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Trick or Treat

On the spooky spider web;

The History Channel website has a video on the history of Halloween. It's true that Halloween is a pagan holiday, but I agree with Planck's assesment.

""I've come across a few bloggers who are not going to let their children celebrate Halloween this year. The reason? They think it is a pagan holiday. Here's a flash for you: All Christian Holidays are based upon pagan festivals. Easter celebrates the Resurrection, but in actual fact it is based on early pagan fertility festivals marking the arrival of spring and renewal of life. In Europe and Asia, this time was dedicated to some local goddess of fertility. In Babylon it was the goddess Ishtar, the Saxons called her Oestre, and early Christian pagans called her Easter...

Enough of silly idiots; stop being Halloween Grinches and let your kids go out there and have fun dressed as Elvis, Batman, or Darth Vader. I can assure you not one of 40 million little devils going out this year is secretly in his heart appealing to the demons of the dead. This is a secular American Holiday and is the only one little children can enjoy for themselves. They spend days before picking or fashioning their costumes in anticipation of a great holiday festival of candy collection and spider-web weaving and pumpkin painting. And if you keep your children from having fun this holiday you are an insensitive, uncaring religious idiot in the same way that Muslims who protest against Valentine's Day Cards are religious idiots because of some old grudge about some early Christian Saint who killed Muslims.

Listen Jews, Muslims, and yes even Christians: If you can't celebrate our American Holidays, especially Halloween, then kindly leave the country. With all due respect.

Tennesee Jed  has a cool pumpkin carving of Syd Barrett , in honor of his recent passing.

The Necon Command Center has advice on how to deal with annoying teenagers who are way too old to be trick or treating and often don't even bother to wear a costume.


The Official Bela Lugosi Website has wallpapers for a spooky computer.

Visit Lon Chaney...



                                           and Boris Karloff
            if you dare, BWAHAHAHHAHAH!!!!

And for Halloween laughs, this one  is by far the best. Young Frankenstien. "That's Frawnkinsteen"

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GTB Blogburst

By Heidi at Euphoric Reality I was having a helluva time writing an article for this week's GTB Blogburst. Over the weekend, I started three articles and each one fizzled out for lack of inspiration. For instance, I started one on President Bush's new fence bill - the one that has no funding - and it was hard for me to work up any outrage, since I wasn't surprised at such an empty gesture. In fact, I was expecting nothing less from this President, and that's a sorry indictment of how faithless he's become. The President's abrogation of this issue has boiled my blood for years, and is one of the main reasons why I am no longer a Republican, but now a furious and rebellious Independent. As I mulled over what to say about Bush's latest nothingness, I realized that anything I had say about his treason on this issue, I've already said before - and then some. So I started another article about the effect of the immigration issue on elections; or rather, the effect it should have, but isn't. Because here we are at election time again, having to hold our noses to go elect more of the same do-nothing politicians. Yeah, the same types who have successfully ignored the will of the people for so many years. Out of a nation of 300 million people, you'd think we could field a few really top notch candidates for leadership at any level. But noooo... The point is that I remain uninspired and severely jaded. Call it writer's block, or call it a crisis of faith, but... I. GOT. NUTHIN'. So, in a late hour attempt to find some really good material to offer our faithful Blogburst readers, I sent out a request to our affiliates for their favorite links this week, which I could compile for everyone's convenience. Thus, this week's Blogburst is a little bit of a Trick or Treat - some chilling, and some funny. Which is apropos, considering that our nation's immigration policy is a monstrous nightmare for mainstream Americans. The Nightmare on Main Street Edition of the GTB Blogburst So Bush signed a law to create a border fence. Here is an image of the fence as designed by a joint committee of Mexicans and Liberals, and approved by Bush... "Report an illegal to the Feds and watch the Feds sit on their hands!" Minuteman 2.0.: The Minuteman project was a publicity stunt; we now need to take it to the next level and have citizen patrols guarding the border. "Needed: Border Billboards": As soon as sniper posts are erected along our borders, we'll need some billboards erected that read something like this... The Carpentersville Saga: Carpentersville Illinois is pursuing a Hazelton style ordinance, but as these two videos show, not if the pro crime Hispanics and their supporters have anything to say about it!       

The C'Ville Video

      

New Freedom Folks Video: C'ville Video Update

"The US Border Patrol and Border Police are Out Gunned, Out Manned and Facing an Enemy with Technological Superiority Over Them!": You knew illegals were coming into the USA daily, but did you know that down in Mexico they are literally being brought up to the border by the train load? The report has the pictures to prove it! Trains from Central America and Mexico en route to the U.S. border Wild Thing sent some more jarring photos of our uninvited and unwelcome and undocumented "guests"- and no, these are not crazy Halloween costumes: If you think illegal immigration is nothing more than "good hard-working people, with good intentions" sneaking in here for a little harmless Trick-or-Treat, then these posts from some of the strongest contributors to Guard the Borders will convince you of the ghoulish truth. Many thanks to Third World County, Mr. Ogre, Freedom Folks, PC Free Zone, and the Independent Conservative.

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This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It was started by Euphoric Reality, and serves to keep immigration issues in the forefront of our minds as we're going about our daily lives and continuing to fight the war on terror. If you are concerned with the trend of illegal immigration facing our country, join our Blogburst! Just send an email with your blog name and url to admin at guardtheborders dot com.

The Fight Against Conquest

This vid is a bit long, but worth the time.

Venuzuelan Voting Machines

I've always been a bit suspicoius of the electronic voting methods. With no paper trail, the electronic system is vulerable to hacking.  In controlled tests, the machines have been easily hacking and results changed.

""As the Leon County supervisor of elections, Ion Sancho's job is to make sure voting is free of fraud. But the most brazen effort lately to manipulate election results in this Florida locality was carried out by Sancho himself.Four times over the past year Sancho told computer specialists to break in to his voting system. And on all four occasions they did, changing results with what the specialists described as relatively unsophisticated hacking techniques.""

I'm no technophobe, spending much of my spare time online, but if the election process could be this easily disrupted by hackers, it would bring  all elections into question, possibly bringing about a crisis in our democratic process.  And for what?  To pacify  simpletons  to can't figure out a paper ballot. Oooops! Don't look now Ethyl, I voted for Pat Bucanon!

 

""Sancho's most recent demonstration was last month. Harri Hursti, a computer security expert from Finland, manipulated the "memory card" that records the votes of ballots run through an optical scanning machine.""

The key word here is Finland. Foriegn countries shouldn't be involved to in our elections in any way, shape, or form. That brings me to this story.

U.S. Investigates Voting Machines’ Venezuela Ties

The key word here is...you guessed it, Venezuela!

The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist Venezuelan government of President (they mean communist dictator) Hugo Chavez

Fhew! This one smells like sulfur!

""The inquiry is focusing on the Venezuelan owners of the software company, the Smartmatic Corporation, and is trying to determine whether the government in Caracas has any control or influence over the firm’s operations, government officials and others familiar with the investigation said.""

I say we draw up legislation now to outlaw any foriegn company from US voting machines. Where's the common sense? How easy would it be for these foriegn companies to alter elections in such a way as to cause riots or increase voter apathy?

""The inquiry on the eve of the midterm elections is being conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or Cfius, the same panel of 12 government agencies that reviewed the abortive attempt by a company in Dubai to take over operations at six American ports earlier this year.""

I detect a pattern. Outsourcing jobs, outsourcing security, outsourcing elections...it's a small world after all.

The concerns about possible ties between the owners of Smartmatic and the Chávez government have been well known to United States foreign-policy officials since before the 2004 recall election in which Mr. Chávez, a strong ally of President Fidel Castro of Cuba, won by an official margin of nearly 20 percent.

Opposition leaders asserted that the balloting had been rigged. But a statistical analysis of the distribution of the vote by American experts in electronic voting security showed that the result did not fit the pattern of irregularities that the opposition had claimed.

At the same time, the official audit of the vote by the Venezuelan election authorities was badly flawed, one of the American experts said. “They did it all wrong,” one of the authors of the study, Avi Rubin, a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University, said in an interview.

Commies rigging elections? I never! Next they're going to tell me there's link between Islam and terrorism.

The Onion mocks an easy target.

French Civil War

hat tip, drudge
source

I tend to watch these things closely, but I was under the impression that "Le Jihad" had fizzled out. It turns out if anything, it's spreading.

This might have dropped below the radar, but Al Qaida and its allies are literally battling the Crusaders every day in Europe. And so far, Europe isn't doing so well.

"We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists," said Michel Thoomis, secretary general of the Action Police trade union. "This is not a question of urban violence any more. It is an intifada, with stones and firebombs."

The French Interior Ministry has acknowledged the Muslim uprising. The ministry said more than 2,500 police officers have been injured in 2006. This amounts to at least 14 officers each day.

The battles have been under-reported but alarming to French authorities. Muslim street commanders, who run lucrative drug networks, have organized youngsters in housing projects to ambush police and confront security forces. The response time allows hundreds of Muslims to storm police cars and patrols within minutes.

"You no longer see two or three youths confronting police," Thoomis said. "You see whole tower blocks emptying into the streets to set their comrades free when they are arrested."

France's huge Muslim minority community has come under the influence of agents often influenced and financed by Al Qaida. These agents have recruited Muslim youngsters for urban warfare in which police and government representatives are injured daily.

Not surprisingly, Muslim neighborhoods are becoming autonomous zones, with police and government workers too scared to enter. The police union is demanding the Interior Ministry supply officers with armored cars.

European law enforcement sources say France could be a model for other countries. The most worried are Britain and the Netherlands.

Least worried... the media, who seem to take a "fewer car burnings every day" stance, afraid to even name the "youths" and what the jihad is really about, and liberals who are all too willing to turn a blind eye to any negative reporting regarding Muslims. In fact, the MSM explains to us that the only reason Muslims hate us is because they're poor.

It's been a year now since the riots started.

Ironically, liberals are the very people who should be the most concerned with the intifada, an intention to establish theocratic sharia law in the West. With laser like focus on destroying the right, the left continues to enable an enemy that make George Bush et al look like a flaming liberal.

BBC Admits Pro-Muslim Bias

Dhimmi Watch

The British Broadcasting Corporation has admitted to a marked bias against Christianity and a strong inclination to pro-Muslim reporting among the network’s executives and key anchors, in a leaked account of an “impartiality summit.”

Remember folks, the "Beeb" is government owned, like PBS.

The Daily Mail reported Sunday on the secret London meeting of key executives, called by BBC chairman Michael Grade and hosted by veteran broadcaster Sue Lawley. The report revealed that many senior executives are deeply frustrated with the corporation’s commitment to “political correctness” and liberal policies at the expense of journalistic integrity and objectivity.

BBC executives admitted the corporation is dominated by homosexuals. They acknowledged that ethnic minorities held a disproportionate number of positions and said the BBC deliberately encourages multiculturalism and is more careful to avoid offending the Muslim community than Christians.

Tossing the Bible into a garbage can on a comedy show would be acceptable, they said, but not the Koran, and if possible they would broadcast an interview with Osama Bin Laden, giving him the opportunity to explain his views.

Politically correct and multicultural, the Brits are slowly eroding their own great tradition of democracy, freedom and tolerance in favor of theocratic fanatics who'd love to slit their throats, put their women in sacks, and put homosexuals to death.

Think it can't happen here?

Thanks to Church and State for linking this post.

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The Google Gulag

Hat tip, Michelle Malkin
Are you boycotting Google yet?
Google is a willing participant in the maintaining of the Red Communist government in China.
Here's what I said back in January,

We've all heard the rhetoric, just open up China to a free economy and sit back and watch communism crumble. But it hasn't worked out that way. Like the tanks crushing protesters in Tianamen Square, the communist Chinese government has convinced Google to self-censor. Since gaining most favored nation status from the US, nothing has really changed for the Chinese people, the government has successfully delayed human rights and democracy in favor of a massive military build up. You won't see this on China's internet.

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A Chinese court on Wednesday jailed a dissident for three years for inciting subversion with an Internet essay praising pro-rights protests in Hong Kong, a human rights group said.

Li Jianping was sentenced in Zibo, in the eastern province of Shandong, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said in a faxed statement on the latest example of China's crackdown on Internet dissent.

An assistant to Li's lawyer confirmed the sentence but could give no details. Li was tried in April.

A student participant in China's 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations, Li was found guilty of "inciting subversion of state power" for an essay published on overseas Chinese Web sites in 2003, the center said.

His essay praised protesters in Hong Kong, a former British colony which returned Chinese rule in 1997, who fought the self-governed territory's "Article 23" security legislation that critics said threatened to curb political liberty there.

Li, about 40, took part in the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations for democratic change. His jailing adds to a lengthening list of Chinese citizens imprisoned for speaking out on the Internet.

China is the world's leading jailer of journalists, with at least 32 in custody, and another 50 Internet campaigners also in prison, according to media freedom advocate Reporters Without Borders.

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American Muslims Surveyed

Hat tip, LGF

From  Muslims For a Safe America (heh)
""Muslims For A Safe America conducted a survey at the Islamic Society of North America’s 43rd Annual Convention in Chicago from September 1, 2006 to September 4, 2006.

307 Muslims who are American citizens participated in the survey at the Muslims For A Safe America booth at ISNA.""

1.  Are you a U.S. Citizen? (If no, then don’t fill out survey.)
YES 307
NO 0

2.  Do you consider yourself to be a Muslim first, an American first, or both equally?
MUSLIM FIRST 214
AMERICAN FIRST 4
BOTH EQUALLY 86
UNDECIDED 3

3.  Is the American government at war with the religion of Islam?
YES 208
NO 79
UNDECIDED 20

Staggering stupidity, then how was the Islamic Society of North America able to hold a convention in Chicago during this war?

4.  Can a good Muslim be a good American?
YES 292
NO 11
UNDECIDED 4

5.  Did Muslims hijack planes and fly them into buildings on 9/11?
YES 117
NO 139
UNDECIDED 51

Let me guess, the Jews, right?

6.  Did the U.S. government have advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, and allow the attacks to occur?
YES 200
NO 70
UNDECIDED 37

So much for question #4.

7.  Did the U.S. government organize the 9/11 attacks?
YES 106
NO 151
UNDECIDED 50

How many anti-Semites out of 151?

8.  Are the tapes of Osama Bin Laden, claiming responsibility for the 9/11 attacks and threatening future attacks, real or fake?
REAL 126
FAKE 129
UNDECIDED 52

I suppose the tapes of OBL saying he was going to attack America before 9/11 are fake too, still less than half of the Muslims surveyed can find fault in OBL.

9.  Did Muslims commit the July 2005 train and bus bombings in London?
YES 140
NO 104
UNDECIDED 63

This consistent with question #7 where 106 polees thought America attacked itself. They either believe the UK also attacked itself or the US pulled it off. Astounding, a full third of the respondents.

10. The Canadian government says it stopped a plot by Canadian Muslims in June 2006 to attack targets in Canada. Do you believe there was a real plot by Muslims?
YES 61
NO 202
UNDECIDED 44

Canada's in on it too, lol.

11. The British government says it stopped a plot by British Muslims in August 2006 to bomb planes flying to America. Do you believe there was a real plot by Muslims?
YES 66
NO 191
UNDECIDED 50

Fake plots everywhere!

12.  Is Al Qaeda a real organization, operated by Muslims who are trying to attack America?
YES 149
NO 109
UNDECIDED 49

Consistent with #7 and #9

13.  Is Al Qaeda attacking America because Al Qaeda hates American freedoms?
YES 17
NO 269
UNDECIDED 21

Why ask?, I thought they were fake?

14.  Is Al Qaeda attacking America because Al Qaeda hates American involvement in the Muslim world?
YES 228
NO 54
UNDECIDED 25

How's this for inconsistency? Isn't that the reason OBL gave for attacking America?

15.  Is it justifiable for the U.S. government to do any of the following in an attempt to prevent terrorist attacks in America:

a.  taking religion and ethnicity into account as one factor when deciding whom to interview and search at airports?
YES 37
NO 258
UNDECIDED 12

..even though the terrorists always give religion as their motive? See #2.

b.  monitoring activities at American mosques?
YES 43
NO 255
UNDECIDED 9

c.  listening to phone calls of people in America whom the government claims are connected in some way with Al Qaeda?
YES 64
NO 232
UNDECIDED 11

Only about 104 of the respondents think al-Qaeda is fake, so the other 130 or so don't care if al-Qaeda is talking to operatives in the US...that's nearly half.

d. having an informer pretend to support or encourage violence against America, to see if the targeted Muslims will decide to attack American targets?
YES 35
NO 258
UNDECIDED 14

258 afraid they just may agree.

e.  monitoring Muslim charities in America, in the hopes of preventing funding for possible terrorist attacks?
YES 52
NO 242
UNDECIDED 13

Please ignore our terrorist funding, infidel.

f. focusing Immigration & Customs Enforcement resources on deporting Muslim illegal aliens, who have not been convicted of terrorism, in the hopes of disrupting possible Al Qaeda attacks?
YES 29
NO 263
UNDECIDED 15

This is the Real Problem With The Border.

g. allowing Muslim illegal aliens to stay in America if they agree to work as informants, monitoring the Muslim community for the government?
YES 21
NO 277
UNDECIDED 9

More evidence contrary to #4.

h.  torturing suspected Al Qaeda members to get information about possible planned attacks?
YES 14
NO 278
UNDECIDED 15

16.  Do you believe that your local mosque is being monitored by wiretaps, government agents, or informants?
YES 227
NO 59
UNDECIDED 21

Well, that would explain the dry spell of terrorist attacks on US soil, lol.

17. Do you believe that your personal phone calls are being listened to, or that your personal mail or email is being read, by the U.S. government?
YES 205
NO 78
UNDECIDED 24

Two thirds of the poll takers are worried, what are they taking about? If anyone tapped my phone, they'd die of boredom.

18.  Do you believe that your home is bugged by the U.S. government?
YES 97
NO 189
UNDECIDED 21

Paranoia down to one third now.

19.  Do you believe that the U.S. government has secretly searched your home?
YES 43
NO 245
UNDECIDED 19

I'm surprised these 43 are brave enough to go outside.

20. If you, or a member of your family, have been questioned by the federal government at any time after 9/11, how were you treated during the interview?
TREATED WELL 65
TREATED BADLY 25
NOT APPLICABLE 217

One third have been questioned by the Feds? About the same number who thought the US attacked the twin towers. (#7)

21.  Should Iran develop nuclear weapons?
YES 161
NO 123
UNDECIDED 23

The key word here is weapons.

22.  Should America attack Iran to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons?
YES 10
NO 292
UNDECIDED 5

The next question should be;

23. Should America stop Iran from using nuclear weapons against Israel?

23.  Was America justified in invading Iraq in 2003?

YES 8
NO 294
UNDECIDED 5

24.  Should American troops leave Iraq immediately, or stay there until the Iraqi government and Iraqi military are stronger?
LEAVE NOW 199
LEAVE LATER 86
UNDECIDED 22

25.  Was America justified in invading Afghanistan after 9/11?
YES 51
NO 248
UNDECIDED 8

Attack the home of the Taliban? Never! Hey, is that nail polish?

26. Is violence by Muslims against American civilians acceptable, in retaliation for the American government’s actions in the Muslim world?
YES 23
NO 274
UNDECIDED 10

I'm glad the numbers are so low, but still...33 people need help.

27. Is violence by Muslims against the American military overseas acceptable, in retaliation for the American government’s actions in the Muslim world?
YES 134
NO 154
UNDECIDED 19

But they still support the troops right? Don't call them anti-American!

28. Is violence by Muslims against the American military in the U.S. acceptable, in retaliation for the American government’s actions in the Muslim world?
YES 73
NO 211
UNDECIDED 23

Can you say jihad? Sure you can.

29. Is violence by Muslims against American government officials acceptable, in retaliation for the American government’s actions in the Muslim world?
YES 51
NO 231
UNDECIDED 25

It's Sirhan-Sirhan and his 25 undecideds!

30.  If you learned about a plot by Muslims to attack targets inside America, would you tell law enforcement authorities?
YES 234
NO 39
UNDECIDED 34

About 20% can't be counted on to stop the mass murder of their fellow man. Unconscionable.

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New Al-Qaeda Handbook

Via Strategypage

Al Qaeda has "issued" a new "how to" manual for members, and wannabes. It's English title is "Myth of Delusion," and it was written, it is believed, by an Egyptian terrorist; Mohammed al-Hakaymah...

NY Sun on al-Hakaymah...a member of a violent group that recently splintered off from an Egyptian Islamist organization, Gama'a al-Islamiyya, when it signed a cease-fire agreement with Cairo. Mr. Hakaymah gained some notoriety on August 5, when Osama bin Laden's Egyptian-born deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, mentioned his name in an announcement that Al Qaeda was merging with the splinter group.


..."Myth of Delusion" is so named because the document also tries to convince prospective, and existing, terrorists, that Western, especially American, intelligence organizations are not as effective as many Moslems believe they are. This notion of "CIA invincibility" in the Moslem world has been around for a long time, and it's difficult to overcome decades of delusions, when trying to gain new recruits. That's why the September 11, 2001 attacks were so important to Islamic terrorists everywhere. These attacks showed that the CIA/FBI/ and so on, was not invincible.

The 152 page online document (Click here for the pdf) goes into great detail advising the muhajideen on cell phone use and CIA recruitment techniques, while promoting propoganda.  It's important for budding terrorists to believe they can win if they want to gain funding and recruitment,and that my friends is why the current Democratic strategy of painting Bush and our military as a failure is so destructive to the security of this Nation.

A previous al-Qaeda handbook gave advice on how to manipulate the western media and legal system, from My Pet Jawa ;

"" A directive lists one mission as "spreading rumors and writing statements that instigate people against the enemy."

If captured, the manual states, "At the beginning of the trial ... the brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by state security before the judge. Complain of mistreatment while in prison.""

...And who is all too happy to fall for that line?

Thanks to In the Bullpen for the pdf link.

Also posting on this subject;

Right Truth  ""The serious question is where to these jihadis get their information, at least the parts that are accurate in this on-line manual? We have such an open society, individuals in government that leak like crazy when it suits their political purpose, and media that are all too happy to print those leaks. It's no wonder that secrets could land in the lap of terrorists.""

The C-Square ""Mohammed al Hakaymah,  unlike Najd Al Rawik, the oblivious author of "The Global Media: A Work Paper for Invading the US Media," (Rawik doesn't know enough American culture to realize US media is already supine) al-Hakaymah" just reads the members of the mainstream media for the tasty bits of intell that turn into much needed field tactical adjustments.""

Smooth Stone ""See, while Hakaymah makes no mention of the December 2005 New YorkTimes article that first disclosed that the National Security Agency was tapping phone numbers found in cell phones captured from suspected Al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan, Hakaymah does devote a chapter to electronic surveillance. Coincidence? I don't think so, and neither do intelligence officials.""

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