Friday, September 2, 2011

Re: Texas, Now Cool With People Shooting Pigs From Helicopters

managing wildlife is absolutely necessary

On Sep 1, 7:58 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Substitute muzzies for pigs and there aren't enough choppers in the world.
>
> http://eater.com/archives/2011/09/01/texas-is-totally-cool-with-peopl...

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Re: Ron Paul: Why a Top-tier Candidate Is Ignored by Republicans

I believe in an America that is "The" world
power, with a very limited government predominately focused upon
protecting
its borders and it citizenry, providing for a strong national defense
---
so, you support using our military to protect our borders and deport
illegal alien/criminals and disagree with spending our tax dollars on
nation building, meddling in the affairs of foreign nations, and
defending israel?

thanks ... I know you're one of the good guys

On Sep 1, 10:57 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Au contrare PlainOl'.  I believe in an America that is "The" world
> power, with a very limited government predominately focused upon protecting
> its borders and it citizenry, providing for a strong national defense, and
> an America that is not  isolationist.  I don't believe that there is enough
> gold in the world to fund a national, much less an international currency,
> and I don't subscribe to a naive "Obamaesque/Paulesque" foreign policy that
> somehow believes that if we talk to murdering thugs who want to see Western
> Civilization as we know it destroyed,  that everything will be alright.
>
> Pretty plain and simple.  Maybe I should be called, "PlainOl'American"?    I
> seem to share the majority of Americans' viewpoint.....
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:10 AM, plainolamerican
> <plainolameri...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Keith, let us address your question this time next year. When things
> > really blow up in our face in the middle east.
> > ---
> > Keith believes in the interventionist policy
> > they are willing to sacrifice American interests for the animals in
> > the middle east
>
> > Internationalism is a political movement which advocates a greater
> > economic and political cooperation among nations for the theoretical
> > benefit of all. Partisans of this movement, such as supporters of the
> > World Federalist Movement, claim that nations should cooperate because
> > their long-term mutual interests are of greater value than their
> > individual short term needs.
> > Internationalism is by nature opposed to ultranationalism, jingoism,
> > realism and national chauvinism. Internationalism teaches that the
> > people of all nations have more in common than they do differences,
> > and thus that nations should treat each other as equals.
>
> > Washington advised the United States, in his Farewell Address, to
> > remain a neutral player in the international political game. He urged
> > the new republic to avoid conflicts and alliances with other nations.
> > Although he felt that economic ties with other nations should be
> > promoted to encourage trade and commerce, political ties should be
> > minimal. He was concerned that having close relations could force the
> > United States to unite with allies to promote their interest and be
> > drawn into their war.
>
> > Thomas Jefferson, stated as early as 1799 that "Commerce with all
> > nations, alliance with none, should be our motto", and in 1801 "I deem
> > [one of] the essential principles of our government [to be] peace,
> > commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances
> > with none."
>
> > On Aug 31, 12:09 pm, lbiglee75 <leroys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Keith, let us address your question this time next year. When things
> > > really blow up in our face in the middle east.
>
> > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > > Michael,
>
> > > > Do you consider Ron Paul's foreign policy "conservative"?
>
> > > > I also find it humorous, that all of the Ron Paul supporters are now
> > crying
> > > > foul,  now that Paul is getting all of the media attention that last
> > week,
> > > > the Paul supporters were complaining that he wasn't receiving.....
>
> > > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:30 AM, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
>
> > > >> "Let us be blunt: The stone cold truth is that for all of their talk
> > of
> > > >> "conservative" principles and the like, Paul's Republican opponents in
> > > >> Washington and the so-called "alternative" or "conservative" media are
> > not
> > > >> now, nor have they ever been, genuinely conservative. Whether we are
> > > >> discussing Fox News contributors -- a shocking number of which are
> > refugees
> > > >> from George W. Bush's administration -- the writers at The Weekly
> > Standard
> > > >> and National Review, or such talk radio personalities as Rush
> > Limbaugh, Sean
> > > >> Hannity, Bill Bennett and all of the rest, such "conservative"
> > commentators
> > > >> aren't conservative at all; they are neoconservative."
>
> > > >> Ron Paul: Why a Top-tier Candidate Is Ignored by Republicans
> > > >> Written by Jack Kerwick, Ph.D.
> > > >> Friday, 26 August 2011 00:00
>
> > > >> It is hard not to be amazed by the blackout of media coverage of Ron
> > > >> Paul's presidential campaign. Had Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Rick
> > Santorum,
> > > >> Jon Huntsman, or any second-tier candidate been performing remotely as
> > well
> > > >> as Paul has, he would no longer be regarded as a "second-tier"
> > candidate. To
> > > >> the credit of such left-leaning outlets as Jon Stewarts' The Daily
> > Show and
> > > >> The Huffington Post, this phenomenon has not gone unnoticed by
> > everyone.
>
> > > >> Let's think about this.
>
> > > >> In spite of the extent to which Paul has been ignored by the
> > establishment
> > > >> media in both of its leftist and rightist varieties, he unfailingly
> > elicits
> > > >> explosive applause in every GOP presidential primary debate in which
> > he has
> > > >> participated. A Fox News poll, of all places, shows that the
> > overwhelming
> > > >> majority of its respondents hold that Ron Paul achieved a decisive
> > victory
> > > >> over all of the other candidates in the most recent debate in Iowa. Of
> > 7,991
> > > >> "active" cities nationwide that participated in the poll, and 43,293
> > total
> > > >> votes, 27,459 people thought that Paul won the debate. Newt Gingrich
> > came in
> > > >> second place -- with 5, 906 votes.
>
> > > >> Statistically speaking, Ron Paul practically tied with Michele
> > Bachmann
> > > >> for first place in the Ames Straw Poll, a contest that is evidently so
> > > >> significant that "top-tier" contender Tim Pawlenty's third place
> > showing
> > > >> compelled him to abandon his campaign. Bachmann beat Paul by a meager
> > 152
> > > >> votes.
>
> > > >> A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released back in May showed
> > that
> > > >> among possible Republican contenders (Perry may not have been a
> > > >> consideration as of yet), Paul stands the best chance of beating
> > President
> > > >> Obama. This poll showed Obama leading Paul by only seven percentage
> > points,
> > > >> while he led Romney by 11. Since then, however, things have changed.
>
> > > >> A Gallup poll from August 23 shows that if the election were held
> > today,
> > > >> Mitt Romney would beat Obama by two percentage points (48 percent-46
> > > >> percent) and Rick Perry would tie with him (at 47 percent). It is true
> > that
> > > >> this same poll has Obama beating Paul by (only) two points (47
> > percent-45
> > > >> percent); but it has Obama beating "top-tier" candidate Bachmann by
> > four
> > > >> points (48 percent-44 percent)! However, when it comes to that much
> > > >> cherished "independent" vote, Paul leads Obama by three points. The
> > > >> significance of this vis-à-vis my contention that Paul is a top-tier
> > > >> candidate himself and should be recognized as such becomes obvious
> > once we
> > > >> grasp that Romney is the only other Republican candidate who leads
> > Obama
> > > >> among independents by this much (but only this much). "Top-tier"
> > candidate
> > > >> Perry leads Obama in this category by two points while "top-tier"
> > candidate
> > > >> Bachmann trails Obama among independents by six points.
>
> > > >> In a Texas poll among "882 highly active Republican voters," these
> > voters
> > > >> said that if the Texas primaries were held at the time that the poll
> > was
> > > >> taken, they would vote for Congressman Paul before they would vote for
> > any
> > > >> other Republican contender ­ including their own Governor, Rick Perry
> > (who
> > > >> was second choice).
>
> > > >> As I write this, a Gallup Presidential Nomination preference poll
> > shows
> > > >> that Paul has leapt ahead of "top-tier" candidate Michele Bachmann and
> > is
> > > >> now third place behind Perry and Romney. Twenty-nine percent of those
> > polled
> > > >> prefer Perry; 17 percent are partial to Romney; and Paul picks up 13
> > percent
> > > >> of the vote against Bachmann's 10 percent.
>
> > > >> Polls fluctuate. In any event, they are no substitutes for actual
> > votes.
> > > >> Still, the point here is not that Paul is likely to get his party's
> > > >> nomination or that he would actually win the general election if he
> > did; in
> > > >> these propositions it is not my purpose to either affirm or deny.
> > Rather,
> > > >> the point is only to show that by the very standards by which
> > establishment
> > > >> pundits and pollsters determine top-tier candidates, Paul should be
> > > >> considered a top-tier candidate.
>
> > > >> But he is not.
>
> > > >> The reason for this, I think, is pretty clear.
>
> > > >> Even though he is the partisan for constitutional or "limited"
> > government
> > > >> par excellence, Paul is despised and feared by the party of "limited
> > > >> government." That is, he is anathema to the GOP establishment, for
> > while he
> > > >> has proved prescient regarding the economic collapse of 2008, and
> > while an
> > > >> ever increasing number of Americans generally and Republican-minded
> > voters
> > > >> in particular have gravitated toward embracing many of his views over
> > the
> > > >> last three years, Paul's uncompromising repudiation of his party's
> > foreign
> > > >> policy vision has earned him quite a few enemies within it.
>
> > > >> Let us be blunt: The stone cold truth is that for all of their talk of
> > > >> "conservative" principles and the like, Paul's Republican opponents in
> > > >> Washington and the so-called "alternative" or "conservative" media are
> > not
> > > >> now, nor have they ever been, genuinely conservative. Whether we are
> > > >> discussing Fox News contributors -- a shocking number of which are
> > refugees
> > > >> from George W. Bush's administration -- the writers at The Weekly
> > Standard
> > > >> and National Review, or such talk radio personalities as Rush
> > Limbaugh, Sean
> > > >> Hannity, Bill Bennett and all of the rest, such "conservative"
> > commentators
> > > >> aren't conservative at all; they are
>
> ...
>
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Re: Online-Video about Human Rights

ah, a One Worlder, eh?

trying to make everyone equal is a socialist pipe dream

know the enemy

On Sep 1, 5:45 pm, Jan Künzl <jan.kue...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Dear Group
>
> As part of a Web 2.0 project for political education, the german
> non-profit organisation /e-politik.de/ e.V. has released an animated
> video about human rights. Currently there are german, english, spanish
> and french versions- an arabic version and a version with chinese
> subtitles are coming soon. All clips are accessible on our YouTube
> channel (www.youtube.com/weareedeos) .The clips are licensed as Creative
> Commons and can be used, shared and embedded. If you like the clip,
> please circulate widely (i.e. Newsletter, Facebook). Feedback would be
> appreciated.
> For more information about the project, please visit:http://edeos.org/en/project_wissenswerte.html
> Please do not hesitate to contact me for further information.
>
> Best regards,
> Jan Kï¿œnzl
>
> -Project Manager WissensWerte-
> Gaudystr. 2
> 10437 Berlin/Germany
> cont...@edeos.org
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A Man of God

Obama: 'Jewish President, Messiah or G-d'
Posted on April 6, 2011 by rehmat1| Leave a comment

When Senator Barack H. Obama was campaigning for the White House,
former Jewish Congressman and judge from Chicago, Abner Mikvaner, had
said: "I think when it is all over, people are going to say that
Barack Obama is the first Jewish President".

In August 2008 – during a fundraising event in San Francisco, the
former House Speaker and Israel-Firster, Nancy Pelosy, had introduced
Senator Barack Obama by hailing him: "A leader that God has blessed
with at this time".

October 2009 – in an interview, British singer-actor Sting (Gordon
Matthew Summer) had equated Barack Obama to Biblical Promised Messaih:
"In many ways, he's sent from God because the world is a mess".

Now, Professor Paul Kengor (Grove City College, Pennsylvania), has
called Barack H. Obama, "God", in an article, entitled "Obama, The God
That Failed" in the Zionist daily online magazine, American Thinker,
published on April 5, 2011. Dr. Kengor, being a Catholic, seems to be
very much in touch with his G-d (not Christ of course). He is author
of books like; God and Ronald Reagan, God and George W. Bush and God
and Hillary Clinton.
As Christian Zionist – Kengor do know who to blame when Jewish Lobby
is not happy with President Obama. He highlights Obama's (Muslim)
middle name: " It was the Middle East that was supposed to be Obama's
strength. He would be better than Bush, and precisely at the right
place and time. Far from Barack Hussein Obama's middle name being a
liability, liberals assured us it was his saving grace. Their faithful
leader would know what to do, in a way that "Bush," Texas rube, was
fully incapable".
Kengor, like Israeli columnist Aluf Benn, blames Obama for letting
Israel's Muslim allies being dumped by the current mass protests. Aluf
Benn wrote in Israel daily Ha'aretz (January 30, 2011): "Jimmy Carter
will go down in American history as "the president who lost Iran,"
which during his term went from being a major strategic ally of the
United States (and Israel) to being the revolutionary Islamic
Republic. Barack Obama will be remembered as the president who "lost"
Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt (all three had pro-Israel governments in the
past while both Turkey and Egypt still maintain diplomatic relations
with the Zionist regime), and during whose tenure America's alliances
in the Middle East crumbled".
As a former supporter of the 'born-again Christian', President Ronald
Reagan, Kengor appluads him chosing "the soul-mate international
contacts", like Pope John Paul II (born to Polish Jewish mother) and
Margaret Thatcher (a Zionist Christian Israel-Firster).
Kengor doesn't show much respect for Obama or his advisers, the great
majority of whom are Jewish or pro-Israel neocons. "Obama appears
clueless on the small picture let alone big picture, as do the wise
men and women he has surrounded himself with. Neither teacher nor
disciples have answers," wrote Kengor.
On wonders if Abraham Foxman, the ADL Watchdog on 'anti-Semitism',
will throw a punch on Kengor's face for insulting the Jewish members
of Obama administration!

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Toddlers and Tiaras: Maddy Jackson's mother boosts daughter's chest and bottom at age FOUR


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Coloring Books | We Shall Never Forget 9/11 coloring book novel

Every kid needs a coloring book.




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Re: IPADS

Go for it ...Apple rocks!

it won't replace a MacBook Pro but it's a powerful tablet

On Sep 2, 8:46 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I am buying an IPAD today
>
> maybe even the one that has it's own broadcasting and doesn't need a router
> to connect to the internet
>
> any advice or experiences

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Podcast interview re lying in international politics w/ Dr. John J. Mearsheimer

Posted this morning at Electric Politics, a podcast interview with Dr.
John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, about his latest
book, Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics
(Oxford, 2011). It's a short book at 102 pages, chock full of
interesting and provocative observations. Highly recommended.

If you enjoy the podcast please don't hesitate to forward the link.

Thanks for listening!

http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2011/09/the_lie.html

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IPADS

I think I am buying an IPAD today

maybe even the one that has it's own broadcasting and doesn't need a router to connect to the internet

any advice or experiences

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Fwd: [RumblesAList] Jobs Report



 

From CNN:

The U.S. says the economy added no jobs in August, the worst number since September 2010. The jobless rate was unchanged at 9.1%.

Economists typically estimate the nation needs to add about 150,000 jobs each month to keep up with population growth alone. It needs even stronger growth to recover the millions of jobs lost during the financial crisis. 

No wonder Obama is about to hit us with a desperation speech.

Pepsiman 

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A typical Obama voter's vote fraud?




Obama's Illegal Alien Uncle Has Valid SS, Driver's License

Judicial Watch 8/31/2011 The mainstream media's love affair with President Obama has apparently led to the omission of a few crucial details involving the recent arrest of his illegal immigrant uncle, who was caught driving drunk after running a stop sign in Massachusetts. It turns out that Uncle Onyango Obama, who is actually mentioned in [...]

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Rumor has it that Obama has come up with the most brilliant jobs creating plan in history!


Rumor has it that Obama has come up with the most brilliant jobs creating plan in history! It will turn this economy around overnight! It will drop unemployment back to under 6%. Companies will start moving back to the U.S. and hiring again. Food stamps will no longer be the number one currency. Insurance and medical costs will drop again. Our debt will start to drop quickly. And all he is going to do next week in his speech to accomplish all of this is say 2 words: "I quit!...

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**JP** from [Int'l Urdu Writers' Club] بیوی کا عاشق






 

کسی جگہ ایک بوڑھی مگر سمجھدار اور دانا عورت رہتی تھی جس کا خاوند اُس سے بہت ہی پیار کرتا تھا۔

دونوں میں محبت اس قدر شدید تھی کہ اُسکا خاوند اُس کیلئے محبت بھری شاعری کرتا اور اُس کیلئے شعر کہتا تھا۔

عمر جتنی زیادہ ہورہی تھی، باہمی محبت اور خوشی اُتنی ہی زیادہ بڑھ رہی تھی۔

جب اس عورت سے اُس کی دائمی محبت اور خوشیوں بھری زندگی کا راز پوچھا گیا

کہ آیا وہ ایک بہت ماہر اور اچھا کھانا پکانے والی ہے؟

یا  وہ بہت ہی حسین و جمیل اور خوبصورت ہے؟

یا وہ بہت زیادہ عیال دار اور بچے پیدا کرنے والی عورت رہی ہے؟

یا اس محبت کا کوئی اور راز ہے؟

تو عورت نے یوں جواب دیا کہ

خوشیوں بھری زندگی کے اسباب اللہ سبحانہ و تعالیٰ  کی ذات کے  بعد خود عورت کے اپنے ہاتھوں میں ہیں۔  اگر عورت چاہے تو وہ اپنے گھر کو جنت  کی چھاؤں بنا سکتی ہے اوراگر  یہی عورت چاہے تو اپنے گھر کو جہنم کی دہکتی ہوئی آگ سےبھی  بھر سکتی ہے۔

مت سوچیئے کہ  مال و دولت خوشیوں کا ایک سبب ہے۔ تاریخ کتنی  مالدار عورتوں کی کہانیوں سے بھری پڑی ہے جن کے خاوند اُن کو اُنکے مال متاب سمیت چھوڑ کر کنارہ کش ہو گئے۔

اور نا ہی عیالدار اور بہت زیادہ بچے پیدا کرنے والی عورت ہونا کوئی خوبی ہے۔ کئی عورتوں نے دس دس بچے  پیدا کئے مگر نا خاوند اُنکے مشکور ہوئے اور نا ہی وہ اپنے خاوندوں سے کوئی خصوصی التفات اور محبت پا سکیں بلکہ طلاق تک نوبتیں جا پہنچیں۔

اچھے کھانا پکانا بھی کوئی خوبی نہیں ہے، سارا دن کچن میں رہ کرمزے مزے کے کھانے پکا کر بھی عورتیں خاوند کے غلط معاملہ کی شکایت کرتی نظر آتی ہیں اور خاوند کی نظروں میں اپنی کوئی عزت نہیں بنا پاتیں۔

تو پھر آپ ہی بتا دیں اس  پُرسعادت اور خوشیوں بھری زندگی  کا کیا راز ہے؟ اور آپ اپنے اورخاوند کے درمیان پیش آنے والے مسائل اور مشاکل سے کس طرح نپٹا کرتی تھیں؟

اُس نے جواب دیا: جس وقت میرا  خاوند غصے میں آتا تھا اور بلا شبہ میرا خاوند بہت ہی غصیلا آدمی تھا، میں اُن لمحات میں  ( نہایت ہی احترام کے ساتھ) مکمل خاموشی اختیار کر لیا کرتی تھی۔ یہاں ایک بات واضح کر دوں کہ احترام کےساتھ خاموشی کا یہ  مطلب ہے کہ آنکھوں سے حقارت اور نفرت نا جھلک رہی ہو اور نا ہی  مذاق اور سخریہ پن دکھائی دے رہا ہو۔ آدمی بہت عقلمند ہوتا ہے ایسی صورتحال اور ایسے معاملے کو  بھانپ لیا کرتا ہے۔

اچھا تو آپ ایسی صورتحال میں کمرے سے باہر کیوں نہیں چلی جایا کرتی تھیں؟

اُس نے کہا: خبردار ایسی حرکت مت کرنا، اس سے تو ایسا لگے گا تم اُس سے فرار چاہتی ہو اور اُسکا  نقطہ نظر نہیں جاننا چاہتی، خاموشی تو ضروری ہے ہی، اس کے ساتھ ساتھ خاوند جو کچھ کہے اُسے نا صرف یہ کہ سُننا بلکہ اُس کے کہے سے اتفاق کرنا بھی اُتنا ہی اشد ضروری ہے۔ میرا خاوند جب اپنی باتیں پوری کر لیتا تو میں کمرے سے باہر چلی جایا کرتی تھی، کیونکہ اس ساری چیخ و پکار اور شور و شرابے والی گفتگو کے بعد میں سمجھتی تھی کہ اُسے آرام کی ضرورت ہوتی تھی۔ کمرے سے باہر نکل کر میں اپنے روزمرہ کے گھریلو کام کاج میں مشغول ہو جاتی تھی، بچوں کے کام کرتی، کھانا پکانے اور کپڑے دھونے میں وقت گزارتی اور اپنے دماغ کو اُس جنگ سے دور بھگانے کی کوشش کرتی جو میری خاوند نے میرے ساتھ کی تھی۔

تو آپ اس ماحول میں کیا کرتی تھیں؟ کئی دنوں  کیلئے  لا تعلقی اختیار کرلینا اور خاوند سے ہفتہ دس دن کیلئے بول چال چھوڑ دینا وغیرہ؟

اُس نے کہا: نہیں، ہرگز نہیں،  بول چال چھوڑ دینے کی عادت انتہائی گھٹیا فعل اور خاوند کے ساتھ تعلقات کو بگاڑنے کیلئے دو رُخی تلوار کی مانند ہے۔  اگر تم اپنے خاوند سے بولنا چھوڑ دیتی ہو تو ہو سکتا ہے شروع شروع میں اُس کیلئے یہ بہت ہی تکلیف دہ عمل ہو۔ شروع میں وہ تم سے بولنا چاہے گا اور بولنے کی کوشش بھی کرے گا۔ لیکن جس طرح دن گزرتے جائیں گے وہ  اِس کا عادی ہوتا چلا جائے گا۔ تم ایک ہفتہ کیلئے بولنا چھوڑو گی تو  اُس میں  تم سے دو ہفتوں تک نا بولنے کی استعداد آ جائے گی اور ہو سکتا ہے کہ تمہارے بغیر بھی رہنا سیکھ لے۔ خاوند کو ایسی عادت ڈال دو کہ تمہارے  بغیر  اپنا دم بھی گھٹتا ہوا محسوس کرے گویا تم اُس کیلئے آکسیجن کی مانند ہو اور تم وہ پانی ہو جس کو پی کر وہ زندہ رہ رہا ہے۔اگر ہوا بننا ہے تو ٹھنڈی اور لطیف  ہوا بنو نا کہ گرد آلود اور تیز آندھی۔

اُس کے بعد آپ کیا کیا کرتی تھیں؟

اُس عورت نے کہا: میں دو گھنٹوں کے بعد یا دو سے کچھ زیادہ گھنٹوں کے بعد جوس کا ایک  گلاس یا پھر گرم چائے کا یک کپ بنا کر اُس کے پاس جاتی، اور اُسے نہایت ہی سلیقے سے کہتی، لیجیئے چائے پیجیئے۔ مجھے یقین ہوتا تھا کہ وہ اس لمحے اس چائے یا جوس کا متمنی ہوتا تھا۔ میرا یہ عمل اور اپنے خاوند کے ساتھ گفتگو اسطرح ہوتی تھی  کہ گویا  ہمارے درمیان کوئی غصے یا لڑائی والی بات ہوئی ہی نہیں۔

جبکہ اب میرا خاوند ہی مجھ سے اصرار کر کے بار بار پوچھتا تھا کہ کیا میں اُس سے ناراض تو نہیں ہوں۔جبکہ میرا ہر بار اُس سے یہی جواب ہوتا تھا کہ نہیں میں تو ہرگز ناراض نہیں ہوں۔ اسکے بعد وہ ہمیشہ اپنے درشت رویئے کی معذرت کرتا تھا اور مجھ سے گھنٹوں پیار بھری باتیں کرتا تھا۔

تو کیا آپ اُس کی ان پیار بھری باتوں پر یقین کر لیتی تھیں؟

ہاں، بالکل، میں اُن باتوں پر بالکل یقین کرتی تھی۔ میں جاہل نہیں ہوں۔

کیا تم یہ کہنا چاہتی ہو کہ میں اپنے خاوند کی اُن باتوں پر تو یقین کر لوں جو وہ مجھ سے غصے میں کہہ ڈالتا تھا اور اُن باتوں پر یقین نا کروں جو وہ مجھے پر سکون حالت میں کرتا تھا؟

تو پھر آپکی عزت اور عزت نفس کہاں گئی؟

کاہے کی عزت اور کونسی عزت نفس؟ کیا عزت اسی کا نام ہے تم غصے میں آئے ہوئے  ایک شخص کی تلخ و ترش باتوں پر تو یقین کرکے اُسے اپنی عزت نفس کا مسئلہ بنا لومگر اُس کی اُن باتوں کو کوئی اہمیت نا دو جو وہ تمہیں پیار بھرے  اور پر سکون ماحول میں کہہ رہا ہے!

میں فوراً ہی اُن غصے کی حالت میں دی ہوئی گالیوں اور تلخ و ترش باتوں کو بھلا کر اُنکی محبت بھری اور مفید باتوں کو غور سے سنتی تھی۔

جی ہاں، خوشگوار اور محبت بھری زندگی کا راز  عورت کی عقل کے اندر موجود تو ہے مگر یہ راز اُسکی زبان سے بندھا ہوا ہے۔

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    LION ESCAPE


    A hunter insisted his wife and frequently visiting mother-in-law experience the animals of Africa and took them for hunting. In the morning wife noticed her mother was missing, woke up her husband and both came out searching for her.


    There she was, under threat from roaring lion ready to jump on her and she screaming back at lion. Wife started crying and pleading husband to do something.

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    9 Incomplete Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission



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    http://www.hstoday.us/single-article/report-card-spotlights-9-incomplete-recommendations-of-the-911-commission/bfe2975eca63f836c35d7bbd9d1e18c3.html

     

    9 Incomplete Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission

    By: Mickey McCarter

    09/01/2011 ( 4:15am)

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    Nine of the 41 recommendations issued by the 9/11 Commission seven years ago remain unfilled, leaving the chairmen of the commission to press for their complete implementation in a report card issued Wednesday.

    Former 9/11 Commission Chair Tom Kean and Vice Chair Lee Hamilton, now co-chairs of the National Security Preparedness Group at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank, unveiled their Tenth Anniversary Report Card: The Status of the 9/11 Commission Recommendations at a press conference in Washington, DC, calling upon the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), state and local governments, the White House, and Congress to complete work on the nine remaining recommendations. The two chairs were joined by seven out of 10 of the 9/11 commissioners.

    "The good news is that a lot of progress has been made on a good many of those recommendations," Kean said at the conference. "One of these is the transformation of the intelligence community and breaking down the barriers that were so terrible, so costly, in information sharing. Legal policy and cultural barriers between agencies created serious impediments to information sharing that prevented disruption of the 9/11 attacks."

    He added, "It's not perfect, but it's a lot better than it was before 9/11."

    The first incomplete recommendation involves unity of command and effort, which requires action from DHS and state and local communities, Kean said. Every disaster response requires someone in charge, as demonstrated by large catastrophes like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, where failures in leadership cost lives.

    Still, many metropolitan areas have not addressed the question of who's in charge in a major disaster, he lamented.

    "Failure to resolve the basic building blocks of established roles and responsibilities in dealing with catastrophic disaster planning can result in confusion at a scene and it will cost lives in the future and it has cost lives in the past," Kean stated.

    And first responders coming together in a disaster still are not assured of their capabilities to talk to each other, Kean noted, leaving radio interoperability as the second recommendation not completely fulfilled.

    Congress has stalled on various proposals to allocate the D-Block of radio frequency spectrum to first responders, Kean said, leaving many firemen, policemen, medical personnel, and rescue workers unable to talk directly in a disaster scene. People have died due to that shortfall.

    "They died because of that in 9/11; they died because of that in Katrina; and they will die in the future unless this particular problem is not solved," Kean remarked.

    Congress must reform itself to consolidate jurisdiction over DHS to complete a third unfinished recommendation. It also should stand up appropriations panels that fund the intelligence agencies instead of allocating that responsibility to defense subcommittees, Kean said.

    Reforming Congress is very difficult to do but very necessary, Kean emphasized. But DHS spends so much time preparing and testifying before nearly 100 committees and subcommittees that it loses valuable time protecting the American public.

    "Congress should immediately consolidate jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security in the House and Senate homeland security committees," Kean said.

    Hamilton noted that Congress established a Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board as recommended by the 9/11 Commission but that board has laid dormant for more than three years now. As dormant, the board constitutes a fourth unfulfilled recommendation.

    Since 9/11, the executive branch has received expanded authorities to conduct surveillance and to collect information, Hamilton said, making a strong board a public necessity.

    "Even if these powers are being employed in a careful way respectful of civil liberties, the history of the abuse of such powers should give us pause and make us commit that mechanisms are in place to protect our liberty," Hamilton said.

    He called upon President Barack Obama to appoint the board's five members and for Congress to confirm them quickly. Obama recently appointed only two members, who have not yet received confirmation.

    The president or Congress also should move to strengthen the power of the director of national intelligence (DNI). The implementation of that position remains a fifth unfulfilled recommendation.

    In the last six years, the DNI has improved information sharing and coordination among intelligence agencies, Hamilton acknowledged, but it remains unclear that the DNI is the driving force for intelligence integration envisioned by the 9/11 Commission.

    The DNI has no or ambiguous powers on the budget and personnel for intelligence agencies, leading to a need for further clarity. Congress could clarify the DNI's leadership on these matters through legislation or the president could use executive power to align the intelligence agencies more closely under the DNI's command.

    As a sixth unfulfilled recommendation, Kean and Hamilton identified the incomplete DHS system for biometric entry-exit screening to track foreign nationals as they enter or leave the United States.

    "The Department of Homeland Security has deployed a system that checks all individuals who arrive at US borders, ensures they are who they say they are, and helps prevent known terrorists from entering the country. But the exit portion of the system has not been completed, so we do not know with any certainty who has left the country or remains here on an expired visa," Hamilton said.

    An exit tracking capability would have helped law enforcement searching for two of the 19 hijackers who had overstayed their visas, he added, calling on DHS to add the exit capability to the US-VISIT system.

    Seventh, state governments must move to comply with DHS regulations for secure identification, including driver's licenses, Hamilton insisted, noting that 18 of the 19 9/11 hijackers obtained 30 state-issued IDs amongst them, thereby enabling them to easily board airplanes on 9/11.

    Due to the ease of fraudulent activity to obtain official identification, the 9/11 Commission pressed the federal government to set standards for the issuance of secure birth certificates and identifications. In 2008, DHS promulgated regulations for secure standards and benchmarks for state driver's licenses, but it has waived compliance with those regulations until 2013.

    "This delay in compliance creates vulnerabilities and makes us less safe. No further delay should be authorized and instead the deadline in our view should be accelerated," Hamilton said.

    Eighth, DHS must improve the way it sets requirements for screening technologies and how it works with industry to test and field those technologies, according to the report card.

    "Unfortunately, the explosives detection technology lacks reliability and lags in its capability to automatically identify concealed weapons and explosives," Hamilton asserted. "The next generation whole body scanning machines are also not effective at detecting explosives hidden within the body and raise privacy and health concerns that DHS has not fully addressed."

    Finally, the White House and Congress must resolve issues related to standards for terrorist detention.

    Obama largely fulfilled this recommendation with executive orders on the treatment of detainees when he became president, bringing the US treatment of detainees into line with the Geneva Conventions, Hamilton said. But terrorist detainees still languish in the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, contrary to ideals of due process.

    "Congress and president must decide how to handle detainees ground in fairness, respect for due process, and protecting the American people," Hamilton stated.

     


     


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    Liberals Hate the Poor


    Thursday, September 1, 2011
    Liberals Hate the Poor
    by Jacob G. Hornberger

    Liberals love to portray themselves as lovers of the poor. Their "proof," they say, is their ardent support of the welfare state. In fact, liberals oftentimes go on the attack against us libertarians for our call to dismantle welfare-state programs and the 60-year-old failed "war on poverty."

    Actually, however, the love that liberals profess to have for the poor is a crock, and their love of the welfare state is actually a love of the power, influence, and money that comes with the welfare state.

    Liberals know that the more people they get on welfare, the more people will be dependent on the government. Those dole recipients can then be threatened with, "Elect us liberals to power because conservative Republicans will cut off your dole, and you will die. Vote for us. Give us the political power so that we can continue your dole."

    As everyone knows, with the welfare state comes trillions of dollars to hand out to grateful people. With that largess comes wealth, power, influence, adulation, and control.

    So, how do we know that liberals don't give a whit for the poor? We have irrefutable proof: their horrible mistreatment of illegal immigrants. In fact, liberal icon Barack Obama now has the record for the president who has deported more illegal immigrants than any other president in U.S. history.

    Think about it. Where could you find poorer people in the United States than illegal immigrants? That's why they come here -- because they're desperately poor and see the United States as a way to make a bit of money to send back to their families in their home countries. Their spouses, parents, and children are back at home, mired in even more desperate poverty, and depending on the money that the illegal immigrants are sending to them.

    In fact, I would say that, generally speaking, illegal immigrants have to be the poorest economic strata in American society. And even if they're not at the very bottom, they're certainly close to it.

    Yet, look at how liberals mistreat them. They raid businesses in which illegal immigrants are suspected of working ­ yes, working in an attempt to sustain their lives through labor. They bust them, cart them off to jail, put them on a plane, and forcibly take them back to their home countries, knowing full well that they are dooming them and their families to desperate poverty, possibly even starvation.

    And they just don't care. They don't give one whit as to what happens to these poor people once they're forcibly repatriated to their home countries.

    Let's face reality: liberals hate these people. They hate them for daring to come to America without official permission, for not standing in line and complying with the myriad rules and regulations of the regulated society. They hate them for being poor, uneducated, unable to speak English, and trying to take jobs that liberals feel rightfully belong to well-to-do, educated Americans.

    The truth is that liberals hate the poor as much as conservatives do. Sure, liberals will exclaim against Alabama's cruel anti-immigrant law, but at the same time, liberals remain silent as their man, Barack Obama, uses the force of the federal government to raid businesses, bust workers, and forcibly deport them to lives of desperation and possibly even death.

    Needless to say, libertarians are different from statists, both conservatives and liberals. We do care about the poor, including those who are unable to vote. We'd open the borders to the free flow of people, including the poorest people in the world. We love the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of the teeming shore, the homeless, the temptest-tost. We say: Let them come, let them try to survive, let them prosper, let them in.

    We libertarians would reopen the Statue of Liberty, and we'd uncover Emma Lazarus's famous sonnet. We'd open the borders not just to the rich, educated, and well-to-do. We'd open the borders to everyone, including the poor.

    Sure, it's true that we would terminate welfare, not just for the poor but also for the middle class and wealthy. That's because socialism is an immoral, destructive system that destroys the spirit of independence, self-reliance, can-do, and voluntary charity that exists within people. Unlike statists, who place their faith in force and coercion, we libertarians have an unwavering faith in freedom, free markets, voluntary charity, ourselves, and others.

    We believe that it's better when people are sustaining their lives through labor rather than becoming dependent wards of the state. That's one reason we libertarians oppose those cruel immigration raids on businesses that both conservatives and liberals are so proud of.

    Wouldn't it be nice if liberals were just honest with themselves and with others? Wouldn't it be nice if they were simply to say, "We hate the poor, which is why we love mistreating illegal immigrants. We just love welfare because it gives us money, power, influence, and control over the lives of other human beings."

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    Texas, Now Cool With People Shooting Pigs From Helicopters




    Substitute muzzies for pigs and there aren't enough choppers in the world.


     
     


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    Union Bosses Call It Quits With Democrat Party: Obama Indebting The American Dream




    Union Bosses Call It Quits With Democrat Party: Obama Indebting The American Dream

    This morning, the State Convention of the New Jersey AFL-CIO voted up a resolution of support for the Glass-Steagall bill which has been introduced into the House of Representatives by Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), H.R. 1489. The full body, by a unanimous voice vote, approved the following resolution, which had been voted by its Executive [...]

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    Fwd: [I-S] Obama and the Caliphate at the U.N. Try to Kill the First Amendment



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    George Bush uttered the descriptor "Islamofascism" ONCE during his administration and was categorically rebuked for linking a soi dissant "peaceful" religion with a pejorative term.  The reference was deemed offensive and racist and was never heard again.  

     

    Why in G-d's name would we EVER spend 30 seconds worrying about offending those who are committed to destroying us?  We didn't hesitate to use such terminology when describing the Nazis or Japanese imperialists!  Islam scripturally refers to Jews, Christians, etc. as "kafirs" and apes and pigs.  Why the fuss over "Islamofascism" for a supremacist, totalitarian, militaristic ideology?

     

    Under Obama, the head of our national security function turned her focus to patriotic Americans who oppose the killing of the unborn and cherish the constitutional right to defend themselves.  She further obscured the "counterterrorist" lexicography by referring to "man-caused disasters" and "overseas contingency operations."  The words "Islamic" and "terrorism" were never to be conjoined again and negative references to "Islam" and "Muslim" were expunged from all official communications.

     

    Now, the assault against our First Amendment advances with the apocryphal battle to curtail nonexistent "Islamophobia."  With the latest Obama/OIC proposal - an end run around Congress - Islamic blasphemy codes could be instituted that would officially restrict any and all discussion - thus understanding - of the dire threat we face from Islam.

     

    Janet Levy,

    Los Angeles

     

     

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    SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 4:00 A.M.

    The Administration Takes on 'Islamophobia' 
    The White House is giving free-speech opponents a megaphone.

    An unprecedented collaboration between the Obama administration and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC, formerly called the Organization of the Islamic Conference) to combat "Islamophobia" may soon result in the delegitimization of freedom of expression as a human right.

    The administration is taking the lead in an international effort to "implement" a U.N. resolution against religious "stereotyping," specifically as applied to Islam. To be sure, it argues that the effort should not result in free-speech curbs. However, its partners in the collaboration, the 56 member states of the OIC, have no such qualms. Many of them police private speech through Islamic blasphemy laws and the OIC has long worked to see such codes applied  universally. Under Muslim pressure, Western Europe now has laws against religious hate speech that serve as proxies for Islamic blasphemy codes.

    Last March, U.S. diplomats maneuvered the adoption of Resolution 16/18 within the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC). Non-binding, this resolution, inter alia, expresses concern about religious "stereotyping" and "negative profiling" but does not limit free speech. It was intended to — and did — replace the OIC's decidedly dangerous resolution against "defamation of religions," which protected religious institutions instead of individual freedoms.

    But thanks to a puzzling U.S. diplomatic initiative that was unveiled in July, Resolution 16/18 is poised to become a springboard for a greatly reinvigorated international effort to criminalize speech against Islam, the very thing it was designed to quash.

    Citing a need to "move to implementation" of Resolution 16/18, the Obama administration has inexplicably decided to launch a major international effort against Islamophobia in partnership with the Saudi-based OIC. This is being voluntarily assumed at American expense, outside the U.N. framework, and is not required by the resolution itself.

    On July 15, a few days after the Norway massacre, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton co-chaired an OIC session in Istanbul on religious intolerance. It was there that she announced the initiative, inviting the OIC member-states' foreign ministers and representatives to the inaugural meeting of the effort that the U.S. government would host this fall in Washington. She envisions it as the first in a series of meetings to decide how best to implement Resolution 16/18.

    In making the announcement, Clinton was firm in asserting that the U.S. does not want to see speech restrictions: "The resolution calls upon states to 'counter offensive expression through education, interfaith dialogue, and public debate . . . but not to criminalize speech unless there is an incitement to imminent violence.'" (This is the First Amendment standard set forth in the 1969 Supreme Court case of Brandenburg v. Ohio.)

    With the United States providing this new world stage for presenting grievances of "Islamophobia" against the West, the OIC rallied around the initiative as the propaganda windfall that it is. It promptly reasserted its demands for global blasphemy laws, once again sounding the call of its failed U.N. campaign for international laws against the so-called defamation of Islam. It has made plain its aim to use the upcoming conference to further pressure Western governments to regulate speech on behalf of Islam.

    The OIC's understanding of the upcoming meetings is that they will "aim at developing a legal basis for the U.N. Human Rights Council's resolution which [will] help in enacting domestic laws for the countries involved in the issue, as well as formulating international laws preventing inciting hatred resulting from the continued defamation of religions."

    In an August 17 op-ed on the initiative, OIC secretary general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu was enthusiastic. He expressed concern that "anti-Islam and anti-Muslim attitudes and activities, known as Islamophobia, are increasingly finding  place in the agenda of ultra-right wing political parties and civil societies in the West in their anti-immigrant and anti-multiculturalism policies," and that "their views are being promoted under the banner of freedom of expression." This parallels the old Soviet-bloc attack on the First Amendment as an official sanctioning of racism.

    Citing a familiar litany of examples — "the publication of offensive cartoons of the Prophet six years ago that sparked outrage across the Muslim world, the publicity around the film Fitna and the more recent Qur'an burnings" — Ihsanoglu was emphatic that "no one has the right to insult another for their beliefs or to incite hatred and prejudice" and that "freedom of expression has to be exercised with responsibility."

    In a separate OIC news report, Ihsanoglu raised the stakes further. He warned against the "institutionalization of the phenomenon of Islamophobia through the involvement of the European extreme right in government institutions and political action."

    Amb. Zamir Akram, Pakistan's Permanent Representative on behalf of the OIC to the HRC, commented regarding the initiative that the OIC would not compromise on "anything against the Quran, anything against the Prophet and anything against the Muslim community in terms of discrimination."

    As for reciprocity — for example, reforming the Saudi national curriculum that continues to teach students to "kill" Jews, "fight" polytheists, view Christians as "enemies," and spread Islam through "jihad" — there probably won't be any.

    This initiative is shaping up to be one-sided. As Akram said, "The Resolution 16/18 was driven more by the kind of discrimination in Europe and the West in general against Muslims." He added: "I don't think any country in the Muslim world is deliberately discriminating against minorities." Ihsanoglu took a similar tack, writing that "the Islamic faith is based on tolerance and acceptance of other religions. It does not condone discrimination of human beings on the basis of caste, creed, color, or faith." (In his op-ed, Ihsanoglu also declared that "the OIC has never sought to limit freedom of expression.")

    Having won the latest round in the ideological contest for individual rights and freedoms at the United Nations this past March, the administration is now gratuitously establishing a new "transnational" forum to essentially re-litigate the matter with a body that is openly hostile to such freedoms. This forum's agenda is to be structured so that freedom of expression will be put on trial and inevitably condemned by most forum participants as, itself, a human-rights violation. In raising OIC expectations that "anti-Islam and anti-Muslim attitudes" will be dealt with under soon-to-be-drafted "implementation" procedures, the administration is riding a tiger.

    In his 2009 Cairo speech, President Obama said, "I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam whenever they appear." There are a number of problems with this statement: One is that it encourages the diplomatic folly that is this conference.

    — Nina Shea is director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom and co-author, with Paul Marshall, of Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedoms Worldwide (Oxford University Press, November 2011).

     



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