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Illuminating article. Explains the unconcern about their daughter:
Want to Understand How Syef Farook and Tashfeen Malik Could Leave Behind a Baby Daughter to Kill Innocent Victims in a Jihadi Attack? Look to Islamic Doctrine
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That does (partially) explain it. The whole thing is crazy.
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I am so weary of the deliberate deflections about true Islam and its doctrine and the continual repackaging of it so it is palatable to the classically liberal mind.
FAO/ROAs (Foreign Area Officers) who have extensive training in language, culture and what Islamic doctrine actually is labor under no such delusions.
I understand “Godwin’s Rule” WRT making comparisons to Nazis and their brand of socialist doctrine. However, when examining Islam, the comparison is not only valid but necessary. Hitler had an alliance with the Grand Mufti of Jerusaleum, who was given office space and staff in Berlin. Hitler often expressed his admiration for the Islamists, stating in a public speech:
“The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France”.
In biographical info published about Hitler by his closest advisors, they explain that Hitler admired the ruthlessness of which Islamists spread their doctrine, and was quite happy to exploit that, as he felt that in the very end the triumphant ethnically pure Germans, once they had control over all of Europe, would then deal with the Islamists and take control of their terrorities as well. The modern day Progressives hew to the same belief. They are in admiration with the ruthlessness with which Islamists gain power and control, and even provide aid, cover and comfort, because in the end, they feel that they will also be able to take over and control the Islamists in the final battle for the establishment of the perfect collectivist state.
So, when people discuss Islam, I always in my mind substitute “Nazi”. For example, the premise, “not all Muslims (Nazis) are bad. There are some very nice Muslims (Nazis).” You begin to see how ridiculous it all is. I refuse to sign up for my own genocide. Islam is not a great religion deserving of all kinds of state protections and carve-outs, it is a complete totalarian system managed through terror and force.
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Mornin’ kids!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed! You’re up early for a Saturday.
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Is that ValJar and Loretta too?
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Mornin’ Stella! Indeed it is….. 🙄
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Morning Stella,
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Boris!
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Morning Nye,
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Mornin sir!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed, just returned from breakfast with the local QRF, that’s what these old guys call themselves. Heavy frost, 32*, wind light from SSW. Will be patrolling the perimeter shorty.
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Good morning, Col.! It’s a bit foggy here this morning, and cold. Stay warm!
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Mornin’ Colonel!
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Do you check the fence line on a horse? My DH is insistent we get a Tennessee walker when we finally settle on some land. He feels it’s like riding ontop a warm plush Cadillac. I like to feed and water a more multi-purpose one. I find their gait too strange for me.
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Awful early for me to spit coffee out’a my nose. Mornin’ all. Gettin’ some more ready. Un momento, por favor.
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Mornin’ Tex!
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Mornin’ Miss Stella. Coffee’s ready. Sure do need a cup on this frosty mornin’. It’s 36* and a sheen of frost covers the field in the front of Rancho el Gordito. 🙂
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They have FROST in Texas??????
Just kidding. Long story, but on one of our PCS moves from hell we ended up having to sleep in our car on the side of the highway about an hour out of El Paso in the middle of nothin’. It was January and we were not toasty.
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We even had 1/4″ of snow once. Shut everything down for three days. 😆
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That always slays me. I come from a place where they put airplanes on SKIS to keep commerce comin’ and goin’. My DH thought I was kidding when we first started dating. (Silly Brooklyn Boy).
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I grew up in Indiana so I know what happens in the real world of snow. That’s why I headed south as soon as I could. 😯
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😯 😯
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I hear ya. I’m so tired of people saying, “But you come from Canada, you should be used to it !” whenever I complain about the cold. My reply, “Yeah, but doesn’t mean I like it and that’s why I left as soon as I could !”. When we first moved to Pensacola it was Feb and 60*. My kids walked to school in shorts and T-shirts because to them, it was WARM weather and they were thrilled. Our native FL neighbors were stunned.
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Mornin’ T!
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Mornin’ ma’am. We shall celebrate the passing of one of THE DUMBEST amendments ever today. Maybe very soon today. 😉
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Awesome. Perfect summation.
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Good morning WeeWeed and all 🙂
That is a fabulous picture.
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Mornin’ lovely!
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Front and center! Where they should be.
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Afternoon MaryfromMarin!
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And over-the-top-of-the-morning to you, nyet! Glad to be here.
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George has a Santa hat! He must have been pre-channeling Thomas Nast.
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Puddy built it for him! 😀
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Good news! I just got notice from American Express that I got the credit from the wine club that never shipped.
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Such timing! On the anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition!! 😀
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Is it really? We should have a celebration.
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Dec. 5, 1933!
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I used to frequent a bar that had the first liquor license issued in Detroit after Prohibition. It was a speakeasy during – Pinky’s Boulevard Club, located at East Grand Boulevard and Jefferson Avenue. Sadly, it is now a Starbucks.
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I just read that it was run by a Nazi sympathizer during WWII, and he once sheltered a Nazi spy. Was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death. Name was Max Stephan.
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Wow, didn’t know, now I’m waiting for the Budweiser Horses to come up the lane, home beer delivery! Many years ago was attending a KC MNF game. The Bud Team was there. Was talking to one of the wranglers, then came show time. As the Horses and wagon passed, Ms.Budweiser threw a t-shirt at me. No phone number, no free beer, just a t-shirt. I rather spend time with the horses, than Ms.Budweiser.
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Showin’ your age sir. 😆
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How “frequent” was that Miss Stella? 😆
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Just during boating season, when I was sleeping on a boat at the Detroit Boat Club (now defunct) on Belle Isle. Just over a bridge to the island. The bar was right at the corner where the bridge met Jefferson Ave. Otherwise, it was too far from home. 😀
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Starbucks ruins everything 😦
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I agree! Pinky’s was a cozy little supper club with a piano bar, and much singing went on there.
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Much singing at the piano bar….
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VICTORY !!!!
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Breakfast!
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What a spot! Mornin’ nyet.
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Mornin’ stella!
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Good morning. Looks like a great place to start the day.
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Good morning Menagerie!
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Good morning everyone! Breakfast is over, the mess (grandkids) cleaned and I’m thinking more coffee is needed for the day.
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We ventured out for resupply yesterday. Our local market had a particular brand of coffee we enjoy on sale, so we stocked up. One thing we like about this brand is their no-fuss, plain Jane packaging. Now they’ve gone all high-falutin’. The various coffee types have “tasting notes” and “suggestions on pairings” on the packaging.
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Mornin’ Menage!
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Good morning, Menage!
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Looks like Magnum PI’s ocean pool in the opening scene of his show. More BACAN, please! Thank you Nye, Like,like,like.
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Beautiful view but a little skimpy on the bacon portions, IYKWIM. 😉
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Mornin’ ytz4mee!
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Dzień Dobry Doktor Nyet !!
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Good morning Nyet, 🙂
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Mornin’ morning lovely!
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I just read a post on Facebook asking “What do you think is the biggest threat to our nation today?” One commenter replied “Our politicians”
That’s my boy!
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Coffe’s up y’all. Stayed up late with the ankle-biters watching old video’s of them and their PaPa. Sorry I’m late. 🙂
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Mornin’ texan59! Thank you very much!
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Mornin’ Dr. No. That’s a pretty spiffy spread you put out this mornin’. Manny garcias. 🙂
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Tex, those are the good moments, good coffee, thank you Sir.
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Indeed they are Col. Good mornin’ to you, and the pot will be running all day. 😉
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We took six kids to the town parade last night. Three adults was not a high enough ratio and we ran down way before them.
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Take ’em to the “mall” today for some more practice. 😆
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I am not currently taking hallucinogens so no, thank you. I go to the mall only to get a hair cut. Never will I take the rug rats.
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Awww, so sweet!
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I just always thought you had to watch out for deer on the highway. 😯
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/alaska-airlines-plane-kills-deer-while-landing-in-santa-rosa/ar-AAg2Ebo?li=BBnb7Kz
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Nope. The runways in the north get shut down all the time because the Moose and Elk like to sleep on the warm black top asphalt and NOTHING will move them until they’re ready to move. And there’s no fence line in the world that’ll keep ’em OUT. It’s not unusual to get a NOTAMS (Notice to Airmen) about a temporary shutdown.
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The most interesting thing about that article to me is that Alaska Airlines has service to Santa Rosa…. I always thought it was just a GA airport. I’ll have to let my daughter know.
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This is a pretty good deal if she get’s canned….or bought out. Wonder if we’ll hear about the “pay gap” if this kicks in one day. 🙄
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/dollar1579-million-yahoos-mayer-wins-no-matter-what/ar-AAg1xsy?li=BBnbfcN
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The “faux outrage” crews are everywhere. Even in Mehico. 🙄
http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/coca-cola-under-fire-for-super-offensive-ad/ar-AAg1wHC
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Si, because that ain’t the kind of coke the Sinoloa geeve us, ese!! 🙄
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Yummy. I love it when Progressives get bit by the monster they invented. Who’s up next? Benetton ???
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This seemed fun:
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😀 😀 😀
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Someone else may have posted this:
[London] Leytonstone stabbing: Man ‘screams this is for Syria’ after horror attack in Tube station
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/leytonstone-stabbing-man-screams-syria-6961900
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Just one time I wish these thugs would run into worse thugs – that’ll cut THEIR throat.
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Disintegration is happening all around us, more and more rapidly. People need to be prepared, physically, mentally, and–most importantly–spiritually. God is the ultimate Victor, but there will be (more) horrors and suffering before the end.
I read 2 Timothy this morning. Struck by a lot, but this for sure:
“Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.”
[2 Timothy 3:12-13]
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The tree is up the light are on, and all working 🙂 !!!
We can’t find the wooden manger 😦 ? but we have all the people and as usual Joseph has lost his head over the season of storage so he is being glued together.
Hope everyone is having a jolly day.
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There’s a black humor-type comment in there somewhere, about ISIS burning down the structure and beheading the Jewish man.
Sorry… 😦
I hope your home is looking lovely, lovely! No tree here yet–my husband is out of town, and I can’t possibly solo manhandle the artificial tree storage box down from the loft in the garage. Maybe tomorrow!
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We buy a fresh tree. Always as much fun picking it out as it is putting it up. Sad too in that there are only two of us now home for Christmas. But there are lots of happy memories and the older two do come home for a few days then we all get together with the rest of the family.
Yeah poor Joseph I don’t know what happened but it is a manger scene which was given to my girls the year their dad passed and it was given to us by a friend in her 80’s and she has since passed. Anyhow it is a treasure. I’m sure the manger is in the basement somewhere. << Sorry not trying to be depressing, just talking about the sentimentality attached to some things.
We have a lot of Peanuts decorations which always make me smile. The dogs weren't bad this year and didn't think the tree was an intruder though the kiddo hung a chime low and every time the most high-strung dog walk by it we are regaled with music and the dog takes off running because she thinks something bad is happening 🙂 her nails need clipping and she can't get a good grip on the hardwood floor when she is running, so it is all an all a pretty entertaining scene.
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Put up our tree last night.
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We have 1 Mommas, and 2 bebees left from an original litter of 5 kitties…… Mommas is 17, the bebees will be 16 on April 11. Anyway, the first Christmas tree we put up both amazed and horrified them – the tree was climbed, killed, ornaments rolled everywhere the entire season. That was an artificial tree with arranged lighting.
It never worked again.
The End.
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My last cat, a big male, like to lay under the tree inside the train tracks and bat at the ornaments, so I put non-breakable ones within his reach. When he was a young cat, with his sister, they would bat at the artificial tree until they managed to turn it completely around.
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Sounds about right.
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The other migrant crisis: Cubans are streaming north in large numbers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/the-other-migrant-crisis-cubans-are-streaming-north-in-large-numbers/2015/12/05/3160772e-992f-11e5-aca6-1ae3be6f06d2_story.html
The number of unauthorized Cubans arriving in the United States nearly doubled in fiscal 2015, rising to 43,159 from 24,278 the previous year, according to U.S. border officials, and the surge appears to be accelerating. The vast majority are coming not in rickety boats or rafts but right through U.S. ports of entry at the border with Mexico. Combined with the more than 20,000 who are issued immigration visas annually under existing accords, it amounts to the largest influx of Cubans into the United States in decades.
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I knew a guy several years ago that had family in the Dominican Republic. He would visit for his annual two week vacation and take a quick trip via ferry to pickup cigars. Perhaps they’re just a courier service….. Yeah, that’s it. That’s the ticket. 🙄
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