I suppose we shouldn’t be too surprised. This is just a continuation of the “better red than dead” theme that the Left advocated some 30 years ago. From the Daily Pos, A Simple Way to End the War on Terror…..(h/t DogByte6RER)….

While it appears from more than one point of view that the War in Iraq and the War on Terror are situations from which we may never be able to extricate ourselves, from the mountains of Pakistan comes a very simple solution: convert to Islam.

Before we reject this out of hand, lets seriously consider it for a moment: Osama Bin Laden promised the wars would be over if Americans convert to Islam.

This may sound like a lot to ask from the most religious country in the industrialized world. But of all the Christians in America today who profess to be religious, how many of us are seriously devout?

How many of us are really just religious lightweights, happy to simply go to church every Sunday, attend church socials, knock back a drink or two every Christmas and not worry ourselves about the deeper implications of our faith?

Given the way most of us pay any real attention to the tenets of our faith, life really wouldn’t be that different if we were to exchange one faith for another. The prayers would be different, but we would recite them just as mindlessly as we do today. The sermons would in all likelihood be exactly the same, and we’d continue to snore through them.

Sure, there are a few people here and there who take religion seriously, but they are in such a small minority that their protests can be easily ignored. All in all, converting to Islam would be a small price to pay for an end to the killing and maiming of our sons and daughters, not to mention the billions of dollars we could put to better use than fighting this perpetual war. So let’s do away with our religious pretences, adopt Islam as our new faith, add a few extra holidays to our calendar, and get down to the real business at hand: pumping oil.

What a f*ing maroon.

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The usual suspects: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, and Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Sander Levin issued a statement on Democrat trade policy rejecting a free trade agreement with our closest ally in Latin America, Colombia. According to them, it cannot be approved until “concrete evidence of sustained results on the ground in Colombia” regarding issues such as violence and corruption have been shown. This action was taken in July, and is now beginning to bear fruit.

Two candidates in Sunday’s regional elections in Colombia have been killed, bringing the total of candidates killed during the campaign to at least 21.

“There are still investigations underway, but we believe this is the Farc,”

Government officials say 21 candidates have been killed, although other sources put the toll higher at 29.

President Alvaro Uribe announced last week a $25,000 reward for any information leading to the arrests of those responsible for the murders of candidates.

Colombians will vote on Sunday to fill some 15,000 regional posts, including governors, mayors, regional assembly members and municipal officials. source

If Colombia’s hard left was upset before with Mr. Uribe, this has really stirred up the nest. Their only hope is help from Washington so they are returning to what worked before, this time recyling tired old charges that the president has links to paramilitary groups and insisting that the government has been protecting assassins who target union leaders.

Democrats seem only too happy to help. They can’t invoke the Leahy Law against civilians but blocking the FTA in the name of “human rights” is just as good. It satisfies the “sandalistas,” who still dream of a Cuban revolution for all of Latin America, and it makes the most important Democratic Party constituent, the AFL-CIO, happy by knocking off any threat of new international competition.

This may be good for shoring up the Democrat’s base but it is harmful to U.S. geopolitical interests in the Western Hemisphere and to an important U.S. ally and it will dash the hopes for a better life of millions of impoverished Colombians. Either the Democrats have very poor foreign policy judgment or they have sympathy for the devil.

The Democrats’ interventionism also damages the U.S. image in Colombia because it trivializes the will of the Colombian people. Mr. Uribe is immensely popular and the FTA, which he has made his own project, has worked its way through the democratic process. Who are the Democrats to say that the country is not worthy of the partnership? And as for support for the FARC, which Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.) once claimed had “legitimate complaints,” Democrats might like to take note of the events surrounding the murder of the lawmakers and the public’s reaction. source

We previously highlighted this paragraph from the October 10, 2007 Desert Morning News…..

Reid also told reporters the Republican Party has been driven by evangelical Christians for 20 years. “They are the most anti-Christian people I can imagine, the people from the Christian far right.”

Reid’s recent attack on Rush Limbaugh has been turned on its head into a fund-raising cause for The Marine Corps - Law Enforcement Foundation, with the current bid exceeding $45,000. No one uses humor to deflect the lies of the Left better than Rush. “Phony Soldiers,” indeed.

I’m hoping that some of you may be able to see a way to use humor to turn this new attack by Reid on Evangelical Christians into a humor-based response. Please feel free to add your suggestions in the comments section.

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from FoxNews.com h/t Robert D

Most fans would probably think that a homeland security emergency at a NASCAR race would take the form of a terror attack. But after hearing all the noise in Washington the last couple of days, they’d be wrong.

The argument began when congressional aides were advised to get real-life immunizations against several communicable diseases — including hepatitis, diphtheria, tetanus and influenza — before traveling to look at preparations being made by local first responders for hypothetical scenarios at the tracks in Talladega, Ala., and Concord, N.C.

The head of the House Homeland Security Committee called it standard procedure, but the congressman representing Concord called that bunk.

Gentlemen, start your engines . . .

“I am beginning to get offended,” said Republican Rep. Robin Hayes. “We thought it was silly that you needed to get a vaccination to come to Concord to go to the NASCAR races. This is the greatest sport on Earth today and you sure don’t need a shot to come down here.”

Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi said he never meant to offend or scare anyone about health risks at the races.

Big Bennie Thompson’s hatred for white people is longstanding and undeniable. From his unapologetically racial political campaigns for Hinds County Supervisor in the late 70’s to his election to the House in his gerrymandered congressional district, his safe seat makes him a favorite for advocating far-left causes.

“If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, ‘You can go to any school you want to; we don’t see race.’ Biggest lie ever told.” source

Leslie Southwick and Charles Pickering, both white Mississippians up for Federal judgeships, earned false and misleading posturing from Big Bennie, who accused them of racism. It didn’t matter to Thompson that many black Democrats told Thompson that the judges were not racist. They were white conservatives. To Thompson’s, that’s all that matters.

As Thompson’s stature rises with his chairmanship of the House Homeland Security Committee, Thompson will undoubtably learn to mask his hatred of whites better.

Lost in the coverage of Harry Reid’s pilgrimage to Salt Lake City this week was this small paragraph from the Deseret Morning News…

Reid also told reporters the Republican Party has been driven by evangelical Christians for 20 years. “They are the most anti-Christian people I can imagine, the people from the Christian far right.”

Let that statement sink in for a minute.

For all of the bluster and faux outrage exhibited by leading Democrats about conservatives somehow questioning their “patriotism,” for Harry Reid to make a statement which questions the Salvation of conservative Christians is remarkable for its self-righteousness, arrogance, and mean-spiritedness.

To be “anti-Christian”, it also follows that one is “anti-Christ.” Reid’s statement goes far beyond political criticism into the realm of spiritual condemnation: a symbolic “shaking off the dust from the shoes” as a witness against the recalcitrance and unrepented spirit of another. It is indeed a judgement that is called for in Scripture, but one that should not be used lightly, nor in an emotional outburst. Reid’s statement was calculated as well as cynical. His words call for a broad judgement and condemnation of tens of millions of Americans who are Christians, who happen to vote Republican.

Harry Reid says that conservative Christians have focused too much on single issues such as abortion, while the country has “gone beyond that to other issues,” such as global warming. Over 1,000,000 American children die each year at abortion mills in this country. It’s no wonder that Democrats do not want to confront that figure and are ready to move on to their new-age buzz-issues like global warming. One million American deaths each year is such a mind-boggling figure that it’s completely understandable that Democrats don’t want to focus on it, or on the brutality and guilt-inducing consequences of their support for this barbarism.

After reading Harry Reid’s words, it’s clear that he considers himself both a patriot as well as a Christian. Obviously he has re-defined both words to meet his political motives and behaviors. Not surprising, given that this is the political party who was led by a man who was unable to define the meaning of “is.”

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