Poor Persecuted Muslims

I got this in my e-mail a few days ago... I think there is some truth after all in all the statements, but I don't think ALL the Muslims should be responsible for a (I hope) few bad apples... in any case, the catholics don't have a clean history either, don't you think?

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The Pope says that jihad violence is against God's nature, and officials fear that in response, Muslims enraged by this insult will commit... jihad violence.

A. Some Muslims murder 3,000 innocents in New York and..... expect no criticism.
B. Some Muslims murder 202 tourists in Bali and.................... expect no criticism.
C. Some Muslims murder 333 schoolchildren and their teachers in Beslan and............... expect no criticism.
D. Some Muslims murder 292 innocents, mainly Kenyans and Tanzanians at two US Embassies.......... and expect no criticism.
E. Some Muslims murder 241 US and 58 French peacekeepers in Beirut and............. expect no criticism.
F. Some Muslims fire 4,000 Katyusha rockets into Northern Israel killing over 50 innocent civilians and.................. expect no criticism.
G. Some Muslims murder 52 in London and 191 in Madrid and..................... expect no criticism.
H. Some Muslims murder 200 in Mumbai and................ expect no criticism.
I. Some Muslims behead Western hostages in Iraq , Buddhist monks in Thailand and Christian schoolgirl s in Indonesia and.............. expect no criticism.
J. Some Muslims murder 500,000 in Darfur and................. expect no criticism.
K. Some Muslims regard Jews as 'sons of pigs and monkeys', and vow to nuke Israel and................... expect no criticism.
L. Some Muslims force women to wear hideous sacks, stone to death women for getting raped and for leaving the home unescorted, engage in honor killings of sisters and daughters for unapproved dating, and.................. expect no criticism.
M. Some Muslims danced in the streets and handed out sweets to their kids to celebrate the 9/11 atrocity, and................... still expected no criticism.
N. Since 9/11 some Muslims have killed over 26,000 and wounded over 50,000 in terrorist attacks worldwide since 9/11 and................... expect no criticism.
O. Since 9/11 some Muslims have committed terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Chad, Chechnya, Dagestan, Denmark, East Timor, Egypt, England, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ingushetia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Jordan-Iraq, Kabardino-Balkans, Kenya, Kosovo,Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Gaza-Palestinian Authority, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka , Sudan , Syria , Tajikistan, Thailand , Tunisia , Turkey , United Arab Emirates, United Arab Republic , United States , Uzbekistan and Yemen, and......................... STILL expect no criticism.
P. Some Muslims have carried out over 5,800 fatal terrorist atrocities since 9/11 and countless thousands since Islamic conquest began in 623 AD and expect no criticism.
Q. But if a Pope dares to tell the truth about Islam or Danes publish cartoons about Mohammed, then let the outpourings of Islamic hate and outrage begin.
R. And, by some twisted reach of logic, the arrogant bastards demand the Pope issue an apology.
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It also came with lots of cartoons making fun of the Muslims, but at this moment I don't think we should contribute to hate each other, we should be more tolerant with our neighbors, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't speak out when something is wrong, right?

Thanks for reading... PEACE!

The Zimmers - "My Generation"

Isn't this COOL?



If you think you have seen it all... wait till the end of the video ;-)

Top Ten Thoughts to Ponder for 2008

• Number 10: Life is sexually transmitted.
• Number 9: Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
• Number 8: We know exactly where one cow with mad-cow-disease is located among millions and millions of cows in America but we haven't got a clue as to where terrorists are located. Maybe we should put the Dept. of Agriculture in charge of Immigration.
• Number 7: Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day, teach a person to use the internet and they won't bother you for weeks.
• Number 6: Some people are like a Slinky .. Not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.
• Number 5: Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. Yea us!
• Number 4: All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
• Number 3: Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200.00 and a substantial tax cut saves you $30.00?
• Number 2: In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
• And the number 1 thought for 2008: Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.

Select a Candidate

Having trouble deciding who to vote for in 2008?



The quiz takes about 1-2 minutes. This will compare your answers with ALL candidates. I found this to be of interest... It did not select the candidate I had expected!

Of even more interest was which were way down the list - and why!

Click on the website below...

Select a Candidate 2008

'til next post.

Yes We Can - Fired Up, Ready to Go

Please, VOTE!!!

Denzel Washington at Brooks Army Medical Center

Don't know whether you heard about this, but Denzel Washington and his family visited the troops at Brook Army Medical Center, in San Antonio, Texas (BAMC) the other day. This is where soldiers who have been evacuated from Germany come to be hospitalized in the United States , especially burn victims. There are some buildings there called Fisher Houses. The Fisher House is a Hotel where soldiers' families ca n stay, for little or no charge, while their soldier is staying in the Hospital. BAMC has quite a few of these houses on base, but as you can imagine, they are filled most of the time.

While Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave him a tour of one of the Fisher Houses. He asked how much one of them would cost to build. He took his checkbook out and wrote a check for the full amount right there on the spot. The soldiers overseas were amazed to hear this story and want to get the word out to the American public, because it warmed their hearts to hear it.

The question is - why do Brad Pitt, Madonna, Tom Cruise and other Hollywood fluff make front page news with their ridiculous antics and Denzel Washington's Patriotism doesn't even make page 3 in the Metro section of any newspaper except the local newspaper in San Antonio?

The Media 'Accidentally' Missed This One. This needs as wide a distribution as we can create. Share it!

Don't tell anybody or everyone will be doing it

I was reading the article "7 headaches - and how to fix them" published in Popular Mechanics and written by Jamie Hyneman, the guy from the TV show MythBusters, and I found the following affirmations I do believe are worthed to be posted here.

(Illustration by Frank Stockton... copied from the original article)

• There are times when innovation produces aggravation, and when that happens, technology can flat out drive us nuts.
• As machines become more complicated, good interface design becomes more essential—you can't just keep adding buttons and menus.
• High-tech companies—stop messing with us on your treadmill of software upgrades while making the old stuff obsolete.
• To my mind, engineering is a high art, and it brings tears to my eyes to see it so disrespected at times by the marketing and legal departments of corporations. Ideally, form is supposed to follow function, and designing and manufacturing consumer products should be a collaborative process. Com­panies, it's time to wake up and pay attention to your engineers—and to your customers.

The best of any of the reader comments I spent time reading says... "Jamie, you have my sympathies, but so do the engineers who are forced but our market-driven society to create items that are incomplete as stand alones, too complex to fix yourself, or include far too many 'extras' to be easily used. My solution is this: become better consumers folks."

Finally, where can I find that "LED flashlight called the Fenix that puts out 1 watt, uses a single AA battery and lasts for months of use" that Jamie mentioned? Maybe, this is the one he is talking about.

'till the next post

Net Neutrality == Save the Internet

Do you like the way Internet works for you today? Isn't great you can surf to anywhere without restrictions? What about reading, viewing and playing whatever you like without asking permission to anybody else or even paying extra?

Well, these are the questions I asked myself lately when I realized my current Internet provider is against Net Neutrality... WHAT???

Yes, the 3 big ISP are at different levels against Net Neutrality. So, I started to research about it and I found that information in the great web page SaveTheInternet.com.

If you want to read in more details about it just follow the links:

• AT&T: The mechanics of the Deal
• Public pressure puts Comcast under Scrutiny
• Verizon block pro-choice text messaging

So, which ISP should I contract? Sadly, in my region I don't have the option to select Earthlink which is a supporter of Net Neutraliy, so I guess AT&T is my best option instead of keeping my Comcast connection.

Just in case you wonder, the supporters of Net Neutrality according with the FAQ of SaveTheInternet.com are Amazon.com, Earthlink, EBay, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Skype and Yahoo.

Thanks for reading.

The Paradox Of Our Age

"The Paradox Of Our Age

We have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees but let sense;
more knowledge but less judgement;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines but less healthiness.
We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but we have trouble in crossing the street to meet our new neighbour.
We built more computers to hold more copies than ever,
but have less real communication;
We have become long on quantity,
but short on quality.
These are times of fast food but slow digestion;
tall mean but short characters;
steep profits but shallow relationships.
It's time when there is much in the window
but nothing in the room."

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.