INEVITABLE: US Collapse, Muslim Victory
3 Quotes from Saudi cleric Sheik Nasser bin Suleiman Al-Omar
From:
Saudi cleric sees U.S. collapsing, Muslim victory
Al-Jazeera broadcasts remarks on upcoming 'battle'
with 'enemies of Allah'
May 5, 2006 - WND
PERSONAL NOTE: Sheik al-Omar's audience was the Muslim audience of al-Jazeera, but the Sheik might well have been speaking to us when he said, "You follow the media." Yes, those paragons of virtue and truthiness. When I think, 'Media' I think, 'Mobius Strip'; Convoluted and one-sided.
The Left-- and when I say 'Left' I don't mean every left-leaning ideologue --believes full well in the might of America, of what we are capable of militarily. They simply find death and bloodshed abhorrent, as does any right-leaning ideologue worth his salt. The difference, I believe, is that the right is less squeamish about what it takes to win, and the attitude one must adopt to win. The left, or rather, Today's left, is more interested in fighting on the political front here at home than on the front-lines abroad. We need to stop fighting amongst ourselves and win this war, and win it decisively. The last decisive victory this nation had over its enemies was WWII [assuming we don't count offensives like Grenada... the equivalent of kicking a dog that can't stand up].
Today's Congressional Left, however, has only one thought on its mind-- Get George W. Bush. Rightly or not, it is their only real focus: Capture the White House, Capture the Senate, Capture the House. And while American politics is egaged in this criminally puerile game of Capture the Flag, our enemies-- not at all the unsophisticated barbarians we naively take them for --laughs at us and plans their own victory parades and celebratory feasts.
Europe is only just waking up to their 'growing' Muslim problem. America thinks because of her freedoms, Muslims here will do nothing to lose the freedoms they enjoy nowhere else. But what happens when the first nation in Europe succumbs, under popular vote, to their first primarily Muslim controlled government? What will that country think of living under Sharia Law? Will it be too late for the rest of Europe? Will America finally awake with a start, look at the clock, and see there's still time to make the train? Or will it be too late to stop the inevitable?
Pearl Harbor galvanized this nation in a way 9-11 did not. Yes, they played politics way back when, but it was not the deadly game it has become today. Politics today is this nations greatest detriment, and greatest danger to the American principles of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Politics today is a far greater threat than the threat of islamic terrorism, far greater than the threat of islamic nuclear terrorism. For it is the dangerous game of Politics that, if left unchecked, will allow every external threat, and horror, to be realized again and again upon American soil... Upon Americans.
There is little hope for America if we continue to bicker amongst ourselves.
The Solution?
Remove money altogether from Politics. No lobbyists, No PAC's, everyone gets access, everyone has opportunity to win. Every candidate gets X amount of dollars from the federal government to run for office... no one is allowed more. Media gives equal access to all.
Repeal the 17th Amendment. Return the power of electing Senators to each states legislature... where it belongs.
I can think of a lot more, but this would be a nice start.
I believe this would go a long way toward declawing this beast that now controls every American's fate; every American's security, liberty, general welfare, and financial independence.
Our nation has ceased to be a nation, "...of the people, by the people, for the people." Instead, it has become a nation 'of the elite, by the elite, and for the elite.'
UPDATE: Oh! And institute mandatory term limits on both houses of congress. That'll effectively kill Career Politician Entitlement Syndrome, or CPES, currently affecting American politics today.
From:
Saudi cleric sees U.S. collapsing, Muslim victory
Al-Jazeera broadcasts remarks on upcoming 'battle'
with 'enemies of Allah'
May 5, 2006 - WND
Love for America is... "now disappearing from the hearts, within America itself and elsewhere, whereas Islam is growing even within America, my brothers."
"You follow the media. America is looking for a way out..."
"Today, America is defeated. I have no doubt, not even for a minute, that America is on its way to destruction."
PERSONAL NOTE: Sheik al-Omar's audience was the Muslim audience of al-Jazeera, but the Sheik might well have been speaking to us when he said, "You follow the media." Yes, those paragons of virtue and truthiness. When I think, 'Media' I think, 'Mobius Strip'; Convoluted and one-sided.
The Left-- and when I say 'Left' I don't mean every left-leaning ideologue --believes full well in the might of America, of what we are capable of militarily. They simply find death and bloodshed abhorrent, as does any right-leaning ideologue worth his salt. The difference, I believe, is that the right is less squeamish about what it takes to win, and the attitude one must adopt to win. The left, or rather, Today's left, is more interested in fighting on the political front here at home than on the front-lines abroad. We need to stop fighting amongst ourselves and win this war, and win it decisively. The last decisive victory this nation had over its enemies was WWII [assuming we don't count offensives like Grenada... the equivalent of kicking a dog that can't stand up].
Today's Congressional Left, however, has only one thought on its mind-- Get George W. Bush. Rightly or not, it is their only real focus: Capture the White House, Capture the Senate, Capture the House. And while American politics is egaged in this criminally puerile game of Capture the Flag, our enemies-- not at all the unsophisticated barbarians we naively take them for --laughs at us and plans their own victory parades and celebratory feasts.
Europe is only just waking up to their 'growing' Muslim problem. America thinks because of her freedoms, Muslims here will do nothing to lose the freedoms they enjoy nowhere else. But what happens when the first nation in Europe succumbs, under popular vote, to their first primarily Muslim controlled government? What will that country think of living under Sharia Law? Will it be too late for the rest of Europe? Will America finally awake with a start, look at the clock, and see there's still time to make the train? Or will it be too late to stop the inevitable?
Pearl Harbor galvanized this nation in a way 9-11 did not. Yes, they played politics way back when, but it was not the deadly game it has become today. Politics today is this nations greatest detriment, and greatest danger to the American principles of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Politics today is a far greater threat than the threat of islamic terrorism, far greater than the threat of islamic nuclear terrorism. For it is the dangerous game of Politics that, if left unchecked, will allow every external threat, and horror, to be realized again and again upon American soil... Upon Americans.
There is little hope for America if we continue to bicker amongst ourselves.
The Solution?
Remove money altogether from Politics. No lobbyists, No PAC's, everyone gets access, everyone has opportunity to win. Every candidate gets X amount of dollars from the federal government to run for office... no one is allowed more. Media gives equal access to all.
Repeal the 17th Amendment. Return the power of electing Senators to each states legislature... where it belongs.
I can think of a lot more, but this would be a nice start.
I believe this would go a long way toward declawing this beast that now controls every American's fate; every American's security, liberty, general welfare, and financial independence.
Our nation has ceased to be a nation, "...of the people, by the people, for the people." Instead, it has become a nation 'of the elite, by the elite, and for the elite.'
UPDATE: Oh! And institute mandatory term limits on both houses of congress. That'll effectively kill Career Politician Entitlement Syndrome, or CPES, currently affecting American politics today.
from the mind of... Eric | 8:55 AM
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Today's Congressional Left, however, has only one thought on its mind-- Get George W. Bush. Rightly or not, it is their only real focus: Capture the White House, Capture the Senate, Capture the House... Of course. That's why when two Democrats this week introduced an amendment to a bill requiring 100 percent scanning of shipping containers coming to the U.S. You know what, by some miracle the amendment made it to the floor for a vote, and wouldn't you know it, every single America hating Democrat voted for it. Oh yeah, six Republicans joined it too. And America would be on the way to being safer this vey momoent, except all the Republicans in the house, were too worried about pissing off Wal-mart and the retail lobbys to risk protecting the homeland.
Public campaign finance bills have been proposed before. Several times. Amazing they keep being voted down by a majority of Republicans. Why? Because the party of special interests needs that K-Street money to keep pulling the wool over your eyes.
LOLOLOLOL!!!!!
You crack me up!
Right you are, Ben. Amazing how Republicans can keep pulling this kind of crap and still their base can't see through it all. How many Abramoff-style mega scandals will it take?
Sol, it'll take at least as many as lasts the time it takes for the Democratic Party to get an actual message that resonates with the American people.
Democrats, of course, are completely above reproach.
No. Democrats are not above reproach. But the difference is that Democrats don't protect their own. Each Dem must be responsible for his/her own actions. That's why Pelosi wants investigation of La. Democrat. or why no one in the Dem leadership is standing up fore either Congressmen Kennedy or McKinley. Contrast that with the Republicans passing a house rule so that Tom Delay could retain his leadership position. Or how when he was finally forced out, he was replaced with a man who sold his house to a lobbyist firm for a fat healthy profit.
Re, "Contrast that with the Republicans passing a house rule so that Tom Delay could retain his leadership position."
Good point, Ben.
Repubs act, and govern, out of fear. Interesting for a party whose right wing always asserts its Christianity.
1 John 4:18: "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love."
Hmm ...
:-)
All we've heard from democrats the last several months is the phrase, "Culture of Corruption" as if the culture were purely a Republican phenomenon. Perhaps the reason why that phrase has suddenly gone silent from the likes of Pelosi and Reid is because it has begun to leave a bitter taste in their mouths.
The culture isn't limited to one single party, but rather, both. But in regard to corruption, let's talk about decades of corruption on the democratic side... Decades... which found its culmination in the Clinton administration.
It wasn't Republicans who enacted a law in Maryland(?) that affects no other corporation but Wal Mart... Oh, that Eee-ville Wal Mart!!! It wasn't the Senate Republican leader who crowed, "We've killed the Patriot Act." It isn't a Republican congressman calling the war un-winnable, that we should pull out as quickly as possible. What about Congressman William Jefferson of Louisiana? Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of Georgia? Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island? Congressman Alan Mollohan of West Virgina? What about the corruption charges leveled against Senator Harry Reid himself? And you want to talk corruption? Puh-leeze!
If Pelosi is distancing herself from the likes of McKinney, and Jefferson, and Mollohan, it's because she has no choice... she can't very well continue to point her finger only at Republicans with members of her own party falling prey to the same ills as Republican's.
Corruption. It knows, nor holds any political affiliation, but it knows the human heart all too well. And while we bicker back and forth, our real enemy advances its own agenda in plain sight. We are, after all, too pre-occupied with the sins of each other to notice.
Go ahead, point your fingers and puff out your chests... Superiority is a fine and heady wine, is it not?
A little wine should go a long way to numbing the pain caused by the rot that has infected this nation.
Funny that I don't see so much rot. Pretty great place, all in all. The world, too, actually.
Kind've an insult to God, ain't it, to see nothing but bad ol' evil everywhere in his creation? Which includes all us human beans, with all our humanity? Hmmm ...
I think I see the problem! Y'all on the right think the world sucks -- if fallen, lost, out of sync, whatever.
Most of us on the Christian left -- and mind you, I'm just barely left of center on many things -- think the world itself ain't bad, it's just certain people in positions of power that are the problem. Hmmm. ...
By the by, I am all for this:
"Repeal the 17th Amendment. Return the power of electing Senators to each states legislature... where it belongs."
But I'm totally against term limits. Tee-totally. "Citizen legislature" sounds good and patriotic and all -- until you get a bunch of yahoos in office who are all ideology and no practicality and can't *spell* the word compromise, which is the very oil that lubricates our systems of gubment.
Supposing the 17th amendment is actually repealed, Term Limits should not effect the election of senators, as each state's legislature chooses who it wishes. Let's face it, the Senate, even in Caesar's day, was more elite than the Concilium Plebis. As much as I despise Teddy K, if the Massachusetts legislature wanted him to continue representing their state's interests, it's their decision. If the people of Massachusetts don't like that choice, they can take it up with their state representatives, on election day, by voting them out of office. The Senate is a more elite and august body than that of the House. I can think of no good reason to change that.
Some would argue that our system of government doesn't really model that of ancient Rome, but our legislative model is too similar to honestly make that argument. Plebe's, or today's House members, Represent the interests of their constituents, whereas Senators represent their State's interests. Under this model states should be allowed to retain the best "Representatives" they can find, irrespective of any term limits levied upon members of the "other" chamber.
The House, however, is a different matter altogether. As they represent the constituents, and serve only two years per term, I'd limit their terms to 6, as described below. The people shouldn't be forced to endure idiots with money for too long. Having said that, I'd be willing to accept the following definition of Term Limits:
"No more than 4 consecutive terms, no more than 6 total."
The bottom line is... No one should be able to make a career of politics simply because they have the cash to win a race. Knowing there is but a short time to accomplish one's goals, should create an atmosphere of forced and shared cooperation, in that getting something done is always the first order of business.
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like American Politics.
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