You’re a Navy Chaplain. You’ve received a formal notification from the Office of the Chief of Navy Chaplains, instructing you that you have permission to perform the sacred ceremony of marriage for same sex couples, providing that homosexual marriage is legal in the state where the ceremony will be performed.  What do you do?

Far-fetched? Nope.

Per cnsnews.com, the notification was issued to all Navy Chaplains by the Chief of Navy Chaplains, Admiral Michael Tidd, on April 13th, 2011.

According to the advisory, the Chaplain Corps is bringing up-to-date its Tier I training manuals, which had previously ruled that same-sex marriages would not be authorized on federal property.

In the memo, Tidd inferred that chaplains need to be in lock-step with service-wide efforts underway to be more accepting of homosexuality and same-sex marriage as the end of the military policy on homosexuality nears.

Referencing “additional legal review” by Navy attorneys, the admiral said the Navy

…has concluded that, generally speaking, base facility use is sexual orientation neutral.

If the base is located in a state where same-sex marriage is legal, then the base facilities may be used to celebrate the marriage.

According to Admiral Tidd’s notification, chaplains now have permission to “marry” homosexual couples but the Navy will not force them to perform ceremonies:

Regarding chaplain participation, consistent with the tenets of his or her religious organization, a chaplain may officiate a same-sex, civil marriage: if it is conducted in accordance with the laws of the state which permits same-sex marriages or union; and if the chaplain is, according to applicable state and local laws, otherwise fully certified to officiate that state’s marriages.

Per Navy spokeswoman Alana Garas, the change was ordered, but then, she backtracked and told CNSNews.com that the document

…does not reflect a change in policy, but a change in Tier I training for Navy chaplains that looks forward to when Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is removed.

Which, according to her, will not happen until 60 days after the president, the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff certify to Congress that repeal will not harm military readiness.

Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, is concerned that, in its haste to “hustle-in homosexuality,” the Navy may be violating federal law – the Defense of Marriage Act.

According to Steve Taylor, communications director for Akin:

Offering up federal facilities and federal employees for same-sex marriage violates DOMA, which is still the law of the land and is bound to the duties of our military, including chaplains.

The administration and various states may be operating as if DOMA doesn’t exist, but the Navy and Marine Corps and all the Armed Services are sworn to obey the law, which this new instruction violates.

Is this a violation of the Defense of Marriage Act?

Even if it is, the President of the United States of America and his Attorney General decided, in their infinite wisdom, that DOMA was unconstitutional this past February.

Per nytimes.com:

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced the decision in a letter to members of Congress. In it, he said the administration was taking the extraordinary step of refusing to defend the law, despite having done so during Mr. Obama’s first two years in the White House.

“The president and I have concluded that classifications based on sexual orientation” should be subjected to a strict legal test intended to block unfair discrimination, Mr. Holder wrote. As a result, he said, a crucial provision of the Defense of Marriage Act “is unconstitutional.”

Presidential Decree aside, Tom McClusky, senior vice president of government relations at the Family Research Council,still thinks that this is a violation of DOMA:

You’re talking about government facilities and government employees, so it would seem to be a direct violation of DOMA. I’m not seeing a lot of wiggle room there.

MCClusky reminds us that Conservatives had sounded the warning months ago that the push to repeal the military ban on homosexuality would lead to efforts to introduce same-sex marriage, but were made the subject of ridicule at the time:

This is what we thought was going to happen, and unfortunately now it’s happening.

Unfortunately, the military is getting out in front on this issue and when you have a president who doesn’t believe the Defense of Marriage Act is a law he needs to follow, it’s no surprise that the military would follow his lead.  The president may think he’s above the law, but he’s not. If he has a problem with the Defense of Marriage Act, that’s something that he needs to address legislatively, not just by ignoring it.

Homosexual Marriage is legal in only four of these United States, plus the District of Columbia, having been voted down by Americans in approximately 30 states.  The states that allow it are: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa and New Hampshire. Vermont recognizes civil unions. Maryland, New York and Rhode Island recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.

Liberal Ideology is famous for having a predilection for Social Engineering.

But , why do they have to use our Best and Brightest as their Lab Rats?

KJ Udpate 10/11/11 9:22 a.m. – Per mywaynews.com, under pressure from 63 House lawmakers, the Navy late Tuesday abruptly reversed its decision that would have allowed chaplains to perform same-sex unions if the Pentagon decides to recognize openly gay military service later this year.

It sounds like the Congressional switchboard melted down…again.

The Obama Administration, less than a week after sending in a Navy Seal team to kill Osama bin Laden, authorized a missile strike against radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, hiding out in Yemen.

The drone missile strike occurred in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Yemeni affiliate of al Qaeda. The problem is, we missed.

However,Yemeni officials reported that two al Qaeda operatives were killed in last Thursday’s strike.

Who is this  Radical Imam that the U.S. Government has put a “hit” out on?

Here are some facts about this Islamic Terrorist Leader:

• He is an American citizen, born in New Mexico in 1971, Anwar al-Awlaki was an imam at mosques in California, Colorado and Washington, D.C., from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. He left the U.S. in 2002.
• He comes from a prominent family: His father was the minister of agriculture and a university president in Yemen.
• He is a Facebook aficionado: Devoutly supported by young Muslims, al-Awlaki has exploited social networking to spread his teachings. He has groups on Facebook and MySpace and his “fans” include American high school students.
• He advocates Jihad: Al-Awlaki’s extensive pro-Jihad writings include the essay, “44 Ways to Support Jihad” — considered a key text for al Qaeda members — which calls for young Muslims to receive arms training for potential battles. (Watch Anwar al-Awlaki lecture on religious zeal.)
• He hasn’t always preached extremism: In the weeks after 9/11, al-Awlaki spoke often with Western reporters about Islam, and condemned the World Trade Center attacks.
• He is allegedly linked to Osama Bin Laden: His links to al Qaeda were first suspected by U.S. authorities as long ago as 1999, when the FBI claims he had contact with one of Osama Bin Laden’s “procurement agents.”
• He had close ties to the 9/11 attackers: Two of the terrorists who hijacked Flight 77 and crashed it into the Pentagon on 9/11 had a “close relationship” with the imam in San Diego and in Washington, D.C. In the Congressional Joint Inquiry on 9/11, al-Awlaki is referred to as one of the terrorist’s “spiritual advisor.”
• Nidal Hasan was a member of his congregation: The Fort Hood shooter — who’s reported to view the imam’s teachings with “deep respect” — attended the Washington, D.C. mosque where al-Awlaki preached.
• The U.K. has censored him: Al-Awlaki was banned from speaking via teleconference at a London event in August 2009 that raised money for Muslims held at Guantánamo Bay.
• He has written in support of the Fort Hood shootings: Al-Awlaki posted comments on his website in support of the Fort Hood attack, calling Nidal Hasan a “hero” for fighting against “American tyranny.”
• He was “presumed” killed in a previous U.S.-backed military strike: When the Yemeni military attacked a gathering of al Qaeda leaders in a mountainous province of that country last Dec. 24, officials from Yemen and the U.S. announced that al-Alwaki was believed to have been present and was presumed dead.
• Reports of his death may have been premature: Just a few days after the attack, a Yemeni journalist said he’d been contacted by al-Awlaki and that the cleric was alive and well. Al-Awlaki claimed to have been a short distance away from the site of the attack.
• His preachings may have inspired the “Underwear Bomber”: Investigators in the U.K. think it’s possible that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was inspired by al-Awlaki’s teachings. Specifically, Abdulmutallab was tied to an advocacy group that has “championed” al-Awlaki.
• He has been approved for targeted killing (as demonstated last week.) CIA operatives have been given the “extremely rare, if not unprecedented,” go-ahead to capture or kill the U.S. citizen, given his danger to America as an al-Qaeda operative.
• Faisal Shahzad says al-Awlaki inspired him to act: The man charged with trying to set off a car bomb in Times Square has reportedly told law enforcement that he is a “fan and a follower” of al-Awlaki, and that the influential imam’s teachings motivated the attempted bombing.

In September, the Yemeni government said it had surrounded Awlaki in the village of Houta. Then, strangely. the Yemenis reported that they had captured two-dozen al Qaeda fighters and a “vital terror headquarters” instead of their primary target.

Hmmmm.

The Yemeni Government then released a statement saying that the military was still “combing the area, searching for militants before declaring the area safe for its residents to return.” The military says the battle began after a unsuccessful attack by AQAP on a pipeline. Thousands of civilians had to flee their homes in the wake of the fighting.

According to the Yemenis, Awlaki was near the village with a group of suspected al Qaeda militants. But a Yemeni diplomat who had spoken to military commanders on the scene told ABC News the Government had no confirmation that Awlaki was at the location.

It sounds like the Yemeni Government is playing games with us, doesn’t it? Either that, or they’re grossly incompetent.

Whatever’s going on, the Obama Administration had better not rely on the Yemeni Government for any more intel about Awlaki.

American lives are at stake.

Memphis made international news this week twice. Once for the flooding of the Mississippi River, which I detailed to you in yesterday’s post. The other news affected considerably fewer people than the flooding, but you would have thought that it was some sort of international incident.

Two Islamic religious leaders were asked to leave a commercial airliner in Memphis after the pilot refused to fly with them aboard.

Masudur Rahman and another Islamic leader had boarded their Delta Connection flight from Memphis, Tennessee, to Charlotte, North Carolina before they were unexpectedly asked to get off the plane.

The ironic thing is, the Muslim men were headed to a North American Imams conference, where the topic was Islamophobia or fears of Islam and discrimination against American Muslims.

According to  Rahman:

It’s racism and bias because of our religion and appearance and because of misinformation about our religion. If they understood Islam, they wouldn’t do this.

How can it be racism when it’s a religion comprised of people of several races?

Rahman recounted that he and Mohamed Zaghloul, both members of the Islamic Association of Greater Memphis, were cleared by the TSA and boarded the plane for an 8.40am departure.

After the plane left the gate, the pilot then announced the plane must return, per Rahman.

At that time, the men were asked to return to the boarding gate. When they got there, they were told the pilot was refusing to accept them because some other passengers could be uncomfortable.

Rahman said Delta officials conferred with the pilot for more than thirty minutes, but he still refused to fly with them aboard.

The men were escorted to a lounge and were booked on a later flight. They left for Charlotte later the same day.

According to Rahman, a Delta manager apologized for the pilot’s actions, but that he and Mr Zaghloul never met face-to-face with the pilot.

Both Muslims are Memphians. Rahman, an adjunct instructor of Arabic at the University of Memphis, was dressed in traditional Indian clothing.

Zaghloul was dressed in Arab clothing, including traditional headgear.

According to TSA spokesman, Jon Allen in Atlanta, the incident was not initiated by that agency.

A Delta Air Lines spokesman reported that the flight was operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines, which is also based in Atlanta.

Jarek Beem, a spokesman for Atlantic Southeast, said the incident was under investigation:

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

Rahman and Zaghloul have contacted the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the well-known and infamous Muslim civil rights and advocacy group in Washington, D.C.

I’m shocked.

Per spokesman Ibrahim Hooper, the group will follow up with the airline and with the TSA to help ensure such incidents do not continue to occur.

Here’s some background information about CAIR, per discoverthenetworks.org:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) describes itself as a “non-profit, grassroots membership organization … established to promote a positive image of Islam and Muslims in America,” to protect Muslims from hate crimes and discrimination, and to present “an Islamic perspective on issues of importance to the American public.” According to the Council’s Director of Communications, Ibrahim Hooper, “We are similar to a Muslim NAACP.” As of June 2007, CAIR claimed 32 branch affiliates in the United States and one in Canada.

CAIR was co-founded in 1994 by Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad, both of whom had close ties to the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), which was established by senior Hamas operative Mousa Abu Marzook and functioned as Hamas’ public relations and recruitment arm in the United States. Awad and Ahmad previously had served, respectively, as IAP’s Public Relations Director and President. Thus it can be said that CAIR was an outgrowth of IAP.

…From its inception, CAIR has sought to portray itself as a moderate, mainstream organization, and as early as 1996 its officials became frequent guests at State Department and White House events. In the aftermath of 9/11, when the Bush administration tried to reassure American Muslims that Islam was not the target of the war on terrorism, CAIR officials were prominent among the invitees. CAIR was the main Islamic group to gain U.S. media access in the post-9/11 period, providing the “Muslim view” of the terrorist attacks and of America’s response to them. As self-acclaimed Muslim spokesmen, CAIR officials typically refused to “simplify the situation” by blaming Osama bin Laden for the attacks on America. Moreover, while they eventually were induced by journalists to condemn Palestinian suicide terror in a pro forma manner, they hedged their disavowals by describing it as an understandable response to Israeli brutality.

These are Moderate Muslims?

Why did the pilot react like that?  Because, just like the rest of Americans, he’s on edge, due to the promised retaliation by Islamic Extremists over the assassination of Osama bin Laden.

And Rightfully so.

The other thing that contributes to average Americans’ uneasiness around Muslims,  who currently comprise just 1.5 % of our population, is the deafening silence by Moderate Muslims concerning the cowardly, murderous actions of their Islamic brethren.  Instead, outspoken groups like CAIR continue to fan the flames of distrust.

Until  Moderate Muslims start speaking up and condemning Islamic Terrorism, incidents like the one in Memphis will continue.

While President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) continued his victory lap in a clown car yesterday, in celebration of his gustsy call in ordering the death of Osama bin Laden, residents of the Mid-South were being forced out of their homes by the worst flood of the Mighty Mississippi River since 1937.

In my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, volunteers and convicts have spent that last few days filling sandbags in an attempt to somehow stem the flooding of America’s largest waterway.

As of this morning, Ol’ Muddy was sitting at 46.2 feet, on it’s way to 48 feet by this Wednesday.  The community of Frayser, in North Memphis, is flooded, with one of it’s main throughfares, Highway 51 and Watkins, completely closed to traffic.

Riverside Drive and historic Beale Street are closed due to the backing up of storm drains.

Mud Island River Park, which you may have seen featured in the Tom Cruise movie, The Firm, is closed due to the flood, and the high income residential community, Harbor Town, on the other end of the island, is being evacuated , for reasons shown by the picture below.

And, for the first time in its history, the annual World Famous Memphis in May Barbeque Cook-off, which draws contestants from all over the world,  has had to be moved from Tom Lee Park, beside the river, to Tiger Lane, beside Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.

Bob Nations, director of emergency management for Shelby County, which includes Memphis, said there was still time to get out, with the crest not expected until Wednesday.

Speaking of the evacuation notices that they were handing out door-to-door, Nations said:

This does not mean that water is at your doorstep. This means you are in a high-impact area.

About 950 households in Memphis and about 135 other homes in Shelby County were getting the notices. Shelters were opened, and the fliers include a phone number to arrange transportation for people who need it.

Down in the Delta town of Tunica, Mississippi, reborn as Las Vegas South, the flooding is having a horrible impact.  Per commercialappeal.com:

Tunica County stands to lose $3.5 million in gaming revenue tax collections, and the state another $7 million, if the county’s nine casinos remain closed for all of May because of high water.

“The closing of our nine casino properties will only exacerbate an already major economic crisis on a state and local level,” Webster Franklin, CEO of the Tunica Convention & Visitors Bureau, said in releasing some startling economic impact numbers Tuesday.

…Numbers released Tuesday by the Tunica Convention & Visitors Bureau reveal the anticipated economic impact of flooding on Tunica’s casino operations:

Tunica’s nine casinos have averaged about $87 million in gross gaming revenue during May over the past three years. Based on that average, closing the casinos for all of May would mean a loss of about $10.5 million in state and local collections from the Mississippi gaming tax imposed on the gross revenues.

About 4,600 hotel rooms have been closed, meaning a loss of about $6.2 million in room revenue for the month based on a 75 percent occupancy rate.

About 38 percent of the total square footage of gaming space in the state, or about 521,410 square feet, is affected by the closings.

About 9,300 jobs, with a monthly payroll of about $18 million, have been lost temporarily. Most casinos have announced plans to compensate employees for at least two weeks’ pay while they’re off, but the circumstances vary from property to property.

After speaking to several  casino employees this week, I’ve been told that they’ve been encouraged by the casino human resources departments to file for Unemployment Compensation from the state of Mississippi while they are off work due to the flooding.

Workers from the Mississippi Department of Wildlife and Fish and from the Department of Homeland Security are assisting local law enforcement in keeping looters and the overly curious away from the casino properties.

Americans are suffering, where is the President of the United States? 

He’s been busy wrapping up his self-congratulatory-I-got-bin-Laden-Magical-Mystery-Tour, which included his first trip to Ground Zero in New York City since 2008.

Yesterday, he went to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to congratulate those involved in the assassination of bin  Laden.  Of course, he gave a speech, making sure the cameras were catching every word.

Today, he gave his weekly address.  Did he mention the thousands of Americans being affected by the flooding of the Mississippi River?

Nope.  He spoke about Clean, Green (as in money) Energy.  Per whitehouse.gov:

Speaking to the American people from Indianapolis, Indiana, President Obama said that clean energy companies like Allison Transmissions will keep the economy growing, create new jobs, and make sure America remains the most prosperous nation on Earth.  Clean energy is also part of the ultimate solution to high gas prices.  Until we reduce our dependence on oil, we will be held hostage to the ups and downs of the oil markets.  That means we need to continue to invest in clean, alternative sources of energy – like advanced biofuels and natural gas – and more efficient cars, buses and trucks.

Great, while thousands of Americans are being effecting by the flooding and the recent Southern tornadoes, on top of the 1/6th receiving food stamps and all those who are unemployed, instead of addressing the suffering of Americans, Scooter is worried about making money for his buddy Jeffrey Immelt and his company G.E., and their pie-in-the-sky plans for building windmills to produce energy.  Meanwhile, gas prices continue to climb out of control and average Americans are struggling horribly to keep a roof over their heads.

And the President of the United States, like  Ol’ Man River, just keeps rollin’ along.

President Barack Hussein Obama’s (mm mmm mmmm) campaign stop at 9/11’s Ground Zero in New York City yesterday was strangely understated for a politician who is always ready to toot his own horn.  To quote the great Jim Treacher of The Daily Caller, the event was building up to have all the class of a victory lap in a clown car.  Of course, that was before his two predecessors, Presidents Clinton and Bush 43, backed out of attending yesterday’s photo op, forcing Obama to cancel his plans for a self-congratulatory speech.

While in New York City, Obama met with the firefighters serving at Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9, a station that lost 15 firefighter during the collapse of the Twin Towers. While there, he posed for the cameras and said:

This is a symbolic site of the extraordinary sacrifice that was made on that terrible day.

He later met with police before visiting the site of the most horrific Islamic Terrorist attack ever on U.S. Soil, a site which he has not taken the time to visit since 2008.

While at the site where 3,000 innocent people were murdered, he said that  the American pursuit of the bin Laden

…sent a message around the world but also sent a message here back home that when we say we will never forget, we mean what we say, that our commitment to making sure that justice is done is something that transcended politics, transcended party.

Making sure the cameras were on, Obama closed his eyes and clasped his hands where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once were a signature edifice in the Manhattan skyline.

Today, a 60 stories high contested memorial of fountains and reflecting pools note the place where the towers fell and Americans jumped to their deaths or were crushed under the weight of concrete and steel.

While at Ground Zero, Obama spoke with 50 administration-selected representatives of families who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001. Per freerepublic.com:

The administration apparently sent out form-letter invites to 50 hand-picked relatives of 9/11 victims, which began “Dear 9/11 family member.” At least one family has turned down the request, saying that they felt the letter was impersonal.

“If this form letter was the invitation, it was kinda lame,” said John Vigiano, who lost two heroic sons – one a firefighter and the other a police officer – in the attack. “I’m honored the president of the United States is coming to New York,” he said. “[But] to me it’s just going to be a photo op.”

While making his brief comments, Obama called for a new spirit of national unity. He spoke of the raid on bin Laden’s compound, saying that he hoped that bin Laden’s death showed the world that:

…we did what we said we were going to do, and that Americans, even in the midst of tragedy, will come together, across the years, across politics, across party, across administrations, to make sure that justice is done.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, dubbed by the press and his own PR people America’s Mayor, because of his leadership after the attack, appeared with Obama yesterday.

Some of those directed impacted by 9/11 did not think very highly of President Obama’s day-long photo op.

David Beamer, father of 9/11 hero Todd Beamer, told FOX News:

I feel some chagrin now, though, about how the rest of it has been handled. And frankly it started May Day, 2011 when the president announced what had happened. The excessive use of the personal pronoun that he used in his remarks, I really felt that was the beginning of the Commander-in-Chief putting too much spotlight on himself, taking too much credit for what the remarkable Americans had done. And of course it’s only now accelerated to a greater degree in the media.

He’s not the only one who was not impressed. Debra Burlingame, the sister of Charles “Chic” Burlingame (pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon) , tried to bend Obama’s sizable ear yesterday. According to Burlingame, she confronted Obama about Attorney General Eric Holder prosecuting the men who interrogated KSM, which may have been responsible for intelligence leading us to bin Laden.

Burlingame recounts her conversation with The President of the United States:

As a former attorney I know you can’t tell the Attorney General what to do, he said, ‘No, I can’t.’ But I said ‘we — that shouldn’t stop you from giving your opinion. We wouldn’t be here today if they hadn’t done their jobs. Can’t you at least give them your opinion.’ And he said ‘no I won’t,’ and he turned around and walked away.

Sorry, Debra.  He’s can’t be bothered helping a bunch of Federal Government Employees.  He has to go congratulate a bunch of them….Huh?

Obama’s excellent campaign adventure continues today.

Per the Associated Press:

A White House official says President Barack Obama will meet with some of those involved in the military assault that killed Osama bin Laden when he visits Fort Campbell, Ky., on Friday.

A team of Navy SEALs raided a compound in Pakistan, killing the terrorist mastermind. Bin Laden was later buried at sea. Fort Campbell is home to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, which participated in the raid against bin Laden.

The aide requested anonymity to speak before the official announcement of Obama’s meeting.

And, finally, lest we all forget whose decision it was to kill bin Laden:

Per weeklystandard.com:

Obama’s not one to “spike the football” after a victory (or after killing Osama bin Laden), but it seems his campaign team (or some of his ardent supporters) doesn’t feel the same way. Check out http://www.gutsycall.com — it redirects users to Obama’s campaign website, http://www.barackobama.com. Could it be that his reelection campaign made this call? Or is it just a couple of his most steadfast supporters?

According to this domain lookup website, the website was purchased yesterday, May 4. The purchaser, though, remains anonymous.

Unbelievably presidential, huh?  Man, I miss George W.  Bush.  Heck, at this point, I may even miss Jimmy Carter….Naw…that’s who we have now…on steroids.

As United States President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) deals with the aftermath of the death of the world’s most famous Islamic Terrorist, he and his administration are trying to decide whether of not to release a photograph of Osama bin Laden, taken after our American Special Forces team assisted him in achieving room temperature.

The White House describes the photograph of a dead Osama bin Laden as “gruesome” and worries “it could be inflammatory” if released.

According to White House press secretary Jay Carney, the White House is trying to decide whether to make the photo public. Obama and his administration are concerned about the “sensitivity” of doing so. Carney admitted at yesterday’s daily press briefing that there is a discussion internally about the best to handle it but “there is not some roiling debate here about this.”

Monday, John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser and well-known Muslim sympathizer, speaking on National Public Radio, said:

What we don’t want to do is to release anything that might be either misunderstood or that would cause other problems.

It’s way too late for that, Skippy.

In the preceding video, an Imam from the al-Asqa Mosque in Jersalem proclaims:

The western dogs are rejoicing after killing one of our Islamic lions. From Al-Aqsa Mosque, where the future caliphate will originate with the help of God, we say to them – the dogs will not rejoice too much for killing the lions. The dogs will remain dogs and the lion, even if he is dead, will remain a lion.

Speaking to Obama, he then says:

You personally instructed to kill Muslims. You should know that soon you’ll hang together with Bush Junior.

We are a nation of billions, a good nation. We’ll teach you about politics and military ways very soon, with god’s help.

Evidently, the Imam is not impressed by the full Muslim funeral that our forces gave bin Laden, just before they consigned him to Davy Jones’ Locker.

Per dailymail.uk.co:

Some Muslims yesterday disputed the U.S. claim that Bin Laden’s burial at sea was in accordance with Islamic tradition.

A U.S. government spokesman said it had been decided it would be difficult to find a country prepared to accept the body and then bury it within 24 hours of death as dictated by Islamic custom. But he said it had been instead respectfully interred in the waves of the Indian Ocean off Pakistan from the U.S. aircraft carrier the Carl Vinson.

Muslim scholars said that while sea burials have long been an occasional accepted necessity, there was no such need in this case.

The head of Egypt’s prestigious seat of Sunni Muslim learning, al-Azhar, said the sea burial ‘contradicts all the religious values and human norms’.

…Muslim clerics are predicting revenge attacks against American targets because of the way the government decided to dispose of the leader’s body.

A wide range of Islamic scholars interpreted it as a humiliating disregard for the standard Muslim practice of placing the body in a grave with the head pointed toward the holy city of Mecca.

Sea burials can be allowed, they said, but only in special cases where the death occurred aboard a ship far from the coast.

Mohammed al-Qubaisi, Dubai’s grand mufti, said about Bin Laden’s burial:

They can say they buried him at sea, but they cannot say they did it according to Islam. If the family does not want him, it’s really simple in Islam: You dig up a grave anywhere, even on a remote island, you say the prayers and that’s it.

Sea burials are permissible for Muslims in extraordinary circumstances. This is not one of them.

Other scholars said that even those who are criminals and murderers are given the Islamic rite of burial.

As the Muslim World reacts to the outcome of the mission known by the code name Geronimo, Obama prepares for a photo op…err…presidential excursion to Ground Zero this Thursday…alone.

Former President George W. Bush yesterday turned down President Barack Obama’s invitation to join him at ground zero, citing his desire to avoid the spotlight.

Bush spokesman David Sherzer told politico.com in an email Tuesday night:

President Bush appreciated the invite, but has chosen in his post-presidency to remain largely out of the spotlight.He continues to celebrate with all Americans this important victory in the war on terror.

Uh huh. It’s a little strange that the same guy who blasted Booosh! for going to Iraq, instead of going after bin Laden, now wants him to appear arm-in-arm with him at Ground Zero.

Obama has not been to Ground Zero, the site of the largest Islamic Terrorist ever on American soil, since 2008. The past two years, he has sent Vice-President Joe Biden to the memorial Services there on September 11th, instead of making the trip himself.

He is supposed to meet with family members of some of the victims, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and other local officials.

I’m pretty sure that Obama, whose announcement of the killing of bin Laden last Sunday night reminded of the old song, The Night has a Thousand Eyes (I’s),will be taking a victory lap this Thursday in New York City.

What I’m afraid of is, that, perhaps, he’ll also use the opportunity to reach out, as the son of a Muslim, to the Muslim World, and turn this moment of American justice into a second University of Cairo Speech.

And that would be inappropriate.

After some of America’s Best and Brightest, United States Seal Team 6, completed with extreme prejudice their mission against the Muslim Monster, Osama bin Laden, I was wondering what the Muslim World thought about the mission, its results, and the President of the United States who ordered it, Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him).

Some Arabs are mourning the mass murderer as a holy warrior and martyr, while others rightfully judge bin Laden as “pillar of evil” whose Holy Jihad against The Great Satan brought about a firestorm of hard feelings against Muslims throughout the world.

The death of the world’s best known Islamic Terrorist has illuminated the deep divide between subjects and rulers, radicals and moderates throughout the Muslim World.

The Palestinian Authority, embraced by Obama’s Administration, said that bin Laden’s killing was “good for the cause of peace.” Hamas, long known to be an Islamic beehive of Terrorist activity, is literally up in arms over the assassination of bin Laden.

Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the Hamas administration in Gaza, proclaimed:

We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood.

Believe it or not,  Hamas is currently being challenged by al Qaeda-inspired groups that consider it too moderate.

The Muslims who believed bin Laden was a prophet of Allah, are having problems dealing with the fact that he’s gone. Other Muslims feel that he had it coming.

There are others who are claiming that the Islamic Revolution going on in the Mid-East is far more important that the killing of bin Laden in a raid by U.S. forces in Pakistan.

Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch in Beirut does not seem too torn up by the whole thing:

Bin Laden is just a bad memory. The region has moved way beyond that, with massive broad-based upheavals that are game-changers.

There are those Muslims who think that bin Laden and al Qaeda brought catastrophe on the Muslim world with the attack on the Uniteds States as the U.S. hit back with two wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the word “Islam” became forever intertwined with “terrorism.”

Mahmoud Sabbagh, a Saudi, on Twitter:

The damage bin Laden had caused Islam is beyond appalling and a collective shame.

Ahmed Saleh, a 58-year-old retired Palestinian, said:

The world is better without bin Laden. It has removed a pillar of evil from the world. His heinous actions were exploited to allow hostile policies toward the Arabs and Muslims.

Other Muslims think that Osama was justified in his murder of 3,000 innocents on September 11th, 2001.

According to Egyptian Abdullah Ali, a Salafist taxi driver in his 60s:

Bin Laden defended the dignity of Muslims and now the U.S. and the West will answer for their occupation.

Abdel-Qader Abu Shaaban, a 53-year-old Palestinian from Gaza, described bin Laden’s killing as “a very criminal act.”

Tareq al-Zumar of Egypt’s Islamist group al-Gama’a al-Islamiya, which took up arms against the state in the 1990s said:

Bin Laden will become a symbol of resistance to occupation… The U.S. killing of bin Laden will undoubtedly galvanize reaction and retaliation attempts.

Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia are grieving bin Laden. One man taking a cigarette break outside his office in Riyadh, said:

He would be a loss to all Muslims because he had good qualities. He portrayed Muslims in a good and strong way… He is the person that left the worldly riches for jihad.

No doubt these Muslims remember their joyous celebration upon hearing the news of the attack on September 11th, 2001:

So, what does the Muslim World think about their “son”,  President Barack Hussein Obama, who addressed them on June 4, 2009, at the University of Cairo, where he said:

As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar — that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities — (applause) — it was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. (Applause.)

I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President, John Adams, wrote, “The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.” And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, they have served in our government, they have stood for civil rights, they have started businesses, they have taught at our universities, they’ve excelled in our sports arenas, they’ve won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. And when the first Muslim American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers — Thomas Jefferson — kept in his personal library. (Applause.)

So far, the silence is deafening.

The mastermind of the largest Islamic Terrorist Attack of United States soil has received his just reward.

Osama bin Laden, the monster behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was killed in a firefight with American Special Forces last night, then quickly buried at sea.

Instead of hiding in the mountains of Pakistan, as had so long been thought, the Islamic Terrorist Mastermind was located in a mansion on the outskirts of Islamabad, 100 yards from a community built specifically for retired Pakistani military and 35 miles from the capital of Pakistan.

If anyone thinks that the Pakistani Government did not know that he was living there, I have a bridge over the Mississippi River to sell ya.

Shortly before 11:00 p.m. Central last night, President Barack Hussein Obama, after making the nation wait for 90 minutes, and, effectively obscuring the finale of Donald Trump’s television series, Celebrity Apprentice, made the following announcement:

Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.

Justice has been done.

This precise operation took about as long as getting a haircut.

U.S. Strike Force Helicopters set counter-terrorism troops down in the compound which the CIA had identified as the monster’s lair. Our Best and Brightest took care of business in less than 40 minutes. They shot bin Laden in the head after he and his bodyguards opened fired on them.

Also killed in the operation were three adult males among them, one of bin Laden’s sons, unnamed by U.S. officials. One of bin Laden’s sons, Hamza, happens to be is a senior member of al-Qaida. One woman was killed during the firefight, when one of those brave Islamic Terrorists, used her as a shield. Two other women were injured.

An American official who disclosed the burial at sea said it would have been difficult to find a country willing to accept the remains. According to Obama,bin Laden’s body had been handled in accordance with Islamic custom, which requires speedy burial.

Why couldn’t Obama have admitted that we buried him at sea, so that the Islamafascists would not try to steal the body from us and make him a martyr?

Who was this Muslim Monster?  Per biography.com:

Osama bin Laden, [born] 1957[ in] Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,[was the] mastermind of numerous terrorist attacks against the United States and other Western powers, including the 1993 bombing of New York City’s World Trade Center, the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden, and the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon near Washington, D.C. ( September 11 attacks).

Bin Laden was one of more than 50 children of one of Saudi Arabia’s wealthiest families. He attended King Abdul Aziz University, where he received a degree in civil engineering. Shortly after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, bin Laden, like thousands of other Muslims from throughout the world, joined the Afghan resistance, viewing it as his Muslim duty to repel the occupation. After the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, bin Laden returned home as a hero, but he was quickly disappointed with what he perceived as the corruption of the Saudi government and of his own family. His objection to the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War led to a growing rift with his country’s leaders. By 1993 he had purportedly formed a network known as al-Qaeda (Arabic: “the Base”), which consisted largely of militant Muslims bin Laden had met in Afghanistan. The group funded and organized several attacks worldwide, including detonating truck bombs against American targets in Saudi Arabia (1996), killing tourists in Egypt (1997), and simultaneously bombing the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (1998), which altogether killed nearly 300 people. In 1994 the Saudi government confiscated his passport after accusing him of subversion, and he fled to The Sudan, where he organized camps that trained militants in terrorist methods, and from where he was eventually expelled in 1996. He later returned to Afghanistan, where he received protection from its ruling Taliban militia.

In 1996–98 bin Laden, a self-styled scholar, issued a series of fatws (Arabic: “religious opinions”) declaring a holy war against the United States, which he accused, among other things, of looting the natural resources of the Muslim world and aiding and abetting the enemies of Islam. Bin Laden’s apparent goal was to draw the United States into a large-scale war in the Muslim world that would overthrow moderate Muslim governments and reestablish the Caliphate (i.e., a single Islamic state). To this end, al-Qaeda, aided by bin Laden’s considerable wealth, trained militants and funded terrorist attacks. It had thousands of followers worldwide, in places as diverse as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Bosnia, Chechnya, and the Philippines. Following the September 11 attacks, the United States led a coalition in late 2001 that overthrew the Taliban and sent bin Laden into hiding. Nearly three years passed, during which time U.S. forces hunted bin Laden along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Bin Laden emerged in a videotaped message in October 2004, less than a week before that year’s U.S. presidential election, in which he claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks.

Former President George W. Bush issued a gracious, congratulatory statement, per abcnews.com:

…Bush called the operation a “momentous achievement” that “marks a victory for America, for people who seek peace around the world, and for all those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001.”

“I congratulated him and the men and women of our military and intelligence communities who devoted their lives to this mission. They have our everlasting gratitude,” the former president said in a statement. “The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done.”

Indeed.  God bless America.

The annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner was last night.

The association began in 1914 as go-between serving the press and the president. Every president since Calvin Coolidge has attended the dinner. Some of the proceeds from the dinner pay for journalism scholarships for college students.

Instead of making jokes about himself, such as  previous humble presidents, like George W. Bush have, Obama used the banquet in the same manner in which he used the State of the Union Address 2 years ago, as a vehicle in which to attack a defenseless enemy.

Here is part of an article featured on associatedcontent.com, posted on 1/29/10, starting with an excerpt of the 2010 SOTU Address:

With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people. And I’d urge Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to correct some of these problems.

Justice Samuel Alito could be seen on camera shaking his head “no” and mouthing the words “that’s not true”, right around the part where Obama claimed that our interests could be dictated by “foreign entities”.

It is rumored that even Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the liberal judges nominated by Obama and who likely voted against the measure, rolled her eyes at the comment, though this isn’t confirmed.

That night, in 2010, Obama’s defenseless enemy was the Supreme Court. Last night, it was billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump.

Obama’s moment in the spotlight last night started after the wrestler Hulk Hogan’s patriotic anthem, “Real American,” played. Images of Americana from Mount Rushmore to Uncle Sam were shown on the screen, alongside his birth certificate. And then he offered to show his live birth video, which turned out to be a clip from the Disney film, “The Lion King.”

Obama, reading from poorly written remarks, joked that the billionaire businessman would bring change to the White House, transforming it from a stately mansion into a tacky casino with a whirlpool in the garden.

This, coming from the guy who had the Oval Office remade to resemble a 1980s Holiday Inn.

As Trump sat there, boiling with rage, Obama used the annual dinner as a one-sided Presidential Debate, attacking the defenselessreality TV star.  The President of the United States attacked the private businessman, ridiculing him for  firing Gary Busey on a recent episode of “Celebrity Apprentice” and for focusing so much time on conspiracy theories about Obama’s birthplace.

Gloating in his release of a PDF of his long-form Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth, Obama dismissed Trump, saying the billionaire could now focus on the serious issues, from whether the moon landing actually happened to “where are Biggie and Tupac?”

Obama mocked Trump’s own words. saying:

No one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than ‘the Donald’.

Making fun of Trump’s decision to fire actor Busey instead of rock singer Meat Loaf from his TV show earlier this month, Obama said:

These are the types of decisions that would keep me up at night. Well handled, sir.

In a grand finale to his Trump put-down, Obama presented his vision of how Trump could bring change to the White House. “Trump” was displayed in glittery letters and girls could be seen with cocktails on a Jacuzzi-augmented front lawn.

Scooter making fun of “The Donald’s arrogance?  Pot meet kettle.

The guest list included Rev. Al Sharpton, Paula Abdul, and performer Cee Lo Green, actors Kate Hudson, Sean Penn; Bristol Palin, the daughter of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen; and White House Chief of Staff William Daley.

Saturday Night Live comedian (and I use the term loosely) Seth Myers continued where Obama left off, as Trump glared.

Among Myers’ remarks:

Donald Trump often talks about running as a Republican, which is surprising. I just assumed he was running as a joke.

Aimed at Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., whose own remarks about Planned Parenthood and abortion sparked a Twitter campaign fueled by Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert, Myers said:

Jon Kyl told me that 90 percent of what [the WHCA does] is abortions.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s face looked ashen at that one.

And rightfully so.  Joking about abortion? Puhleeze.

Meyers also referred to recent comments Trump made on the radio in which he said he got along well with “the blacks.”

Donald Trump recently said he has a great relationship with the blacks. Unless the blacks are a white family, he was mistaken.

These were jokes?  My, how far we have fallen from Bob Hope.

Is this the most classless White House in Modern History? 

There were a lot of jokes sent around as e-mails after the election of Bill “Bubba” Clinton, as to how his ascension to the White House was akin to Jed Clampett and family moving to Beverly Hills.

After two years of having to watch and listen to this smug jerk occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, I ‘d rather have Granny Clampett making lye soap over an open fire on the South Lawn.