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Is Obama the Wright Messiah For This Country?

Posted by Retired Fireman on March 25, 2008

Now I am not going to let B. Hussein Obama slide.  After you get done watching the video of Hill-Dawg making a fool of herself in the previous article, I thought it was only right to join in the frey of what is going on with what B. Hussein Obama is having to face. 

Turns out that now B. Hussein Obama is a serious threat to the Clintons, and suddenly the questions of where this man comes from and what he believes is coming to the forefront.  basically the Clintonistas are coming out of the woodwork and their war-room is in full swing.  However, what they didn’t count on was how B. Hussein Obama was going to make their work so damn easy for them. 

As anyone who has done any work at all in the black community knows, any pastor in an all black congregation will occasionally go off on the evils of White America.  It is fairly prevalent, and frankly, it was just a matter of time before this issue was to come up with B. Hussein Obama.  Being from Chicago, you just had to know that there was going to be more than a few skeletons in his closet, and frankly, the cleaner he was, the dirtier that closet just has to be.  He was not going to be able to hide behind the curtain of crying “racism” for the entire election cycle, and sooner or later, the in-depth reporting was going to be done.

So who did they find lurking in that closet?  None other than the pastor of his own church.  this is a church that he had gone to, had belinged to in good standing, had contributed to, had gone to all the picnics, bazaars, fund raisers etc., for the last 20 years.  Why he had even been married in this particular church.  He was even friend with it’s Pastor…a Rev. Jeremiah Wright.  It did not take much for the media to set ol B. Hussein Obama up either.  They made sure that he said some truly glorifying things about this REverend.  obama made this guy out to be damn near a saint.  Then they nailed B. hussein Obama publically with this Pastors racist, anti-American, 9-11 Truther, AIDS Conspiricy laden rants that were carried out from the pulpit on Sundays, and made ol B. Hussein Obama appear to be in line with the same thoughts and beliefs as this pastor.

Sorry B. Hussein Obama, but you cannot go to this chuch for the last 20 years, participate in everything that this church did, be friends with the Pastor, consider him to basically be a member of your family, and claim that you know nothing of these rants, know nothing of his political leaning, that you have NEVER heard ANY of these sermons, etc.  That’s right kiddies…B. Hussein Obama is claiming ignorance of the entire affair.  He claims he knows not a damn thing about any of this.  Has never heard these rants, has never known his politics, never heard him utter a single racist remark etc.

BULLSHIT!!!!  If you go to this church, listen to these things, and continue to attend after all these things are stated, then you must agree with them on some level.  If racism and anti-Americanism and the rest offends you to the point that B. Hussein Obama…the man who refuses to wear a flag on his lapel, or put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem, claims that it does, then you change churches.  You do NOT continue to go to that church. At the very least, you to NOT sing the praises of the man that says these things, nor do you fail to lodge a complaint with the church council or take no actions of any kind at all.  After 20 years in this congregation, after 20 years of listening to this filth, all B. Hussein Obama could say was what a great and wonderful man Rev. Wright was, how he should be awarded prizes fror his beliefs, and that he believed in this church and what it stood for. 

Now that the truth has come out, he is laying dumb, and his explaination, his denials have not even been sincere in the least.  He has failed miserably in them.  Is this really what people are wanting for a President?  Is this realy the face of the Democrats?  I mean, i have always stated that Democrats are full of hate and are the most racist people on the planet, but come on…take a listen for yourself…do you people really want someone who thinks that this man is worthy of awards and praise to be President of the United States?

It should be noted that B. Hussein Obama has yet, as of the writing of this article at 1256 on March 25, to speak out against the Reverend, to reprimand him in any way.  He has yet to tell the Reverend that he is wrong for what he says, that he is wrong about the AIDS conspiricy, for the 9-11 conspiricy, for the Iraq conspiricy, or for any of the other conspiricies or claims that this insane, racist, hate-mongering “Man of God” has stated. 

Just so you know.

Enjoy B. Hussein Obama’s favorite “Man of God”

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It Depends On What Your Definition Of “Sniper Fire” Is…

Posted by Retired Fireman on March 24, 2008

Wow…you know, if it was coming from anyone other than Hill-Dawg, there would be people all over this story.  I mean, can you imagine if President Bush had told a story about how when he was in the Texas Air National Guard and all of a sudden he had to go on a mission where he had encountered “Bogies” that turned out to be nothing at all, yet when he was running for President of the United States, he told the story that he was in a heavy dogfight, where he had to do some fancy fighting, fancy “Top Gun” type flying, and all sorts of other miraculous things in order to boost people’s opinions of just what a fantastic person he was, that he was more qualified for the position of President than he was?

Well, last week, Hillary Clinton was giving her rendition of what happened when she was visiting Bosnia, using it as an example of why she is far more experienced to be President than the messiah, B. Hussein Obama, claiming that they landed at the airstrip under sniper fire, that there was to be some sort of greeting ceremony but it was cancelled due to the sniper fire, that they were told to run for their cars etc.  She gave the story out to be that she was under heavy fire the entire time she was there, but she was a brave woman and nothing frightened her, and nothing would deter her from doing her duty as First Lady and visiting this country where her husband had declared an illegal war and bombed thousands of innocent men, women and children, where her husband had said our military would only be in that country a matter of weeks or months, (yet we are still there to this day), where the war was over when she got there…however there was still some hostilities going on, but nothing like she had claimed.

Problem is…she did not bother to go back and check the archival footage from her trip.  Now, I don’t know if she is just lazy, stupid, or she is so sheltered that she feels that the mefia is so on the side of the Clintons like they were ten years ago that they would just take her at their word and not check out this story, or some mixture of all three…but CBS DID go back and check the file footage and guess what?  They found that what Hill-Dawg had claimed, the heroic actions that Hill-Dawg was claiming made her the best candidate for President NEVER HAPPENED!

Check this out.  Here is the video.  I want all of you to watch this and see for yourself.  Between the serious metdown that Hill-Dawg is having and the messiah B. Hussein Obama’s true anti-American, racist colors finally coming out…this election is just getting better and better.  i swear, at a time when you would think that the Democrats should be able to just waltz into the White house, it is looking more and more that they not only have chosen the two worst candidates possible to run for President, but it will be a long, long time before their party will ever recover from the implosin we are seeing in their party right now.  I think it has everything to do with being far to self-assured and far to self-righteous far too early. 

You be the judge.  Have a good laugh with the Brave Hillary Clinton…Soldier of Misfortune.

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A New Holiday

Posted by Retired Fireman on March 23, 2008

As I have said before…I have had other blogs that I was forced to close due to being stalked by an insane former professer in the Pacific Northwest as well as my ex-wife, and thus a great many of my previous writings are now locked away in those closed blogs.  However, I have decided to reprint several of those posts here in this blog, as I think right now, during this election time, they might just be worthwhile.  The first of which is a “tounge-in-cheek” New Holiday that my “little” brother the Highway Patrol Detective and I came up with while partaking in the age-old ritual of brotherly beer drinking that many brothers have done since the times of old, when the Egyptians first began making beer out of honey and hops centuries ago.  With the Traitors and other Liberal scum destroying, bombing, protesting and such the recruiting stations across this country, with drug dealers, gang members and the like running rampant, with child molesters, murderers, and such being allowed out of prison with barely a slap on the wrist, free to re-offend at will, with Islamic Terrorists living here in our midsts, going about their daily lives free to do as they please all thanks to Political Correctness and Multi-Culturalism…maybe your fantasy life might just enjoy this new little holiday we came up with.  We called it:

MARTIAL LAW DAY!

Martial Law Day

Several years ago, I was having a few beers with my little brother who, incidentally, is a cop and a subject came up that over the years I have molded into my own thinking. As we all know, great things come from moments of beer drinking with loved ones, and since we were beer drinking, Cope spitting Rednecks (You know, a Red State yokel) we could come up with some doozies. First though, I need to create the build up.

Currently in this country there is a lot of belly aching concerning loss of freedoms via the Patriot Act. Although no one can list a single instance where anyone’s Constitutional Rights have been violated , nor after many numerous challenges to the Constitutionality of said Act has any un-Constitutional passage or law been found in it, the cries from the left continue to go on. More so now that it is up for renewal. Drugs and drug labs continue to be rampant and a great danger to people around them especially our law enforcement officers who deal with these flunkies on a daily basis and our firefighters who stumble upon these buildings converted to a festering WMD by mistake. The ACLU is defending for free N.A.M.B.L.A. (also known as the Michael Jackson Fan Club); child molesters wander the streets and stay in houses near schools and across the street from families where they prey on their next victims. They wander the streets due to bleeding hearts that somehow think that with proper counseling they can be fine upstanding citizens despite the recidivism rate for these crimes leading to the contrary. Gangs run entire city neighborhoods and walk around with impunity due to the fact that people are too afraid to do anything for fear of retaliation. They terrorize young and old and recruit small boys with the hopes of money and “ho’s”.

Oh there is so much more. On top of all that, our country has grown lax in its own defense of freedom. The term seems to have lost so much meaning to so many. This current generation has never had to struggle. In our past, we had to struggle against harsh winters for food and warmth. We fought against the greatest power in the world for our freedom…twice. We fought amongst ourselves killing hundreds of thousands over rights of states and men. We fought for space and discovery, more fighting for food; we fought the Huns in Europe. We fought against poverty when the Market collapsed. Once again the Huns come calling and we fought a war all over the globe and had to sacrifice once again for food and basic necessities. We fought in two Asian theatres. Through it all it always made this Nation stronger…that is until the children of “The Greatest Generation” went and got themselves a little education and thought they knew better. Suddenly, they started spitting in the face of everything this country had stood for since the Colonies were founded. You know, God and Country. People’s sensibilities seemed to be hurt by a mere glance all the while they smoked, snorted, and doped their way through about 25 years until the modern plague caught up to them and employers got tired of hiring dope heads.

Along the way it became wrong to love God and Country. They still say the love their country, but yet they do nothing but mock it and spit on it. Years ago, on the 4th of July, there would be parades where our country’s veterans marched. Flags waved, picnics were had, and fireworks were followed by apple pies. No one was worried about offending someone with this show of love for this country, which now may have you ending up in jail.

SO…the holiday we thought up and I have tweaked a bit is pretty darn simple. We have it way to easy here in this country. Like I mentioned, we have an over abundance of freedom, without knowing what true freedom is, like the people that were killing themselves getting here from countries like the U.S.S.R., Vietnam, Cuba etc.

So, what is the holiday?

MARTIAL LAW DAY

That’s right, Martial Law Day. A whole new concept in helping people understand the freedom and liberty that they mock and spit on. I know, I sound like a Right Wing Kook who should be standing out on the border, but hear me out.

One day a year, Martial Law is declared throughout the land. It becomes a Police State for a whole 24 hours. There are no Miranda rights, there are no search warrants, and there is no ACLU, what ever the government says goes. Anyone taken in on that day for crimes against the State has no recourse or rights. They truly are at the mercy of the court and police. Are you dealing drugs? Well, your house will be raided and you will be tossed in the pokey. Make a furtive move, bango, taken out like a member of Hamas at an Israeli check-point. You been touching the little ones at Neverland? Yoink, off to the poky with you, put in general population and never seen or heard from again. All known gang members are rounded up, and then placed in a cordoned off 4 square block area, given guns and told the last one standing wins. If you don’t fight it out, the cops will take care of it for you. Hey, they are shooting each other in the streets anyway…this just eliminates innocent by-standers. Do you like to terrorize people in your neighborhood? Government thugs will visit you and do to you what you do to people. Well, you get the gist of the day. All this funded by any and all drug money seized from the previous year including money from the sale of personal property of said criminals. Hey…if you aren’t a criminal, what do you have to worry about?

Ok…here’s the best part. Martial Law Day is to be held on (trumpet blast)…July 3rd. At midnight on the 4th of July, Martial Law Day ends and Independence Day begins. Suddenly people know what a gift they have been given. They understand what KGB tactics of the populace and Government Death Squads are and how fortunate and lucky they are to live in this country. Watch how they no longer burn and spit on flags. Watch how they once again begin to respect members of the military that fight for the freedoms they have that keeps this to a one day event. Watch parades celebrating the freedom and liberty we have spring up on every street corner. Most of all, watch the drug and crime rate plummet to nothing as no one wants to be a part of next years Martial Law Day.

Hmmmm…though this is all just talk over beer, how much merit do you think it has? Oh sure, it would never fly. We are way too spoiled. After all, I look like a nut job just fictionalizing something like this. However, deep down I know you are now thinking about it. You know you would love to see the next drug dealer or flag burner or Michael Newdow become a center piece on the 3rd of July.

Go ahead…it’ll be your own guilty pleasure.

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Happy Easter!

Posted by Retired Fireman on March 23, 2008

True Meaning Of Easter

On Good Friday, I found myself reading from the Bible to my 8 year old daughter, the story of Christ’s Passion.  She has been taking a real interest in all things religious lately, starting around christmas time, and I have been doing my very best to keep her interested in it, without filling her head with too much, or getting her bored and thereby turning her off and away.  She, like most children, is struggling with the concept of The holy Trinity, and I have to admit, after 12 years of Catholic education, many years of independent study of other religions including Paganism and Wiccanism as well as Islam, I find it difficult to explain as well.  However, she does show a certain faith and understanding that transcennds most people’s beliefs, including some priests that I know, and I have had some really incredible discussions with this little genious my estranged wife and I have created and brought into this world.

We went ahead last night and decorated our eggs, two dozen in all, and my 10 year old spent a great deal of time really doing a number on hers.  She used pipe cleaners, “googly eyes”, glitter, sequins and made some really spectacular decorations.  My 8 year old used a white crayon with me and we made some neat designs of our own, and then she wrote a note for the Easter Bunny, left out some lettuce for him along with the note and off to bed we went.  My wife stayed over last night, and thanks to her, she did a really wonderful job of making sure that the easter bunny showed up, left a really nice note back for my 8 year old as well as took the eggs that we had decorated and hid them out in the front yard along with some plastic ones so that when the girls awoke this morning, they were able to find their baskets with the obligatory chocolate bunny, the marshmallow peeps, (my personal favorite along with the Cadbury Creme Eggs) and then ff we went in search of all that Peter Cottontail had left for the girls to find.  It was a truly wonderful morning that could only have been made better if my wife and i could settle our issues and she were to have come home and we could move forward with our family.  I was again reminded of how wonderful she is and how she helps to make all our holidays so special not just for me, but for our children. 

For those of you that know me and have followed my blogs as they have moved from place to place, you know just how important family is to me, and how special we make each and every holiday, especially for our children.  Right now, our money situation is really tight, since she has moved out and we are having to pay two rents, two utilities and such, so I was really worried about having anything for our children this easter.  Yet my wife came through, and although it was not much, she made sure that it was a really nice and special Easter morning for our girls, and I only hope she knows how much I appreciate it and how wonderful I think she is.

This is the most important day in the Christian Calendar.  It is the Easter Holiday that the entire Christian Religion is founded and based on.  It is the promise of jesus’ death and subsequent resurrection from the dead, as was foretold three days later, that was the cornerstone of our entire faith.  Had Jesus the Christ only been hung on the Cross, died and placed in the tomb and then stayed there, rotting away and never risen from the dead, we would all either be Jews, Pagans or some other religion that would have been started in the interim.  There would be no Islam, no Christianity, no Christmas, no Easter, no St. Patrick’s Day, no St. Valentine’s Day…in fact, there would be a great deal of history that just plain would not have occurred.

There is a war going on right now…while not a traditional war with gun, bombs, cannons and such…but a war none-the-less, against Christianity and all it means.  People in this country just plain hate Christians, what they stand for, what they represent, their Holidays, their tenets, and the fact that to be a Christian might just make someone a better person and keep them from sinning; just might mean you cannot do all those things that Liberalism says is just fine to do.  The backlash of what happened in the 60’s and 70’s is just now seriously being felt, and while Liberals deny it, there is really no denying the impact that Christians face on a daily basis.

There are attacks against Christmas every year.  Each year more and more public places are being told that they cannot display anything having to do with the true meaning of the holiday, which is the celebration of Jesus the Christ’s birth.  liberals are attempting to turn it into something that it is not, even removing the name “Christmas” all together.  If you go to any Liberal website, it does not take long in perusing their comments section before you are assaulted but some of the most foul, most obscene, violent comments directed towards Christians and Christianity that you will ever see. 

I do not know if these assaults come from a fear of the unknown, if something has happened to these people in their past that affected them, or if there is just some other thing that has affects their common sense, but I am sure that psychiatrists would be able to understand and explain it far better than I can.  I personally do not understand the fear that these people have over a faith that espouses and tries to get people to be better persons.  It tries to get people to help other people.  It tries to get people to love one another.  In fact, it tells people to, “Love one another as you would love yourself.” 

Jesus, the person whom Christianity is based on, was a peaceful person.  He obeyed his parents, he did what he was told when he was young, and even took care of his family when he was older.  He was loyal to his friends, he helped the poor.  In fact, if you ask me, he would have been a Republican.  Why do I say that?  Because he told people to take responsibility for their own actions.  He used the “Parable of the Talents” to tell people not to sit around and do nothing, not to wait for someone or something to take care of them or take care of their things, but to get off of their buts, use the talents that God had given them and make something of themselves.  Only in that way would they become better people.  He told people that God only helps those that help themselves.  That meant that God would not help people that sat around and just waited for “Divine Intervention”  God would only help people that were trying to better themselves.  If the people were working hard, were trying to better themselves, then God would help.  God did not like lazy, worthless people.  basically, God hates people on welfare.  (Yeah, that is my opinion, but it fits.)

I was born and raised Catholic, and wandered away for a long time.  Recently, after I came within two hours of dying due to a serious staph infection that had invaded my lymphatic system five years ago, I found myself going back to the Church, and taking a bigger interest in all things Christian again.  I have used my knowledge of all other religions, including Paganism…which the early Christians/Catholics incorporated into their faith in order to convert the early Pagans, to bring myself closer to God. 

I believe that Jesus really did exist.  I believe that modern science has actually found more proof that He not only existed, but that the stories of Him and what He did in the Bible have been proven more so than not.  I believe that the Shroud of Turin is, in fact, the burial shroud spoken of in the Bible.  I believe that while the stories in the Bible and Parables were told in a way that uneducated and illiterate people in those times could understand them, the historical aspects are true.  I do believe in a Higher Power.  I do believe that Jesus was God brought to earth in the form of man.  I believe that God can speak to all of us if we just listen.  I believe that all you have to do is look at the beauty and wonder that is this world, that all you have to do is look up at the stars, see the vastness of space and the universe and know that God does exist and that we are here to love each other, to be the best person we can be, to leave this place just a little bit better than when we got here, to use our talents to the best we can, to harm no one, to do unto others as we would have them do unto us, and to live good, just lives. 

I also believe that Judaism is just as good as Christianity.  I believe that the only major religion that is evil and wrong is Islam.  That Islam, by it’s own words, it’s own rules, tenets, holy books, is evil, wrong and should be abolished.  I believe that no amount of Political Correctness or Mulit-Culturism in the world will ever make it the “Religion of Peace” it claims to be and that anyone who is stupid enough to believe that lie deserves everything that they will get from it.

And lastly, I believe that this is the day that the Lord has made.  let us rejoice and be glad.  Today we celebrate Easter.  the Holiest of Holy Days in the Christian Calendar.  The day when Jesus the Christ conquered death.  The day when He saved us all from our sins and allowed the Gates of Heaven to be opened up forever.  Through His sacrifice, His painful Passion, we have all been saved and through Him, all things are now possible. 

I wish you all a very Happy Easter, and try not to eat too many eggs, and parents…don’t eat the ears off your kids chocolate bunnies.

RF

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B. Hussein Obama…A True Patriot

Posted by Retired Fireman on February 29, 2008

Now, correct me if I am wrong, but doesn’t the U.S. Flag Code say something like you must put your right hand over your heart while saying the Pledge of Allegience or singing the National Anthem unless you are in Uniform and wearing your cover?

 Seems the man who wants to be the President of the United States and doesn’t find wearing a little thing like an American Flag on his lapel to be Patriotic also is just too damn good to place his hand over his heart during the National Anthem as well.  The hillarious thing about this video, is that the person who placed it up on YouTube actually tried to say he was being the person that was the TRUE Patriot because he was the only one who was singing the Anthem…although I was unable to discern that from the video. 

You just can’t get his supporters to waver in the least, now can you.  Uh oh…I feel faint…

 

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Gotta Love Those Peace-Loving Muslims

Posted by Retired Fireman on February 14, 2008

No matter how many times they tell the world their intentions, no matter how many times they come forward and actually lay out their plans in great detail as to how they intend to destroy everything that we Freedom loving people of the world hold dear…

Liberals and other fools will continue to bury their heads in the sand and not just ignore Islam and what Muslims are doing, but will go out of their way to help them along their journey.  It is suicide pure and simple, and no one is doing anything to stop them.  In fact, two of the biggest apologists and “Multi-Culturalists” who want to hand victory over to our enemies are within hands reach of winning the Presidency of the United States right now, all but guaranteeing Islam a victory the likes of which they have been praying for these last 1400 years.

Well, read up Liberals.  this is yet another example of Islam telling you exactly how they are and are planning on destroying you.  This is in their own words.  This is out of their own mouths.  This is not some Conservative propaganda, but actual happenings going on in the name of Allah and Islam…the “Religion of Peace” as you like to call them, who will kill you so much as look at you.  While you are singing their praises, they are stabbing you in the back. Pay heed now, before it is too late.

Islamophbia is defined as an irrational fear of Islam.  Well I am no Islamophobe.  There is absolutely nothing irrational about the fears that exist towards what they have done, plan to do and are doing right now in this country and the rest of the world.

Innovative Jihad
By: Ayesha Ahmed
2006/05/01
Mashallah our muslim brothers are making their presence felt in the world with ingenious and innovative ways of carrying out jihads.. Few years back not many people outside the darul islam knew much about islam. But thanks to our Mujahid brothers we are in the news daily and Islam is a household word.

Following are some of the various innovative modern jihads which are making islam the fastest growing religion in the world.

BEDROOM JIHAD
This is the most important and effective of all jihads and is bringing European kafirs to their knees through explosion in muslim population. Muslims who had failed to capture Europe repeatedly in the the battlefield, are finally winning through achievements in their bedrooms. Many of the Mujahids in European countries have four wives and over 20 children. Many of these wives are acquired from kafir ranks and converted to islam for extra blessings. The best part of this Jihad is that the infidels themselves are paying for it by providing welfare cheques to them, thus freeing the Mujahids from the worry of earning a livlihood, and allowing them to devote all their time to their jihad. Why are the infidels following this suicidal policy? Allah has answered this question in Quran.

Aya 2.171 “Disbelievers are deaf, dumb and blind, and they have no sense”.

One Singaporean religious muslim jihadi got so carried away in bedroom jihad and his passion to increase muslim umma by impregnating as many women as possible that he even impregnated his own adult daughters along with all his wives. Here is from a Singapore newspaper Strait Times:

A 45-year-old man practising muslim man , whose identity was withheld to protect his victims, used quranic interpretations to justify sex with his daughters, Deputy Public Prosecutor Eugene Lee told the High Court.

While conducting religious lessons, he convinced his wives that he had ownership over his children, which included having sex with them, The Straits Times said.

Forty-three charges were levelled against the father, who preyed on his daughters when they were between 12 and 15 years old, from December 2003 to June 2005. The charges included rape, attempted rape and aggravated rape.

Two of the girls became pregnant and had abortions.

The incidents ‘were so numerous that they were hard-pressed to keep count, much less remember the exact specifics of each incident,’ Lee was quoted as saying.

The man would send one of his wives to tell a daughter to go to their father’s bedroom, Lee said. He had sex with them even though the girls cried out in pain.

The eldest of the abused daughters reported her father to the police on June 24, 2005. He was arrested the next day.

RAPE JIHAD
This jihad is getting very popular among young Mujahids all over the world. Muslim youth are raping vulnerable young and beautiful infidel girls wherever they are finding them (could it be that these Mujahdids are interpreting the 9.5 aya “Slay the infidels wherever you find them”, to “Lay the infidels wherever you find them”)

This very important Jihad was sanctioned by Allah in ayas 4.3,4.24,23.6,33.50 and 70.30

Allah says in these ayas that muslims are allowed to capture infidel women and to have sex with them.

Our apostle (pbuh) , all sahabas and all great muslim invaders practiced this sanction of Allah. Some authentic and famous hadiths are:

Bukhari , Volume 5, Book 59, Number 512:

The Prophet had their warriors killed, their offspring and woman taken as captives. Safiya was amongst the captives, She first came in the share of Dahya Alkali but later on she belonged to the Prophet .

Bukhari vol 3,Book 46, No. 717

Prophet had suddenly attacked Bani Mustaliq without warning while they were heedless and their cattle were being watered at the places of water. Their men were killed and their women and children were taken as captives; the Prophet got Juwairiya on that day.

“Sirat e Rasulullah” by Ishaq, pge 464

After 800-900 male adults of Bani Quraiza were beheaded in batches, and thrown in trenches dug in Madina, the apostle divided their property, wives and children as booty. . He took Rayhana d. Amr b. Khunafa for himself.

The History of Tabari, vol 8, pge 29-30

From his share of captive women,prophet gave his son-in-law, Ali a slave girl, Raytah bt Hilal to enjoy her at his will. He also presented Uthman b. Affan, his son-in-law, another slave girl Zainab b. Hayan, and bestowed another girl (name unknown) to his father –in-law Omar Ibn Khattab. Omar gave that girl to his son Abdullah. Most of Prophet’s other elite companions received slave girls as gifts.

Although method of operation of modern day Jihad rapists is different from apostle’s (pbuh) 7th century ways, the purpose is the same, pleasing Allah and terrorizing kuffar.

Thus by suddenly capturing and having sex with an infidel woman the Mujahids are not only following an important sunna and getting sawab they also get extra blessings for impregnating a kafir girl with muslim baby.

Rampant raping activities of the muslim young men in Europe is giving them image of Tough Guys and Macho Men , and attracting many western young ladies to islam. Some of them are even converting, doning veil and burqas and joining ranks of suicide bombers.
Read on:

The Times December 01, 2005

Western white woman a suicide bomber
By Anthony Browne, Brussels Correspondent

MIREILLE, who was born in Belgium to a white, middle-class Christian family, blew herself to pieces last month in a suicide attack against American troops near Baghdad.

Here are some of the news about world wide Rape Jihad.

AUSTRALIA

A group of Lebanese Muslim gang rapists from south-western Sydney hunted their victims on the basis of their ethnicity and subjected them to hours of degrading, dehumanising torture. The young women, and girls as young as 14, were “sluts” and “Aussie pigs”, the rapists said. (Sunday Herald)

After taking an oath on the Qur’an, the Pakistani muslim man – known only as MSK – told the court he had committed four attacks on girls as young as 13 MSK is already serving a 22-year jail term for leading his three younger brothers in a gang rape of two other young Sydney girls in 2002 (Sunday Herald)

EUROPE

In Bradford, England, Channel 4 pulled a documentary about Pakistani and other Muslim men sexually abusing white English girls, some as young as 11.” In France, grotesque reports about systematic gang rapes of French or “too Western” Muslim girls keep coming in. At the same time, European jails are getting filled up with Muslims imprisoned for rapes

One of the best known “Swedish” serial-rapists was Mehdi Tayeb who had sex with over 130 women (and 2 men) in Sweden. Some were seduced under alcoholic influence, some date rape drugged. When Swedish police got close to him, he fled back to Iran.

7 Kurdish Muslim immigrants are suspects in a gang rape case against a 16 year old Norwegian girl in Oslo in December. One of the men charged with the gang rape is suspected of being involved in another gang rape of a girl in Oslo ten days later.

AFRICA

Front Page Magazine writes:

“Each of us was raped by between three and six muslim men….One woman refused to have sex with them, so they split her head into pieces with an axe in front of us.”

This happened in Darfur, from which Sudanese military personnel actually airlifted women to Khartoum to serve as sex slaves.

RUSSIA

Indira Dzetskelova, the mother of one of the child hostages in Beslan, Russia, reports that “several 15-year-old girls were raped by muslim terrorists.” Her daughter “heard their terrible cries and screams when those monsters took them away.”

This indicates that there are two things the massacre in Beslan have in common with the ongoing massacres in Darfur: both, are examples of Islamic jihad terrorism, and both are characterized by rape

INDIA

Jammu & Kashmir: Gang Rape Jihad Against Teen Girls
The courageous mujahideen in Jammu & Kashmir have again raised the bar on inhuman depravity while engaged in glorious holy war for Allah: Foreign Islamic militants in Jammu kidnapping and gang-raping young girls -

FECAL JIHAD
A mujahid slow poisoned infidels in Dallas Texas by sprinkling his dried feces on the pastries he made in the bakery of a grocery chain where he worked as a pastry maker (customers of that grocery chain had been complaining of shity taste in the pastries for a while) Here is a news clip from The Dallas Daily News:

“A Dallas jury sentenced Behrouz Nahidmobarekeh to five years for sprinkling his own dried feces on pastries at the Fiesta Mart at Ross and Greenville avenues in East Dallas, the foreman of the jury told The Dallas Morning News that the jury had wanted to punish him especially severely because he “showed no remorse.”

PRAYER JIHAD
An imam of Gaza city thought of an innovative way of Jihad of praying to Allah to dry out the private parts of jews so that they are unable to copulate and reproduce. Here is the news:

JERUSALEM – Sheikh Abu Muhammed, an imam at the popular Al-Tadwa mosque in Beit Lahia north of Gaza City, went on to ask Muslims at his Friday night sermon to pray for the sexual organs of Jews to “dry out” so they cannot reproduce, a Palestinian in attendance at the mosque services told WorldNetDaily.

VANDALIZING LIQUOR STORES JIHAD
Some muslim mujahids of California started a jihad of vandalizing liquor stores and destroying liquor bottles so that kafirs cannopt get any booze. Here is the news:

OAKLAND – Two muslim men pleaded no contest to a count of felony vandalism stemming from the Nov. 23, 2005, rampage in which nearly a dozen men wearing suits and bow ties invaded the two stores, smashing refrigerator doors and knocking liquor bottles off store shelves. Damage at each store was estimated at $15,000.

A total of eight men were charged in the attacks, which reportedly were carried out by vandals who chastised store employees for selling liquor.

BEHEADING CLOSE INFIDEL FRIENDS JIHAD
A saudi student of University of Houston carried out his Jihad by cutting off the head of his close infidel friend after inviting him to his apartment.

Houston, Texas: Ariel Sellouk, was a Jewish college student in Houston, who had met Mohamed Alayed in school and became his very good friend. Later Saudi national Alayed began a religous transformation. One day he invited his friend for a drink at a bar. Afterwards Sellouk went with Alayed to his home . Without warning, Alayed seized him from behind and cut his throat with a folding knife. His roommate, (another muslim) was present at the time and witnessed the slaying. Alayed got a ride to a local mosque afterwards to offer prayer of thanks to Allah.

The killer was an Arab, a newly minted religious Muslim and the son of a millionaire Saudi businessman.
(Houston Chronicle)

SUV JIHAD
A muslim student Mohammed Taheri Azar of University of North Carolina, Chappel Hill thought of an ingenious way of Jihad by renting a big SUV and running it over his fellow students and kafir buddies at the campus. The big poweful SUV has the capability of killing a whole bunch of kuffar in a single hit. In a letter to the local newspaper he wrote:

“I live with the holy Koran as my constitution for right and wrong and definition of injustice.I’ve read all 114 chapters about 20 times since June of 2003 when I started reading the Koran. What I did at UNC was out of love for Allah . I live only to serve Allah by obeying all of his commandments of which I am aware by reading and learning the contents of the Koran ( he means the aya 9.5 , “ kill the infidels wherever you find them”)

POISONED BURGERS AND BEAR JIHAD
Another amazing and innovative Jihad was deviced by Pakistani born british mujahids to poison the English soccer loving infidels by selling them poisoned bear and burgers. That way kuffars die slowly while watching a haram activity (soccer has been declared haram by a saudi mufti) Here is the news:

LONDON Mar 24, 2006 (AP)— An alleged al-Qaida terrorist Britain told accomplices to sell contaminated beer at soccer games or poisoned hamburgers from street vending stalls, an FBI informant told a court Friday. Waheed Mahmood, 34, accused with six other British men , claimed during a meeting in Pakistan that he had already tested the poison plan, said the witness, Mohammed Junaid Babar.. Babar claimed Mahmood said “you could get a job in a soccer stadium as a beer vendor.”

“You just put poison in a syringe, inject it in a beer can and put a sticker on it, which would stop it leaking, and hand them out,” Babar said, recounting Mahmood’s proposal.

He said he also suggested getting “a mobile vending cart selling burgers, just poison those. You could set up a shop on a street corner and sell poisoned burgers and then all you have to do is leave the area.”

DESECRATE THE INFIDEL FLAG JIHAD
A pious muslim Jihadi group of New York thought of a very effective way of Jihad by stomping on an American flag, tearing it into peaces with loud chants of quranic ayas and bad mouthing America in down town Manhattan in broad day light in the presence of a large number of infidels.

Here is the video of that excellent Jihad . Every muslim who sees this video gets his iman vitalized and faith in Allah rekindled.. It is Islamic duty of every muslim who watches this video to forwad it to other brothers.

http://www.intelligencesummit.org/news/GW1.php

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Not-So Super Tuesday

Posted by Retired Fireman on February 5, 2008

 Super Tuesday Map

Well, here it is.  The moment every candidate that is left has been waiting for.  The largest amount of states in the nation having their primaries all on the same day.  The closest thing to the General Election we will have, and hopefully, we can stop hearing about how Hill-Dawg, Obama and everyone else is crying everytime they open their mouths. 

 Since my candidate, the man I had been wanting to run for quite some time, the man who I felt was the best and brightest hope for this country  dropped out a couple of Tuesdays ago…and in true MSM fashion, was not even announced, I had to find out about it when I went to his web site…they stayed true to how they had been treating him all the way to the end, I am left with the question of who to go and vote for today in California’s primary.

California had finally moved their primary up to a decent date.  It is no longer in June or May like it used to be, far beyond the time when it even mattered anymore, long after every other candidate had left the race, and I was really, really hoping that this year, we would actually have a chance, have the options that everyone else in the country had.  I looked forward to finally being able to vote for the man I wanted this year, that we were going to be early enough, and that no one would have really dropped out yet, except for that lunatic Ron Paul who is nothing but a screaming Liberal hippie stuffed into a Republican suit. 

So, just imagine my disappointment to find that everyone save for one person that I had considered voting for, has already dropped out of the race EXCEPT that tiny little Oompa Loompa from hell Ron Paul, who actually was doing BETTER than Fred Thompson.  The perceived front runner all year, up until the primaries had been rudy Guilliani, yet he was running last the whole time, and he dropped out the day after Fred.  What are we, here in California and the other states that are voting on “Not-So Super Tuesday” left with?  John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul.

There is no way in HELL I will vote for either Ron Paul or Mike Huckabee.  Between the two of them, they should be sharing a room at Bellevue or Napa State hospitals. 

This leaves either John McCain or Mitt Romney.  To me, there really is no choice.

Mitt was actually the guy I was leaning towards until Fred had announced his candidacy.  There has been a great deal that has been made about his being a Mormon, but frankly, all that has shown me is how many hate-filled religious bigots there are in this country.  He is a member of a religion, whether you believe it is a cult or not, that is a Christian based religion that believes strongly in the strength of the family.  They believe in spending time with the parents and the children; they don’t believe in cursing, drugs, alcohol etc.  That right there, shows he is a core Conservative.  He has a great many qualities and beliefs that I follow and believe in myself.  He has run businesses, which is important when you want to run this country. You need to run this country AS a business, and he has the experience that even includes firing people.  Something that Democrats are immune to, and McCain has never done.

McCain is someone that I supported in the 2000 race.  I watched him very closely in the following eight years, just to see if I had made the right choice, to see if the country had screwed up or not.  What I found was that we had dodged a bullet.  The guy is a fruit loop.  I don’t know if it is his age or what, but he is definitely a few fries shy of a Happy Meal.  I have a definite problem with voting for someone who has insulted me and my beliefs.  I have a distinct issue voting for a guy running as a Republican, trying to convince people he is THE Conservative when eight years ago he threatened to switch parties and four years ago was negotiating to run as Kerry’s Vice President.  He tried to let 20 million illegals into this country and grant them amnesty and yelled at all of us for being upset about it.  He screwed up the Campaign Finance laws, he violated my rights of Free Speech in that regard, he has flopped over to the Liberal side more times than my dog flops down to sleep by the front door.  He has said you can judge him by the company he keeps.  Well, the company he keeps is Teddy Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, Schumer, Rangle, Feingold, John F’n Kerry, and the rest of the biggest Liberals in the Senate…he calls them all good friends.  Not only that, but he is the darling of the MSM.  If that doesn’t say it all, then I don’t know what does.

 So today, in just a short time, after I go to pick up my beautiful daughters from school, I will be voting in the California Primaries.  When I do, I will be casting my vote for Mitt Romney, and praying that John McCain DOES NOT get the nomination for Republican Candidate in the General Election for 2008.  I thank John McCain for his service to this country, for the sacrifice and suffering he dealt with in Viet Nam, but that does not make him qualified, nor does it anoint him the best possible person to be the Republican candidate for President of the United States.  We have too much riding on this election.  We have too much at stake in the future of this country.  It is bad enough that the country is buying into the Obama and Clinton lies, and there is a serious, serious chance that one of them could be in the Oval Office this time next year.  We really cannot afford to make as big of a mistake as having McCain be our nominee.

Stand up those of you who have yet to vote.  Stand up and join with me, pull that lever, fill that bubble, touch that screen for Mitt and pray for a Republican win in November.  Our life and country really does depend on it

Proud to be a Republican

For election results, GO HERE

RF

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Farewell Louisville, Kentucky…It’s Been A Blast

Posted by Retired Fireman on January 21, 2008

Kentucky State Flag

Well, my week has come to an end.  I left my home last Tuesday morning at 0610 on a Southwest flight out of California, headed for Louisville, Kentucky in order to get away from some really stressful things, to get my head clear and straight, to visit my best friend who I knew would allow me to just re-ground myself, find my center and all that other New Age talk for just re-setting my batteries.  I had reached the point in my life where things just weren’t making much sense and were falling apart around me and just needed to get away to clear my head.  My friend is the head pyro-technician for a stage show and allowed me to stay with his girlfriend and himself while they were in town and I took him up on it.  I had been wanting to hook up with him out on the road for the last eight years, and just always found excuses not to do it.  Well, this time, my fingers went faster than my head, and I had purchased the airline tickets before I could rethink the plan, and next thing I knew, I was at the Louisville Airport, trying to find my ride.

 I gotta admit, I had no idea what to expect when I got here.  There were some pre-conceived notions as to just what Kentucky was.  I had envisioned a lot of trees, rolling hills, beautiful horse ranches and the like.  I had been watching the weather reports for the week prior to my coming out, and it had been stating that it was supposed to snow the entire time I was to be here, so I was expecting a large amount of white stuff all over the ground, the trees and cars.  I was expecting a fair amount of Southern Drawls from the people I talked to and plenty of that “Down Home Southern Hospitality” I had heard so much about.  Well, I was not too far off about that much, but still, I couldn’t have been farther from the truth of the place.

First off, let me say that I have not one bad thing to say about the parts of Kentucky that I experienced.  I enjoyed my entire time here, and I am really sad to be leaving.  I really wish I could be staying at least another week, maybe two.  I have been getting plenty of rest, lots of relaxation and really, really enjoying my time with my friend.  He has been helping me in the exact way I knew he would.  Nothing is more reliable that a best friend, I tell you, and he is the best.  He has that “old soul” that is comforting to you just by being around you, just by sitting in the same room.  When I leave here in the morning, I leave a new human being, I leave the way I was 20 years ago, not the way I was or have been the last 4, and I owe it all to the two of them.  His girlfriend has been like the older sister I never had, but always wished I could have.  I can never be or repay them for the love and friend ship they have been or shown.

 Now, Louisville, what can I say about this town.  It is so spread out, it appears as though the entire town was picked up by a huge helicopter, raised up to 20,000 feet up in the air and dropped, and wherever everything landed, that’s where it stayed.  It just splayed all out.  Nothing is near anything else.  It is just plain spread out.  I am used to my own city, obviously, where there are restaurants everywhere downtown.  Here, there is one restaurant, then nothing for a long time.  I feel sorry for the office workers.  they don’t have much choice at lunch.  However, I am sure they have it all figured out.

There does seem to be plenty of nightlife, and in the outlying areas, it is just beautiful.  The houses and such are old and well kept.  Just beautiful.  The city, though, appears as if it is going through a major renovation.. ALL of it, everywhere.  There does not seem to be anywhere in the downton area that is not boarded up and being redone.  This looks as if it holds a great deal of promise for this city for the near future when it is all done, and they have a grand “re-opening” of the city.

 Just tonight, we ate at the “Maker’s Mark” restaurant, and I gotta tell you, the food was outstanding.  The steak I had with the bourbon sauce was to die for.  If you come to this city, you gotta go to Fourth Street, just down from “The Hard Rock Cafe” and eat at that restaurant.  The plates are about 30-35 bucks each, but well worth the price.

It never did snow, though my second day here had some sleet in the morning.  I visited the Louisville Slugger factory, got my picture taken with Colonel Sanders by Susie, the really friendly staff person at the Louisville Visitor’s Center (If you stop in, be sure to ask her about her Bourbon Happy Balls), and took a trip out to Churchill Downs and walked out onto the track and touched 134 years of horse racing history.  I walked the streets and never once felt worried or frightened of being mugged.  The people were very friendly, though no one really had much of a “Southern Drawl”.  I got a great scenic tour with explanations of historical sights from my cab driver on the way to Churchill Downs, and he got a 100% tip for his trouble, found out that Copenhagen Chewing Tobacco is a valuable commodity. 

All in all, I am really, really happy that I came here and really sad to have to leave and return home.  I miss my daughters terribly, but wish I could be here one more week.  I could really do with one more week of rest, and hey, I just found a bunch more things only today to explore and play at.

Louisville, thank you so much for your hospitality, and the use of your city.  I hope one day to return and even make it to the Derby and have a Mint Julep with one of your Kentucky Belles in their fabulous hats. 

Yes, I can actually see buying a house in this state.  The landscape and countryside is everything I thought and hoped it could and would be and even when it was 19 degrees last night, it was still a wonderful place to be.

If you ever get the opportunity to come to Kentucky, do not pass up the chance, and have a great time.

RF

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Now It’s Hill-Dawg’s Turn To Use Lewinski…And Wastes No Time

Posted by Retired Fireman on January 18, 2008

Somtimes a cigar is just a cigar...

So, you knew it would happen.  You knew that with this being an election year, with Hillary running for President…the “Ultimate Goal” the entire reason that she stuck it out with Bill all these years, put up with all his crap, was forced to spit forth all that “Oh how I love and support that man of mine” bile that you KNOW just stuck in her throat like a fish bone the size of the Loch Ness Monster, how she has smiled through all those public appearances with him, the “Look what a happy couple we still are” photo ops, just for this moment in time when she can actually feed her narcissistic hunger, her megalomaniacal need to be that First Woman President that fought through all those horrible things that happened to her along the way…the poor dear…that this was going to happen.

The “Ten Year Anniversary Of The Monica Lewinski Scandal”!!!!  YAY!!!!  Yup, that time when she was able to coin the term, “The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy” that had obviously planted this whole thing, had set her husband up, had been doing all it could to get him out of office.  He, being such an innocent little angel…never having done ANYTHING wrong, never raping, fondling, groping, cheating, sexually harassing, making women in his employ feel uncomfortable or ANYTHING like that.  Her NEVER having to come up with a War Room that had to handle the women that were going to come forth to denounce him, that were going to come forth with the truth as to what a rapist, sexual harassing fondling, groping, sexist philandering beast he is.  No, because that would put them in the way of her “Ultimate Goal”  POWER!!!

Well, where do all serious Presidential candidates who want to be Leader of the Free World, especially in a time of war go to talk about the real important topics that matter to this country?  Do they go to FOX News?  No, because the Democrats wet their pants in fear of that channel.  They might actually be asked a real question and not worshipped by the moderator as a god.  Do they go to any of the other news organizations or the alphabet networks?  No…that’s been done and it’s boring. I mean, who wants to hear about the economy, health-care, the elderly, and after all, the Democrats do not believe that Islam is a problem, they do not believe in the War of Islamic Fundamentalism and Islamic Aggression Towards Global Domination as they think it is a Bush only thing and as soon as Bush is gone, Islam will all join hands with us, sing Kumbaya and see we are all good friends and everything will be hunky-dorry.

Why, the Front-Runner, Mrs Bill Clinton herself, goes on the TYRA BANKS SHOW!!!!  THAT is where she goes to talk about such things as what Bill will be called if she wins the Presidency.  And how will she handle such a crucial decision?   Well, she CAN’T handle that decision.  She wants YOU to handle it.  She wants it to be a CONTEST!

But back to this anniversary.

On the Tyra banks show, poor little Hillary sat there and did not utter a single truthful word the entire time she was there.  Now, this may not come as a surprise to most of you, I know it didn’t for me, but it was what she was saying that left my jaw on the floor.  Such lies that honestly were meant to tug at the heart strings of little Miss Middle-America who has had the Big Ugly Brute of a Beau-Hunk Husband who never says “I Love You” type…or so Hillary thinks.  That is the way I envisioned her handlers feel that these people in Middle America live, and that is how she was told to play this.  Take a gander and tell me that isn’t what they were trying to do.

“Exactly a decade after the Monica Lewinsky affair was first reported, the former first lady candidly revealed how she worked through the inner torment it caused, as she battles Barack Obama for the Democratic White House nomination.

“I really had to dig down deep and think hard about what was right for me, what was right for my family,” Clinton said on the Tyra Banks talk show on Fox television.

“I never doubted Bill’s love for me, ever, and I never doubted my faith and my commitment to our daughter and our extended family.

“But I had to decide what I ought to do, I think it is so important to be able to hear yourself at a moment when it is hard … there are so many times when you really have to listen to yourself.”

Oh now COME ON!!!!  YOU had to decide???  YOU had to think???  YOU had to do what was best???  INNER TORMENT???  The only “Inner Torment” she felt was whether or not this meant she was going to have to be thrown out on her well padded butt thanks to her husband, squashing her hopes of future power grabs and her self-thought place in history.  The only thing SHE had to do was to figure out which one of her handlers and advisers to listen to and which one’s advice to take first.  There was no decision of her own made at all!  Frankly, if she had made the decision to get a divorce, she would have made strides for the women’s movement like no one’s business.  She would not be struggling in the polls anywhere near as bad,  and she would not be having to fight anything about her husband’s shadow.

Instead, what she did was set the entire Women’s movement back DECADES.  She allowed someone who was A KNOWN SEX OFFENDER to get one over on her, to USE a woman FOR SEX and DISCARD her, to ABUSE women, to shut them up and try to intimidate them out of testifying against him, and so many other things, and now she is saying that “I never doubted my husband’s love for me” and all that other crap?  How she shouldn’t make rash decisions?  Look, the only decisions she was making was how it was going to affect the Greek Tragedy that she calls her Political Career.

The disgusting fact that there are so many women in this country that fall for her line, that think she is “such a trooper”, that she is “such a strong woman” that has “weathered such a storm” is just so painful to hear about or to witness.  It just shows how many women out there are susceptible to being taken advantage of by slimy, phillandering, abusive men.

Now, my marriage is not perfect by any means.  I have my own problems, as does everyone else.  However, one thing is for DAMN sure, I would never cheat on my wife, I would NEVER give her a reason to doubt my love for her, and I would NEVER use my marriage and family as a marriage and family of convenience…as a “prop”… as this Hillary and Bill are doing. 

I love my wife and children with every ounce of my being.  Look around you.  It is not hard to tell the families, the husbands, the wives, that honestly and truly love each other.  Even when they are not getting along, you can see that they still love each other, deep down inside.

Now look at these two people.  Look at them over the years.  You tell me in all honesty…do you really believe it when either one of them say they have any love for the other person?  Can you honestly say there is anything there but what they can get off the other one financially and politically?  Christ, they didn’t even have the same bedroom in the White House or sleep in the same bed…BEFORE Lewinski.  That’s a loving devoted marriage?

There was a great deal more to this Tyra Banks interview, and it is just disgusting.  For her to be using this now, to try and garner votes, to be trying to play the sympathy card now…the “Vote for me, because I am a poor, cheated on wife” is just pathetic, dishonest, a straight up lie and pure wrong in every sense of the word.  Any of you women out there that even CONSIDER, let alone actually vote for her because of this should be ashamed of yourselves.  She should be punished for using this ploy, not rewarded.  If she is so hurt by it, she should have done something about it ten years ago.  I am sorry, you do not elect someone President because their husband had an affair in the Oval Office.  If anything, that is another reason not to let them anywhere near the place again. 

If she cannot handle the pressures of campaigning, cannot handle the pressures of being a Senator, cannot handle the pressures of being a parent and cannot handle the pressures of being a wife and control her own husband and family, then why do you people that want to vote for her in the Primaries and then again next November really think she can handle the pressures of being President, defend us against the enemies we are facing, handle the pressures of our economy and all that being the Leader of the Free World and the only Super Power left requires?  Hell, she starts crying every time she starts to talk now.  Do you think that conveys strength to Islam?

No.

And Bill?  Happy Anniversary.  Have a cigar on me.

RF

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Walking Amongst the Greats

Posted by Retired Fireman on January 18, 2008

Louiseville Slugger Factory 1-17-08

No trip to Louisville, Kentucky would be complete without making a pilgrimage to the factory where the wands that created so many Summers filled with magic are made.  Now, I have never been one to be considered the biggest baseball fan, however I used to play Little League like every good all American boy, have downed my share of beers playing softball on a crazy summer afternoon with friends and/or family, and nothing beats going to the baseball park, sitting in the stands and eating all the hot dogs you can stuff in your face, drinking a cold beer or soda, and eating hot, fresh peanuts and looking at people all day on a warm, summer afternoon.

Growing up as poor as I did, I did not have that many opportunities to go to many games.  My first Major League game was when I visited family one Summer in Cleveland, Ohio.  My mom had taken a job working for her aunt in a tavern, cooking, and my little brother and I spent the Summer either weeding her dilapidated garden, or sitting on some old whiskey boxes during the lunch rush in order to stay out of the way.  This was 1978, and I was 10 years old. 

My cousin took pity on us, and the lousy Summer we were having, and decided to take us to see the Cleveland Indians play.  They played the Minnesota Twins.  I remember watching Rod Carew bat…I remember seeing “Chief Wahoo”.  I remember watching the guys in the Center Field stands with their headdresses, the drums, banging away, the big sign with “Chief Wahoo” animated, doing all sorts of things, the souvenirs…oh man, what an experience.

My uncle, the man who took over for my father growing up when he could, would try to take my brothers and I to the minor league games, before they were sold to Japan.  We would go to all the special games…the helmet days, the ball days, and especially…the bat days.  To this day, I still have the little bat that I got that day, in my truck, under the seat.  It is one of my most prized possessions.  I keep it there, because it is the only place I can be sure that my daughters will not get it and ruin it or lose it.

Where was that bat made some 35 or so years ago?  Right here in the city that I am visiting, and the factory that I was fortunate enough to pay my $9.00 and take a tour of…the Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat Factory.

The huge bat out front was neat, but inside, the history hit you…well it hit you like a bat.  Along the wall is a piece of bat with the signature burned in of every player that every used a Louisville Slugger bat all the way up to 2007.  There was a special section in black for the “Hall of Fame”‘ers.  Once in the factory, you got to see how it was all done.  Amazingly, up until just a couple of years ago, they were still hand lathing every bat.  Now, only two hand lathes remain, and only used for demonstration purposes.  Now, everything is done by computer, of course, making every bat come out within a margin of error of the thickness of two pieces of paper.  Pretty phenomenal.

We got to see bats of actual Major Leaguers being made.  Can’t remember their names, but wouldn’t drop the names anyway.  Amazingly enough, found out that even when making bats, the Minor Leaguers can’t catch a break.  The bats aren’t made quite as good as the Majors are.There are several ways of making them, and the higher quality bats go to the higher quality players.  The highest being the Major Leagues.  Sorry Bush Leaguers. 

Along one wall though, was the most amazing thing of the entire tour.  It housed every signature of every baseball player that every played the game dating all the way back to 1905.  The collection could not ever have a price put on it.  There would be no way to replace it,and nowhere else in the world has one.  Only a few people have ever been able to touch them.  Just think, Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson…all right there, ready to be engraved/burned into a bat.  Priceless.

The worst part of the tour…no pictures.  No one could take any pictures of any kind in the factory.  Not sure why, I mean, the factory had huge window that looked out onto the street, so if you really wanted, to, you could stand outside and take them, but hey, always one to follow the rules, none were taken.

At the end of the tour, we were given these tiny little souvenir bats, which were cute, but just weren’t gonna cut it.  This was not going to be the souvinier to take home to the girls that said, “Hey, Daddy loves you and you’ll treasure this always”.  So, off to the gift shop I went.  Inside, they allow you to buy a regulation Louiseville Slugger bat, and then have your name and then nickname or other saying burned/etched into it on the end like a regular Major League signature.

$200.00 and 20 minutes later, I proudly walked out of the factory with my friend and four Powerized, beautiful Louisville Slugger Baseball Bats, freshly made straight from the factory for myslef, and my three daughters with our names and the nicknames I have had for all three of them since each of the were born, proudly emblazoned on each bat, carfully packaged in a box to be checked onto the plane.  Why checked luggage you ask?  Because baseball bats are Verboten…forbidden.  Might be used to hijack the plane, and wouldn’t want DHS to confiscate them.  I can’t wait to see the look on their faces, especially the ten year old’s who used to play Little League when they see their own personalized baseball bats, and see them hanging on their walls.

 So finally, went out and had a great day.  Fought through the Global Warming, (Otherwise known as rain/snow/sleet) and had to go into an Army/Navy store and buy a Field Jacket as I forgot to pack my jackets for the trip, and basically enjoyed walking around a great American Historical Landmark, one that truly represents ”America’s Favorite Past-Time”…Baseball.

Thanks Louisville Slugger.

RF

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