#muslim #groundzeromosque #missusa #bikini
Miss USA Rima Fakih, the first Muslim to wear the crown, has come out against putting the Cordoba Mosque in downtown New York, near ground zero.
The 24-year-old beauty queen from of Dearborn, Mich., reportedly told "Inside Edition" over the weekend that the planned mosque near Ground Zero is insensitive to 9/11 victims.
"We should be more concerned with the tragedy than religion," said Fakih, who was born in Lebanon but lived in New York until after graduating from high school and enrolling at the University of Michigan.
While she agrees with President Obama on "the statement on Constitutional rights of freedom of religion," she said she also thinks it "shouldn't be so close to the World Trade Center."
Source: CBS News
Since the Imam and backers of the Cordoba Initiative Mosque and Cultural Center are moderates and want to live in peace with the USA, they will be holding a beauty pageant (with a bikini contest) so next year’s Miss USA is also a Muslim.
And if Muslims “like” my photo above of Miss USA, I sure they are “thrilled” with the fake nude picture of Miss Fakih.
Click here to also see fake nudes of Hillary and Sarah Palin. I haven’t had the courage to enter Nancy Pelosi’s name.
Note PC users: click on fake nude web sites at your own risk of possible computer viruses.
I stumbled onto the picture site a couple weeks ago when I was looking for a picture for my blog. When I heard the Muslim Miss USA, I remembered the site.
#obama #muslim #islam #terrorists
A senior US Democrat has distanced himself from Barack Obama, the US president, over plans to build a mosque and Muslim cultural centre near the site of the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York.
The office of Harry Reid, the majority leader in the US senate, weighed in on the issue on Monday, saying the centre should be built elsewhere. "The first amendment (of the US constitution) protects freedom of religion. Senator Reid respects that but thinks the mosque should be built someplace else," Reid's spokesman said.
The project's backers vowed on Monday to press ahead with their plans to build the Cordoba Initiative Mosque and Cultural Centre, denying a report in Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, that they were going to scrap the $100m project. Sharif El-Gamal, the owner of the building where the centre would be located, said the report that Cordoba House would be relocated further from Ground Zero, was false.
Haaretz had reported that leaders agreed to abandon the site to prevent an escalation of anti-Muslim sentiment.
The project, planned near what has become known as Ground Zero, has emerged as an emotional issue, with opponents saying the location of the centre is insensitive to the memory of the nearly 3,000 people who died in the September 11 attacks. Some of the victims' relatives, however, are in favour.
Obama gave his support to the mosque during an annual White House dinner marking the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, weighing in on the controversy for the first time. "That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community centre on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. "This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable," Obama added.
Obama has tried to reach out to the global Muslim community since taking office, and the more than 100 guests at Friday's dinner included ambassadors and officials from numerous Muslim nations, including Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
"Our capacity to show not merely tolerance, but respect towards those who are different from us, and that way of life, that quintessentially American creed, stands in stark contrast to the nihilism of those who attacked us on that September morning, and who continue to plot against us today," he said.
The Cordoba Initiative, the group behind the project, describes it as a Muslim-themed community centre with a view of making it a hub for interfaith interaction, as well as a place for Muslims to bridge some of their faith's own schisms.
Source: Al Jazeera
Córdoba, Spain was captured in 711 by a Muslim army: in 716 it became a provincial capital, depending from the Caliphate of Damascus; in Arabic it was known as (Qur?uba). In May 766, it was elected as capital of the independent Muslim emirate of al-Andalus, later a Caliphate itself. During the caliphate apogee (1000 AD), Córdoba had a population of roughly 400,000 inhabitants, though estimates range between 250,000 and 500,000. In the 10th-11th centuries Córdoba was one of the most advanced cities in the world, as well as a great cultural, political, financial and economic centre. The Great Mosque of Córdoba dates back to this time; under caliph Al-Hakam II Córdoba received what was then the largest library in the world, housing from 400,000 to 1,000,000 volumes
Source: wapedia
Many consider Cordoba (Qur?uba) to be the greatest example of Islamic society in all history. Some believe the Cordoba Initiative is the latest attempt to be the new greatest example of Islamic society in all history.
Regardless whether the Imam and backers of the Cordoba Initiative Mosque and Cultural Centre are truly moderate Muslims that want to live in peace with Christians and Jews, many Muslims will use the Center as a symbol of the success of 9-11 and the true meaning of the Cordoba Initiative.
The picture shows the construction area of ground zero and the location of the mosque in red in the lower right of the picture.
And a prayer room in the Pentagon is NOT the same as a Mosque next to ground zero.
Update: Liberals and some Muslims are pointing to the time when Muslim Cordoba was a place where Muslims, Jews and Christians supposedly lived together in peace.
Do most Muslims believe that is what the Cordoba Initiative means or do they believe the Cordoba Initiative looks to the Almohad Dynasty for Cordoba and the Ground Zero Mosque?
The Almohads, who had taken control of the Almoravids' Maghribi and Andalusian territories by 1147, far surpassed the Almoravids in fundamentalist outlook, and they treated the dhimmis (non-Muslims) harshly. Faced with the choice of either death or conversion, most Jews and Christians emigrated.
And liberals are trying to get people to stop using the term “Ground Zero Mosque” and get people to use the term “NYC Muslim Cultural Center near where the World Trade Center towers collapsed”.
Finally, liberals say 9/11 was bad but they say we asked for 9/11 with our terrible pre-9/11 treatment of the Arab world.
Some Muslims don’t need an excuse for killing a non-Muslim.
A dhimmi is a non-Muslim subject of a state governed in accordance with sharia law. Dhimma provides rights of residence in return for taxes. Dhimmi have fewer legal and social rights than Muslims, but more rights than other non-Muslims. The largest school of Islamic legal thought now applies the term (Dhimmi) to all non-Muslims living in Islamic lands outside the sacred area surrounding Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Update 2: Someone did a google search on “What are the consequences to a Muslim if he attends Christian services ?”
In democracies like the US and Iraq, nothing happens (most of the times).
Last Christmas in Iraq, Sunni and Shia Imams attended a Christmas Mass to show support of their Christian brothers.
On the other hand in the US, it is not the government or non-Muslims that they have to worry about. Just ask Rifqa Bary. She fled to Florida to avoid an honor killing for becoming a Christian. In some Muslim countries, just possessing a Bible is a death sentence.
#green #renewable #globalwarming #climatechange
Climate change and spreading forests killed off the woolly mammoth and its big mammal cousins - not spear-wielding humans, a major new study has concluded.
The demise of the mammoth and other extinct "megafauna", such as the woolly rhino, giant deer and cave bear, is blamed on the loss of grassland across most of the northern hemisphere.
Findings of scientists from the University of Durham.are part of the most comprehensive study to date of northern hemisphere climate and vegetation during and after the height of the last Ice Age, 21,000 years ago.
The study concludes that a period of post-glacial global warming led to a massive loss of grassland over much of the Earth's surface.
As the prairies and steppes dwindled, spreading forests took their place. The changes made survival impossible for the big grazing herbivores and the predators that fed on them, it is claimed.
Source: UK Press
Post-glacial global warming was not man-made. Climate goes in cycles. There have been several periods where the average global temperature has been warmer than now.
Current global warming “science” is flawed and really is just an excuse to redistribute wealth.
#renewable #green #windfarm #windturbine
For a practical look at what’s involved in a typical wind turbine oil change, talk to someone like Aaron Sage, chief operating officer with Sage Oil Vacuum, based in Amarillo, Texas. The company has been in the wind turbine maintenance business since the mid-1990s. It generally takes two maintenance workers to perform an oil change, one worker on the ground and the other in the nacelle. A 330-foot-long hose is pulled up into the nacelle’s yaw deck just under the gearbox. The hose is connected to the gearbox through a ball valve. A vacuum is pulled using an air pressurizer on the ground. Draining the rate of four to six gallons a minute it can take around 30 minutes to drain the roughly 80 gallons of oil from the gearbox, Sage said. Refilling the gearbox can take another 30 minutes, meaning the total fluid exchange process from start to finish can take as much as two hours.
Sage Oil’s equipment offers either a 250- or a 390-gallon tank, which means that as many as four oil changes can be done each day by a single two-person crew. Sage Oil has fielded 20 oil exchange systems in the United States since 2008. Most of those are in Texas and Iowa, the two states with the largest installed wind capacity.
Source: POWER-GEN WORLDWIDE
Rather than using regular oil made from crude oil, most wind turbines use synthetic oil. Seems like the oil has to be totally replaced every 18 months or so.
Some wind farm operators are sloppy in their maintenance and some of the 80 gallons of oil leaks onto the blades which throws the oil onto the crops that surround the turbines.
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#renewable #green #windfarm #windturbine
Vinalhaven sits 15 miles off the coast and just over an hour's ferry ride from Rockland, but it has an old-fashioned sense of community rare on the mainland these days. Every driver waves as they pass and it's common for an islander to leave the keys in the truck in case anyone needs to borrow it.
It was with that sense of community that the islanders welcomed the three wind turbines to Vinalhaven last year. Not only did the turbines promise reliable electrical service, which was something long-term residents did not take for granted, but wind power would lower electric rates for everyone. Islanders turned out in strength last November to see the turbines started up, watch the 123-foot-long blades sweep the air and watch grade-school children do a windmill dance to the tune of "I'm a Little Tea-Pot."
Most of the 1,200 or so residents on Vinalhaven approve of the turbines. But within days of start-up a handful of Vinalhaven residents who lived within a mile of the wind turbines on the North Haven Road reported noise problems.
Nine months later, people have taken sides. Fingers are being pointed. Frustration levels are rising. There are rumblings about complainers and how they should move off the island if they don't like it. There are accusations of misinformation and biased noise data collection.
In Maine, the Mars Hill wind farm in Aroostook County and the turbines in Freedom in Waldo County have elicited similar complaints by nearby residents who say the repetitive whump, whump, whump sound of the blades turning causes sleeplessness and anxiety. Some research suggests those symptoms could be related to low-frequency sound waves that impact people as a pressure wave.
Sound seems simple enough: you hear it or you don't; it's audible or it isn't. It turns out that sound is far from simple: not only can a noise that is alarmingly loud to one person be a minor note to another, but some people appear to be affected by low-frequency sound-the bass notes-while others aren't. And the really low frequency sounds (below 20 hertz), the inaudible sound waves, which elephants and whales use to communicate over long distances, can travel hundreds of miles without fading. It's this silent sound that may make birds and beasts aware of earthquakes and tsunamis ahead of any apparent danger, and it may be the cause of a laundry list of human complaints that include sleeplessness, anxiety, exhaustion and depression.
Or it may not be. The jury is out.
Source: Free Press
Article comment by: suzanne sayer
Finally a well written article about wind turbine noises. It shows both sides and talks to some engineers/scientists investigation the issue.
My compliments to the author of the article!
If wind farm noise is an interest to you, read the entire article.
#obama #approval #progressive #approvalrating
The number of voters who Strongly Disapprove of the president’s performance inched up a point to 43% in July. At the same time, the number who Strongly Approve remained steady at 26%.
Those figures generate a full month Presidential Approval Index rating of -17, down one from the month before. That’s the second straight month the president’s ratings have fallen to a new low. Prior to that, the ratings had been stable at -14 or -15 ratings for five of the last six preceding months.
The full month numbers show Strong Approval from 52% of Democrats with Strong Disapproval from 74% of Republicans and 48% of unaffiliated voters.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters now think Obama’s policies are to blame for the continuing bad economy, up three points from last month. Forty-seven percent (47%) say the recession that began under Bush is at fault.
With voters across the country expressing stronger belief that the economy is getting worse rather than better, these new findings spell potential bad news for Democratic candidates this fall. The president is already planning to limit his campaign appearances with candidates because of potential voter backlash.
The number who blame Bush is down from 62% in May 2009.
Source: Rasmussen Reports
#foodstamps #economy #unemployment #paygo
ON TUESDAY, President Obama signed a $26 billion bill to help state and local governments cover Medicaid payments and avoid having to lay off teachers and other public employees. In what passes for high drama in Washington, the House of Representatives was called back from its summer recess to vote on the package, and the successful outcome was hailed as a major Democratic victory. “We can’t stand by and do nothing while pink slips are given to the men and women who educate our children or keep our communities safe,’’ Obama said. “That doesn’t make sense.’’
No, it doesn’t. But only by the occluded standards of contemporary Washington could this aid package be considered a victory. What began three months ago as a $50 billion emergency spending bill limped to the president’s desk at half that size and was largely paid for — “offset’’ in the clinical terminology of the budget — by cutting $12 billion from the food stamp program. In other words, a measure designed to help one group struggling in the recession came at the expense of another that is even worse off — and growing rapidly.
Source: Boston.com
I am glad the democrats decided to obey the Paygo law.
But in order to give help to union workers that they hope will then vote for democrats, the Obama regime takes food from the mouths of all the unemployed kids.
Dick "Eddie Haskell" Durbin response is that the democrats are helping union workers by "stealing" the kid's food from 2014 not now.
#obama #education #teachers #union 
Democrats require tough standards on union teachers!
#benandjerrys #icecream #progressive #benjerrys
A U.S. food advocacy group is calling on Vermont ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's to drop the "All Natural" claim on its ice cream and frozen yogurt.
Officials at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington say 48 out of 53 flavors of Ben & Jerry's All Natural ice cream and frozen yogurt contain alkalized cocoa, corn syrup, partially hydrogenated soybean oil -- all ingredients that do not exist in nature or have been chemically modified.
For instance, All Natural Chubby Hubby ice cream contains three non-natural ingredients: alkalized cocoa, partially hydrogenated soybean oil and corn syrup. Cocoa processed with an alkalizing agent changes the chemical structure, taste and appearance of cocoa and reduces its acidity and flavonol -- the antioxidants with possible health benefits -- content.
"These ingredients are safe -- only a small amount of partially hydrogenated oil is used -- but it's a stretch to call any of them 'natural,'" Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of CSPI, says in a statement. "Ben & Jerry's sylvan labels notwithstanding, these ingredients come from the factory, not the farm. And slapping an 'all natural' label on the products certainly implies that the products are top quality and deserve to fetch a higher price."
Source: UPI
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are liberal and their company started out as a truly “green” company.
But many companies do “green” not because they believe in global warming or other progressive nonsense but because they get more customers and/or higher prices by appearing to be a “green” company.
#unemployment #jobs #economy #s3706 #paygo
S. 3706
To extend unemployment insurance benefits and cut taxes for businesses to create hiring incentives, and for other purposes. This Act may be cited as the `Americans Want to Work Act'.
SEC. 3. FIFTH-TIER EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.
SEC. 4. EXTENSION OF PAYROLL TAX FORGIVENESS FOR HIRING UNEMPLOYED WORKERS AND BUSINESS CREDIT FOR THE RETENTION OF CERTAIN NEWLY HIRED INDIVIDUALS.
SEC. 5. INCREASE OF BUSINESS CREDIT FOR THE RETENTION OF CERTAIN NEWLY HIRED INDIVIDUALS.
Source: Thomas (LOC)
The employment picture in the U.S. remained bleak last month as the nation's payrolls fell for a second straight month, with private-sector businesses adding a disappointingly scant number of new jobs. The jobless rate held steady at 9.5% in July, the government said on Aug. 6.
The Labor Department said that private employers added just 71,000 new net jobs in July. Meanwhile, the federal government laid off 143,000 temporary census workers, and with budget-strapped local governments also cutting back, the total number of American jobs last month fell by 131,000 from June.
What's more, Labor statisticians revised down the job figures for June, saying that total payroll jobs fell by 221,000 that month instead of 125,000 previously estimated.
Overall, the latest snapshot of the U.S. economy indicates no momentum building in the crucial job market, which underpins consumer spending and confidence on the part of individuals and businesses. After adding 200,000 private-sector jobs on average in March and April, the labor market has weakened – producing just 51,000 jobs on average in each of the last three months. The data are consistent with other economic indicators such as housing and retail sales that have softened since late spring.
Source: LA Times
Pelosi said they didn’t need to obey the Paygo law and add the cost of the unemployment extension to the national debt because the UI checks were the best economy stimulus and would offset the cost of the UE.
The Obama regime’s economy polices have been in place for 19 months. Do you see the economy recovering?
For those that need Tier V and are really trying hard to find a job, I hope you get your Tier V extension.
On the other hand, there was another article this week about employers that can’t fill their job openings. One main reason is some unemployed job “seekers” are not really looking for a job. They are getting as much “free” UI money as they can. Some employers are concerned about Tier V giving more reasons for job “seekers” not really looking for a job.
Why work if you can make more money sitting on your butt collecting a UI check?
Note: S3706 does not insist the Paygo law be ignored.
Update: The House bill HR6091 for Tier V can be found here.
#nuclearbomb #atomicbomb #hiroshima #nagasaki
Diplomats from the United States, Britain and France have for the first time attended a Japanese event to mark the dropping of an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
A temple bell rang out to begin a one-minute silence at 8.15am, the time a US bomber aircraft dropped the device on Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands of people.
The US decision to send its ambassador, John Roos, to the ceremony was seen as potentially paving the way for Barack Obama, the US president, to visit Hiroshima, which would be unprecedented for a sitting US leader.
Al Jazeera's Steve Chao, reporting from Hiroshima, said many Japanese felt the US presence at the ceremony was an affirmation of Obama's seriousness in working towards a nuclear-free world, but warned that it would be an immense task to achieve.
"People here are under no illusion of the challenges ahead, the fact that it might be difficult for the US congress to approve the stepdown in terms of the nuclear stockpile and other challenges posed by nations like North Korea, and also the fact that there remains 25,000 nuclear warheads in the hands of various nations around the world.
Katsuko Nishibe, a 61-year-old peace activist, said she welcomed the US decision to send Roos, but added that it should not lead to an acceptance that it was the right thing to do. "I don't think it was necessary," she said. "We have a very different interpretation of history. "But we can disagree about history and still agree that peace is what is important. That is the real lesson of Hiroshima."
Source: Al Jazeera
The US Embassy Tokyo said "Ambassador Roos attended the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony today to express respect for all the victims of World War II.".
Roos’s statement should have specifically acknowledged the Pearl Harbor victims that started the Pacific War.
Roos’s statement should have acknowledged the millions of Chinese victims.
Roos's statement should have acknowledged the victims of the Bataan death march the Japanese inflicted on their pow's.
Truman’s advisors told him that stopping the Japanese initiated war by invading Japan would have cost a million US military lives and 2 million Japanese military and civilian lives. Would this have been preferable to lives lost at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
#homosexual #gay #gaymarriage #religion
A US court has struck down a ban on same-sex marriages in the state of California on constitutional grounds, ruling that gays and lesbians have a right to marry.
Vaughn Walker, a US district court chief judge, said on Wednesday that opponents of the voter-approved ban known as Proposition 8 "demonstrated by overwhelming evidence" that it violates due process and equal-protection rights under the US constitution.
"Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license," Walker wrote in the conclusion of his 136-page opinion.
The federal judge ordered the ban to stay until a decision is made on a request by supporters for it to be retained pending appeal, leaving gay men and lesbian couples unable to marry for now.
Supporters of the ban, which California voters passed 52.5 per cent to 47.5 per cent in November 2008 after one of the most expensive ballot-measure campaigns in US history, expressed confidence they would ultimately prevail.
"There aren't five votes on the Supreme Court for gay marriage," Maggie Gallagher, chair of the National Organisation for Marriage, said of the high court's conservative 5-4 majority.
Legal scholars said the decision has wide implications for nearly 40 states with similar laws, making it more difficult to defend those measures in court on the basis of moral grounds or social tradition.
Margaret Russell, a law professor at Santa Clara University, told the Reuters news agency that if Walker's opinion is sustained, it would have broad consequences beyond California. "Any marriage ban based on moral disapproval of gays would fall under that reasoning," she said.
Source: Al Jazeera
Now, in all 600+ of the world’s languages, there is a word equivalent to “marriage” in English, and in all cases, without exception, this word means a union between a male and a female.
Most religion says homosexuality is abnormal and immoral. Politely stating this belief is NOT homophobic. And currently until Obama cancels the 1st amendment, those who hold that religious belief have a right to state that fact.
If the activist judge’s ruling stands, what will be next?
Will a man have the right to “marry” ten wives?
Will a woman have the right to “marry” her 10 year old son?
Will a NAMBLA member have a right to “marry” their 8 year old lover?
Will the ground zero mosque be performing gay “marriages” if the ruling stands?
#obamacare #hci #hcr #insurance
H. R. 6000
To provide for criminal liability for the denial of health care coverage of a treatment or an individual, and for other purposes. This Act may be cited as the `Thou Shalt Not Kill Thy Customers Act'.
The term `denial of coverage' means, with respect to a health plan offered by an insurance entity in the case of an individual enrolled in or benefitting from such plan, denying coverage of or care for a treatment for such individual; or in the case of an individual seeking enrollment in or benefit from such plan, the denial of coverage of or care for such individual under such plan.
Any responsible officer or employee of an insurance entity that engages in a denial of coverage under a health plan offered by such entity in violation of the provisions of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and such insurance entity, shall be fined, imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
Source: Thomas (LOC)
For those who’s only hope of living is an operation/medicine that some insurance companies refuses, I can see the need for this law.
But this should be rewritten to apply specifically only to that question. Since it doesn’t say anything about deaths unrelated to the denial, I can see a slick lawyer say the insurance company can’t deny most operation/medicine.
And will the atheists complain about the biblical reference to shame people into supporting this bill?
#muslim #groundzeromosque #missusa #bikini 
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