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Patton on Terror

This is just too good.

As seen on the Blue Star Chronicles.

***Patton Language Warning ***

Iraqi's Crossing the Border?

Mexicans? Here's the Real Problem With The Border. OTM's in the form of Hezbollah or al-Qaeda. You just can't have homeland security without border security. Here are more examples of jihadists using our border as a means of getting into the US.

Hat tip, JW. Residents in the close-knit community of Chaparral were surprised to hear that undocumented Iraqi and other Middle Eastern immigrants may be part of a human smuggling ring based here.

"Out of so many places, why here?" Chaparral resident Fabiola Gardea asked. "This is near my house. It scares me a lot because I never thought they would be this close."

She said it would be easy for human smugglers to do well in the community.

"There's a lot of empty houses and land everywhere," she said.

Gardea said the possibility that some undocumented immigrants might be from Iraq is unsettling.

"It makes me think of terrorism," she said. "They're so close. Anything can happen. It's very scary."

ABC News reported that the FBI was investigating the possibility that Iraqi and other Middle Eastern immigrants might have been entering the country illegally through a smuggling operation based in Chaparral for more than a year.

"We've received numerous calls about an FBI intelligence bulletin that claims Iraqis are being smuggled into the U.S. in our area. The El Paso Division does not have specific information regarding this claim," local FBI spokes woman Andrea Simmons said in an e-mail. "I would remind you that some intelligence information is provided in a raw, unsubstantiated format. That information can later be proven or disproven, but is often provided in this raw format to inform the intelligence community of possible threats."

Doña Ana County Sheriff's Department spokesman Bo Nevarez said his department often gets reports of human smuggling.

"We have received reports in the last week. Human smuggling reports are fairly common," he said, but did not detail how many reports have been received, where they occurred or the nationality of the people involved. He said the reports are turned over to other agencies.

Many Chaparral residents were surprised to hear the claim that some of the undocumented immigrants in their area might be from the Middle East.

The report referred to by ABC News said the smuggling ring had shifted from trafficking Mexicans to those from the Middle East because of the money to be made in this area. Smuggled Iraqis reportedly paid between $20,000 to $25,000 to enter the country.

Some said those entering the country through this alleged ring may simply be looking for a better life.

"It doesn't really scare me. It surprised me, but that was it," Chaparral resident Luz Domin guez said. "Maybe they just want to move from where they live."

"Somebody that wants to make a change and doesn't want to be in the conflict, I say (there's no problem). If they're going to harm our country, I say yes," Chaparral resident Raymond Massey said.

Some people just want all illegal immigration stopped.

"Half of Chaparral is illegals, so what's the difference?" Chaparral resident George Farkas asked. "It doesn't matter whether they're from here or 10,000 miles from here. Get rid of them."

Chaparral resident Michael Chavez said he hoped security was increased in light of the alleged smuggling ring.

"Our community needs to provide more security as well as law enforcement," he said.

He is ready to step up if need be. "You don't know how powerful the people are and what they would do," Chavez said. "If we have a conflict here in Chaparral, I wouldn't mind putting on a uniform and fighting for Chaparral. I'll fight for what I believe in."

We have the people, now all we need is a government willing to defend itself.

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Two Missile Launchers Found

One in New Jersey,

A Jersey City woman made a shocking discovery on her lawn this morning when she noticed a military rocket launcher lying in the grass.

Niranjana Besai was leaving her house, located at 88 Nelson Street, to go to work just after 8 this morning when she spotted the launcher on her front lawn. “I read it and it [said] ‘missile,’” Besai told CBS 2 HD. “There was little ‘missile’ [writing] on it.” She immediately called police. (VIDEO)

...and Tampa,

Authorities said a Patriot missile has been  found in a Tampa scrap metal yard.

Explosives experts at MacDill Air Force Base were called to the scrap yard on July 11 to identify an odd-looking object in a heap of junk.

The experts said the object was a surface-to-air missile, minus its warhead; so it's harmless. They said the missile appeared to be a training model, and still had its rocket motor and guidance system.What the experts don't know is how the missile ended up in the  scrap yard.

That's two in ten days, a bizarre coincidence in the least. There's probably nothing to it, but still troubling.

The World's Stupidest Fatwahs

Oh boy, more ammo for The List!

Hat tip, Hot Air.

No central authority controls doctrine in Islam, one of the world’s great religions. The result? A proliferation of bizarre religious edicts against targets ranging from Salman Rushdie to polio vaccinations. FP collects some of the worst examples here.

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Salman Rushdie

               

Who: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran

               

What: A fatwa is simply a religious ruling in Islam—most often, it seems, fatwas are about sexual matters—but Westerners usually associate the term with the notorious 1989 death sentence against British author Salman Rushdie. At the time, Khomeini was seeking to distract his followers from the pointless slaughter of the recently ended Iran-Iraq war, during which hundreds of thousands of Iranians were killed and wounded. Rushdie had just authored The Satanic Verses, an edgy novel about the origins of the Koran, and thus proved the perfect foil for Khomeini’s designs. Thousands of irate Muslims around the world protested the book as an insult to Islam. For a decade, Rushdie lived in hiding, fearing assassination for his “apostasy.” More recently, when Queen Elizabeth II knighted the author for his literary achievements, al Qaeda called for retaliation against Britain. And Khomeini’s successor, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, reversed his earlier position and said that the original 1989 fatwa remains in force.

         

 

          

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Unclothed sex 

               

Who: Rashad Hassan Khalil, former dean of Islamic law at al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt

               

What: When Khalil ruled in January 2006 that for married couples, “being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage,” liberal Egyptians howled with derision. Other scholars rejected Khalil’s logic on the grounds that everything but “sodomy” is halal in a marriage. Absorbing the criticism but seeking to appease religious conservatives, Abdullah Megawar, the fatwa committee chairman at al-Azhar, reached for an awkward compromise. Sure, he said, a husband and wife could see one other naked, but should not look at each other’s genitals. And they should probably have sex under a blanket, he added for good measure.

    

 

          

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Pokémon

               

Who: Saudi Arabia’s Higher Committee for Scientific Research and Islamic Law

               

What: Denouncing the lovable Japanese cartoon characters as having “possessed the minds” of Saudi youngsters, Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority banned Pokémon video games and cards in the spring of 2001. Not only do Saudi scholars believe that Pokémon encourages gambling, which is forbidden in Islam, but it is apparently a front for Israel as well. The fatwa’s authors claimed that Pokémon games include, “the Star of David, which everyone knows is connected to international Zionism and is Israel’s national emblem.” Religious authorities in the United Arab Emirates joined in, condemning the games for promoting evolution, “a Jewish-Darwinist theory that conflicts with the truth about humans and with Islamic principles,” but didn’t ban them outright. Even the Catholic Church in Mexico got into the act, calling Pokémon video games “demonic.”

         

 

          

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Polio vaccine

               

Who: Local mullahs in rural Pakistan

               

What: Pakistan’s largest Islamist umbrella group, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), issued a fatwa in January 2007 endorsing the provincial government’s efforts to immunize children from polio in the country’s Northwest Frontier Province. But even though health workers carried copies of the ruling with them as they trudged across the province, The Guardian reported in February 2007 that the parents of some 24,000 children had refused to allow the workers to administer polio drops. It turns out that influential antistate clerics had been issuing their own fatwas denouncing the campaign as a Western plot to sterilize Muslims. Although Pakistan only saw 39 cases of polio last year and most children have now been immunized, a similar religiously motivated firestorm against polio drops in Nigeria in 2003 allowed the eradicable disease to spread to 12 new countries in just 18 months.

         

 

          

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Breast-feeding

               

Who: Ezzat Atiya, a lecturer at Cairo’s al-Azhar University

               

What: Many Muslims believe that unmarried men and women should not work alone together—a stricture that can pose problems in today’s global economy. So one Islamic scholar came up with a novel solution: If a woman were to breast-feed her male colleague five times, the two could safely be alone together. “A woman at work can take off the veil or reveal her hair in front of someone whom she breast-fed,” he wrote in an opinion issued in May 2007. He based his reasoning—which was quickly and widely derided in the Egyptian press, in the parliament, and on Arabic-language talk shows—on stories from the Prophet Mohammed’s time in which, Atiya maintained, the practice occurred. Although Atiya headed the department dealing with the Prophet’s sayings, al-Azhar University’s higher authorities were not impressed. They suspended the iconoclastic scholar, and he subsequently recanted his ruling as a “bad interpretation of a particular case.”

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Murtha Must Apologize

Congressman John Murtha grabbed every microphone within reach to repeatedly trash U.S. Marines who had encountered and killed insurgents in Haditha, Iraq, to say the Marines were cold-blooded murderers when the INVESTIGATION HAD BARELY BEGUN! Now, the investigation has recommended dropping the case for lack of evidence. At the very least, Murtha must apologize to the Marines. If Murtha really wants to redeem himself, he'll resign his seat in Congress and go home to Pennsylvania

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Dems Hang John Doe

Dhimmi, thy name is Democrat.

Congressional Democrats today failed to include a provision in homeland security legislation that would protect the public from being sued for reporting suspicious behavior that may lead to a terrorist attack, according to House Republican leaders.

"This is a slap in the face of good citizens who do their patriotic duty and come forward, and it caves in to radical Islamists," said Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee.

Republicans wanted the provision included in final legislation, crafted yesterday during a House and Senate conference committee, that will implement final recommendations from the September 11 commission.

Mr. King and Rep. Steve Pearce, New Mexico Republican, sponsored the provision after a group of Muslim imams filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against US Airways and unknown "John Doe" passengers. The imams were removed from US Airways Flight 300 on Nov. 20 after fellow passengers on the Minneapolis-to-Phoenix flight complained about the imams' suspicious behavior.

On March 27, the House approved the "John Doe" amendment on a 304-121 vote.

Michell Malkin has a roll call, all of the nays are Democrats.

Congress switchboard: 202-224-3121

Nancy Pelosi’s office: 202-225-4965

LGF comments,

The real victims of this idiotic vote will be the airline industries, as people increasingly choose not to travel rather than go through the gamut of craziness. And of course, that’s exactly what the global jihad wants.

Good work, Democrats!

Jihad Watch,

Allowing for CAIR's Flying Imam lawsuit against the "John Does" who reported the imams' suspicious behavior, and making Americans afraid to report on suspicious activity for fear that they, too, will be sued. Bottom line: jihadists get a free hand in airports. Congratulations, Ms. Pelosi. "This is a slap in the face of good citizens who do their patriotic duty and come forward, and it caves in to radical Islamists," says Peter King, and he's right.

Whether it's Lindsey Graham, The Fairness Doctrine and now the silencing of John Does, there is one consistent message we are getting from Washington. Shut up.

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Save Rizana From Being Beheaded

Hat tip, Always on Watch.

Sign the petition, and pass it around.
YouTube link
PETITION HERE, as well as additional information

Republicans call for reprimand of Ellison

Even Pelosi has got to see Ellison as damaging to the country, or at least her party. Most people are not in line with Kos and will see Ellison's comments for what they are, hatred.

Two House Republicans Tuesday called on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to reprimand Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) for reportedly drawing a comparison between President Bush and Adolf Hitler.

“We call on you to swiftly and immediately reprimand Rep. Ellison for his flagrant and irresponsible comparison,” Reps. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) and Eric Cantor (R-Va.) wrote in a letter to Pelosi. “These comments inflame hatred and division at a time when we should be promoting our unity and reconciliation.”

Related posts;

Ellison: The Taste of Foot

Keith Ellison Compares 9/11 To Riechtag (video)

Homer Upsets Pagans

On your left, the lovable Homer Simpson. Dressed comfortably and smiling as he hoists his large doughnut in utter joy. On the right, is a naked guy with a boner and a club. Who would you trust?

A 180 foot image of Homer Simpson has been painted into the hillside, next to the famous fertility symbol - the Cerne Abbas giant - in Dorset. Pagans are not happy with the new addition to the hillside, and plan some 'rain magic' to get it washed away. Video.

I think if I was an upset pagan I would get some magic green spray paint, or a magic lawyer, or just wait a couple of weeks when the promotion is long forgotten.

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Ellison: The Taste of Foot

Ellison doesn't truly apologize,  he just admits that it sounds bad.

"In hindsight, I wouldn't have used that reference point," Ellison told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Tuesday. "It was probably inappropriate to use that example, because it's a unique historical event, without really any clear parallels."

Probably inappropriate? Like Ellison is probably in the wrong line of work.

Ellison said he remains harshly critical of the Bush administration.

"I believe that they have exploited the fears that grew from 9/11, in order to pass legislation and even start wars they could have never gotten away with but for that tragedy," he said.

My question is, what would Ellison do? Other than appeasement and sharia, what does he offer as a solution? Besides, just who is it that hates the Jews anyway?

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