Leaving you smiling!

Now, after all the stories in the last week about Somali terrorism and murders, schools over-loaded with immigrants, and horrific cultural practices from Africa and the Middle East, I leave you with an example of some immigrants who are loving their American freedom.  Watch Trang and Nam here.

A day to remember for as long as we live

In addition to whatever else you have planned today to remember that awful day, September 11, 2001, watch this moving powerpoint presentation that Pamela Geller posted some years ago at Atlas Shrugs.  Click here (it takes a few seconds to load).

God bless our great country and all those who were so brutally murdered that day.

Merry Christmas!

Have a wonderful day with friends and family!   See you back here tomorrow!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Have a wonderful day with friends and family, and thank God we live in this beautiful country—The United States of America!

Book about refugees is Maryland “one book”

Your tax dollars

Yesterday I learned from Cindy that “Outcasts United” had been chosen earlier this year as the “One Maryland, One book” being promoted by the Maryland Humanities Council.

The book by author Warren St. John is billed as an “inspirational” story about how refugee boys in Clarkston, Georgia overcome the odds (which includes a town unhappy with the arrival of large numbers of refugees) to play soccer under a strict coach.  If you don’t want to read the book, you can get the gist of it from reviews at Amazon, but I warn you that virtually all the reviewers are thrilled with what sounds like just another sports underdog story with a multiculturalism is beautiful message.

More importantly though, at least for me, is the question of what is up with this “one book” thing where everyone in the state is supposed to be reading a book of the year chosen by those with a leftwing view of the world….and then we pay for what is clearly indoctrination with our tax dollars.  It kind of gives me the creeps!

Note to all those claiming we need to cut the budget at both the state and federal level—I got about a million and a half dollars right here to start with!

Check out the most recent Form 990 for the Maryland Humanities Council, here.  Note that $1.3 million of the funds for this program come from government grants.  Tracing that back further, the source of most of that government money (your tax dollars) comes from the National Endowment for the Humanities, here.  Maryland taxpayers add to the kitty through the Department of Education.

By the way, the Maryland Humanities Council spent $9000 to influence legislators into awarding them more funding.   Imagine what the Founding Fathers would say about a federal role in all of this.

The One Maryland, One Book  indoctrination project only cost taxpayers $198,143 last year.   Since you paid for this, maybe some of you should attend the upcoming schedule of community discussions about Maryland’s “one book.”

Update:  Here is more about the Maryland book tour.

Watch and weep….

…. and never forget. 

Every American should watch this powerful presentation as we approach the 9th anniversary of that tragic day we call simply 9/11.   I don’t know what else to say but thank God for Pamela Geller.

Update September 12th:  Be sure to see Pamela’s post about the rally yesterday here.   I recommend scrolling back to all her posts over the last day, especially note the hit job Fox’s Geraldo did on the 75% of Americans that think the mosque should be elsewhere.

Ground Zero Mosque protest on 9/11, no signs!

Robert Spencer, here, at Jihad Watch is alerting anyone planning to attend what will likely be a massive demonstration against the Ground Zero Mosque this month to NOT bring protest signs.    Those of us who attended the Glenn Beck rally on August 28th in Washington, DC know how effective this policy was for that event—the mainstream media could not then focus on someone who might say something that could be misconstrued and thereby disparage the whole group.  

Although I gotta say, those signs at last year’s 9/12 rally in D.C. sure were fun to read!

Happy 4th of July!

Watch this wonderful tribute to America by Lt. Colonel Allen West, candidate for the US House of Representatives.  This is the America we love!

The Three Terrors: From Tennessee to Teheran

Moments after I wrote my previous deadly serious post about how Al-Qaida was coming to get us (again!), a friend sent me this Youtube clip created by the brilliant Caroline Glick.    Watch, laugh, and pass it on to everyone you know!  The Three Terrors: From Tennessee to Teheran!

If you missed Ms. Glick’s previous musical production, ‘We con the world’… go here.  Enjoy!

I think Caroline Glick has been reading Saul Alinsky—ridicule is the most powerful weapon.

Ideological refugees

I came across a poignant post on Phyllis Chesler’s blog. It showed up in my Google alert for Israel refugees, but it has nothing to do with the refugees we write about here. I’m posting on it here because I like Phyllis Chesler and I am a longtime refugee myself, of the kind she describes. She begins:

For years now, newly arrived refugees have been contacting me. They write to tell me that they’ve lost nearly everybody they once knew. Their whole world is gone now. Some whisper over the phone. Others write long letters. They ask me how I’ve managed.

I am talking about ideological refugees from feminism, leftism, gay liberation, socialism, and progressivism.

Yes, that’s how it is. You lose almost everybody. Either they don’t want to talk to you any more, or you don’t want to talk to them. Reading and writing for this blog, I’ve read plenty of terrible refugee stories, and I’m not actually comparing my situation, or the situation of Phyllis Chesler and those who contact her, to real refugees who lose a lot more than their friends. But what she said struck a chord with me, so I’m posting on it here in case someone else wants to read her story.