Tony Blair: I did not understand Islam at time of 9/11 attacks.
The September 11 attacks represented the declaration of war by a new type of enemy, Tony Blair says.
telegraph.co.uk
August 31, 2010

The second plane hits the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

He claims that he quickly realised the implications of the suicide bombers crashing aircraft into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, having heard the news while preparing to deliver a speech to the TUC in Brighton.

Mr Blair says he understood the new war was ideological, but admits that at the time he did not fully understand the history of Islam. He admits he underestimated the “hold of this extremism”.

But he insists he followed his instinct and convictions, and would not have changed his decisions on Iraq or Afghanistan even if he had known the length of the campaign.

“To try to escape conflict would have been a grave mistake, political cowardice.”

Mr Blair also discloses that he once came close to authorising the shooting down of a commercial flight heading to London, after it lost radio contact.

But after the deadline passed he decided to hold fire, and once the pilot re-established contact he had to sit down and thank the heavens.

Israel ready to destroy LAF in 4 hours’
by JPOST.COM STAFF
August 28, 2010

Report: US envoy told LAF about IDF’s plan to another border incident.

The US warned Lebanon that if it did not prevent any recurrence of the border-fire incident that occurred earlier this month, the IDF would destroy the Lebanese Armed Forces within four hours, Israel Radio cited a report by Lebanese newspaper A-Liwaa on Friday.

According to the report, Frederick Hoff, assistant to US Middle East Peace Envoy George Mitchell, told Lebanese Army chief of staff Jean Kahwaji that Israel was ready to implement a plan to destroy within four hours all Lebanese military infrastructure, including army bases and offices, should a similar confrontation occur in the future.

Economic Growth Rate Downgraded to Anemic 1.6 Percent in Second Quarter
August 27, 2010
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Under Chairman Obamao the Cluless, the economy will get worse than it already is and a double-dip recession is in the making. And that is not hard to predict. Obamao is ruining the nation. He is Al Qaeda’s dream president. And POW! There it is; right between the eyes.

The Commerce Department is revising downward the economic growth from April to June to 1.6 percent — a decline from the original 2.4 percent forecast and much slower than the 3.7 percent of the first quarter 2010.

The barely-there number isn’t enough keep pace with population growth, which needs about 3 percent annualized growth just to break even each year and prevent unemployment, currently 9.5 percent, from rising.

The trade imbalance — the largest since 1947 — took away nearly 3.4 percent from second quarter growth, the Commerce Department said.

The current quarter isn’t expected to show much improvement, with many economists forecasting growth of only 1.7 percent.

Economists say the number could be a taste of weakness to come — and fears of a double-dip recession are growing.

The odds of the third quarter being negative look reasonably high,” said Kevin Hassett, senior fellow and director of economic policy at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. “Fifty-50 chance.”

The economy has grown for four straight quarters, but that growth has averaged only 2.9 percent, a weak pace after such a steep recession.

Hassett put the blame squarely in President Obama’s lap.

“The policies have been so terrible that they sort of feel to me like the choices of an excessively arrogant, uninformed person, and his economic policy team doesn’t match that description, at least part of it,” he said.

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by JPOST.COM STAFF 
August 20, 2010
Report: Al-Shehri warns against “the greater state of Israel.”

Al-Qaida is ready to exploit a war “by the Jews against Iran,” the Sunni group’s second-in-command in Yemen, Saeed al-Shehri, said in an audio message this month, according to the Daily Beast.

The mostly Shi’ite nation of Iran is an enemy to Al-Qaida, and al-Shehri predicted that after Israel attacked Iranian nuclear installations, Iran would blame Saudi Arabia – which reports say may let Israel fly through its airspace to attack Iran – and use the opportunity to seize the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.

Al-Shehri said Israel would then seize territory from surrounding Arab nations to establish “the greater state of Israel,” and the Sunni Arab population of the Middle East would be trapped between the “Jews in the Middle East and Iran in the Peninsula,” the Daily Beast reported.

According to the Daily Beast, Al-Qaida would benefit from an Israel-Iran war because if Israel attacked Iran’s nuclear installations, Iran would use its proxies to lash back at Americans in the Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Nearly 1 In 5 Americans Thinks Obama Is Muslim, Survey Shows
by Lauren Green
August 19, 2010
FoxNews.com

A new survey reports a sharp increase in the number of Americans who say President Obama is a Muslim. The increase has occurred over the last couple of years, and the poll was taken before the president stepped into the fray of the Ground Zero mosque controversy.

The findings are part of the “Religion, Politics and the President” poll conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life early this month. It also explores Americans’ attitudes toward religion’s impact on society and voting preferences in the upcoming 2010 congressional races.

According to the survey, nearly one in five Americans –18 percent — say Obama is a Muslim, up from 11 percent in 2009. Obama is a Christian, but the number of people say Christian when asked his religion has gone down sharply, from 51 percent in 2008 to 34 percent today. And 43 percent say they don’t know what religion the president follows.

Harry Reid: “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.”
BY John McCormack
The Drudge Report.com
August 10, 2010

While campaigning in Nevada Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told an audience of mostly Hispanic voters: “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, okay. Do I need to say more?”

Reid’s racially-charged comments come as the Nevada Democrat is trying to boost Hispanic turnout in his bid for reelection this November. Polls show, however, that Reid’s positions on immigration are very unpopular with Nevada voters in general. Reid supports the Obama administration’s lawsuit against Arizona over its immigration law, but 63 percent of Nevada voters oppose the lawsuit, according to a Rasmussen poll.

Reid voted against a measure to complete a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border in May, but 68 percent of voters nationally support building a border fence, according to Rasmussen.

British Couple Reportedly Killed In Suspected Honor Killing In Pakistan
August 8, 2010
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When will the PC media of the West stop calling these so called “honor killings” what they should be called and that is “Family Terrorist Dishonor Murders”?

A British couple was murdered last week in Pakistan in a suspected “honor killing,” Sky News reported Sunday.

The couple, Gul Wazir and his wife, Bagum, of Birmingham, England, reportedly traveled to the country to resolve a dispute over a wedding and were gunned down in the village of Salehana in the remote Nowshera province.

British police confirmed the deaths over the weekend, adding that a murder inquiry is already being carried out by the Pakistani authorities, according to the network.

The pair was reportedly shot dead by their daughter’s fiancee after the woman called off the wedding.

The couple has already been buried and the British Foreign Office is providing consular assistance to the family, Sky News reported.

The Penguin called me this afternoon and said she was going to make my day; so I asked her if she had been given a harem of midget strippers that she was going to mail to me.  Unfortuneatly she told me no.

But she began to read the back and forth exchanges on a FaceBook about whether the United States should have apologized for dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (sp) while at the 65th Anniversary memorial of the bombings of the two cities.

It is amazing how some people, other than Muslims, can twist their religion to fit their own world view.

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Pentagon Demands WikiLeaks Return Unseen Afghan War Docs
August 5, 2010
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The Pentagon wants Wikileaks to return the more than 15,000 documents it has but has not yet published, spokesman Geoff Morrell said Thursday.

Morrell said returning the unpublished documents would be the right thing for Wikileaks to do as what’s already been made available has created heightened risks around the world, particularly for Afghans who’ve been helping U.S. forces fight terrorists in Afghanistan.

“We are addressing what we believe to be the culprit here, which is soliciting people to share classified information illegally, and so our focus, this menu that I’ve announced here today, is on them,” he told reporters.

“The demands we are making of them are entirely possible. They have the ability to erase it from their website and to return whatever is in their possession. So this is a very simple demand that could very easily be complied with,” Morrell said.

A team of 80 people is working around the clock to review what’s in the nearly 100,000 documents already released from the leak site. Morrell said that team — composed of staff from a variety of Pentagon agencies — is trying to deduce what’s still out there.

“We believe we have some idea on what those 15,000 could be, and are reviewing what we believe to be potentially those 15,000. We do not know for sure if the 15,000 we believe they have and are waiting to post are indeed the same documents that they do indeed have and are waiting to post,” he said.

U.S. Has Iran Attack Plan, Mullen Says
August 01, 2010
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Adm. Mike Mullen speaks during a July 25 news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The United States military has a plan to attack Iran in order to prevent the country from developing a nuclear weapon, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff revealed Sunday.

Adm. Mike Mullen, the top-ranking U.S. military officer, said a military strike would have severe downsides — but so would a nuclear-armed Iran. He described the challenge as a choice between two very bad options.

“I am extremely concerned about both of those outcomes,” he said.

But Mullen, speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said the military option is an important one. He said it’s a decision that’s up to the president to make.

“The military options have been on the table and remain on the table,” he said. “It’s one of the options that the president has. … I hope we don’t get to that, but it’s an important option and it’s one that’s well understood.”

Asked whether the U.S. military has an attack plan, Mullen said: “We do.” He did not elaborate.
Mullen, who addressed the topic in the wake of new sanctions against Iran being imposed by the United States, European Union and United Nations, said there is a narrow space between those two options. He said that space involves sanctions, diplomacy and international pressure and that he remains “hopeful” the combination will yield positive results.

“It’s those unintended consequences that are difficult to predict in what is an incredibly unstable part of the world,” Mullen said.

Obama Talks Race And Pop Culture On The View
July 29, 2010
The Drudge Report (AP)
by Julie Pace

I’m sure that the Boys Scouts of America did not miss you Obamao. If fact you did a good turn to them by dissing them at their 100th Jamboree Anniversary. I know the clueless of The View are that much more important. Afterall they are the clueless women who voted for you. Better solidify that base while you can. Right?

President Barack Obama said Thursday that the racial firestorm that led to the ouster of a black Agriculture Department official was a “phony controversy” generated by the media. He said his administration overreacted by forcing her out.

In an interview on ABC’s daytime talk show “The View,” Obama said the forced resignation of Shirley Sherrod shows racial tensions still exist in America.

“There are still inequalities out there. There’s still discrimination out there,” Obama said. “But we’ve made progress.”

Sherrod was forced to resign after a conservative website posted an edited video of her speaking about race. Sherrod said the video took her remarks out of context. When her full remarks were discovered, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack apologized and offered Sherrod a new job at the department.

Obama pinned much of the blame for the incident on a media culture that he said seeks out conflict and doesn’t always get the facts right. But he added, “A lot of people overreacted, including people in my administration.”

Very disturbing and a true sign, the left in this nation are pushing an agenda regarding Dr. Martin Luther King Jr that even HE would not support!

‘Freedom Ride’ Pro-Life Rally Disrupted

Alveda King: ‘I Dare You to Arrest Me on My Uncle’s Grave’

National Catholic Register

ATLANTA — A pro-life event at the Martin Luther King Jr. historic site was disrupted by officials July 24.

Participants in the “Freedom Rides for the Unborn” rally — more than 100 pro-life supporters — were kept from rallying on the federal park surrounding the gravesite of the black civil-rights activist even though they had a permit.

Meanwhile, pro-choice opponents who showed up without a permit were ushered onto the grounds for a counter rally.

Organized by Priests for Life and Martin Luther King’s pro-life niece Alveda King, who heads the organization’s African-American Outreach, the event brought several pro-life black pastors and a busload of supporters to the King Center in Atlanta in emulation of the civil-rights Freedom Rides of the 1960s.

The Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, an independent nonprofit founded by the King family, is part of a National Historic Site under the National Park Service, so both King Center staff and Park Service personnel were present at the event.

Free Speech Obstructed
When King and Father Frank Pavone, the national director of Priests for Life, arrived with the Freedom Riders, they were denied access to the King tomb by King Center staff.

When Park Service staff finally allowed King onto the federal property surrounding the center, she managed to get to the gravesite via a back way.

When she was stopped by the King Center’s CEO, John Mack, King was distressed enough by the obstruction that she climbed into a reflecting pool and reportedly said, “I dare you to arrest me on my uncle’s grave.”

Later she joined Father Pavone across the street from the center in front of a laundromat to deliver a speech calling for justice for the unborn.

Before the Freedom Riders arrived at the site, local pro-lifers were already running into trouble from the Park Service, according to Bridget Kurt, an Atlanta pro-lifer and event participant.

“When we got there, a rally of pro-choicers was already going on right on park property, chanting and using a bullhorn,” reports Kurt. “The park superintendent told us we couldn’t congregate on the sidewalk or go onto the grounds and that we couldn’t carry signs. She told us the pro-aborts had a permit but later changed that to say they had permission.”

Kurt was shocked by what transpired: “The Park Service and the King Center disrupted something that was to be very peaceful and prayerful. It all was totally contrary to the spirit of nonviolence that Martin Luther King stood for. I heard one park ranger joke about whether they should get their clubs out. It was a joke, but still, how nonviolent was that?”

Kurt published her version of events on the CNN iReport website under the headline “National Park Service violates free-speech rights of Alveda King and pro-lifers at MLK grave.”

For its part, the Park Service denies that remarks about clubs were made. Moreover, according to Marianne Mills, the public affairs spokeswoman for the National Park Service’s southeast region, any ordering about of pro-life supporters was intended to keep them and pro-choice demonstrators apart.

“The actions directed by Park Superintendent Judy Forte were focused on trying to separate the parties present as their conflict escalated, not show support for one group over another,” Mills told the Register in an e-mail.

Pro-Lifers Assert Rights
Some pro-lifers began turning their signs over to park staff, says Kurt, but she told Superintendent Forte, “We had every right to be on a city sidewalk. She told me to shut up and told a staff member to call 911. I said, ‘Fine, and I’ll call CNN.’”

Both followed through on their statements. However, neither CNN nor any local news agencies sent reporters. The Atlanta police did, however, eventually respond to Forte’s call.

“They told Forte,” says Kurt, “that we could use the sidewalks.”

According to Park Service spokeswoman Mills, Alveda King told Park Service southeast regional director David Vela in an e-mail exchange that the problems that day were with the King Center “and not the National Park Service.” Therefore, Mills told the Register, “the assertion that the ‘National Park Service violates free-speech rights of Alveda King and pro-lifers at MLK grave’ is incorrect.”

Not so, says Kurt. Egged on by King Center staff, Park Service officers did impede King initially, and before she arrived, they bullied and coerced pro-lifers into giving up their signs and tried to disperse them from city sidewalks.

“Park Service staff escalated a tense situation rather than calming it down,” Kurt says. “And it was quite apparent to me the superintendent did not understand free speech and the boundary between what was public and private property and that free speech is allowed on public property.”

Strike on Iran Becoming More Likely, Former CIA Chief Says
July 25, 2010
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WASHINGTON — A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.

Michael Hayden, a CIA chief under President George W. Bush, says that during his tenure a strike was “way down the list” of options. But he tells CNN’s “State of the Union” that such action now “seems inexorable.”

He predicts Iran will build its program to the point where it’s just below having an actual weapon. Hayden says that would be as destabilizing to the region as the real thing.

U.S. officials have said military action remains an option if sanctions fail to deter Iran.

Iran says its nuclear work is for peaceful purposes such as power generation.

NASA’s Deep Space Camera Locates Host Of ‘Earths’
July 25, 2010
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Scientists celebrated Sunday after finding more than 700 suspected new planets — including up to 140 similar in size to Earth — in just six weeks of using a powerful new space observatory.

Early results from NASA’s Kepler Mission, a small satellite observing deep space, suggested planets like Earth were far more common than previously thought.

Past discoveries suggested most planets outside our solar system were gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn — but the new evidence tipped the balance in favor of solid worlds.

Astronomers said the discovery meant the chances of eventually finding truly Earth-like planets capable of sustaining life rose sharply.

NASA so far formally announced only five new exoplanets — those outside our solar system — from the mission because its scientists were still analyzing Kepler’s finds to confirm they are actually planets.

“The figures suggest our galaxy, the Milky Way [which has more than 100 billion stars] will contain 100 million habitable planets, and soon we will be identifying the first of them,” said Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and a scientist on the Kepler Mission. “There is a lot more work we need to do with this, but the statistical result is loud and clear, and it is that planets like our own Earth are out there.”

This is a must watch…

If you want to truly change the world, you have to change yourself first.

How spooky now, are the photos and videos of the amount of people who placed their “Faith” in Obama, and most political leaders in this nation, rather then where that faith should truly be…

Know now, where I am coming from and understand the task at hand is much greater then it looks.

U.S. Atheists Reportedly Using Hair Dryers to ‘De-Baptize’
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July 17, 2010

American atheists lined up to be “de-baptized” in a ritual using a hair dryer, according to a report Friday on U.S. late-night news program “Nightline.”

Leading atheist Edwin Kagin blasted his fellow non-believers with the hair dryer to symbolically dry up the holy water sprinkled on their heads in days past. The styling tool was emblazoned with a label reading “Reason and Truth.”

Kagin believes parents are wrong to baptize their children before they are able to make their own choices, even slamming some religious eduction as “child abuse.” He said the blast of hot air was a way for adults to undo what their parents had done.

“I was baptized Catholic. I don’t remember any of it at all,” said 24-year-old Cambridge Boxterman. “According to my mother, I screamed like a banshee … so you can see that even as a young child I didn’t want to be baptized. It’s not fair. I was born atheist, and they were forcing me to become Catholic.”

Kagin doned a monk’s robe and said a few mock-Latin phrases before inviting those wishing to be de-baptized to “come forward now and receive the spirit of hot air that taketh away the stigma and taketh away the remnants of the stain of baptismal water.”

Ironically, Kagin’s own son became a fundamentalist Christian minister after having “a personal revelation in Jesus Christ.”

“One wonders where they went wrong,” he chuckled to the TV show.

Obama Administration Clueless On The Economy?
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by Brit Hume
July 12, 2010

The evidence mounts that no one in the high councils of the Obama administration has any idea of how to get the economy out of its current rut.

Senior adviser David Axelrod recited the familiar litany on Sunday — we inherited a huge mess from George W. Bush; the stimulus really has made things better; yes, we need tough new financial regulations to avert another scandalous Wall Street collapse.

Axelrod insisted the administration is not anti-business and it may not be. But the president has never worked for — let alone run — a business and nearly all those around him are from the worlds of politics, government and academia. The possibility that businesses are not investing and hiring because of deep uncertainty about everything from taxes to credit to regulation seems lost on them. They believe deeply that the driving force in a robust economy is aggregate demand and that dispensing cash through government spending is the way to stimulate that demand.

But what’s needed now is not just investment to meet current demand for products. What’s needed now is investment in the expectation that the products produced will themselves create demand and that the rewards for taking the risk will not be taxed away by a government insatiable for revenue to cover its spending and insistent on ever more regulation to keep greedy businesses in line.

In other words, lower taxes, lighter regulation and less government spending — the exact opposite of the policies now in place.

Catholics Express Outrage As Rosary Beads Become Fashion Statement
July 10, 2010
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Australian Catholics are outraged after discovering rosary beads, symbols of devotion used in prayer, are being flaunted as a fashion statement, The (Sydney) Sunday Telegraph reported.

The strings of beads with a cross — worn by celebrities Madonna, David Beckham and Britney Spears — are now as likely to be found in cheap jewelry stores as they are in a church.

Australian Fashion franchise Diva is selling three styles of rosary necklaces with silver cross pendants for AU$14.99 (US$13.15) each.

Catholic Women’s League Australia president Madge Fahy said it was inappropriate for teenagers to wear rosary beads as jewelry.

“It is totally disrespectful to the religious beliefs of Catholics,” Fahy said.

“They don’t have the right to abuse our religious objects. Rosary beads are used solely for prayer.”

Fahy said non-religious followers of fashion should have more regard for a symbol of the Catholic Church.

“Don’t wear them unless you’re prepared to use them for what they’re made for. They’re not a fashion item.”

A spokeswoman for the Catholic archdiocese of Sydney said wearing rosary beads trivialized a religious tradition. But she said the Church hoped those who had adopted rosary beads as a fashion item may have a spiritual awakening.

Montana School Proposes Controversial Sex Education Program
by Todd Starnes FoxNews.com
July 09, 2010

A proposed plan to teach kindergartners sex education has come under fire in Helena, Montana.

The Helena Public School system is considering a comprehensive plan for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. It includes teaching first graders that people can be attracted to the same gender. In second grade students are instructed to avoid gay slurs and by the time students turn 10 years old they are taught about various types of intercourse.

According to the draft proposal obtained by FOX News Radio, fifth graders should “understand that sexual intercourse includes but is not limited to vaginal, oral, or anal penetration.”

Jeff Laszloffy, of the Montana Family Foundation, is among those outraged that educators want to teach sex education to kindergarteners.

“It’s absolutely insane,” Laszloffy told FOX News Radio. “This is not education. This has crossed the line and has gone from education to indoctrination and that’s the problem parents have.”

Global Terror: At Least 18 Dead as Blasts Rock Religious Shrine in Pakistan
July 01, 2010
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It’s just another day at the office for the false-religion of love.

LAHORE, Pakistan — A government official says at least two suicide bombers attacked a popular Muslim shrine minutes apart in the Pakistani city of Lahore, killing 18 people.

Sajjad Dhutta, a senior government official in Lahore, says police are still investigating the source of a third blast that followed the two suicide bombers.

Dhutta said thousands of people were visiting Data Darbar shrine at the time of the attack. It contains the tomb of a famous Sufi saint and is visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year.