You are aware, probably, that Barack Obama lost his bearings recently and said that he was going to campaign in all 57 states.

Barack Obama says he's gonna go out and campaign in 57 states, he was just tired, you know, it's been such a long campaign, he's been so many places, he probably thinks there are 57 states. Well, there is a website called the International Humanist and Ethical Union. And here is how the second paragraph of an article on that website begins. "Every year from 1999 to 2005 the organization of the Islamic conference representing the 57 Islamic states presented a resolution to the United Nations commission on human rights called combating --"

Obama said he's going to campaign in 57 states, and it turns out that there are 57 Islamic states. There are 57 Islamic states. "Every year from 1999 to 2005, the organization of the Islamic conference representing the 57 Islamic states," this is from the International Humanist and Ethical Union. And the title of the piece here is, "How the Islamic states dominate the UN human rights council," and there are 57 of them. So did Obama just lose his bearings, or was this a more telling slip, ladies and gentlemen? Obama's 57 states, not just a simple gaffe. He might have been thinking of the 57 Islamic states when he said he was going to campaign in all 57 states.

by Jan Markell - Olive Tree Ministries, Inc.
Update on the Islamic Schools You Pay For...

I fear my great state of Minnesota could become the late-great state of Minnesota.

The Tarik ibn Zayad Academy (TIZA) is a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights, a suburb of St. Paul. Charter schools are public schools and by law must not endorse or promote religion. Evidence suggests, however, that TIZA is an Islamic school, funded by Minnesota taxpayers. A substitute teacher blew the whistle.

Students pray daily, the cafeteria serves halal food -- permissible under Islamic law -- and "Islamic Studies" is offered at the end of the school day.

The teacher said, "The prayer I saw was not voluntary. The kids were corralled by adults and required to go to the assembly where prayer occurred." She also noted the kids were studying the Koran. School buses did not leave until all "Islamic Studies" were over.

The Minnesota Department of Education says it has visited the school on numerous occasions and nothing seems troubling here. Give me a break! Let Christians pray at the end of the day, and they will be thrown into one of our ten thousand lakes and left to drown!

But there are taxpayers troubled in this chilly state, so in an attempt to report about new findings this week, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS (KSTP) went to TIZA. While on school grounds, the crew was attacked by school officials. The KSTP photographer was injured while wrestling with two men over the camera. He suffered shoulder and back injuries.

The TIZA focuses on Middle Eastern culture and shares a building with the Muslim American Society of Minnesota. It is an Islamic public school. It has now had an all-out fight with a news crew trying to better inform the public about this situation we are praying for.

All a spokesman on behalf of the Minnesota Department of Education would say is, "The Minnesota Department of Education goes to great lengths to make clear to charter schools and their sponsors that, while schools should appropriately accommodate students' religious beliefs, they must be 'nonsectarian' under the state's charter school law." Yet this scenario has been going on way too long and should have been shut down a year ago. Now more Islamic-oriented schools are springing up here at the expense of Minnesota citizens.

A school like this is likely coming to a neighborhood near you. It will thrive unless you as a taxpayer blow the whistle and demand action against these outfits. The leader of the one being reported on in the Twin Cities' suburb was challenged about not flying the American flag. He said he didn't know how to operate the flag pole! As long as we continue to look the other way, Islamic charter (public) schools will start to flourish in America, and you will pay for it. Contact your educational authorities.

And you can bet in their prayer time, they are not saying the Lord's Prayer. They are not pledging allegiance to the American flag. But they are serving halal food and doing "ritual washings."

Be outraged or be next.

To better understand all of this, visit the category at my Web site, Islam & the Arabs.

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QUOTE: Michelle Malkin, Syndicated Columnist, Regarding Former President Jimmy Carter's Self-Appointed Middle East Diplomatic Mission:

"So much for Jimmy Carter's triumphal peace mission in the Middle East. Like everything else he has done on foreign policy, the world's biggest tool for jihad propaganda created yet another bloody mess. Quick review:

"After proclaiming that Hamas terrorists were willing to accept Israel as a 'neighbor next door,' Carter's Hamas hug buddies flipped him the bird. They gladly accepted the diplomatic legitimacy Carter's visit conferred upon them, while clinging bitterly to their insistence on the destruction of the Jewish state."

WASHINGTON — Seventeen of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, according to a report released Tuesday.

The report, issued by America's Promise Alliance, found that about half of the students served by public school systems in the nation's largest cities receive diplomas. Students in suburban and rural public high schools were more likely to graduate than their counterparts in urban public high schools, the researchers said.

Nationally, about 70 percent of U.S. students graduate on time with a regular diploma and about 1.2 million students drop out annually.

"When more than 1 million students a year drop out of high school, it's more than a problem, it's a catastrophe," said former Secretary of State Colin Powell, founding chair of the alliance. [Read More!]

The Man Behind 6 Million Muslims Converting To Christianity Each Year is Zakaria Botros. He proselytizes on Arabic television. Here's a link to an excellent write-up about him: Infidels Blogger Alliance And, here's one of his videos from Arab television: YouTube Video of Zakaria Botros

Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican All right that does it. We need some people to infiltrate Islam with a Muslim version of the Glory and Praise hymnal ASAP. (If you are not Catholic and don't get the joke, consider yourself...lucky). From Reuters The Vatican recently...
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From our "Say Islam Is A Religion of Peace, Or We'll Kill You" Department comes this: click on the old Fitna link for the official LiveLeak statement. And score another victory for thuggery and violent intimidation, and another defeat for... (click title for more)

ED NOTE McCain is the only person running for office who feels THIS way! Who do you want answering the RED PHONE at 3am in the White House?? (Snopes Verified) This was forwarded to me by my niece, Vickie Oliver - thanks Vic!

In light of the recent appeals court ruling in California, with respect to the Pledge of Allegiance, the following recollection from Senator John McCain is very appropriate:

'The Pledge of Allegiance'
by Senator John McCain

As you may know, I spent five and one half years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. In the early years of our imprisonment, the NVA kept us in solitary confinement or two or three to a cell. In 1971 the NVA moved us from these conditions of isolation into large rooms with as many as 30 to 40 men to a room.

This was, as you can imagine, a wonderful change and was a direct result of the efforts of millions of Americans on behalf of a few hundred POWs 10,000 miles from home.

One of the men who moved into my room was a young man named Mike Christian.

Mike came from a small town near Selma , Alabama He didn't wear a pair of shoes until he was 13 years old. At 17, he enlisted in the US Navy. He later earned a commission by going to Officer Training School Then he became a Naval Flight Officer and was shot down and captured in 1967. Mike had a keen and deep appreciation of the opportunities this country and our military provide for people who want to work and want to succeed.

As part of the change in treatment, the Vietnamese allowed some prisoners to receive packages from home. In some of these packages were handkerchiefs, scarves and other items of clothing.

Mike got himself a bamboo needle. Over a period of a couple of months, he created an American flag and sewed on the inside of his shirt.

Every afternoon, before we had a bowl of soup, we would hang Mike's shirt on the wall of the cell and say the Pledge of Allegiance.

I know the Pledge of Allegiance may not seem the most important part of our day now, but I can assure you that in that stark cell it was indeed the most important and meaningful event.

One day the Vietnamese searched our cell, as they did periodically, and discovered Mike's shirt with the flag sewn inside, and removed it.

That evening they returned, opened the door of the cell, and for the benefit of all of us, beat Mike Christian severely for the next couple of hours, then they opened the door of the cell and threw him in. We cleaned him up as well as we could.

The cell in which we lived had a concrete slab in the middle on which we slept, four naked light bulbs hung in each corner of the room.

As I said, we tried to clean up Mike as well as we could. After the excitement died down, I looked in the corner of the room, and sitting there beneath that dim light bulb with a piece of red cloth, another shirt and his bamboo needle, was my friend, Mike Christian. He was sitting there with his eyes almost shut from the beating he had received, making another American flag. He was not making the flag because it made Mike Christian feel better. He was making that flag because he knew how important it was to us to be able to Pledge our allegiance to our flag and country.

So the next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance, you must never forget the sacrifice and courage that thousands of Americans have made to build our nation and promote freedom around the world

You must remember our duty, our honor, and our country

'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.'

9/11 Redux: 'Thousands of Aliens' in U.S. Flight Schools Illegally

Former FAA Inspector: TSA's Enforcement of Post-9/11 Laws 'Basically Nonexistent'

By BRIAN ROSS, VIC WALTER and ERIC LONGABARDI
Feb. 27, 2008

Thousands of foreign student pilots have been able to enroll and obtain pilot licenses from U.S. flight schools, despite tough laws passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, according to internal government documents obtained by ABC News.

"Some of the very same conditions that allowed the 9-11 tragedy to happen in the first place are still very much in existence today," wrote one regional security official to his boss at the TSA, the Transportation Security Administration. [emphasis added]

"Thousands of aliens, some of whom may very well pose a threat to this country, are taking flight lessons, being granted FAA certifications and are flying planes," wrote the TSA official, Richard A. Horn, in 2005, complaining that the students did not have the proper visas.

Under the new laws, American flight schools are only supposed to provide pilot training to foreign students who have been given a background check by the TSA and have a specific type of visa.

But in thousands of cases that has not happened, according to the documents and current and former government officials involved in the program. [Read More!]

Obama Crushes Audacity of Hope for Disabled Americans and their Families

In a presidential debate last night, Sen. Barack Obama, (D-Ill), said, for the second time this year, that he regretted supporting federal legislation aimed at saving the life of Terri Schiavo. He even suggested the legal efforts to stop Terri's death by dehydration and starvation constituted a "costly" action.

"We welcome the opportunity that Senator Obama has given us to once again strive for clarity regarding the death of our beloved Terri," her father Robert Schindler said. "However, we are very saddened by his remarks. Everyone with a disability, or who knows someone with a disability, should be outraged that a potential US president would so callously reject his own action taken in favor of life over death."

Terri's Foundation wishes to remind all Americans that the Senate gave unanimous consent to the effort to save Terri's life and that the vote was strongly bipartisan in the House. "As a country, we should all be distressed that doing the right thing suddenly becomes a 'mistake' when one poll later showed it to be unpopular," Schindler said. "That isn't leadership; it's pandering to popular prejudices."

"Is it so incredulous that a family had the audacity of hope to believe its government would care about one profoundly disabled woman?" Schindler asked. "It is a shame that Senator Obama, who claims to embody 'hope,' is crushing it for the families of people with profound disabilities."

Terri was neither terminally ill, nor comatose. She was not on life support and only needed food and water to live. Persons with disabilities, no matter how serious, are persons with the Constitutional right to life.

"Highly visible public figures, especially those who may one day speak on behalf of all citizens, should not imply that some citizens are less worthy than others," added Schindler. "As President, would Barack Obama stand for all of us or just some of us?"

Contact: Suzanne Vitadamo at Terri's Foundation 727-490-7603 · info@terrisfight.org

He didn't explain how exactly Israel was oppressing Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, etc. "Ahmadinejad: Israel filthy bacteria," from the Jerusalem Post (thanks to Anne Crockett): In yet another verbal attack against Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Jewish... click title for article)

Feel the love. Thai Jihad Update: "Man burnt alive in Thailand," from AFP (thanks to Fanabba): YALA (Thailand), Feb 19: A 46-year-old Buddhist man was shot and then set ablaze as he tried to escape an attack by suspected Islamic... (click title for article)

Mike Savage has filed suit against CAIR, and the latest news is...

One for Savage, zero for CAIR
By Judi McLeod

Take away their deceitful props and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is like all other big-talking bullies: pathetic, sniveling and alone.

In going after top rated radio talk show host Michael Savage, CAIR trotted out a list of advertisers they laid claim to scaring off from advertising on Savage Nation.

When the dust settled, it was all CAIR braying brouhaha. [Read More!]

From the L.A. Times

1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for Cash and not paying taxes . This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.

2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens!

3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens!

4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.

5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican Nationals here illegally.

6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages. [Read More!]

By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
Federal law enforcement agents targeting botnets recently recorded a grim milestone, identifying the millionth potential zombie victim, the FBI said Wednesday.

Operation Bot Roast, as the cyber crime project has come to be known, has now logged more than 1m IP addresses belonging to a botnet. That amounts to plenty of owners, most of whom are oblivious that their Windows 98 box is a cog the sprawling machine at the heart of cyber crime.
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