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Peace-Loving

'How to Join Al Qaeda' is laid out in a web tutorial. "Set a goal; for example, assassinating the American ambassador — is it so difficult? Is it difficult for something who has already crushed America in her own home?"

Yup, these are followers of the Religion of Peace, all right.  Peace simply means that all "infidels" are dead.  If you happen to be an "infidel", you may strongly disagree with their position.  Disagreement alone, however, won't change anything.  Not when we allow them to live and study among us.

Two Egyptian students at the University of South Florida were indicted Friday for carrying explosive materials across states lines and one of them was charged with teaching the other how to use them for violent reasons.

Islam - the Religion of Pieces.

Sad News

Al Peet, connoisseur of fine coffee and founder of Peet’s Coffee, died peacefully Wednesday at the age of 87, it was announced today.

Hoist a cup to his memory.

Politicians And Bureaucrats May Be In Trouble

It's a sad thing, bud if the case of Elseya irwini - otherwise known as the Irwin turtle - is any indication, entire populations of creatures that can breathe through their butts may be heading toward endangered status.  This can't be good news for Teddy Kulongoski, Teddy Kennedy, and a host of Metro and CoPo officials.

Say Goodbye To Steamed Crap And Other Delicacies

Chinglish has always been such a fun thing, but the spoilsports in Beijing have decided that, in view of their upcoming Olympics venue, it's time to get rid of that quaint institution.

No more shall menus offer "virgin chicken" or "The temple explodes the chicken cube" (kung pao chicken).  And these folks are serious: they've published a list of nearly 3,000 new names for drinks and food offerings.

"These translations either scare or embarrass foreign customers and may cause misunderstanding on China's diet habits," Xinhua said.

Not to worry, though - you'll still be able to order up a tasty dish of mushrooms with ducks' feet.

An Inconvenient Convention

Golly, La Raza is threatening to cancel the national convention it was going to hold in Kansas City.  Since La Raza (which translates to "The Race") is the brown-skinned version of the Ku Klux Klan, this threat is akin to the KKK threatening to cancel a national convention in Atlanta - who cares?

What's interesting about the La Raza threat is the reason behind it:  they don't like an individual who was appointed to the Kansas City parks board.  Kind of demonstrates just how "tolerant" these racists really are.  You're supposed to bend over backwards to mollify them - or else.

Janet Murguía, head of the Washington-based La Raza, said Thursday that Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s appointment of a member of a militant group opposing illegal immigration gave pause to the Hispanic rights organization.

Semler is a member of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps and has taken a strong stance against illegal immigration and has suggested a moratorium on legal immigration.

And Finally - The Condo Bust!

Portland was a little late getting into the whole condo thing, but thanks to Homer Williams and a pliant set of civic...oh, gag, now - "leaders", we've got the Pearl and the South Waterfront, with more condos on the horizon.  One little problem with that whole "progressive" scenario: it's already dead.

Isn't that just the way it always seems to be with the City of Portland, the Metropolitan Service District, and all of their legions of "planners"?  Nothing ever seems to pan out as they "planned".

Maybe it's just time to take government and their agencies out of the "planning" business entirely.

Your tax dollars are paying for roughly 600 "planners" between just these two agencies.  At a hundred thousand dollars or so a pop (counting benefits), it's a hell of a lot of money to pay for "plans" that never work.

Saving The Fish That Don't Exist

As noted in Oregon Catalyst, government's always on the lookout for ways to waste your time and money.

Clackamas County is fishing for new ways to waste tax dollars. The county is currently tearing up freshly-paved roads in rural Canby and Molalla, and installing “fish-friendly” culverts where irrigation ditches cross roads.

The fact that there are no fish (and have never been any fish) in these ditches has led neighborhood residents to believe there is something “fishy” with the county’s rational. (sic)

Of course, they're all over "saving the planet" from "global warming", as well.  Even though less than half of the scientists engaged in active research support the AlGore/Bradbury scenario.  Marc Morano cited a July 2007 review of 539 abstracts in peer-reviewed scientific journals from 2004 through 2007 that found that climate science continues to shift toward the views of global warming skeptics.

Obviously, this doesn't mean that global warming is not occuring here, as it is on Mars and other planets.  What it does mean is that human activity - contrary to the Gospel of Gore - is pretty definitively not responsible for the phenomenon.  That doesn't matter to governmental officials and bureaucrats, however, because they are not about to let a golden opportunity to dip into your wallet in order to fund their social engineering experiments just slip away. 

They'll continue to "plan" 19th-century technology; diverting your 21st-century highway funds to build their utopian dream.  Is it a huge surprise that Columbia Sportswear has declined Portland's overtures toward moving their headquarters back into the City That Fails?  Any wonder that families are moving away in droves?  Any wonder that the Portland Public Schools student population declines every year?

We don't buy the BS from CoPo and Metro.

Around And Around And Around She Goes

And where she stops, everyone knows.  It's the same old story:  deported, then back in the USA a month later.  Happens all the time, which is why we need secure borders - and elected representatives who are actually willing to listen to their constituents.  Close the doors and turn the locks, and we'll find more illegals like Demetrio: 

"I am waiting for the chance to one day become legal, but from what I can see there is little hope, and I can see all the doors closing," said Demetrio, adding that he is thinking of returning to Mexico if he sees no future in the United States.

Note to Demetrio:  you don't get a chance to become legal when you choose to break our laws.

By way of followup:  remember the teenager with contagious tuberculosis who refused treatment and was subsequently jailed?  Well surprise, surprise, surprise!  He's an illegal alien.

Francisco Santos, 17, has acknowledged to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that he is in the country illegally, Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway said Wednesday.

Four people who had been living with Santos have also tested positive for tuberculosis, health officials said Wednesday.

Legal immigrants get screened for stuff like this.  Illegal aliens represent a significant and very real threat to your health.

But it gets worse:  so ingrained in the liberal establishment is the theology that illegal aliens are good in some nebulous way that a doctor who had the audacity to fight against state-supported nonemergency treatment for illegal aliens was fired.  His "crime":  noting that the policy violates federal law and results in the poorest American citizens being denied the care they deserve.

Clearly, in addition to securing our borders, we need to provide protections for such providers of medical care, and we need to implement sanctions against those who wish to continue to drive up the cost of medical care to citizens by providing free services to illegal aliens.

City Councils Have Way Too Much Time On Their Hands

Veteran Portland City Council member and full-time promoter Sam "The Tram" Adams is now introducing "resolutions" geared toward furthering his agenda of social engineering.  "Both of these are about city government leading by example", he said.

Sam, buy a clue.  We don't need you to introduce a resolution that bans buying uniforms from anybody that you don't like.  Your job is transportation.  So get out there and fix some potholes!

We don't need you to introduce a resolution requiring city contractors to provide for worker health care.

That's not your job, Sam.  And let's face it - you don't do your job very well.  Your approach is to impose requirements that increase the City's cost of doing business, then come whining and crying to us that there's just not enough money, and so we need to consider tax increases.

No, Sam.  What we need is somebody who can do the job.  And quite apparently, you can't.

Of course, you haven't actually gone this far - yet.  No doubt, more social engineering is just around the corner if you remain in office.

From The Department Of Nothing Better To Do

Iran has lodged a formal protest against Sweden for allowing a newspaper to print a cartoon that they find offensive.  How many times has Iran done things that the rest of the world finds offensive?  You can't count them.  To paraphrase an old Gallagher line:  Why can't Iranians be circumsized?

There ain't no end to them pricks.

You have to admire the newspaper's reply: 

"The right to freedom of religion and the right to blaspheme religions go together," it wrote.