Monthly Archives: November 2015

THE WEST SANS FRANCE GOES YELLOW PANTS – BELGIUM ON LOCK DOWN

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The fight is on, France is at war, they have taken it to the enemy; guns a blazing, scud missiles hitting targets, drones unleashing projectile after projectile and soon a ground force that will take no prisoners. On the other hand, the West (Obama and friends) have gone yellow pants – they were castrated long ago and have no fight left in them. Russia’s Putin, no friend of Obama, experienced beyond his years in the tactical game of chess, has now checked POTUS’s next move, which we know is that of a girlie man borrowing a phrase from the former Governor of California – Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Anti Semitic Europe is in the throes of a terror alert. Belgium is in lock-down. Brussels is a city of Jew hating liberals – the reality is that there are no conservatives living in Belgium. Time after time Belgium blames the world’s ills on the Jew. However, now they are faced with a more significant threat, Radical Islam. We don’t recall any Jewish suicide bombers in Belgium, but there are a hell of a lot of Muslim suicide bombers. It is time for Belgium to look inward and face the bare facts that the Muslims are the ones responsible for Europe’s troubles.

Belgium has become the breeding ground of Islamists.

BELGIUM: MUSLIMS threaten to kill Mayor of Antwerp unless he converts to Islam

Islamic extremists in Belgium have publicly threatened to kill the mayor of the Belgian city of Antwerp, Bart De Wever, if he does not convert to Islam, local media reported Monday. Brussels is predicted to become a Muslim majority city within 10 – 15 years.

Western Civilization is incompatible with Islam; this is a fact. Recent killings in Paris as well as the arrival of hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim refugees in Europe have drawn renewed attention to the continent’s Muslim population. In many European countries, including France, Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, concerns about growing Muslim communities have led to calls for restrictions on immigration. But just how large is Europe’s Muslim population, and how fast is it growing?

Muslim population in Europe

In the city of Brussels district of Molenbeek, the Muslim Brotherhood thrives, Salafists rule the roost, unemployment over 30% is a recruiting ground for suicide bombers. “It’s a really dangerous cocktail of poverty, and a wide ranging architecture of radical Islamic organization…These neighborhoods have people who never even went to the Brussels city center. They are attached to chat rooms and Facebook, in contact with some of the most radical (groups). With progressive liberals holding out hope that the Muslims will integrate culturally with local populations, facts prove otherwise. One only has to look at Turkey, once the center of Eastern Orthodoxy where Constantinople held sway, now a desolate place for Christians who account for .2% of the 80 million.

It is a sad day for Christians and those of us in the West who savior our liberty, freedom and justice.

BUREAUCRACY PAYS by MAC ZIMMERMAN

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Here’s a story that is emblematic of life in Washington, D.C.: The Department of Veterans Affairs—a well-known sinkhole of mismanagement—handed out more than $142 million in bonuses last year. Taxpayers stumbling across this news might have been surprised by these rewards for bureaucratic incompetence, and perhaps they also got the sense that working for the federal government is a sweet gig. They’re right.

A review of the nation’s capital turns up ample evidence: In a report released last month, Cato Institute budget analyst Chris Edwards calculated that the average federal employee earned $84,153 in 2014—roughly 50% more than the average worker in the private economy. When you include benefits like health care and pensions, the average federal worker’s compensation rises to $119,934—nearly 80% higher than everyone else. “The federal government has become an elite island of secure and high-paid employment,” Mr. Edwards wrote, “separated from the ocean of average Americans competing in the economy.”

Pay for federal employees has grown significantly faster than for private employees. The percentage difference between the two has doubled in the past 25 years. Federal work is more lucrative than the average jobs in finance, information and professional fields.

Moreover, the number of federal employees salaried at more than $100,000 has grown by nearly 10% in the past five years, to more than 300,000. The 1,000 best-paid federal workers make a minimum of $216,000, with most of the highest echelon working at Veterans Affairs. Employees of little-known agencies such as the National Credit Union Administration and the Farm Credit Administration also top the list.

The total cost to taxpayers of federal wages and benefits clocks in at $260 billion. Much of this is concentrated in and around Washington, D.C.—and it shows. Six of the 10 richest counties in the country surround the nation’s capital, according to the Census Bureau. The median household income in these counties ranges from about $98,000 to $118,000, excluding benefits.

It is nearly impossible to get fired from a job in D.C. A 2011 analysis by USA Today found that at many federal agencies—the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, among others—you’re more likely to die on the job than lose it. Thankfully, there’s no waste, fraud or redundancy in the federal government, right?

Now compare the plush life of the bureaucrat with that of the average American. The median household income in September hovered a little above $56,000. That is only 1% higher than in 2009 when the recession officially ended, and 0.5% lower than before the recession began. Meanwhile, consumer prices increased 10.6% over the past six years. Small wonder that 62% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, according to a January analysis by Bankrate.com.

Yet Washington’s success has no doubt contributed to America’s troubles. The Competitive Enterprise Institute estimates that last year the ever-growing regulatory burden cost $1.88 trillion. This translates into about $15,000 a household. No one is spared from these hidden taxes, which lead to higher prices on everyday goods, fewer jobs, slower growth and more.

In other words, Washington, D.C., strides ahead while the rest of America falls further behind. The $142 million in bonuses at Veterans Affairs are only the latest reminder.

Mr. Zimmerman is director of policy at Americans for Prosperity.

Click here for the original article published in the WSJ including comments.

A MOSQUE IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD

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Why not build mosques next door to all the liberal do-gooders in Congress.  Let them experience the religion of peace first hand; maybe they will be forced to convert by the will of Allah to Islam. There is nothing better than converting a liberal to a conservative than getting mugged first hand. Perhaps many of these progressive types have not surveyed the countryside where mosques have entered a major building phase. Politicians take note, Hamtramcyk, not many politicians can pronounce the name let alone no where it is located has the first Muslim majority city council.

The gritty, blue collar town is known to have multiple Polish Catholic churches, a bevy of restaurants serving Polish food, and, every year, a celebration called Fat Tuesday that honors the traditional Polish pastry – Paczkis. Hordes of people snake out the doors of local bakeries to purchase the doughnut-like treat. But this month, voters in Hamtramck elected what is believed to be the first majority Muslim city council in the US. Click here for the full story provided by The Guardian.

This is only a start, wait for Sharia law, halal food demands, shutting Polish pig’s feet vendors. Soon city after city will be inundated by illegals who will be shielded by a Muslim police force. One question arises regarding the voters who went to the polls; were they citizens or not?

HAMTRAMCK, MICH. — Karen Majewski was in such high demand in her vintage shop on a recent Saturday afternoon that a store employee threw up her hands when yet another visitor came in to chat. Everyone wanted to talk to the mayor about the big political news.

Earlier this month, the blue-collar city that has been home to Polish Catholic immigrants and their descendents for more than a century became what demographers think is the first jurisdiction in the nation to elect a
majority-Muslim council.

It’s the second tipping for Hamtramck (pronounced Ham-tram-ik), which in 2013 earned the distinction becoming of what appears to be the first majority-Muslim city in the United States following the arrival of thousands of immigrants from Yemen, Bangladesh and Bosnia over a decade.

In many ways, Hamtramck is a microcosm of the fears gripping parts of the country since the Islamic State’s attacks on Paris: The influx of Muslims here has profoundly unsettled some residents of the town long known for its love of dancing, beer, paczki pastries and the pope.


Hamtramck Mayor Karen Majewski adjusts hats inside her store, Tekla Vintage. (Salwan Georges/For The Washington Post)

“It’s traumatic for them,” said Majewski, a dignified-looking woman in a brown velvet dress, her long, silvery hair wound in a loose bun.

Around her at the Tekla Vintage store, mannequins showcased dresses, hats and jewelry from the mid-20th century, and customers fingered handbags and gawked at the antique dolls that line the store, which sits across the street from Srodek’s Quality Sausage and the Polish Art Center on Joseph Campau Avenue, the town’s main drag.

Majewski, whose family emigrated from Poland in the early 20th century, admitted to a few concerns of her own. Business owners within 500 feet of one of Hamtramck’s four mosques can’t obtain a liquor license, she complained, a notable development in a place that flouted Prohibition-era laws by openly operating bars. The restrictions could thwart efforts to create an entertainment hub downtown, said the pro-commerce mayor.

And while Majewski advocated to allow mosques to issue calls to prayer, she understands why some longtime residents are struggling to adjust to the sound that echos through the city’s streets five times each day.

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“There’s definitely a strong feeling that Muslims are the other,” she said. “It’s about culture, what kind of place Hamtramck will become. There’s definitely a fear, and to some degree, I share it.”

Saad Almasmari, a 28-year-old from Yemen who became the fourth Muslim elected to the six-member city council this month, doesn’t understand that fear.

Almasmari, the owner of an ice cream company who campaigned on building Hamtramck’s struggling economy and improving the public schools, said he is frustrated that so many residents expect the council’s Muslim members to be biased. He spent months campaigning everywhere in town, knocking on the doors of mosques and churches alike, he said.

“I don’t know why people keep putting religion into politics,” said Almasmari, who received the highest percentage of votes
(22 percent) of any candidate. “When we asked for votes, we didn’t ask what their religion was.”

ISLAM AND RADICAL ISLAM – NO DIFFERENCE

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To those who say there is a difference are wrong . Islam is a political agenda with one goal, world hegemony; subservient to Allah. The means to that end is violence. The world may not see it as such during dormant times, but today the beast has been awoken, untamed throughout the world wrecking havoc from Nigeria to Russia, not to mention Europe, the Philippines, not to mention the Middle East. Their agents of terror are now placed in every major population center waiting for the command to spread death, destruction and fear to free loving citizens.

At any moment their devils of destruction can pop up, no city is safe, no venue is without risk. There is only one solution, liquidation. Convert or die, that is their credo, the West is to turn it around on them, “you convert or die.”

Needless to say, we here in America have elected a Muslim president, the biggest mistake this country has ever made. We will live to regret the damage this virulent closet Muslim has cast upon us. In 2016 we can make a difference; vote out every single Democrat.

The proof is in the pudding, Obama kicks out Syrian Christians but allows Syrian Muslims into the United States.

“We wonder why, for thousands of Muslims, the door is open to America, yet Christians are not allowed to come.”

– Fr. Michael Bazzi, St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Cathedrabazzipic.jpg

Although one of the most ancient civilizations in the world, Iraq’s Christian population has fallen from around 1.5 million in 2003 to far below 200,000 now in what many scholars condemn as tantamount to genocide.

NIALL FERGUSON, WRITING IN FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES (U.K.) NOV 15

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I am not going to repeat what you have already read or heard. I am not going to say that what happened in Paris on Friday night was unprecedented horror, for it was not. I am not going to say that the world stands with France, for it is a hollow phrase. Nor am I going to applaud François Hollande’s pledge of “pitiless” vengeance, for I do not believe it. I am, instead, going to tell you that this is exactly how civilisations fall.

Here is how Edward Gibbon described the Goths’ sack of Rome in August 410AD: “. . . In the hour of savage licence, when every passion was inflamed,

Like the Roman Empire in the early fifth century, Europe has allowed its defenses to crumble. As its wealth has grown, so its military prowess has shrunk, along with its self-belief. It has grown decadent in its shopping malls and sports stadiums, At the same time it has opened its gates to outsiders who have coveted its wealth without renouncing their ancestral faith….

Its doubtless true to say that the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Europe and not violent. But it is also true that the majority hold views not easily reconciled with the principles of our liberal democracies, including our novel notions about sexual equality and tolerance not merely of religious diversity but of nearly all sexual proclivities. and it is thus remarkably easy for a violent minority to acquire their weapons and prepare their assaults on civilization within these avowedly peace=-loving communities.

I do not know enough about the fifth century to be able to quote Romans who described each new act of barbarism as unprecedented, even when it has happened multiple times before: or who issued pious calls for solidarity after the fall of Rome, even when standing together meant falling togethere; or who issued empty threats of pitiless revenge, even when all they intended to do was to strike a melodramtick posture.

I do know that 21st century Europe has itself to blame for the mess it is now in…..

“Roman s before the fall,” wrote (historian Bryan Ward-Perkins, “were as certain as we are today that their world would continue for ever substantially unchanged. They were wrong. We would be wise not to repeat their complacency.”

Poor, poor Paris. Killed by complacency.

FROM ISIS WITH LOVE

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Gay Paree was shown much love by ISIS on Friday night, actually a kiss of death before setting off their suicide vests and unloading their AK-47s. What would perturb them enough to let loose on the city of love? We are hell bent to find an answer, other than these are Islamic terrorists.

Their goal is to send fear into the very bones of their victims. And they certainly did a good job. President Obama, a member of the JV team, doesn’t appear fazed by the threat; in fact POTUS didn’t think much of it.  Apparently the killing of 140 innocent civilians is a daily occurrence in Chicago.

But we can’t stop thinking of this because ISIS said their next target –God Willing– is Washington D.C. Certainly this is a threat that must be taken seriously. For them to take out a plane killing 224 and now bringing mayhem and death to Paris, any sane person would have to wonder when not if they will hit us. Again, we repeat the words of President Obama, this is only a minor setback.

Now members of the liberal establishment are second guessing their outreach to the  Muslim criminals coming into the United States from Syria. It is important to note that Obama has opened the flood gates to hundreds of thousands of what may turn out to be a whole division of ISIS suicide bombers. We just don’t know, as France did not know either. Stolen, fabricated and counterfeit passports are easily gotten in today’s world.

The government said that there is an adequate vetting process. They think that most Americans are so stupid that they could pull the wool over their eyes. Apparently many governors think differently. The resistance at the state level is coalescing at a rapid clip. So far, governors in at least 16 states have moved to suspend or restrict the refugee resettlement, including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,  Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin.

Listen to Obama in the video one has to wonder what is he thinking. POTUS gave birth to ISIS, it is he who gave them the go ahead to form a Caliphate. Expect more bombs, more fear and more government denial. The Jews who voted for Obama must be beside themselves as the Muslim Jew haters saturate major cities in our country. We begin to wonder how many Jews will be voting for Liberal candidates in 2016.