Listen Up!
January 29th, 2009
New Resource About Violent Threat
January 27th, 2009
Nine/Eleven Finding Answers (NEFA) is a new discovery here. The NEFA web site contains a huge collection of information about Jihadi violence and the funding and training that supports it.
About Bumber Stickers
January 25th, 2009
I currently display the following bumper sticker on my primary vehicle:
I picked this up over at LibertyStickers. I do agree with the tongue-in-cheek sentiment of this slogan but I realize that I must be careful so as to not be painted into the complete sentiment of LibertyStickers collection of offerings.
After all, the depth of political discourse these days rarely goes beyond superficial. Here is another of their current, and accurate offerings:
Earlier Days of This Era of “Terror”
January 25th, 2009
Frequently, many of us in the United States may think that the “Terror” threat to us began on a clear autumn day in the year 2001. The ideological dimension of the threat has been persistent for 14 centuries. The contemporary threat has been growing in parallel with increases in global travel and the growing wealth of the Muslim world.
The current version of the threat can be described to have begun in the 1970’s. We did not really notice it much then due to our preoccupation with the raging Cold War. Nevertheless, the bad guys were already among us, plying their craft. Way back in 1973, one of these bad guys attempted acts of mass murder on US soil. We caught him in 1991 and put him in jail. Now, having “paid his debt to society,” he will soon be released and deported.
There is a very thorough account of the story over at Fox News. Read the whole thing to get an appreciation for the persistence and nature of the treat. Like many of the bad guys that have been released from Gitmo, this fellow is sure to similarly return to his life-ling sworn mission of existence.
I belive that civil law, and our strategy (more accurately our lack of strategy) are characteristically inadequate to counter the threat over the long term. In many cases, success will really depend on the front-line folks, like agent Mike Finnegan to do the right thing while the beauracacy above and behind them wallows in political self-interest and tidal motions of indecision.
Here is an interesting note that should not be missed: Al-Jawary used airline flight training as his cover purpose for being in the United States in the 1970’s.
More Blogs Than I Can Shake a Stick At
January 20th, 2009
It has kinda’ been an extra-long weekend here in the DC Metro area, with MLK day and then the Gov all shut down today. So, there was a lot of surfing going on.
I came upon a whole bunch of locales that I will categorize as 2nd Amendment blogs. Before linking or highlighting those, I need to do a review to find the ones than most align with the purpose here, and not get things bogged down on the ones that are more hardware oriented.
Through other surfing, I came upon Middle Class Moral Compass. This one I have linked to. Time to accelerate the building of the network that will be critical to saving the world.
Yes, If We Can Keep It
January 17th, 2009
“The essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government.”
What The Internet Does
January 17th, 2009
This post at SDA provides an excellent view into what the internet can do for us - It builds connections among communities such that truly eclectic thinking and discussion can take place. This will allow real people to make real decisions that can have a real and positive effect on the community at large. The internet gives us an opportunity to escape the darkness of the control of elitist entities - like the know-it-all “press” that thinks its role is to tell us how to think exactly like they think. No more.
The internet didn’t just connect politically like-minded people whose views are under-served. It connected the highly trained and knowledgeable across geographic regions and fields of expertise, enabling them to compare notes and realize “it’s not just us”. That by and large, journalism is perhaps the only profession where the utterly unqualified are given the privilege of writing to a mass audience on topics that they really not ought to.
At one time, the error in basic chemistry or math might only be spotted by a few trained individuals in the field. A messed up report on the Canadian Wheat Board would raise the ire of ag producers but not much more. Misidentifying a weapons system would pass unnoticed by all but the military.
Today the chemists, ag producers and military talk to each other, and the conclusion they’re coming to is that an uncomfortably large percentage of journalists are not merely tainted by political assumptions - they’re lazy, stupid, or both.
More About The Climate
January 11th, 2009
There is an article posted over at Pat Dollard that has another take on climate change. As expected, the conventional wisdom of the sky-is-falling crowd may be turned on its head. The interesting part that may require more reading is the part about higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere being a result of warmer ocean temperatures, not the cause.
The explanation about this part is basically sound in that most gasses dissolve more readily in colder water versus warm. Warm the water up, and the gas comes out of solution. This is demonstrable in the kitchen with a pan of water. As you heat the pan on a stove, initially small bubbles form on the surface of the pan long before the water boils. These bubbles are gasses, such as CO2 and Nitrogen coming out of soution.
Grassroots Movements
January 11th, 2009
This organization has successfully sponsored rallies in New York and Florida. This, among other new organizaitons that I have learned of recently. May be the beginnings of what we need to do.
Here is another that I need to check out further:
Update on Reality
January 11th, 2009
Here is a precise description of how the current Gaza ‘conflict’ is connected with the greater battle between good and evil.
This war began 30 years ago with the Islamic Revolution in Iran and is now global in scope. Its agenda is the extermination of the Jews and the destruction of the West.
The Islamic terrorist organization Hamas makes no secret of this agenda. Its Egyptian founders and Palestinian inspirers were active followers of Adolf Hitler and enthusiasts of the Nazi Holocaust. The founding charter of Hamas, which promises that “Islam will obliterate Israel,” memorializes the Egyptian admirer of Hitler, Hassan al-Banna, as “the martyr…of blessed memory.” The same document contains the genocidal incitement of the Prophet Mohammed to “kill the Jews,” to hunt them down “until they hide behind the rocks and the trees, and the rocks and trees cry out ‘O Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.’”
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And all around the world, and across Europe and throughout the United States, Muslim and secular radicals are rallying to this Nazi cause, supporting Hamas and attacking Israel and the Jews. The unholy alliance formed by Muslim fanatics and socialist radicals is the face of the terrorist future in the West. It is a coalition for whom no party is so evil that it does not deserve aid and comfort if its enemies are Israel and the United States, and if it is willing to attack them.
Indeed, this battle that has been on-going for the past several weeks is merely on of many that are part of a larger war that of which we are all a part. The rocket attacks launched from Gaza upon the Isaeli civilians are identical in inspiration and goal as the “terrorist” attack that raged through the train station in Mumbia. The Israeli military response that aims to interdict the Gaza rockets is the same right and moral response of a government taking action to protect the earthly existence of their citizens. Any other interpretation is political subterfuge inacted for vile purposes or out of criminal ignorance.