Day: May 26, 2014

Why Not Pee In Your Chili?

Okay it was unintentional but looks like today is going to be a Boko Haram Day….all day…….

You there are times when “it is best to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt”………cannot recall who made that statement but it proves true time after time……

After the kidnapping of the Nigerian girls the world kinda looked the other way until they could fake it no more……Boko Haram has been a Nigerian problem….in other words a local problem….to the point that they did not threaten any American interest we pretty much left the situation to the locals……but all that may have changed dramatically………..

Boko Haram may be planning an attack on US interests in Nigeria, US intelligence officials tell NBC News. The evidence of this is “fragmentary” and lacks specifics, the sources admit, but counterterror officials are sufficiently worried to the point that they’re stepping up efforts to locate the group’s military assets and trying to determine who sits at the top with frontman Abubakar Shekau—who already has a $7 million bounty on his head. “Boko Haram has a long standing interest in this,” one senior official said. But officials think that interest has intensified as the US steps up its role in hunting for the kidnapped school girls.

Of course, there are precious few US targets in Nigeria’s northeast, where Boko Haram is strongest, but there are some in the capital of Abuja. Boko Haram has been blamed for two bombings in Abuja in the past five weeks, according to CNN, amidst a wave of violence that has grew especially intense this week with the massive Jos bombing. The UN yesterday officially blacklisted Boko Haram—a step Nigeria’s government had refrained from requesting until now—which will make the group’s members subject to asset freezes, travel bans, and arms embargoes, al-Jazeera reports.

People call stupidity like this as “cutting your nose off in spite of your face’…..my grandfather called it…..”pissing in your chili”………This d/bag just painted a bull’s eye on his organization’s back……..the US may be slow on the uptick but this is a direct threat……we will not allow this to go unanswered……the eye in the sky will be watching……..this dude just invited the US to the dance.

What’s the old saying…..”can’t fix stupid”!

Muslim–The New “Black”

Opinion from the desk of the Editor

Last week I watched the closing speeches of the “Super’ Tuesday elections…….I thought they were the most pathetic collection of BS that I have ever heard…..now that I am more disgusted……let us move on shall we?

I recently wrote a post about Islam……and as predicted the buzzword got some action on the site…..the post was explaining why I disagree with the hate mongers that say all Islam is about killing the infidel and hate……the post was entitled…..”Damn The Hate”…….

As I thought there was lots of telling me read surah 2 and 4 which sez it all for some people…….that Muslims will kill anyone not a Muslim…….not true!

I was giving my thoughts on Islam from my perception when I was exposed to it everyday while working in the Middle East……I never encountered anyone that would attack me for not being Muslim and yes, contrary to popular belief I am not a Muslim.  I was treated with generosity, friendship and understanding.  I am not saying that hate is not there….just that I was not exposed to it when there.

I mean anyone can find a hate passage in the Bible…….it is all in the interpretation.  people can find hate if they look hard enough and in any place they chose.

It is true that some terrorists are Muslim but that does not mean that ALL Muslims are terrorists………..for instance the hot button terrorist of the day—–Boko Haram………and this article says it better than I could, especially at this early hour………..

Boko Haram considers itself an Islamist group and often gets labeled as such in news reports, maybe with the word “extremist” tossed in. Wrong, writes Carla Power at Time. Boko Haram is a “criminal group,” not an Islamist one, and that’s what we should call it. Everything about its actions defies the teaching of Muhammad, from its campaign against education, to its forced marriages and conversions, to its declared war on Christianity and the brutal slayings of innocents.

Even the very idea that Boko Haram is waging jihad is incorrect, because self-appointed leaders like Osama bin Laden or Boko Haram’s Abubakar Shekau have no authority to do so. Far from being Islamist, members of Boko Haram are actually “traitors to their faith,” writers Power. “Their sickening deeds and rhetoric repeatedly demonstrate that not only do they lack kinship with the vast majority of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, but they lack respect for the religion they claim to fight for.” Click for the full column.

Boko Haram is a criminal organization that is using Islam as a justification…….they are NOT true Muslims.  The killing of innocents is a sin……suicide is sin………just as Christians can find justification of their actions in the Bible……so do these faux Muslims.

The hate that is spouted daily is just disgusting regurgitation from small minds.

Words like Islamist or Muslim are just a dog whistle word for hate…….Muslim is the new Black!

 

UN Sanctions Approved

Opinion from the desk of the Editor

First, I would like to ask all my readers to take a moment to remember all those brave Americans that gave their lives in defense of their nation………they gave more than was asked of them…..and to a country that is not noted for its thanks…..please remember and reflect….it is the least we can do………

It is evident if one reads my posts that I am NOT a supporter of sanctions.  Yes, they work on some level but as a whole they are just a fart in the wind in today’s world.  I point to the sanctions that were announced aimed at Russia because of the Ukraine situation…….I ask….at what point were they effective?

Russia accomplished what they set out to do….they kept Ukraine from entering into an association with NATO……..sanctions would have made difference of the outcome.

I bring up this because of the kidnapping of those girls in Nigeria by Boko Haram…….it seems the answer to the problem, at least from the UN is to impose sanctions against Boko Haram.  The UN has issued a statement on these sanctions………”What will the practical impact of that be? Hard to say but it’s an essential step we had to take,” said Australian U.N. Ambassador Gary Quinlan, al Qaeda sanctions committee chair, adding that the aim was to “dry up support” for the group.

“We will work to try and make sure that anybody supplying any material assistance to Boko Haram – whether funding or arms – will in fact be stopped, will be deterred by the fact they too will be eligible for listing on the sanctions list,” he said.

This is just laughable to me……….BH is financed by bank robbery, extortion and all around violence……weapons are obtained using those same tactics…..now where will sanctions change anything in that area?

Sanctions on BH are a worthless waste of energy…….sanctions are nothing but a feel good device to make the world think something is being done to control the situation…..it will accomplish very little and will certainly NOT rescue the girls in question.

BH is laughing their butts off….they see it for what it is…….NOTHING!

Once again it is the world employing outdated tactics to handle a very modern problem.  They cannot think outside the box because they cannot find the box.