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Alleged Secret Tape Reveals How Umar Farouk Abdulmuttallab Became The Islamic World's First Testicular Terrorist. Or, Not So Great Balls O' Fire!

A CONVERSATION ALLEDGEDLY INTERCEPTED FROM SECRET AL QUAIDA BASE IN YEMEN:

Mulsim Terrorist Recruiter (MTR): Umar how'd you like to do a great service for Islam?

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (UFA): Please tell me what is desired.

MTR: All you have to do is wrap this tube of high-explosives around your testicles.

UFA: Sounds great so far...

MTR: No one at the airport will "wand" your genital area, so you'll be able to get the high-explosive past security and on to a plane full of cursed Infidels.

UFA: Infidels! I hate Infidels!

MTR: That's the spirit! This plane will leave Amsterdam, there may be many diamond-selling Jews and Dutch and American oil-exploiters on board.

And, you my son will become the flaming sword of avenging Islam.

UFA: Tell me how?

MTR: When the plane is ready to land over the US-destination city, you will use this liquid catalyst to ignite the high-explosive.

UFA: Where do I do that? In the bathroom?

MTR: No, do it right in your seat. We want to cause maximum damage and death in the cabin.

UFA: While the high-explosive is still wrapped around my manhood and orbs of glory?

MTR: Yes, it will show the strength of your faith in a flaming pillar of manhood!

UFA: Won't that hurt?

MTR: No my son, in one blinding flash you'll be swept to Islamic heaven and be rewarded with 72 Virgins.

UFA: Are you sure?

MTR: So it is written...

UFA: Well, if it is so written, then it must be true.

MTR: You will be the first man to use this new high-explosive device, we call it the Ball-istic Vasectomy Device or BVD for short.

I must tell you that we do not ask Sons of Islam to do this lightly, to be candid, we first wanted to send a woman, but the YOTEX Tampon failed in testing. ( Yemen Originated Test EXploding Tampon)

UFA: What if my BVD doesn't work?

MTR: Oh my son, it will work pefectly, otherwise it would just turn your entire genital area into a raging inferno that would literally roast your chestnuts on an open fire.

UFA: So it's been thoroughly tested?

MTR: I swear on Osama's anus.

UFA: Well that's good enough for me. Now, over what city will I explode the plane, New York?

MTR: No, you will do it over Detroit.

UFA: Detroit? Why Detroit?

MTR: We have chosen Detroit because there are many Muslims there enslaved by an evil American satanic Jew-run capitalist system abetted by Christian crusader infidels. Your act of courage will inspire our Muslim brothers and sisters below.

UFA: Hmmm...I would have thought you wanted to destroy the American Car Industry.

MTR: No need...that process is already well underway...hehehe.

UFA: So let me get this straight. I blow my manhood off and then I fly to heaven in a ball of fire where I get 72 virgins, right?

MTR: Correct.

UFA: And, I will also get a new set of testicles?

MTR: You'll get a pair that would make a camel proud.

UFA: And a longer dong?

MR: It will double in size!

UFA: Wow! 3 inches! I'll be a stallion of Araby!

MR: Go my son and strike a blow for Al Quaida.

UFA: I will create the greatest blow job in the history of jihad!

DOOR SLAMS AS UFA EXITS ON HIS MISSION:

PHONE CALL TO CAVE IN WIZIRISTAN:

OBL: Did you find a fool to blow his balls off?

MTR: Yes, but I had to swear on your anus...

OBL: Hahahahahaha...

Ooops, gotta run! Predators can lock in on these new iPhones.

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A FEW DAYS LATER:

MSN.COM: "On Saturday, a day after the failed attack on Northwest 253, federal prosecutors charged Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, a native of Nigeria, with trying to destroy the airliner with a device containing a high explosive attached to his body. They alleged that Abdulmutallab set off the device — sparking a fire instead of an explosion — as the flight from Amsterdam descended toward Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

In a statement filed as it charged Abdulmutallab on Saturday, the U.S. Justice Department said that interviews with passengers and crew "revealed that prior to the incident, Abdulmutallab went to the bathroom for approximately twenty minutes."

"Upon returning to his seat, Abdulmutallab stated that his stomach was upset, and he pulled a blanket over himself. Passengers then heard popping noises similar to firecrackers, smelled an odor, and some observed Abdulmutallab's pants leg and the wall of the airplane on fire," the department stated. "Passengers and crew then subdued Abdulmutallab and used blankets and fire extinguishers to put out the flames."

Schuringa, of Amsterdam, told CNN that he didn't think about his own safety when he jumped Abdulmutallab. He and other passengers said that several people on board, including members of the flight crew, then joined him in taking the man to first class to strip off his clothes and search for any more explosives."

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THE MORAL OF THE STORY: Don't believe anyone who swears on Osama's anus.

Liar Liar Pants On Fire! or Not So Great Balls O' Fire. How can we hope to defeat millions of true-believer morons who really believe all this nonsense and are willing to blow their testicles off to prove it?

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic, A Mob Of One

PS: We are locked in a struggle with Islam for the mind of man and the very soul of civilization.

No Muslim true believer can be loyal to any nation or any pledge of allegiance because they are sworn to first obey the Shariah "laws" of Islam, which state that it is permissable to lie to and even desireable to kill Infidels.

It is, "Their way or the die way."

Now you can add Umar Farouk Abdulmuttallab to the list of Islamic true-believers right after Major Nidal Hassan.

Who's next? I'll bet one of his names is: Muhammed or Mohammed.

But it won't be Moe Howard.

 

The Best True Christmas Story I've Ever Heard. The Inauspicious Birth Of "Oscar de la Hoya."

I'm repeating this blog from Christmas Day 2008.

Please feel free to share it with your Pals too.

It is true and it is amazing.

Dear Pals,

Today many millions around the world are celebrating the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. That's true in our home too. By all accounts, His world changing birth took place in pretty humble surroundings. Far from home in Nazareth, Mary gave birth to Jesus in an animal shelter in Bethlehem, the city of King David's birth. 

Starting life among animals with a manager for a crib seems like about as inauspicious a beginning as possible.

Humble beginnings and lowly births can often set a tone for life. This was true even in Jesus' case for besides being born in a manger in Bethlehem, later life, Jesus was publicly derided with comments like, "What good can come out of Nazareth?"

Apparently Nazareth was not a great town to "hail from."

Well, today I want to share the true story of another child's humble beginning with you. I did not write it. It was written by one of my former bosses and old friend whose name is George. I lifted it verbatim, with his blessing, directly from his usually hysterically funny Annual Christmas Letter.

It is a story that touched our family's heart and we think it will touch yours too.

Here is the story of The Inauspicious Birth of "Oscar de la Hoya."

 

Seasonal Howdies:

 

On a chilly evening last May, with rain in the forecast, a man in the Central West

End of St. Louis contemplated mowing his lawn. Even though almost dark, the

threatening weather moved him to tackle the job.

 

Once done, he was going to leave the collected clipppings till the next morning

for disposal, but, again, the prospect of rain, now imminent, caused him to carry

the cut grass to a nearby dumpster.

 

When he started to raise the lid, he heard faint cries inside. Thinking that

someone had placed a puppy in the bin, he called to a neighbor to indicate

that one of them might have to take the animal to the Humane Society.

Opening the dumpster, all he saw was trash but then the cries started

again.  Digging into the mess his hands closed, not on a puppy, but on

a new-born baby struggling for life.  A plastic bag, which had

been placed over the child’s face to smother him, had slipped aside

just enough for him to breathe.

 

When the emergency team arrived, it found the baby in serious trouble.  

He was so cold that telling his true color was impossible as was finding

a temperature. Dehydration was so severe that his skin, when pulled

and pinched would not return to its natural shape. Rushed to the hospital,

he was worked on furiously by a medical team.

 

A nurse in attendance said she had never seen a child fight so hard for life.

She swears that when he finally turned the corner and rose beyond the

hypothermia which had embraced him, she saw him smile.

 

That child, Ben, is now our grandson. He has devoted parents,

a loving older brother and an entire family which dotes on him.

Ben is the happiest of infants. His constant smile and wonderful nature

bring a light to all of us when with him.

 

Our son and his wife had been seeking a foster child when the

adoption agency indicated they felt they would be a perfect fit for Ben.

They immediately fell in love with him as did their son. I make this break

from my usual inane prattle at this time of year as I think this truly is sort

of a Christmas story as Ben is sort of a miracle. 

 

So many ifs can be applied to Ben’s survival.

What if the man waited to cut his grass? 

What if he had decided not to dump the clippings? 

What if the plastic sheet had not slipped from Ben’s face? 

What if it had been just a bit colder? 

The fact that Ben is alive almost defies logic. 

He and we are truly blessed.

George's story about Ben ended here. From that point on George adroitly segued and then proceeeded, using his Saharan-dry wit, to regale us with stories about his golfing misadventures for a few more paragraphs. 

I wrote to him and asked if I could share Ben's story on the blog. When he wrote back, he told me that the nurses in the hospital had nicknamed the newborn baby "Oscar de la Hoya" because they never saw a baby fight so hard to live.

This nickname seemed very appropriate to me, because in the boxing world, the legendary champion prizefighter, the real Oscar de la Hoya is known as "The Golden Boy."

We wept tears of saddness and joy when we first read Ben's story. It made me realize once again how precious really life is. It made me wonder if any soul is ever really alone - even in a dumpster on a rainy night?

The notion that "one man's trash is another man's treasure" also crossed my mind as I contemplated this story. I wondered how many other lives that have been trashed would have been treasured by another family.

It made me wonder if I was truly treasuring the relationships of all those around me.

It caused me to revisit all of my assumptions about Guardian Angels.

I wondered, "What good can come out of a dumpster?"

Perhaps "a child shall lead the way."

It made me think about many things...

In the end, it made me feel - and know - that we are all safe in bigger hands than we can ever imagine.

If one newborn child can have that much fight in him...I also concluded that I should permanently quit my unbecoming belly-aching about life's little ups and downs and really start living.

But, it won't be easy, because Ben has set the bar very high.

Merry Christmas!! And Warmest wishes for health, happiness and love in 2009!

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: Thank you! George and family for letting me share Ben's story.

Why Does President Obama Want His Attorney General Eric Holder To Try Muslim Terrorists In New York City? Wake Up And Smell What Obama's Cookin'! Wake Up And Smell The Hummus! It's The Distraction Du Annee!

Dear Pals,

This is another Birk-Connect-The-Dots-Blog. You tell me if I'm wrong and please show me the error of my ways. I'm more than willing to be corrected.

A BIT OF CONTEXT:

I spent a lot of time this weekend listening to the jibber-jabber about the announcement to try the "alleged 9/11 suspects" in Federal Court in New York. I read the accounts in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ( actually written by 2 reporters from McClatchy Newspapers) and in the Sunday New York Times.

I listened to many news accounts on CNN, Fox News, Headline News, NBC, BBC and ABC. So, I feel pretty well up to speed on all the reports, spin, sense, nonsense and utter BS.

BACKGROUND:

I have been a student of world religions for some time. If you want a quick context: Huston Smith's The World's Religions is a good starting point (he used to be a Professor at Washington University here in St. Louis).

CONTEXT ON ISLAM TODAY:

I have read The Face Behind The Veil by Donna Gehrke-White, Woman of Egypt by Jehan Sadat (wife of slain leader Anwar Sadat), and numerous other books on Islam - I also recommend: The Muslim Mafia (www.muslimmafia.com), House of Bush, House of Saud, Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terrorism and numerous other history books and articles on the Middle East from the days of The Raj to today.

I am currently reading INFIDEL, the autobiography of the Somali woman, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

The Dutch film maker Theo Van Gogh was murdered in his native Holland by a Muslim named Muhammed Bouyeri. Theo's crime against Islam was making a movie about Ayaan's struggle against the Islamic oppression of women.

Theo was ambushed on his way to work - shot 8 times and then repeatedly stabbed before he had his throat slashed open and a five-page letter fastened into his chest with a butcher knife.

To say his movie, Submission Part 1, got unfavorable reviews in the Islamic world is a slight understatement given poor Theo's fate.

TRAVEL PERSPECTIVE:

We have traveled in Egypt, from Cairo to Memphis to Saquarra and Dashour. I am an avid student of dynastic Egyptian history. We have stood inches from the oldest mummy in the world, Ramses II, in the atmospherically-controlled room at The Cairo Museum. And even closer to the treasures of Tutankamen.

We have visited the Muhammed Ali Mosque atop The Citadel in Cairo and walked across its limestone courtyard...made from the limestone facings of The Great Pyramid of Gizah, which was cracked off with boiling vinegar when the Muslims conquered Egypt in the 640 AD time frame.

DISCLAIMER:

Okay, that said, I AM NOT an expert - but a reasonably well-informed person with an opinion based on facts and some speculations based on observation. Like the great Yogi Berra said, "You can observe a lot just by watching."

So, ready or not...here we go.

DOT ONE: Most Americans entire knowledge of Islam is based on Lawrence of Arabia, The Thief of Baghdad and the Voyages of Sinbad.

Not many Americans know the role the British Empire played in shaping the current Islamic world from Cairo to Sudan to Jerusalem to Kabul to Dahomey.

Did you know that Pakistan is not an ancient country...it was created by the British just like Kuwait. The P is for Punjab, the A is for Afghanistan and the K is for Khyber...take piece of land from each province, jam 'em all together and what do you get?

PAKistan.

DOT TWO: Bill O'Reilly is wrong. Pat Roberson is right. Islam is NOT just a religion.

There is no separation of church and state in Islam.

We Americans believe in separation of church and state. The ACLU even got The Ten Commandments pulled out of our courthouses because they might offend some people. No Christian creches or Hebrew menorahs on public property either. And tear down that Veteran's Memorial Cross that's been out in the Mojave Desert since 1931.

So where is the ACLU when it comes to Muslims? Why the hands-off treatment?

Let's all understand and underscore that Islam is a total belief system that micro-manages every aspect of a person's life and behavior from dietary rules to worship to education to all legal affairs.

Free will and creative independent thought is out the window. It is all about Submission.

DOT THREE: America is a Judeo-Christian nation. Our nation's principles are based on the Old and New Testament, The Magna Carta, English Common Law, The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights.

Islam avers that Sharia law is above all other laws. Sharia deals with virtually every aspect of day-to-day life, including politics, economics, banking, business, contracts, family, sexuality, ritual hygiene and a myriad of social issues.

I have a problem with Sharia Law being promoted here in the USA because I'm not into Submission.

DOT FOUR: The term 'Assassin' derives from the Arabic word Hashshashin  literally "takers of hashish", more commonly called The Order of the Assassins.

DOT FIVE: Assassins who kill human beings in the name of Allah are called Muslim Terrorists. Period.

DOT SIX: What's In A Name? In the case of Islamic terrorist groups, it's all a web of nomenclature designed to confuse us and to hide the true Nation States that sponsor and fund these terrorists. IE: The House of Sa'ud - bin Laden. Iran. Syria. (www.muslimmafia.com)

Hezbollah, Hamas, Black September, The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, The Palestine Liberation Army, the Taliban, The Muslim Brotherhood, Al Quaida et cetera et cetera ad infinitum ad nauseaum are all terrorist organizations.

Call 'em The Mystic Knights of the Sea...it doesn't matter.

They can be Lebanese, Syrians, Palestinians, Egyptians, Saudis, Yemenis, Afghanis, Indonesians, Pakistanis, Somalians Irannians, Iraqis or home grown U.S. Citizens of these extractions like Major Hasan. Or Anglo-American or African-American converts who look like the average American next door.

The inescapeable common denominator is the FACT that they are all Moslems. And they all subscribe to the Islamic belief system.

Are Muslims really here in the USA to become part of the American melting pot?  Or are they just living among us? They want to enforce their own Sharia belief system. They do practice "honor killings" - right here in the good old USA.

I believe that the vast majority of American immigrants came here to help form a "more perfect union" NOT a more politically-correct diversity.

And certainly NOT to become part of a worldwide Islamic Caliphate.

DOT SEVEN: Muslim Terrorists are NOT "crazy" people.

They are well-educated.

They are very sane.

They are true believers.

They believe in The Seal Of The Prophets.

They believe that the Prophet Muhammed got the FINAL word on man's relationship with his Creator in a cave on Mt. Hira.

Ever since then, it has been the Muslim way or the die way.

Sign up for Islam.

Surrender to Allah...or else.

Check out the history of Medina...see where surrendering to Allah got those folks.

DOT EIGHT: I believe we are are locked in an epic global battle for The Mind of Man and the very soul of civilization.

It's Love Thy Neighbor vs Slay Thy Infidel Neighbor.

I pick Option 1.

Major Hasan and the Gitmo Terrorists pick Option 2.

Major Hasan's self-concept is, by his own admission, "First I am a Muslim."

He forgot his Hippocratic oath as a physician and healer to "first do no harm."

He forgot the Pledge of Allegiance.

He forgot that he was a native born American.

He forgot he was a US Army Officer.

Major Hasan, Soldier Of Allah, is a true believer.

He was not a recent convert to Islam, he had been totally indoctrinated in Islam from birth and later in his mosque in Falls Church, Virginia and then on the Internet with his imam in Yemen. 

He made NO secret of his Islamic belief system.

But, no one wanted to speak up. Now 13 U.S. soldiers are dead.

SILENCE KILLS!

Madrasahs (Muslim Schools and Academies) from Mecca to Falls Church, Virginia are now indoctrinating new little "Major Hasans" as we speak - even prisons have proved to be fertile ground for Islamization.

Last week's seizure of Iranian commercial assets and mosques is not just pressure being applied to influence the release of the 3 U.S. college students who are about to go on trial in Iran for espionage. It was also an FBI attempt to cut off funds from Muslims here in the U.S.A. sending to terrorists abroad.

DOT NINE: President Obama is the 100% driver of the move to close Gitmo and to bring the Muslim terrorists to New York for a show trial.

Why?

No one in the Obama administration even breaks wind without the approval of President Obama, Rahm Emmanuel and David Axholerod. And that includes, Attorney General Eric Holder.

Make no mistake about that. 

President Obama is the driving force behind this. Attorney General Eric Holder is his puppet on a string who gives President Obama and "easy out" if the do-do hits the fan in Manhattan.

DOT TEN: Illinois (Obama's adopted state) is likely to get many of the Terrorists from Gitmo as part of a new "job creation" program. Senator Dick Durbin is absolutely giddy about it. Cash is King in Illinois politics.

DOT ELEVEN: President Obama has an unsual and still being revealed self-concept that I haven't quite figured out as yet. It isn't narcisissm, but it's close I think. He just declared himself to be "America's First Pacific President."

He loves the International stage and his rock star image. He bows to the Saudi King and the Japanese Emprorer. Will he kow-tow in China?

Nah...he has Tim Geithner to do that.

President Obama loves his own life story, and fondly recalls his days in Indonesia where he attended a Muslim school. He even used his father's Muslim roots as a data point to relate to Muslims in his first major global address to the "Muslim world" in Cairo.

Yet he professes to be a Christian. He did attend the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's church for over 15 years. Right?

He loves the resonance of his own voice and exudes a sense of stage presence and confidence that is arguably mezmerizing.

Yet, he blows with the wind on Afghanistan as he rejects 4 options from his "War Council" and his field commander.

Is he smarter than all of his War Council members?

If they can't come up with a good strategy maybe he should fire them. Or maybe the Generals should resign en masse?

Maybe he doesn't want to jeporadize that new Nobel Peace Prize by winning the war he called, "the war of neccessity" in Afghanistan.

DOT TWELVE: Over the weekend, Hillary Clinton did a "buck and wing" tap dance and lateral arabesque across the stage when she said, "I won't second guess Attorney General Holder's decision to try the terrorists in New York."

I still think Hillary is going to bailout in 2009 or early 2010 to preserve her viability as an alternative Democrat Presidential candidate and savior of the party in 2012. (That was in my Fearless Forecast in early 2009)

DOT THIRTEEN: These Gitmo Terrorists are enemy combatants. They are not U.S. Citizens. They are not entitled to be treated like U.S. Citizens. They should be tried by a military tribunal.

But Holder says we need openness to show off the American Justice System to the world. So let's open the CIA and FBI files and out the operatives.

This is INSANITY or is it?

DOT FOURTEEN: Obama needs a huge distraction to get the robotic-media focused AWAY from what he and his cronies are up to. And, he knows how much America loves to fixate on a good trial (OJ redux?) with tons of emotional drama and lots of outrageous participants.

He and his advisors know that this show trial in NYC will dominate the headlines and TV shows for months as many other "less interesting" but "transformative" stories are swept from the TV sound bytes and front pages.

This will allow President Obama and the boys from Chicago to dredge up anything they can on the Bush-Cheney Administration without looking like they're targeting them.

They calculate that this will re-energize the left base of the Democrat Party and "green light" his fundamentally transformative plans for America.

This is also a way to punish and hobble the CIA and serve to distract them from their current tasks and undermine their effectiveness. This is something that he already had Holder starting to do despite Leon Panneta's objections.

It also offers Obama a Wizard of Oz ploy. Remember when Toto pulled back the curtain to reveal the little man behind the image of "The Great And All Powerful OZ."

President Obama doesn't want the citizens looking behind the curtain in his administration to see what he's doing. He wants us to see and adulate him as the new wizard, the new OZymandias..."look on my work ye mighty and behold!"

Doubt him and you will be labeled as a right wingnut. Thoughtful independent thought, questions, policy debate and dissent is unwelcome. Submission is demanded.

DOT FIFTEEN: The deadly gas of political correctness and the complicit silence of fearful American citizens is killing our freedom and liberty.

President Obama doesn't want the ordinary citizen to pay any attention to the alarm bell ringers, Tea Party or Town Hall Protesters.

It is easy to paint those folks as nuts, malcontents, swastika-bearing mobs of angry white men and even as racists.

President Obama et al had hoped that these "canaries would simply have died" - silent and unnoticed in The Cave of Change.

DOT SIXTEEN: America's threats since the Civil War have come from the outside.

Now they come from the inside. Muslim terrorists are in our midst. Illegal aliens are everywhere. And, now we have our inspiring new leader bringing even more committed Muslim/Moslem Terrorists to our shores.

WHAT'S THE REAL REASON OBAMA'S PUSHING THE TRIAL IN NYC?

In a word, DISTRACTION: This is a classic mass diversion of attention from soaring deficits, trillions in new debt, high unemployment, cap and trade, rigging the Census with ACORN, signing away US sovereinty in the Copenhagen agreement, creating a 2000-page unread healthcare bill and pushing unemployment past 10.2%. (SEE MY FEARLESS FORECAST JANUARY 2009 ARCHIVE)

At the end of the day, he'll be able to go whichever way the wind is blowing, he always does.

After the Muslim Terrorists make a mockery of America in our Federal courts, tie-up the FBI, the NYPD, villify the CIA and publicly scourge the Bush-Cheney administration, then America's First Pacific President, the Nobel Prize winning Barack Hussein Obama, will be able to become Barack the Merciful, Barack the Compassionate, Barack the Glorious.

He can even fundamentally transform the American Justice System by demonstrating his magnanimity to the entire world by commuting any death sentences the Terrorists may recieve to life in prison or time-served. Eric Holder is already an expert at pardons from his days in the Clinton adminstration.

Is an acquittal, commutation of sentence, pardon or merciful life sentence instead of the death penalty even possible?

No way...that could NEVER happen.

Couldn't it?

We must be legally and politically correct, right?

Were these terrorists read their rights?

Were confessions elicited under torture?

Was the chain of evidence in tact?

Will they call witnesses to affirm their rights under Sharia law?

Will a jury of their peers have to incude Muslims?

How many years will this be tied up in Appeals?

Don't think a nightmare scenario can't happen.

After all, these poor Muslims have endured unspeakable torture and waterboarding at the hands of the evil Bush-Cheney administration, not to mention 8-years in the hellhole called Gitmo.

Where does the real blame for their "alleged crimes" lie?

It's all America's fault!

Repeat after the Defense Counsel, "It''s all America's fault...and more specifically, the Bush Administration's fault.

These poor Muslims and millions of others like them have cried out for justice against the Zionist state since 1948, and The Great Satan (that's the USA) has only exploited their oil and defended the hated Zionist Jews.

Rahm Emmanuel and David Axeholerod know that there is nothing like dredging up the Bush Administration to energize their media eunuchs and the left wing base of the Democrat Party.

The DISTRACTION and mis-direction of attention could work.

Who's gonna connect the dots?

Hmmm...I wonder what Theo Van Gogh, Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl and the people who leapt 90 floors from the burning Twin Towers and their surviving families think of Obama's grand legal strategy.

Not that it matters.

Barack The Democrat has spoken.

So let it be written, so let it be done.

As for me, well, I think it's just the most recent example of unbridled, unrestrained arrogance and absolute hubris in action by our inspiring new President, Barack The Manipulator, Barack The Mezmerizer.

Or is he just an actor from 2nd City who is playing the Presidential role...but, if he's not the real Wiz of O...then who is that man behind the curtain???

Follow the money...

Let's all get a ringside seat at the Circus Obamus for the Trial of the Century!

Get your legal Hot Dogs and toasted ACORNs here!

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic. A Mob of One

PS: But then, what do I know?

I'm just an ordinary schmoo in the Midwest.

Sometimes I wish my mother had not told me to "think for yourself."

LATE BREAKING DOT SEVENTEEN:

CHECK THIS OUT! The Spender-In-Chief is NOW suddenly concerned about troop COSTS!! Fiscal responsibilty may be his way to NOT give the Generals the troops they asked for. Congress may need the money to restore funding to ACORN or create more lucrative prison jobs and vendor contracts in Porkopolis, Illinois.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33936279/ns/politics-the_new_york_times

And the hits just keep on coming!

How To Stop The Killing In God's Name. Create A New Religion For The Whole World. Something We Can All Agree Upon. Here's The Birk Religious Belief Conflict Reconciliation Plan. Why It's As Easy as 1-2-3-4!

Dear Pals,

I was wondering if we human beings would ever be able to reconcile the deeply embedded and often conflictive beliefs of the world's competing religions?

After all, the world is full of conflicting beliefs, dogmas and traditions that were created over long periods of time very often in isolated parts of the world.

I was thinking about the daily conflicts that these "old time" religious indoctrinations are causing today, not the least of which were the murders of 13 Americans and the wounding of 42 others at Ft. Hood by a devoutly religious U.S. Army Major of the Moslem persuasion.

There is an old saying that, "More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason."

How do you stop the killing in God's name? Well, here's an out-of-the-box idea for you to chew on.

Many religious beliefs have been held for centuries and religious doctrines have been deeply and emotionally embedded in people beginning shortly after birth.

In all fairness, the beliefs of some religions and the concept of "sin" has also evolved or devolved (depending on your point-of-view) over time.

Still other religions have not changed at all. Apparently, those "religions" got it right, right from the start.

For example, I was born a Catholic. When I was a boy, eating meat on Friday was a sin...I can't recall if it was a mortal or venial sin...but, I'm sure it was a pretty serious sin, but not as bad as LUST, which was my personal favorite.

Today, I wonder if I'm going to Hell for eating meat on Friday, missing Mass on Sunday and Holy Days, for chasing skirts with lusty glee in my mis-spent youth or for being divorced and excommunicated?

Then when I get to Hell, I wonder if I'll share a red-hot shovel shift with Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Jack the Ripper, or if I'll be in the perfumed and air-conditioned part of Hell with Gypsy Rose Lee, Marylin Monroe, Mae and Evelyn West, Madame Pomadour and Casanova, George Carlin, Lewis Black, Capt. Ron and Jack Ortbal.

Thinking about all this religion-inspired Hellishness set my mind all awhirl in a cachphony of theological and philosophical dissonance.

Then I had a blinding flash of inspiration!

SHAZAAM! SHAMWOW!

Science has evolved.

Technology has evolved.

Medicine has evolved.

Transportation has evolved.

Mankind's knowledge has evolved in so many ways.

Even Birk has evolved. In a an uncharacteristic fit of self-aggrandizement, I titled my blog photo: The Evolution Of Man Is Complete. (I'm the evolved one on the right).

Is that a banana in my pocket? Or am I just glad to see you? (Actually, it's a 1/2 roll of TUMS)

Look Amigos...the superstitions of eons of lost past millenia and The Dark Ages are in our rearview mirror in virtually every category and area of human endeavor...except religion.

Things that man once accepted as facts and immutable natural laws from religious authorites speaking for God, have been disproved as mankind's intellectual capability, scientific knowledge and the liberty and freedom to think for oneself has advanced.

For example, we don't believe that the Sun revolves around the earth any more.

We don't believe that the earth is flat any more.

We don't believe that man cannot fly.

We don't believe that witches cause plague.

We don't believe that women need to be isolated in the "red tent."

We don't believe that leeches and bleeding makes people better.

We know about atoms, muons, photons, leptons and quarks.

Man has been to the Moon and back.

We have indoor plumbing, heat and air conditioning.

We can make steam power flow through pipes.

We know how to transplant hearts, kidneys and lungs.

We can perform pre-natal surgery in the womb.

We can clone sheep.

We can even make a McRib!

It begs the question.

Why haven't the world's religions evolved??

Especially in the Age of the Internet when we are so interconected and have instant access to so much information and knowledge.

Why should religious beliefs remain stuck in ancient paradigms???

Why do people today persist in believing religious dogmas that simply defy the laws of science and common sense and the principles of basic human decency?

So I thought, "Why not revist all of the religious assumptions, traditions and dogmas of Islam, Mayan, Aztec, Olmec, Judaism, Sumerian, Catholic, Lutheran, Episcoplaian, Baptist, Methodist, Buddhism, Shintoism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Unitarian, Dogon, Zulu and Taoist??"

Let's see which religious dogmas stand up to the bright light of intellectual scrutiny from the perspectives of TRUTH, LIFE, SCIENCE, COMMON SENSE and HUMAN ETHICS."

Let's put all religious ideas to the test.

STEP ONE: Let's put all the core religious ideas up on the Internet and have 100 people from each country, selected at random, vote on them.  IN or OUT

HERE'S JUST A FEW SAMPLES:

1. Sacrifice a human being and offer his still beating heart to God to make it rain. IN or OUT

2. Thou shalt not steal. IN or OUT

3. Honor thy Father and Mother. IN or OUT

4. Honor Kill family members who disavow your religion's rules and customs. IN or OUT

5. Same sex marriage. IN or OUT

6. Inter-species marriage. IN or OUT

7. Perform female circumsicions. IN or OUT

8. Keep women from driving, voting and going to school. IN or OUT

9. Killing people of different religions who refuse to join yours. IN or OUT

10. Rape. IN or OUT

11. Drinking Alcohol. IN or OUT

12. Using heroin, cocaine, LSD, crystal meth, et cetera. IN or OUT

13. Mandatory Church on Sunday. IN or OUT

14. Mandatory Church on Saturday. IN or OUT

15. Mandatory Church on Friday. IN or OUT

16. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife. IN or OUT

17. Thou shalt not commit adultery. IN or OUT

18. Eating pork (McRib). IN or OUT

19. Beheadings and Amputations as penalties for bad behavior. IN or OUT

20. Simultaneously Marry Multiple Wives. IN or OUT

21. Simultaneously Marry Multiple Husbands. IN or OUT

22. Love Thy Neighbor IN or OUT

23. Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness IN or OUT

25. Eat Beef. IN or OUT

26. Fly through the air. IN or OUT

27. Irish in charge. IN or OUT

28. Euthanasia at 85. IN or OUT

29. Circumsize boys. IN or OUT

30. Arrange your daughter's marriage to a stranger. IN or OUT

31. Hide the female body in a head-to-toe sack? IN or OUT

32. Enjoy Rodin's Hand of God sculpture. IN or OUT

33. Hell. IN or Out

34. Nirvana. IN or Out

35. Women's rights. IN or OUT

36. Dancing. IN or OUT

37. Snake handling. IN or OUT

38. Going on a walkabout. IN or OUT

39. Abortion. IN or OUT

40. Tithing. IN or OUT

ESSAY QUESTION: Is man a part of God or apart from God?

You see how this global human intake process can work!

STEP TWO: We make a comprehensive list of all the core beliefs of every major religion - past and present - and then have the randomly-selected 100 people from each country in the world vote on which beliefs are IN and which are OUT.

This would get representative input from all the peoples of the Earth. A big representative intake session. Very inclusive, culturally diverse and quite open.

STEP THREE: I would personally take the intake results up to my brother-in-law's very cool log cabin in the northwoods of Michigan. I prefer this cool woodsy location to the barren, scorching blazing-ass hot desert near Las Vegas. Deserts have been known to bake turds as hard as rocks.

There in total meditative seclusion, I would ask the One True God to tell me which things stay IN and which are OUT.

As soon as the One True God gives me the edited and approved IN or OUT list...I'll bring it back and share it with the rest of the world. There is a precedent for this kind of direct revelation in the Judeo, Christian and Islamic traditions.

Then, The New Really Cool Religious Rules For You publishing company will provide a copy to everyone on Earth for just $1.00 and then everyone can follow these updated religious rules.

I'll only keep 10%. The rest I will donate to The Limbaugh Institute For Advanced Conservative Studies. (Just kidding.) I'll give the rest of the dough-re-mi to the world's 50 top Medical Schools.

Religious belief conflict problems solved.

STEP FOUR: I will retire to Bermuda to begin my new career as a bikini-fitter and sun tan lotion applier.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic, a Mob Of One

PS: Do I believe in God? You bet, the evidence of God's creativity is all around, above, below and throughout everything. The wonders of God's universe and nature play out before us everyday. But, my "Creator of all things seen and unseen" might be different than your personal vision of God.

If it is true that God created man in his own image and likeness, we all must have God-DNA. And if we all have God-DNA then the nature of God must be innately in all of us. We must be God-wired in the double helix of our own DNA.

So why do we need some "outside self-proclaimed God expert" to tell us what God's will for us is.

Well, could it be because there is a lot of profit in the religious prophet business?

Hmmmm...

All kidding aside, if you really want to get an insight into my personal  All Is ONE - God-in-Man beliefs and supporting data visit www.capstonepyramid.com 

It's kind of a Gnostic view that God-Is-Within-Man.

You don't have to look out for or look up to find God...all you have to do is look within.

The Greeks called this en theos or God within - the word enthusiasm came from that expression. People who were turned on by creativity, innovation, learning and had a real love for life were said to "have God within."

Are you an enthusiast?

What are you enthusiastic about?

Do you believe in God?

And, does God believe in you?

THREE FINAL PERPLEXING QUESTIONS:

1) Before Charleton Heston was given The 10 Commandments by the One True God, after the Jews fled the oppression of Yul,The Great Pharoah of Egypt...what had been God's rules of conduct for mankind for the previous 5000 to 10,000 to 250,000 years?

We're we all just ad-libbing our way through every day?

2) And, how come God waited so long to give Moses just 10 simple commandments to live by?

3) Why was God so darn brief??

Maybe The 10 Commandments were just the OUTLINE that would have to be constantly conditionally-clarified by lawyers, courts, kings, emporers, prophets, religious clerics and Democrat politicians over the ensuing centuries??

I wonder about things like this...do you?

BONUS QUESTIONS:

Should stew be served in a bowl or on a plate?

Should toilet paper be A) pulled over the top of the roll or B) pulled down from behind the roll?

Mike P. needs to know these answers. Especially about the stew serving issue: bowl vs. plate.

 

 

Was The Ft. Hood "Alleged" Shooter Just A Quiet, Studious, Sensitive, Intelligent "Persecuted Victim" Trying To Get Along In The Evil Country Where He Was Born? Or Was He A Member Of "The Muslim Mafia" aka The Moslem Brotherhood?

Dear Pals,

If you do NOTHING else today go out and get the book The Muslim Mafia by Paul Sperry and P. Dave Gaubatz and learn about CAIR, the Council On American Islamic Relations and its NGOs (non-governmental organizations) that are front groups used to funnel millions of dollars from our little pals in Saudia Arabia right into the hands of terrorists inside the USA.

This isn't Islamaphobia...it's true and they can back it up.

Every American needs to get the facts: www.muslimmafia.com

When you discover who the authors of The Muslim Mafia are - you will be impressed by them, their credentials, top security clearances, service to our Nation and most of all by their personal courage!

You won't hear about this in the Lamestream media because it is politically incorrect.

The Muslim Mafia documents, in excruciating detail, the work of Special Ops Investigators, who infiltrated the ranks of CAIR and then collected extensive documentation on its plans to Islamisize America through a myriad of front groups and sleeper organizations.

As the author said in a recent radio interview, "The alarming CAIR revelations look like ACORN on steroids...but, with far direr consequences."

Read the Oath of the Muslim Brotherhood on the book's jacket and you'll understand the scope and scale to the threat posed by The Muslim Brotherhood to our Nation, our freedoms and our Judeo-Christian heritage.

Get the facts...think for yourself.

Then tell all your friends so they too can get educated on The Moslem Brotherhood's plans for you and me and all Americans.

I'm recommending this book without any compensation or remuneration whatsoever - just in case anyone in the White House office of Politically Correct Speech and Thinking was wondering about that.

___________________________

Now here's some spin on this "alleged" murderer from msnbc.

Get a barf bag before you read this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33737596/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?gt1=43001

What a sweet guy...he gave away broccolli and copies of the Quran/Koran before he went off and tried to kill 42 innocent people who were his own countrymen and fellow soldiers.

What's wrong with this picture? How stupid do they think we are?

Can you believe the headline and the appologist tripe and drivel that is being spun here??

"He gave away broccolli..."

Under a prior administration, that may have qualified as hate speech because former President George H.W. Bush hates broccolli

Here's the headline and subhead that should have been written.

U.S. born Moslem Army Major Murders 13. He reportedly fired over 100 rounds because was trying to kill 42...and he would have, if he had not been stopped by a brave civilian police officer, who happened to be a female, with real guts and firepower.

_____________________________

WHY, oh why oh why did he do it? 

Come let us gather in a media circle and wring our "politically-correct-blame-America" hands.

"Alledgely" this native born U.S. citizen, physician (healer) was theologically-opposed to being sent overseas to participate in America's war in Afghanistan because that would mean he was helping to kill his fellow Moslems.

So the logical conclusion in his Moslem-belief system mind was to kill as many of his fellow American soldiers as possible. It all makes perfect sense from his self-concept and from The Moslem Brotherhood's worldview.

The next thing you know, he'll be being praised for "following his conscience" and not simply "following orders" like the Nazi doctors did in WWII.

Trust me, that analogy will be forthcoming.

Just watch and mark my words, Major Hasan will be painted as an altrusitic innocent and devout Moslem locked in an intractable moral and religious conflict with his own beloved homeland, the U.S.A., a.k.a. "The Great Satan."

As for his actions in killing 13 people and attempting to kill a total of 42...why, it was the only thing he could do? Going AWOL, desertion, getting a Section 8 or resignation of his commission on conscientious-objector grounds were not viable options for him.

Oh me! Oh my! Alas, alack and forsooth...can you imagine the anguish of this poor devout Moslem?

LOOK AMIGOS:

This guy is not an "isolated crazy."

He isn't some mentally-ill person who "just snapped"

He is not crazy at all.

He is a fully-indoctrinated lifelong devout Moslem...he's a true believer.

He is just like the well-educated and seemingly normal Moslem physicians in England, who lived and worked there for years and then one day got up and drove explosive-laden SUVs into a Scottish Airport.

He is just like the 911 terrorists, who were well-educated young Moslem men with advanced college degrees. He is just like the London bus bombers and the Madrid train bombers and the bombers who blew the PanAm plane up over Lockerbie.

And, yes dear friends, he is just like the murdering Moslems who killed the Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich and the other cowardly hooded-murderers who beheaded a Wall Street Journal reporter, tortured and mutilated captured US servicemen and even, in a moment of masked-Moslem bravado,threatened a defenseless captured American woman for the pleasure of Al-Jeezeerah's viewers.

If Major Hasan wasn't a card-carrying member in good standing of The Moslem Brotherhood, he certainly appears to have been a "mind-carrying member" of the principles that are so clearly stated in the Oath Of The Moslem Brotherhood.

His "religion" means "surrender to god" - parenthetically, that means - surrender to the Moslem version and vision of god or else you infidels will be put to the sword!

BUT AREN'T MILLIONS OF MOSLEMS GOOD PEOPLE? 

Aren't many Moslems currently honorably serving in the U.S. Military?

Those are excellent questions.

Can you answer them with certainty?

Without any reservations?

How many "Major Hasans" are there?

How about this little tidbit from the author of The Moslem Mafia?

Did you know that 11 out of 14 current Muslim Chaplins in the US Army were trained at the CAIR-funded school outside of Washington, D.C?

A school that teaches how to Islamisize America.

Hmmm...probably just a coincidence.

Right...

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TIME FOR MORE "MOSLEM VICTIM" SPIN!

The Major's own nephew and family MEDIA spokesman has been all over the Tube saying his uncle was a "good American."

But...here come's the BUT, the very big guilt-shifting politically correct BUT.

But, he was "harrassed just for being a devout Moslem."

To that I say: Bravo Sierra!

It looks more like this "alleged" murderer unashamedly used the U.S. Military system to suit his own personal ends.

And, I'll bet you a delicious, mouth-watering savory-roasted bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin from an "unclean swine" that Major Hasan's actions at Ft. Hood were just the culmination of a long and calculated process of his own personal brand of Moslem Brotherhood-style infiltration.

It is not uncommon for Moslems to move into a nation or community and Iive peacefully among the native infidels until they are strong enough to strike. It is their history and it also a well-documented tactic of The Muslim Brotherhood.

It is classic 5th Column work.

Think I'm kidding?

Ask the French, Germans, Dutch, Danes and English about how well Moslem infiltration works. Google: death of Van Gogh's descendant. Or, Google: Moslem death threats on Danish cartoonists...or call Salmon Rushdie.

Moslems actually use the religious tolerance of free Judeo-Christian nations against the host nation's culture and its educational, political and legal institutions.

To be a true Moslem means it's their way or the die way.

Read the Oath Of The Muslim Brotherhood.

The Islamization of Europe is almost fait accompli.

Charles Martel must be rolling in his grave.

If you want to learn about infiltration, intimidation, harrassment and persecution...read Moslem history. They are past masters of the art of infiltration, intimidation, harrassment and persecution of Jews, Christians, Hindus, Lebanese Christians and anyone else who doesn't "surrender."

Moslem history is one story of blood-soaked conquest and one ruthless murderous event after another. Read what happened to the 10,000 men of Medina when they laid down their arms and "surrendered to god."

Read Moslem history.

Get the facts!

AND then explain to me how anyone can be a good, peace-loving, freedom-loving, well-educated tolerant civilized person in the 21st Century and still subscribe to the beliefs of a"religion" that teaches that killing non-believers/infidels is okay with their god and that their god says it's okay to commit honor killings of girls and to treats women like chattel.

Do the women of the world like being perpetual second class citizens, unschooled and kept from having full and expressive lives?

Moslems even have their own complete constitution and legal system called Shariah Law. Trust me pals, it isn't based on The Magna Carta or The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights either. Devout Moslems believe it supercedes ALL OTHER LAWS.

I think it's high time to fully engage all Moslems in a serious discussion of theological ideas, principles, logic, ethical morality and plain old common sense.

Let's have no more namby-pamby political correctness...it's time to confront and challenge the validity of their core beliefs head-on with rock solid arguments.

Make it into a TV series and air it on National GEO or the History Channel. Broadcast it 24-7-365 into the Moslem world. Put it on the Internet in streaming video for all to see.

Make it like Radio Free Europe and the Voice Of America...call it:

THE VOICE OF SANITY: THE ULTIMATE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF HUMANITY AND CIVILIZATION!

It's the Torah, New Testament and Holy Bible vs The Koran/Quran and the supporting Moslem texts.

It's Judeo-Christianity's Almighty God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit vs Islam's Allah and the Prophet Mohammed and The Moslem Brotherhood.

It's "Love thy neighbor" vs. "Slay thy neighbor."

Let's shine the BRIGHT LIGHT of human knowledge and truth into the darkness.

Let's focus forceful debate and solid rational counterpoints on the teachings of the Koran/Quran and the other supporting Moslem texts.

Let's see how the Moslem worldview and the Judeo-Christian worldview compare.

I'd also include the Hindus and the followers of Buddha and the Tao in the process to fairly represent all the leading schools of religious, ethical and moral thought.

Let's see how Islam stands up to Truth and Logic and Reason and Love.

Personally, as a subscriber to the Judeo-Christian tradition, I'm putting my money on the Holy One of Isreal, the God of Abraham, Solomon and David and on Christianity's Holy Trinity.

Put me down on the side of LOVE THE LORD THY GOD with thy whole heart and soul and LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF.

Because on these two commandments, "hang all the laws and the prophets."

We cannot be cowed to silence by political correctness any longer. It's way past time for Judeo-Christian Americans to stand up for our one nation under God with liberty and justice for all. 

But, I have to admit that these days, it's really hard to forgive seventy-times seven and to turn the other cheek.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citzen Of The Republic, A Mob Of One

PS: In the meantime, let's hope to be spared any more sappy broccoli-coated media stories on this "alleged" killer.

Say, I wonder if Osama bin Laden and the Iranian Muslim leader, Amabinijhad like broccolli too?

Personally, I'm swearing off broccolli until further information on its potential harmful side effects come in from the food police at the FDA. 

Broccolli...who knows, it may be one dangerous mind-altering murder-causing veggie.

What are the writers at msnbc smoking???

Pass the hashhish hookah willya?

 Ahhh...this is good shit, man.

Where'dya get it dude, California, Colorado or msnbc?

Shocking News Out Of Fort Hood Texas. "Alleged" Shooter a.k.a. "Victim" Survives.

Dear Pals,

The "alleged" shooter is a Doctor.

I guess he forgot the Hippocratic Oath - "First do no harm."

The "alleged" shooter is a U.S. Army Major.

I guess he forgot his military oath.

The "alleged" shooter is a native-born U.S. Citizen.

I guess he forgot the Pledge of Allegiance.

The "alleged" shooter is a Psychiatrist.

I guess he forgot the impact that murder could have on innocent people and their families.

The "alleged" shooter is turning into a "victim" because he was allegedly called names and harrassed by his felow doctors.

Well, that explains it. He's now going to be made into the "victim" of the evil American culture and US military that was about to deploy him to Afghanistan or Iraq.

I guess the "alleged" shooter forgot that the US Army does go into battle.

Maybe he joined the US Army to "BE ALL THAT HE COULD BE" - which might have all been directed to his actions in Ft. Hood yesterday.

Doesn't he meet ALL the criteria for a Terrorist?

________________________

Excuse me. The one thing this "alleged" shooter apparently believed, before his self-concept as an American Citizen and U.S. Army Military Doctor is this simple inescapable fact: He is a member of the ONLY "religion" on earth that teaches its true believers that it is okay to kill anyone who doesn't fully subscribe to their belief system.

He is not an Episcopalian, Methodist, Calvinist, Unitarian, Baptist, Buddist, Shintoist, Hindu, Rastafarian, Seventh Day Adventist, Mormon, Zoroastrain, Coptic, Wiccan, Catholic, Toe-worshipper or even a pagan, atheist or agnostic.

Guess what his religion is?

Here's a clue: It's the religion shared by 911 terrorists, the scumbag terrorists who killed the Israeli Olympic athletes, the terrorists who blow themselves up with glee from London, Gaza to Kabul to Tel Aviv. It is the religion of Hezbollah, Hamas and the Iranian nuclear-bomb ambitionists.

He is a well-educated medical man, by all appearances sane and rational, just like the sane and rational Doctors who drove explosive trucks into a Scottish Airport. So were all these other murdering terrorists and would-be nuclear weopon holders.

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO IT'S A PATTERN OF A DEEPLY EMBEDDED BELIEF SYSTEM!!

The progesssive spin doctors in media-land will have a field day with this one.

But mark my words - this murdering terrorist scumbag bastard will end up being painted as a lone-wolf, mentally distrurbed and harrassed victim, who just snapped.

Quick call the ACLU!

Everyone in the politically-correct media will walk past the inescapable common denominator that he shares with virtually every other scumbag terrorist who murders innocent people for maximum emotional impact on families, communities and nations.

They all belong to the same "religious" Belief System (BS).

Read the history of how this "religion's" founder dealt with the innocent people of Medina. Learn history. This is not an isolated incident. This is the result of centuries of "religious" indoctrination.

How do you reconcile the "Belief Gulf" between Belief System A: "Love thy neighbor as thyself" and "Turn the other cheek" and "Forgive seventy-times seven."

And Belief System B. It's your duty to convert or kill infidels and non-believers...and it's even your duty to kill your own family members if they stray from the path of "Surrender."

Have you guessed the name of his religion yet?

I'm waiting...

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen Of The Republic, a Mob of One

PS: No, it isn't The Salvation Army...c'mon, it is the same "religion" as the one shared by the man who a few weeks ago drove his car over his OWN daughter because she became too "westernized."

His religion called it an honor killing. It was his duty.

And, it wasn't the only "honor killing" in the USA recently either, we just choose to believe that they are "isolated" incidents instead of a PATTERN driven by Belief System B!!

Honor killing...say, maybe that will be the "alleged" shooter's defense. Either that or he ate too many Twinkies.

Best Selling Author Dan Brown, Professor Robert Langdon, Birk And "The Lost Symbol" - What Bond Of Cosmic Sychronicity Ties Them All Together??

Dear Pals,

I hate to ruin a great tease...but it's almost too eerie!

Check out page 167 in Dan Brown's new best seller The Lost Symbol - it's the third in his trilogy of The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons.

Once again, the Birkster is ahead of the curve.

Check it out...then enter the correct portal on the ORCA website. Choose wisely, Grasshopper.

Oooooogahboooogah!!!...and it's isn't even Halloween yet!

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic, a Mob Of One

PS: It's all connected...and "What Is Lost...Will Be Found."

9/11 A Prayer For Peace On Earth Today For All People - Forgiveness And LOVE Conquers All.

Dear Pals,

The men of the earth have a long history of killing each other in the name of "their own version" of God and "their own version" of religion...as well as for land, gold, power, human domination and greed. 

Since my own male gender cannot seem to get it right, I wonder if it is time for all the women and mothers of the earth, in every home and in every land to say, "We will bring no more children into this insane world until the man-made evil stops."

That declaration would "cause no small stir in Camelot."

I also wonder on this day - when the world's insanity seems to be accelerating with each passing second - and we pause to pray for all the souls lost around the world as result the evil deeds of 9/11,  if it is time for each of us to also pause and realize that we are all ONE.

Those who know me well, know that I am not one for organized religion or man-made dogma. But I am a Christian in the very simplest sense of the word. This is what I know in my heart...

We are not apart from creation. We are a part of creation.

We all exist for only the blink of an eye in the Alpha and Omega of God's creation.

Yet, we "sons of God" have the power of God within each of us to create heaven right here on the earth.

And it all begins within me and you.

Today I hope that the knees of my fellow Christians will bend in the name of Jesus, The Prince Of Peace and pray for Peace On Earth...not only for men of goodwill, but for all men, even the worst.

Jesus said we should forgive seventy times seven, forgiveness is the first step to the eradication of the darkness of evil,  because evil and hate cannot abide the light of truth, forgiveness and love.

As one of the most imperfect and flawed men on the planet, here is my little prayer for today: 

Where one finds HATE. Stand up for LOVE.

Where one finds LIES. Stand up for TRUTH.

Where one finds DEATH. Stand up for LIFE.

Where one finds DIVISIVENESS. Stand up for UNITY.

If not you...who?

If not now...when?

Here are a few more thoughts worth pondering in the quiet of your soul today.

"Lord make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is saddness; joy." - St. Francis of Assisi

"Be not overcome by evil but overcome evil with good." - Romans 12:21

"The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God." - Meister Eckhart

"Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the miser with generosity. Conquer the liar with truth." - The Dhammapada

"Hear O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is ONE; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your strength and you shall love your neighbor as yourself." - Mark 12:29

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely be it. I died as a mineral and became a plant; I died as a plant and rose to animal; I died as animal and was a man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more I shall die as man and soar with angels blest. But even if an angel I must pass on: all except God perish. When I have sacrificed my angel soul, I shall become what no mind has concieved."   - Rumi

"When one looks past our human skin we find the essence of God that dwells within." - Anonymous

On this 9/11, I pray that every man and woman on earth will look within.

Birk, A Work In Process With A Very Very Looooooooooooong Way To Go

PS: Need more refreshment? www.capstonepyramid.com

 

Thoughts On The Alignment: 09 - 09 - 09 Today.

Dear Pals,

Today is 09.09.09 and to Pathagorean Numerologists that might have special significance.

0+9+0+9+0+9 = 27.

2+7 = 9.

9 is 3 squared.

3 is the number of the Holy Trinity.

I think this might be a good day to Thank God for all the people and blessings in our lives.

That's my plan.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

Thanks for every spiritual and material blessing dear Father, Son and Holy Spirit!

As a Christian, I send wishes of peace, love, health  and prosperity to all and send a special thanks for your friendship dear Pals, may the good work of your hearts, minds and hands be thrice blessed in Jesus name!

BONUS TRIPLE TOPIC BLOG: Why Common Sense Should Be Prized More Than "Book Learning." Plus, Einstein's Special Theory Of Religious Relativity. And The Story Of An Old Pal Who Was A TADD Wise Beyond His "Ears."

Dear Pals,

Do you suffer from TADD?

I do.

I'll explain, but first...

BLOG POINT ONE: Stupid is as stupid does.

I've met some really well-educated people who don't have a lick of common sense.

They are often "uber-educated savants" - really bright folks, intellectual giants with a ton of knowledge and incredible expertise in a very "narrow bandwidth" and/or highly-specialized field.

But, once outside their area of intellectual prowess and occupational concentration...they can barely tie their own shoes. Hence the reason for the invention of Mom, Bass Weejun loafers and velcro.

I have also met many less-educated folks, under-educated, uneducated or non-formally-educated folks, who have a much more panoramic perspective and a far better grasp of reality - thanks to the richness of their life experiences: the good, the bad and the ugly.

In my estimation, life experiences are a far better source of education than "book learning," because experience teaches reality and "book learning" teaches theory.

And there can be a blistering gap between Theory and Reality.

EG: You can read about the theory of "touching the stove" - and speculate about the hypothesis and possible outcomes of "touching the stove," but the real learning occurs when you actually reach out and  "touch the stove."

It might be cool and safe. Warm and kinda cozy. Or, it might be blazing ass red hot.

It's like Healthcare...you can approach it sanely, rationally and very carefully, and take its temperature (pardon, the medical pun)  or you can grab that sucker with both hands and see what happens when you start trying to bend the entire existing system to fit unproven and arguably ill-conceived ideas.

Right now, I see my country in the hands of a cadre of inexperienced elitist social theorists with little or no practical real world life experiences to temper their ardent zeal to help the hoi polloi...a.k..a. me and you.

We can argue about their intentions and motives all day long - but, setting intentions completely aside, it's the empty reservoir of normal job-related experiences and alarming lack of real world-real job, "paycheck earning" experience that troubles me most.

No legislation, no Federal program, no amount of "community-organizing" --- no matter how well-intentioned it is or how well-written can substitute for basic real-job, real-world common sense, nor can more legislation and more laws and regulations CHANGE or modify human behavior even one billionth of a nano-iota.

Here's my assertion offered as proof of the veracity of the preceding statement:

Not even God Almighty could get The Ten (10) Commandments followed, even when enforced by Moses, Aaron, Solomon or David.

And Charleton Heston and Cecil B. De Mille, God's Ten Commandment publicists in our era, had even less success.

Thou Shalt Not Kill. Ooops. That happens everyday in hundreds of ways - from Pro-Choice clinics to the geo-political theater-of-war stage and often in Allah's name.

Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery. Ooops. Unless you're looking for HOT SINGLES tonight.

Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbors Wife. Ooops. But she looks so hot in that thong bikini!

Thou Shalt Not Steal. Ooops. Barney Madoff are you listening?

My subtle point is, if mankind itself, cannot observe 10 fairly straightforward and easy-to-understand rules, how can a cadre of petty-fogging elitist politicians led by an inexperienced President make things "work better for the American people" through Trillion dollar bailouts, stimulus packages and healthcare bills "crafted" behind closed doors and passed unread.

How can laws and bills that are so quickly written and onerously complex, that it often takes an army of lawyers and the Judicial system to sort them out, possibly be good for me and you, the ordinary schmoo?

As a matter of Bill Creating process, does this seem right to you?

Write 'em!

Don't read 'em!

Don't worry about Constitutionality!

Don't worry about budget. Fudgeit!!

Pass 'em!

Just do it!

Hurry hurry hurry...we must do "something!"

Let the courts sort out the legality!

Something must be done now to save and protect the great unwashed, under-educated, unAmerican Citizen mobs from themselves and their inability to understand our elitist brilliance.

Thank God for the DEECEE PECers! (Political Elite Class)

Hallelujah!!! and Amen Brother Barack!

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It all seems so unearthly, so unreal, so utterly stupid and laughably tragic to me...

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BLOG POINT TWO: What open to "liberal" interpretation means.

I have a dear friend who once explained Einstein's Special Theory Of Religious Relativity to me...you might be amused by it too.

He asked me if I knew the difference between Episcopalians and Catholics?

Then he told me that according to Einstein's Theory of Religious Relativity that Catholics have the 10 Commandments, Episcopalians have the 3 Commandments and the 7 Suggestions.

He said, according to this theory, "The 10 Commandments are open to very liberal interpretation."

He was truly wise beyond his "ears." 

If the DEECEE PECer's had been behind the Burning Bush, Moses would have come down the mountain with The 10 Commandments and 150,000,000,000,000 million lines of Federal legal code to explain them.

And the Jews would still be wandering in the desert!

Naturally, The 10 Commandments and the Federal enforcement legislative and legal code would not apply to Congress, since they have their own set of rules.

BLOG POINT THREE: How it all fits together.

So today, I find myself bemused by all of the political shenanighans, promises, fiscal insanity and posturing by the book learners in DEECEE that are far smarter than me.

And, I find myself comforted by the common sense of the ordinary citizen, who's out there everyday working at their so-called "meaningless little jobs" and trying hard to do just 10 things right.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: Does it seem semantically ironic to anyone besides me that some morons actually say, "Thank God for the ACLU because it got The 10 Commandments out of schools, courthouses and government buildings."???

They really have achieved separation of church and state.

I get it though, to millions of people, The 10 Commandments simply don't apply anymore.

Now, I'm not one to cast the first stone here...I admit that in my life, I've been a bad boy and wandered off the straight and narrow path from time to time and done some pretty stupid things of which I am not proud.

I have touched the stove...more than once.

I reckon that I'm kind of a "slow learner."

Fortunately, for me and in ways and circumstances often miraculous, I've been nudged, guided, cajoled and occasionally, dragged kicking and screaming back to the straight and narrow path.

Unfortunately, I have a tendency to "wander" and behave like a moth around a flame, I think I have TADD (Temptation Attraction Dalliance Disorder).

TADD is also called: "I never met a temptation I didn't like SINdrome." I was an enthusiastic practitioner of, "If it feels good...Just Do It!"  Ooops!

Which brings me back full circle.

In our politically-correct ACLU-ACORN-Nanny State-Secular Humanist world, The 10 Commandments have become irrelevant and archaic...and, frankly I don't think they apply in Congress anymore...and haven't for sometime. 

There are so many temptations - and so, little time - that it's easy to stray in the Halls Of Addictive Political Power.

TADD may have become a national epidemic.

In America, the ACLU has used the laws of man to trump the laws of God.

We've moved on...the question is, to where?