Coming to America

"Hi everybody! I am get to come to your country this weekend and to tell your UN that I will keep enriching uranium for my bombs until Israel is no more my neighbor. I am so happy to be in New York where I can enjoy your freedoms for which I support your demise as the sinful scourge of the earth."

Ok, so I took a little liberty in paraphrasing there, but come on, you know it's not far from the truth. Anyway, he will be in the Big Apple this weekend to tell us all where we can stick his missiles... that Israel is the great satan... and how he loves the UN for not helping the US, England, and othersin ending the Islamic tidal wave of terror.

Just for a test sometime.. go to Google News  and type in any religion you know.  Buddhist, Mormon, Catholic, Christian, any religion except Islam.  What did you get?  Now cross reference them with eachother (still exempt islam or muslim)?  Everything going well?  You don't have to read the entire articles (you can if you like, but for this little sampling, we're concentrating on headlines and the first sentance.)

Now, take any of those religions and cross reference with islam, islamic, or muslim.

Notice a change in the demeanor of the articles?  Who's covering what aspects?  What is the bias or slant?

Give it a try, draw your own conclusions, let me know in comments.

Book update

Closed Somebody's gotta say it (enjoyed it) and opened The FairTax Book by the same author (I know, not diverse, but he's coming to town and I figured I'd get him to sign both.)

And I'm yawning through The "Truth" About Hillary (Ok, I added the quotation marks, but they should be there.) I just don't understand why somebody thinks they have to do "creative editing" and conjecture when you're dealing with such an obviouly corrupt family. Perhaps he thought the controversy would sell more books?

What I'm reading now...

I don't know... do people really post about what they're reading?  Oh well.. here goes:

Somebody's Gotta Say It by Neal Boortz (and yes, I'm going on the 28th to see if I can get it signed when he comes to DC)

• Really good book.  I'm a chapter or two from the end and will probably finish it before most people read this (an easy statement for me to say after looking at the traffic on this site since "most people" don't come here.)  But if you listen to his program and read his show notes, the stuff he has to say in the book isn't anything new.  I guess when your time is consumed by writing a book, it is inevitable that you are going to talk about the same matters the next day on the air.  Regardless, it is a very good read.
  

and

The Truth About Hillary by Edward Klein

• I just picked this one up and am only to the second chapter, but honestly, I'm not sure how far into it I'll wade.  I'm sure people have heard the reviews (like this one from mediamatters.com) where even the washed up Al Franken made the author look like... well he made the author look like Al Franken looks whenever HE normally opens his mouth.  But it's on CD and I have a drive in the mornings and how can you tell about a book without reading it yourself? (And, yes, I have watched {read:  suffered through} Michael Moore's and Al Gore's (as well as others) movies and have Al Jazeera linked from this page too.  I filter through BS from all sides equally looking for nuggets of logic and truth or at least a rationalle for their fatuous behavior... wait, if there were logic, reason, and rationalle behind it, would it still be inane?  I guess, if the logic (etc) were flawed or misguided, it would still be logic... but I digress)
  

Ok, so that's what I'm reading.  Two books meant to have taken up a line or two now blown up to an entire post which. if you're reading this sentance, you've now read in its entirety.  Aren't you blessed.

Tim on "honor students"

Saw this on the web today and had a little chuckle.

And this for my brother:

Have a good day.

No I didn't come up with it... but I like it

I guess I could just as easily link to it, but I'm gonna cut and paste here to save you some surfing time.

If you do take the time to even glance over the following... go ahead and post a comment with how many you were actually able to answer from the second set of questions.  I'm interested to know.  (And yeah, you can leave it annonymous if you're embarrassed about your results.)

This first list is from The Asheville Citizen-Times (NC that is) when it ran an article asking "How patriotic are you?" which included the following questions:

1. What is the date that the Declaration of Independence was signed?
   
2. What document is the legal framework of the United States?
   
3. Who wrote the words to the "Star Spangled Banner"?
   
4. What is the Pledge of Allegiance?
   
5. Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
   
6. What is the number of original Colonies?
   
7. Who was the first president of the United States?
   
8. What is the minimum voting age in the United States?
   
9. Who is the current governor of North Carolina?
   
10. What is the motto of North Carolina?
    

The response was this:

1. Forget when the Declaration of Independence was signed (Hint:  It was not the 4th of July); tell me why it was signed? What were the signers trying to accomplish?
   
2. What happened to the men who signed the Declaration? Did they go on to be heroes and live happily ever after?
   
3. What does the Declaration of Independence say the people can do when a government becomes destructive to the ends of liberty?
4. Are we about there?
   
5. What would happen to anyone who tried today to alter or abolish our government if it became destructive to idea that government derives its powers from the consent of the governed?
   
6. Which articles of the Constitution grant specific powers to the federal government?
   
7. Which article of the Constitution restricts the powers of the government to only those specifically set forth in the Constitution?
8. Which article of the Constitution do you imagine is the one most often ignored by the Congress of the United States?
   
9. Describe the circumstances under which Francis Scott Key wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner?
   
10. Do you believe people living in a free country ought to be compelled to recite a pledge of allegiance to that country? Why?
11. If you are required to recite the pledge of allegiance, are you really free?
    
12. Was the Revolutionary War supported by a majority of the Colonists?
13. Should Washington have developed an "exit strategy" before he ever led his troops into battle during the Revolutionary War?
    
14. Where in our Constitution is it stated that anyone has a right to vote for the office of President of the United States?
    
15. How did our original Constitution provide for the appointment of Senators?
    
16. Most foreign countries appoint an ambassador to be their official representative before the government of the United States. Who officially represents the 50 state governments before the government of the United States?
    
17. Explain the difference between a rule of law and the rule of man.
    
18. Explain the difference between a democracy and a constitutional republic.
    
19. Was our country founded to be a country of majority rule?
    
20. Can you imagine what our country would be like today if the majority did rule?
    
21. Aren't you glad the majority doesn't rule?
22. If two wolves and one sheep vote on what they're going to have for dinner, what do you think the menu will look like?
    
23. Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things who the governor of North Carolina is?
    
24. Isn't a governor something you put on a state to keep it from moving ahead very fast?
    
25. What possible benefit could you gain by memorizing the motto of the State of North Carolina, or any other state for that matter?
    
26. How many times is the word "democracy" found in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution?
    
27. How many times is the word "democracy" found in the constitutions of any of the 50 states?
    
28. What does this tell you?
    
29. Define "civil war."
    
30. Was the war between the northern and southern states in the mid-1800s a civil war?
    
31. Who is third in the line of succession to the presidency?
    
32. Based on your answer to the foregoing question, would you demand that George Bush and Dick Cheney never eat from the same container of potato salad now that the Democrats have control of the House of Representatives?
    
33. How did the political class manage to fool the people of the United States into supporting a Constitutional Amendment creating an income tax?
    
34. How do most people get their news on a daily bass?
    
35. Does the "freedom of press" clause in the First Amendment apply to the broadcast media?
    
36. So, do most people get their news from agencies licensed to operate by the federal government?
    
37. Why were the words "under God" placed into the Pledge of Allegiance?
    
38. Do you think that it is proper for the federal government to compel students attending government schools under compulsory attendance laws to acknowledge the role of God in the formation of our country? Would this constitute "effecting an establishment of religion?" If not, why not?
    
39. Do Americans derive their basic rights from the Constitution?
    
40. If we don't derive our rights from the Constitution, just why was the Bill of Rights added anyway?
    
41. Define a system of government where the means of production are owned and controlled privately.
    
42. Define a system of government where the means of production are privately owned but controlled by government.
    
43. Define a system of government where the means of production are owned and controlled by the government.
44. Why do liberals have such a tough time answering number 42?
    
45. What percentage of total income is earned by the top one percent of income earners.
    
46. What percentage of total income taxes collected by the federal government is paid by the top one percent of income earners.
    
47. Where in our Constitution does it specifically state that only U.S. citizens may vote for the office of President of the United States? (Caution: Trick question.)
    
48. Name one right that a state government can exercise without interference from the federal level.
    
49. Where in our Constitution does it specifically state that only U.S. citizens may vote for members of the House of Representatives?
    
50. Look at the Bill of Rights. List any Amendments in the Bill of Rights that were ratified for the purpose of limiting the powers of the government.
    
51. If our Constitution provides for equal protection under the law, why, then, does the Voting Rights Act only apply to certain states who were held in political disfavor in the 70's?
    
52. List any Amendments in the Bill of Rights that were ratified for the purpose of limiting the rights of individuals.
    
53. If the Bill of Rights was written to limit the rights of government and to guarantee certain rights in the individual, try to explain why so many people seem to think that the 2nd Amendment was written to limit the rights of individuals and guarantee the rights of government?
    
54. Does the First Amendment protect speech that some people might find offensive?
    
55. Explain how our Republic was threatened when Janet Jackson showed the world that she likes to wear a Japanese throwing star on the nipple of her left breast.
    
56. What is the one exclusive power our government has that no individual or business can legally exercise?
57. If we were playing Rock Paper Scissors... and "treaties with foreign nations duly ratified by our Senate" is paper... would the Constitution be the Rock or the Scissors?
58. Do you have the right to use force to take money from a stranger if you are going to give that money to someone in need?
59. Explain the concept of our government deriving its powers from the concent of the governed.
60. Now explain how you can tell the government to do something for you that, if you did it, would be a crime.
61. Should the government make something you might do a crime if that action does not violate another person's right to life, liberty, or property through force or fraud?
62. How many votes must you have in the Senate to be assured that a piece of legislation will pass?
63. Do you have a choice as to whether or not you pay Social Security taxes?
64. Why, then, do they call Social Security taxes "contributions"?
65. What is the average age of a country or society based on the rule of law and guaranteeing freedom, individual rights, and economic liberty?
66. Has the United States outlived its life expectancy?

Yes, this list is from Neal Boortz.  Give credit where credit is due, right?