The Stout Republican

NICE!!!

Obama needs a bit of a listen I think.

Europe

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch interviews Geert Wilders Dutch Parliamentarian who produced Fitna.

There are significant problems with the Islamification of the EU. We in the US are consumed with our shitty little election (no real choices) or Brittany’s bits to pay much attention. From the way things are going in the EU it will either be America truly standing alone or we watch in horror as “the font of all that is good” goes socially ugly.

The EU has done it before and apparently will do it again. See the history of anti-semitism or antiziganism for those of you bored with Brittany’s bits and doubters. For those of you that hate the US and love the EU a semi-exit question. Just how does that anti-thing work? We in the US have NEVER had to experience it on a national level or in the MILLIONS killed scale. I will not even bring up the 20+ million citizens killed in uncle Joey’s play house.

Lan astalem,

GoingThere

It is a three part interview, so far, parts two and three are below the fold.

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Dhimmitude, Europe, Islam, Jihad, Sharia, Social Issues, Uncategorized

Hmmmm:

Norwegians are among the most heavily taxed people in the world, and that in turn has made Norway one of the most expensive countries in which to live. Most accept the taxes they’re ordered to pay on income and even net worth and property, but growing numbers are publicly complaining about sky-high taxes on everything from cars to fuel to consumer goods.

Norwegians differentiate between skatter (taxes) and avgifter (duties, fees or user taxes) and the latter is the most hated. They’re what causes a glass of house wine at an Oslo restaurant to cost the equivalent of nearly USD 16, or a gallon of gas to cost nearly USD 9 at current exchange rates.

But aren’t high gas prices the result of evil oil corporations, and George Bush…why I believe the gas lines in the 70’s were due to George Bush’s evil empire…Cheney was somewhere in that scene too. But their health care is probably a lot less expensive…and I still don’t get how high taxes makes everything more expensive…how does that work? Duhhhhhh….

Aside: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Doesn’t sound too great to me…I know a lot of people who made the decision to have no abilities and yet have numerous needs.

Exit question: Name one major pharmaceutical innovation that has come from a communist country in the last fifty years.

Europe

DAMN!!! I knew I should have copied the URL’s I saw yesterday concerning the post election violence in France. Sorry for not having references…trust me they exist…one article was changed that I did find…(imagine that) The URL’s referencing MSM illusion (yep I spelled it that way on purpose) to equivalencing the recent social violence there to that which takes place in the US. HUH?! What social violence equivalent to THOUSANDS or cars burned and people arrested within the last few days, not to speak of the MANY THOUSANDS of cars burned and people arrested in the last few years in France has been happening in the US? ????

We all know it is tough to be the leaders of the free world and for the most part accept the lunacy of MSM and the hyper-agendized self serving. Why does MSM conspire to make it more difficult for ANYONE and not just the US? That is where I am going with this, ANYONE that does not jump on board the kumbaya bus, which BTW is obviously pwned by MSM, is fodder for MSM to use in SELLING what passes for NEWS in today’s world.

For example…I digress but so should you my soon to be paranoid little munchkins…They hate it when we digress and start to think…Why is it that the observationally documented failure of European immigration laws, that oddly enough the US is attempting to clone, are not being sited in the US immigration discussion? MMMMaybe MmmSM (Church Lady)? If you are writing to or communicating with your government representatives on immigration issues I suggest that you include the following little tidbit, hey that idea eff’d up in Europe why are we even thinking about doing the same thing? DUH!?

Soooo, what does immigration, elections and violence have to do with each other? EVERYTHING…

Booo!

GoingThere

UPDATE (by The Stout Republican):

Shocker of Shockers…AP writer Angela Charlton uses the famous “some people say” type line to interject blatant bias.

While the unrest has been small-scale, it sent a message to Nicolas Sarkozy: He may have won the presidency, but he hasn’t won over the many French who consider him—and his free-market reforms and tough line on crime and immigration—frighteningly brutal.

Many French eh….obviously she didn’t talk to the vast majority that voted for him or anything…but he’s in office because of the many French who support him. I’m just wondering what message the angry Socialist were trying to send. “We disagree with the results of democratic elections…so abandon the process and Riot.” Leave it to the socialists, who applaude the sanctity of the process, until they lose. Somewhere, righth now, as we speak, a socialist is gobbling up private industry…

The Socialists, of course, are anti-war…that is unless they’re fighting their own government (which is the real enemy)…then “To Arms!”

The troublemakers this week have been mostly white, whereas the 2005 riots involved many black and Arab youth angry over discrimination and alienation from mainstream society. This week’s protesters resembled some of the young people who helped bring down a minor labor reform last year through mass demonstrations.

Wait a second…the AP makes a point of not letting us know most riors were Muslim youths…why is that? No really….the closest thing the AP said was “French-born children of immigrants” in this article, and here they were just called “youths”. The MSM does a good job of not letting us know when it’s Muslim rioting…by ommission.

Europe

…but I thought under Bush the rich were doing so well…

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Economy, Europe

The UK is finding that Sharia Law is gaining in foothold in their country, and it appears that there isn’t a whole lot being done to stop it.

“Why stop it?”  You might ask.  After all, it is a system based upon the Koran and the law contained therein.  However, there is plenty reason to stand against such a shift in our legal system.  
Separation of Church and State – an establishment clause of the first amendment – sets out the fact that our secular government cites no specific religion in order to obtain authority.  However, that is not the case with Sharia Law.  Sharia Law is based upon the Koran, and the interpretation is subjective and varies depending on the country and specific religious school that is interpreting it.  The interesting thing about European Muslims gaining momentum in their practice of Sharia law is that this shift is allowed to happen out of pure fear.  PCers by definition don’t want to offend, and so they allow more than they know they ought to in order to avoid confrontation.  Oh, and they want to keep their heads too, I suppose.  Less we forget the Muhammad cartoon incident in a Danish newspaper.

So, since we ought to become more familiar with this law that might be coming to a city near you, let me enlighten you as to the five Hadd offenses within the Sharia Law:

• Wine-drinking and, by extension, alcohol-drinking, punishable by flogging.
• Unlawful sexual intercourse, punishable by flogging for unmarried offenders and stoning to death for adulterers.
• False accusation of unlawful sexual intercourse, punishable by flogging.
• Theft, punishable by the amputation of a hand.
• Highway robbery, punishable by amputation, or execution if the crime results in a homicide.

Oh, and let’s not forget the traditional punishment for apostasy – death.
Let’s just hope those blokes in Britain grow a pair and actually fight the Muslim population’s attempt to morph their religious leaders into the administrators of justice.  Eat, drink and be merry while you still can!

Al Qaeda, Europe

After seeing Bowling for Columbine, the questions asked over mimosas and in-between GW bashings was, “Why is America so violent?” We had one of the worst school shootings ever in Colorado years back, but we’re not alone, and we never have been.

An 18-year-old gun freak wearing a suicide belt and armed with bombs, rifles and pistols stormed into his former school and opened fire on teachers and pupils, wounding 11 before killing himself. He posted a farewell letter in the Internet calling himself a loser and saying: “I loathe people.”

A photo of the gunman in military fatigues on his website where he left a farewell note.
He was frustrated and lonely and armed to the teeth so he turned his former school into a war zone. A school shooting in western Germany on Monday has shocked the country and brought back grim memories of the 2002 Erfurt massacre in which 17 died.

Armed with rifles, pistols, pipe bombs, a knife, smoke canisters and wearing an explosive belt, the 18-year-old former pupil stormed into his school and opened fire, wounding 11 people, five through gun shots.

It’s hard for Americans to say (especially those of the America is the worst place to live, the evil empire, and is the root cause for every problem ever), but sometimes the world is a shitty place, and some people are just broken beyond repair. Our “modern” culture has had this psychological tendency to blame the victim:

“What did they do to deserve it?”

“Who was he acting out against?”

“Who pushed him over the edge?”

The world doesn’t always make sense, and sometimes it’s just a little bit ridiculous to rationalize everything, as much as we want to. There are crazy people who cope with problems in the most extreme ways possible. It’s been happening since the beginning of whatever time you dictate you beliefs by, and as advanced as a people we might become, there will always be murder, there will always be war, and there will always be those stupid people who think that talk therapy can save the world. Some people need to be locked up permanently, because some people can’t be “fixed”.

I worry about situations like this, because both domestic and international, these are the breaking points, especially when children are involved, that drive activists down the “guns are bad road”. I’m taking the cliche I know…but gun aren’t bad…bad people happen to use guns, just as they use cars, baseball bats, or whatever else is at their immediate disposal. I don’t think the world is becoming a more dangerous place to live, in fact, the United States (as a % of the general population, not raw numbers) is becoming safer every year…we just have more access to the tragedy, and it comes with a fancy backdrop, catchy name, well written background music, and sponsors.

Bad things happen to good people, regardless of what Michael Moore thinks about the state of America. Violence is a worlwide problem with no 100% effective solution…but ideas are always welcome.

Addition:

The Erfurt case prompted calls for tougher controls on violent computer games.

It’s not the video games people. I love video games, and have played my fair share of violent ones (you haven’t lived until you’ve parked a van in front of a mob bosses house, blown it up, then been in anintensive four star police chase). If a child has a problem distinguishing reality from a videogame, chances are there is a bigger issue at play.

Where are the parents! Kids shouldn’t be playing these games anyways…isn’t that why we have a rating system?

Europe

This article fascinated me, in a ”Hillary-in-a-bathing-suit” sort of way.  In a nutshell, there are several towns in Europe that have determined that having no traffic signs (i.e. constrictions) will make people happier, and more considerate.  Apparently the EU is much more civil than the US (demonstrated by the Muslim population in France…but I digress).

European traffic planners are dreaming of streets free of rules and directives. They want drivers and pedestrians to interact in a free and humane way, as brethren — by means of friendly gestures, nods of the head and eye contact, without the harassment of prohibitions, restrictions and warning signs.

The United States has shown interest in this concept.  Such a philosophy might work for passive Europeans, but something tells me that the “gestures” that people in CA use when the stop signs are removed at a previous four-way stop won’t quite be “friendly”.  

This concept seems a little bit like a “peace, free-love, happiness” acid trip.  I’m sure it will be coming to a hippie town near you. 

Europe, Humor, Random

In a democracy the number of votes makes the law or elects the person. Yes SCOTUS etal can step in when either the electorate or themselves are extra stupid but I think we can all agree that functionally the law or person gaining the largest number of votes wins. It works that way even when not a democracy, if one thinks about it, might(knowingly or in ignorance) makes right. (see PoliSci’s one and only law, people get the government they deserve)

Imagine if you will, a demographic shift that biases one ideology or another on a grand/significant scale. Again, I think we can agree that the voting would heavily trend toward representing that one or another ideology. Let us ignore the contribution to the voting trend attributable to propaganda and indoctrination that convince’s dissimilar ideologists of the validity of that one or another ideology, a small number compared to a demographic shift on a grand/significant scale.

Now ask yourself what and where (the) demographic shifts are taking place and the ideologies that accompany them. Close to home here in the US we have an influx of Central and South American peoples, typically Western in ideology though cursed with the historically based Hispanic affection for BAD government (remember the PoliSci law?). In Europe the influx of African, Arab and Persian peoples, typically Islamic in ideology. Demographic changes in the makeup of the electorate in these regions are taking place.

Demographic shifts? Population, numbers…Ideological shifts….MIGHT makes RIGHT!!!

An interesting bit of trivia, “The population of Hispanic Muslims has increased 30 percent to some 200,000 since 1999, estimates Ali Khan, national director of the American Muslim Council in Chicago.”

Xenophobic, indeed not, MIGHT (QUANTITY) makes RIGHT…

If I was of the age or of a prosperous nature I’d be gettin’ bisZ boyz and girlz, bisZ all the time. The fertility rates speak for themselves, MIGHT makes Right.

An interesting new voice to the abortion debates?

I WILL NOT SUBMIT,

GoingThere

PS…I know you’ll really hate trying to catchup, SMILES, but do try…as to the propaganda and indoctrination telling us what is reality, what is truth => PoliSci Law…as to cross linking to references and such, if I can find it you can and should too, the path is at least as important as the destination…
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Europe, Islam, Your Government

After reading about the reactions of our favorite countries to our newest election, I was just thrilled.  Giddy, really, to know that Europe and the Middle East are happy with the change in power.  Go figure, our Cuban and Middle Eastern enemies actually prefer we have a Dem controlled government than a Republican one.  Well, I’m so glad that Castro is happy.  It makes me warm inside.  It is our goal to be popular, isn’t it?  Unfortunately, I think that the other countries now see our Star Spangled Banner as more yellow than anything else.  

Congress, Democrats, Europe