Mohammed's Morons

Thousands of bikers descended on Washington, DC, today for a memorial run commemorating the 12 anniversary of the 9/11 murders of nearly 3,000 Americans. They were denied a federal permit for this but they rode anyway. Of course the feds approved the so called Million Muslim March which attracted far fewer participants.

And why were the Moozies meeting? Well,the American Muslim Political Action Committee wanted to "draw attention to what they call unfair fear of Muslims after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks."

Whiny Moozies, unfair fear?? I swear by Mohammed's Curly Ass Hairs that is the most lame excuse for a rally I ever heard.

It's like the Nazi's holding a Nuremberg Rally to protest the unfair rise in natural gas prices caused by the murder of 6 million Jews.

Morons...

H/T to FoTM

Sgt. John King

John continues to show improvement over the past two days.
He is by no means out of danger and is still in intensive care, but his vitals have improved and doctors are more optimistic.

update 9/11: Praise the Lord-Jon has remained stable throughout the afternoon. If he continues to do so during the night, the doctors will be making a decision about giving him the reflex exercises to test his neurological response. This involves removing him from all medication, and it is definitely a big decision to be made.

Hopefully we will also soon learn the identity of the woman who witnessed the accident and stopped to give John CPR before the ambulance arrived. There are no other details but apparently she saved his life.

Bless all of you for your prayers. John was at death's door ringing the doorbell.

Even The Prophet Waited Until She Was Nine

Manama: Kuwaitis have called for stringent action against a family in Yemen after their eight-year-old daughter died of internal injuries on the first night of her arranged marriage to a man more than five times her age.

Rawan died in city of Hardh in the Governorate of Hajjah in northwestern Yemen, Kuwaiti daily Al Watan reported on Sunday, quoting Yemeni media.

She is believed to have suffered a tear to her genitals and severe bleeding.

Yemeni activists urged the local police to arrest the “beastly groom” and the girl’s family and transfer them to a court where justice would be served and the case would be used to help put an end to the practice of marrying very young girls in the impoverished country, the daily said.

Yeah, let's allow more of these people to immigrate here.


H/T iOTW

Helpful Software Offends Brain Dead Liberals

A smart phone app that was once called Ghetto Tracker has been renamed "Good Part of Town" after a storm of criticism from liberal morons. I think it's a handy dandy app and I intend to download it.

In less than 24 hours, a new app tactfully titled Ghetto Tracker--a service seeking to help people identify safe areas in unfamiliar cities--has already garnered enough backlash to prompt an immediate name change to Good Part of Town.

However, the PR move may not do much to alter the public's reception of the app, which critics are slamming as a racist, classist app for helping the rich to avoid the poor.

The app functions by allowing locals to rate the safety of different parts of a given area. According to The Week, the original launch of the page featured a white family of four smiling alongside the app's promise to show users "which parts of town are safe and which ones are ghetto, or unsafe."

In addition to the name change, all mention of the word "ghetto" has been removed from the site. The site now features an ethnically diverse family on its homepage.

As a retired cop I often wear a gun; even so, there are portions of the city where I used to work that I avoid. I am not rich and I am not avoiding the poor. I am avoiding amoral, undisciplined monsters who shoot at people for no reason at all and endanger the lives of innocent bystanders with their ghetto disdain for innocent bystanders as they spray bullets in all directions.

I have traveled to unfamiliar cities where I have ended up in ghetto areas unwittingly. I got the hell out as quickly as possible, not because I am intimidated by people who live below the poverty level, but because so many of their children are vicious animals. I worked in areas like this for over a dozen years. I know what goes on and I have no misconceptions about ghetto crime.

"It’s pretty detrimental to society when we reinforce the idea that poor or crime-heavy areas are places to be categorically avoided or shamed," David Holmes wrote on PandoDaily. "As if to assume that every person who lives in an area with comparatively high crime or poverty is a criminal, or that these areas are devoid of culture or positivity."

Idiot. I'm not worried about society, society tends to take care of itself. But it's pretty detrimental to your health to have some racist felon beat you senseless for no reason at all. Ask the poor man who was attacked by a black in NYC because he was white. Oops, you can't, he is now brain dead.

Prayers Needed

We just found out that a friend of the family, USA Sgt. John King, was involved in a very serious motorcycle accident yesterday and is in critical condition. He is stationed at Ft. Bragg.

Hospital staff only stabilized him in the ER a short time ago (we got the news at 1230 hrs today) and he is now able to be moved to ICU, but he is still unconscious.

He is from Wyoming, his dad is a Pastor.

John is a great guy, we are very worried.
Please join us in prayer for this fine young man.

UPDATE:
John went into surgery about 3:30 this afternoon. He had to have several holes drilled into his head to relieve pressure.


He also has a lung contusion, broken tibia, and broken facial bones (right side). His parents and his two sisters are at his side, along with members of his army platoon and the special forces.

Afternoon update: Doctors are getting ready to insert a PICC line into Jonathan's chest and remove the separate lines going into his arms and legs. This will help reduce the chance of infection. They have also placed him on a feeding tube.
Earlier today Jon had a chest x-ray. The good news is that everything in his chest/stomach area looks good. The concern is that this caused too much stimulation to his brain, leading to swelling.

His friends and family started a FB page - Prayer Warriors for John King.

Updates are posted by his family.

We Don't Know Anything! - Update

Questions, questions, questions...

So many questions about our destiny.

Jobs, healthcare, public safety, the economy, foreign relations, rumors and threats of war - it's enough to drive us all into bunkers before we go bonkers. So much ambiguity!

And now the laws of physics are toast as well.

Einstein's General  Theory of Relativity and Quantum Physics fall apart in the presense of a black hole.

In a nutshell:

• The Theory of Relativity works beautifully with respect to planets, stars, solar systems and galaxies.
• Quantum Theory works wondrously with atoms, electrons and quarks.

Black holes blow it all up.

With respect to Relativity: The singularity in a  black hole (as predicted by Einstein's theory) predicts infinite gravity in an infinitely small point - no space at all.  As one physicist points out  - "Time stops [...] space makes no sense. It means the collapse of everything we know about the physical universe."

With respect to Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity: The results are even worse when trying to create a model of Quantum Gravity. Trying to combine Relativity and Quantum Mechanics you get an infinite sequence of infinities. They are totally incompatible. The equations make no sense and theoretical physicists are stumped. As one physicists states, "There are no bigger questions than this." 

 It means we don't understand anything.

It is God rubbing our noses in His Creation.

It is spelled out in the following video clip.




UPDATE:
That's just black holes, we also found out that we  know less than we thought about how the galaxies in the universe are flying apart, going faster and faster.

From the WashPost:

Giant digital camera probes cosmic ‘dark energy,’ the universe’s deepest mystery

With the whir of a giant digital camera, the biggest mystery in the universe is about to become a bit less mysterious.

Fifteen years ago, the world of science was rocked by the discovery that, contrary to our notions of gravity, distant galaxies appeared to be flying apart at an ever-accelerating rate. The observation implied that space itself was stretching apart faster and faster. It was akin to watching a dropped ball reverse course, speed upward and disappear into the sky.

The discovery made many cosmologists — the scientists who probe the very nature of nature itself — acutely uncomfortable. For either our understanding of gravity is cockeyed, or some mysterious repulsive force — quickly and glibly dubbed “dark energy” — permeates the universe.

Now, after years of planning and construction, four new projects at telescopes in Chile, Hawaii and the South Pole are getting a handle on what, exactly, is doing this unseemly pushing.

Leading the way is the world’s most powerful digital camera, constructed at Fermilab, the Energy Department facility in Illinois. The $50 million Dark Energy Camera took a decade to plan and build, and it sports a resolution of 570 megapixels — about a hundredfold more pixels than a smartphone camera. Technicians installed it atop a telescope in Chile last year, and after initial jitters — the camera was so heavy it made the telescope jiggle — the camera has been “tested, tweaked and fine-tuned,” said Joshua Frieman, the Fermilab scientist leading the project, which has enlisted 120 scientists from 23 countries.

On Aug. 31, the big camera began snapping its way across a huge swath of the southern sky.

The Wisdom Of Napoleon

Emperor Bonaparte made some pretty profound observations that are still pertinent today.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoleon had a horse named Biden.
He shot it.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Napoleon looked into the future and saw American lofo voters.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

The cultivation and maintenance of America's vices is now the sole concern of our politicians.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Blogs are the bayonets of today. Fear them.

More Heartbreak At Fort Hood

Another soldier has been murdered at Fort Hood. This is terrible, just terrible.

RONKONKOMA - Military officials have announced an army sergeant will be charged with murder in the shooting death of a veteran from Ronkonkoma.
Army Sgt. Brett Wessel allegedly shot and killed Ryan Dickinson, 26, during a dispute at Fort Hood in Texas last week.

Dickinson's family says his wake will be held this weekend and his funeral is set for Monday. He will be buried at Calverton National Cemetery.

Dickinson leaves a wife and two children.

My daughter is very upset as she and Dickinson's widow are childhood friends, graduating together from high school. Dickinson's hometown is Ronkonkoma, NY, located in Suffolk County, Long Island. My Dad is also buried at Calverton.

Drone Game Management

ENVER — Hunters in Colorado are lining up for a hot new license: $25 to shoot down a government drone over the village of Deer Trail.

Supporters acknowledge the licenses would be only symbolic, and a town election authorizing them is more than a month away. Still, about 1,000 people have applied for one.

Questions:

• Are there limits on how many drones you're allowed to bag?
• Are you allowed to use a searchlight to hunt after dark?
• Where do you affix your drone tag: wing, nose or rear stabilizer?
• How do you track a wounded drone?
• Are you allowed to use an electronic drone mating signal or drone exhaust to attract the beasts?
• Are there caliber limitations; perhaps nothing bigger than 20mm?
• Are you allowed to hunt them from a moving vehicle - ala Taliban style?

I think it's probably a ploy to slam an extra $25,000 into the town's budget.
But ya know what? I'd probably spring for it just for the yuks.

Next Week - "Dressing And Cooking Wild Drones"

Word Games

Now That's A Close Shave

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan.

The Army psychiatrist sentenced to death for the Fort Hood shooting rampage has been forcibly shaved, an Army spokesman said Tuesday.

Maj. Nidal Hasan began growing a beard in the years after the November 2009 shooting that left 13 dead and 30 wounded. The beard prompted delays to his court-martial because it violated Army grooming regulations. He was convicted of all charges last month at his court-martial at the Central Texas Army post and sentenced to death.

Now, Hasan is an inmate at the U.S. Detention Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., home to the military death row. Lt. Col. S. Justin Platt, an Army spokesman, said in a statement Tuesday that Hasan had been shaved. He did not specify when or provide details, however.

Officials at Fort Leavenworth previously had said Hasan would be subject to Army regulations.

Hasan dispensed with all criminal defense counsel and represented himself during his trial. A message left with John Galligan, Hasan's first criminal defense attorney who still represents him in civil matters, was not returned.

Hasan said he grew the beard because his Muslim faith required it and was not meant as a show of disrespect. However, Col. Gregory Gross, the original judge presiding over Hasan's court-martial, ordered Hasan to be clean-shaven or be forcibly shaved before his trial.

Maj. Hasan before being shaved.

The dispute over that decision led to appeals that delayed the trial by more than three months before the appeals court ousted the judge. The appeals court ruled that Gross did not appear impartial while presiding over Hasan's case and that the command, not a judge, is responsible for enforcing military grooming standards.

Col. Tara Osborn, assigned to replace Gross as the judge presiding over the case, allowed Hasan to keep the beard for the course of the trial last month. However, she warned that although she would not hold the breach of grooming regulations against the 42-year-old American-born Muslim, the military jurors might.

Maj. Hasan after being shaved.

It's the Muslim way. Low and tight.

Set Phasers To Stunning

Dr. McCoy will be performing the gender reassignment as soon as Star Fleet Command runs it past the KlingonCare coordinator.

I just can't take this anymore.

H/T to iOTW.

Reasons Why We Shouldn't Attack Syria

 Reason #1:
Sarah Palin rather succinctly phrased it and I'll paraphrase it.
Syrians are slaughtering Syrians in a civil war.
Mexico and Canada stayed the hell out of our four year romp through a sea of blood back in the 1860's; how about we follow suite and let the Syrians sort it out like we did. Who's ever left standing we congratulate and send our ambassador back over with lots and lots of flowers.

In Rwanda, the Hutu's slaughtered 800,000 Tutsi's, or was it the other way around? .... in any event, the US did nothing. The natives either got tired of pillage or ran out of Tutsi's or machetes. Either way, our Marines stayed home.

Saddam Hussein gassed thousands of Kurds and we also sat on our Marines. We had a good steady thing going until we decided to get all righteous over someone else's mineral rights.

Reason #2:
Our intelligence assets allegedly report that Assad gassed his own people. Our intelligence assets now say that we knew about it three days before the Sarin gas was deployed. And we did nothing anyway.

Who are those intelligence assets? It was just leaked that 20% of all job applicants submitted to the CIA are terrorist sympathizers. In and of itself that is worrisome. What is even more problematic is this - how many got through? Is our intelligence now tainted by those who are feeding us wrong information in order to draw us into an armed conflict to benefit their own interests?

And now the French say they know something too. What do the Brits know? They must have had the same intel, Obugger must have sent them the same data but they turned down the party invitation and will keep their soldiers home.

Reason #3:
What is the end goal? Are we winning hearts and minds again or just jumping into another dust up? We didn't bother sending in the Marines to rescue our own Ambassador in Libya. Our Ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford,is safe and in no danger of being (in no particular order) killed and butt raped. The U.S. Embassy in Damascus was shut down on February 6, 2012, and is still not open. This is a good thing. Gee, wonder why Hilary didn't do the same thing in Libya...

So here's the plan. Make sure all US employees are out of the country and send them back in when the shooting is over. With flowers.

Happy Labor Day

And indeed, Labor is in the news:

In what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced that they have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO, one of the nation's largest private sector unions. The Longshoremen citied Obamacare and immigration reform as two important causes of their disaffiliation.

In an August 29 letter to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, ILWU President Robert McEllrath cited quite a list of grievances as reasons for the disillusion of their affiliation, but prominent among them was the AFL-CIO's support of Obamare.

"We feel the Federation has done a great disservice to the labor movement and all working people by going along to get along," McEllrath wrote in the letter to Trumka.

This is huge. Might we see more exceptions from Obama-Care àla Congressional type subsidies? And what will the administration's reaction to the ILWU's stance on immigration reform? Will there be a Chicago Solution? For the most part, longshoremen do not react graciously to strong arm tactics. This could get interesting.

Where We're From

This is a fascinating map plotting the primary ethnic origins of every county in the US.

More here.