He will take the magnificant buildings as a backdrop... But he will leave behind the reasons for which they were constructed.

Here are the headlines:

NBC: Jesus Missing From Obama's Georgetown Speech
White House asked university to cover symbol

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Jesus-Missing-From-Obamas-Georgetown-Speech.html




CNS: Georgetown Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House Request
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46667

FOX: Georgetown University Hid Religious Symbols at White House Request
Georgetown University, a Catholic institution, covered up religious insignia symbolizing the name of Jesus during President Obama's address there Tuesday after the White House requested the change.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/16/georgetown-university-hid-religious-symbols-white-house-request/



He will take off his shoes and be photographed as he visits a Mosque, yet will not give a speech in front of a symbol of Jesus.

Why?

Independent American Party

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty." ~ Thomas Jefferson

http://www.usiap.org/index.htm

I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers.

This text was pulled from an ebay item description.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260391960678&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:US:1123

I have not verified if Andy Rooney actually said any or all of this.
However, whoever said it, is right.

Andy Rooney said on '60 Minutes' a few weeks back:

I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers..
The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television and Miss Black America

Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television or Miss White America; and see what happens...

Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, which is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE?

I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion.

I have the right 'NOT' to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird or tick me off.

When 70% of the people who get arrested are black in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling; it is the Law of Probability.

I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English!

My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.

I think the police should have every right to shoot you if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word 'freeze' or 'stop' in English, see the above lines.

I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store or any other business.

We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document and open to their interpretations.

I don't hate the rich; I don't pity the poor.

I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't stop you from watching them.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better and put your name on the building..

It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say 'NO!'

I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And please, stay home until that new lip ring heals; I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries!

I am sick of 'Political Correctness.' I know a lot of black people and not a single one of them was born in Africa ; so how can they be 'African-Americans'? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don 't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe . I am proud to be from America and nowhere else.

And if you don't like my point of view, tough..

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!

THE TALE OF THE ARAB FLIGHT CREW - Where Email, Snopes, Competing Propaganda and Reality Intersect.

Etihad A340 Accident
THE TALE OF THE ARAB FLIGHT CREW

According to Email & According to Snopes

Original Email (~March 2008):

The brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane ever built, sat in its hangar in Toulouse, France without a single hour of airtime. Enter the Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine runups, prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi.

The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area. Then they took all four engines to takeoff power with a virtually empty aircraft. Not having read the run-up manuals, they had no clue just how light an empty A340-600 really is.

The takeoff warning horn was blaring away in the cockpit because they had all 4 engines at full power.

The aircraft computers thought they were trying to takeoff but it had not been configured properly (flaps/slats, etc.). Then one of the ADAT crew decided to pull the circuit breaker on the Ground Proximity Sensor to silence the alarm. This fools the aircraft into thinking it is in the air. The computers automatically released all the brakes and set the aircraft rocketing forward.

The ADAT crew had no idea that this is a safety feature so that pilots can't land with the brakes on.

Not one member of the seven-man Arab crew was smart enough to throttle back the engines from their max power setting, so the $200 million brand-new aircraft crashed into a blast barrier, totalling it.

The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown, for there has been a news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere.

Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Muslim Arabs.

Finally, the photos are starting to leak out. Airbus $200 million aircraft meets retaining wall and the wall wins....

SNOPES SAYS:

REAL PHOTOGRAPHS; INACCURATE DESCRIPTION
The photographs displayed above do represent the aftermath an Airbus 340 engine test that ended in a ground collision, but unconfirmed, pejorative information has been added to the accompanying text.

Pejorative: Tending or intending to belittle.

Snopes takes issue with the following points:

>>>not actually "the largest passenger airplane ever built"

JNKish : Ok... Maybe not the largest... But it is a really big, brand-new and very expensive plane. It was built by the Europeans for the Arabs. The European company AirBus competes against North American aircraft companies such as Boeing for multi-billion dollar aircraft contracts. The Arabs and North America compete on many different levels.

>>>It is not true, as claimed, that there was "a news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere" because "coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Moslem Arabs."

JNKish: Snopes, where is your proof that there was not a news blackout? It is now April 2009 and I am just now hearing about this. Where was it reported in March 2008? Most anyone can easily see why AirBus and the Arabs would not want this blunder widely publicised.

>>>a report released by French investigators in December 2008 did not confirm that claim made above that the crash was caused by ADAT technicians who were unfamiliar with the aircraft and overrode a vital safety feature

JNKish: The report neither confirmed nor denied. Again, most anyone can easily see why the Arabs would not want this blunder widely publicised.

JNKish: Snopes, it would be a better representation if you classified this as-

REAL PHOTOGRAPHS; UNVERIFIED BUT PLAUSIBLE DESCRIPTION

Everyone needs to remember that Snopes is NOT necessarily the last word.

TapouT founder 'Mask' killed in Newport Beach crash

There is a video here that shows what is left of the Ferrari he was street-racing: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/03/source-tapout-1.html

Here's an explanation of what happened:
http://fighthype.com/pages/content4477.html

http://www.tapout.com/


RIP Charles Lewis Jr.

DIVORCE AGREEMENT

DIVORCE AGREEMENT

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al:

We have stuck together since the late 1950's, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has run its course.

Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.

Here is a model separation agreement:

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy!

Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes. We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.

Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell (You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them).

We'll keep the capitalism, corporations, pharmaceutical companies and Wal-Mart. You can have your beloved homeless, homeboys, hippies and illegal aliens. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, CEO's and rednecks.

We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.

You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us. You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.

We'll keep our Christian values. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley McClain.

You can also have the U.N. But we will no longer be paying the bill.

We'll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.

You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right.

We'll keep The BattleHymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute Imagine, I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World.

We'll practice trickle down economics and you can give trickle up povertyyour best shot.

Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, ourname and our flag.

Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you ANWR which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American

P.S. Also, please take Barbara Streisand & Jane Fonda with you.

Minimalist web design

http://rainfall-daffinson.com/minimalism/

http://www.designmeltdown.com/chapters/DesignPrinciples/

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/resources-simplify-design/

Geek to Live: Automatically back up your hard drive

Geek to Live: Automatically back up your hard drive

http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/geek-to-live-automatically-back-up-your-hard-drive-147855.php

What would Jesus say about it?

Jesus Christ Quotes:

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/jesus_christ/

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