SPLINA ULTRAGIATĂ A ZIONULUI

Șalom și salut, necredincioșilor, fiarelor, și Paisanoviților! Bine ați venit la casa căinței. Priviți coafura zionistă, refractară a Babei Z cum scînteiează, în timp ce ea izgonește pe Curvele Gramsciene, Porcii Fasciști, Papii din Laodicea, și Fiarele prădătoare ale Islamului, dîndu-i pe Mîna Atotputernică a Dumnezeului lui Israel. După ce se va termina de biciuit, se vor servi pișcoturi gramsciene și lapte de capră în salon. Vă rugăm și să gustați din plăcinta ocupației zioniste. L’Chaim!

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Tuesday Missing Link-O-Rama

I am taking the day off today.
The remnants of my innards are rebelling.
I think it is wise that I rest.

Thank GOD for the Missing Link !
Mmmm thwat, Missing Link Strong!
Weakest Link? Not so much!

I should be back later in the afternoon or this evening.
Tawk amongst yaselves.
~ BabbaZee

WHISTLING PAST THE GRAVEYARD - Screamin' Jay

Muslim students provoke confrontation, issue warnings to organizers of Islamofascism Awareness Week even t

UK Muslim charged with poisoning food, children's books with urine, feces

Accidentally shooting a Qur'an was stupid; the way we apologized may have made matters worse

This should send Obama to the men in white.........US President George W. Bush intends to attack Iran in the upcoming months, before the end of his term, Army Radio quoted a senior official in Jerusalem as saying Tuesday

Blasphemy: Islam, Christianity And The Law - Part One

RELATIVES of a US Navy sailor found dead in her Bahrain apartment are planning to take their fight for answers to Congress, it emerged yesterday. The body of Petty Officer 1st Class Cherie Morton was discovered in her living room on April 20 - one month ago today.
Sources have said she suffered a head injury, but her family was forced to bury the 40-year-old earlier this month without knowing exactly how she died

..HORROR In Johannesburg-- Immigrants Beaten & Burned Alive

I want to highly commend a new book written by Ali Sina. Ali is the founder of FaithFreedom.org, an online community that is dedicated to helping free Muslims from the grip of Islam. Ali was also extremely helpful in assisting Susan Crimp and myself in putting together the Why We Left Islam Book. This book will be a powerful resource that needs to be added to everyone’s library.
~ Joel's Trumpet

Pakistani doctor jailed, family forced into hiding, for his alleged blasphemy

..Muslim kills her slave

Muslims told to treat slaves better!

In other words, Iran was not really a country per se, but a stepping stone in the eternal mission of global jihad. As demonstration, Khomeini almost immediately allowed millions to die in his 1980s war with Iraq, one of whose goals was to gain control of the holy cities of Kerbala and Najaf (the resting place of Shia’s Imam Ali) for Allah.

What next Mr President? ..will you be kissing a Quran on Muslim airwaves?

Prostitution thriving in north Afghanistan (read the comments)

John Bolton: Obama obsessed with 100% negotiations

MMMM gooba gooba thwat!

Monday, May 19, 2008

60 Years On

Yes I'll sit with you and talk let your eyes relive again
I know my vintage prayers would be very much the same
And Magdelena plays the organ, plays it just for you
Your choral lamp that burns so low when you are passing through

How can I write what I feel about Israel right now?
First of all.... Which Israel?

The physical Israel of political, secular, and not so regular life in the day?

The mystical Israel of prophets, sages and the Hand of GOD?

Israel eternal, which is not place but people;
not wind and sand,
but breath and soul?

Most people think Israel is 60.
I think Israel transcends all time.
The word of GOD is overwhelmingly evident in the empirical face of History.
I have no reason to doubt it's future veracity.

Gird yer loins Israel.
it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
Turn to the GOD that made you and carried you
and He will deliver you.

He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
Return to the palm of his hand, Oh Israel. He has you engraved there.
No man can save us now.

I will be posting on Israel in all her aspects over the next few weeks.
For now,

Am Yisrael Chai!

~ BabbaZee

זכר ימות עולם בינו שנות דור ודור... - דברים ל"ב:ז
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations...
~Deuteronomy 32:7

FACTS ABOUT ISRAEL / HISTORY TIME LINE

The birthplace of the Jewish people is the Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael). There, a significant part of the nation's long history was enacted, of which the first thousand years are recorded in the Bible; there, its cultural, religious, and national identity was formed; and there, its physical presence has been maintained through the centuries, even after the majority was forced into exile. During the many years of dispersion, the Jewish people never severed nor forgot its bond with the Land. With the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Jewish independence, lost 2,000 years earlier, was renewed.

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I Stand with Israel: I Stand with the Jews
By Oriana Fallaci
Corriere della Sera | 12/2/2002

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I find it shameful that many Italians and many Europeans have chosen as their standard-bearer the gentleman (or so it is polite to say) Arafat. This nonentity who thanks to the money of the Saudi Royal Family plays the Mussolini ad perpetuum and in his megalomania believes he will pass into History as the George Washington of Palestine. This ungrammatical wretch who when I interviewed him was unable even to put together a complete sentence, to make articulate conversation. So that to put it all together, write it, publish it, cost me a tremendous effort and I concluded that compared to him even Ghaddafi sounds like Leonardo da Vinci.

This false warrior who always goes around in uniform like Pinochet, never putting on civilian garb, and yet despite this has never participated in a battle. War is something he sends, has always sent, others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent who playing the part of Head of State caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. No-no-I-want-Jerusalem-all-to-myself. This eternal liar who has a flash of sincerity only when (in private) he denies Israel's right to exist, and who as I say in my book contradicts himself every five minutes.

He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is, so that you can never trust him. Never! With him you will always wind up systematically betrayed. This eternal terrorist who knows only how to be a terrorist (while keeping himself safe) and who during the Seventies, that is when I interviewed him, even trained the terrorists of Baader-Meinhof. With them, children ten years of age. Poor children. (Now he trains them to become suicide bombers. A hundred baby suicide bombers are in the works: a hundred!). This weathercock who keeps his wife at Paris, served and revered like a queen, and keeps his people down in the s***. He takes them out of the s*** only to send them to die, to kill and to die, like the eighteen year old girls who in order to earn equality with the fate of their victims. And yet many Italians love him, yes. Just like they loved Mussolini. And many other Europeans do the same.

I find it shameful and see in all this the rise of a new fascism, a new nazism. A fascism, a nazism, that much more grim and revolting because it is conducted and nourished by those who hypocritically pose as do-gooders, progressives, communists, pacifists, Catholics or rather Christians, and who have the gall to label a warmonger anyone like me who screams the truth. I see it, yes, and I say the following. I have never been tender with the tragic and Shakespearean figure Sharon. ("I know you've come to add another scalp to your necklace," he murmured almost with sadness when I went to interview him in 1982.)

I have often had disagreements with the Israelis, ugly ones, and in the past I have defended the Palestinians a great deal. Maybe more than they deserved. But I stand with Israel, I stand with the Jews. I stand just as I stood as a young girl during the time when I fought with them, and when the Anna Marias were shot. I defend their right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time. And disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans, I am ashamed of this shame that dishonors my Country and Europe. At best, it is not a community of States, but a pit of Pontius Pilates. And even if all the inhabitants of this planet were to think otherwise, I would continue to think so.

Israel's 'doom' could also be Europe's
by Mark Steyn

Almost everywhere I went last week – TV, radio, speeches – I was asked about the 60th anniversary of the Israeli state. I don't recall being asked about Israel quite so much on its 50th anniversary, which, as a general rule, is a much bigger deal than the 60th. But these days friends and enemies alike smell weakness at the heart of the Zionist Entity.

Assuming Iranian President Ahmadinejad's apocalyptic fancies don't come to pass, Israel will surely make it to its 70th birthday. But a lot of folks don't fancy its prospects for its 80th and beyond. See the Atlantic Monthly cover story: "Is Israel Finished?" Also the cover story in Canada's leading news magazine, Maclean's, which dispenses with the question mark: "Why Israel Can't Survive."

Why? By most measures, the Jewish state is a great success story. The modern Middle East is the misbegotten progeny of the British and French colonial map makers of 1922. All the nation states in that neck of the woods date back a mere 60 or 70 years – Iraq to the Thirties, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel to the Forties. The only difference is that Israel has made a go of it.

Would I rather there were more countries like Israel, or more like Syria? Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East (Iraq may yet prove a second), and its Arab citizens enjoy more rights than they would living under any of the kleptocrat kings and psychotic dictators who otherwise infest the region.

On a tiny strip of land narrower at its narrowest point than many American townships, Israel has built a modern economy with a GDP per capita just shy of $30,000 – and within striking distance of the European Union average. If you object that that's because it's uniquely blessed by Uncle Sam, well, for the past 30 years the second-largest recipient of U.S. aid has been Egypt: their GDP per capita is $5,000, and America has nothing to show for its investment other than one-time pilot Mohamed Atta coming at you through the office window.

Jewish success against the odds is nothing new. "Aaron Lazarus the Jew," wrote Anthony Hope in his all but unknown prequel to "The Prisoner Of Zenda," "had made a great business of it, and had spent his savings in buying up the better part of the street; but" – and for Jews there's always a "but" – "since Jews then might hold no property … ."

Ah, right. Like the Jewish merchants in old Europe, who were tolerated as leaseholders but could never be full property owners, the Israelis are regarded as operating a uniquely conditional sovereignty. Jimmy Carter, just returned from his squalid suck-up junket to Hamas, is merely the latest Western sophisticate to pronounce triumphantly that he has secured the usual (off-the-record, highly qualified, never to be translated into Arabic and instantly denied) commitment from the Jews' enemies, acknowledging Israel's "right to exist." Well, whoop-de-doo. Would you enter negotiations on such a basis?

Since Israel marked its half-century, the "right to exist" is now routinely denied not just in Gaza and Ramallah and the region's presidential palaces but on every European and Canadian college campus. During the Lebanese incursion of 2006, Matthew Parris wrote in The Times of London: "The past 40 years have been a catastrophe, gradual and incremental, for world Jewry. Seldom in history have the name and reputation of a human grouping lost so vast a store of support and sympathy so fast. My opinion – held not passionately but with little personal doubt – is that there is no point in arguing about whether the state of Israel should have been established where and when it was" – which lets you know how he would argue it if he minded to.

Richard Cohen in The Washington Post was more straightforward: "Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself."

Cohen and Parris, two famously moderate voices in the leading newspapers of two of the least anti-Israeli capital cities in the West, have nevertheless internalized the same logic as Ahmadinejad: Israel should not be where it is. Whether it's a "stain of shame" or just a "mistake" is the merest detail.

Aaron Lazarus and every other "European Jew" of his time would have had a mirthless chuckle over Cohen's designation. The Jews lived in Europe for centuries but without ever being accepted as "European." To enjoy their belated acceptance as Europeans, they had to move to the Middle East. Reviled on the Continent as sinister rootless cosmopolitans with no conventional national allegiance, they built a conventional nation state, and now they're reviled for that, too. The "oldest hatred" didn't get that way without an ability to adapt.

The Western intellectuals who promote "Israeli Apartheid Week" at this time each year are laying the groundwork for the next stage of Zionist delegitimization. The talk of a "two-state solution" will fade. In the land between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, Jews are barely a majority. Gaza has one of the highest birth rates on the planet: The median age is 15.8 years. Its population is not just literally exploding, at Israeli checkpoints, but also doing so in the less-incendiary but demographically decisive sense.

Arabs will soon be demanding one democratic state – Jews and Muslims – from Jordan to the sea. And even those Western leaders who understand that this will mean the death of Israel will find themselves so confounded by the multicultural pieties of their own lands they'll be unable to argue against it. Contemporary Europeans are not exactly known for their moral courage: The reports one hears of schools quietly dropping the Holocaust from their classrooms because it offends their growing numbers of Muslim students suggest that even the pretense of "evenhandedness" in the Israeli-Palestinian "peace process" will be long gone a decade hence.

The joke, of course, is that Israel, despite its demographic challenge, still enjoys a birth rate twice that of the European average. All the reasons for Israel's doom apply to Europe with bells on. And, unlike much of the rest of the West, Israel has the advantage of living on the front line of the existential challenge. "I have a premonition that will not leave me," wrote Eric Hoffer, America's great longshoreman philosopher, after the 1967 war. "As it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us."

Indeed. So, happy 60th birthday. And here's to many more.

Storage Manager's Linkified Warehouse Overfloweth

Screaming Jay Hawkins - Feast of the Mau Maus

MMMMMMM GOOBAGOOBA THWAT~

MMMMM shakka lunka funka thwat,
the feast of the mau maus!
Missing Link Hungry!
~ SM

Fear not!
Storage Manager of the Funkalunka Missing Link Warehouse
is really a doll...

Indian village proud after double "honor killing"

US General Apologizes for Desecration of Koran

Twilight Zone in Arabic!..New PA Demand: "We Want an Army"

Burma's Children Starving to Death

It’s almost as if they thought terrorists might try to bring, say, the components of a dirty bomb into the country through that vast unfenced, unguarded flank. What a crazy notion!

Hitler and the Nazis could only act the way they did because
we were a nation of bystanders who made it possible

Obamanable Snowjobman wrong on Iran too

Canadian pierces lover's heart in botched sex game

Texas Group Sues to Stop Border Fence

A Grad rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a crowded shopping mall in Ashqelon, injuring 100 people, seven of them critically

Chief PA Negotiator: Jerusalem on the Table

Israel is not a freedom franchise

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Karma Police

Easy Star All Stars - Karma Police
hat tip: DJ Q-Burn

Karma police, arrest this man
He talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge
He's like a detuned radio

Karma police, arrest this girl
Her Hitler hairdo is
Making me feel ill
And we have crashed her party

This is what you get
This is what you get
This is what you get when you mess with us

Karma Police
I've given all I can
It's not enough
I've given all I can
But we're still on the payroll

This is what you get
This is what you get
This is what you get when you mess with us

And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself

For for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
For for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
Phew, for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself

Twilight of the Goddesses

Feminism has been dying the death of a sick old woman. Shackled to the political party that opposed women's suffrage, just as blacks are manacled to the political party of the Ku Klux Klan, both captives levied en masse as foot soldiers to fight the political party of Susan B. Anthony and of Abraham Lincoln, the party of all the original feminists and all the original abolitionists, feminists, like civil rights straw bosses, long ago sold their political soul.

So, when Hillary Clinton is pilloried by the radical Left, her protests of victimhood produce no feminist outrage, because feminists cannot afford to speak too loudly against their Leftist masters.

They know their place.

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It is the Twilight of the goddesses today. The world is staggering toward totalitarianism, and that certainly includes the Leftists in free democracies who hate the freedom and hate the democracy which prevents them from grasping raw power. Hillary was never going to become the master of America. Feminism is a cruel joke played on women. It is no more "pro-women" than the Nazi Party was "pro-German" or the Ku Klux Klan was "pro-white people." Just as the Wagnerian catastrophe of Nazi produced a horrible Ragnarok for the German people, so feminism is producing a needless savaging of women.

READ IT ALL

Slavery is Freedom, Kuffars!

Storage Managers Sunday Missing Linkapalooza

Storage Manager say:
MMM gooba thwat!
Me give good link.
Me put link here.
Me link no go missing.
MMMM bway-bway, lakka lakka good!

Islamic love..Brother Stabs 16 Year-Old Sister 20 Times....

Nothing has changed..women are still property to kill at will....

Belly dancers from hell!

CIA goes after President monkey..or so he claims

The Earth is Flat, Thinks Allah

Muhammad fantasized about baby Aisha before soliciting her from her father

..Islamists gain in Kuwait vote, no women elected

Jihad in India

Certain dogs are not barking when it comes to the question of Barack Obama as apostate Muslim. (No, we are not calling anyone a dog, this is an allusion to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, CAIR. Relax.)

Thank God Afghanistan is free....An Afghan journalism student sentenced to death for insulting Islam denied the charges before an appeals court Sunday, saying he only confessed to questioning the religion's treatment of women because he was tortured

PARIS - A three-country police sweep yesterday instigated by France netted 10 people suspected of financing terrorist movements - and threw the spotlight on Al Qaeda-linked militants with roots in Uzbekistan.

This is not clear how supporters of (the US President George W. Bush) and the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) will answer to all their crimes.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Run Away! Run Away!

Israeli intelligence chief says Abbas might flee if peace fails

Audio of article

JERUSALEM:

Israel's chief of military intelligence said in comments published Friday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas may flee the area if peace efforts fail.

Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin told the Haaretz daily that he is not optimistic about Israeli-Palestinian attempts to reach a final peace deal by the end of the year.

Yadlin predicted that such a failure of the U.S.-backed efforts would severely weaken Abbas and force him to leave the West Bank.

"If there is a sharp confrontation, with accusations hurled, I think the Palestinian Authority leadership will be very much weakened, so much so that very senior officials will leave," Yadlin told the newspaper.

When asked if that means Abbas could flee the Palestinian areas, Yadlin replied "I do not rule out that possibility."

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IN THE TEHRAN TIMES

Abbas pledge on 'catastrophe' day

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says he is determined to end Israel's occupation of Palestinian land, labeling it ""mankind's shame"". Mr. Abbas also said his hands were extended in peace, as Palestinians mark the ""catastrophe"" of Israel's creation. More than 700,000 Palestinians were displaced in the war that followed Israel's establishment in 1948. U.S. President George W Bush, who is visiting the country, told MPs that Washington was Israel's closest ally. As Palestinians recalled the ""Nakba"" (catastrophe) 60 years ago, Mr. Abbas said in a televised speech:

""It is time for this occupation to leave our land and blood. ""It is time this mankind's shame, which is called the Palestinian people's Nakba, to end."" Sirens sounded across the Palestinian territories during two minutes of silence for those who fled or were expelled in the conflict that followed Israel's declaration of independence. Protest rallies were held across the West Bank and Gaza, and demonstrators released 21,915 black balloons - one for each day since Israel's creation. Many Palestinians accuse Israel of collective punishment in its attempts to quash Palestinian resistance fighters, says the BBC's Katya Adler in Beit-ul-Moqaddass.

MPs walk out At the Erez border crossing in Gaza, Israeli troops opened fire towards demonstrators. There was no immediate word of any casualties. There were also clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops near the Qalandiya refugee camp in the West Bank. In Beit-ul-Moqaddass, Mr. Bush received a standing ovation from MPs at the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. Mr. Bush said: ""Israel's population may be just over seven million. ""But when you confront terror and evil, you are 307m strong, because the United States of America stands with you."" The president did not repeat his ambition, stated earlier this year, for a full peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians within the next eight months. He again urged action to prevent states obtaining nuclear weapons. ""Permitting the world's leading sponsor of terror to possess the world's deadliest weapon would be an unforgivable betrayal of future generations,"" he said. And he backed Israel's refusal to negotiate with the Islamist Hamas movement.

Israeli PM Ehud Olmert said there should be a different Middle East over the next 60 years that would include a democratic homeland for Palestinians. He also said he thought the Israeli people and parliament would overwhelmingly back a peace agreement with the Palestinians. A number of hardline Israeli MPs walked out as he spoke. Mr. Bush's Middle East visit will include Saudi Arabia and Egypt. But there will be no trilateral summit between the American, Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

May 12th:
Bush: Abbas a 'partner for peace', Olmert an 'honest guy'

Storage Manager is the Missing Link!

But.... never fear.....he is evolving as we speak!

Control Denied - When the link becomes missing

Christian Evangelists Beaten in Bangladesh...

UN: Torture Widespread in 'Moderate' Indonesia...

Nuclear lab fails terrorist exercise: Lawrence Livermore Lab of California

President of Iraq Jalal Talabani Friday evening ruled out the US allegations against Iran and alleged involvement in sending weapons to Iraq

In Iran, Covert Christian Converts Live With Secrecy and Fear

Scottish Catholic Leader: Islamic Law in Britain "Inevitable".....

JHANG: A man hacked his sister in law and two nieces to death on suspicion of having illicit relations here Friday

Scientists & Theologians Debate

Space-Time Continuum just an illusion

Earthquake in Alabama ~ Alabama????

Afghan hijacker now a cleaner at Heathrow

Who TF is Mohammed Omar?

Take this down......

All Hail the Feral Remnant!

After this I will return
and rebuild David's fallen tent.
Its ruins I will rebuild,
and I will restore it,
that the remnant of men may seek the Lord,
and all the Gentiles who invoke and bear my name,
says the Lord, who has been making these things known
since the beginning of the world
~ Acts 15:16-18

Aaronic Priests on the Temple Mount, 2007

The seed will grow well,
the vine will yield its fruit,
the ground will produce its crops,
and the heavens will drop their dew.
I will give all these things as an inheritance
to the remnant of this people
~ Zechariah 8:12

ISRAEL MUST LIVE

The remnant of Israel will do no wrong;
they will speak no lies, nor will deceit be found in their mouths.
They will eat and lie down and no one will make them afraid
~ Zephaniah 3:13

The remnant of Jacob will be
in the midst of many peoples
like dew from the LORD,
like showers on the grass,
which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.

The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations,
in the midst of many peoples,
like a lion among the beasts of the forest,
like a young lion among flocks of sheep,
which mauls and mangles as it goes,
and no one can rescue.

Your hand will be lifted up in triumph over your enemies,
and all your foes will be destroyed.

~ Micah 5:7-9

A warrior who understands deeply what his real weapon is

Friday, May 16, 2008

Disease Of Conceit

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
~Proverbs 16:18

Can't you gleeking plebians see I am trying to eat my waffle here?
~ Obamanable Snowjobman, 2008

There's a whole lot of people suffering tonight
From the disease of conceit.
Whole lot of people struggling tonight
From the disease of conceit.
Comes right down the highway,
Straight down the line,
Rips into your senses
Through your body and your mind.
Nothing about it that's sweet,
The disease of conceit.

There's a whole lot of hearts breaking tonight
From the disease of conceit,
Whole lot of hearts shaking tonight
From the disease of conceit.
Steps into your room,
Eats your soul,
Over your senses
You have no control.
Ain't nothing too discreet
About of disease of conceit.

There's a whole lot of people dying tonight
From the disease of conceit,
Whole lot of people crying tonight
From the disease of conceit,
Comes right out of nowhere
And you're down for the count
From the outside world,
The pressure will mount,
Turn you into a piece of meat,
The disease of conceit.

Conceit is a disease
That the doctors got no cure
They've done a lot of research on it
But what it is, they're still not sure

There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight
From the disease of conceit,
Whole lot of people seeing double tonight
From the disease of conceit,
Give ya delusions of grandeur
And a evil eye
Give you idea that
You're too good to die,
Then they bury you from your head to your feet
From the disease of conceit.

I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty
and I will humble the pride of the ruthless.
~ Isaiah 13:11

UN Racism Investigator to visit U.S.

GENEVA (Reuters) - A special U.N. human rights investigator will visit the United States this month to probe racism, an issue that has forced its way into the race to secure the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

The United Nations said Doudou Diene would meet federal and local officials, as well as lawmakers and judicial authorities during the May 19-June 6 visit.

"The special rapporteur will...gather first-hand information on issues related to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance," a U.N. statement said on Friday.

His three-week visit, at U.S. government invitation, will cover eight cities -- Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, Omaha, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Race has become a central issue in the U.S. election cycle because Sen. Barack Obama, the frontrunner in the battle for the Democratic nomination battle, stands to become the country's first African American president.
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MPH and ETA

The only difference between R & D today is MPH and ETA

Threats to America

(hat tip storagemanager)

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned in a major speech yesterday that the United States is facing the danger of defeat today similar to Britain in the early days of World War II.

U.S. military, economic and intellectual power is eroding as threats are growing and both Republican and Democrat leaders are deficient, Mr. Gingrich said. The five "greatest strategic threats" to the country, he said, are China's rise, a resurgent autocratic Russia, radical Islam, rogue regimes seeking weapons of mass murder, and the growth of an anti-democratic system led by a "bureaucratic international elite."

The U.S. needs a grand strategy to confront and outmatch all five threats, but noted that "current American efforts are too small, too unimaginative, and too timid."

"Faced with these large, systemic challenges, the current generation of leaders in both parties are refusing to deal with the scale and the urgency required for continued American prosperity, safety, and freedom," Mr. Gingrich told the Business Executives for National Security.

Ideologically, "we find ourselves crippled by political correctness and incapable of having honest conversations about meeting the threats around the world," Mr. Gingrich said.

Recent guidelines by the Department of Homeland Security and National Counterterrorism Center instructing government officials not to use "Islamic terms" to describe terrorists is "enormously self-destructive," he said.

"If we cannot have an honest discussion about the nature of the threats against us, we cannot develop strategies to meet those threats," he said. "It is simply suicidal to treat the al Qaeda network as simply 'an illegitimate political organization, both terrorist and criminal' while ignoring the radical religious foundation underpinning this and other groups that constitute an Irreconcilable Wing of Islam. Anyone blind to this should be dismissed from working in national security.""

Digital Prayer Rugpalooza!

Hat Tip: Writer Mom

Git yer ya's ya's out
on yer brand new cozmik
buzzing digital
super sonic
bionic MFing
prayer rug,!

CAIRO — Using modern technology to serve Muslims better perform their religious rituals, a fourth-year PhD computer science student has designed a high-tech prayer rug equipped with sensors, lights and a Qur'an display screen. "It will increase their understanding of the scriptures and the quality of the prayer," inventor Wael Aboulsaadat told the Toronto Star on Thursday, May 15. Aboulsaadat, studying for his PhD at the University of Toronto's computer science department, has designed a prayer rug with built-in sensors that can detect the worshipper's posture. If the user makes an error, such as missing or adding a step in the prayer sequence, the sensors will vibrate in alert. Aboulsaadat says the vibration is a subtle way to help correct the error without breaking the performer's concentration.

"It's important not to interrupt flow, because that interrupts the focus of prayer." Muslims pray five times a day, with each prayer made of a series of postures and movements, each set of which is called a rak‘ah. The eRug also has a notification mode that alerts the user to next prayer times and important religious holidays. It also features a compass – complete with a 3D model of the holy mosque in Makkah – so the worshipper can find Ka`bah direction wherever he/she may be. By facing the Ka`bah in prayers, Muslims are stressing the unity of humankind under the Lordship of the One and only God. Potentials The digital rug has lights that can be used in case the worshipper is in a dark place. It is also equipped with a digital screen enabling the worshipper to follow the Quran verses recited during the prayer. "You can customize and choose which [verses to read in the] prayers," says Aboulsaadat, 36.

He is reportedly consulting with a scholar to make sure the eRug adheres to Islam's practices, especially with respect to the Qur'an feature. Aboulsaadat believes the eRug would be useful for so many groups, including the elderly and those with cognitive and memory disabilities who can benefit from the screen and the sensors.

He says the prayer eRug is just a prototype that can be further enhanced to fit all major religions. Aboulsaadat hopes to work on the invention so that people of all faiths could use it in their religious activities.

He contends that a Catholic learning catechism, a Buddhist wanting deeper meditation, a Jew studying the Torah could benefit from a digital device that would remind, correct and allow for customization.

Consider This: by 3 Wood

Good news has just hit the wires about the construction numbers.

Expect most of the MSM to ignore this.

Housing starts surge on apartment construction:

"WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - U.S. home builders broke ground on 8.2% more homes in April, led by a 36% increase in multi-family units, the Commerce Department estimated Friday."

The lower interest rates are probably starting to have their effect.
Remember that you have time lags in economics.
It will be another few months before you should see the ripple effect of this higher construction activity impact employment and income statistics.

Also:

"Building permits increased 4.9% in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 978,000."

This is important as it signifies coming construction during the summer.

Analysis

Macro economically speaking, the construction industry seems to be moving forward.

At the same time the damage to the banking/finance sector has not fully run it's course, so that will somewhat counterbalance the construction industry growth.

In addition, oil continues to climb and I see no slowdown in demand for oil yet. Therefore, I would not be surprised to see $140 to $150 a barrel oil before the summer is over.

All other things held equal, I expect to see the market trade sideways or a little up over the summer, and then begin to climb in the fall.

~ 3 Wood