are death against all of this First Amendment
foolishness we enjoy on the Internet.
Both want to tax and control it.
Posted on 07/26/2006 1:59:50 PM PDT by Bokababe
Writing for an outfit called FamilySecurityMatters.org last week, Weekly Standard contributor and longtime champion of Balkan Muslims Stephen Schwartz describes an overnight bus ride from Kosovo's capital Pristina to a resort town in Montenegro:
"A man behind me began speaking almost immediately and without stopping, in Albanian — which I understand…insistently focused on the nature of G-d (a favorite subject for Islamic fundamentalists), [and on] the nefarious influence of Sufis who thought they could reinterpret the faith, the evil intentions of Americans, Iraq, and bloodshed. I was startled because it is rare to hear Albanians, after the rescue of Kosovo, badmouth Americans…G-d is one, who are these people like this American who come and try to tell us how to be Muslims? What about Iraq? Why is this American here with his friend?"
Schwartz then describes a rest stop: "I did not find out where I was until I asked a waiter in the restaurant, because none of the Albanians crowded in the back with me and my Sufi companion and the whisperer in darkness would speak civilly to me. When I asked one man, in Albanian, the name of the town, he answered in Serbian: 'ne znam,' 'I don't know.' Another said it was the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica (it wasn't). And finally a thin punk who could not have been over 20, and who, I soon realized, had been encouraging the voice behind me, said in perfect English, 'I don't understand English.' At the end of the rest period all three people filed back into the bus and avoided looking at me.
"Muhammad woke up and asked me what was going on. I told him, 'Someone back here is making Wahhabi speeches.' He grinned as if in disbelief, but said, 'I'm not surprised.........
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
I actually know what you mean.
It was 113 a few days ago here in the Sacramento area and today it's in the low 90's, so I shut off the AC and opened the windows!
Hubby is from NJ. When we lived back there, I'd tell him, you know it does get cold out in CA, in spite of the fact it rarely dips below the high 30's, low 40's in winter. You feel cold based the temp difference, not just the temp itself. Well, with East Coast weather that dipped below zero, he laughed at me! First winter here, it hit the low 40's and he was complaining, "It's cold!" and I had the last laugh!
Euros are not afraid of saying to No to us, why don't we feel the same way?
Coolness in the Phoenix area in the summer months is very rare and short lived. We had a few evening thunder showers that cooled us off a bit. However, the temp is slowly creeping back up and will soon again be 110/115+. |
When more than one outlet is publishing the piece, the writer might suggest a headline. But the individual editors are going to use headlines that fit the space available, depending on how their space is formatted.
As you're no doubt aware, syndication is chiefly a newspaper phenomenon. But Jewish World Review publishes mostly syndicated material and very little (if any) original material. I've seen the same column on Jewish World Review and Townhall, for example, but with different headlines.
How true. Thanks for the ping.
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"I was startled because it is rare to hear Albanians, after the rescue of Kosovo, badmouth Americans…"
This is not a surprise to me. The 1999 NATO campaign against Serbia made a horrible mistake in empowering Islamist guerilla groups like the Kosovo Liberation Army-- which are just as guilty of atrocities as the Milosevic regime was. Let this be a lesson to American policymakers: anytime you prop up Islamist groups to help fight other threats, the Islamist groups will *inevitably* turn on you.
Only a radical rejection of Islamic fundamentalism and all the parties that support it can bring an end to such disappointments.
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I spent seven months in Kosovo with the 10th Mountain Division, and then three years stationed at a NATO unit, when I was in the Army. During that time I came to the crystal clear realization that NATO is an utterly useless organization that wastes time, and especially money, like there is no tomorrow. I would have never believed just how useless and wasteful it is if I hadn't spent so much time with them.
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"There are not now and never have been, in recent times, 'Muslim militants' in Kosovo, "
Sure.
And there is not now and never has been any salt water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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