at the Reject the U.N. blog don't fool around! Our blogroll is only a week old and we are already 64 members strong (and growing). The Blog is exposing the U.N. as the corrupt and dysfunctional institution it is with up-to-date posts you probably won't find on the average blog. It's the "go to" blog to get the straight poop on the U.N.

But now there are more ways to show your "rejection of the U.N."

Tonight we are pleased to announce our new line of "Reject The U.N." products ranging from great looking T-shirts to must have coffee mugs. Go there now to see what we have to offer. There's something for everyone!

Darwin vs. Reason

Ann Coulter's brilliantly written book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, spends a great deal of space debunking Darwin's theory of evolution (which can never be questioned anywhere near a school or college campus lest you be ridiculed, marginalized and/or demonized right out of the neighborhood).

If you read her book, you may come away with a completely different opinion of Ms. Coulter, that is, if you think she's nothing more than a smart aleck hit-and-run columnist.

She's not.

In fact, there has been virtually no attempt to counter her arguments against evolution or anything else in her book, for that matter. The only criticism she received was over the "Jersey Girls," which kept the left in a state of apoplexy for the first week or so after her book was released. They (the left) didn't have a problem with the fact that she labels them as Godless or that they have a proclivity to kill (especially unborn babies and Africans, who are dying by the millions of malaria because environmentalists are adamant that DDT will harm birds, which, in the minds of leftists are far more important than Africans).

No, they are proud to be Godless and vociferously insistent on abortion as often as possible.

Read Coulter's book. It's excellent! If you are a rationable person capable of reason and open to logic, you will love this book and, in fact, it will warm the cockles of your heart.

In light of Coulter's refutation of Darwinian biology, my friend Ron Dart is running a pertinent broadcast on "Intelligent Design" and Darwinism this weekend. It's very good and you can listen to it with the ease of one "click" on the right hand side of this blog at the Born To Win link.
Click and listen while you're dinking around on the net. If you hear Ron once, you'll want to listen to him again. He's a helluva broadcaster!

Our Delusional Ex-President

David Limbaugh has an excellent column on Jimmy Carter and the Democrat Party. It explains where they are and where America would be under their dreaded leadership:

"Want to know where the Democratic Party stands and where America would be under their leadership? Just ask Jimmy Carter.

Carter is certainly not bashful about bashing the United States, even on foreign soil or to the foreign press. He sat for an interview with Der Spiegel recently and fired with both barrels at President Bush, "fundamentalist" Christians and Israel.

But do Carter's views represent those of the Democratic Party? Well, he sure seems to think so. He told Der Spiegel, "I think I represent the vast majority of Democrats in this country." If so, that's scary.

Expanding on the theme of his latest book, "Our Endangered Values," Carter said the Bush administration has abandoned the nation's "old" moral principles. That's a curious concept: By upholding traditional moral values President Bush has diverted the nation's moral course?

Carter is particularly exercised about Bush's foreign policy. He said, "Under all of its predecessors there was a commitment to peace instead of preemptive war. Our country always had a policy of not going to war unless our own security was directly threatened and now we have a new policy of going to war on a preemptive basis."

But no less an antiwar Democrat than Sen. John Kerry -- after savaging President Bush for his "preemptive" attack of Iraq -- admitted in the first presidential debate that, "The president always has the right, and always has had the right, for preemptive strike. That was a great doctrine throughout the Cold War."

No matter how persistently Carter's Democrats attempt to rewrite history, President Bush attacked Iraq because he believed it was a threat to America's security -- and it was, just like Iran is today. Carter is delusional if he believes Bush was just recreationally flexing America's 'imperialistic' muscles to spread democracy.

Delusional indeed! Be sure to read the rest of his piece.

(Carter characature courtesy of Cox & Forkum.)

Gov't of the the ACLU, by the Activist Judges, for the terrorists

A sad commentary on the constitutional devolution by activist judges (in this case a Carter appointee). Go to Cox & Forkum for the full story.

Reject the U.N.

UPDATE: I'm going to leave this post at the top of the page for a couple of days to call more attention to this new blogroll. If you haven't yet signed on be sure to do so and come back often to the new Reject the U.N. blog which will concentrate on the nefarious ineptitude at Turtle Bay. Sign up and stay tuned! We're elated with the enthusiatic reception this blogroll is getting. Spread the word and get on board. If you've already signed up, thanks.

For awhile now I've been looking for a blogroll that was anti-U.N. I couldn't find one so I presented an idea to my blogging buddy, TexasFred. I told him we needed a blogroll with a logo exemplifying the rejection of the U.N. and bloggers who are sick, tired and fed up with the outrageous goings on over there could sign up and show their disapproval of the U.N.

Fred has put together some good blogrolls so I knew he could come up with an eye catching logo. He did and if you eschew the U.N. as much as I do...if you hate the filth and corruption perpetrated by the so-called peacekeepers...if you're tired of the USA carrying the bulk of the financial burden for this thugocracy, then scroll down to the "Reject the U.N." flashing logo and click on it. Then sign up and let the world know you oppose and reject the U.N.

Or, go to the official Reject the U.N. sign up page and start rejecting the U.N. right now!

Cancer stricken teen freed from chemo order

A WorldNetDaily piece reports that Abraham Cherrix has won his battle with the courts and is able to choose his own method of treatment for his Hodgkin's disease:

As this week's hearings were beginning, the judge made the announcement, and terminated a "joint custody" arrangement set up in the lower court giving authority over the teen's treatment to both his parents and social services.

Under supervision from a clinic in Mexico, Abraham is on a sugar-free, organic diet and takes herbal supplements.

His parents had been confronted by a social worker who threatened to take the boy away by force, his father, Jay Cherrix of Chincoteague, Va., reported.

Jay Cherrix said his son already has had chemotherapy without results. He told Sean Hannity's national radio program he supported his son's desires.

"When the social-service worker came and interviewed me, I told him how Abraham felt and about how we had met a person who had been cured by this [alternative treatment] and how we were supporting Abraham's decision. I said, 'What will you do with my little boy? Will you take him somewhere and strap him down and put duct tape on his mouth and pump [him] full of this stuff if he doesn't want it?'

"He said, 'No, I will come to your house with a uniformed officer, and I will take your son by force if he resists. And I will take him to somebody who will do that.'"

Jay Cherrix said that was just the most recent of the threats.

"They told Abraham that if he did not go and have an X-ray, they would put him in a juvenile detention center with drug dealers. They told him that if he did not do that they would put him in a foster home. … We never thought that people could actually say that to a young fellow like that. We've been surprised by lots of stuff but we have a strong faith and we believe that we'll prevail," Jay Cherrix said.

Hannity was outraged.

"I can't believe we're gonna live in a society where the government now, through a court order, is gonna send some bureaucrat into your house, take you out in handcuffs, slap you on a gurney and stick some medicine in you…"

The juvenile court order had been issued by Judge Jesse Demps and would have required Abraham's parents to bring him to Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters in Norfolk and consent to whatever treatment the hospital recommended.

Abraham, who said he wouldn't accept more chemotherapy no matter what, is working with the Hoxsey Treatment through a Biomedical Center in Tijuana, Mexico.

Dr. Allen Chips researched the plan and told WVEC-TV in Norfolk it's a diet that enhances a body's own immune system, so a supplement, the diet and herbs allow the body to kill off its own cancer.

Officials say the type of lymphatic cancer Abraham is highly treatable in early stages.

In a report on Hamptonroads.com Abraham thanked those who have supported him.

"It's all over," he told reporters. "It's everything we fought for; everything that we wanted to ever have, we've won. We finally got our freedom back."

The judge also noted that he could make no finding of medical neglect by Abraham's parents.

A lawyer for the Accomack County Department of Social Services said the department considers the agreement to be in Abraham's interest, the report said.

The case was begun when Abraham, fearing for his life, rejected another proposed round of chemotherapy. The oncologist who was working with him then notified social services officials.

"There doesn't appear to be any reason to believe that these parents are not acting responsibly and with their son's best interests at heart," said Jan LaRue, chief counsel for Concerned Women for America.

When attorneys run wars!

Cox & Forkum aptly convey the net result of a war orchestrated by an attorney as opposed to a great statesman.

Boortz: " Britain figures it out"

Apparently, Britain has finally figured out the real key to airport security. It's not racial profiling. It's a previously unheard of concept of "terrorist profiling." Imagine that!

Nealz Nuze has more details:

Finally...after foiling a terrorist attack that would have killed hundreds of people, the folks running things on the other side of the pond have gotten wise. They get it. The government of Great Britain is working with airports to implement new security protocols. And what exactly are those new rules being put in place going to do?

Will they intensify the strip-searching of little old ladies? Nope. Are they going to foolishly confiscate every passenger's hair gel, nail clippers and anything else that might remotely be used as a weapon? That doesn't appear to be part of the new protocol. No..the plan is to look for people that behave suspiciously, have unusual travel plans or are of a certain religion or ethnicity.

In other words, they're going to start profiling!!!!

Can you imagine that!

A specific group of people is trying to kill innocent British citizens, and now the Brits are actually going to concentrate their preventative efforts on that specific group of people? In another era this would have made perfect sense to everyone ... but this is the era of political correctness!

The British version of the TSA, something called the Department for Transport, has decided that putting people in long lines at the airport for random searches is a waste of time. And they're right, it is. Would the police randomly search people on the street if they had a report that an Arab male had just robbed a bank? No, they would not. Do authorities stop white people and ask for ID when they are in pursuit of a black carjacker? They do not. This isn't racism. It isn't bigotry. It's simply common sense. You receive a threat from members of an identifiable group -- and you concentrate your response on the members of that identifiable group.

It's not racial profiling. It's not religious profiling. It's terrorist profiling. No ... not all Muslims are terrorists. But with only a very few -- and long ago --- isolated incidents, all terrorists are Muslims. Just about every terrorist that has hijacked a plane in the last 30 years has fit one, single description: Arab Muslim. That is the description of the suspect. The terrorists who blew up nightclubs in Bali, the terrorists who wanted to lop off the head of the Canadian prime minister ... Muslims. Every one. Every terrorist that planned to blow up airplanes over the Atlantic last week was an Muslim who, if not from the Middle East, was of Middle East decent. This isn't rocket surgery. So ... get ready for the howls of protest from the Islamic community in Britain. If the Brits stick to their guns on this one perhaps it will evolve into one more reason for Muslims who truly want to live their lives in peace ... to be left alone and to leave alone ... to rebel against those of their religion who have brought this upon them.

Websites that changed the world

The Observer Review lists the 10 Websites that have changed the world. Interesting list. Check to see if you are on it.

Kudos to Drudge! He's #7.

2 Fox News reporters kidnapped in Gaza

Steve Centanni and his camerman have been kidnapped in Gaza according to AP:

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Masked Palestinian gunmen ambushed a car carrying a Fox News crew in Gaza City on Monday and kidnapped two journalists, according to witnesses and Fox.

"We can confirm that two of our people were taken against their will in Gaza," Fox News said in a statement.

A Fox employee in Gaza, who declined to give his name because he was not authorized to release information about the incident, said reporter Steve Centanni, a U.S. citizen, and a cameraman from New Zealand were kidnapped.

The men and their bodyguard were parked near the headquarters of the Palestinian security services when two trucks filled with masked gunmen pulled up and boxed them in, the Fox employee said. The gunmen took the two reporters from the sports utility vehicle, which was marked "TV," and drove away, he said.

They probably just wanted less FoxNews for peace, but this isn't something to joke about. What do we do? Should we go to the U.N. and get the terrorists to sign a "return kidnappers" agreement? Are they just begging the U.S. to become involved more directly? Who knows, but we can't allow this to happen without serious retaliation. Serious retaliation!

The U.N. Bias against Israel

The corrupt and anti-Semitic United Nations is finally coming under fire from Jewish organizations. CNSNews has the story:

(CNSNews.com) - Jewish organizations are stepping up pressure on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whom they accuse of siding against Israel in its war against Hezbollah.

The move comes amid growing criticism of a range of U.N. bodies that have issued declarations blaming Israel for the crisis.

"How many more Israeli civilians must die before you condemn Hezbollah?" the Anti-Defamation League asked in an ad published in The New York Times Thursday.

In a letter to Annan sent a day earlier, the organization said: "While you clearly are not at a loss for words when it comes to criticizing and denouncing Israel, a member state of the United Nations, you seen unable to muster an equally strong voice to denounce the daily firing by the terrorist organization Hezbollah of hundreds of rockets into Israel specifically aimed at and intended to kill and maim civilians."

The Jerusalem Post reports that the ADL last week joined representatives of three other U.S. groups -- the American Jewish Committee, B'nai B'rith and the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations -- in meeting with Annan.

They reportedly urged him publicly to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

Annan's spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, issued a statement Thursday saying the secretary-general "reiterates his call that the fighting must stop to save civilians on both sides from the nightmare they have endured for the past four weeks."

It's good to see these organizations fight back especially in light of the so-called cease-fire, which will not be a cease-fire, but rather the enforced cessation of Israel's right to defend herself.

Additionally the cease-fire allows Hezbollah to claim victory, and from what I understand they don't even have to return the two kidnapped Israeli soldiers.

We never really know what goes on behind the diplomatic scenes, but in my opinion this agreement is an obvious net loss for Israel and for the U.S. as well, given the fact that Hezbollah (Iran/Syria) is as much our enemy as it is Israel's. We just have the luxury of being oceans apart, but that separation unfortunately provides little more than a false sense of security.

But I digress.

Jews, Jewish organizations and supporters of Israel around the world need to rise up and denounce the actions of Kofi Annan and the U.N. who transcend the language of moral equivalence and actually place the terrorist groups on the moral high ground.

In an era when we are seeing anti-Semitism growing around the world much like it did in the 1930's, the last thing we need is a corrupt and biased U.N. giving legitimacy to anti-Semitic terrorist groups who wish to destroy Israel as well as America.

Got Self-Esteem?

Did you know that there is a National Association for Self-Esteem? It could very well be the home of Stuart Smalley, but then Stuart was a parody and the NASE site takes itself very seriously.

The "self-esteem" movement has been around for awhile and unfortunately public school administrators have adopted this bogus philosophy which convinces kids to think well of themselves regardless of achievement.

This weekend Ronald L. Dart is doing a thought provoking half-hour on this subject on his "Born To Win" broadcast. You can scroll down on the the right-hand column of this blog and click on the "Born to Win" logo. The title of the broadcast is "Self-Esteem or Self-Respect." Give it a listen while you're surfing the net.

Pat Boone Nails the ACLU

In his WorldNetDaily column, Pat Boone gets down and dirty with the American Criminal Liberties Union which he aptly calls a growing malignancy:

Well – whether we realize it or not – you and I are living right now under such a sentence, such a diabolical attack. The disease is called ACLU. This cancerous organization, this poisonous growth – fraudulently self-named the "American Civil Liberties Union" – is attacking every one of our foundational bases, our vital organs; and it has now expanded its onslaughts to small towns, cemeteries, churches and even children's groups like the Boy Scouts! Its goal is to remove every last vestige of Christian or Jewish faith from public life.

Muslim, Hindu, Self Awareness, even militant atheist religion – they can stay. But Judeo-Christian believers must keep their mouths shut, hide any and all open expressions of their faith and retire to closed-window ghettos. Church of Satan? You can stay, oh sainted high priest LaVey. But you Christians, you Jews … Get those filthy crosses and those maddening six-pointed stars out of our sight! We don't make up 1 percent of the American public, but we demand you do as we say!

Think I'm exaggerating?

Look at just a few of the countless things this deviant group supports and even actively promotes:


Abortion on demand throughout pregnancy

Eradication of any reference to the Ten Commandments or the Bible from public buildings or hillsides or even cemeteries

Extended constitutional protection for our sworn enemies!

Free access to pornography, including Internet pornography access for children

Freedom to desecrate the American flag

Tax-exempt status for Satanists

Actively pro-homosexual school curriculums

Legalized prostitution

Legalized drugs

Nudist camps for teenagers

Same sex "marriage"
And that's just a brief, partial list of their heavy-handed, activist campaigns

That's what they are in favor of...see the rest of the piece to see what they oppose.

Want more poop on the ACLU? There's always much more at the Stop The ACLU blog.

Could Brussels Homeschool case threaten U.S. homeschoolers?

Most sane people would assume that a legal case in Brussels could have no effect on citizens of the United States. It would be a logical assumption, but it would be wrong.

In a WorldNetDaily piece, Constitution threatened by homeschool case, a worst case scenario is presented whereby our Constitution is overridden by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Sounds far-fetched doesn't it.

What terrifies U.S. homeschool education experts is the authorities' decision to cite the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as a legal argument.

That 1990s-era document was ratified quickly by 192 nations worldwide, but not the United States or Somalia. In Somalia, there was then no recognized government to do the formal recognition, and in the United States there's been opposition to its power.

Notice that 192 signed the treaty. Can you imagine the pressure on left leaning Supreme Court Justices to conform to "international standards" when more than a few of them look favorably to foreign law when reviewing cases set before them?

The WND piece continues:

"(The treaty) would become the supreme law of the land," Chris Klicka, the senior counsel for the Home School Legal Defense Association, told WND. In conflicts with the Constitution, the treaty easily could prevail, he said.

"Our worst fears are being realized as we see these other European countries feeling the pressure because they did sign on and enter into this treaty," he said. "Britain, for instance, had a report done by the (U.N.) Committee of 10 and they got chastised because they were allowing corporal punishment."

Although signed under the Clinton Administration, the U.S. Senate never has ratified the treaty, largely because of conservatives' efforts to point out it would create that list of rights which primarily would be enforced against parents.

The Convention is an international treaty that creates specific civil, economic, social, cultural and even economic rights for every child. It is monitored by the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child, which conceivably has enforcement powers.

Under the U.N. protocol, a child could have an abortion without telling her parents, while at the same time forcing them to pay for it. A generic description of the treaty calls it "child-centric." But Klicka's HSLDA is more specific.

The U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause requires that "all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land," the HSLDA said.

That would mean any state law relating to child custody, the family, education, adoption, child pornography and dozens of other issues could be nullified in an instant, the group said.

Under the protocol, children would be vested with freedom of expression, so that "any attempts (by parents) to prevent their children from interacting with material parents deem unacceptable is forbidden."

Reaching to the far end of that logic would produce this result: your 6-year-old wants Playboy magazine, or even to visit a Playboy club, and you pay for it.

Parents who fail would be subjected to "identification, reporting, referral, investigation, treatment, and follow-up."

Americans who aren't paying attention, and even many who are, can scarcely conceive of some U.N. protocol superseding our very own Constitution, but stranger things have happened. I stress again the leftist leanings of activist judges who look to foreign courts for precedents, seek to legislate in the courtroom (because they can't get their leftist agenda passed any other way). For this very reason is it mandatory to replace retiring Supreme Court Justices with originalists, that is, those who see the Constitution as the framers saw it and not a "living" document subject to change.

The Ubiquitous Green Helmet Guy

If you've been keeping up with the fauxtography fiasco of Photo Shopped pics from Lebanon, then you'll love the Green Helmet Guy blog. Some of the pics may be offensive, but I can't edit someone else's blog.

Hat tip to Lucianne.com.

The Roots of Islamic Rage

I think it was on the Dennis Prager show last Thursday when I heard Dr. Phyllis Chesler talk about the Psychological Roots of Islamic Rage. Although I had never heard anyone express these revelations, they made perfect sense when you see how women are treated in the Islamic world.

That feminists organizations are silent on the rampant abuse of women in Islam societies speaks volumes about the feminists.

According to Dr. Chesler, Islamic boys are taught at a very early age to hate women:

In Dr. Chesler's 1978 book, 'About Men,' she posited that the paternal abandonment of, and cruelty toward, sons may be a crucial component in mother- and woman-hating. Dr. Nancy Kobrin, in her forthcoming book The Sheik's New Clothes: The Naked Truth About Islamic Suicide Terrorism, suggests that the absolute degradation of Arab and Muslim women by a shame- and honor-society means that sons must perpetually rid themselves of the 'contamination' that contact with women represents; and that sons must psychologically abandon their mothers even as they experience abandonment by their mothers. Many such sons are trained to mistrust, police, routinely batter, and sometimes even murder their female relatives.

Dr. Kobrin believes that such psychological dynamics may play a crucial role in contemporary Islamic terrorism.

While girl- and woman-battering and honor murders are increasingly normalized in Islamic culture, the enemy-outsider, who must also be scapegoated, has been increasingly eroticized. Israel-hatred and Jew-hatred have achieved a level of political-erotic obsession among jihadists that may even surpass that of the Nazi era. Israel is no longer 'feminine' and for some, this is its great, existential crime. Israel refuses to absorb the hatred and violence or to forever turn the other cheek.

Individual Jewish women, though, may present a particularly tempting target to mentally ill and violent Muslims in a jihadic era. The 'Jewess' is the most denigrated female in Islamic ideology. Zaynab bint Al-Harith, the Khaybar 'Jewess,' is the woman who was falsely accused of having poisoned the prophet Muhammed after having witnessed the beheading of her entire male community in the Battle of Khaybar. Not coincidentally, Hizbullah currently calls its missiles 'Khaybar.' We have also been told that a new Iranian television station is known as 'Khaybar.'

This is an eye opening piece worthy of your attention. Be sure to read the entire piece.

Common sense, perspective and Israel's fight

Essential weekend reading would have to include Bill Bennett's piece titled, Why Israel Fights. It sheds some much needed perspective on what everyone should know about Israel. Here are a couple of paragraphs:

Israel, which comprises some 10,000 square miles, compared with Arab countries that total over five million square miles -- not including Iran -- has shown itself to be a model of democracy and decency. Over one million Arabs live in Israel with full rights of citizenship, they vote and serve in Israel's parliament. Syria wants Israel gone and Iran's president openly calls for Israel's destruction. With the exceptions of Egypt and Jordan, no Arab state officially recognizes Israel as a state. And yet, bereft of oil, Israel's per capita gross domestic product tops 24,000 dollars (compared with the oil-rich Saudi Arabia whose per capita GDP hovers at 13,000 dollars), and it remains a thriving bastion of democratic liberalism in an ocean of oligarchies and dictatorships.

Israel has been the state sponsor of no terror, has kidnapped no innocent citizens of other countries, and has fought for its life ever since it was founded in 1948 as its neighboring states have started war after war to wipe it off the map. And yet, Israel is continually asked to cease defending itself by the United Nations, by the European Union, and by a coterie of other international organizations that have called on Israel's neighbors to cease their terrorist activities and human rights violations almost never. It is an expectation of Israel that it act like a civilized nation. Fair enough. But the expectation of the terrorists is zero. A contemporary, international version of 'boys will be boys' governs in the form of 'terrorists will be terrorists.' That is all they have to live with, and up to, in the way of judgment. Meanwhile, it is illegal for Jews or Christians to become citizens of Saudi Arabia, it was Zionism the U.N. once condemned as 'racist.'

It would be one thing if France and the other Euro-weenies came together to demand a cease-fire, but for the U.S. to co-author such a bill is unconscionable! This isn't just Israel's war against Hezbollah. It's every bit as much our war against Iran and every other terrorist who wants a piece of us.

Bennett continues:

Which brings us to today's war and peace efforts. Israel is being asked by the community of nations, in the form of the Security Council and elsewhere, to cease its military campaign to wipe out Hezbollah. The Security Council -- where Israel has never been seated -- includes Qatar, which Freedom House rates as a 'not free' country. Qatar, an absolute monarchy that recently voted against sanctions against Iran for enriching uranium, is distinguished by two exports: petro-dollars, of which millions support Hamas; and the al Qaeda television network, sometimes known as al-Jazeera. Israel, by the way, has a 'free' rating, on par with the United States. As for other major world bodies, the European Union, to this day, will not label Hezbollah a terrorist organization. These are the moral giants calling on Israel to disengage from its fight right now.

The flag of Hezbollah contains a rifle held above the entire globe and its leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has recently screamed, 'America, America you are the Great Satan' Those who have come at night, like bats, will hear Lebanon saying: Death to America!' Hezbollah's purpose is not only an Islamist Lebanon but also the destruction of Israel and the United States. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Iran. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khameni, delivered a recent speech stating not only that Hezbollah is 'the front line of defense for the Muslim nation and for all the peoples of the region,' but that 'the Islamic world, and the Muslim youth in all the Islamic countries know that there is no way to confront the barbaric Zionist wolves and the aggression of the 'Great Satan' [i.e. America] except through martyrdom.'

Yes, Israel's war is our war. About this, our mutual enemies have no doubt. The same cannot be said of the international community. Now is the time for Israel to clean Hezbollah out of the Middle East, just as we are trying to clean al Qaeda out of everywhere else they have planted their soldiers. This is a long haul, and a dangerous war, but it will be longer and made more dangerous with appeasement and ceasefires being urged upon Israel and, for that matter, the United States.

The decisions that come out of the U.N., to which we are a party, are pitiful. We should be calling for the utter destruction of Hezbollah, not a "cessation of hostilities" or "sustainable peace." (In global-speak, "sustainable" means that the hopelessly corrupt U.N. has given whatever is deemed "sustainable," its seal of approval. Be very wary when that term is bandied about.)

Be sure to read the entire piece. I hope President Bush gets a briefing on it.

Olmert's acceptance of a cease-fire will be his demise

Israel has been a country united during this current war. Would that Americans were so united. But unlike some Americans, the Israelis will never accept anything less than victory. That is, the Israelis of years gone by wouldn't. They don't have that luxury. They are surrounded by enemies who vow to obliterate them.

Any cease-fire initiated by France and, shamefully, the U.S., will only serve to allow Hezbollah to rearm and give Nasrallah the chance to emerge from hiding and claim victory. It won't end anything. It can only create a stronger Hezbollah, which is why this so-called cease-fire is a travesty which Israel cannot abide.

According to a piece in Haaretz Olmert cannot remain at the helm if the cease-fire happens:

Ehud Olmert may decide to accept the French proposal for a cease-fire and unconditional surrender to Hezbollah. That is his privilege. Olmert is a prime minister whom journalists invented, journalists protected, and whose rule journalists preserved. Now the journalists are saying run away. That's legitimate. Unwise, but legitimate.

However, one thing should be clear: If Olmert runs away now from the war he initiated, he will not be able to remain prime minister for even one more day. Chutzpah has its limits. You cannot lead an entire nation to war promising victory, produce humiliating defeat and remain in power. You cannot bury 120 Israelis in cemeteries, keep a million Israelis in shelters for a month, wear down deterrent power, bring the next war very close, and then say - oops, I made a mistake. That was not the intention. Pass me a cigar, please.

Read the rest of the piece and keep your eyes on Israel this weekend. The cease-fire is supposed to commence on Sunday. We'll see.

More about the U.N. agreement here.

The Fraudulent Reuters Photos

Lucianne.com posted a convenient website where you can see all the Reuters pics which are in dispute. Check out the Reuters Photo Fraud.

Meet Tanya Monalisa Pinto

My daughter Chelsea is interning this summer at The Richards Group and while working there she's had the opportunity to work with Tanya Pinto, founder of the Baal Dan project.

Baal Dan is an organization which helps deserving children in India. Ms. Pinto formed this foundation after having served at Mother Teresa's orphanage:

I started Baal Dan after volunteering at Mother Teresa's orphanage in Calcutta. I saw many children, even babies, who lived on the streets. Begging, sleeping on pavements, foraging through trash looking for things to play with.

I was surprised at how these little street urchins were so playful even though they live in extreme poverty.

Did you know that $1 = 43 rupees?
That's enough to buy a meal. A book. A toy.

We can leverage the power of our dollar to give these children simple things to make their lives easier and give them more of a childhood.

I started Baal Dan to help children on the streets. I will fund all expenses myself, and 100% of all donations will go directly to the children. Donors will receive an email detailing exactly how their donation helped a child. Please help me to make a difference in even one child's life.

Thank you,

Tanya Monalisa Pinto, Founder

Ms. Pinto is an extremely giving and altruistic individual and isn't in this for the money or recognition. It's a pleasure for me to link the Baal Dan foundation under my "worthy causes" blogroll on the lower right side of this blog.

Please visit her website and see her slideshow of the kids she's personally helping. If you can afford to send her a donation, I promise it will be used wisely. Thanks!`

32nd Carnival of Homeschooling: The Wild, Wild West!

Whether or not you're a homeschooler or ever plan to be, you best not miss the 32nd Carnival of Homeschooling, brought to you, this time by the one and only Sprittibee. The theme is the Wild, Wild West and she really outdid herself.

You dun good, girl!

Mozy on over there when you get a chance, ya hear?

Nix Fixed Pix

Another crack 'toon by Cox & Forkum and as usual they post more about the story at their site.

Tomorrow's Headlines

From LILEKS:

Tomorrow, I believe, I will turn on the TV, and hear someone say “500 rockets fell on Tel Aviv today, which leads to our call-in question for this segment: do you believe Mel Gibson’s apology was sincere?”

This is why the U.N. is morally bankrupt

The deputy secretary general of the U.N., Mark Mallock Brown, who most people have never heard of, has arrogantly declared that "Hezbollah deserves U.S. respect." Do we need more proof that the U.N. is a laughable, inept, incorrigible, irrelevant and hopelessly clueless institution? (Have they taken care of their overdue parking tickets in NYC yet?)

Anyway, here's the money quote:

A top United Nations official says to quiet the "demons" across the "wider Islamic world" the United States and the international community must respect Hezbollah as a political party, not a terrorist organization.

"Everybody would want a solution here which takes away the recruiting power of Hezbollah in the broader Arab world," said Mark Malloch Brown, the U.N.'s deputy secretary general.

That would be one, he said, that "allows Hezbollah a political as against a militia future inside an independent Lebanon."

Which is why the U.N. needs to go bye bye.

Some things are too sick to be mentioned, but...

Here's the sickening headline I found at DRUDGE..."Ohio Man Claims Right To Have Sex With Boys". There was a time when things like were unmentionable; too sick or perverted for public consumption, but the above linked headline deserves publicity in order to expose this pervert in the event that he may represent a "movement" among pedophiles.

Here's a bit from the above linked piece:

CLEVELAND -- It was probably not a defense the court had heard before.

A suburban Cleveland man accused of sexually assaulting nine disabled boys told a judge Wednesday that his apartment was a religious sanctuary where smoking marijuana and having sex with children are sacred rituals protected by civil rights laws.

The admitted pedophile offered a surprising defense Wednesday to 74 charges of rape, drugs and pandering obscenity to minors.

Appearing in an Ohio court for a pretrial hearing, Phillip Distasio, 34, of Rocky River, Ohio, said he was a pedophile.

He told the judge, "I'm a pedophile. I've been a pedophile for 20 years. The only reason I'm charged with rape is that no one believes a child can consent to sex. The role of my ministry is to get these cases out of the courtrooms."

Distasio, a self-professed pagan friar, is representing himself on 74 charges. He said he's the leader of a church called Arcadian Fields Ministries, and that some of his congregants are among the victims in his case.

The acts that this sicko has committed should never even have to be spoken about. But the audacity of the perverted perpetrator and the likes of those who will defend him need to be exposed (figuratively speaking).

My last post was titled, "A special place in hell." These lower life forms can look forward to that same fate as well.

Reserved: A special place in hell

What kind of animals would mug a double amputee and his wife ? Who knows, but we can only hope that justice will come down on these creeps very soon:

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- An Iraq war veteran who lost an arm and leg in a roadside bombing was mugged during a night out from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, according to an Associated Press report.

Lance Cpl. Mark Beyers, 27, and his wife were attacked and robbed as they left a restaurant in Bethesda, Md. on July 22.

The Marine from western New York was dining out while finishing up rehabilitation at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Read the rest of the story.

Insanity redefined

Tired of subsidizing the ACLU?

You may not realize it, but the anti-American, (founded by communists) ACLU reaps millions of dollars from Joe and Jane Taxpayer. Disgusting isn't it? No, it's reprehensible!

This taxpayer subsidy could very well come to an end if enough patriotic Americans contact their senators to let them know they don't deserve any more of our tax dollars. It's up for review in the Senate and you need to check out the Stop The ACLU Blog for the straight poop.

Looky here:

While most Americans remain unaware of it, the ACLU has been reaping millions of dollars in taxpayer-paid profits in lawsuits against veterans memorials, the Boy Scouts, or against the public display of the Ten Commandments or other symbol of our American heritage with a religious aspect.

For but three examples, the ACLU received some $950,000 in attorney fees in a settlement with the City of San Diego in the ACLU’s lawsuit to drive the Boy Scouts out of Balboa Park. In the famous Judge Roy Moore Ten Commandments Case, the ACLU, and cohort so-called “public interest” law firms, received $500,000. In the recent “Intelligent Design” case against the Dover school board, the ACLU received $2,000,000 in attorneys by order of a judge — although the law firm which represented the ACLU informed the court and public that it had acted pro bono and waived any attorney fees. Thus, it was pure profit to the ACLU.

Further, the ACLU has used the threat of imposition of taxpayer-paid attorney fees to extort local elected bodies, city or county councils, school boards, into surrender to the ACLU’s demands to secularly cleanse the public sphere of any evidence of our American religious heritage.

Moreover, the threat of imposition of orders to pay ACLU’s attorney fees in such cases has caused third parties, like The American Legion and other non-profit organizations, to suffer a chilling effect on their First Amendment rights to participate in such lawsuits to protect veterans’ memorials.

S. 3696 (PERA), and H.R. 2679 (PERA), would put an end to that abuse of benevolently intended laws by the ACLU, or anyone else following the ACLU’s precedents, for instance, Islamist terrorists or their sympathizers in our midst.

This reform of the law should be supported by all Americans across all party, ideological, philosophical, or religious lines.

Simply put, the ACLU’s profiteering at taxpayer-expense by exploitation of benevolently intended civil rights laws intended to benefit poor people is a disgrace.

Now go there to read the entire post. Please contact your senators and let them know the ACLU shouldn't get a dime from us.

Prager on World Opinion

Thanks to Danny Carlton -- alias "Jack Lewis" for bringing Dennis Prager's current column to my attention.

Prager writes about the moral bankruptcy of "world opinion." But aren't we reminded and reprimanded for not responding to the world's low opinion of our policies, especially now in our support for Israel?

Conservative thinkers seldom give a rat's behind about what the world thinks of us and Prager's column affirms that "world opinion" over the last 100 years has been consistently on the wrong side of political issues. Read what he's written about it:

The history of "world opinion" regarding the greatest mass murders and cruelties on the planet is one of relentless apathy.

Ask the 1.5 million Armenians massacred by the Ottoman Turks;

or the 6 million Ukrainians slaughtered by Stalin;

or the tens of millions of other Soviet citizens killed by Stalin's Soviet Union;

or the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their helpers throughout Europe;

or the 60 million Chinese butchered by Mao;

or the 2 million Cambodians murdered by Pol Pot;

or the millions killed and enslaved in Sudan;

or the Tutsis murdered in Rwanda's genocide;

or the millions starved to death and enslaved in North Korea;

or the million Tibetans killed by the Chinese;

or the million-plus Afghans put to death by Brezhnev's Soviet Union.

Ask any of these poor souls, or the hundreds of millions of others slaughtered, tortured, raped and enslaved in the last 100 years, if "world opinion" did anything for them.

On the other hand, we learn that "world opinion" is quite exercised over Israel's unintentional killing of a few hundred Lebanese civilians behind whom hides Hezbollah-- a terror group that intentionally sends missiles at Israeli cities and whose announced goals are the annihilation of Israel and the Islamicization of Lebanon. And, of course, "world opinion" was just livid at American abuses of some Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. In fact, "world opinion" is constantly upset with America and Israel, two of the most decent countries on earth, yet silent about the world's cruelest countries.

Prager is one of the wisest guys out there today...be sure to read the rest of the piece.