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Honor our Day of Rememberance

Display the flag, say a prayer, and honor those who gave thier lives.

History of Memorial Day.

Hot Air posted a Reagan speech and lots of links.

Michelle Malkin has more and several worthwhile videos.

WHT has an inspiring post up.

In contrast, there's this from American Thinker.

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day Roundup

There's lot's of background on this story as well as drawings at JW, Big Goverment, Atlas, Michelle Malkin, and Hot Air has a poll. Check out the Draw Mohammed facebook page, and there's the Everybody Draw Mohammed Blog. Zombie has had a huge archive of Mohammed images ever since the Danish cartoon debacle.

Here's my interpretation. It features Mohammed threatening to shoot an infidel with a "religion of peace" ray.

OK, it's not really a drawing, but  I was drawing Mohammed three years ago to mock Gary Trudeau who said in an interview that he wouldn't potray Mohammed. Click the link to check it out.

The Rewards of Appeasement

Via ROP.

New beginning - same old Religion of Peace.   In the year since
Obama's pledge for a "new beginning" with the Islamic world, Muslims
 in America have, 1) Plotted to set off a car bomb in  Illinois, 2) Plotted to
 blow up a skyscraper in Dallas, 3) Attempted to detonate an airplane
 over Detroit, 4) Murdered an army recruiter in Arkansas,  5) Planted a
car bomb in Times Square, and 6) Massacred thirteen people in Texas. 

Peace in our time?

Lars Vilks Attacked

Witness the Religion of Peace as they try to silence or kill anyone who says they are anything other than peaceful.

For those unfamiliar with Lars Vilks, Hot Air gives the background on the story.

Remember Lars Vilks? A few years ago he decided to draw Mohammed as a pooch and has been dodging killers ever since, from garden variety Islamist nuts like “Jihad Jane” all the way up to the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Funny thing, though: Not only wasn’t he intimidated, he practically dared the mujahedeen to come and get him, letting CNN cameras film his home and even booby-trapping the place in case the soldiers of Allah paid him an unexpected visit. Quote:

Vilks has faced numerous death threats over the controversial cartoon, but said in March he has built his own defense system, including a “homemade” safe room and a barbed-wire sculpture that could electrocute potential intruders.

He said he also has an ax “to chop down” anyone trying to climb through the windows of his home in southern Sweden.

“If something happens, I know exactly what to do,” Vilks told The Associated Press in an interview in Stockholm.

He got himself a guard dog too. Its name? “Muhammed.”

But Vilks is undaunted.

While Vilks escaped the incident with broken glasses and a degree of shock, he said it raised concerns about the freedom of expression at Sweden's oldest and most prestigious institute of higher learning.

"What you get is a mob deciding what can be discussed at the university," Vilks told The Associated Press, adding he was ready to repeat the lecture if re-invited.

"I'm ready to go up again," he said. "This must be carried through. You cannot allow it to be stopped."

It looks like Vilk's website has been hacked. Here's a sceenshot.

 

Shocking News: Times Square bomber apparently a Muslim

Ah yes, what a suprise this must be to the Bob Beckels of the world. The Democratic strategist who thinks a "right-wing militia" was behind the Times Square car bomb attack. 

Or JFK airport security for that matter, who cleared Shahzad to fly to Dubai before the jet was stopped.

Or Homeland security, who failed to notice a Pakistani Taliban trained terrorist entering the country.

President Obama said the attempted bombing "is another sobering reminder of the times in which we live." Of attackers, he said, "They will stop at nothing to try and interrupt our life."

Here's an idea, why not try stopping them?

Update: Contessa Brewer of MSNBC wishes the terrorist was a Tea Partier.

Yeah Contessa, that would have been just grand if this was a case of homegrown terrorism, as if we don't have enough problems. Hey, maybe you can get Bill Ayers to do it?

Update II: Mayor Bloomberg in deep denial.

News Busters: From part of Couric’s interview with the mayor aired on the Monday, May 3 CBS Evening News:

KATIE COURIC: Law enforcement officials don’t know who left the Nissan Pathfinder behind, but, at this point, the mayor believes the suspect acted alone.

MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG: If I had to guess — 25 cents — this would be exactly that, somebody-

COURIC TO BLOOMBERG: A home-grown?

BLOOMBERG: Home-grown, maybe a mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.

Stupidity or just willful neglect?

Woman Honor Thyself puts this story in historical perspective by reminding us of NYFD Ladder 4 Engine 54.

Times Square Car Bomb targeting South Park?

It's too soon to tell at this point, but it sure looks that way.

The bomb, which failed to detonate, was left in a sport utility vehicle close to a Broadway theatre where a production of The Lion King was showing.

It contained three propane tanks, fireworks, two five gallon gasoline containers, two clocks with batteries, electrical wires and a 4ft by 2ft metal box.

The dark green Nissan Pathfinder with tinted windows was parked near the junction of 45th Street and Broadway.

The location is also adjacent to the Viacom building, fuelling speculation that it might be linked to the company's controversial South Park cartoon which recently depicted Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.

It does seem amazingly coincidental given the timing and location of the attempted bombimg.