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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Tuesday's Toon! #5

The track I've chosen  is "Man Of Constant Sorry" from the 2000 comedy directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning. It's set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression and the film's story is a modern satire loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey. The American folk music soundtrack won a Grammy for Album of the Year in 2001. The original band soon became popular after the film release and the country/folk musicians who were dubbed into the film, such as Ralph Stanley, John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Chris Sharp, and others, joined together to perform the music from the film in a Down from the Mountain concert tour which was filmed for TV. This CD and DVD can be found at Amazon or other outlets along with the Coen brother's film. (Wikipedia)  
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Monday, May 21, 2012

France Turns To Mecca...

Meet France’s New Burqa-Friendly Government.

Praise be to Allah that I'm not allowed to drive...and as I'll
have a government car and chauffeur, who cares! 
Francois Hollande may be the first Muslim-elected president of France, with an estimated 93 percent of Muslim vote. Hollande had said during the campaign that he would uphold the law on the burqa ban, with the caveat that he would apply it in the best ways possible—a statement which leaves plenty of wriggle room for non enforcement. Meanwhile...his appointment of Christiane Taubira as Justice Minister suggests that soon enough Mademoiselle Liberty will don the burqa. Taubira, a Guyanese radical leftist, who despite being appointed Justice Minister has no law degree, voted against the law banning hijabs in schools– one of only a handful of members of the National Assembly to do so. She did not cast a vote at all on the 2010 burqa ban, but this year she signed on to an MTE petition on behalf of “veiled mothers” which denounced the “endless series of offenses” against Muslims, a list which included the “anti-headscarf law” and “antiniqab legislation.” (C) Daniel Greenfield.


Notre Dame, Paris.
What's next? Road signs in Arabic, Notre Dame a mosque, alcohol banned and vineyards ploughed under, as it offends the Death Cult Crew? Hey...way to go, Europe!
(Photos: Copyright Control).

Christopher Columbus: One You May Not Know...

Was Columbus Secretly Jewish?
Christopher Columbus bids farewell to his son Diego at Palos, Spain, before
 embarking on his first voyage on August 3, 1492
(C) Charles Garcia. He is the CEO of Garcia Trujillo, a business focused on the Hispanic market, and the author of "Leadership Lessons of the White House Fellows." A native of Panama, he now lives in Florida.

Everybody knows the story of Columbus, right? He was an Italian explorer from Genoa who set sail in 1492 to enrich the Spanish monarchs with gold and spices from the orient. Not quite. For too long, scholars have ignored Columbus's grand passion: the quest to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims.

During Columbus's lifetime, Jews became the target of fanatical religious persecution. On March 31, 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella proclaimed that all Jews were to be expelled from Spain. The edict especially targeted the 800,000 Jews who had never converted, and gave them four months to pack up and get out. The Jews who were forced to renounce Judaism were known as "Conversos," or converts. There were also those who feigned conversion, practicing Catholicism outwardly while covertly practicing Judaism.
Columbus, who was known in Spain as Cristóbal Colón and didn't speak Italian, signed his last will and testament on May 19, 1506, and made five curious and revealing provisions.

Two of his wishes -- tithe one-tenth of his income to the poor and provide an anonymous dowry for poor girls are part of Jewish customs. He also decreed to give money to a Jewish man who lived at the entrance of the Lisbon Jewish Quarter. On those documents, Columbus used a triangular signature of dots and letters that resembled inscriptions found on gravestones of Jewish cemeteries in Spain. He ordered his heirs to use the signature in perpetuity. According to British historian Cecil Roth, the anagram was a cryptic substitute for the Kaddish; a prayer recited in the synagogue by mourners after the death of a close relative. Thus, Columbus's subterfuge would allow his sons to say Kaddish for their crypto-Jewish father when he died. Finally, Columbus left money to his successors to take up the cause of liberating the Holy Land from the Muslims.
Estelle Irizarry, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University, USA has analyzed the language and syntax of hundreds of handwritten letters, diaries and documents of Columbus. At the top left-hand corner of all but one of the 13 letters written by Columbus to his son Diego, contained the handwritten Hebrew letters bet-hei, meaning b'ezrat Hashem (with God's help). Observant Jews have for centuries customarily added this blessing to their letters. No letters to outsiders bear this mark, and the one letter to Diego in which this was omitted was one meant for King Ferdinand.

On the day Columbus chose to set sail, scholars point to further evidence of his true motives. He was originally going to sail on August 2, 1492, a day that happened to coincide with the Jewish holiday of Tisha B'Av, marking the destruction of the First and Second Holy Temples of Jerusalem. Columbus postponed this original sail date by one day to avoid embarking on the holiday, which would have been considered by Jews to be an unlucky day to set sail. Columbus's voyage could also have been motivated by a desire to find a safe haven for the Jews in light of their expulsion from Spain as much as finding another route to Asia. Carol Delaney, a cultural anthropologist at Stanford University, concludes that Columbus was a deeply religious man whose purpose was to sail to Asia to obtain gold in order to finance the taking back of Jerusalem and to rebuild the Jews' Holy Temple.

And the Columbus voyage was not, as is commonly believed, funded by the deep pockets of Queen Isabella, but rather by two Jewish Conversos and another prominent Jew. Louis de Santangel and Gabriel Sanchez advanced an interest free loan of 17,000 ducats from their own pockets to help pay for the voyage, as did Don Isaac Abrabanel, rabbi and Jewish statesman.
Indeed, the first two letters Columbus sent back from his journey were not to Ferdinand and Isabella, but to Santangel and Sanchez, thanking them for their support and telling them what he had found.




If Not In A Yellow Submarine...Then Where DO we Live??


Every black hole contains a new universe: A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries...

Nikodem Poplawski displays a "tornado in a tube". The top bottle symbolizes a black hole, the connected necks represent a wormhole and the lower bottle symbolizes the growing universe on the just-formed. What started the big bang? What caused inflation to end? What is the source of the mysterious dark energy that is apparently causing the universe to speed up its expansion?The idea that our universe is entirely contained within a black hole provides answers to these problems and many more. It eliminates the notion of physically impossible singularities in our universe. And it draws upon two central theories in physics. (Physorg.com) (Photo: Copyright Control)
Now you bold boffins...if this two bottle trick turns out to be the answer to the holy grail for you folks in physics, there's still the question and problem of the genesis universe...like...where did the first universe come from? One way out of this might have to be a tad metaphysical: there has always been what we might call "a place of the eternal." A place outside space and time from which all things flow. Not a proposition that we'd get our heads around any time soon...if ever...
Read more from Mr Popawski by clicking on the link...
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-black-hole-universe-physicist-solution.html

Sunday, May 20, 2012

The Doctor And The Sheik...

Here's an excellent 7 minute video (in Arabic with translation) between the well respected Dr Wafa Sultan and Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad. 
Dr Wafa Sultan
The Sheikh will enlighten you as to the implications for a non Muslim living under Shari Law. The format for the discussion is that each participant is given the same amount of time to speak without interruption, with of course, the Sheikh beginning his pitch first. Dr Wafa Sultan his opponent, is a class act who cuts to the chase and is an expert at hitting nails on the head. Just lick the link and do watch the full 7 minutes. (Photo: Copyright Control)
http://www.mrctv.org/videos/dr-wafa-sultan-exposs-islamic-values-sheikh-omar-bakri-muhammad

Saturday, May 19, 2012

South Sudan: Free From Islam's Barbarians...


South Sudan's Friendship With Israel!

Prime Minister Netanyahu with
South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit
UBA, South Sudan (JTA) – Sudan’s second civil war lasted from 1983 to 2005 and resulted in an estimated 1.5 million to 2.5 million deaths. Juba, the city in the world’s newest country is not your typical Arabic-speaking capital. For one thing, most of the city’s inhabitants are Christian. For another, the Israeli flag is ubiquitous here. Miniature Israeli flags hang from car windshields and flutter at roadside stalls, and at the Juba souk in the city’s downtown, you can buy lapel pins with the Israeli flag alongside its black, red and green South Sudanese counterpart.

“I love Israel,” said Joseph Lago, who sells pens, chewing gum and phone cards at a small wooden stall decorated with Israeli and South Sudanese flags. “They are people of God.” Many South Sudanese are not just pro-Israel but proudly and openly so. There’s a Juba neighborhood called Jerusalem. A hotel near the airport is called the Shalom. Perhaps most notable, South Sudan’s fondness for Israel extends to the diplomatic arena, where the two countries have been building strategic ties in a relationship that long preceded the founding of South Sudan last July.
“They see in Israel a kind of a role model of how a small nation surrounded by enemies can survive and prosper, and they would like to imitate that,” Haim Koren, the incoming Israeli ambassador to South Sudan, said “Israel was the only country that helped the Christian rebels in South Sudan.They provided advisers to the Anyana, which is one reason why the government of South Sudan wanted to sign a peace agreement.
Agriculture is another reason for the alliance. South Sudan’s economic future likely depends on large-scale farming. 
Now free from the Islamofascists.
There was little commercial development in the region during the war years, and the country still imports much of its food from Uganda, despite sitting on some of Africa’s richest potential farmland.
Israel already has a small presence in the country in the form of IsraAid, an Israeli NGO coalition. In March, an IsraAid delegation helped South Sudan set up its Ministry of Social Development, which will provide social work-related services for a population traumatized by decades of war.
“Whenever you say you’re from Israel, they’ll open you the door,” said Ophelie Namiech, the head of the Israeli delegation. “When we say we’re Israeli, the trust has already been built.” (JTA) (Photos: Copyright Control)

Friday, May 18, 2012

Friday's Song Pic #5

Though most folk think they are an American band, Alabama 3 are a British band mixing rock, dance, blues, country, and gospel styles, founded in Brixton, London, in 1995. In the United States, it is known as A3, allegedly to avoid any possible legal conflict with the country music band Alabama.

The band is particularly notable for its fusion of styles, lyrics full of ironic intent, their deliberately humorous personas, and its outrageous live performances.(Wikipedia)
In 2007 the Alabama 3 playing  London Astoria, UK.
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