Fox’s “House M.D.” supports the Administration agenda completely. The show’s Feb.8 episode detailed a day in the life of Princeton Plainsboro Hospital Administrator Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), in which three of the episode’s four story lines involved the perils of private insurance. Hollywood generally attacks business.
Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The New Chinese Order: Punish U.S.
China PLA officers urge economic punch against U.S.Chinese Military Urges Sanctions Against U.S.
White House Critics 'Serving the Goals of al Qaeda'
The opinion piece: Our view on war on terror: National security team fails to inspire; has apparently inspired a polemical response by the White House.
Monday, February 8, 2010
How are Green Police Funny?
Art that imitates life so closely loses its humor. The message reifies administrative policy in a bright green package: prosperity, pleasure, and sustainability can be achieved together.
Rock band Cheap Trick re-recorded their "Dream Police" hit for this ad.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Michigan woman discovers husband converted to Islam, had 2 other wives
Michigan woman discovers husband converted to Islam, had 2 other wives
Mustafa is still permitted a fourth wife under Islamic sharia law.
During a single week in August, the world of Faye Miller, a 51-year-old stay-at-home mom in Rochester Hills, came crashing down when she started to examine her marriage at the suggestion of her therapist.
Through Google and phone records searches she learned:
• Her husband of 10 years, Dr. Kenneth Mitchell, a metro Detroit podiatrist, already had a wife in California when he married her in 1999.
• And in 2003 he had married yet another woman, a podiatrist in Quebec.
Equally astonishing, Mitchell, 48, a practicing Protestant who belongs to a Lutheran church with Miller, had converted to Islam in 2002, taken the Arabic name Mustafa and traveled twice to Saudi Arabia on religious pilgrimages, according to court records.
Miller said she learned in 1997 that Mitchell had been having an affair with Shazia Malik, a Canadian podiatrist, but he reassured her it was over.
Daphne Mitchell, the California wife — who divorced Mitchell in 2002 after he had married Miller, but before he married Malik — could not be reached for comment. The Canadian wife, Malik, who has a practice in Quebec, also declined to talk about the case with the Free Press, except to say: “I don’t want that bastard tarnishing my reputation anymore than he already has.”
Mitchell’s explanation, based on court records, is that it’s all a big misunderstanding. He claimed he thought his divorce from Daphne Mitchell was final when he married Miller.And he said the Islamic wedding to Malik, with 100 people in attendance near Toronto, was a sham — that he only pretended to marry her so that her parents could not force her into a prearranged marriage with another man.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Cornel West on Obama as Alinksky
Cornel West is a Marxist, a member of Democratic Socialists of America, a New Party founder and an endorser of Progressives for Obama.
In 2008, West served on Obama's National Black Advisory Council with radical Obama mentor Charles Ogletree.
Here West gives his impressions of the President-note the comparison to Saul Alinsky.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Hello - All the Young Dudes
All the Young Dudes" has been covered by several artists including Bruce Dickinson on his album, Tattooed Millionaire (also released as a single), Ringo Starr (solo), Ozzy Osbourne, Blue Zoo, Angel, Billy Bragg, Mick Ronson, Travis, The Church, Rolf Harris, Cybernauts, Tesla, The F-Ups, World Party, Gene Loves Jezebel, Massive Attack, Mongo, The Smashing Pumpkins (live, with Bowie), Cyndi Lauper, Alejandro Escovedo, Switchblade Kittens, The Skids, Judas Priest (live), The New Standards, Jimmy Barnes, Ian Hunter (solo), Enrico Ruggeri, Two Cow Garage, Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs (duet), and John Frusciante & Wavegroup for the video game Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. There are two Japanese versions of the song: one sung by Hironobu Kageyama, the other by female metal singer Misako Honjoh on her album Dreamer. The Clash, whose members included fans of Mott the Hoople, paid homage to the song with their track "All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts)" from Give 'Em Enough Rope. Marvelous 3 also featured an interpolation of "All the Young Dudes" in the song "Cigarette Lighter Love Song.An early recording of "Whatever" by Oasis contained a reference to the song, in the line "All the young blues carry the news." Though the "blues" refers to the Gallagher brothers' beloved Manchester City Football Club, legal disputes over the line and its melody kept the song from being released on Oasis' debut album Definitely Maybe. Subsequent live performances of the song retained the line, though the version that was released as a single did not.
Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks
This can not be a good development. I can see the data accumulated by Google falling into the wrong hands much too easily.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Obama: ‘I’m a big believer in Net Neutrality’
Net neutrality means government control over the Internet.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
China threatening sanctions on US for supplying arms to Taiwan
Obama approved a $6 billion arms sale to China, for the first time in the history of Chinese - US relations. The Communist State is threatening to impose sanctions against US companies that supply Taiwan with arms. Dina Gusovsky discuss the new arms deal with Philip de Leon, who says this is a part of a cycle; from calm to tense relations between the two nations.
At the same time, Communist-American relations are at a low ebb because of the recent sale of weapons to Taiwan, an island nation that the Chinese mainlanders still consider a part of China.
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Monday, February 1, 2010
GDP Rises 5.7%, But is it Real?
Adam Shapiro breaks down the more-than-expected increase in economic growth last quarter.
Micro Air Vehicle (MAV)
A brief video of a new series of Micro air vehicles currently being researched.
Now He's Bowing to a Mayor
Obama bows to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio at MacDill Air Force Base on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 in Tampa, Fla.
(AP Photo/Edmund Fountain, Pool)
I am beginning to wonder how well Obama knows American customs.
What is Keynesian Economics?
http://www.pyrolitical.com discusses how Keynesian economic theories are used by the U.S. government to determine when and where to spend money, or stimulate the economy. In this video there is a brief overview of these theories and their effects on the market. Contrasted with the Austrian view of economics.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Pentagon says Patriot shield will deter strike on American allies in the Gulf
US raises stakes on Iran by sending in ships and missiles which is of course a failure on the part of Obama to deter Iran in the first place. Now that he is committing the U.S., and warning Israel, who are we to understand are our allies?
The U.S. is dispatching Patriot defensive missiles to four countries – Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Kuwait – and keeping two ships in the Gulf capable of shooting down Iranian missiles. Washington is also helping Saudi Arabia develop a force to protect its oil installations. Our blood and treasure is being spent for five nations that have little in common with our long-term interests and are not our allies in any meaningful sense. Russia and China are not opposing Iran; the neighborhood should police the area themselves without us.
The U.S. is dispatching Patriot defensive missiles to four countries – Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Kuwait – and keeping two ships in the Gulf capable of shooting down Iranian missiles. Washington is also helping Saudi Arabia develop a force to protect its oil installations. Our blood and treasure is being spent for five nations that have little in common with our long-term interests and are not our allies in any meaningful sense. Russia and China are not opposing Iran; the neighborhood should police the area themselves without us.
Historian Neal Ferguson on the Economy
Historian Neal Ferguson argues Washington's spending is causing our economy serious problems.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Obama mentioned “I” 96 times in his State of the Union address
I got tired of analyzing his speeches since the Cairo address but it is essentially the same message.
Constitutional Expert Mistakes Source: all “are created equal:” Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self evident"
"We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal..."
Oops! It is in the Declaration of Independence that states:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Economic Report
The economy has some interesting results based on the latest government figures. The economy's faster-than-expected growth at the end of last year, fueled by companies boosting output to keep stockpiles up, is likely to weaken as consumers keep a lid on spending. Still, economists expect growth to slow this year as companies finish restocking inventories and as government stimulus efforts fade. Many estimate the nation's gross domestic product will grow 2.5 percent to 3 percent in the current quarter and about 2.5 percent or less for the full year. That won't be fast enough to significantly reduce the unemployment rate, now 10 percent. Most analysts expect the rate to keep rising for several months and remain close to 10 percent through the end of the year. And for all of last year, workers' compensation rose by the smallest amount on records going back more than a quarter-century. Friday's report is the first of the government's three estimates of gross domestic product and is likely to be revised. The government initially estimated third quarter growth was 3.5 percent, which was later revised down to 2.2 percent. The next estimate will be released Feb. 26. The report provided an upbeat end to an otherwise dismal year: The nation's economy declined 2.4 percent in 2009, the largest drop since 1946. That's the first annual decline since 1991.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Jo Behari of Home Jane
Home Jane is a team of professional tradeswomen with the skills needed to solve home repair issues.
Hannity & Palin Watch Close-Up View of Justice Alito’s ‘Not True’ Moment
Another clip of the "Not True" mouthing:
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Rep. Chris Smith: 'We Need to Pray' for Abortion 'Obsessed' Obama
Rep. Chris Smith (R.-N.J.), co-chairman of the House Pro-Life Caucus, stated at Friday’s 37th annual March for Life that Americans need to pray for Obama because he is “obsessed” with promoting abortion.
Smith remarked: “I think we need to pray. We need to fast. We need to pray for Obama. He is so obsessed with promoting abortion. All of his picks for secretary, under-secretary, assistant-secretary--all the gate-keepers in government--are now litmus-tested pro-abortionists, many of whom come right out of the abortion-rights movement. And these movement abortionists are trying to use everything when we know it, or sometimes when we don’t know it, behind the scenes, to promote this agenda. So this is an aggressive pro-abortion administration.”
“Clinton was awful," Smith continued. It’s even worse under President Obama. So the hard work, the re-doubling of our efforts, the educational efforts. Obviously, the 40 Days for Life, and all the other great ministries that are out on the front line saving women who are at great peril and risk. The post-abortive work that is done so magnificently by this movement needs to accelerate.”
“All of that combined, you know, this is the greatest human rights struggle on earth, and I think everyone needs to realize that we need to do even more,” Smith stated.
Smith (R-N.J.) also said that the Senate's including abortion funding in its version of the health care bill helped kill the legislation.
“Without a doubt,” said Smith. “Congressman Bart Stupak [D-Mich.] and the pro-life Democrats on the House side were absolutely resolute and courageous in saying they would not vote for any health care that did not have pro-life safeguards in it, and certainly something that wouldn’t have pro-abortion language in it, and the Senate bill was riddled with pro-abortion expansions, more funding -- and so, frankly, that is why it is now dead.”
The Stupak amendment, which is part of the House health care legislation, would prohibit the federal government from allocating taxpayer money to pay for any part of any health insurance plan that covers abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or when the life of the mother is in danger.
Smith cautioned pro-life Americans, however, to not ease up in the fight against federal funding of health plans that cover abortion.
“I am very concerned, though, that President Obama and the Democratic leadership will find some way to resurrect the abortion-funding push,” Smith said. “Right now, effective beginning of our fiscal year, the District of Columbia is now paying for abortions-on-demand because President Obama, the abortion president, forced that into the appropriations bill.”
“So they have not given up, nor have we,” he said. “But I think we should not have a false sense of security about where this administration is going.”
Smith went on to say that the Obama administration is implementing a sweeping pro-abortion agenda.
“They’re also empowering pro-abortion, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and giving them not millions, but billions of dollars at home and abroad to promote the abortion agenda,” Smith stated. “They have kind of deputized all of these NGOs in Africa, Latin America, and in the United States through Planned Parenthood and these other organizations to promote and expand abortions.”
Smith added, “Let’s not forget one group: Planned Parenthood alone does 305,000 abortions every year in the United States, well over a million globally. They’re getting money in massive amounts to promote this killing agenda. So we’ve had good news. But we’re still in this, and we have to be very sober about what lies ahead.”
Smith added “We want no complicity whatsoever,” Smith said. “(A)nd most Americans, according to the polls, want no complicity as well with killing babies and wounding mothers. We know beyond any reasonable doubt now that the women who procure abortions suffer emotionally, mentally, psychologically, spiritually. We know that subsequent children born to women who have aborted suffer anywhere from a third to almost plus-90 percent prematurity for their subsequent children.”
“The leading cause of mental and motor retardation in this country -- and anywhere else as well -- is prematurity and low birth weight,” said Smith. “Why do we want to expand disability when it is in that instance preventable?”
Smith added that the more the government subsidizes abortion, the more abortion increases.
“We need to realize that, when you pay for it, you get more of it,” said Smith. “Even the Guttmacher Institute has found that when we pay for abortions -- and they’ve done studies on this -- you get 25 percent or more abortions because the government is facilitating and providing the ways and means to enable that abortion. Money does play a factor.”
“So when you take out the money,” he said, “you’re in a much greater position to say, ‘Wait a minute, we not only will not subsidize it, but there’s a reason why: Because it destroys babies, and because it wounds mothers.’”
At the March for Life, Smith addressed tens of thousands of Americans, urging them to resist the Obama administration’s pro-abortion agenda.
“President Obama, is it really so hard to understand that abortion is violence against children, a pernicious form of child abuse, falsely marketed as choice, a human right, health care and safe?” Smith said. “Abortion isn’t health care. There is nothing whatsoever benign, healing or nurturing about abortion.”
The March for Life on Jan. 22 is an annual pro-life rally held in Washington, D.C., since 1974 to remember and protest the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, which legalized elective abortion across the United States
A transcript of the exchange between CNSNews.com and Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) follows below:
CNSNews.com: "The Senate health care bill which allowed tax money to go to health care plans which cover abortion is essentially dead according to Democratic leaders. Do you think the abortion language played a factor in the bill’s demise?”
Smith: “Without a doubt. Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and the pro-life Democrats on the House side were absolutely resolute and courageous in saying they would not vote for any health care that did not have pro-life safeguards in it, and certainly something that would not have pro-abortion language in it, and the Senate bill was riddled with pro-abortion expansions, more funding, and so frankly, that is why it is now dead.
"I'm very concerned, though, that President Obama and the Democratic leadership will find someway to resurrect the abortion funding. Right now, effective beginning of our fiscal year, the District of Columbia is now paying for abortions on demand because President Obama, the abortion president, forced that into the appropriations bill. So they have not given up, nor have we. But I think we should not have a false sense of security about where this administration is going.
“They’re also empowering pro-abortion, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and giving them not millions, but billions of dollars at home and abroad to promote the abortion agenda. They have kind of deputized all of these NGOs in Africa, Latin America , and in the United States through Planned Parenthood and these other organizations to promote and expand abortions.
“Let’s not forget one group: Planned Parenthood alone does 305,000 abortions every year in the United States, well over a million globally. They’re getting money in massive amounts to promote this killing agenda. So we’ve had good news, but we’re still in this, and we have to be very sober about what lies ahead.”
CNSNews.com: “All right. So you mentioned that pro-life Americans should not become complacent for the pro-life cause. What should pro-life Americans continue to do in order to keep the pro-life cause?”
Smith: “I think we need to pray. We need to fast. We need to pray for Obama. He is so obsessed with promoting abortion. All of his picks for secretary, under-secretary, assistant-secretary -- all the gate-keepers in government -- are now litmus-tested pro-abortionists, many of whom come right out of the abortion-rights movement. And these movement abortionists are trying to use everything when we know it, or sometimes when we don’t know it, behind the scenes, to promote this agenda. So this is a—an aggressive pro-abortion administration.
"Clinton was awful. It’s even worse under President Obama. So the hard work, the re-doubling of our efforts, the educational efforts. Obviously, the 40 Days for Life and all the other great ministries that are out on the front line saving women who are at great peril and risk. The post-abortive work that is done so magnificently by this movement needs to accelerate. All of that combined, you know, this is the greatest human rights struggle on earth, and I think everyone needs to realize that we need to do even more.”
CNSNews.com: “So you led the charge with other House members for the Stupak amendment in the House bill. Why do you feel that it is important that federal funding of abortion not be any part of a health care bill?”
Smith: “Well, first of all, we want no complicity whatsoever, and most Americans, according to the polls, want no complicity as well with killing babies and wounding mothers. We know beyond any reasonable doubt now that the women who procure abortions suffer emotionally, mentally, psychologically, spiritually. We know that subsequent children born to women who have aborted suffer anywhere from a third to almost plus-90 percent prematurity for their subsequent children. The leading cause of mental and motor retardation in this country, and anywhere else as well, is prematurity and low birth weight. Why do we want to expand disability when it is in that instance preventable?
“So we need to realize that when you pay for it you get more of it. Even the Guttmacher Institute has found that when we pay for abortions—and they’ve done studies on this—you get 25 percent or more abortions because the government is facilitating and providing the ways and means to enable that abortion. Money does play a factor. So when you take out the money, you’re in a much greater position to say, “Wait a minute, we not only will not subsidize it, but there’s a reason why: Because it destroys babies, and because it wounds mothers.”
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Teenage Christian Apostate Begs Obama to Save Her Life and Her Family
15-year-old Egyptian girl Dina el-Gowhary, who converted from Islam to Christianity, has sent a plea to President Obama, complaining of mistreatment by the Egyptian Government and asking for his mediation. "Mr President Obama," she writes, "we are a minority in Egypt. We are treated very badly. You said that the Muslim minority in America are treated very well, so why are we not treated here likewise? We are imprisoned in our own home because Muslim clerics called for the murder of my father, and now the Government has set for us a new prison, we are imprisoned in our own country."
"Fear the Boom and Bust" by Econstories.tv
Econstories.tv is a place to learn about economics in a more contemporary manner.
In "Fear the Boom and Bust," John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek, two of the great economists of the 20th century, come back to life to attend an economics conference on the economic crisis. Before the conference begins, and at the insistence of Lord Keynes, they go out for a night on the town and sing about why there's a "boom and bust" cycle in modern economies and good reason to fear it.
"Fear the Boom and Bust"
We’ve been going back and forth for a century
[Keynes] I want to steer markets,
[Hayek] I want them set free
There’s a boom and bust cycle and good reason to fear it
[Hayek] Blame low interest rates.
[Keynes] No… it’s the animal spirits
[Keynes Sings:]
John Maynard Keynes, wrote the book on modern macro
The man you need when the economy’s off track, [whoa]
Depression, recession now your question’s in session
Have a seat and I’ll school you in one simple lesson
BOOM, 1929 the big crash
We didn’t bounce back—economy’s in the trash
Persistent unemployment, the result of sticky wages
Waiting for recovery? Seriously? That’s outrageous!
I had a real plan any fool can understand
The advice, real simple—boost aggregate demand!
C, I, G, all together gets to Y
Make sure the total’s growing, watch the economy fly
We’ve been going back and forth for a century
[Keynes] I want to steer markets,
[Hayek] I want them set free
There’s a boom and bust cycle and good reason to fear it
[Hayek] Blame low interest rates.
[Keynes] No… it’s the animal spirits
You see it’s all about spending, hear the register cha-ching
Circular flow, the dough is everything
So if that flow is getting low, doesn’t matter the reason
We need more government spending, now it’s stimulus season
So forget about saving, get it straight out of your head
Like I said, in the long run—we’re all dead
Savings is destruction, that’s the paradox of thrift
Don’t keep money in your pocket, or that growth will never lift…
because…
Business is driven by the animal spirits
The bull and the bear, and there’s reason to fear its
Effects on capital investment, income and growth
That’s why the state should fill the gap with stimulus both…
The monetary and the fiscal, they’re equally correct
Public works, digging ditches, war has the same effect
Even a broken window helps the glass man have some wealth
The multiplier driving higher the economy’s health
And if the Central Bank’s interest rate policy tanks
A liquidity trap, that new money’s stuck in the banks!
Deficits could be the cure, you been looking for
Let the spending soar, now that you know the score
My General Theory’s made quite an impression
[a revolution] I transformed the econ profession
You know me, modesty, still I’m taking a bow
Say it loud, say it proud, we’re all Keynesians now
We’ve been goin’ back n forth for a century
[Keynes] I want to steer markets,
[Hayek] I want them set free
There’s a boom and bust cycle and good reason to fear it
[Keynes] I made my case, Freddie H
Listen up , Can you hear it?
Hayek sings:
I’ll begin in broad strokes, just like my friend Keynes
His theory conceals the mechanics of change,
That simple equation, too much aggregation
Ignores human action and motivation
And yet it continues as a justification
For bailouts and payoffs by pols with machinations
You provide them with cover to sell us a free lunch
Then all that we’re left with is debt, and a bunch
If you’re living high on that cheap credit hog
Don’t look for cure from the hair of the dog
Real savings come first if you want to invest
The market coordinates time with interest
Your focus on spending is pushing on thread
In the long run, my friend, it’s your theory that’s dead
So sorry there, buddy, if that sounds like invective
Prepared to get schooled in my Austrian perspective
We’ve been going back and forth for a century
[Keynes] I want to steer markets,
[Hayek] I want them set free
There’s a boom and bust cycle and good reason to fear it
[Hayek] Blame low interest rates.
[Keynes] No… it’s the animal spirits
The place you should study isn’t the bust
It’s the boom that should make you feel leery, that’s the thrust
Of my theory, the capital structure is key.
Malinvestments wreck the economy
The boom gets started with an expansion of credit
The Fed sets rates low, are you starting to get it?
That new money is confused for real loanable funds
But it’s just inflation that’s driving the ones
Who invest in new projects like housing construction
The boom plants the seeds for its future destruction
The savings aren’t real, consumption’s up too
And the grasping for resources reveals there’s too few
So the boom turns to bust as the interest rates rise
With the costs of production, price signals were lies
The boom was a binge that’s a matter of fact
Now its devalued capital that makes up the slack.
Whether it’s the late twenties or two thousand and five
Booming bad investments, seems like they’d thrive
You must save to invest, don’t use the printing press
Or a bust will surely follow, an economy depressed
Your so-called “stimulus” will make things even worse
It’s just more of the same, more incentives perversed
And that credit crunch ain’t a liquidity trap
Just a broke banking system, I’m done, that’s a wrap.
We’ve been goin’ back n forth for a century
[Keynes] I want to steer markets,
[Hayek] I want them set free
There’s a boom and bust cycle and good reason to fear it
[Hayek] Blame low interest rates.
[Keynes] No it’s the animal spirits
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“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”
John Maynard Keynes
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
F. A. Hayek
The Fatal Conceit
Econstories.tv is a project of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the The Productioneers, LLC.
Obama campaigns against spending freezes
No less than four times during the presidential debates did President Obama actively campaign against an across the board spending freeze.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Constitutional Lawyer Refuses Body Scanner at Federal Courthouse
Gary D. Fielder is a constitutional and criminal lawyer of 20 years. Mr. Fielder has conducted over 350 jury trials, appeared in Federal District Court, and argued before the Colorado Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, Mr. Fielder earned his Juris Doctorate at the University of San Diego in 1990. Mr. Fielder grew up in Eagle River, Alaska, and now lives in Denver.
Gary was mandated by the court to represent his client in the courthouse but he refused to be scanned by a body scanner under constitutional grounds that since he was not leaving the city and traveling between jurisdictions and since he had not violated any laws he had a right to not be scanned.
The Islamic Infiltration, Part 1: Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets
The Islamic Infiltration, Part 1: Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets
Bill Whittle Investigates: In Washington, DC radical Islam's influence over our government is growing and access to our national security secrets is part of a much larger strategy. Two whistleblowers have the chilling details.
No Separation of Mosque and State
USPS 44-Cent Stamp Celebrates Muslim holidays Eid Al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adha.
Eid ul-Fitr (Arabic: عيد الفطر ‘Īdu l-Fiṭr), often abbreviated to Eid, is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. Eid is an Arabic word meaning "festivity", while Fiṭr means "to break fast"; and so the holiday symbolizes the breaking of the fasting period. It is celebrated after the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan, on the first day of Shawwal.
Eid al-Adha (Arabic: عيد الأضحى ‘Īdu l-’Aḍḥā) "Festival of Sacrifice" or "Greater Eid" is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Abraham (Ibrahim) to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God, but instead was able to sacrifice a ram (by God's command). Eid is also about spending time with family and friends, sacrifice, and thanksgiving for being able to afford food and housing. In traditional or agrarian settings, each family would sacrifice a domestic animal, such as a sheep, goat, cow, or camel, by slaughter (though many contemporary Muslims do not sacrifice an animal as part of their observance). The meat would then be divided into three equal parts to be distributed to others. The family eats one third, another third is given to other relatives, friends or neighbors, and the other third is given to the poor as a gift.
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