Final Frays ?

I’ve faced this dilemma twice in the just shy of a year I’ve had In2thefray. The previous times were 1 serious and 1 passing thought that blogging wasn’t a long term thing. This time it’s more of a complete lack of having the motivation and attention span to do it. I’ve been blessed and cursed with people that have added to the “2″ in the tag line and provided advice,opinion and insightful conversation. I’ve enjoyed it immensely. Do I need some time off ? Do I need to pick a specific topic area ? Do I need to pack it in ? I don’t know the answer anymore than I expect any answers to be forthcoming. I do know I’ve put more of myself into the blog and blogosphere than I ever imagined I would when I started. I also know the feelings I’m having are not the exception.

Health Care…

Canada is held up as THE healthcare system we Americans should envy and pursue.I offer this. There is a shortage of doctors coming to Canada. See this link and check out the movie snippet from this previous post

On the Patriot Act…

What are you really afraid of ? How many times a day does the Patriot Act actually impact you personally ? Patriot Act Myths

My Blog nod of the Day…

Task Force Marne News and facts from an unit on the ground in Iraq .Not on the evening news or your local paper.

My Editorial nod for today. Hillary Lite ?

An analysis of Islam I agree with hence I can’t get into the whole scaremongering,chicken little all Muslims are terrorists,it’s the end of the world Islamophobe thing.

What I think these young Muslim prisoners demonstrate is that the rigidity of the traditional code by which their parents live, with its universalist pretensions and emphasis on outward conformity to them, is all or nothing; when it dissolves, it dissolves completely and leaves nothing in its place. The young Muslims then have little defense against the egotistical licentiousness they see about them and that they all too understandably take to be the summum bonum of Western life.

Observing this, of course, there are among Muslim youth a tiny minority who reject this absorption into the white lumpenproletariat and turn militant or fundamentalist. It is their perhaps natural, or at least understandable, reaction to the failure of our society, kowtowing to absurd and dishonest multiculturalist pieties, to induct them into the best of Western culture: into that spirit of free inquiry and personal freedom that has so transformed the life chances of every person in the world, whether he knows it or not.

Islam in the modern world is weak and brittle, not strong: that accounts for its so frequent shrillness. The Shah will, sooner or later, triumph over the Ayatollah in Iran, because human nature decrees it, though meanwhile millions of lives will have been ruined and impoverished. The Iranian refugees who have flooded into the West are fleeing Islam, not seeking to extend its dominion, as I know from speaking to many in my city. To be sure, fundamentalist Islam will be very dangerous for some time to come, and all of us, after all, live only in the short term; but ultimately the fate of the Church of England awaits it. Its melancholy, withdrawing roar may well (unlike that of the Church of England) be not just long but bloody, but withdraw it will. The fanatics and the bombers do not represent a resurgence of unreformed, fundamentalist Islam, but its death rattle. Theodore Dalrymple

Speaking of Islam I wanted to do a real post on the “Overwhelming number of Europeans fear Muslims…” “poll” story that blazed the blogosphere. It’s a non story that the one “newspaper” the UK’s Express reported on was no report at all. They left out how the “author” wasn’t and no longer holds the legitimizing position they parade. The report of over 150 + pages had on page 139 the “poll” The numbers regarding Europeans were overwhelming negative. The full story is the US,Israel and most of the Muslim world have far different and far more positive numbers. The world is not falling folks. Be alert,report suspicious activity and know this. There are any number of people of the Islamic faith that are pulling for you and me to succeed in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. WEF report available as a pdf here

Barak Obama the next JFK

I didn’t think much of the first one. I will grant there are a number of similarities and they’re not good ones. I’m also sick of the media making the coincidental connections. JFK helped a Kenyan student come to America. Guess who ? Yeah BO’s dad. Barak Obama’s assigned desk in the Senate. Has JFK’s initials in it-why ? apparently it was his. Anyone remember all the coincidental conspiracies links of JFK and Lincoln ? Wow eerie BO is from Illinois. JFK 1960 campaign,lot’s of hope no real results unless you think space race,Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam were where the hopeful progressives care to revisit. Previous post here and JFK library here

John McCain: Liar and so much more

I can’t take it anymore. I try to post on it and the rage is crippling. He is smug and arrogant. He thinks he is owed the Presidency. He is absolutely not a conservative regardless of any rating system.His positions with Feingold,Kennedy,taxes,tax cuts,judges of the past 2 years alone wipe out any votes he has hung his hat on. We also can’t forget the lying. If he lies like this now how can anyone give him the job ? He is also an old,crusty bitter pill and I refuse to take my medicine. I’ll just Kevorkian and go with the (D).

Some of my Favorite images.Click to enlarge.