Sotomayor: Hispanics should question her racism!

Here are some Sunday Funnies from our Fourth of July Independence Day:  Sunday Funnies and one from Sunday Funnies from Hammering Sparks - Sparks from the Anvil.

The cartoons are funny but here's the thing.  With a justice nominee who is so avowed as a racist who in one case discriminated against non-Hispanic white and Hispanic white firefighters, one cannot tell upon whom she'll lay her discriminating racist finger next time.  Will it be Hispanic white men in favor of Hispanic white women?  

The Hispanic white folks and the non-Hispanic white folks are clearly the majority in the nation.  Formerly known as "white" folks are now known as "non-Hispanic white" so that they will NEVER be considered a minority even if there are only two of them left.

With a woman who clearly says she is a racist through her rulings, Hispanic white folks cannot be certain that she will favor them.  In the firefighter case, she did not;  she ruled against the ones who passed the test with their non-Hispanic white fellow firefighters because she had to do that to punish the non-Hispanic white firefighters.

Be very careful, my Hispanic brothers and sisters.  Sotomayor is not qualified and she is not a friend of "equal justice for all."  Be careful.

The best thing we could do for our unity is to rid the census of any ethnic identification - strip it from our federal and state forms.  If the government won't do that, maybe we'll have to do that by declaring ourselves as "Americans".  Isn't that what we are?  We were on 9/11.

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Radical Islam working to silence criticism

At the International Civil Liberties Alliance, you will find a video - playing time, about 45 minutes - which all of us interested in freedom of speech must/should listen to:  Libel Lawfare:  Silencing Criticism of Radical Islam.  This is when the radical Muslims use our laws against us and they use dupes such as Rep. John Conyers to sponsor an initial non-binding resolution - H.Res. 288 - the plan is one incremental step at a time.  Conyers' resolution was about freedom of religion in which Islam was the "religion of choice" mentioned often in terms of not criticizing its teachings.  This example is only the tip of the planned LEGAL WARFARE against America.

Just one man's comments, edited for highlights - Douglas Murray, one of the speakers on the panel, mentioned that "The EU is a monstrosity...  So many layers of government that no one knows who is governing...  The EU should be wrecked...  and the tall buildings torn down never to be raised again..."

At least one cool head in Europe.  Sounds sort of like Obama Rationed Health Care where there will be so many levels of decision making, no one will get care and if they do, it will not be enough.  And whatever care you do get will be the "decision of somebody else."  I can see a "whole lot of finger pointing going on."

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Broadcasters Freedom Act of 2009

If you want freedom across the United States, freedom for talk radio - all talk radio - then please call and/or e-mail your Senators and Representatives to vote for the Broadcasters Freedom Act of 2009.

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Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to vote for racist Sotomayor

In this past election, I begged you folks in South Carolina NOT to re-elect Senator Graham because he really goes where the wind blows.

Just heard him say that he was voting for the affirmative action, racist Sotomayor to be confirmed to the Supreme Court.  Good grief!

Had to include this:  Sunday Funnies from Hammering Sparks - Sparks from the Anvil  with H/T to Flopping Aces' Sunday Funnies for July 4th.

Any Republican who votes for her is affirming "institutionalized discrimination."  I thought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died to end that.

Any Republican who votes for Sotomayor needs to be removed from the Senate.  You can't count Snow and Collins - they are not Republicans;  their Maine voters just think they are.  At least we got rid of Arlen "magic bullet" Specter.

According to Sotomayor, she is an "affirmative action" college entrant and all up the line she admits to not being qualified.  Her skin color and gender got her admitted into college.  What a badge of honor, knowing that you are second rate and that you "took" the college spot of a more qualified American citizen.

Do we want "affirmative action" folks in office?  Obviously.  According to the last election, we want ill-qualified folks in the highest offices in the land.  We're beginning to see how that's working for us.  And the poor folks who voted for Obama solely based on his 1/2 black skin color are soon going to pay for their folly because like any potentate/dictator, he'll raise not their taxes, they don't pay any.  He'll raise the prices for everything else they use from water to food to heating fuel.

But on Sotomayor:

Soon affirmative action will be in full view once again with Ms. Sotomayor, the Associate Supreme Court Justice nominee, who demonstrated full-frontal racism against American firefighters who actually passed a test.

For me, that one decision of Sotomayor's disqualifies her from a seat on the Supreme Court.

I wonder if it is possible that the folks who did not pass the test didn't study for it?  Nah, that could never happen but the non-Hispanic white and the Hispanic firefighters as well as a few non-white as well as non-Hispanic firefighters did pass the test and they were all rewarded with punishment - no promotions.  Thank God the existing Supreme Court overturned Sotomayor's ruling.

Sotomayor has admitted that she received her education due to 'affirmative action' because her test scores were not as high as those of other college applicants;  she is proud to have taken the place in college over another American who was more qualified.  Shame on her.  That woman does not belong on the Supreme Court.  At least she admits she's racist and unqualified.

And soon she will be on the Supreme Court - an unqualified, racist female.  And Lindsey Graham is going to assure that that happens.  How many more Republican Senators will vote for "institutionalized discrimination?"  

Note to Democrat and Republican Senators who vote for "institutionalized racism and discrimination":  your vote will be in violation of your oath of office to uphold the Constitution.  But how can you uphold an oath to a document that you have shredded, especially under Mr. Obama?

Plus, Sotomayor's been overturned 66%, H/T Blue Collar Republican (you'll like the pictures in this link) and Gateway Pundit's Seek and Destroy Firefighters.

Remember we Conservatives came out against President George W. Bush's nominee, Harriet "I need a few weeks to study up on Constitution law" Miers.  We did that because she was unqualified.  We didn't believe in "affirmative action" nominees regardless of party backing.

Are you brave enough to stand up against Obama and against a justice nominee who acts to create law and to uphold "institutionalized racism?"  Is that what America has come to?  That in America today, not everyone can achieve their dreams through hard work and integrity.  Only avowed racist "minority" women of certain ideological leanings have a chance at the "American Dream."

And don't talk to me about Hispanics on the court.  Whatever happened to Miguel Estrada, a Bush appointee to a Circuit Court?  The Democrats didn't even give him a chance.

No, we're in the time-warp of Animal Farm with some two-legs more equal than other two-legs.

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Neda Soltani, a Christian fighting for a modern Iran

From Tundra Tabloid, Martyred symbol of Iranian protests was a Christian.

Neda lost her life for standing on a sidewalk in Tehran fighting for a modern Iran.  It was my natural assumption that Neda was a follower of Islam.  She was not; she was a Christian.  She was in the streets with her brothers and sisters as citizens of Iran protesting for freedom.

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CIA and briefings to Congress - Don't do it!

And so it goes on - the Dems bashing the CIA once again.  To save Nancy Pelosi's face by saying that the CIA misled Congress...good grief.

Before the CIA should brief ANYONE in Congress - House or Senate - background checks should be done on the "elected" folks before our CIA trusts many of those folks with our national secrets.  I can name at least 10 Representatives I wouldn't tell anything.

Be real!  Who could trust a Speaker or others in either side of the Congress?  

I look to the CIA to work to keep us safe.  I may be naive but I'll trust my CIA before I'd trust many of the jelly-brained, loud mouth talkers in the House or the Senate.  Remember, the folks learning about CIA operations are the same folks who did not oversee Freddie and Fanny.

How much have you lost in your IRA or 401K due to the negligence or perhaps even - oh my goodness - criminal behavior by omission of oversight of some in the House or Senate?  The Community Reinvestment Act is criminal in and of itself and how about that ACORN group and all the money they get from our tax dollars. 

My money is on our CIA.  So for goodness sake, I would beg CIA to brief very carefully, but not fully, only the people who pass the background checks - for the safety of all of us.

Just one woman's opinion.  I don't trust many of the representatives or senators.  I see no reason why CIA should trust them.

But the fracas does give President Obama one more thing to apologize to the world for.  Most recently he has said we have not met our responsibilities.  Exactly what responsibilities of the United States have we not met?  Saving Europe TWICE perhaps.  No, he's talking about the hoax of "global warming."  I wonder how much money Big Algore is making on that train of propaganda?

I ask the CIA to do your job.  You work for us and so do the Congressmen and Senators.  I trust you far more.  Thank you for all you do for us and thank you for doing your work knowing you can never receive the thanks of an appreciative citizenry.

Thank you for risking your lives on our behalf...

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Speaking of the Federal Reserve

From No Apology:  Federal Reserve will destroy America.

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Obama Care Explained: License to kill through care denied

Aside from the fact that hardly anyone who votes on Obama Rationed NON-health care, the explanation is simple.

First your doctor says you need a medical procedure or medicine;  the care is denied;  and then you die.

No muss, no fuss, and note to Baby Boomers and older folks or folks with disabilities:  get your affairs in order if you have any affairs left, meaning property.  You'll be the first recipients of Obama Care.

But don't worry about your Senators, your Representative, or Mr. Obama's family - they won't have to go on the government's program that will be forced upon us.

Or maybe the government will do like they did in an old science fiction TV show.  Everyone had a number tattooed on their arm, let's say.  When their number was called, they just walked into the tubes and were jettisoned into outer space.

Yeehaw!  What a guy!

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Fausta's Blog: Iranians to Mullahs - Beat it!

Here's a post/video from Fausta's Blog:  Iranian Demonstrators:  Beat it!.

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Jesus Christ and Mohammad: one and the same? Don't bet your life on it!

Here is a post we all should read:  Which Koran?.

I do not claim to understand it all but what a mind-altering bit of years of research.  We owe it to ourselves to read this post from the Gates of Vienna.

Just as one point:  would you believe that Jesus Christ may have been called Mohammad?  

Have we all - infidels and Muslims alike - gotten twisted around the flag pole for no other reason that the power of men who benefit from their absolute control over their "followers?"

It has happened before if one remembers reading of the Spanish Inquisition.  History is replete with examples.

Read the post at the Gates.  The research is revolutionary or it could be.

My comment left at The Gates of Vienna:

How extraordinary.  Jesus Christ was Mohammad.   How extraordinary it would be if these brave researchers were to find that the Koran is in some aspects the efforts of other writers to "translate" or to "write" early Judeo-Christian holy texts for some purpose unknown and possibly unknowable to us today even with research.

And some other writers tried to capture the teachings of Jesus Christ/Mohammad.  Earth shattering concept.

And how interesting it would be if Islam developed following the creation of the eventual Roman Church as another attempt to interpret or "describe" God developing into another sect of Christianity?  And then like most "religions" controlled by power-hungry men was transformed into their hold on their power structure?

I am hardly a scholar of Islam but I have read much of the Koran and some parts are clearly similar to the Christian Holy Bible and the Torah.

Thank you, Baron.

Excellent reply left by Henrik Raeder who is absolutely correct:

And how interesting it would be if Islam developed following the creation of the eventual Roman Church as another attempt to interpret or "describe" God developing into another sect of Christianity?

"Well..."  Henrik wrote: 

If you really dig into the genesis of Islam, you'll find that it isn't 'another attempt', it is an original religion (sort of), based on the life of Muhammad, teaching its believers to basically behave like him (Quran 33:21)

That's not very nice.  

Jesus was a good human being with courage and compassion, a rare combination.  He'd go in and absolve people from the stiffness of ancient Jewish law, abolish stoning and the like.  Good stuff.

Muhammad, on the other hand, reintroduced stoning and other barbaric punishments.  That he called upon the ancient Arab moongod Allah to justify this is scary, but at least one shouldn't taint Christianity by assuming it's the same god - it isn't.

Some parts are clearly similar to the Christian Holy Bible and the Torah.

That's because it's lifted from Christian and Jewish sources.  Muhammad paid the Jews in Medina to provide him with material for his 'revelation', but unfortunately his memory wasn't too good, and he misrepresented many of those stories.

One of the more interesting is the twisted Kain & Abel story found in sura 5, where the greatest problem becomes hiding the evidence of fratricide.  That's a prelude to the violent passages 5:32 - 5:35, frequently misquoted by our Dear Leaders to prove Islam peaceful.

More important that the Quran is actually the Sirat, the life story of Muhammad.  Two versions exist, by Ibn Ishaq and Al-Tabari (both ancient Islamic scholars).  They explain what Muhammad did in his life, and why those emulating him tend to act in such violent ways.

A wonderfully entertaining (yet scholarly) analysis of the life of Muhammad can be found at Prophet of Doom.  It's free.

 I recommend Henrik's reference.  The web site is invaluable.  Americans need to know how deeply ingrained the mindset of Muslims is regarding the treatment of infidels...

Let me simply state that if my comment, based upon the post and the research, left the impression that I believe God, for myself the Trinity, is the same as Allah who was a lesser god among many other gods selected by Mohammad for his purposes, I apologize. 

My comment was only related to the part of the research that suggested that during a period of time the researchers speculate the Jesus Christ was "called" Mohammad, not to be confused with the Mohammad who believed in killing infidels wherever his followers found them. 

Here is a small section written by Craig Winn from Islam's Dark Past:

Qur'an 5:33 is violent, murderous, and intolerant: Qur'an 5:33 "The punishment for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and who do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified, or their hands and their feet shall be cut off on opposite sides, or they shall be exiled.  That is their disgrace in this world, and a dreadful torment is theirs in Hell."  Then:  Qur'an 5:34 "Except for those who come back (as Muslims) with repentance before they fall into your power."

In trying to defend Islam and the Qur'an, the President of the United States (George W. Bush) and the Muslim woman quoted a verse that was inspired by Jewish folklore rather than Muhammad's god.  Then they did what she falsely accused me of doing; she and George misquoted the Qur'an and took it out of context.  But worst of all, they tried to deceive the millions into believing that Islam, the Qur'an, and its god were peaceful when the very passage they selected required Muslims to "punish" and "disgrace" non-Muslims with: murder, torture, mutilation, enslavement, or exile so that Allah might "torment them in Hell."

This is the message of Islam to its followers.  You decide how we defend ourselves from such "teachings."  I trust Mr. Winn will not mind that I used the quotations.  Tundra Tabloid: the compassion of Islam. 

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Obama Care: License to deny care

Americans do not need socialized medicine otherwise known as rationed health care.  Do you want a GS4 pay grade admin government clerk deciding whether or not you or a member of your family gets the care you need depending on criteria unrelated to your health?

Such as age:  you need a knee replacement.  Sorry, Mr. Jones, you are 70 years old, no knee replacement for you.  But don't worry, we'll give those funds to care for our newly minted citizens, formerly illegal aliens.  The theory is that we need to legalize the illegals to pay for the health care.  Perhaps had we not fallen for the killing of 53,000,000 preborn Americans, we wouldn't need the illegals.

We are Americans.  I agree that hospitals charging anywhere from $8.00 up for one aspirin is outrageous that is why a friend of mine takes her own lotion, aspirin, and kleenex to the hospital when she has needed surgery.

As Americans, we can solve our health care issues through private industry.  Medical folks are forced to charge above what insurance will pay and we are removed from the process because we only see the bills after the fact.

A friend of mine, a young friend, is undergoing chemo, very serious cancer that usually strikes children.  During each day of one week of treatment, she gets two shots in drip bags in addition to the other meds she gets in larger drip bags.  The small bags containing the two shots are each the size of a folded sandwich baggie.  Each of those "shots" costs $7,876.00.  Multiply by two and that is the cost for those shots for one of the five days of treatment so multiply by 10 and you get $78,760.00 just for those shots during the week.  I don't remember the cost for the other chemo she gets daily during that one week.

In America, our chemical / drug companies can't do better than $7,876.00 for one "shot."  These have to be manufactured in bulk.

And another case I remember dealt with Cipro (sp) the drug folks were taking during Anthrax scare.  In America, we paid $110.00 for a 10-day supply.  In India, people were paying $10.00 for the same exact 10-day supply.  Hmmm....

With all due respect to Mr. Obama, I don't want a GS4 denying me medical care because he/she is using a government-printed check list.  My family with the doctor can make the decisions when it is time to "pull the plug" but I don't want the government - through Obama Care - to be given the license to kill through the denial of health care.

Make no mistake, Mr. Obama's Rationed non-Health Care is the biggest gift to big business that big corporations will have received in decades.  They'll dump their health care plans as quickly as possible.  And we will be forced in the government control of all aspects of our lives forever.  There is nothing more personal to us than the care of our health.  

And yes, you will be denied health care or medical procedures will be stalled and some of us will die for lack of health care.  That's the truth.  It is happening in Britain and perhaps in Canada.

All of your private, medical history is not being computerized so forget doctor-patient confidentiality.

Many young men and women in the early to mid 20s do not want or choose to have health care from personal choice and they do not always see the need to have health care. 

We are Americans.  Working together with the private sector without the intrusion of government, we can find a better way and maintain our dignity.

No one is denied health care in America.  I know.  I had to go to an emergency room.  I had insurance.  I had high blood pressure of 234 over something.  I was hooked up to vital signs monitors and NEVER saw a doctor in 1 and 1/2 hours.  Others had doctors seeing them all around me.  I walked out of the emergency room with my shoes under my arm in my tennis socks never having seen a doctor.  I just pulled the monitor things off and walked out to drive 45 miles home so that I could rest and see my primary care doctor.

People in the waiting room who were not like me, a non-Hispanic white woman, were seen very quickly.  

So, call your Representative and Senators and ask them to vote NO on Obama Care, government's license to kill through denial of treatment.  We have to have the freedom to make medical decisions for ourselves with our doctors.

Obama Care will destroy our medical system and we'll get care as decided from D.C.  Cold and impersonal but the denial of care will lead to more deaths and less treatment and combined that should cut the costs.

Like Terri Schiavo's defenseless situation, do you really trust the government and courts to make sound decisions regarding your health and your life?  My apologies to Terri Schiavo's mother, father, and brother and sister for using her name but her case is the most heinous, individual miscarriage of compassion and justice I have ever witnessed in America.  

An innocent woman, defenseless with a family who wanted to care for her, was denied all liquid, even ice chips, and starved to death over 13 to 14 days in AMERICA.  Shame on us...

There is no free lunch and there is no free medical care without the possibility of serious risks to our health.

Keep in mind that "government" rationed health care has no feelings;  it is a nameless, faceless person behind a desk following a checklist.

And who risks being denied health care first?  The BABY BOOMERS!  You betcha! 

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Iran: to the Men and Women of Iran

In America, we have heard that all of your communications have been cut off.  We have heard today that the Iranian government killed many Iranian citizens who were protesting;  actually we heard that you have experienced massacres today.

I know you will not receive these words but I wish to send them out to you just in case.  The American people are primarily a Judeo-Christian people with freedoms built upon the belief that all men (and women) are created equally - certainly with individual gifts and talents - but equal before the law.

Many Americans are praying for you and for your families.  

On a personal level, I want to thank you for your bravery and courage and for reminding me and perhaps other Americans how precious freedoms are and how easily those freedoms can be taken away by a tyrannical government or a government that over-reaches.

God bless you and keep you safe.  The American people are not your enemies;  we want you to have freedoms so that we can work to become friends beyond the restrictions placed upon us by the laws of man.  

We are not a perfect people;  we have made mistakes;  and we have tried to correct those mistakes.  Your fight has been ours at various times throughout our nation's history.  I do not walk in your shoes so my words are as nothing;  your freedoms and your right to integrity from government needs to be based upon the separation of "church" and "state."  Centuries ago the Pope had the power of your non-elected leaders;  that power has changed over time.

We wish you fairness in your courage...  We have marched and fought for freedoms at home and across the world.  In your struggle, you remind us of the roots of our American heritage.  Thank you.  Praying for your success...

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Tundra Tabloid: the peaceful compassion of Islam

Tundra Tabloid had this post out a few days ago and I am just getting around to posting it here: Somali Jihadis ban watching movies...

In light of the protesting that is going on in Iran at the moment, perhaps it is time to pause and see what the Religion of Peace would mean to us and what it means in the darkness of night to people or to the peoples subjected to its brutality.

Tundra Tabloid is a magnificent blog where you get the truth in words and pictures of the 7th Century mentality that encapsulates the Religion of Peace around the world.

And why are we bringing this cancer into our nations of the West? Exactly why is that? Some folks don't want to "change" and become enlightened to women's rights and to equality, et al. When will the seemingly comatose leaders of the Western world get that.

Wait, Sarkozy of France gets it and he wants to rid France of the burkha, the badge of slavery.  No, the burkha is not of long standing as a religious symbol in the Islamic world.  The Bedouins covered themselves but that seems to be more for protection as they march across the region for grazing their animals and such.  Hats off the France's Sarkozy:  Sarkozy raps the burkha.  It's about damn time.  

And Muslim calls for same ban on burka as in France - this just out!

Where is England on this one?  And when will the United States step in line?  The burkha is designed to set the women apart and setting aside the other reasons, the burkha is a horrible impediment to assimilation into a Western culture but then assimilation is not the goal of the Islamists, domination is so Hats off to Sarkozy.

Maybe America can be among the leaders on banning the burka instead of one of the tag-alongs as Mr. Obama has been in taking his time denouncing the Iranian mullahs killing their own Muslim citizens.

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Iranian Theocracy rules with heavy jack boots

Khamenei: Iran won't cede elections from the Washington Post.

Well, once again we see the heavy jack-booted thugs of Iran's THEOCRACY killing its own citizens in the streets.

Will you Americans once and for all GET THE PICTURE? Islam is a THEOCRACY which controls a person's life in every respect from cradle to grave. And speaking of cradle to grave, if you are born a Muslim (Barry), you cannot leave Islam of your own free will.

I do not support Mr. Obama's policies that will enslave us and kill many of us through RATIONED NON-HEALTH CARE but many people wonder why our president of the "free world" has taken so long to speak out in support of the protesters in Iran as we saw Neda's body gushing blood from her mouth and men working to save her as her father stood next to her.

Only one woman's opinion - Mr. Obama can say now all the words he wants but his tardiness speaks much more in his tacit support for the Khamenei regime. And keep in mind that while Mr. Obama may not be willing to shoot us down like rabid dogs in the street, his economic policies will result in the deaths of many Americans, many non-HIspanic white Americans and others as well as collateral damage in his war against Capitalism and against the middle-class of small business men and women.

One can tell a person's character by the company he keeps and Mr. Obama did not fail to tell us his: Rev. Wright, Jr. and the Black Liberation Theology; our domestic terrorists Ayers and his charming wife; and Tony Resko.

Wait for the next Islamist terrorist attack in America (helped along by who knows whom) and we will find ourselves in martial law faster than you can say our "Kenyan Muslim president" in the words of a local talk-radio personality.

Why did Mr. Obama take so long to speak out for freedom in Iran and for a stop to the killing of Iranians? He could not speak out against the Supreme Leader unless or until his words have been cleared through back-channels for appearances sake by that very Supreme Leader. Again, one woman's opinion.

Our nation's people believe in the separation of church and state, so much so that the limo lizard liberals (ah, Progressives of either party) won't even allow a person to mention God even in the public square without going bonkers.

But Islam is a THEOCRACY not a religion as we perceive religion to be; Islam is not a private matter; Islam is not compatible with our way of life and our form of government; and anyone belonging to the Religion of Peace CANNOT legitimately serve in the House of Representatives, the Senate, or the White House because their taking of the 'oath of office' is a lie. But then to advance the inroads of Islam within our borders, the lie is the thing.

To the protesters in Iran, your courage and bravery speak to your desire for freedom. You are young; time is on your side. Keep freedom or the fight for freedom alive in Iran... Americans want you as our friends and trading partners, not as our enemies. You are Persians; yours is an ancient civilization hijacked by men seeking total power under the name of God.

Get the words and pictures out to us any way you can. We are watching. Even as we are powerless to assist you, you can trust the American people - the moms, the dads, the young men and women your age.

Just to remind you the mindset and the brutality behind that mindset that the protesters are dealing with: from  Tundra Tabloid: the peaceful compassion of Islam.

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Wimbledon has begun - yippee!

It is Wimbledon time in England and I've got two weeks of watching pro-tennis.  Yippee!

I know I'm hiding my head in the grass courts at Wimbledon but come on - the news is depressing and watching it and worse, commenting on it can be dangerous to your health if you are conservative in your views;  important but right now, we know what Mad Jad is up to and we know Israel has no friend in the White House and we know soon we'll be milked for every cent we've got, even what we find between the sofa cushions.

Pro-tennis is a good choice even though I do get a good bit of news...  Good thing Lady Margaret Thatcher is not here telling our president not to go wobbly on her now...

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Neda and the protests in Iran

To the men and women protesting the recent elections or mock elections in Iran, we in America are watching you and praying for your bravery.  Here in our nation, our freedoms are being grabbed from us in ways we hardly notice under bills and legislation designed to make more and more of us dependent upon our government and yet we remain the symbol of "freedom."

To the family and friends of Neda, we know of the low regard in which women are held under Sharia Law and we pray for all women who live under such tyranny.

But when I see the few videos that have gotten out of Tehran, I am compelled to applaud you who protest the injustices for your bravery; you set an example to the rest of the world that when a government is a theocracy and a tyranny, the only human response is protest.

You who shout to each other in the darkness from the rooftops are showing the rest of the world that you only want freedom and fairness in this election.  You are brave and bold to stand before the forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard - all aligned against you.  Yet, I believe that some in that guard hold the beliefs that you hold.

I do not understand a culture that hangs an innocent woman while the man who committed the murder gets 10 years in prison, or sentences women to prison or to death for defending themselves against rapists.  I can only hope that if you obtain your freedom, you will not turn against me and my family or against my country to kill or injure us under the false name of "religion."

For your bravery, you are a model for all who live under the heavy hand of tyranny.  God bless you and keep you safe in your struggle.

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