And Now.......Al Qaeda is Racist!!!!!!!!

President Obama and WhiteHouse aids have declared Al Qaeda to be racist because they seemingly don't value African life and kill innocents without caring and they use Africans as cannon fodder in lower level suicide missions.

Read it all here.

Does this now mean the Dept of Justice and Eric Holder might become interested in fighting the Al Qaeda organization?

Are we ready for the aftermath of a Terrorist Attack?

Peggy Noonan takes a look at the Department of Justice (DOJ)under Eric Holder and concludes here that we are not prepared.

Huh? When I think about possible resources that might be brought to bear after a terrorist attack, more lawyers from DOJ is not even on my list. Who is she kidding?

Here are my top 10 reasons why we are not prepared for a Terrorist Attack, Economic Collapse, or any other TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) event:

1. We have no personal plans to deal with this
2. Lack of transportation will styme us
3. A Grid-down situation will paralyze us
4. Most of us keep little cash on hand when ATM's, creditcards don't work
5. Most of us have no foodstocks on hand
6. Most of us have no water sources available other than the kitchen tap
7. Many of us are not prepared to defend ourselves, family, or property
8. Most of us have not stored any of the necessities of life
9. We are not mentally prepared for a TEOTWAWKI environment
10. We are paralyzed by sudden, new situations

If any of these apply to you, I would start working down the list to eliminate these items from my personal vulnerability list.

We have met the enemy and they are us: Immigration and Sham Marriages

"Big Sis" and so many other liberals were rocked back on their heels when they learned that the newest islamic nut-job terrorist trying to blow us up was a naturalized citizen! Oh my, how could that be? What went wrong?

Two words: Sham Marriages!

A little history lesson here from Michelle Malkin at NRO.

El Sayyid A. Nosair wed Karen Ann Mills Sweeney to avoid deportation for overstaying his visa. He acquired U.S. citizenship, allowing him to remain in the country, and was later convicted for conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that claimed six lives.

Ali Mohamed became an American citizen after marrying a woman he met on a plane trip from Egypt to New York. Recently divorced, Linda Lee Sanchez wed Mohamed in Reno, Nev., after a six-week “courtship.” Mohamed became a top aide to Osama bin Laden and was later convicted for his role in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Africa that killed 12 Americans and more than 200 others.

Embassy-bombing plotter Khalid Abu al-Dahab obtained citizenship after marrying three different American women.

Embassy-bombing plotter Wadih el-Hage, Osama bin Laden’s personal secretary, married April Ray in 1985 and became a naturalized citizen in 1989. Ray knew of her husband’s employment with bin Laden, but like many of these women in bogus marriages, she pleaded ignorance about the nature of her husband’s work. El-Hage, she says, was a sweet man, and bin Laden “was a great boss.”

Okay, see a pattern here? If you want to fix a problem, maybe knowing what the problem is might help.

So, keep watch, and see what official Washington does about this problem. My bet is on "nothing".

Oops, just a mistake......so sorry.......

A Qatari diplomat went to grab a smoke in an airplane Lavatory and then joked about trying to light his shoes.....then all hell broke lose. Including air fighter escorts for the airplane.

Ah but, Qatar's U.S. ambassador, Ali Bin Fahad Al-Hajri, cautioned against a rush to judgment.

"This diplomat was traveling to Denver on official embassy business on my instructions, and he was certainly not engaged in any threatening activity," he said in a statement on his Washington embassy's Web site. "The facts will reveal that this was a mistake."

Brown Lloyd James, a law firm representing the Qatar embassy, said Thursday morning that the diplomat, Mohammed Al-Madadi, had been released by authorities after questioning and was on his way back to Washington. The firm said Al-Madadi is the embassy's third secretary. Read it all
here.

The story continues............No explosives were found on the Washington-to-Denver flight. Authorities speaking on condition of anonymity said they don't think the envoy was trying to hurt anyone during Wednesday's scare and he will not be criminally charged.

And what do you think would happen if you or I had done that????????

Campaign chatter: "We will be tested"

You probably remember that incredible campaign stop where VP-candiate Joe Biden confided that their new administration was going to be tested by the bad guy terrorists.

Well, army recruiters were killed by a terrorist, soldiers were killed at Ft. Hood by a terrorist, a terrorist tried to blow up an airplane in December.

And now we have reports that five muslims have been arrested at Ft. Jackson in Columbia, SC on charges of trying to poison the food supply. Their actual arrests occured around Christmas. Right about the same time the "underwear bomber" tried to blow up the airplane.

Are we safe now?

And He Cares not for the Constitution: Keeping US Safe

In his first year in Office, three terrorist attacks have ocurred on US soil: killing of Army recruiters in Arkansas, the Ft. Hood massacre, and the attempted destruction of an airplane over Detroit.

President Obama dismantled the CIA interrogation apparatus which was supposed to be replace by HIG, High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group.

But, in recent hearings, a CIA director admitted that the HIG system is not yet functional, so the limited interrogation of the "underwear bomber" was handed off to the FBI until AG Eric Holder made sure the suspect was "lawyered up" so he could not talk anymore.

One of the prime functions of the Federal Government is to keep its citizens safe. This President shows the same contempt for that function as he does for the Constitution specifically and the country in general.

"The Practice is Disturbing"

Trijicon, a defense contractor who makes high performance rifle sights, has agreed to stop putting references of bible verses on its sights. This came after a firestorm erupted when ABC News disclosed that Trijicon had been printing the references.

What is disturbing is that one of our key commanders focusing on the terrorist war said the following: On Thursday, however, Army Gen. David Petraeus, Central Command's top officer, called the practice "disturbing."

"This is a serious concern to me and the other commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan," Petraeus told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

Why is it disturbing? Because we are a Christian nation fighting a war in muslim lands? Let's recall that people from this region of the world came to our country and killed three thousand of our citizens. So does our Christianity offend some? Too damn bad!

The Un-gratitude of Terrorism

One of the central ideas of the Obama election was apparently, if you went around the world bowing and apologizing for what a terrible country America has been, then all the Islamist Jihadists would get the message, be appreciative of the change in course, and back off from attacking the US as the "great Satan".

Well, obviously that has not worked out too well. We have the killing of the Arkansas military recruiters by a terrorist. We have the Ft. Hood mass murder by a terrorist, we have the "Fruit-of-the-Kaboom" bomber attempt, and we learn from him that there may be 200 more Jihadists just jumping at the chance to be next!

Now that's gratitude for you!

In his recent article on National Review Online, Mark Steyn makes this point and many others: to wit, that treating all of this as isolated events, as legal problems vs a war, not only makes no sense but is not doing one darn thing to protect America and Americans!

Steyn's central point: this is what you get when you elect a Community Organizer as Commander in Chief, he doesn't have a clue how it works.

When Oh When will we get the picture?

On an earlier post we cataloged the three direct terrorist attacks on American soil since Obama became president. And now we have a brutal attack on a CIA Base in Afganistan where eight CIA American employees are killed. And again, questions arise about the security around the base.

When is this Administration going to get the picture that we are A COUNTRY AT WAR? These are not "man made disastors", these are not "actions", this is a darn war on terror and it is global in scope.

But as of this moment, not a peep out of the White House. Don't hold your breath waiting on an anwser to my question.

Is President Obama Insane?

A definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result.

Yesterday we posted about released Gitmo detainees participating in the Christmas Day airplane bombing attempt.

Now the Obama Administration says they will not reconsider their plans to close Gitmo. After all, they claim they will handle these cases with a "fine toothed comb" to insure detainees do not go back into the terrorism business.

Let's hope they find a better "comb" than the one the ineffectual-bomber slipped through.

WE TOLD YOU SO MR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!

Remember when all the democrats were thumping their chests after the election and telling us how they were going to shut that awful Gitmo down? And of course right after his immaculation, newly knighted Obama signed an executive order to do just that. Many conservatives pleaded with them not to do that because of a fear that the released detainees could go back into business.

WELL MR PRESIDENT, WE TOLD YOU SO!

And what of the detainees that are being brought to American prisons? We told you these might become a magnet for furhter terrorist actions. Want to rethink that?

And what about Attorney General Eric Holder's bright idea to prosecute terrorists in New York? In light of your latest failure on the terrorist front, would you like to rethink that very bad idea before we get into more trouble on your watch?

Disconnected Bunker Mentality

As posted below, we have had three terrorist attacks on Obama's watch. Our security efforts are at best reactive, nothing proactive. This is a bad game to play "catch up" in.

And now, POTUS assures us that this is just a matter of "systemic failures", the system did not use all the information it had, everything is fine, we are going to make some adjustments and that will take care of things and by the way this is important because lives are at stake.

Mr. Obama, you are no longer a Community Organizer. You are now, unfortunately, President Obama, which means you are the Commander in Chief. It is not your job to make adjustments, measure out systemic failures, or such rot. Your job is to rally this country, to warn those who would threaten American Lives, not just "lives, that they had better back off or we will turn their communities into fused quartz.

But oh no, you won't do that will you? That would be insensitive, that would be an abuse of power, some might think that would have the "taint" of "victory" about it and we just don't do that anymore. After all, no nation can be better than other nations, we are all hnow just equals in the world.

Mr. Obama, your grade on this exercise is one huge F!

Rethink Airline Security--take the battle to the terrorists

By now everyone has heard of the "underwear bomber" and if you fly on airplanes regularly you know that the pre-flight security process is going to get worse for YOU (not for the terrorist probably). So why is it that we incovenience hundreds of millions of passengers instead of taking the battle directly to the terrorists??????

Here is my solution for decreasding the hassle of airline pre-flight security and increasing the likelyhood of stopping these clowns from getting into air with us.

1. Targeted security. Stop this political correctness crap and go after the bad guys. How many 87 year old women have tried to bomb a plane? How many 8 year old children have tried to bomb a plane? Of course, NONE! So stop the one-size-fits-all screening and take a hard look at the guys who look like your typical middle-eastern Muslim type bomber. Weren't we supposed to be suspicious of guys buying one way international tickets with cash and no luggage to check?????????

2. Remove 90% of the pre-flights checks, just a magnetometer to catch metal objects and load everybody on the plane. Lock the doors and let a bomb sniffing dog and an armed marshall patrol the plane for a half-hour or so before it leaves the gate. Pay special attention to middle easterners or those who have any funny profile specific behaviors.

3. Did I mention "profile"? Yes, if its my butt on your plane, profile like crazy!

The time saved in eliminating most of the pre-fligt hassle will make up for the time the dog and marshall patrol the plane.

Joe Biden: "We will be tested!"

Remember the campaign of 2008 and Joe Biden telling us that "we will be tested"? Well, they have been tested three times now and have failed each of those tests. In baseball, three strikes means you are out. But not here, we are stuck with these clowns come hell or high water. What are the three tests you say? Remember the two Arkansas recruiter murders? That's terrorist event #1. Then there was the Ft. Hood shootings by Malik Hassan and President Obama telling us not to rush to judgement and the Joint Chiefs of Staff telling us they hoped this wouldn't hurt their diversity program efforts. And now we have a rich, privileged Nigerian who trained with Al Quaida trying to blow up an airplane.

For 20+ years this country has played miserable defense when it comes to terrorists. When are we going to get fed up with the shedding of American blood and go on the offensive? Oh yes, Iraq and Afganistan......how is that working for us?

Be Prepared: Terror Strikes

Ironically like the story of St. Stephen below, here we have on the day of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, another jarring reminder of evil walking the earth as we stop to worship and sit quietly at the birth of Christ.

This is a difficult thing for Christians. To face Christ and seek to live in love and peace as He told us ("my peace I leave with you"), but at the same time to realize the peace of Christ is not either understood or practiced by so many in the world. The peace of Christ comes by living in full faith. Part of spreading the Gospel means that we have to walk boldly in a world that seeks to reject the Gospel and us....and at times will go to any length to extinguish the flame of hope which the Gospel represents for all who have ears to hear and eyes to see.

Will we be attacked by Terrorists?

This article from the Times online suggests strongly that Londoner's should expect a "Mumbai style" attack at any time going forward.

The attacks in 2008 in Mumbai involved a group of dedicated professional terrorists which killed approximatley 173 people and injured many more and went on for days.

A key question for Americans, is could the same thing happen here? Or, when might the same thing happen here? We have now targeted Afganistan as the place we are fighting terrorism. We have embarked on a confusing strategy in Afganistan with no clear objective. We have indicated we are not really committed to victory thers (of any sorts). So how best might the Taliban and radical islamists convince us to leave earlier rather than later?

Maybe by showing us terrible consequences for staying there at all. What if there is a terrible attack in a place like, say Houston? Hundreds or thousands killed, and direct linkage to Afganistan or Pakistan with clear indications of more to come? How will this President respond? How will our military generals want to respond? This may be a time of testing America's resolve to defend herself and her people. How will we do on that test?