Bunker Mulligan "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~Mark Twain

Alex has just posted Part II of his new 3-parter.

Most immigrants came here understanding that they were to be included in the melting pot we know as America. They understood they were free to practice their religion, maintain their customs and keep their traditions. They wanted to be a part of that melting pot and contribute to it. It was understood that the fruits of their labor and their standing in the community would determine their credibility in the community at large. In other words, they understood that they had to contribute to the well being and ethos of America.

How did they do it? Well, there are community hospitals built by Catholic and Lutheran charities. There are hospitals built by Presbyterian and Jewish charities. There are community food kitchens sponsored by virtually every ethnic group in this country, from Croats and Bulgarians to Swedes and the Hare Krishna. These groups contribute. It didn’t take long for these groups and others to get involved.

Muslims are different. There are virtually no ongoing charities that service the community at large. There are some exceptions, of course. However, they are all event based and all geared toward media recognition, such as disaster relief drives and so on. There are very few if any, ongoing projects.

I like this passage as it makes some things very clear. Americans share community. We are free to help, and feel an obligation. I haven’t noticed this from the Muslim community. Has anyone?

Follow this up with the reading of Facts v. Revelations in the Quran in American Thinker. James Arlandson views arguments within the Quran through syllogism, and finds them wanting in logic.

Once again I simply point you in the direction of someone who can explain things better than I. Cerberus explains Zell Miller from the perspective of someone who has been there, and done that. I’ll let him speak for himself.

Why, in New York City, would any sane person carry flag-draped coffins down the streets in protest? I know, I know… they want to highlight the deaths of 1000 American military men and women. But if they had a single brain cell more than those required for motor function, they would understand not only the crass nature of their ploy, but its absolute illogic.

In the last three years, some 1000 of our sons and daughters have died in the effort to eliminate those who threaten us all. These young people offered themselves as tools to make that a reality, but not one of them wanted to die. 300 per year, on average. More than that are murdered or killed in accidents each year in NYC alone.

Three years ago nineteen men from the enemy’s side gave themselves up to kill 3000 Americans. They, on the other hand, did want to die. And they killed more than 2000 not far from where these idiots marched. 3000 in one day.

These marchers are, in reality, protesting in honor of nineteen men who wanted to die while killing 3000 Americans, while using the deaths of 1000 Americans as their foil. Were I a family member of someone killed on 9/11, I’d be more than a little upset. I have to wonder how some of the cops herding these folks feel.

As Don King always says, Only in America.

These
protestors are really nothing more than exhibitionists. They really care nothing about the cause they espouse.

Our protestors are demanding number one that the president support full debt cancellation for the poorest nations in the world.

They wouldn’t be able to name a single country which has done more to cancel debt by poor countries than the US. There isn’t one. Nor are there 50 countries in the world combined which have spent more money on AIDS than the good ol’ USA.

So, they obviously have nothing to protest against. “Look at me! I’m standing naked in the street! Did you see me on TV? I’m involved! My life has meaning!”

Exhibitionists, as I said.

Sorry, Arthur, I don’t agree with this:

“Democrats are better lovers than Republicans, the latest opinion poll has found. The poll, of 900 US singles, found by a two-to-one margin that Democrats are better in bed.”

I got an email just today that refutes it. A woman about to get married after several years of marriage to a Democrat tells the lady at the Bridal Shop she wants a white gown, as she is still a “maiden.” She said, “For four years he sat on the edge of the bed and told me how good it was going to be.”

Happy Birthday to my first-born, who is out somewhere in the world making his way home from Afghanistan. I am very proud of the man he has become.