How are your buddies doing Joe?

You know, the ones in the German American Bund ... errrrr .... sorry Rep. Sestak (D-PA) ... I meant CAIR. From PowerLine;

Now Investor's Business Daily draws attention to a prosectution of a senior CAIR official who trained to wage jihad against American soldiers. IBD reports that the government has shed a little more light on CAIR in papers filed with the court:

"From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders," the filing states, "CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists." The government also cited evidence "the conspirators used deception to conceal from the American public their connections to terrorists."

IBD notes the senators and representatives who have spoken up for CAIR. IBD doesn't mention CAIR's close connections to MInnesota's own Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison.

Nice supporters you have there RADM (Ret.) Sestak.

Nancy didn't get the memo

As we all read things such as this from Al Qaeda,

In the Name of Allah the Most Merciful the Most Compassionate
Date: Third of Shawaal of 1428 Hijri(H)[Gregorian: 15 Oct 2007]
Islamic Greetings
This is My Will:
I am Abu-Tariq, Emir [leader] of Al-Layin and al-Mashahdah Sector.
There were almost 600 fighters in our Sector before the Tribes changed course 360 degrees under the influence of the so-called Islamic Army (Deserter of Jihad) and other known believer groups. Many of our fighters quit and some of them joined the deserters, and later on I will mention the names of Fighters who stood by us (faithful fighters), but things started getting worse ever since, and as a result of that the number of fighters dropped down to 20 or less which led us to move some of our vehicles to another location (Al-Muthanna Establishment Area) for security reason where our brother (redacted) is stationed at(I will also mention the type vehicles at the end.)

The Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), said this.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said twice Sunday that Iraq “is a failure,” adding that President Bush’s troop surge has “not produced the desired effect.”

People. Let the Dems get the White House and the House AND the Senate and then .... something tells me that, Kosovo and Clinton like, you can rest assured that things coming out of Pelosi and Reed's mouth will change...

Chap finds the snatchers

I think my first two posts today were a bit too grumpy - so let me take a different tac.

Chap, nice innocent fella that he is - finds that the open minded, progressive, chilly-foodie Boomers are, well, what Jonah says they are.

I received a Nazi salute as I walked out, and the aging boomer eating his ice cream with his date near the door fluffed up and started telling me how he wasn’t going to talk to me as I was going out the door. I guess he didn’t like it when I stopped and asked him why he was talking to me if he didn’t want to talk to me…the gears didn’t move too quick on the guy.

Chap; aren't you glad they are on the other side? Trying to talk to them kind of reminds me of this.

Ball-less Boomer Navy

SJS has the whole message, you should read it. Piss-poor excuse; I don't buy it.

GENTEXT/REMARKS/1. OPNAV N88 APPROVED THE NAVAL AVIATION ENTERPRISE (NAE) CARRIER READINESS TEAM (CRT) REQUEST TO REMOVE THE CAPTAIN’S GIG FROM ALL CV/CVNS. REMOVAL OF THE CAPTAIN’S GIG WILL REDUCE MAINTENANCE COSTS AND FREE UP VALUABLE HANGAR BAY SPACE.

Hey, we are having BDU to hide from paint chips and those trying to find us overboard - we have E-6 and below wearing khaki - why not have the CO of a CVN wait in the liberty line like everyone else?

Pathetic. I weep for our Navy. "Enterprise" should only be used with USS in front of it. When do we start calling everyone "Comrade Captain?"

A religion destroying itself

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the gift that keeps on giving - usually to the Islamists - but for those who are watching a once proud people stand by and let the misguided lead them over the cliff.

The Archbishop of Canterbury says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK "seems unavoidable".

Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4's World at One that the UK has to "face up to the fact" that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.

Dr Williams argues that adopting parts of Islamic Sharia law would help maintain social cohesion.

For example, Muslims could choose to have marital disputes or financial matters dealt with in a Sharia court.

He says Muslims should not have to choose between "the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty".

He really doesn't get it - or more likely, he doesn't want to. Sharia isn't like cafeteria Anglicanism, it is an all or nothing thing. Like this.

But on Monday, when the power failed in her company's offices, Yara and her male colleagues decided to use a nearby Starbucks, which has wireless Internet, as a temporary workspace.

She settled into a booth with a male colleague and opened her laptop. Moments later, she was arrested.

"Some men came up to us with very long beards and white dresses. They asked, 'Why are you here together?' I explained about the power being out in our office. They got very angry and told me what I was doing was a great sin," Yara recalled.

The men were from Saudi Arabia's Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, a 10,000-strong police force charged with enforcing dress codes, sex segregation and the observance of prayer times.

Yara said they grabbed her mobile phone and pushed her into a taxi bound for Riyadh's main prison. There she was interrogated, strip-searched and forced to sign and fingerprint confessions of guilt.

Later, she was made to stand before a judge who condemned her behavior, telling her she would "burn in hell."

She said she spent hours in a filthy prison cell with dozens of other women who had been arrested by the religious police, before her husband used his political connections to secure her release.
...
Yara said she carries her American passport with her as a precaution. But on Monday, she said, her identification was confiscated by the religious police, who told her they didn't care about her citizenship.

She is taking medication to treat post-traumatic stress while she recovers from her ordeal at her family's home in Jeddah.

"Thank God they did not harm her more," said her husband, Hatim.

"The psychological impact is beyond description," Hatim said. "She's normally a very calm, stable woman. Now she's afraid to leave our compound."

....and to think the head of the established Christian Church of the nation that gave the world one of its greatest gifts, English Common Law, this is just a madness that is hard to describe. Watch this and ask - why does he claim to advance Christ? There is hope, his own Church is starting to see the rot at the head.

Dr Rowan Williams was urged to quit by angry members of the General Synod, the Church's "parliament", who claimed he was undermining the Christian faith.

To add to his woes, Lord Carey, his predecessor at Canterbury, and the Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, challenged his view that aspects of Islamic law could be incorporated into the English legal system.

The row erupted on Thursday when Dr Williams suggested the introduction of Muslim laws into the UK was "unavoidable".

The strength of the backlash represents one of the most serious blows to the Archbishop's authority since his appointment five years ago, and he faces more turbulence when the Synod convenes for a five-day meeting in London on Monday.

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