Author: David

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades)

(Click the image above to read reviews/purchase; click the image at the foot of thos post for a larger view of the book cover.)

I’ve found the Random Yak to be someone worth paying attention to, so when he recommended this book in a recent comment, I thought it wise to heed his words.

While I have a rag bin fulla factoids from years ago when I more than doubled the hours required for my bachelors by adding tons of unrelated courses (and continued the practice during grad school–heh, I could happily go back to classes again today… ), the smattering of stuff I recall from couses and personal rading in M.E. history and archaeology, comparative religion, Western Civ, et al, will no doubt be buttressed, challenged and filled out by this book. I look forward to its arrival, and if you want a broad-spectrum look at Islam through the ages, I’d suggest, based on Random Yak’s recommendation alone, if nothing else, you look into this one, too.

The barbarians are no longer at the gates; they are at our doors, thank to Muslim apologists and enablers on the left and poor border security as a whole. This is not Vienna in 1683, and there’s no John III Sobieski to ride to our rescue. Knowing the enemy is important if we are not to fall for its age-old strategies and tactics.

Get the book. it couldn’t hurt, and it just might help.

“The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades)”

Noted at Blue Star Chronicles

Jerry Pournelle (always worth reading. Always) has some interesting observations about ADHD… again (search his site for more).

“If children do not learn self-discipline in school, when and where will they learn it? …If boys don’t learn to take charge of themselves in school, and in Scouts, and without drugs, then what kind of men will they be? Our neighborhood lawyer found himself in middle age after “suffering” from ADHD all his life; and having found himself not only quit his job and became a bum living in his mother’s basement, but is now demanding that his wife sell the house so he can get his share. If this is finding oneself, staying lost seems preferable, for he is no longer a man at all.”

There’s more here, including the correspondent’s remarks that elicited Dr. Pournelle’s comments.

As a side note to Dr. Pournelle’s comments, when I was teaching and had a few students “diagnosed” (whatever that meant at the time—different strokes for different folks’ different ways on different days, as it were—with ADD/ADHD, I noticed the kinds of behavior modifications Dr. Pournelle talks about in his brief disquisition. When one (or more) would “forget” to take the meds that literally drugged them outa their (own) minds, they could and did learn to moderate their behavior in my classes. One or two instances of “or else” were usually enough. A firm hand, “the look” from me and… well-focused student.

Drugging kids (mostly boys, of course) out of their minds is not the answer, in most (approaching all) cases. Nor is giving adults an excuse to be babies.

Writing “I will not throw chalk” on the blackboard 500 times at The Real Ugly American.

And yeh, I know: don;t call you Shirley.

*sigh*

Anywho, y’all having fun with trackback spammers? Anyone? OK, now, riase your hands. Who has gotten over 1,000 trackback spams in the last day or do? Anyone? Else, I mean.

OK, you can put your hands down, now. (I wasn’t paying attention anyway,)

I need to send a nice email out to the guy who developed Spam Karma. Great lil plugin. Only two of 1,013 1,021 1,031 spam trackbacks (just checked;and again; it’d changed. twice, while writing this… so far) in the last 20 hours got through its filters. Three false positives (removed from the number above).

Not bad. The number of SPAMs—total, including your run-of-the-mill comment SPAM—Spam Karma has caught and nuked in the last five weeks is only about five times as many as in the last 20 hours or so. Somebody’s being a very bad boy (boys–or girls–actually) but I have several of the biggest offenders’ IP addresses logged, and am thinking long and hard on their fate…

So, a question: what circle of hell do SPAMMers belong in? What would be your fantasy method of arranging their transfer to that location?

It’s NOT trackback SPAM at Stuck on Stupid’s Weekend Trackback Party

Yep, this is an Open Trackback Alliance open post. Please link to this post and track back (LINK) all weekend long. Do see the foot of this post for a link to the Open Trackback Alliance for information on how you too can host linkfests and to Linkfest Haven for links to other blogs hosting linkfests this weekend.

And now, “We Need to Stop Pussyfootin’ Around, Folks”

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Just this week, I have read on otherwise Right-thinking blogs evidence that Islamic terrorists and terrorist-enablers are winning the war of words, the war of the mind.

Let me give you three paraphrased examples of lies about Islam that are far too widely accepted and even given byes by those who ought to know better (and no, I’ll not spefically name bloggers, cos that would be an unecessary embarrassment to them, IMO).

Mohammed taught that coercion of belief is not right, quoting Mohammed in Surah 88:21-22 as saying his god had told him coercion of belief was not his task, was wrong, BUT Mohammed’s entire life was an example teaching violence, murder, rape and enslavement as a means to expanding the rule of Islam. Who is the true follower of Mohammed? The one who follows what Mohammed said or the one who follows what he showed his followers to do?

The question answers itself.

Another blogger has said that if Islam is to legitimize itself as a religion that it ought to purge itself of the elements who do violence against non-combatants (commit terrorist acts) in the name of allah. But to do that would be to purge Islam of Mohammed! And once Islam has purged itself of the most brutal, violent, vicious and evil example it has (Mohammed) what do they have left? His testimony as the prophet of his allah would then be invalidated, and there could be no Islamic religion!

Continue reading “OTA Weekend Open Post/We Need to Stop Pussyfootin’ Around, Folks”

Rick, The Real Ugly American, has stolen a beat! See his interview with FRED BARNES.

Get outa here and go read it. What are you still sticking around here for? Git!

More W00Ts at TMH’s Bacon Bits, Basil’s Blog, Liberal Common Sense and Jo’s Cafe.

This week’s STACLU blogburst post is from Gribbit.

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Abstinence Is Harmful? News To Us

Today the American Civil Liberties Union issued a press release which is featured on their website’s “Newsroom” page that is titled, “ACLU Hails Rhode Island Department of Education Efforts to Stop the Use of Harmful “Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage” Curriculum in Public Schools“. Only the ACLU and a liberal state like Rhode Island could find abstaining from sexual activity harmful.

The fact is that abstinence is the only form of birth control and STD prevention that works 100% that it is employed. By practicing the ultimate in safe sex, NO SEX, no children are unnecessarily slaughtered in the name of choice, no drugs are being used in order to prevent pregnancy for the sake of promiscuity, and no one will need to be treated for sexually transmitted diseases. So what is the ACLU’s difficulty with teaching this effective form of birth control? Homosexuals in this nation cannot be married in any other state than Massachusetts. And no other state except Massachusetts recognizes marriages performed to same sex couples. If abstinence is taught as it should be, as the ONLY effective form of birth control and STD prevention, homosexuals will not be receiving the indoctrination that the ACLU believes that they should.

By accepting that teenagers are going to have sex before marriage and taking a position of defeatism in the war to prevent this from occurring, we are then telling teenagers to go ahead and have sex. This is akin to telling your child not to shop lift but if they are going to anyway to not get caught. Then teaching them methods on not getting caught as opposed to teaching them to just plain not do it.

Continue reading “STOP the ACLU”

The FairTax Book
(Just CLICK on the image and the way to make April 15 just another day will become clearer… )

Here are some teasers adapted from Americans for Fair Taxation:

With the Fair Tax proposal for replacing ALL Federal taxes with one Federal sales tax,

Americans [would] take home their whole paychecks. [There would be n]o federal sales tax up to the poverty level means progressivity like today’s tax system. No tax on used goods. The amount you pay to fund the government is totally visible. Retail prices [would] no longer hide corporate taxes or their compliance costs, which drive up costs for those who can least, afford to pay. The income tax exports our jobs, rather than our products. The FairTax brings jobs home. The FairTax strategy is revenue neutrality: Neither raise nor lower taxes so consumer costs remain stable. [The FairTax would] tax criminals – [not] make criminals out of honest taxpayers.

The FairTax plan is a comprehensive proposal that replaces all federal income and payroll taxes with an integrated approach including a progressive national retail sales tax, a rebate to ensure no American pays federal taxes up to the poverty level, dollar-for-dollar revenue neutrality, and the repeal of the 16th Amendment. This nonpartisan legislation (HR 25/S 25) abolishes all federal personal, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, self-employment, and corporate taxes and replaces them all with one simple, visible, federal retail sales tax – collected by existing state sales tax authorities. The FairTax taxes us only on what we choose to spend, not on what we earn. It does not raise any more or less revenue; it is designed to be revenue neutral. So it is also cost neutral – the final cost for goods and services changes little under the FairTax. The FairTax is a fair, efficient, transparent, and intelligent solution to the frustration and inequity of our current tax system

Just visit Americans for Fair Taxation or Fairtax.org OR click on the link above or in my sidebar and buy the book. Then sign up and promote a tax plan that may be a keystone in preserving America.

Yes, it is that important.

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Sending an invitation to the tea party to Adam’s Blog andf at Diane’s Stuff, where Diane’s been under the weather, but now is baaaaaaack!

Yep, OTA Wednesday. See the foot of the post for info on linking to this post and tracking back.

I have had one person honestly question my taunting and ridiculing of Muslims and Islam based on Matthew 5:44-45,

“Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those you hate you, and pray for those who despitefully use you, and persecute you that you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven.”

Fine. I’ll take up that gauntlet, thrown by a genuine questioner…

Continue reading ““Love Your Enemy”/OTA Wednesday”

It’s not too early to push for Democraps to nominate Jean Fraud sKerry again. Billary has her useful idiots, fellow travelers and evil minions pushing for her nom, but a Billary/sKerry ticket would be sooooo much fun to mock: “Stand By Your Man While Spending Christmas in Cambodia!” “Whitewater Swiftboat Veterans for Truth!” “That’s MY Little Blue Dress!” (OK, that last one’s a Jean Fraud sKerry-only campaign line… )

Extra points (10 points and your firstborn male child will buy you a cuppa Starbucks) for posts that link here and track back with mocking of Jean Fraud sKerry (who “released” his records—the last time—304 days ago… supposedly. Human eyes have yet to view them. Only the LA Slimes and the Boston Glob have copies, apparently, and Mass Media Podpeople don’t have human eyes), but now is the time for all good bloggers to come to the aid of twc and link to this post and track back.

Also note the other fine blogs featuring linkfests at

Linkfest Haven.

Oh, and wanna join the fun mocking Jean Fraud? See Cao’s Blog for details.

Just read Jerry Pournelle’s post, When they proclaim me emperor, and see if you wouldn’t vote to have him proclaimed emperor yourself…