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Did we learn a thing from 9/11? Hardly, based on reports that , had previous run-ins with the police, including a high-speed chase to evade police. And he stole a car. Model “Religion of Peace” member, this guy. So why is he here–and why was he free to drive in a cab and attempt murdering at least two of his passengers?
Independent Conservative, who correctly surmised that the cabbie is Somalian, is on the case and has the details and media links.
There’s a reason that whenever I’m in a cab with a driver I suspect is Muslim or an Arab, I hide my Hebrew jewelry and avoid discussing politics and religion. My life depends on it, as we are now at risk in our own country–thanks to the PC forces who’ve made that so. And this is simply more proof. And by the way, don’t forget that at least one of the men convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a cabbie.

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Not that I care a whit about trashy nutjob Britney Spears or her equally trashy soon-to-be ex-husband, Kevin Federline. But I do like to look at the legal aspects of things.
And if I were one of Federline’s divorce lawyers, I’d immediately subpoena a sample of Britney Spears’ newly shorn hair, now for sale for $1 million (to some idiot who has money to flush down a toilet) at BuyBritneysHair.com.
The fact is that hair is the best way to detect drug use. You can’t take a masking agent to change the documented drug use in your locks of hair. While Spears wore hair extensions, enough of it was her own hair to detect whether or not she used drugs in the last year or so.
It could be a great bit of evidence of parental non-fitness in his and her ongoing custody battle.

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I’ve made by Al-Qaeda terrorist Abdullah Al-Muhajir a/k/a Jose Padilla’s lawyers and how they are gaining a foothold. Padilla claims that he was tortured because–among other things–he was forced (like many American prisoners) to sleep on a cement slab. He claims that, therefore, he has some sort of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and is unfit to be tried.
Nonsense.
Unfortunately, this nonsense is getting a full hearing by U.S. Federal Judge Marcia Cooke, who is presiding over the trial. As I’ve written, most of her rulings , and don’t look for that to change. The latest is that she has granted a hearing, Thursday, to determine whether or not Al-Muhajir/Padilla’s treatment left him unfit for trial. That there is a hearing–over the implausible claim that Padilla’s mental state has been harmed so much so that he cannot prepare for trial–is absurd enough.

Judge Marcia Cooke Hearts Padilla
Worse, in an unprecedented move, she is requiring officials at a Navy brig where Al-Muhajir/Padilla was held to testify. Press reports say it will be the first time Defense Department officials with direct knowledge of Padilla’s confinement will speak publicly.
Essentially what we have here is now NOT a trial of an Islamic terrorist bent on America’s destruction. Instead, with Judge Cooke’s direct intervention, we have a trial of America’s soft treatment of terrorists with the assertion that it still isn’t soft enough. Judge Cooke, by the way, was a Bush nominee to the bench, who got the unanimous support of Democrats. Hint, hint.
What is it they say about too many cooks spoiling the broth? In this case, one Judge Cooke spoils the broth . . . and America’s national security.
Yet another omen that this trial .
**** UPDATE: Reader Carl writes:

Debbie,
I am a reserve deputy for a sheriff’s department and spend a lot of time working in the jail. Our inmates either sleep on a raised concrete slab “bunk” or a steel bunk bolted to the wall and floor. When we are crowded, they may sleep in a hard plastic “boat” (looks like a small “john boat”) on the floor. They have a thin mattress and pillow, both with a tear-resistant plasticized canvas cover. Unless allergic to wool, they also get a set of wool blankets, cotton sheets, and a pillow case. This is not torture, this is incarceration. Almost all of the inmates understand this. They don’t like it, but they understand it. I think that most of our inmates would consider Padilla a whiny, wimpy scum and not even a real man. I think they would consider him a traitor also. Criminals or not, they are in touch with reality (mostly).
Keep up the good work.

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So 19 men who were hijacked by their religion (NOT the other way around) hijack some planes and murder 3,000 Americans. And as a result, their religion is exalted to “holier-than-all-of-us” status. So much for the part in the Constitution about Congress not establishing a national religion.
Judging from the activities of our government over the past 5.5 years, I’d say we have a new national religion, which begins with an I, ends with an M, and has an S-L-A in the middle (and yes, I originated that line, not the best-selling author who stole it).
This is the latest in the bend over backward and forward government position toward the “Religion of Peace,” in a letter I got from a Federal Air Marshal. The Department of Homeland Security IslamoFascist sensitivity training re-programming–personally designed by Muslim and Arab groups who openly support terrorism–continues:

Deb,
I just got this in my work email box:

All FAMS personnel are required to complete the “Arab and Muslim Cultural Awareness for DHS Personnel” training currently listed on the TSA Online Learning Center’s (OLC) learning plan.
To aid your completion of this mandatory training, you may find it helpful to reference the Monday, February 12 broadcast message instructions and subsequent follow-on message detailing steps for accessing your OLC Learner account.
Training completion is requested no later than March 16, 2007. Once accomplished, your supervisor may verify course completion through a report generated by your field office or directorate OLC Training Point of Contact (TPOC).
If you have any questions or encounter problems accessing your OLC account, we ask that you first contact your Training Point of Contact listed in the attachment below.

I wish I could write back and tell them that I AM VERY aware of the Arab and Muslim communities…I am aware that they have killed more than 5,000 of my countrymen in the last 6 years…I am aware that they want me dead or enslaved…I am aware that they want Israel
wiped of the face of the earth. Isn’t that all I need to be aware of to consider them as my enemies?
I’ll write you back with some of the dumb ass lessons in this “training” after I do it.

AMEN! Good to know that FAMs are not buying into this crap. Wish I could say the same for everyone at Homeland Security. Unfortunately, the chief turkey at the top and his minions are so consumed by PC, they can’t manage to worry about protecting Americans.
Can you imagine J. Edgar Hoover giving sensitivity training to FBI agents about how mobsters and Nazis are people, too? He may have worn a dress or women’s lingerie. But, far more important, he knew how to conduct federal law enforcement.
And he knew it didn’t involve the royal kowtow to the enemy.

The Changing Facial Hair of Michael Chertoff:
“Thank You, Mohammed; May I Have Another?”

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I will be on FOX News Radio’s “The John Gibson Show“: 7:10 p.m. Eastern, today (Monday). The show is on many radio stations (find your station here), but also both Sirius and XM Satellite Channel 168. Or you can Listen Live Here.
We’ll be discussing Trolley Square Islamic terrorist , Nashville cab driver/attempted murderer , and .

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. . . The Great Mexican Chocolate Bar?!
Well, sadly, it’s no longer “The Great American Chocolate Bar.” And this ad campaign is no longer true . . .

Hershey Es . . . La Grande Mexicano Chocolate Bar

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As I , the Salt Lake Tribune reported that Salt Lake City Police Department spokeswoman Robin Snyder said that police entered the residence of Trolley Square Islamic Terrorist but

did not take any computers or video games.

After I wrote about and questioned this dumb move, the Salt Lake PD suddenly changed its story, at least as reported by AP on Saturday, in which Salt Lake Police Chief Chris Burbank claimed:

He left nothing behind — no notes, no journals, no computer — that might explain his motives.

Muslim Trolley Square Terrorist Sulejman Talovic
So, let’s see. On Thursday, there was a computer, but they didn’t seize it. Then, on Saturday, there was no computer. If a suspect changed his story in that way, we’d say he was lying. But if a Police Department does . . . it’s probably lying, too.
If there was no computer, the Salt Lake PD would have said so in the first place, but instead indicated there was one or more, but that they did not take it.
Regardless, there are lots of reports claiming Talovic spent most of his time in the basement, and since there are no reports of Playboys or other such items in the basement, he was probably on a computer or video games. He had a cellphone, too (which they seized), on which he could have surfed the net.
So, why the constantly shifting stories by the Salt Lake PD? The only thing we know for sure is that this Police Department–quick to dismiss Islam or terrorism as the cause of this jihadist style terrorist attack by a Muslim; and unable to find a motive right under its nose–can’t get its story straight.
And that’s very suspicious.

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Since yesterday, plenty of readers have sent me the story about the latest intolerant, violent cab driver from the “Religion of Peace.”
This one, Ibrahim Ahmed, isn’t in Minneapolis, and he isn’t objecting to alcohol or guide dogs for the blind. Nope, Ahmed got into an argument over religion, and it ended in a hospital trip for at least one of his passengers, with serious injuries. After they paid him, Ahmed ran both his passengers down in his cab.
But I’m sure his religion is irrelevant. Because it’s the “Religion of Peace,” baby! Yeah.
Reader Walter and son Thad write:

* suspended license–check!
* stolen tag–check!
driving america’s future home from the bar…
I’d sue:
* the city
* the cab co.
* the driver
* the hidden imam
* Red Bull

More:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A local cab driver allegedly tried to run over two customers after a fight over religion became heated.
The incident happened early Sunday morning on the Vanderbilt campus and left one man hospitalized and a cab driver arrested, said police
Two students visiting from Ohio were coming from a bar downtown when they got into an argument with their driver over religion, said police. After they paid the driver he allegedly ran them down in a parking lot.
Ibrihim Ahmned, of United Cab, was arrested and charged with assault, attempted homicide and theft. One of the passengers, Andrew Nelson, managed to outrun the cab but Jeremy Invus was taken to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center with serious injuries, said police.
Ahmed has been convicted of misdemeanors including evading arrest in a motor vehicle and driving on a suspended license, said police.
Ahmed was charged with theft because police said the license plate on his cab was listed as stolen. His bond is set at $300,000.

Independent Conservative has more details and good commentary. He saw video and says he believes the Muslim cabbie is Somalian (much like the cabbies in Minnesota).
Nashville–home of the Grand Ole’ Opry. Now, this story would make a great country song. I vote for “Git Along, Lil’ Infidel.” Close second: “Lookin’ for Peace in All the Wrong Places.”

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And you thought, other than the presence of Al Gore and promotion of “,” this year’s Academy Awards ceremony–this Sunday–was politics-free, for once.
Think again.
Unfortunately, a silly spoof of “West Side Story,” made by far-left Jews has been nominated for Best Live Action Short Film, equating innocent Jewish victims of terrorism to their Palestinian Muslim terrorist murderers and reducing the loss of their lives and limbs to a friendly falafel competition.

While Jews (and others) have been blown to bits at falafel shops (and pizza places and bars and cafes, etc., etc., etc. ad nauseam) by Palestinian terrorists, “West Bank Story,” makes light of the attacks by Islamic terrorists against Jews in Israel by boiling it down to a Jets vs. Sharks ethnic fight where both sides are equal and they all make piece over music, dancing, and falafel. Sorry, but the Italians and Puerto Ricans never blew up themselves and innocent people in a Pizza shop or bus station. Only the Palestinians did that, with the full support of their people.
That this 20-minute movie boils it down to both sides fighting for control of the falafel industry is not just silly, callous, and obtuse, it’s worse–a desecration of the many living and dead who were maimed, many fatally, by the actions of these joyous people shown dancing over falafel. This isn’t over ground chick-peas fried into balls. It’s over the right of the Jewish people to live in peace and freedom versus the avowed Islamic goal of annihilating them from the planet.
Take , a handsome American teenager and Miami Heat fan who dreamt of becoming a rabbi. He was blown up while eating at Mayor’s Falafel during Passover, last year. Ditto for –a working-class auto mechanic, whose family emigrated from Arab Muslim lands to escape the deadly anti-Semitism. Both are dead, murdered by homicide bomber, Sami Salim Ahmed–not a dancing falafel maker, but a cold-blooded killer. And now, both Wultz’s and Anidzar’s lives are parodied in this silly Oscar-nominated trash. Their lives are now, “a little singing, a little dancing, a lot of hummus.” But when they were at the real-life falafel joint, all that anyone heard was an explosion and lots of shrieking.
Since the “film” was made and released in 2005, it shouldn’t even be eligible for this weekend’s Oscars. But in Hollywood, where there’s a will to promote left-wing propaganda, there’s always a way. Watch for this absurd perversion to win the Oscar. It’s got all the makings for getting one of those lackluster golden statuettes.
I’d like to thank the Academy . . . for nothing. What’s next–“World Trade Center Story”?
Although They Were Murdered Behind Israel’s Green Line, Here’s the Real “West Bank Story” . . .

Danny Wultz’s Father Says Good-Bye to His Young Son,
Murdered @ Falafel Shop

Lior Anidzar’s Wife of 1.5 Months Says Good-Bye to Her New Husband,
Murdered @ Falafel Shop

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Don’t forget amidst the sales and ski trips that today is a federal holiday for a reason: to honor our past Presidents (but hopefully not Bill Clinton and that peanut farmer, Jimmuh “Apartheid Brain” Carter).
Take the Detroit Free Press Presidents’ Day quiz. Here’s one question: Who was the most obese President? Answer: William Howard Taft, at over 330 pounds. That was before TV, or he’d never have gotten elected. There aren’t enough chubby chasers in the American electorate.
My favorite Presidents: Ronald Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt. Roosevelt’s “The Man in the Arena” speech is my favorite speech, Presidential or otherwise. Best quote from Ronald Reagan:

We have the right to dream heroic dreams.

Who are yours and why?

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From Roosevelt’s “The Man in the Arena” speech:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

And to all of you amnesty/”jobs Americans won’t do” hucksters:

Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world. Among the free peoples who govern themselves there is but a small field of usefulness open for the men of cloistered life who shrink from contact with their fellows.

And for our privileged friends in the Hollywood limousine liberal left:

Still less room is there for those who deride of slight what is done by those who actually bear the brunt of the day; nor yet for those others who always profess that they would like to take action, if only the conditions of life were not exactly what they actually are. The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be a cynic, or fop, or voluptuary. There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder. Well for these men if they succeed; well also, though not so well, if they fail, given only that they have nobly ventured, and have put forth all their heart and strength. It is war-worn Hotspur, spent with hard fighting, he of the many errors and valiant end, over whose memory we love to linger, not over the memory of the young lord who “but for the vile guns would have been a valiant soldier.”