THE WONDERFUL, PEACE-LOVING RELIGION OF ISLAM, PART XIVIII

Even though I was on vacation, I posted some notes on this ... but today we'll get to talk about it.  No, it's not old news.  This is THE news.  We have to wake up, my friends.  We have the leader of the Catholic Church frankly acting like he's afraid of the Muslim world.  Perhaps he should be?  After all, these wonderful, peace-loving Muslims have already called for his beheading, and they shot a Catholic Nun in the back in Somalia.

Come on, folks.  Wake up and smell the cordite. 

A Danish newspapers prints a cartoon that depicts Mohammed as violent ... and Muslims erupt in violence.

The Pope quotes the last Byzantine Emperor -- dead for 600 years  -- who felt that Islam was a violent religion ... and Muslims erupt in violence.

Is this registering with you?

Muslims shoot school children in the back in Chechnya.  Muslims behead school girls in Indonesia just because these girls are attending a Christian school.  Muslims shoot a Catholic nun in the back in Somalia.  Muslims kill 3,000 innocents in New York and Washington D.C.  Muslims fire rockets into civilian areas of Israel.  This list goes on and on and on ... and it's been going on for hundreds of years. 

Again ... the Pope reads a 600 year-old transcript of a conversation between a Persian scholar and a Byzantine emperor where in the emperor says that Islam is a violent religion ... and what do we get?  More violence?

Now we have the Pope and other western leaders jumping through hoops to convince these violent Muslims that we really don't believe that they're all that violent .. and how sorry we are that the Byzantine emperor disagreed.

We had better wake up here ... while we can.

IRAN'S TERRORIST-IN-CHIEF SPEAKS

So yesterday was the big day.  Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressed the United Nations.  Actually, letting this guy into the country to make this speech may have been a brilliant political move.   Because he stood right there at the U.N. podium and made the case for the War On Terror.  Among his rants:

• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lied about his country's nuclear program, saying it was transparent, peaceful and under the watchful eye of United Nations inspectors.  Oh boy!  That ought to make us all feel better, since the U.N. has such a great track record of keeping nukes out of the hands of crazy people like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.



• The Jihadist menace then tore into the United States and Great Britain over the war in Iraq.  Come to think of it, Ahmadinejad sounded like he was reading from a text prepared by the Democratic National Committee.  He whined about civilian deaths in Iraq, just as the mainstream media has been doing.  However, he failed to mention that Iran is behind much of the insurgency.   I particularly liked the part where he talked about the U.S. coming thousands of miles to attack poor innocent Muslims in Iraq ... but no mention of the thousands of miles traveled by Muslims to attack America on 9/11.



• Ahmadinejad complained about the war between Israel and Hezbollah and how it affected the people of Lebanon.  He forgot to mention that Iran props up Hezbollah and is responsible for starting the war.  Small omission there.

THE UNITED STATES RECORD TAX HAUL

Wait!  One more thing!  What about those horrible Bush tax cuts?  I thought the government was starving for the money it needed because the rich were getting away with murder!  Well, once again we see that cutting taxes on the productive class actually leads to higher government tax revenues.  That's a lesson the left will never learn.

KOFI ANNAN'S RETIREMENT SPEECH

After President Bush spoke to the U.N. General Assembly yesterday, Kofi Annan took to the podium.  In case you didn't know, Kofi is stepping down at the end of the year after a 10-year term as U.N. secretary-general.  It was his last speech before the general assembly.  And just what has the last decade of his service given us?  Let's take a look at what we will be missing, shall we?

One huge disaster -- or fraud, if you will,  on Kofi's watch, and one which he has gotten a total pass in the media from, is the oil-for-food program.  That was the program in which the citizens of Iraq were ripped off by Saddam Hussein and the corrupt Security Council members he paid off.  To date, what has Kofi Annan done about it?  Nothing, really.  And the fact that it was discovered that his son was a beneficiary of Saddam's blood money didn't help.

And speaking of Iraq, what good did the U.N. do there?  Certainly nothing worthwhile while Annan was running the show.  Until the U.S. and Britain invaded in 2003, overthrowing Saddam Hussein, the U.N. stood idly by....introducing toothless resolutions that they never intended to enforce.  The fact that the U.N. stood in the way of the invasion of Iraq exposed Kofi as the Islamic terrorist appeaser that he is.

In fact, it's hard to point to a single thing that Kofi Annan has done during his 10-year tenure as the U.N. Secretary-General that was worthwhile.  Come to think of it, it's hard to find anything the United Nations itself has done in its 60-plus year history that is of any value.  So as Kofi's tenure comes to a close, we just have to ask ourselves...why do we bother financing this haven for Third-word dictators and terrorists?

It's a complete waste of time....and don't forget it's also a waste of valuable New York real estate.

GOVERNMENT SKULS --- GOTTA LOVE THEM

We take you now to the Pine Tree Elementary School in Orange County, New York.  The home of Orange County Choppers, by the way.  There we have a third grade teacher who wants to hand out a packet of spelling information to parents at a school open house.  Just one problem here.  The teacher prepared the information on a word processor using some sort of type font that uses male and female figures in sexually provocative poses to form the letters of the alphabet.  I imagine the small-case "h" would be a favorite.  Anyway ... the parents were less than amused, and the school is apologizing.  They say the teacher didn't do that intentionally.  Well, at lease it gives the parents something to be upset about.  The hold the teacher's union has over this and all other government schools sure isn't going to do it.

WHAT THE HELL?  JUST FIRE THEM

As if the taxpayers of Travis County, Texas didn't have to fund enough fat .... now they're going to have to step up and pay to get rid of it, but not in a way you would suspect.

Travis County, home to Austin and the University of Texas, could have as much as 10% of its employees qualify as morbidly obese.  This, of course, adds to the county's health care costs.  So ... the brilliant political minds in Travis County (I did tell you that the University of Texas is in Travis County, didn't I?) have come up with an idea.  They're going to force the taxpayers to foot the bill for gastric bypass surgery for up to 15 fat county workers a year.  Those surgeries cost about $15,000 to $25,000 a pop, and often lead to complications that cost much more.

Now ... there is one element of common sense here.  To be eligible for the surgery the waddling worker must go through one year of a monitored dieting and exercise program.  How closely the program will be monitored is anyone's guess.

But wait!  As usual, I have a better idea.  Single out the fat employees and tell them that they have to get on a dieting and exercise program, or they will be fired!  Tell them that the taxpayers are sick to death of paying for the extra health care caused by their overeating and lack of exercise ... and that the county's first responsibility is to the taxpayers, not county employees. 

Either lose weight, show a medical reason why you cannot, or you're out on your fat ass.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

This guy looks like he's really close to winning a Darwin Award, doesn't he?. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Michelle Malkin is taking on the Associated Press, saying the global news organization has connections to terrorists.  She points to an AP journalist being apprehended in an apartment with an Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq.

Calling the war in Iraq one of the dumbest in history, Ted Turner says men should be banned from office for 100 years.  He also says Iran should be allowed to have nuclear weapons, because after all, other countries do.  Now that's a dumb idea.

This is bad news for the Democrats....President Bush's approval ratings are up sharply.  His approval rating is up to 44 percent...his highest in a year.  This can't be good for Nancy Pelosi's prospects of wielding the speaker's gavel this fall.

Dr. Walter E. Williams asks the question:  what exactly is prejudice?  He makes the case that the word is misunderstood and offers some interesting examples.  Think you're not prejudiced?  Read this column and find out.

Did you know that the United Nations is still aggressively seeking the power of taxation?  Paul Weyrich explains that the idea isn't as far-fetched as you might think.  Most of the countries of the world support the idea.

One of the reasons Pope Benedict XVI was elected Pope is because the cardinals wanted him to be more confrontational with Islam.  Evidently Benedict doesn't think Islam is going to give up its jihadist ways.  Julia Duin has more.

The reaction to the Pope's speech about Mohammed shows that Islam itself is intolerant.  However, as Jonah Goldberg points out, those that dare to criticize the religion may just find themselves having their head cut off.

David Frum of the National Review does not have kind words for President Bush's speech at the U.N. yesterday.  He calls it a boring speech and says it represents the last 3 years of the Bush administration's failed Iran policy.  Ouch.

Christopher Hitchens is advising people to read the Pope's entire lecture he made in Germany last week, the one that sparked all the controversy.  Hitchens also says the Pope's comments were not particularly helpful.

With the Bush Administration spending money faster than any other administration in history, John Stossel points out that it's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between a conservative and a liberal.  He also looks at the issue of funding for embryonic stem cell research as an example.

Computer scientists at Princeton University show how easy it is to hack a Diebold voting machine. (video)

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