It never ceases to amaze me that the liberal left can turn even the most damning evidence, right from the mouth of the enemy, into a diatribe against fighting for freedom around the world.

On July 26^th, a new Al-Qaeda video starring that inimitable finger pointer, Ayman al-Zawahri was broadcast by the terrorist’s favorite television network Al-Jazeera. In it al-Zawahri stated that he sees, and I quote, “all the world as a battlefield open in front of us.”

He went on to proclaim that “The war with Israel does not depend on cease-fires…It is a Jihad for God’s sake and will last until (al-Zawahri’s) religion prevails. We will attack everywhere.”

I am not a student of comparative religion. I admit that I do not know all of the ways that the holders of a faith attempt to attract and spread belief in their creed.

But, Seems To Me, the version of Islam practiced by the aforementioned al-Zawahri postulates that indiscriminate murder and militant force is required to produce new adherents. I’ve heard  that if one is unwilling to convert, that one will surely die due to separation of head from body. Even with the current advances in medicine this is probably a condition that can not be undone.

I am looking forward to how the unfit to print New York Times will try to spin this one. Some writer, who loves the terrorists, will pooh-pooh the quote as being taken out of context, or better yet, that they don’t have the capability to launch battlefields everywhere.

But that begs the question, and ignores the absolute purpose of the terrorist. Very few can initiate very much damage. And that is exactly the problem. The terrorist can’t and furthermore doesn’t want to fight fair; he (or she) simply wants to frighten us into submission, make us tired, and get us to give up. That is why they hide in broad daylight. This is why they are so dangerous. This is why they must be eradicated like the rats they are.

The terrorist attacks innocent people on trains, in subways, in office buildings, in airplanes, walking down the road to the corner store, on buses, in front of police stations, drinking coffee in cafes, eating in restaurants, in the street outside of U.S embassy buildings, next to UN buildings, and they close down newspapers – and jail or kill the editors…do the liberals not see that the very purpose of the terrorist is to create fear, as in FEAR.

No, they obviously do not see it.

The terrorist wants to make us nervous and uneasy, unsure of what to or not to do, and Seems To Me the terrorists should have the liberals nervous. They should be nervous. Their way of life; their cherished anti-Christian elitist attitude, their look down their noses certitude should be wavering with fear at what they would face if this became an Islamic country.

But, the question is - why don’t they seem to have fear? Do they think their superior intellect will protect them from those who remove heads?

Perhaps, they feel that a free press will continue in the Shira state that the terrorists want to impose on everyone. Maybe it would be just like the “free press” as established in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. And of course all female reporters will be exempt from the Burka, and allowed press credentials for interviews with the appointed Imam.

I presume they have their collective head in the sand. When ears are filled with sand, even liberals can’t hear what is really going on around them.

What fools!

I have a friend who was stabbed by a shirt pin wielded by an unidentified assailant a few years ago. A little while later the shirt pin attacker struck again, we could do nothing it seemed, the attacker slipped away and blended into the crowd. Later still the stabs became more frequent and another in his family was also attacked. What is going on we said, who is doing this and why?

One day about a year ago, he got a note stuffed in his mailbox; you’ve seen the kind made up of cut out letters from the newspaper and magazines. The note said, “Either you and your family leave the neighborhood, or we will kill you all.”

We appealed to the police for help in finding the assailant. They told us that without positive identification and others reporting the same thing that they were unable to help. The perpetrator had to be caught in the act, and since we didn’t know who was doing this we were stymied. The police suggested that they stay away from the places where the stabbings occurred, and besides the wounds were only pinpricks and he and his family were strong so they should be able to accept the abuse.

His neighbors were sympathetic, but were unable to assist, for they had their own problems to solve, and besides, they were not being stuck by pins.

The stabs now became more frequent and the invisible attacker now appeared to be using a hatpin. The resulting wounds were more painful, but still somewhat minor. The wounds took longer to heal and eventually turned to very small scars. I was becoming more concerned for my friend, and I watched him walk down the street toward his home sort of waving his arms in a somewhat exaggerated manner, perhaps, fending off the invisible attacker.

Suddenly, the aggressor became more bold, he began using a thin bladed filet knife. Inflicting more severe and deeper wounds that bled for a longer time and were very painful. I asked my friend if perhaps he should move from his ancestral home.

But he said, “No, no, no! This is the home my great-grandfather built. My grandfather, father and I were born here. It is where we live; we will not be driven from our home by a loathsome enemy who will not show himself. He is evidently a coward, for he does not fight fairly. He threatens us with death, yet, he is only able to inflict small painful stabs that attempt to wear us down. He wants to take my freedom away. To make me afraid to go outside into the sunshine, fearing an attack. So, he hides in the crowd, cowering to avoid detection, yet not tough enough to face me man to man. I will not give in to such a coward, even unto my own death.”

My friend took up exercise, and agility training to strengthen himself. And so, one day after suffering a multitude of pin pricks, and small knife stabs, my friend armed himself with a hidden knife. When he felt the stab, he whirled and struck in the direction of the attacker. The arm of the attacker was injured and he dropped his small knife. My friend had his foe on the ground and kicked him. The man cried out “Why are you doing this to me? Help me, save me from this madman. (And whispering so only my friend could hear “I have done you no real harm, only small pricks and stabs that easily healed.”) The attacker continued loudly, “You are strong, I am weak.” (And again whispered, “I will not give up, I want the land you have, and I will have it for nothing.”)

My friend replied, “I have lain awake many long hours at night thinking of this moment, when I have found the criminal who has been my nemesis. You remind me of a rat, a loathsome creature that lives on the leavings of others, carrying pestilence and disease to all who you meet. A scavenger that revels in the garbage in the dark, furtively waiting until it can attack and then slip into a hole to hide. I shall deal you a deadly blow and eliminate any possibility of a return to the way things were.”

The people on the street were alarmed and called for help. The police arrived before my friend could eliminate the attacker…

Do you want to know how this story ends? Well, so do I. Perhaps the story seems slightly familiar?

Think of my friend as Israel. His attacker are of course terrorists (Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran, Syria, and vast the array of “Islamic Jihad” rebels around the world attempting to thwart freedom and impose their own brand of despotic rule, governed by mullahs who would rather cut off your head than allow you to speak truth) want to deny them a place to live that the Israelis have built from sand and rock.

The terrorists have a twisted belief that the people who live there deserve to die because, well, just because that’s what they believe. This has been going on now for almost 60 years, and the terrorism is spreading to others of our neighbors who have their heads in the sand. Unfortunately, when one’s head is in the sand it leaves one’s hind parts very exposed.

And that my friends is the state of the European Union, trying to pretend that train bombings in Spain and England killing and injuring hundreds were simply home grown little boys unhappy with their acceptance by the natives. When in fact they were terrorist groomed by the local fire breathing imam for no reason other than it would cause damage to the terrorists avowed enemies (in other words the West.)

There is no playing nice with these lunatics; I cannot bring myself to call them normal human beings. What sane person could possibly believe that 72 (pick a number I’ve heard from 17 to 72) virgins await to be delivered by Allah upon blowing oneself up in the process of injuring and killing the infidel? What do the female bombers get? As John Stossel would say “give me a break.”

I am truly disgusted with the political correctness the media cling to, in an apparent attempt to exempt themselves from any potential jihadist damage themselves. What self-serving poppycock. Either get in the battle or stand by the curb and weep, but do not call yourself a patriot when action is called for and the best you can muster is hand-wringing.

Seems To Me that we have lost our sense of outrage. Have we become so inured in the face of hostilities and other insanities in this world that when a friend has been stabbed repeatedly by a mutual enemy we fail to leap to the friend’s defense, or our own for that matter? Our friends the Israelis face constant attack from rockets, rifle fire, tunneling and capturing soldiers, killing defenseless civilians, terrorist bombings, and repeated repudiation of cease-fire agreements and much more. It quite simply can no longer be countenanced.

The UN (read police in the above story) is unable to reach agreement on just about anything of importance, how can we expect them to actually do anything of lasting value. And somehow the Israelis have always been the ones called on the carpet when they are only responding to their citizens being decimated by terrorist bombings, and rocket fire. Resolutions are ignored by the terrorists with impunity, the Secretary General says he believes that the leader of the terrorists is stating the truth when he says he will disarm. The UN is a pitiful sham being run by a bunch of bullies whose vote is counted as if it means something. If it weren’t for Ambassador Bolton there would be very little of value said in the Security Council chamber on given day.

The only truth the terrorists have ever stated is what Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran (no less, and in fact, all the other terrorist leaders) constantly bray, “Israel must be destroyed.”

I’m sure he continues to deny any involvement in the hostage taking back in Carter’s days. Even if he wasn’t one of the hostage-takers he would have liked to have been there in retrospect.

It is time to stop the partisan bickering and stand together to defeat this real threat to our way of life.

You must realize that our children and grandchildren will be the ones who will eventually pay the price of our unwillingness to fight now. They will be the ones who will be wearing burqas, they will be the ones on hands and knees facing Mecca five times a day, they will be the ones living under Shira law that treats women as chattel and all others as subject to the whim of the Imam.

No thanks!

This is a fight that must be won.

The headline read “Smoking To Kill 1 Billion By End Of Century.” Wow. That’s a lot of people. The instant gut reaction is supposed to be that everyone everywhere should do everything in their power to stop this horrible onslaught.

But, just stop and think for a moment. Oh, no – thinking is not allowed in this new bleeding heart feeling world. We have to be told how to think and feel by those who have our “best interest” at heart. This reminds me of a statistics professor who once said, “figures don’t lie, but liars figure.” Simply stated, if you have an ax to grind, there is always a way to skew the analysis or misstate a conclusion to enable the worst possible, most eye-catching conclusion or headline.

I was surprised to learn that the self appointed horror mongers are in a really big business that gets its money by scaring the living daylights out of people to generate contributions from dim-witted corporations susceptible to blackmail and dim-witted members of the population susceptible to an inability to think for themselves. It appears that most of the media are willing accomplices of the major perpetrators of these scare tactics.

Seems To Me that most newspaper writers, television announcers, etc. have become more interested in writing a “hot” headline story to get a byline, than in reporting real facts that are quickly and easily available with only cursory investigation. I wonder what journalism professors are teaching these days? For example: the world population right now (just ask Google) is 6 billion, 333 million and increasing at a rate of approximately 1 every ¾ of a second.

My guess is that just about every one of those 6 billion plus currently alive will die before the century is over at midnight December 31, 2199. Wow, that’s 6 billion deaths! I have no doubt that advances in medical practice will prolong many lives. However, I am fairly sure that no breakthrough will eliminate death as one of the two absolutes, you know – taxes is the other one.

Additionally, the current highest life expectancy by country is about 81 to 83 years (the US is 76 to 77), while the lowest is below 38 years. Since the 1940’s life expectancy has increased worldwide from an average of about 45 years to over 63 years. Seems To Me people are living longer in spite of the horrible things we do to ourselves through overeating, smoking, etc., etc. In a perverse switch, it could be said that people are living longer since more people are smoking, on average, worldwide; remember the statistics professor.

Examination of the above reliable statistics (check them out for yourself) indicates that, in fact, the populations of most countries will be entirely replaced and increased before this century runs out. Many of them will be smokers no doubt, but attributing the death of a 38 year old to smoking is ludicrous on its face. Furthermore, attributing increased longevity to reducing use of tobacco is a huge stretch.

People die, because that is the last thing we do, sometimes because of what we did to ourselves, but mostly because we are simply worn out.

Of all the things I’ve learned in life, “Keep It Simple” still makes the most sense. Whenever, I see a headline touting some new scientific breakthrough (that usually has major disclaimers by the person holding the press conference buried near the end), or some new “this month’s instant heart attack just waiting to happen” caused by eating Mexican, Southern cooking (insert your favorite food group) or my favorite buttered popcorn, I stop and smile.

I’m only going to live so long anyway, therefore, I might as well enjoy the years I have left while I can. Please, stay out of my food choices, and I won’t contribute any money to your looney causes. That seems like a fair compromise.

Could someone explain to me how Israel, a nation whose sovereignty has been sanctioned since 1949 by the UN (as in otherwise UNable, UNwilling, UNthinking, UNintelligable, UNbelievable and a whole lot of other UN’s I can’t think of right now) with resolutions that state that Hezbollah (armed militias) must disarm, has to give in to terrorists who refuse to disarm? It Seems To Me that Israel has the right to defend itself from bloodthirsty terrorists.

“Come now,” you say. “Isn’t bloodthirsty a little harsh?” Let’s look at that closely. When your neighbors have said and continue to say that they will accept nothing less than the annihilation of your entire country and population, what would you call it? Friendly overtures toward peace?

The Israelis have allowed themselves to be sweet talked into ‘cease fire’ agreements numerous times and yet the Hezbollah and Hamas leaders repeatedly break and deny their promises. Where I come from the saying goes “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice – Shame on me.” It would be nothing, if not just for the Israelis to attempt to destroy those who can not be trusted. Trust is gained through honest and honorable dealings, not firing rockets at those with whom you brokered a “peace accord” only a few years ago.

It may be that “I’m Mad As Hell, And I’m Not Going To Take It Any More” is now the watchword for Israel. They are telling their antagonists, we have drawn a line, and it will not be crossed again without consequences being paid by those who have dared us one time too many. After being backed into a corner over and over, peace at any price is a cost far too great. Appeasement is nothing but surrender. Appeasement weakens the appeaser and empowers the aggressor, i.e. “we got away with it once, let’s try it again.” Appeasement only delays the battles that will ultimately have to be fought. If it is war the terrorists want, and they have told us repeatedly that is exactly what they want, then now is the time to stand and be counted. Lessons of WWII must be taught again.

The Israelis have survived despite numerous grand attempts at extermination by madmen of all stripes. It is time for the United States to redouble our support for one of the few democracies in the Middle East and time for Iran and Syria to be taught that supporting terror will ultimately engender enmity from the rest of the world.

When I lived in Akron, Ohio there was a newspaper reporter named Kenny Nichols who had a column called the “Town Crier.” As I recall, he never reported bad news. He even once reported on a slight oddity in our family, to whit one particular year my parents anniversary was number 40, my older sister’s was number 20, mine was number 10, and my younger sister’s was number 5, a perhaps slight but nevertheless interesting occurrence.

Sometimes we have occasion to pillory the messenger. We have at times yelled at the bringer of bad tidings. We have been angered at parents and others who tell us things we didn’t want to hear, such as “you aren’t old enough to do that.” In the long history of passing the news, going all the way back to the town crier, seldom has there been occasion to strangle the messenger such as we now face.

We are now more at risk due to the more than unfortunate revealing of the U.S. government attempts to protect its citizens (including me and them) by tracing the flow of money to terrorists from and into the USA. Now, I am told by the New York Times that the citizenry had a great need to know of this program, which ‘bordered on being illegal’ in their opinion. Those who see conspiracies when their ‘superior’ rights are ‘being trampled’ seem to feel no regard for the rights of all to be protected from those who pray for our destruction to be displayed on world-wide television. The perpetrators of death appear to have an ally working in their behalf in the Big Apple under the guise of a daily newspaper that has the stated objective to give its readers “all the news that’s fit to print.”

Perhaps I’m an old fashioned rube (not being a resident of that great City). But, it seems to me that trumpeting to the world (I readily acknowledge the international reach of the rag) the details of a, perhaps, little known program that has the potential to track and eliminate funding of terrorists has very high positive and very, very low negative repercussions for the average, over-average, or even way above-average financial American transaction initiator. In other words, only those who have the potential of being discovered as sending money to already identified terrorists have anything to worry about. The average guy (of which there are approximately 299.9 million and counting) has nothing to worry about. My own perception is that anyone who wants to look at my, or anyone I know financial dealings is in for a very dull, and short lived investigation.

It may have slipped their collective mind that we are currently involved in a fight to the death. The ‘enemy’ fails to identify itself until they have struck. Generally, not even showing a face, rather choosing to hide behind a mask (very brave, are they not?) and spewing ugly things about how we all deserve to die at their unmerciful hand.

I am disgusted, appalled, unnerved, and mostly angry that an “institution” of such high reputation, has besmirched itself in so unseemly a manner. There is no room for apology, not of even the most abject and groveling. They have sullied the heroic efforts and deaths of the victims of September 11, 2001, and the brave volunteer army of this great country and our allies. I do not expect every person, newspaper, or even all of the party in power to be gung-ho in favor of any policy. But I do expect sane and thoughtful discourse. It appears to me that the Times has it in their mind that protection of terrorists and those potentially funding them is preferable to protection of the very city in which they publish their inglorious “News.” Kenny Nichols would be ashamed.