And Obama gives scum-of-the-earth jihadists Miranda Rights.

They’ve only earned the right to be silenced. Forever.

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So I received quite a bit of comment action from my last post, “The Wussification of America.” Most of it was positive and expressed similar views. Several on the conservative side actually missed a few of the points, but overall they got it. Of course, as expected, I received a few smuggalicious lefty responses decrying my opinion as barbaric and also as expected, questioning my manhood. As though bending over to the whims of actual barbarians is a manly way to live your life. Count me out, Sally.

Ya see, I live in a world where men take a stand. I come from a state that believes in the values of this great nation. I come from a state that believes that freedom is worth fighting for. I come from Texas, the sidearm of the nation. Undoubtedly the all knowing eyes of the left are rolling back in their head in their, “oh so better than thou” way at the knowledge that I, a redneck hick from a backwater Klan-infested swamphole could dare utter pride at such a thing. Well, to borrow a phrase from our brilliant enlightened leader, “Yes, yes I can.”

You see, I was brought up in a place where when something needed to get done, it got done. When your neighbor needed you, you were there to help. It’s just the right thing to do. We looked out for each other. And regardless of what the hootie tooties on the left want to think of everyone not living in a thriving Metropolistical stew of “progressive” thought; we did so regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, skin color or sexual preference. So there. Anyone remember Katrina? What city opened its arms to those hit hardest? Yep, my hometown of Houston. Which by the way is the 4th largest city in the country. Just an FYI.

Now, back to my point. When you take a stand, you can’t do so on a rolling platform. You have to know what you stand for and you must be willing to fight for it. And when someone comes to knock you down, you face them and hold your ground. When you know who you are and what you stand for, you are strong, firm, solid. And yes, that makes a man. Inside and out.

Now I want to say to some of the left that responded sans smuggery. I see and understand your points. Really I do. And here is where we see the true difference. I do not agree with you. Period. I do not think less of you as a person per se. I just know where I stand. I don’t feel threatened by your stand and lash out personally as so many on the left do when someone dares to disagree with them. I don’t feel that I’m superior to you because of my stance and opinions. I do feel that I am right. And I won’t go all wobbly in the knees and buckle like a liberal in the face of those who want to kill me simply to satisfy a false sense of self satisfaction at my attempt to understand the feeeelings of the guy sawing my head off. Your feeeelings are your feeeelings and that is alright. However; your feeeelings will get me and my family killed.

I had this very conversation with a liberal friend of mine. He was adamant about the “torture” issue. He said we were better than that and that it shouldn’t be allowed and that it made us as bad as the terrorists, blah, blah, blah. And then, in the midst of his argument, he uttered one sentence which summed up the feelings of every liberal I have ever met. I’m paraphrasing here, but he said something to the effect that “Well, maybe if I knew my family was in immediate danger…” or something similar in tone. BINGO! BANGO! BONGO! Can anyone say caveat!?! There it is folks. When it comes down to them, the rules are different. Tax cheats? Horrible. Unless you’re on the left. Ruthless Dictators? Horrible. Unless you’re on the left. Terrorists? Horrible. Unless you’re on the left.

Ya see, the thing that my friend and all you on the left who responded to my article seem to miss here is that the info we got from pouring some water down the gullets of 3 (that’s right fellas, only 3) worthless piles of human debris saved our fair city of Los Angeles from a terrorist attack that could have possibly killed your whiny flower-pickin asses! Oh, and how about if not your lives, what about everyone else’s? Do those not in your enlightened sphere of influence matter? When someone wants to kill you and has stated so, made arrangements to do so and is heading your way with a little “COEXIST” sticker on the bumper of their “chock full o explosives” laden love mobile; you don’t help them gas up their car, clean the windshield, and air up their tires. Ya, shoot em! Aaaaaaaaaaand, scene.

Is that so hard to fathom? Really? Bad guys do bad things. And I’m sorry, it may not be Biblical in the liberal sense, but when someone hits me on the cheek, the only way I’m turning the other cheek is in the midst of a solid roundhouse kick to their frickin head. I’m done with this silly feminized version of what a man is supposed to be. Will I open doors for women? You betcha. Will I share my feeeelings with a woman. Absolutely, at an appropriate time. Will I even write poetry, pick flowers, and have picnics with a woman. Yes, yes, and yes I certainly will. But what’s even more important than all that lovey dovey mushy romantic stuff?

I will stand firm in my convictions. I will stand firm in my support of those who fight for me. I will protect the lives and homes and freedom of those I love and their families and friends. I will fight the miserable evil that would make a slave of my woman. Stone her for driving a car, treat her like property, and kill her for being a victim of another piece of crap thug. That, my liberal friends, is the kind of man I am. I don’t want to hug a terrorist today. I want to hug a lovely, gorgeous, outgoing, outspoken, woman that can feel free to drive, read, vote, sing, dance, and choose the type of man she will spend her time with. And I’m pretty much willing to bet, that when the chips are down, she won’t go running to you for safety, there sweetpants. She’ll be looking for the manly guy ready to fight for her when the time comes…

And P.S.
It’s time!

Oh, and P.S.S.
Namaste

Here was Barack Obama in Turkey this week:

“We will convey,” said Barack Obama to the Turkish Parliament Monday, “our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.”

Robert Spencer has his say on that here, and I’ve written about Western Muslims and the idea of ”American Islam” in my book, “ProPiganda: Drawing the Line Against Jihad“:

American Islam?

A big part of the self-reputation of many Muslims living in the West, mainly those who were born and raised here, is that they’re good and decent human beings by virtue of Islam. But in reality, these “Muslims” reject Islamic values and embrace Western ones, whether they admit it to themselves or not. They have the luxury to credit Islam without having to suffer under Islam, under its life-suffocating Sharia Law. And their version of Islam is sometimes fancifully referred to as “American Islam,” as if there exists such an entity apart from Islam itself.

This is the kind of dangerous nonsense that allows Islam into our culture as if it were just another part of the great American melting pot. [At this moment, I can't help but think of just one of the many threats in the Koran, one promising that pots of scalding water will be poured over the heads of Infidels who will suffer in hell for all eternity for not believing Mohammed's lies. Ch. 44: verse 43.]

These Muslims in name only have been naturally edified by a culture that is completely foreign to the one they came from. But they did not consciously decide to reject Islamic values and embrace Western ones. The process was implicit – it happened naturally when they were exposed to Western, i.e., pro-life, values. They and we fail to realize that a good Muslim, by our standards, is a bad Muslim by Islamic standards. Western Muslims have to appreciate the stark difference between Western values and Islamic values and stop pretending that they’re one and the same. It’s simply not true. And one of the dangers that this poses for us in our defense against jihad is that objectively good human beings who identify themselves as Muslim give Islam a good face, a good name, one far better than it deserves. This gives us a false impression of what we’re facing, with just another excuse not to face it.

Saturday, I saw the most honest and courageous politician on earth give a speech about Islam’s threat to the civilized world after a screening of his short film, “Fitna.” It was just another reminder of how important strong leadership is in a dangerous world. In light of that, it is disheartening to see that the greatest and most powerful country in the history of the world, The United States of America, goes small against jihad and big against its own citizens, post 9/11. And further, that Washington P.C. is led by the weakest leaders it has ever had at a time when it needs the strongest.

Geert Wilders is a man who comes off as if he cannot tell a lie and his stand against the Islamization of the Netherlands has been so effective that his political party, the Freedom Party, has become the most popular political party among his countrymen. The above drawing is in support of Wilders, whose own country is prosecuting him for telling the truth about Islam in his film. The film dramatizes Islam itself (key passages from the Koran) via the words and actions of Muslims animated by this ideology. 

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