This Week On The Gathering Storm

(This post is a weekly announcement. Please scroll down)

Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show, hosted by WC and Always On Watch. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

The call-in number is 646-915-9870.

Callers welcome!

Our scheduled guest this week is Heidianne Jackson.

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Listen to the October 1, 2010 edition of The Gathering Storm Radio Show, live or later, by CLICKING HERE.

UPCOMING SHOWS
October 8: IQ al Rassooli
October 15: Midnight Rider
October 22: IQ al Rassooli
October 29: Az Zaqqum with Freaky Fatwa Friday, just in time for Halloween

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International Monitoring Of Islamphobia Proposed

From Weasel Zippers, citing this source:

The Quran-burning controversy in the United States has prompted the Islamic bloc at the United Nations to revive its call for the U.N. to set up an “international monitoring mechanism” to track incidents of “Islamophobia.”

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At the U.N. Human Rights Council this week, OIC members are also seeking support for a resolution condemning Florida pastor Terry Jones’ abortive call to burn copies of the Quran on September 11.

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When it comes to a vote — before the Council’s session in Geneva ends next Friday [October 1] — the measure almost certainly will pass. The OIC controls more than one-third of the Council’s seats, and its resolutions are routinely backed by non-Muslim allies such as China, Russia, Cuba and South Africa.

Read the entire article HERE. Worth your time.

Islamic law as the new world order means saying goodbye to our First Amendment. As just one example of what can happen when Muslims perceive that shari'a is violated, even in a society which doesn't live under shari'a law, read about the situation in which Molly Norris has found herself.

The OIC wants all of us to live in fear of offending Islam.

Information about the OIC, from this 2006 article, "Islamic Assault on the First Amendment":

The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), composed of 57 Muslim countries, formulated a resolution that Islam be protected from “defamation” even if factual. On April 12, 2005, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights passed a resolution by the vote of 31 to 16 that promotes “respect for all religions and their value system” superceding “respect for human rights”. Accordingly, accusing Islam of violating human rights is in itself an act of defamation of Islam.

Read more about the OIC HERE.

And note this information about the OIC's upcoming conference in Chicago. Pastorius of Infidel Bloggers Alliance says this about the conference, in which the OIC will lecture us about Islamophobic:

It’s nauseating the Islamic supremacists from the OIC will be lecturing us on “Islamophobia” while on American soil.

Just how far does Islamification have to go before the West cries, "Enough"?

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Will Nancy Lose Her Gavel?

From Fox News (hat tip to Karen of Eastern Right):

Even if Democrats retain a slim majority in the House this November, Speaker Nancy Pelosi could have an insurrection on her hands from moderate Democrats looking for a change in leadership.

Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., who two weeks ago threw a colossal insult at his party by joining Republicans in a pledge to repeal the health care law, stepped out of line again over the weekend by telling a pair of Capitol Hill newspapers he wants someone other than Pelosi leading the chamber...

The day of reckoning comes around sooner or later, one way or another.




(crossposted at Infidel Bloggers Alliance)

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The Pitfalls Of ObamaKare

Please see this editorial from the Washington Examiner before reading any further in this post.

More information about the consequences of ObamaKare HERE.

And note this little gem about ObamaKare's abolishing lifetime limits on benefits from the Washington Post:

A plan can still put a lifetime dollar limit on spending for health services that the government does not deem essential.

This kind of debacle is what happens when Congress passes a bill into law and lets us find out later what's in it.

If ObamaKare remains in force, America will learn a very expensive lesson. At least, one HOPES [cough] that America will learn a lesson without millions of lives being upended, both literally and financially.

Vote the bums out in November 2010.

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Imprinting Young Minds With "The Tolerance of The Teachings of Islam"

Please see my post today over at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS.

This ideological war has so very many fronts!

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Your Weekend Graphic (Plus Video)

From RP Free Speech of Another Thousand Words (Click directly on the image to enlarge it):



And what has to be the quote of the week (hat tip to Warren):

Let me put this bluntly: virtually no one in America gives a damn what Barack Obama says about anything at this point. What could be more predictable, and less interesting, than Obama’s opinion on any given subject? Who wants to contemplate the economic wisdom of a guy who looted the Treasury for a trillion dollars, with less benefit than we could have achieved by stuffing hundred dollar bills into random cereal boxes? Who’s excited to hear about the next plan to convert taxpayer dollars into Democrat campaign funds? Who’s hungry for another hour of tedious excuses about permanently broken markets and the titanic dead hand of George W. Bush? Who wants a lecture on ethical business practices from the titular head of the party that gave us Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters? What use is another hollow foreign-policy speech from a man who sees no global adversary to rival the menace of Arizona? Even Obama’s supporters don’t hear anything he says any more. There’s nothing left to hear.

The following appeared this week (Thanks to Will, who emailed me the video):


Information about the video:

In 1984, the Reagan reelection campaign set the standard for modern political advertising with its fabled "Morning in America" series, which included one of the greatest political ads of all time -- "Better, Prouder, Stronger." The ad captured the zeitgeist -- America under President Reagan was coming back, full of optimism and confidence in the future.

Today, the zeitgeist is exactly the opposite. Americans are worried about their future, and about a government determined to implement policies that just don't work. But like its predecessor, "Mourning in America" offers a new hope -- if we can just get our government to return to time-tested policies that can spark a rebirth of liberty.

The results of the upcoming election in November will tell the tale.

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Molly Norris Vs. Jorge Luis Aguirre

Silverfiddle of Western Hero makes an excellent point in this post:

The FBI cannot protect an American citizen [Molly Norris] from Muslim murderers, but it grants asylum to a foreigner [Jorge Luis Aguirre] threatened by drug gangs.

Read Silverfiddle's entire post HERE.

My post about Molly Norris is HERE.

America has come to a sorry pass under the Obama administration.

Obama protests objections to the Ground Zero Mosque, condemns burning the Koran, yet remains silent about an American journalist's being forced into hiding by practitioners of the religion of peace.

Surreal.

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Obama's Omission

With a hat tip to Leticia of My Daily Trek....Can you identify the words omitted?



Information about the words omitted below the fold.

As Leticia points out in her posting:

Obama said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

And of course the correct quote, as is found written within the Declaration of Independence reads: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Listen for his "long pause" before he says, "endowed."

Maybe Obama wanted to say "endowed by Allah"? Heh. Never mind that Allah doesn't "endow" anything, much less equality or unalienable rights.

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Modem Issues

Please scroll down for my weekend video, a break from politics.

As if my life weren't busy enough, within the past week, on the heels of returning to work, I had to have Windows re-installed on my laptop because of a corrupted dll file. I barely got my laptop up and running, after hours of Windows updates as the re-installation was that of an old and outdated version of Windows XP, when my modem burned out.

As the saying goes, "If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all."

I've found a slow neighborhood wireless connection (unsecured) and will post, make blog rounds, and respond to emails and comments as I'm able to do so. At least I'm now able to access the web!

I still have bookmarks to re-instate and passwords to recover. Finding time to get those tasks done is difficult. I have stacks of papers to grade.

Anyway, I'm still here, albeit a bit quiet.

You know, computers are wonderful tools. But only when they work properly! I admit that when my computer doesn't behave the way I tell it to behave, I want to shoot the confounded contraption.

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Weekend Video

(If you must have politics, please scroll down to other posts)

My favorite television commercial:



I'm partial to pigs, you know. Photos from another of my web sites below the fold.

As you enter the gate and walk on the flagstones leading to my front porch, you'll first notice a big planter. Every spring, I buy some annuals to fill the planter, which is at least years old and make of solid concrete. Talk about heavy! My aunt wanted to take the planter with her when she moved from this house, but the management at her apartment building said that it was too much weight for the balcony:




On the northeast side of the above antique planter sits a rain gauge. Isn't he a cute little fellow?



Mo and Osama:



Look who welcomes you at the entrance to my house!



I have more pig decor inside my house, in every room. Sorry, no photos of the interior swine yet available.

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Draw-Mohammed-Day Cartoonist Changes Identity

Never mind that Molly Norris had backtracked and disavowed the idea of draw Mohammed day as she never meant to insult Moslems.

Well, Moslems don't accept apologies for insulting their so-called prophet.

From Weasel Zippers, citing the Seattle Times (hat tip to Infidel Bloggers Alliance):

You may have noticed that Molly Norris’ comic is not in the paper this week. That’s because there is no more Molly.

The gifted artist is alive and well, thankfully. But on the insistence of top security specialists at the FBI, she is, as they put it, “going ghost”: moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity.

She will no longer be publishing cartoons in our paper or in City Arts magazine, where she has been a regular contributor.

She is, in effect, being put into a witness-protection program—except, as she notes, without the government picking up the tab.

It’s all because of the appalling fatwa issued against her this summer, following her infamous “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” cartoon....

Another cartoonifada!

Once again, the religion of peace proves that it is not peaceful, nor does Islam allow for freedom of expression, particularly if that freedom of expression is perceived as insulting Islam, Mohammed, the Koran, Moslems. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, to the point of all things Islamic, including naming a nightclub "La Meca"; read the information about the night club at Tea and Politics.

Remember these words of Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984):

They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

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Faiz Khan: 9/11 Truther

With thanks to Opus #6, the video is below the fold:




By a man's friends shall you know him.

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Back To School

Classes resume today. This 2010-2011 school term, I am teaching ten courses to groups of homeschoolers, many of those courses earning high-school credit. Courses this year include literature, composition, grammar, public speaking/policy debate, foreign language, and American Government. I also have private-tutoring sessions on the schedule. I have increased my work load as Mr. AOW is much improved now.
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Posting may be lighter than usual until I settle into the schedule for this term. I will try to continue with Twitter updates on the sidebar. I don't know how valuable tweeting is per se, but Twitter serves as a convenient place to store banks of articles.

As time allows, I will make blog rounds even though I'm not posting regularly at my own site.

Meanwhile, I have several recent posts below.

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School Answering Machine

Spew alert! Set down your beverage.

Courtesy of commenter Speedy G:

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9/11 Ground Zero Freedom Rally (With Addendum)

Click directly on the photo to enlarge it:


Some 40,000 people assembled. Where was the media coverage?

More HERE (photos, links, and text) at Atlas Shrugs and HERE at Jihad Watch.

Addendum: See THIS at Eye On The World!

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Never Forget

Set to the music of Samuel Barber's "Agnus Dei" from Adagio for Strings:



Leftist though he may be, Bruce Springsteen's "You're Missing" reminds us of the personal devastation wrought by Muslim terrorists on 9/11:



Some reading below the fold.

For this ninth anniversary of 9/11, as Barack Hussein Obama and a whole raft of others try to sing kumbaya with the Islamic world, we see that the left would like for all of us to forget 9/11 and ignore the still-present threat of Islamic terrorism.

I won't.

Not ever.

No matter how much revisionism is tossed out there for the dhimmis to suck up:

We need to stipulate that those men who brought down the Twin Towers were not Muslims. - Anushay Hossain [biography here]

What to say to that nonsense? Ms. Hossain spins a kumbaya yarn with her blatant revisionism. Her very words are an attempt to desecrate those murdered on 9/11.

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Read the names of the fallen.

Please take time to watch this excellent flash presentation on the web (hat tip to Mike's America).

And remember that people, particularly those emergency personnel who served on that terrible day, are still dying because of 9/11.

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The 2010 9/12 March On Washington

Information HERE on the upcoming march on Washington.

I plan to attend.

If you are a trusted friend and want to meet up with me, please contact me via my email address, which appears toward the top of the right sidebar.

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Going On A Staycation

(This post, published on September 7, stuck here for a few days. Please scroll down for other postings)

Okay, the graphic here is deceptive. It depicts what I wish Mr. AOW and I could do for a vacation this year.

For many years, Mr. AOW and I have taken some kind of vacation, usually a road trip, the week of Labor Day. We chose that week because (1) hotel rates are lower, (2) attractions are less crowded than during summer months, and (3) the homeschool classes I teach begin the second full week of September.
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Now, however, since Mr. AOW was stricken by a brain hemorrhage last September, taking such a trip would be difficult in the extreme. Furthermore, Mr. AOW needs a lot of rest as he continues his recovery. Finally, bathrooming issues on road trips can be stressful for both of us!

Therefore, this year, Mr. AOW and I are going on a staycation. We'll spend a few days visiting The National Museum of the American Indian and The National Museum of American History, both located on the National Mall.

Blogging will not be a priority for a few days. I may or may not find time to post.

In the meantime, I refer you to THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Infidel Bloggers Alliance, and The Other News (Will's link-rich site), as well as to other links in my sidebar.

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This Year's Ramadan Scorecard

The following tally is courtesy of Will:

As I have previously posted:

Ramadan 2010 began on or around August 11 and will end on or about September 10. Muslims, ever contentious about nearly every matter, even disagree among themselves as to when Ramadan should begin.

What does Ramadan really celebrate, particularly Eid ul-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan? If one understands the history of Islam and, especially, that of Ramadan, one will come to understand that such a commemoration, including iftar dinners at the White House, should be unacceptable to all those who oppose Islamic supremacism.

Ramadan involves more than prayers, fasting, and the giving of alms — all of which are part of the month long observance but which are also the outward signs of another message. By literal definition, of course, Ramadan commemorates Allah's "revealing" the Qur'an to Muhammad. But history clearly indicates that the "revelations" from Allah to Muhammad began around 610, some fourteen years earlier than 624.

Those earlier passages, sometimes referred to as the Meccan verses, are the oft-quoted peaceful verses in the Koran. Contrary to what one might expect, however, the last day of Ramadan does not celebrate the actual date of the earliest peaceful "revelations" of Allah to Muhammad but rather the Battle of Badr, the first significant military victory by the forces of Muhammad.

The Battle of Badr of March 17, 624, is one of the few military conflicts specifically mentioned in the Qur'an and holds a great deal of significance in Islam. Eid ul-Fitr, the final portion of Ramadan, has as its origin the aforementioned battle. Furthermore and most importantly, this battle marked the turning point for Islam, both politically and ideologically.

Having earlier fled to Medina along with followers who accepted him as their prophet whereas most of the tribes of Mecca did not, early on that morning in 624 Muhammad got word that a rich Quraish caravan from Syria was returning to Mecca. He therefore assembled the largest army he had ever been able to muster, some 300 men, with the original intent of raiding the caravan. After his men successfully overtook the caravan and brought back the booty, Muhammad then conveniently received a new "revelation" from Allah — a "revelation" which not only included rejoicing in having captured an enemy's caravan but which also called "proved" that Muhammad had been preaching the true way all along. Fulfilling Destiny, Muhammad and his forces proceeded to trounce the Quraish as punishment for having earlier rejected the prophet's teachings. From this source:

In the name of Allah, the Beneficient, the Merciful.

The battle of Badr was the most important among the Islamic battles of Destiny. For the first time the followers of the new faith were put into a serious test. Had victory been the lot of the pagan army while the Islamic Forces were still at the beginning of their developments, the faith of Islam could have come to an end.

No one was aware of the importance of the outcome of the Battle as the Prophet (S.A.W.) himself. We might read the depth of his anxiety in his prayer before the beginning of the Battle when he stood up supplicating his Lord:

God this is Quraish. It has come with all its arrogance and boastfulness, trying to discredit Thy Apostle. God, I ask Thee to humiliate them tomorrow. God, if this Muslim band will perish today, Thou shall not be worshipped.

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This battle laid the foundation of the Islamic State...

In other words, victory at the Battle of Badr proved to Muhammad and his adherents that Islam should from that time forth take on a militant aspect because such is the will of Allah. From the day of the Battle of Badr on, the tone of the verses in the Qur'an changed. These more recent "revelations," sometimes referred to as the Medinan verses, abrogated the earlier and peaceful Meccan ones. Because preaching and tolerance had not brought Muhammad the following which he needed in order to establish himself and Islam as political forces to be reckoned with, Allah, via a military victory, showed the prophet a more effective way to spread Islam. Therefore, Muhammad's victory at the Battle of Badr symbolizes both the way to bring about the will of Allah and the will of Allah itself.

In sum, Ramadan is, in and of itself, a statement advocating submission to Islam and to the will of Allah. Ah, the dhimmitude and submission of all Western leaders when they send Ramadan greetings to the Islamic world!

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Islam: The Religion Of Genocide

(Hat tip to Infidel Bloggers Alliance for the graphic below)



From Reliapundit of THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS comes this must-read post. Excerpt:

More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined.

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Islamic terrorists murder more people every day than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years

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270,000,000 [KILLED BY JIHAD]: THAT'S WAY MORE THAN STALIN, HITLER, MAO, POL POT, IDI AMIN, AND THE REST OF THE 20TH CENTURY'S GENOCIDAL SOCIALISTS!

Read the whole link-rich essay HERE at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS. Worth your time.

The religion of peace continues its tradition of advocating murder with an Australian Moslem recently demanding the beheading of Geert Wilders.

Hat tip to Mark Alexander for the video below:

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Weekend Video: I'm Taking Action

(Hat tip to Western Hero)

Quite the rant and with excellent points about the necessity of the right pursuing political activism:



Vote 'em out in November.

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Quote Of The Day

The following spot-on comment was left by good friend Mark Alexander of A New Dark Age Is Dawning to this post about the Ground Zero Mosque's imam (emphases mine):

The more I read about Imam Rauf, the more disgusted I become! This man is deceitful by anyone's standards. But then that is par for the course by a Muslim trying to Islamize his adopted country, I'm afraid. Further, the more we read about B. Hussein Obama, the less we can trust him. There is no doubt in my mind that in Obama you have yourselves your first Muslim president. He is working hard behind the scenes to change the nature of American society; he's working hard to Islamize it. Anyone who cannot see this is a naïve fool. Sorry to be so crass.

In a few years, the United States will become unrecognisable. In a few years more, it will be Islamized. The way things are going, it's only a matter of time before Shariah law will be introduced there.

Rauf's comments when abroad about how similar America's constitution is to the Shariah is his way of softening up the people for the real change he envisions.

You people, just like the British and the French, have got a real problem on your hands. Trouble is, there are many dhimmi Westerners who are so happy and willing to become members of the army of Allah's little helpers and enablers. Bloomberg, of course, is chief among them. To add to this, there are few strong politicians prepared to make a stand. Almost all are prepared to give Islam a pass.

This is a sad time for liberty in the West.

More individual Americans are waking up to the threat of Islam and Islamification. But our leaders? They remain determined not to insult Islam and, therefore, promote the Islamification of America.

And not only our leaders? Check out this advice that we all celebrate Ramadan in a recent posting I did over at Infidel Bloggers Alliance!

HERE is what Ramadan really celebrates. I won't be joining in any Ramadan dinners or participating in any kumbaya fasting.

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This Week On The Gathering Storm

(This post is a weekly announcement. Please scroll down for other postings)

Listen to The Gathering Storm Radio Show, hosted by WC and Always On Watch. The show broadcasts live every Friday beginning at noon, Pacific Time.

The call-in number is 646-915-9870.

Callers welcome!

Our scheduled guest this week is Leslie Lynn King.

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Listen to the September 3, 2010 edition of The Gathering Storm Radio Show, live or later, by CLICKING HERE.

UPCOMING SHOWS
September 10: IQ al Rassooli
September 17: Midnight Rider
September 24: Guest to be announced.
October 1: Heidianne Jackson

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Revealing Capitalization

From this source quoting James J. Lee, who invaded the Discovery Channel's building today in Silver Spring Maryland, fired shots, and held hostages until the police shot him:

"Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.”

Read Lee's entire manifesto HERE.

And who awakened Lee to the plight of the Planet Earth?

Why, Al Gore, of course!

Lee said he experienced an ‘‘awakening” when he watched former Vice President Al Gore’s environmental documentary ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth.”

Gore awakened Lee, and Daniel Quinn's works were apparently the basis of Lee's activism.

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