Our friends, the Muslims

Folks, I tried to download some pictures showing our friends, the Muslims, but they didn't come across. However, go to the following Snopes.com link and I think you will see something interesting.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/muslimprotest.asp
These are just more pictures the mainstream media is either too cowardly to show, or have been paid not to show. Either way, it is important for Americans to know what they are up against. The American left thinks that they can deal with these "people" the same way the deal with Europeans who disagree with us. Not so. Show me any other modern group of people who raise their children to commit suicide for their religion; show me any other modern group of people who demand death for insults to their religion. Could you imagine the outrage among the "political elite" of this country if Catholics, or Protestants, or any Christian group, inside or outside the US, mounted the same protests as our loving Muslim brethren? Any Christian would immediately be denounced as a fanatic, and censured or even jailed. And yet, Muslims are given a pass, and we are told we MUST respect their religious beliefs. Hmmmmm...

Let's face it; this is not one world, and it never will be. And while we must respect other people's beliefs, we don't have to agree with them. And we MUST learn to recognize a threat when we see it. And let's not be afraid to say it -- Islam is not a religion of peace, it is a religion that, if America's political elite treated it as they treat Christians, would be considered discriminatory and hate-filled. But the "elite" (and who crowned them "elite?!") refuse to look at Islam through the same magnifying glass they look at Christianity. Intelligent people must wonder why?
Of course, our politically correct left wing nuts will say, "Look how evil Christianity was during the Crusades? Look how many people died in the name of God?"
Good point -- if this were the 1500s. Only the intellectually vacant will attempt to judge the past by the "enlightened" values of today. They teach the Columbus was a murderer and terrorist for coming to America; they claim that our ancestors were evil for taking this country from Native Americans. They say that treating Africans as property was wrong.
By the standards and intellectual advancement we now enjoy, that is true. But the intelligent people among us look at the standards and beliefs of the time period and realize that people were acting in a correct manner for that time.
Sadly, many of the people teaching these beliefs are teaching them to our children -- in public school. They do not teach our children how to contrast the beliefs of that time with those of today; rather, they tell our children how evil our ancestors were, which makes us evil.
Even sadder, those same people don't look at current Islam and apply the same standards.
God, or Allah, or Vishnu, or whoever, save us all.

Well, it is Thursday night, and I think I will just ramble about a few things that stuck in my craw today. I gave enough information about Barack Hussein Obama that intelligent people will be able to check up more on his views and stances, and see how much of a socialist liberal he really is. God help us all if he is elected; he may have a fillibuster-proof Congress, that will let him rubber-stamp his way to bankrupting this country and bringing in the liberal dream of a 100% tax rate against the "evil rich."
One of the things I want to ramble about is the 39-cent per gallon gas hike I witnessed across the street from my office. The store owner was kind enough to let me know ahead of time, so I was able to fill up my bike. This brought the cost of a gallon of regular to $4.28/gallon. Now, we all hear about the "big oil" companies making billions of dollars in profits, of course reported in an unbiased and fair manner by "big media." I heard on the Tom Sullivan show today that the oil companies are making approximately 8-cents a gallon profit.
This is after paying for labor, purchasing and refining the oil and, of course, paying taxes. We all hear about the "windfall" profits, and of course the Democrats want to tax ANYONE making profits. However, what we don't hear, and what was reported by Tom Sullivan earlier this week, is that, following accepted accounting practices, Exxon paid their fair share of taxes on $9 billion of the $10 billion profits they made. Oh, wait, we can't report THAT, can we? That might undermine this war the liberals and the media are trying to create; the war between the "rich" and the rest of us.
Hasn't anyone noticed that, for the last several decades, the media and the left have been trying to use class envy to create hatred between people who have worked their asses off to succeed and the people who have done enough to get by? I mean, how does it negatively impact YOU if I earn $2 million a year and you earn $20k a year? Are you worse off because someone else earns more than you? Is it possible they worked harder, or have more education, or took risks that you were too afraid to take? Are they bad people if, just maybe, they got lucky?
And why do the left-wing liberals insist that people who have busted their butts, and have been taxed at an exhorbitant rate, "give back" to the people they already involuntarily give to? How many of these well-meaning lefties "give back" the money they earn in their jobs? And what jobs they are -- acting, playing sports, etc.
I guess the "evil rich" they speak about are CEOs, CFOs, high-level managers -- the people who busted their butts and took risks. THESE are the people who must "give back" in order to be considered "good rich."
Here is a another rambling coming to mind. Why must politicians (mostly on the conservative side) always apologize for stating their opinions? Wasn't this country founded upon the great freedoms of speech and religion? Suddenly, nobody can speak their mind, for fear that they might be considered "politically incorrect" and labeled as a "hate-monger," spewing "hate speech." Good Lord, dear God, Jesus help us all. What bunch of pinheads determine what is and is not "politically correct," and who among us gave them this power to censure free speech? I would love for SOMEONE to tell me where the "politically correct speech monitors" are and how I can get hold of them; I have a few words to say that would no doubt get me labeled as a hater.
As if I care.
I heard John McCain had to distance himself from some televangelist who spoke his mind. So what? It hasn't hurt Barack Hussein Obama when his preacher spoke words of hatred. And why should it? EVERYONE, public or private, is allowed to speak their mind under the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. A constitution, mind you, that Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton, and John McCain, are sword to uphold and defend. I challenge ANY of them to defend Rush Limbaugh's right to speak, or Michael Savage, or Ray Taliaferro, or Sean Hannity.
Here is another rant, which kind of ties into my first one. I have noticed that the people bitching the loudest about America's dependence on foreign oil are the first to deny oil companies the opportunity to drill and pump oil here. Now, let me see if I can understand this, using the smallest words possible. Liberal says, no blood for oil, get off foreign oil. But wait, no drill for oil in America, no drill for oil in Alaska, no nuclear power (ooops, two multi-syllable words!).
Soooooo, they want us to use alternative energy. Lets see, nuclear power works really well; look at Europe, and at the US Navy's nuclear fleet. And Montana, most of Nevada, Utah and Wyoming are tectonically stable, and would be perfect for several nuclear power plants. And the waste? Lets space it. We have the technology to put nuclear waste, whatever cannot be recycled, into a trajectory that will dump it onto Venus, or into the sun. Oh, wait, the same environmentalist nutcases on the left who want us off oil also are against nuclear. Hmmmm, what else?
Solar energy? Sure, we can all live in the stone age with current applications of solar power; or we can use existing technology to put several hundred solar-collector satellites into geosynchronous orbits, and use microwaves to beam that power to collector plants to disperse it through the grid. Oh, wait, one of the microwave beams might stray and a tree might burn, or a spotted owl may die. We wouldn't want that.
I think that the environmentalist kooks who seem to be the darlings of the media would be happy if we drop back to an agrarian, pre-industrial society. Oh, wait, millions of innocent people on the African and Asian continents might die. After all, we can't ask them not to breed children they cannot possibly feed. It is up to all of us in the United States to feed them. But wait, without using modern technology, we can't feed all of us in the US, let alone around the third-world. What to do, what to do?
You can see why I say it is easy to be a liberal. You just have to state a problem and say you care about it. You can then knock down any logical solutions or arguments about praciticality by labeling people as "hate-mongers" or "racists."
What this country needs are a core of politicians who will stand up to the liberal nutbag environmentalists and their sycophants and say, "Screw you! We represent the will of the American majority, and the majority want American oil and American nuclear power. The fringe, whiney, loud-mouthed, pissy minority can go to Hell; if you don't like it here, move south. We are sure Mexico will welcome you with open arms."
(Here is a link you can read about Mexico's immigration policy -- http://www.vdare.com/awall/070516_memo.htm -- and see how "progressive" it really is)
We need a core of politicians who will stand up and represent the MAJORITY of Americans and our wants and needs, and not bend over and grab their ankles when accused of being "uncaring" or "racist" or "sexist" or any other kind of "-ist."
We won't see that. Not in our lifetimes. Sadly, I think what we will see is much more frightening and is really just around the corner. I think the truck driving community is at its end, with diesel jumping up to over $5 a gallon, when it is a byproduct of creating gasoline. I think that more than 70-percent of them are going to say "Screw You!" and pull over. You see, you can bring product in by ship, or plane, or train; you can't move it to the stores or refineries or factories without America's truckers.
And who will feel it first? The biggest cities -- New York, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle -- places that you can't grow your own food, and are TOTALLY dependent upon deliveries for their lives. Coincidentally, where the liberals congregate and berate those of us who live a rural lifestyle. We will see those cities implode, as supplies dwindle in mere hours. Many Americans live a "me" lifestyle; when they hear that deliveries will stop, the will flood to stores and gas stations to make sure that THEY have their supplies. Riots will erupt, and inside of hours, those cities will tear themselves apart. The rural communities will have a better time of it, as we can grow our own food, and have things to trade for food.
If truckers stop for just TWO WEEKS, this country will be on its knees. The military will feed themselves, as they should, and they will still be able to defend us. It will take YEARS to resupply the stores and gas stations, and it will totally destroy OPEC. Americans will see the folly of depending upon other countries for our energy needs, and will ignore the environmental nuts. We will stumble, and if Barack Hussein Obama, or Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton are in power, we will land hard. Neither have the experience or the leadership to help us. Both are junior senators, and neither have any military or leadership experience to fall back on.
It is coming; we must prepare. Put aside fuel, put aside food, and make sure your weapons are in good shape.
Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow.

Obama proves he is a socialist, and that you are stupid!

Barack Hussein Obama showed up in Oregon for another campaign rally, and once again proved that he thinks we are too stupid to take care of ourselves; in other words, that he wants the government to be mother and father and nanny to us all.
He told 130 people at an assisted living facility that privatizing Social Security was a bad idea "when George W. Bush proposed it. That's why I stood up against this plan in the Senate and that's why I won't stand for it as president."

Bush proposed a Social Security plan in 2005 that focused on creating private accounts for younger workers, but it never came up for a vote in Congress. Democrats strongly opposed the idea and few Republicans embraced it. This is truly sad, as Republicans should have been strongly on board, protecting our rights as individuals, not lumping us as a "collective" like the Democrats like to do. Do you know what Bush wanted to do? He wanted us to control 25% of our social security investment and place it where we wanted to. And it was a voluntary program! Nobody was going to be forced to do this, only those who wanted participate.

Wow. Freedom of choice, what a concept. Individuality. Control of at least PART of your own destiny. Taking responsibility for your own future. What a concept.

Barack Hussein Obama said McCain would push to raise the retirement age for collecting Social Security benefits or trim annual cost-of-living increases. Barack Hussein Obama has rejected both ideas as solutions to the funding crisis projected for Social Security in favor of making higher-income workers pay more into the system.

How typical of a Democrat. Let's make the people who will use the system the least pay the most. Higher income workers usually are better educated, and have taken care of their own retirement. They took risks and came out on top. And now this liberal, socialist Democrat, Barack Hussein Obama wants to punish the people who work the hardest for their success.

``We have to protect Social Security for future generations without pushing the burden onto seniors who have earned the right to retire in dignity,'' Barack Hussein Obama said. In other words, we have to support people who didn't plan ahead. I don't know about the rest of you, but I have a hard enough time supporting myself and my family; I don't want to support everyone else.

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds accused Obama of making ``misinformed partisan attacks.''

``John McCain has been clear about his belief that we must fix Social Security for future generations and keep our promises to today's retirees, but raising taxes should not be the answer to every problem,'' Bound said.

However, it is clear that Barack Hussein Obama, like every other Democrat, has never met a tax he didn't like. And, like every other "progressive" (read - LIBERAL!) he sees it as the government's job to take care of us womb to the tomb, and to punish those who excel with increasingly higher, punitive, repressive taxes.

Do you want to know where Barack Hussein Obama stands on the issues? Look at his record:
Click here for 12 full quotes on Abortion OR background on Abortion.

• Voted against banning partial birth abortion. (Oct 2007)
• Stem cells hold promise to cure 70 major diseases. (Aug 2007)
• Trust women to make own decisions on partial-birth abortion. (Apr 2007)
• Extend presumption of good faith to abortion protesters. (Oct 2006)
• Constitution is a living document; no strict constructionism. (Oct 2006)
• Pass the Stem Cell Research Bill. (Jun 2004)
• Protect a woman's right to choose. (May 2004)
• Supports Roe v. Wade. (Jul 1998)
• Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)
• Voted NO on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006)
• Voted YES on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)
• Rated 0% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-choice stance. (Dec 2006)

On some of these issues, I have no problem. Roe v. Wade is accepted law, and protects a woman's right to choose. However, I think that men are being left out of that law; after all, a woman would not need to choose to murder an unborn child if a man were not there at the creation of the child. He certainly gets no say in the matter. Men also get no say on the matter if the woman chooses to HAVE the child; even if he gives up any and all rights to the child, he still gets the privilege of paying for the child.
I do find it odd that Democrats are oh-so-vocal about protecting a woman's right to choose to teminate an unborn life, but oh-so-vocal about denying the general public's right to choose to keep and bear arms, or direct your own social security contributions, or pay a reasonable sales tax instead of a repressive income tax, or .... You get my point, hopefully.
I have no problem with stem cell research, as it may hold the future cures to cancer and other diseases, but I don't really like the thought of purposeful, government-paid abortions for it. But, since abortion is legal, I think stem cell research should be allowed. It should not be stopped from privately-funded scientists in any event.
And now let's see how he votes on economic matters:
Click here for 8 full quotes on Budget & Economy OR background on Budget & Economy.

• Bush & GOP dug budget hole; need 1 or 2 years to dig out. (Dec 2007)
• Take China "to the mat" about currency manipulation. (Dec 2007)
• Regulate financial instruments to protect home mortgages. (Aug 2007)
• Return to PayGo: compensate for all new spending. (Oct 2006)
• Bush's economic policies are not working. (May 2004)
• Supports federal programs to protect rural economy. (May 2004)
• Voted NO on paying down federal debt by rating programs' effectiveness. (Mar 2007)
• Voted NO on $40B in reduced federal overall spending. (Dec 2005)

Amazing! As I stated earlier, Barack Hussein Obama, like every Democrat, loves to spend other people's money, primarily to support the non-producers. He has never seen a program he wants to end. He voted NO to reduce federal spending by $40 billion; he voted NO to rating federal programs' effectiveness. Do any of you wonder why? Could it be that he gets a lot of money from unions, and there are some very important government employee unions whose membership could be reduced by ending non-effective, or duplicative, programs? Hmmmm...
He wants to regulate financial instruments to protect home mortgages. To me, this means he wants YOU AND I to bail out people who overspent, and were to stupid to read the fine print. Hey, maybe I will contend that I was unaware of the small print, and refuse to pay on my mortgage, and make all of you pay..... Nah, as I stated in my last blog, I have a work ethic, and believe in paying my way.
Now, when it comes to civil rights, all Democrats believe they are the end-all and be-all. Republicans are the ones, they claim, that want everyone to be enslaved. And yet, it was a Republican who freed Black Americans from slavery. Interesting. And it is Republicans who believe that EVERYONE can excel and succeed on their own merit; Democrats, particularly the most liberal, believe that members of "minorities" cannot achieve on their own and must get help and special treatment. I can just see Martin Luther King Jr. spinning in his grave. He wanted equality, not quotas based on an accident of birth.
Here are Barack Hussein Obama's stands on civil rights:
Click here for 31 full quotes on Civil Rights OR background on Civil Rights.

• Being gay or lesbian is not a choice. (Nov 2007)
• The politics of fear undermines basic civil liberties. (Oct 2007)
• Ok to expose 6-year-olds to gay couples; they know already. (Sep 2007)
• Better enforce women's pay equity via Equal Pay Act. (Aug 2007)
• Strengthen the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Aug 2007)
• Has any marriage broken up because two gays hold hands? (Aug 2007)
• We need strong civil unions, not just weak civil unions. (Aug 2007)
• Legal rights for gays are conferred by state, not by church. (Aug 2007)
• Disentangle gay rights from the word "marriage". (Aug 2007)
• Gay marriage is less important that equal gay rights. (Aug 2007)
• Gay rights movement is somewhat like civil rights movement. (Aug 2007)
• Let each denominations decide on recognizing gay marriage. (Jul 2007)
• Racial equality good for America as a whole. (Jun 2007)
• Put the Confederate flag in a museum, not the state house. (Apr 2007)
• Supports health benefits for gay civil partners. (Oct 2006)
• Muslim heritage gives Obama unique influence in Muslim world. (Oct 2006)
• Opposes gay marriage; supports civil union & gay equality. (Oct 2006)
• No black or white America--just United States of America. (Oct 2006)
• Marriage not a human right; non-discrimination is. (Oct 2004)
• African-Americans vote Democratic because of issue stances. (Jul 2004)
• Forthright on racial issues and on his civil rights history. (Jul 2004)
• Defend freedom and equality under law. (May 2004)
• Politicians: don't use religion to insulate from criticism. (Apr 2004)
• Supports affirmative action in colleges and government. (Jul 1998)
• Include sexual orientation in anti-discrimination laws. (Jul 1998)
• Miscegenation a felony in 1960 when Obamas practiced it. (Aug 1996)
• The civil rights movement was a success. (Aug 1996)
• Voted NO on recommending Constitutional ban on flag desecration. (Jun 2006)
• Voted NO on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. (Jun 2006)
• Rated 89% by the HRC, indicating a pro-gay-rights stance. (Dec 2006)
• Rated 100% by the NAACP, indicating a pro-affirmative-action stance. (Dec 2006)

It is clearly seen by close reading of these stances and votes that he does flip-flop on his homosexual views. It is clearly seen that he both wants to remove religion from the mix and yet wants each religious denomination to decide whether or not to approve homosexual marriage. Wants the term "marriage" to include homosexuals, and then says the term is not important but the equal rights conferred in marriage are. Flipflopflipflop.

He believes in affirmative action; to me, this says this Black American, Barack Hussein Obama, believes that members of accepted minority groups cannot achieve without government help. He want to force businesses to pay women equally; fine, I believe women should be paid EXACTLY the same as men to, for performing the same job. I also believe that women who perform a job should do so as well as a man, if they want the same pay; this means that female firefighters should perform EXACTLY as their male counterparts. If it takes two women to do a job one man can do, then pay the two of them what one man would earn. And while we are on the subject, require women to register for the draft, as men must; if a man fails to register, he cannot get federal student loans, he cannot get a federal job, and he can go to prison. Let the women take the same civil responsibility. Perhaps Barack Hussein Obama will get on this civil rights issue. I wouldn't bet on it.
And now his stance on corporations:
Click here for 7 full quotes on Corporations OR background on Corporations.

• End tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas. (Aug 2007)
• Hold corporations responsible for pensions & work conditions. (Aug 2007)
• Tax incentives for corporate responsibility. (Jun 2004)
• Close tax loopholes for US companies relocating abroad. (Jun 2004)
• REAL USA Plan: Reward companies that create domestic jobs. (Jun 2004)
• Voted YES on repealing tax subsidy for companies which move US jobs offshore. (Mar 2005)
• Voted NO on reforming bankruptcy to include means-testing & restrictions. (Mar 2005)

I don't have a problem rewarding companies for keeping jobs inside the United States. Now if only people didn't expect to be paid immense amounts of money for menial, entry-level jobs. Entry-level jobs are just that: ENTRY LEVEL!! They are not meant to be positions that you can put a kid through college on. Most people making minimum wage are either new to the work force, or retired and getting a little extra money (Wal-Mart greeters, et al). And less than 5% of American workers MAKE minimum wage. But wait, common sense has gone away....
I don't understand how anyone can not understand that a business operates to make a profit, not to provide hand-outs and operate for nothing. If American's are demanding too much to perform a job that someone else can do for less, it is only intelligent that a company outsource. I don't much like it, but Americans have become lazy and complacent, and will only perform certain work. Ask a kid entering the work force to go work in the fields picking fruit; he will laugh at you, even if it pays twice minimum wage.

I think this is enough for people to digest tonight. Enjoy. Think. Analyze. Decide.
Use the intelligence God gave you, and look at issues, don't just go along with the rest. One of the best lines I have ever heard to describe humanity came from Tommy Lee Jones: "A person is smart; people are stupid."
Break out of the herd.

My Opinion and you are welcome to it!

Well, this is the first entry into my blogspot, BMW Joe's Opinion. I am Joe Houseworth, BMW Joe. I am 46 years old, served in the military until I was crippled up by a drunk driver, and now work for the United States Postal Service. I want it known that these views ARE MY OWN, AND IN NO WAY REFLECT ANY OPINIONS OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE. That's right people; I work for the Government, and do have my own opinions. What a shock!

I am proudly conservative, fiscally and socially. I firmly believe that the path this country is taking will lead us into a deep depression, and will result in a great deal of social damage. Spiraling fuel prices are not driven so much by government regulation as by the misguided liberal NIMBYs. These are the people who, on one hand, insist that we become energy-independent, then in the same breath, refuse to allow for drilling for more oil in the United States, opening the Alaskan oil reserves, or allowing nuclear energy. I guess that is the wonderful thing about being a liberal-- you just have to say you "want change" and that you care about everything, and can then ignore the practical aspects about what you want and how many people it will hurt.
Anyway, I must say I have issues with social programs that merely perpetuate more people dependent on social programs. After nearly 60 years of welfare, we still have people needing welfare, the welfare rolls have increased and the number of government workers employed by the social programs have increased. I think it is disgusting that we have so many overlapping programs that provide the same services under different names. I don't understand how some people can expect hard working Americans to support them while they sit on their fat cans and live on the public dole.
I guess I compare everyone living on social programs to my brother, Daniel. Dan is mildly retarded, yet he works two jobs, maintains his own household, manages his own money and is quite happy. He asks for NO SOCIAL PROGRAM ASSISTANCE, even though he would easily qualify. Why? Because our father taught us WORK ETHICS AND PRIDE IN ACCOMPLISHMENT! He taught us that people who say they can't do something have never tried to do it, and accepted defeat.
This seems to be how people have become. We are not allowed to teach our children to compete and strive for excellence, because someone else might feel bad about themselves. Awwww.....
Who cares? I don't think it is within my power, or the power of anyone, to make someone feel bad about themselves. If someone is so wimpy and weak as to let the opinions of others affect them, then tough. The world is a tough place, and children need to learn that early; competition does this. It allows people to try hard to succeed, and learn from their mistakes if they fail.
So now you have a little bit of an idea about how I am. I believe in self-sufficiency, minimal government, and taking responsibility for one's self. I believe it is each person's responsibility to care for themselves and their family, and not their responsibility to be everyone else's keeper. I don't think our founding father's would have approved of this country becoming a nanny state, where the government is all powerful, and takes care of us from the womb to the tomb.
Think what you will; this is who I am. These are my opinions. You don't have to like them, or agree with them. I really don't care. The fact is you are reading them, and you are reacting to them, for good or ill.
Booyah.