CATHOLICS CHEER BUSH

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

They should. And they should vote for the United States President’s agenda during his second term. It squares with biblical morality.

Therefore, when Mr. Bush spoke to the national Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, he spoke as Christian to Christians. The latter got the message and responded to the President with resounding applause.

There were 1600 meeting in the Washington Hilton, according to Patricia Zapor, Catholic News Service. They were all most attentive to the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth. They were in his corner. They were encouraged by his convictions.

"’Freedom rests on the self-evident truths about human dignity,’ Mr. Bush said. ‘Pope Benedict XVI recently warned that when we forget these truths, we risk sliding into a dictatorship of relativism where we can no longer defend our values. Catholics and non-Catholics alike can take heart in the man who sits on the chair of St. Peter, because he speaks with affection about the American model of liberty rooted in moral conviction.’"

In other words, both Catholics and Protestant Mr. Bush hold to the divine revelation. It is God who has spoken in Holy Scriptures concerning right and wrong. There are eternal absolutes. Life is not left to immoral relativism, situation ethics and each mortal writing his own religion and calling it baptized by Jehovah.

For these principles, Christians are daily derided by the political and religious liberals. John F. Kerry and wife, for instance, continue to desecrate communion by receiving the sacrament while supporting evils such as killing womb babies. The same for Edward Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi. And the list unfortunately could be extended.

For too long the "Catholics in name only" have held that their Christian ethics should not be reflected in their political lives. In other words, hypocrisy is acceptable. In other words, the morality died for by the martyrs is up for grabs by today’s political opportunists. In other words, the biblical mandates of all time are open for slicing up in the name of "freedom" and "all things to all people."

Mr. Bush lives by his Christian ethics, regardless of popularity or not. He has reiterated that he does not expect to push his Christian convictions upon others. Each individual may choose whatever religion or no religion he wishes to adhere to. However, for Mr. Bush, he states that he has the liberty right to live his Christian faith, speak of it and guide his daily principles by it.

It appears at the Catholic Prayer Breakfast that those in attendance agreed with such a stalwart witness. They were very pleased with the President’s strong positions. No quibbling. No waffling. No compromise. Vintage Mr. Bush, as always true to his inner self and the God who rules his existence.

He said Catholics "’have made sacrifices throughout American history because they understand that freedom is a divine gift that carries with it serious responsibilities. Among the greatest of these responsibilities is protecting the most vulnerable members of our society.’

Bush's comments were greeted with enthusiastic applause, especially when he referred to Pope John Paul II, whose funeral Bush attended in April; when he praised Catholic schools; and when he referred several times to a ‘culture of life,’ a phrase the late pope used often."

Fellow Christians would state emphatically that they believe that much of Mr. Bush’s executive success has been due to his alignment with God’s expectations for his committed life. Therefore, these believers would witness that Mr. Bush has been blessed by the Creator for defending the Creator’s moral base.

Without doubt, Mr. Bush will go down through history as the Freedom President. It is he who initiated Operation Iraqi Freedom’s three-week-win victory over despot Saddam Hussein. It was he who saw come to pass the historic January 30 vote at grassroots level in the New Iraq. It was he would witnessed the inauguration of the National Assembly in Baghdad.

It was Mr. Bush who initiated the planting of a democracy in Afghanistan which eventuated in that country’s first actual constitution of the people. Now Mr. Bush continues to see the liberty spread throughout the nation, regardless of the hounding from leftover Taliban attacks.

It was Mr. Bush who cheered on the democracy intentions of Ukraine as well as the democracy vote expectations anticipated this fall in Egypt. It was Mr. Bush who took in the oppressive militia release from Lebanon, the latter now promised governance of its own future. It was Mr. Bush who encouraged the democracy vote in Ethiopia recently.

With the global freedom spread envisioned by Mr. Bush, other countries are coming alive with hope for liberties personal. It’s the yearning of the human being. Mr. Bush has continually referred to that hunger within the human heart.

With that backdrop to his first and second terms in office, Mr. Bush’s sincerity was warming accepted by Catholics attending the annual breakfast. They conclude they have a faith-filled friend seated in the Oval Office. And in that they are exceptionally correct.

Thank God.

WHY ARE CHRISTIANS THE HATED?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

I’m not talking about church people in general. I’m talking about real Christians. I don’t care their denominational tag any more than God cares about their denominational tag. I’m caring about the living-out-Jesus-believer who knows His Bible and seeks to breathe it out.

Now why is it that the world by and large hates this Christian? His Christianity? His Jesus?

It’s because Jesus doesn’t fit in here. He never did fit in here. Therefore, till the end of world spin there will never be a love affair between the world in general and Jesus in particular.

But what’s the reason?

The reason is because Jesus is no fancy fellow who dances around ambiguities. I just got finished reading my recent issue of HARVARD DIVINITY BULLETIN. I get that publication because I once attended Cambridge’s Harvard Divinity School.

I note that once again in that publication there is not much of a liking for Jesus — the real Jesus of the Gospel accounts. Now that is quite alarming to have to type that considering that I’m talking about a seminary.

Nevertheless, ‘tis true and has been true for decades upon decades. There is not much of a love for Jesus as the Bible presents Jesus at HDS.

Now of course there is the liking of the demythologized Jesus at HDS. That’s the Jesus whom anyone can carve out to fit his or her theological liberalism. But I’m not talking about the liberal take on Jesus. I’m talking about the Jesus in the Gospel records — just as they read, not as they are sliced up for theological convenience sake.

Back to Jesus not being a fancy fellow who dances around ambiguities. HDS is built upon ambiguities. The more confusing a theologian can get at HDS the more he is considered intelligent and socially acceptable.

The more ambiguous a HDS religion instructor can present himself / herself, the more he / she will likely remain there on the faculty — and be invited to speak at conventions in Hawaii and have several books published with his / her name as author / authoress. Check out Harvey Cox for a real live example.

Because real Christians don’t believe in the HDS Jesus, they are not liked all that much. They don’t accommodate their Jesus to the sweet society of religious relativism. They take Jesus for who He claims to be — the One hated and despised, the Moral Measure for the disciple’s life, the Final Judge of every soul, the God Incarnate who decrees what is right and wrong.

Now that’s a tough Jesus to deal with, let alone live for and confront at the last breath. Nevertheless, that in reality is the Jesus of the Gospel records. He calls for an ethical life of holiness. He does not tolerate moral compromising. He will not stand for an individual writing his own religion and calling it baptized by Jehovah.

Jesus says "those who love Me will keep my commandments." So that’s a Jesus who makes a soul accountable — not to his own moral code opportunistically molded to his own situation ethics — but to the morality of the divine revelation.

Jesus says that "they hate Me, they will hate you." So that’s a Jesus who warns His own that the culture will be hostile, the society will not kiss up, the liberal church will be so pharisaical that it will seek to burn alive the genuinely devout.

No wonder the world hates Christians, Christianity and their Christ.

DEAN UPROARS HIS HATE SPEECH RHETORIC

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Democratic National Party Chairman Howard Dean upped his hate speech - typical, expected, inflammatory, damaging. But does he care? Not a twit. Not.

Therefore, when Dean gave forth with speeches recently around the country, he hit hard. There was no wiggle room for respectability. With such harangues, the Dems continue to bury themselves. Individuals who like to play fair - even in politics - are repulsed by such cheap mouthing.

However, when you're a Howard Dean, all that madness comes innately. It's part of his persona. He was born with it, in other words. Therefore, the Dems, knowing what they were getting when they made him Chairman, are getting just what they deserve - nothing constructive, all destructive.

Instead of rationally formulating concepts and programs that do the nation's business well, Dean slaps and slams. American could never work daily from the White House in such backward diatribe mode.

Yet with all the warnings the Dems have been handed from various quarters, they continue to continue on the downward path, Dean hosting the way.

Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY, calls it "his trademark red-meat rhetoric." Dean calls Republicans "corrupt," "brain-dead," "mean."

He said, "'They are not nice people.'" That was broadcast in a radio talkabout on Air American Minnesota, according to the political newsletter Hotline.

According to USA TODAY, "Last weekend he said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, whose associates are under investigation but who has not been charged with anything, should go home to Houston to 'serve his jail sentence' at Texas expense.

"At the same time, Dean tells Democrats they need to 'respect people in all 50 states' and try to win them over. 'We need to talk to people from our hearts,' he told California Democrats."

It seems to me that the Dems, led by Dean, are doing just that. But what can you say to America in red-white-and-blue when your heart is black with soot?

HUSSEIN'S UNDERPANTS: who cares?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

I cannot believe all the newscasts are in his pants.

It's not obscene that a photographer took Saddam Hussein standing straight up in his white underwear. What is tawdry is the media making such a deal about it.Every hour on the hour it's the first news flashed around the world. A photo of the former dictator got to the front tabloid page. Now the global informed see the 68-year-old bloodhound in his undies.

I thought, "What is going on here? Surely it must be a slow news day. It has to be. Otherwise, this kind of underlining makes no sense at all. Not at all."

Then the newsfeeds go on to say that the US military is aghast. And more: there's going to be an investigation. Further: this pix could violate the Geneva whatevers!

All this new protection for the murderer excellent. All this coverage given to the uncovering of one of the most demonic wretches breathing. Yes.Then there has to be something desperately wrong with this picture. And it's not the one with a guy in his short. It's the media making hay out the guy in his shorts.

Unbelievable.

Well, I do suppose that we are all a bit weary about the filibuster bust in the Congress. So no doubt a sideline of Hussein baring his legs for the public is some sort of spring lark.

But really now.

ENGLISH COPS ASK PUBLIC ABOUT RELIGION?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

There is concern that Muslim presence in Britain is getting out of hand and might get even more out of hand.

Therefore, it’s suggested that when the police stop a person for questioning, searching and so forth, the police ask the individual what religion he or she belongs to.

There are those Muslims who are up in arms about this recommendation. They say it will spike anger from the Islamics. Therefore, they are appealing to authorities not to follow through with questioning the public about their religious preference.

Muslims suspect that if they give their religion identity, it could lead to unpleasant situations. Just being stopped and searched is anguish enough without having to inform the cop about one’s religion. However, the recommendation is still being made and time will tell if it is put in place.

According to Ben Lespman, Home Affairs Corespondent for The Evening Standard: "People stopped and searched by police could be asked to disclose their religion under plans being considered by the Government."

There are already in place antiterrorism laws meant to keep the peace. There are those who believe that finding out if a person is a practicing Muslim could help spy out the threat of lawlessness brought about by Muslim zealots who are intent on wiping out all "infidels," that is, persons who are not Muslims.

The postulate set forth in the Koran is that all non-Muslims must be eliminated, even Muslims who do not cooperate in the crusade. In other words, the world must be populated only by zealot Muslims. All others must be eliminated. With that kind of severe threat upon society, some British officials are planning on impacting severely before the Muslim threat gets out of hand.

"The plan, in a report by Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair to the Met Police Authority, emerges a day after Home Secretary Charles Clarke told the Police Federation annual conference he would cut red tape."

NO DEAL ON FILIBUSTER. NO DEAL!

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Making a deal on the filibuster is like making a deal on abortion. It can’t happen.

Either one aborts the baby or one does not abort the baby. There is no half baby in the situation. It’s the baby stays alive all the way or the baby is murdered all the way. That’s what abortion is all about — killing a total infant — snuffing out a total existence, not a part of an existence.

When it comes to the filibuster, it’s that Congresspersons get to talk indefinitely about a matter or they don’t get to talk indefinitely about a matter. There’s no half-way here. It’s allowing the yakathon or not allowing the yakathon.

Yet there is talk today about the Republicans and Democrats carving out "a deal."

A deal? There cannot be logically a deal worked out on the filibuster. Again, there is no halfway here. It’s either the cultural lag waste of time, childishly yakking away for as long as mouths press to move or it’s working civilly within the Congress to do the people’s business.

On with doing the people’s business. Congresspersons were not elected by intelligent persons so that Congresspersons could waste time and energy and money by destroying civil dialogue for day care center exercises of moving the lips with no other intent but to obstruct.

No deal. No deal on the filibuster. No deal.

And any Republicans, such as my own Maine state Senators, who clamor for a deal or float conveniently to the Democrat’s side, are not worthy of being Republicans. Of course, I am daily embarrassed by Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe being my "Republican" persons in the US Congress. But there’s not much I can do about it except cast my one vote because Maine is as liberal as sin.

But for any Republicans to cave in to the Democrats’ hoot and cry about unfair this and that just because they don’t get their spoiled way when they want is mutiny. Collins and Snowe are set as prime examples of that kind of Judas betrayal constant.

No deal. No deal on the filibuster. No deal.

Fox News reporters Julie Asher, Wendell Goler, Molly Hooper and Liza Porteus and The Associated Press give the following at present: "Senators are still negotiating that part of the deal and it is subject to change, aides said.

"Under the latest Republican-crafted proposal, both sides would have to operate on ‘good faith.’ Republicans would be bound not to ban judicial filibusters only if Democrats forswear judicial filibusters except for extraordinary situations, aides said.

"But that plan doesn't sit well for some.

"’I don't like that plan at all because I think that's where we're deciding who's going to get a vote and who's not,’ Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., told FOX News Thursday morning. ‘I believe all of these nominees — they've been vetted, they've come out of committee, they're extremely qualified and we ought to vote them up-or-down.’"

Of course Shelby is correct. How can there be a deal in "good faith" when once again Democrats and Republicans will be butting heads in order to define what "good faith" means when it comes to "’deciding who’s going to get a vote and who’s not.’"

And what will "extraordinary situations" mean? What??

Pray tell how can the Congresspersons play God at just that point? They can’t and they won’t. So we’re back to square one.

This is all getting pretty silly at best and horrific at worst. On with the show, Republicans. Band together and douse the filibuster once and for all. Get to the people’s business and get to it now.

CATHOLIC UNIV ANTI-GOD TO INVITE ABORTION PROP GIULIANI TO SPEAK

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

A Christian cannot support killing womb babies. That means that a Christian Catholic cannot support killing womb babies.

The one excludes the other. They cannot live side by side. If there is an attempt at that, then the individual commits sacrilege. Then that person engages in blasphemy by endorsing murder of the first order.

Some call it "abortion."

The truth is that "abortion" is murdering a human being inside a female’s body. So call it murder or killing or slicing through or throwing away or whatever horrific term you would choose to describe wiping out of existence a mortal made in the image of God.

Therefore, when former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a womb baby killer enthusiast, has been asked to speak at an alleged Christian campus, the campus leadership has gone astray spiritually — grossly so. There is no other way to reason it.

Some moral situations are black and white, just simply right and wrong. There is no middle ground. When it comes to killing an infant in a mother’s body, there is no killing half an infant. It’s killing an infant — an entire infant. There in other words is no practical middle ground and therefore there is no theological nor philosophical middle ground.

Christian morality is given us in the divine revelation. That Holy Scriptures stipulate that killing an infant is an abhorrent sin and that that unrepentant sin will lead to eternal damnation. Those who support that sin are just as guilty as those who commit that sin.

Giuliani may profess to be a Roman Catholic but he is not a Roman Catholic. He is a renegade "Catholic." He is like unto John F. Kerry and Edward Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi. These mortals are saying to the world that they are "Catholic." They have gone through the regime of becoming church members, but they are not Catholic any more than a womb baby killing Episcopalian is a Christian.

Furthermore, when Catholics stray from the biblical mandate, it is imperative that Catholic spiritual leadership call them to task, call them to repent and confess their sins, call them to return to the biblical call to holiness.

That is exactly the case of Giuliani versus Keeler, that is, Roman Catholic Cardinal William Keeler. Giuliani has been invited to speak at Loyola College in Maryland. That should have never happened. The academicians in the administration offices know better than to allow that.

Nevertheless, sometimes academicians and colleagues get swelled heads over their degrees and standing within the white collar community of lecturing and such. Hubris does not count however when it comes to defining Christian morality, Christian theology, Christian applied ethics. God has spoken; that is the alpha and omega of the moral matter.

Nevertheless, Loyola proceeded to spread the red carpet for the former Mayor, all the while being cheered on by certain voices within the student body. When the Cardinal got wind of the misbehaving, he informed the powers-that-be on campus that he would not be attending the Jesuit university commencement.

Moreover, Loyola took a sinful step further by stating that they are going to confer a doctorate upon Giuliani. Now of course the administration knew exactly what that move was doing to the Catholic position on killing womb babies.

Nevertheless, brace in place, the academicians proceeded with their own baptizing of legitimacy to the guest speaker’s presence.

Thank God the Cardinal made his moral convictions known in simple terms. Thank God that spiritual leadership kept its moral backbone in straight position. Thank God that pro-life enthusiasts are backing the Cardinal and his witness by promising to be there on campus if the guest speaker arrives. The pro-lifers promise the press that there will indeed be a "circus" if Giuliani shows his face.

The whole Christian testimony is a war against evil. It’s not just being nice and courteous and mannerly and pleasant. It’s battling against the wrong. The genuine of faith know that and live that. The cowards weasel out of the witness and so recant their convictions for a more comfortable place.

Concerning Giuliani and Keeler and the university heads, the matter has come to the media, which indeed it should. The sheep now will separate from the goats.

Judgment occurs not only at death and the close of Earth’s stay but every moment of every day. Therefore, on with the battle waging fierce for righteousness. There can be no other choice when a likeable, witty, personable Giuliani still throws his weight on the side of killing womb babies. The latter posture makes him unqualified to be called "Christian," "Catholic," or "moral."

Therefore, he should never set foot upon any alleged Christian platform — Protestant or Catholic.

And with that, Christians could never even entertain the thought of Giuliani being the Republican candidate for the United States President in 2008. Never.

MUSLIM: IF YOU WORK FOR U.S., MUSLIM’LL SHOOT YA

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Brotherly love? I don’t think so.

Allah comes first. And Allah demands that any Muslim "brother" who desecrates the faith by fellowshipping with or working for non-Muslims must be shot through, sliced up and pitched into the grave.

That’s being devout and adhering to the principles of the holy book. That’s putting deity foremost. That’s being a loyal disciple of the teachings of Mohammed. That’s being a true worshiper.

Put it all together and you have the unbrotherly insanity leveled by one Muslim against another Muslim, that is, if the latter is a sheepish, willy-nilly coward type who can’t bring himself to pull the trigger against a non-Muslim.

That is, if you, a Muslim, are a grubby, Western Hemisphere bowing-down-employee, especially getting a check from the Great Satan United States.

That, in the bloody short of it, is Islam, or in other instances referred to as the Muslim religion.

In reality, it’s not so much a religion, unless you would define it as a religion from the Lake of Fire and Brimstone. Otherwise, the bald truth is that it’s a murder-bound cult.

Its members are sealed into an allegiance that demands that they slaughter not only non-Muslims — the infidels — but also their own kind if their own kind don’t take up arms to lay low every Muslim who deals with a non-Muslim.

Therefore, when Kandahar, Afghanistan witnesses the blood flow this week because of Muslims killing Muslims, it’s all a part of the holy cause, the divine dictate, the eternal wish, the Koran-demand. It’s there in the book. The clerics press for it. Allah scowls for it. The mosques preach it. The history is full of it.

As the Associated Press reports, "at least six Afghan employees of a U-S-funded anti-drug project are dead, gunned down in an attack by suspected Taliban militants."

Did you pick up on that horrific detail? It is the "Taliban militants" who slew their own Muslim "brothers."

"Militants" may also be defined as heartless killers, murderers of the first order, callused knife throwers, demented bullet slingers and Allah-zealots simply following the "ethics" of their worldwide religion — in truth a killing cult.

"The shootings were the second attack in two days against the staffers working in southern Afghanistan. Officials say the victims were ambushed on their way to Kabul. They were transporting the body of one of five men killed yesterday.

"A spokesman for the U-S Agency for International Development says it's believed that all the victims worked for a Washington-based consulting firm."

Got it?

It’s not so much a religion as it is a murdering cult headed by the Devil and evangelized by cleric demoniacs who preach an ungospel of hate and lying and revenge and meanness and madness and slaughter-for-the-thrill. This doctrine is now being taught daily to the next generation.

What’s very interesting as well is that most of the populations in Muslim nations are now in their mid-20s and younger. The elders are dying off. It’s the young who are carrying the blood stained banner, calling on their own to kill off every "Jew-pig" and the "cross worshiping" Christians. Then if their own kind don’t murder every Jew and Christian in particular, another Muslim who can muster up the courage to kill must murder the coward Muslim.

Round and round the knife blade twirls. Round and round and round and round all the way to the very bottom of The Pit.

MUSLIMS MUST KILL CHRISTIAN-ASSOCIATING MUSLIMS: ALLAH

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

It’s what Jews, Protestant evangelicals and informed Catholics have known all along. Muslims are out to kill Muslims if the latter associate with non-Muslims. That’s what Allah demands.

That’s what makes Islam a killing religion. It’s not a “peace religion.”

And American political leadership in particular had better stop referring to it as a “peace religion.” That shows ignorance. Further, it’s not fair to communicate falsehoods to the American grassroots.

Islam is not really a religion as much as it is a killing cult. And America shuts down killing cults.

However, Americans are also so tolerant of religion — any religion except Christianity these days — that their mindset says, “Yes, Muslims coexist nicely alongside Buddhists and Hindus and Shintoists and Jews and Christians and animists and atheists and agnostics. Yes they do. Isn’t that nice?”

Well, it’s nice if you are any world religion but Islamic. Then you are a part of a killing cult. And what makes the cult so bizarre is that it not only seeks to slay every non-Muslim—that is, EVER non-Muslim — BUT ALSO EVERY MUSLIM WHO IS NOT LIVING UP TO THE KILLING DICTATE.

Muslims who don’t follow through with ridding the world of the infidels — the non-Muslims — are backslidden renegades who by their own cowardice are under orders from Allah to be slain. That’s it. Nothing other than a killing cult: Muslims are to lay low Muslims who don’t lay low non-Muslims.

There is no use glossing over Islam. There is no reasonable place for Islam on the planet. And any national leaders anywhere who proceeds to “educate” the public about the “peace religion” called Islam is doing the global community a huge disfavor.

We have a tape now from international Muslim killer Aba Musab al-Zarqawi in which he states emphatically that the deity of Islam demands that Muslims do away with non-Muslims.

Therefore, those Muslims in the New Iraq who cooperate with other religionists and those of no religion are cowards of the first order. Therefore, those backslidden Muslims must be slain along with the infidels. There is no other choice. It’s in the Koran. Allah has stipulated it in that book — the Holy Book which is in actuality the unholy treatise scribed by demons in honor of Lucifer-Allah.

Fox News and Associated Press reports provide the following: “A tape said to have been recorded by terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi condemns the new government in Baghdad and claims the killing of fellow Muslims is justified in attacks against U.S. soldiers and Iraqi security forces.

"’God ordered us to attack the infidels by all means ... even if armed infidels and unintended victims — women and children — are killed together,’ the speaker said. ‘The priority is for jihad so anything that slows down jihad should be overcome.’”

There is more: "’This right (the jihad) is justified by Islam even if it resulted in the death of a number of Muslims who happen to be in the place during the fighting for one reason or another, provided that it is not possible to avoid them and the difficulty in distinguishing between them and the infidel military fighters.’"

And still more: “Shiites are ‘collaborating with the worshippers of the cross,’ who invaded Iraq, corrupted the country and violated holy sites, the speaker said. ‘This is all taking place under of a state of apostasy among the rulers of this nation.’"

All of this is to incite Muslims within New Iraq to reject the new government, kill off any non-Muslims and those Muslims who refuse to do so. That’s the bottom line of that tape. That’s what Muslim zealots international are intent on performing global. It’s not a one-time thing. It’s not a one-locale thing. It’s till the end of the time everywhere.

That’s a killing cult. It exists now in the United States.

It is fostered by such web sites as CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) and that site’s satellite networks throughout the nation. That site and its surrogates paint Islam as a peace-adhering religion, the clerics as public relations community workers, and the Koran as a revered book from the divine.

Of course, all of that is a lie and is lived out daily in our newscasts, now through this tape recording.

So who will we believe: CAIR or the daily blood flowing in the alleys due to Muslim enthusiasts seeing through the postulates of their killing cult?

Washington DC had better wise up to the truth about Islam and then communicate that to every town hall and school in the country. Right now various school systems are inviting Islamic speakers to speak sweetly to school district staff, encouraging acceptance of Islam.

Right now various college and university campuses have Islamic speakers in classrooms, debunking America and lifting high Islam.

Right now there are various leaflets and booklets put in libraries by such organizations as CAIR, all in the interest of lying to the American public about Islam being for peace and love and goodwill.

It’s time that TV newscasters spoke the truth about Islam, that American pulpits pronounced the truth about this killing cult, and that politicians on every level nationwide alert every citizen as to what really is going on with the importation of Islam to this country.

FILIBUSTER: I’M REALLY SUSPICIOUS OF JOHN WARNER

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

I’m suspicious as all get out about that Virginia Senator John Warner. There’s something fishy going on there with that guy.

Well, let’s get to the blunt part of it. I think Warner is missing his center stage young adult and handsome maturing years in Congress. That’s the nub of it, like it or lump it.

You see, as a person gets older and is no longer making headlines like in the past, that person whose ego is used to being in the spotlight can go nuts a slight bit or even crazy big time. Now Warner is not loony enough to go crazy big time. That would never be his style. But going nuts a slight bit would fit right in with the Virginia smoothie.

Therefore, when it comes to Warner holding the Republican Party hostage over this yakathon tradition, and particularly with the so-called rationale he presses on the press, I just think the fellow has begged again for top billing.

After all, if you were once married to Elizabeth Taylor and now not even a young adult remembers that you were once married to Elizabeth Taylor, it just may be the fifteen minutes time frame for saying that you defend filibustering because you don’t want to give up a time-honored American Congressional tradition.

What? For freaking sake, what does that high-sounding trash verbiage mean anyway? Not a darn thing. That’s what it means.

It means that there is no lovely tradition in Americana attached to the dumb filibuster day care center exercise used by lunatics when they want to stomp and yammer in the halls of history. There is no logic at all that defends the "tradition" of filibustering any more than there is any compassionate defense for defending the high honored "tradition" of the death penalty.

Yet Warmer says these days that he’s loyal to history. He’s bound by sentiment grandeur. He’s just an old-fashioned patriot who has to stand alongside moral measures like standing on one’s feet, running one’s gums into the night, putting up cots for napping on mid-mornings and still making no sense like an alcoholic hangover come the next breakfast time — all to block some other Congressperson’s bill.

Now if that is not one of the most stupid and embarrassing "traditions" that the United States has catalogued away in its esteemed annals I don’t know what is.

Yet Warner says that he’s going to buck the President of the United States as well as Republican sensible colleagues by defending the right to yak away ad infinitum in Congress, a pastime called "filibustering." The rest of us call it losing one’s sanity for typical political opportunism at the lowest level.

I don’t think Warner cares a twit about tradition nor honor or nostalgia nor anything else but getting his name repeated over and over again this week in order to shine. He’s missed the attention. He’s begging for applause.

But the guy doesn’t realize that with honorable and intelligent persons of this wonderland called "America," we count Warner having lost his brains. And his honor. And his place in history. And his seat in the Senate.

For come next time around to cast votes for the Senator from Virginia, pray to God that there are those reasonable and moral enough to cast their ballots for anybody but John Warner. Enough is enough.

Get rid of Warner. He’s not worth his worn good looks, his suave and debonair manners, nor his lusty look hanging on after all these years. He’s just not worth it, not even being written up in just about every news release related to filibustering this week.

Not. Warner. Not worth it. Go John go—back home, boy.

NEWSWEEK BIT ITSELF IN THE TAIL

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Dan Rather all over again.

The anti-Bush media gets so crazed out that it loses it outright. The next we’ll read about the little men in the little white coats descending upon the liberal newsfeeds. The sooner the healthier for intelligent minds everywhere.

It’s a nuthouse out there — in the politically liberal newsrooms. They’re outdoing one another in dumbness and rudeness and lying extraordinarily.

So it goes when you’ve lost your moral base. The same for the Democratic Party. The Dems by and large have lost their ethical moorings. When that happens — that is, when relativism hits the fan — then anything goes.

Ask the Unitarian Society. Long ago that religion gave up its eternal verities. Since then it’s worked devilment at every turn. Of course, the most popular is the Society’s total lust for homosexual lifestyles. And with that the United Church of Christ (Congregational) has followed suit. As well as the Episcopal Church of America.

Therefore, losing one’s ethics does not only apply to secular institutions. It can happen within the walls of Christendom — at which time the walls crumble and those pressing against the walls fall out of Christendom.

So now we have Newsweek playing center field. And there’s such an uproar.

But for those of us who have had to wade through the anti-Bush media take daily, it’s so old and worn and tiring that we can hardly read about it. In fact, once we start to read about it, though prophets we are not, we can predict the closing sentence before we get through the first paragraph.

Moralists are predictable. Once you get the hang of their moral code, you can predict practically any ethic conclusion.

The same with immoralists — that is, the philosophical relativists. They too are predictable to the last letter, once you understand that they have no eternal absolutes. You can prophesy the end from the beginning.

Newsweek has simply played out the craze taking over the anti-Bush press. But in truth we know that it’s been there a long, long time. And it won’t go away, no matter the holler and the hoot. It won’t go away.

It started to diminish slightly after the November Red States win. Certain personages like Peter Jennings tried like blazes to behave. But in a few weeks, they caved in to their liberal cliches and snooty faces and all that sort of liberal emptiness.

When the liberals are caught in the mire, just as Dan was, just as Newsweek is, the liberals never admit anything but "I don’t have any idea what you idiot moralists are talking about." "What, me?" "How could you think such a crime?"

And so they go on and on. It happens in liberal religion. It happens in liberal politics. It happens in liberal press. They are clones of one another.

In the end, they bite right there — deeply, so the world can see. They always bite themselves in the end — right there — the tail will do.

WAZZUP WITH IRAN VISIT TO IRAQ?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Who can trust an Iranian politician? Who? Iraqi leadership perhaps? Maybe.

It’s all a mix at the moment. One cannot know for certain. It’s part of the ongoing intrigue with the New Iraq establishment. Blossoms midst blood flows. Democracy struggles for a planting while Muslim killers international slay their own.

Now part of that complicated mix is the visit to Baghdad by none other than Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi. So wazzup with the red carpet provided him? Can it be that a mutual understanding could be set in place for freedoms actual? Can it be that the Iranian move is to win over Baghdad’s National Assembly to a more orthodox Islamic legalism?

Time will tell, surely.

Nevertheless, surprise. Kharazi has arrived. Trumpets blare. Newslines flash red. It’s called a "landmark visit" by Aljazeer News.

"Soon after arrival on Tuesday, Kharazi - the highest-ranking Iranian official to visit Iraq since the ouster of Saddam Hussein - assured that Iran would not interfere in the neighbor’s affairs."

Interesting, isn’t it? Such assurances. Such promises from one Muslim to another. One Muslim country representing entrenched Islamic murderers global while the other Muslim country seeks to find its freedom route. Most interesting. Fascinating, in fact.

"’Iraqis are in charge of their own affairs ... . Any interference would be an insult to the Iraqi people,’ Kharazi said. ‘Iran is absolutely ready to cooperate with Iraq in all fields, the economy as well as all other issues of common interest,’ Kharazi added."

So what’s in it for the Iranians? More double talk advantage with the West regarding Iranian nuclear build up? More public relations gimmicks? More shadow boxing with freedom nations? More biding time to set the planet up for the hostage take? What’s in it for the Iranians?

Certainly the Iranian power head did not cross over the border simply to share a cup of whatever. There’s something deeply politically opportunistic in all this hug-and-kiss Islamic style.

"The Iranian official's optimism was shared by his Iraqi counterpart, Hoshyar Zebari. ‘I have no doubt this visit will open up significant new horizons for cooperation between the two countries,’ Zebari said at a joint news conference.

"‘Post-Saddam Iraq is a new Iraq, at peace with its neighbors, far removed from its bellicose predecessor,’ he said. ‘We must break with the past and open a new page, build better relations in all fields based on mutual respect and non-interference.’"

Surely does sound like a peace pact to me. Yet for realism’s sake, this is but the tip of an iceberg unknown except to Iran.

Stay tuned.

CAN SYRIA THROW OFF ITS DRAGON?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

It’s antiquated. It’s powerful. It’s stuck.

Can Syria ever see through an actual democracy? Can it toss off its worn back the dragon that claws day in and day out? With that, can anyone ever believe the Syrian President Bashar Assad? Ever?

Yet the pressure from the administration of US President George W. Bush is remarkable in its leverage. Mr. Bush continues to hark for freedom spread global. That includes Syria.

Mr. Bush is relentless. His convictions dig deeply into his every agenda. There is no budge when it comes to releasing mortals from the despots’ cages. That includes Syria.

Syria has felt the Bush administration press upon its nerve endings. And now Assad promises the world that he is honestly determined to make the necessary changes in order to establish a true freedom base for all. Can one ever believe Assad’s cordiality toward his own society? Can those within his imbedded power structure ever trust a man to yield his clutch upon the populace?

If he is sincere, it will take a major miracle to cut through a mold that has crusted itself into cement. Mostly cement to cage in the people rather than provide them the sound democracy platform from which to breath liberty’s breezes.

Yet Mr. Bush believes that the miracle can happen. In fact, he echoes himself in speeches delivered worldwide. It is a refrain now that can be sung in his sleep. And for the captive persons of the world, that is one refrain that must be sung louder and longer than any other.

"Beset by U.S. attempts to isolate his country and facing popular expectations of change, Syrian President Bashar Assad will move to begin legalizing political parties, purge the ruling Baath Party, sponsor free municipal elections in 2007 and formally endorse a market economy, according to officials, diplomats and analysts." This is reported by Anthony Shadid of The Washington Post Foreign Service.

Can it happen? Legalize political parties? Cleanse the Baath Party? Insure free municipal ballot casts? Establish a market economy? All by 2007?

May Assad live to see it through. May it be so. Democracy deserves it. Syrians surely do deserve the break from a long, long past of being squeezed inside the Assad vice.

"Assad's five-year-old government is heralding the reforms as a turning point in a long-promised campaign of liberalizing a state that, while far less dictatorial than Iraq under Saddam Hussein, remains one of the region's most repressive. His officials see the moves, however tentative and drawn out, as the start of a transitional period that will lead to a more liberal, democratic Syria."

Are Muslim countries actually reaching out to freedom realized? There’s not a Muslim country on the planet that is truly democratic.

When Meet the Press moderator asked last Sunday the representative from Egypt why that is so, the Egyptian politician answered that democracies within Muslim nations will be forthcoming. Is that a public relations stunt or is it a reality that could come to pass? Time surely will spell it out. In the meantime, Assad joins the chorus for freedoms personalized.

"Emboldened opposition leaders, many of whom openly support pressure by the United States even if they mistrust its intentions, said the measures were the last gasp of a government staggering after its hasty and embarrassing troop withdrawal last month from neighboring Lebanon.

"The debate over the changes comes during a remarkable surge in what constitutes dissent in this country of 18 million. For the first time in years, opposition figures and even government allies are openly speculating on the fate of a party that, in some fashion, has ruled Syria since 1963 in the name of Arab nationalism, and today faces perhaps its greatest crisis. The debate points to the most pressing questions in the country today: Can Syria truly reform itself and what might follow?"

Where does one begin with such an old, worn, mighty system? Who does one trust? What government agency provides the start-up? Where do you hold the democracy seminar? Who conducts it? How do you get to the grassroots?

"’We understand that democracy is a process -- a historical and political process -- but we are on the right track, and we have begun the mechanisms that will take us forward,’ said Imad Shueibi, who directs the Data and Strategic Studies Center in Damascus and says he is aligned with reformers within Assad's government. ‘This will be the first step.’"

It is certain that Mr. Bush will keep his watchful eye on Syria. He’s given enough energy for that part of the world to maintain daily vigilance. As he has proven with his Freedom Watch elsewhere, Mr. Bush does not relent. His colleagues remain just as loyal to the liberty banner as he. Therefore, it can be guaranteed Syrians beckoning for freedom established that Mr. Bush and team will be their companions till the journey closes only to open to liberty’s skies unlimited.

How much parental control does Assad need to keep the civility while assuring freedoms begun? That’s the juggling act yet to be performed. May it be center stage and acted out as perfectly as possible in a spiritually damaged sphere.

At least one would hope one could trust the motives of the juggler. Yet that is exactly what remains to be seen. Can one truly trust the juggler’s motives, power hungry as they have been up to this very moment?

"Dissidents are dismissive of the government's capacity to sincerely reform. They see similarities between government moves here and in Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country, where President Hosni Mubarak has sought to introduce measured but controlled change.

"’We have an archaic authoritarian regime, which is now a burden on itself. They want to streamline it and make it more attractive,’ said Yassin Hajj Saleh, a leftist dissident imprisoned for 16 years and freed in 1996. He calls the moves ‘the modernization of authoritarianism.’"

Yet hope springs eternal.

And those caged in still dream of being let out. Those pressed down dream of easing the press, eventually to be fully freed. So it is with Syrian freedom fighters who are willing to die for the release of the despot’s heel.

"’The old model has ended, it is outdated, its age has passed,’ Saleh said, ‘and they want to renew it.’"

Time till tell.

Stay tuned.

SAUDI TERRORISM ‘UNUSUAL THING’????

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

And the beat goes on. Lie lie lie.

Get this: UPI reports: "’The Saudi society is a peaceful one and aware of the dangerous evils of terrorism and rejects such abnormal tendencies.’

"He added, ‘Terrorism is an unusual thing in our society and it is almost eliminated and stamped out because our Muslim society abhors such acts.’"

Who’s speaking, pray tell?

None other than Saudi Deputy Interior Minister Prince Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz. Must be true then.

The Prince informed media that "security forces were keeping up a nationwide campaign to rid the country of terrorism."

All the while the most extreme form of Islam is practiced in Saudi Arabia. That means that Muslim murder brigades are daily fare — both inside the country and outside the country.

Saudi Arabia is built on terrorism.

With an extreme like that, the only press release a prince can hand the media is the opposite extreme: all is well, peace reigns, we all love one another and embrace the globe with charity and kindness.

So much for truth in Saudi Arabia. So much for truth in North Korea. So much for truth in Iran.

Where are the truth police when we need them?

BUSH CONTINUES MENTORING NEW DEMOCRACIES: AFGHAN PRES KARZAI

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

A little over two years ago, Operation Iraqi Freedom was set in motion. In three weeks the war was won, United States President George W. Bush having initiated the liberation and US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld having superintended the military success.

It was remarkable. With that three-week-win war, the planet’s military plates were changed forever. From that day forward, dictatorships were put on warning. Citizens of captive countries were given hope that their shackles could some day be snapped so as to spring mortals into freedom personal.

From that day to this, Mr. Bush has continued to encourage democracies wherever possible, wherever invited. His team has given the kind of support necessary to see through, in some instances, what appeared to be the impossible.

Now freedom has become the world craze. More and more populations are clamoring to be released from despotic regimes in order to breathe in liberty breezes. It dates back to the first term of Mr. Bush and colleagues. It continues uninterrupted to the present moment.

The only deterrents have been lagging freedom nations’ leaderships who were particularly petty in arguing and bickering during the Iraqi release of citizens previously held captive by Saddam Hussein.

And of course, the Democratic Party within Mr. Bush’s own country continued day in and day out to thwart every attempt to set loose freedom’s banners in the New Iraq.

Alongside these two components fighting against liberties extended was the liberal press both in the US and abroad. Without hesitation, the mainstream liberal anti-Bush media staccatoed the madness of nay saying to the nth degree.

However, obstacles overcome and continuing to be overcome, Mr. Bush marches forth with speeches in various countries encouraging the grassroots to demand practical freedoms. He is encouraged by other national leaders who echo his same refrain, that is, those not lagging due to self-centered motives and stubborn opportunism.

Therefore, it is time now for Mr. Bush to mentor further with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the latter coming to America for a visit with the US President shortly. It is called an "official visit," of course.

Slowly America is coming to recognize Karzai’s unique ability as a national head. When here in the United States, he will receive doctorates from Nebraska and Boston University. The Simla University in India already bestowed upon him a doctorate, according to Lialuma Sadid of the Pajhwok Afghan News in Kabul.

"Karzai will also meet Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez and other high-ranking officials including the World Bank president and US legislators."

Thank you, Mr. Bush, for staying firm in your convictions, continuing to befriend freedom fighters worldwide, and addressing the need for even more humans to be liberated from their dictators’ grip.

It all goes for improving the global community for democracies’ sake.

MUSLIM CHARITY A FRONT FOR MURDERERS GLOBAL?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

"Two former officers of a U.S.-based Islamic charity were indicted on federal charges accusing them of lying to authorities investigating the charity's alleged ties to terrorist organizations," reports Theo Emery for the Associated Press.

It gets murky. It’s Muslim mess-up in Boston. And it’s just the start.

Care International. Sound legit? Sound compassionate? Sound on the up-and-up? Not.

Emadeddin Muntasser headed Care International. Muhammed Mubayyid was his right hand man — the treasurer for Care International.

They both were taken to police headquarters. Then they were charged with "concealing information from federal agencies, conspiring to defraud the United States, and making false statements to the FBI. The charity is now defunct."

Good. Just in time.

Money flows from good-hearted American purses for humanitarian assistance that is in reality coin spillage into Judas’ purse. The moneys are used to kill off non-Muslims — infidels. It’s used to murder the apostate. It’s the cash needed to do in the Allah enemies.

"’Organizations that conceal their true activities to abuse our tax laws, and in this case fund their support of the mujahideen and jihad, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,’ said U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan."

Fine. More power to you, Mr. Sullivan. More power to you.

And what you are going to uncover is just the tip of the iceberg here in the grand USA. Muslim groups are infiltrating all over the place to take over. It’s the mandate from their deity as stipulated in their so-called Holy Book — the Koran.

Of course, Islam’s deity is Lucifer. Their so-called Holy Book is unholy in that it has been dictated by hell’s demons. It is in fact the killing manual for doing away with the global citizenry except for Muslims. That’s it. Islam: the only religion on the planet that has as its prime endeavor obliterating all but Islamics.

Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Shintoism, Judaism, and Christianity are world religions. But none of them exist to kill, slaughter and lay low mortals. However, Islam is unique in that it is not so much a religion as a killing cult.

In America, the authorities do away with killing cults. Therefore, as soon as the powers-that-be get the truth about Islam — instead of calling it a "peace religion" — the nation will shut down Islam as the murdering machine that it really is.

Islam has nothing to do with peace. It has nothing to do with humanitarianism. It is all about doing away with non-adherents. Allah demands it. The Koran demands it. The clerics preach it. The mosques are waiting stations for it all to happen.

Therefore, when Mr. Sullivan and legal crew go forth to put these two Muslims behind bars, they will have come upon simply the symbolic representatives of Muslim corruption aplenty.

"The indictment and arrests were disclosed the same day Muntasser was scheduled to have a hearing in federal court on his application for U.S. citizenship. U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel held off on ruling on the application."

Did you get that? Muntasser was going to legitimatize his criminality by positioning himself as a law-abiding United States citizen. How many more are there just like him? Too many, that is for certain. And their number is growing as more and more illegal immigrants flood across our borders. It’s happening as we breathe.

"Muntasser's attorney, Jeremiah Friedman, declined to comment after a brief closed-door meeting about the case with prosecutors and Zobel. Both men appeared in U.S. District Court in Worcester. Muntasser was ordered released to home confinement with electronic monitoring. Mubayyid's detention hearing is scheduled for Monday.

"Reached by phone at his home late Thursday, Muntasser declined to comment, saying he may make a statement on Friday through his attorney. A message left at a phone number for Jumana Munlla, who is listed as Mubayyid's wife in his bankruptcy filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Worcester, was not immediately returned."

And so the beat goes on. . .and on. . .and on.

America the beautiful. America the land of the free and the brave. America the land now being undermined by a cult that sets its goal of slaughtering every American who does not bow down to Allah and confess him as deity worshiped.

And for those Muslims who do not squeal on their infidel neighbors? They are renegades and must be put away by zealot Muslims — the truly devout. Is this a peace religion? Not. It’s a killing cult that must be shut down by America yesterday.

"Muntasser, 40, the owner of the Logan Furniture chain and a Libyan national, was a founding president of the Boston-based charity Care International. The organization, which is not affiliated with the global relief group CARE International, has been scrutinized because of its links to groups that support terrorism.

"Mubayyid, 40, Care's treasurer, has been employed by a software firm that was in the news two years ago after federal agents searched its offices as part of an investigation into funding of terrorist groups.

"Care International says in its promotional materials that it was formed to help war orphans, widows and refugees in Muslim nations. According to the indictment, Care was raising and spending money to support and promote mujahideen fighters and jihad, and published a pro-jihadist newsletter. It didn't reveal those activities in its tax forms and didn't reveal its links to Al-Kifah."

How interesting. Helping orphans and widows and the destitute and so forth and so forth? Just what Americans open their pocketbooks for. For sure. That’s the American way, after all.

So how many more Care clones are there from sea to shining sea? And how many more neighborhoods are being infiltrated by Muslims seeking US citizenship in order to squash the neighborhood? And how many more Islamics are set to pray five times daily in order to beseech Allah’s power thrust through their swords? It’s a killing cult. It must be shut down by American authorities — like yesterday.

"Muntasser also failed to tell the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in a 1999 interview about the group's support for jihad, and didn't mention that on a trip to Pakistan several years earlier, he also traveled to Afghanistan.

"Muntasser has described his work with Care as humanitarian."

There you have it. Muslim liars. Muslim stealers. Muslim frauds. Muslim US citizen applicants. Muslim businessmen in our neighborhoods who are collecting moneys from well-meaning Americans — all to slaughter those very same Americans.

America: wise up before it’s too late. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Just the tip.

Stay tuned.

AFRICA: BUSH GETS AHEAD OF GLOBAL MURDERERS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

US President George W. Bush continues his freedom spread here and there, wherever possible, wherever invited. Now a renewed focus is on Africa. It is there that the liberty nations are planning on securing calm before murderers have a chance to stage their killing fields.

Work for peace before the killers international get a foothold. Get international involvement so as to exercise division of labor and cost. That’s it.

It’s called Trans Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative. That’s quite a mouthful and is anticipated to work for goodwill in Africa. That will set in motion civility before barbarism gets a grip to rape and murder, destroy and damn, reports Donna Miles of American Forces Press Service.

"By building African nation's ability to counter terrorism within their borders, the United States can help prevent the region from becoming a safe haven where terrorists can train, organize and plan their operations, Theresa Whelan, deputy assistant secretary of defense for African affairs, informed the press.

"’This is an excellent example of getting ahead of the power curve and not being behind it and having to try to catch up. And we are getting ahead of the power curve by building the capacity of our friends.’

"The notion that the United States is capable of confronting the threat of global terrorism alone is ‘just a physical impossibility,’ Whelan said.

"’So you have to build the capacity of like-minded states to be able to help you confront the threat. And that's what the Trans Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative represents.’"

It’s a new endeavor that will start up this summer. The US special operations will mentor those in seven Saharan nations. This includes instructing military tactics necessary to guarantee "regional security and stability."

In geographies vast and unpopulated, killers international can set up headquarters in order to let loose their murder schemes in populated areas. The Initiative will address that advantage to terrorists in order to strip that advantage from terrorists.

One of the keys is engaging nations — in the plural — to give and participate and train. It cannot be an American project solo. It has to involve representatives from other freedom countries.

The Initiative will have $100 million per year for five years as its funding. It has a wider geography, adding Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal and Nigeria.

There will not only be the military dimension involved in the Initiative but also the US Agency for International Development will gear up for educational concerns. The State Department will address airport security. The Department of Treasury will address "money-handling controls in the region."

"’It becomes a broader package approach,’ Whelan said. ‘You're not just developing one muscle in the body, you're developing the whole body.’"

So continues the freedom spread initiated by Mr. Bush with Operation Iraqi Freedom a little over two years ago. That has led to the democracy planting in New Iraq, its historic January 30 Victory Vote and now its own National Assembly. Shortly the country will have its first-time constitution while dictator Saddam Hussein sits in a jail cell.

With such encouragement for liberties blossoming, Africa is the continent being prepared for peace plans that are already in place so that killers cannot establish control. It's a preventative move. It’s working for the civility of the populace first rather than coming in after the bloodshed to mop up, then begin to establish the peace.

BUCHANAN IS WRONG. CONSERVATISM IS NOT PAST TENSE

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Ralph Z. Hallow interviewed Pat Buchanan for The Washington Times. In short, Pat said that conservatism is past tense.

Well it comes down to how you define "conservatism." According to Pat, his pet issues of the past are past tense and the immigration in present-tense is a real problem. So with that, Pat concludes that conservatism is over and out.

Not so.

Where Pat goes astray is not in outlining his litany of past-tense conservative issues that were here and then disappeared. His history is correct, in the main, that is.

However, what Pat leaves out of his definition is what won George W. Bush the election, that is, in the main. He leaves out the moralists in the United States who want an ethical base to this country that has been wanting in the past.

Pat does not recognize the force of Judeo-Christian and other moratlist advocates very much alive and well in America. He focuses too much on one legislative measure or another that was winning out in past eras but is no longer viable. That may be true in some instances, according to Pat, but that’s not what is alive and moving today in the conservative block.

Morality is what is alive and moving in today’s conservative block. That morality quotient includes evangelicals, fundamentalists, devout Catholics, moralist Jews, and just-plain-clean-living non-religious citizens. It’s a plurality base that is composed of persons of decent living lifestyle.

They don’t like murder. They are against rape. They don’t want cursing spewed across their movie screens and living rooms. They want their children off drugs. They want teachers who instruct from an ethical position and not an immoral relativistic position. They want a happy society with a happy family. They want honesty and right thinking. They want cordiality and peace. They are not on the side of mayhem, madness and meanness.

This is the moral block in America that is conservative.

That makes them quite different from the amoral, immoral, relativistic political and religious liberals who, in the name of Bill and Hillary Clinton, would tear the ethical fabric in shreds.

These conservatives work, pay their bills, mow the lawn, shovel the snow, help their neighbors and contribute to the latest appeal to help somebody in distress. They are not crooks, liars and lustful hounds out to lay the nearest broad. See how unlike Clinton the conservatives are? Just read that sentence over again and find Clinton in there somewhere: crooks, liars and lustful hounds out to lay the nearest broad.

Now Pat does not address this moral block that is very much with us in America. They are there. They are voting. They are making the news. They are making decisions. They are politically sensitive and up front. They are writing letters, sending emails, delivering speeches, formulating forums, attending seminars and demanding an America that they can be proud of.

With that, I ask Pat: What in the name of decency and progress do you want from the term "conservative"?

If you want to hark back to some issues you consider significant but no longer beckon, then conservatives are in a certain dimension past tense. But if you want what today’s conservative has on his plate, then we still have conservatives — very much so.

I think persons who reach Pat’s age and position in the culture sometimes get a bit carried away with nostalgia.

I think they also miss being the chief driver of major causes. Take Jimmy Carter for instance. He’s one of those. He and Pat are no longer center stage but they miss that. The same with Jesse Jackson. These men were once headliners constant. Now they’re being replaced by other voices.

So persons like Pat have to get hold of a reporter and spill out the anguish of a broken heart. Yet to the rest of us conservatives who are very much breathing, we just don’t get into the angst like a Pat and a Jimmy and a Jesse do.

And that’s just as well.

JORDAN: MUSLIM LEADERS JUST DON’T KNOW HOW TO BE HAPPY

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

It’s Jordan. One would have hoped for better. But alas. . .

The UPI headlines this morning with "Jordan Islamic Legislators to Boycott World Economic Forum."

When will the Muslim clique break itself up and start lining up with progress? Here and there are breaks in the clique wall; but of course there are still the hard-liners who insist on becoming more and more cavemen.

That’s okay. In time, they’ll be pressed from their pious prance into stepping into chorus line for the dance of freedom and cordiality. Others are trying the dance and finding it to be quite pleasant.

For instance, the latest Kuwaiti move on the part of Muslim leadership opens up voting rights to females. Now that’s dancing. And not just the women are enjoying the party.

Yet in Jordan, the male clique holds on with tenacity. It’s their power clutch. It’s their show to the world that no one is going to shove them around. Well then, fellows, bellow on for no one is listening.

Therefore, the press reports this morning that Jordanian lawmakers have concluded to skip the World Economic Forum, as if their names crossed off the guest list is going to bring havoc to the conference.

They say that Jewish participation at the Forum is the reason they’re going to take their marbles and go home.

All the while Palestinian Authority leader Abbas is supposed to be championing onward ho! for his people and their place in the Middle East sun. However, the snit played out by Jordanian Muslims is not helping the ho! at all.

Nevertheless, figures.

"Deputy Zuheir Abu Ghaleb said Tuesday, ‘The Islamic members of parliament who received invitations to attend the forum will boycott because of the participation of Israeli politicians and economists.’

"An estimated 1,300 officials and prominent figures from all over the world will attend the three-day forum which starts Friday at a Dead Sea tourist resort."

I really don’t think anyone will be handing out crying towels because of the Jordanian absence. One thousand three hundred officials from global expanse does not a crying brigade make.

KUWAIT FEMALES CAN NOW VOTE

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

That means Muslim women can now vote in Kuwait. Miracles still happen.

According to The Daily Star, "Kuwait's Parliament passed a law granting women the right to vote and cleared the way for women to run in parliamentary elections for the first time in the emirate's history.

"Women can now vote in all Middle Eastern nations where elections are held except Saudi Arabia."
In other words, freedom spread initiated particularly by US President George W. Bush has now blossomed voting rights for Muslim females in Kuwait.

At the same time, Ethiopian officials have allowed voting for all citizens, enlarging hopes for grassroots democracy.

Also, Egypt promises real-life voting for all citizens in real-life presidential elections this autumn.

In addition, Afghanistan continues its democracy planting, despite spurts here and there from leftover Taliban control.

All along, the New Iraq government led by its newly formed National Assembly anticipates its first legitimate constitution, giving increasingly dim attention to the prior despotic rule of Saddam Hussein.

Ukraine government officials promise democracy for the future of its citizenry.

Lebanon now experiences freedom from the oppressive neighboring militia, anticipating its own right to govern its own future.

So with the news today that Kuwait now grants voting privileges to its women — Muslims mostly — America can once again breathe more easily that slowly but surely liberties personal are coming to fruition in places where heretofore freedoms were only dreamt of.

"Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah told reporters at Parliament he planned to name a woman minister.

"’I congratulate the women of Kuwait for having achieved their political rights,’ he said.

"However, an article included in the bill requires that any female politician or voter abide by Islamic law. It was not clear what limits this may put on women's rights."

In other words, some hard-liners still wanted to keep females under their thumb, hence the additional statement that females had to line up with Islamic law, whatever that meant in real-life, real-time.

There are those females in Kuwait who immediately responded by informing the press that they were not going to take that additional statement all that seriously. Instead, they were going to forge ahead as if that addition were not even there on papers approved.

In truth, Kuwaiti women will now take charge in their own spheres to see through a democracy planted that includes them in the fullest definition.

In truth, the liberties espoused by the American President are becoming the treasured possessions of more and more human beings. It is expected that such freedom hunger will increase. With it, the liberties pressed for will come to pass.

Daily it is becoming increasingly difficult for dictators to continue their power vice upon the populace. Daily the people are taking to the streets, to the media, to the parks, demanding that they enjoy liberty’s breezes as experienced in freedom nations.

All the while, Mr. Bush continues his evangelizing of freedom personalized. All the while, his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice echoes the President’s hope. All the while, those who treasure their freedoms applaud the United States for setting the pace.

It is the first time in a very, very long time that the most powerful nation on the globe has spent its energies and time in such extensive displays of establishing democracy wherever invited. And it’s due to the President of the most powerful nation making the freedom spread his top item in foreign policy.

Though the liberal press refrains from giving Mr. Bush his due and the Democratic Party continues to carp at his every move, freedom lovers everywhere give credit where credit is marked — upon the desk of the Oval Office United States President George W. Bush.

And that includes the ricocheting of voting rights now granted women in Kuwait.

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ISLAM: CALL IT A CULT AND SHUT IT DOWN!

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Islam is a cult — a killing cult. America shuts down killing cults.

Then let’s do it. Islam is labeled as a world religion. Is it? If you want to categorize it as that, go ahead. But it’s more than a world religion. It’s a killing cult. And that foremost.

There is no other religion on the planet that sets forth killing as its prime postulate. Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Shintoism, Judaism, and Christianity do not set forth the dictum that devotees kill off non-devotees.

Islam, sometimes referred to as the Muslim religion, dictates, according to its deity, Allah, that Islamics kill all non-Islamics. The latter are called "infidels." That would mean that the planet eventually would be populated only by Islamics. That is the goal of Islam — to extinguish all others than their own.

That’s a cult — plain and simple. Killing off is the ethic. Murder it the moral base. Slaying is the virtue.

And to commit suicide in order to see through the leveling of non-Muslims guarantees males an eternity of cavorting sexually with females "on the other side." There is nothing promised females for women don’t count except for dung in Islam.

In reality then, according to the Christian faith, Islam does have its actual quotients. It’s not merely a myth. It’s a reality spun from a literal hell. Therefore, Allah is Lucifer. The Koran is demented revelation from demons. Mosques are meeting places for demonic preaching and activity. Clerics are agents from The Pit.

There is no such person as a holy deity in Islam. There is no such book as a Holy Book in Islam. There are no such persons as holy clergy in Islam.

There is no gospel in Islam — no good news of salvation. There is only the promise of orgies aplenty in the next sphere, that is, for the suicide prone. And for the others, an eternity in Islam paradise, the definition left to Allah.

Now there are Islamics who contest all of this. These are Muslims who are not at all knowledgeable concerning their own cult. They are akin to church goers within Christendom who are ignorant of the Bible and Christian doctrine.

In any religion there are those who go along for the ride but have little or no idea the details about the map. It’s the same with Islam. There are therefore those Islamics who are aghast when the truth about their cult is spelled out.

For instance, the webmaster of Faithfreedom.org spends most of his time dialoguing with naïve Muslims. He, an ex-Muslim, knows the reality of Islam being a killing cult. He seeks via his site to expose Islam as just that.

However, he gets numerous communications daily from Muslims who contest his every revelation. These Muslims, in other words, are the Islamics along for the ride. They pray five times a day. They attend a mosque or don’t attend a mosque. They wear the garb or don’t wear the garb. They have certain rituals that they see through. However, as to the killing dictates of the Koran, they are ignorant.

America must come to its senses. With that, America must call Islam what it is — a murdering scheme by which to wipe out Americans except those Muslims now inhabiting the nation.

The killing cult then is not to be tolerated by the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, the National Educational Association, the World Council of Churches, the National Council of Churches, any Christian denomination, any Jewish body, any town hall, no one.

It’s insane for a democracy such as the United States to remain so utterly naïve about Islam. Further, it’s suicide for our politic to continue to baptize Islam as a "peace religion."

It’s asking for big time trouble to continue to court Muslims in the school systems, even inviting them to speak to faculty and administration, as is done in some school districts.

In a high school near where I live there is even a room set aside for Muslim students to go to pray there five times a day. I don’t know of any accommodations made for Jews or Christians who may seek to pray in a prayer room during a school day, let alone any tolerance for these two religions’ holy days to be observed within the school year.

Islam fosters "honor killing." That is the custom of killing Muslim women who offend males. The Muslim female is considered cursed from conception. She has ten curses upon her existence. The curse is defined as exposing her genitals publicly. Therefore, the female is as dung to the male community. That’s why she is garbed from head to foot, never revealing her identity, thus voiding her of self-expression and self-respect.

If the Muslim woman offends the Muslim male in any way, she may be shot in the head or her neck slit. Hussein’s soccer stadiums were not used so much for athletics as for shooting Muslim women in the head.

Slaying the offending female is to retain the honor of the household. She must be done away with in order for the family not to lose its respect. That is known as "honor killing." It happens every day somewhere.

Sometimes it’s reported to the local police; most of the time it’s not for the local police are males who back up the killing males. Sometimes it’s reported in the local paper; most of the time it’s not. Why make a fuss?

Therefore, Islam not only kills off non-Islamics but also its own, particularly its females. Further, Islam kills off Islamics who do not follow through with the Koran killing dictates. That is, if a Muslim refuses to wipe out a non-Muslim, that Muslim is up for being slain by a devout Muslim.

Now in America that is not easy to see through because of our laws. But in Muslim countries it is easy to take care of. If a Muslim is expected to murder a non-Muslim in a particular situation, yet refuses, that Muslim is to be slain for being a renegade. Cowardly Muslims cannot be tolerated. A backslidden Muslim must be done away with as an example to others to abide by the Koran killing paragraphs.

Killing is the alpha and omega of Islam. Murdering is the fine virtue. Slaying is the predominant ethic. Therefore, Islam is a killing cult.

It has nothing in common with the other world religions, though its public relations arm says that it does. But it does not for Islamics lie. They lie because lying is permitted as a part of the overtaking of the world for Allah.

An example of the daily Islamic lie is the web site for CAIR — Council for American-Islamic Relations. It’s not only a web site but also has satellite offices throughout the nation.

CAIR inverts everything about Islam in order to make that cult to appear civil. It says that there is no such thing as a killing dictate, no such demand of murdering infidels, no "honor killing," no mosque infiltration to take over communities, no clerics out to unravel America, no Koran paragraphs setting forth Allah’s demands to slaughter. CAIR lies.

To read the CAIR web site would give the impression that it’s an off shoot of some local civic organization. In other words, CAIR is out to do good for America, to foster pleasant relations with other religions and to enhance the local village. That’s CAIR’s party line — the lie for the killing cult known as a religion.

CAIR lies. Whatever you read on CAIR’s web site, just read into it the opposite and you will derive the truth from that site. That kind of lying goes on around the world via the Islamic public relations efforts on the Internet, literature handouts, local seminars in mosques and so forth.

Now America has lived with a bundle of ignoramuses who have espoused their nonsense from ocean to ocean. But America never tolerates those ignoramuses who set forth killing innocent citizens of this country.

Yet Islam does just that. It exists to kill us all off, one by one.

Consequently, America, from the White House down to the local villager, must wipe out Islam from this nation or it will eventually wipe us out. It’s that stark a threat.

And for those Americans who care about the world, the same goes for every country on the globe. Every nation, other than the Muslim countries, is under fire from the Islamics. Every nation, none excluded.

Therefore, it’s past time for the world community, excluding of course the killing Muslim nations, to put to flight this global cult intent on doing us all in.

FOOTNOTE:

SLAY THE NON-MUSLIMS: DIRECT QUOTES FROM THE QURAN

2:191, And slay them wherever ye catch them.

4:84, Then fight in Allah’s cause.

4:141, And never will Allah grant to the unbelievers a way (to triumph) over the believers.

5:33, The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter.

8:12, I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.

8:17, It is not ye who slew them; it was Allah.

8:60, Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know. Whatever ye shall spend in the cause of Allah, shall be repaid unto you, and ye shall not be treated unjustly.

8:65, O Prophet! rouse the Believers to the fight. If there are twenty amongst you, patient and persevering, they will vanquish two hundred: if a hundred, they will vanquish a thousand of the Unbelievers.

9:5, But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem.

9:14, Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, cover them with shame, help you (to victory) over them, heal the breasts of Believers,

9:23, O ye who believe! take not for protectors your fathers and your brothers if they love infidelity above Faith: if any of you do so, they do wrong.

9:28, O ye who believe! Truly the Pagans are unclean; so let them not, after this year of theirs, approach the Sacred Mosque.

9:29, Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

9:39, Unless ye go forth, (for Jihad) He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place; but Him ye would not harm in the least.

9:73, O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and be firm against them. Their abode is Hell - an evil refuge indeed.

9:111, Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Qur’an

9:123, O ye who believe! fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you: and know that Allah is with those who fear Him.

22:9, (Disdainfully) bending his side, in order to lead (men) astray from the Path of Allah: for him there is disgrace in this life, and on the Day of Judgment We shall make him taste the Penalty of burning (Fire).

22:19-22, These two antagonists dispute with each other about their Lord: But those who deny (their Lord),- for them will be cut out a garment of Fire: over their heads will be poured out boiling water. With it will be scalded what is within their bodies, as well as (their) skins. In addition there will be maces of iron (to punish) them. Every time they wish to get away therefrom, from anguish, they will be forced back therein, and (it will be said), "Taste ye the Penalty of Burning!"

25:52, So obey not the disbelievers, but strive against them herewith with a great endeavour.

25:68, Those who invoke not, with Allah, any other god, nor slay such life as Allah has made sacred except for just cause, nor commit fornication; - and any that does this (not only) meets punishment. (But) the Penalty on the Day of Judgment will be doubled to him, and he will dwell therein in ignominy.

37:22-23, "Bring ye up", it shall be said, "The wrong-doers and their wives, and the things they worshipped- Besides Allah, and lead them to the Way to the (Fierce) Fire!

47:4, Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly (on them): thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom: Until the war lays down its burdens.

48:13, And if any believe not in Allah and His Messenger, We have prepared, for those who reject Allah, a Blazing Fire!

48:29, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; and those who are with him are strong against Unb