Planck's Constant

Dress code
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When Russia was still Soviet and some of her citizens came to America to escape persecution, would we have tolerated the emigre's continued allegiance to Communism? Shouldn't a person who comes to America for freedom embrace the ideals that make that freedom possible? Shouldn't a person who flees a country because of oppression renounce the ideological pillars of that oppression?

In the same manner, when a Muslim comes to America to live and work permanently because Islam made his home country intolerable to live in, shouldn't that person have the common decency to renounce Islam and assimilate into our culture? Should we tolerate that Muslim's continued devotion to a failed faux religion and accept his demands that we accommodate his religious requirements, that we renounce our westernized way of life [1], that we cover our women, that we sign on to an international law that criminalizes religious insults, that we rewrite texts that offend Muslims, that we remove commonplace items that happen to be insults to Islam, of which there are thousands?

The proper, decent, civilized thing for Muslims who have come to America to escape the horrific living conditions in their own countries due to Islamic laws and governance should be to renounce Islam. Just FYI, Ahmed, in America it is no crime to become a non-Muslim, so don't worry, we will not kill you for apostasy as they do in Muslim countries. I hope one day, when America comes to its senses, we will require immigrants to state categorically that they will no longer be faithful to a savage and ignorant cult just as we require them to renounce allegiance to Communism.

Please read:

Global Policy Forum, Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America

"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the armed forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."

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Sweet Tomato
Photo by: smile10e

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

When you or I look at a tomato we see a tomato. All over the world, tomatoes look exactly like tomatoes, but when you grow up under a sexually-repressed, female-enslaved, male-dominated system such as Islam, then tomatoes look like the image here or worse. Which is why vegetable stands in Iraq cannot have cucumbers and tomatoes together.

Islamic Law In Our Times, Stupidity and the Shari'a in Our Times

Buying vegetables in Baghdad, actually all of Iraq, feels like a trip through history. There are people with wooden stands that look as if they have been around for thousands of years, all containing various crates of vegetables. An old and dusty scale sits somewhere near the proprietor, and as vegetables are selected, he places them on the scale, along with some iron weights and announces a weight that always seems to be suspect, as I cannot determine the weight amount, or that it has reached equilibrium as he carries out this operation. As he was doing this, he let it be known he was in the Anbar while Al Qaeda controlled it, and I felt I had to ask him about their alleged prohibition of salad.

"Yes, yes, he replied." No cucumbers and tomatoes together. Even placing them side by side in these crates would have led at least to a whipping, maybe death. I was puzzled, my brother in law was not. He told me that in fact when he was in Kirkuk the graffiti forbade three things: salads (which in Iraq is basically cucumber and tomatoes), shorts and beauty products for men. This was hard to understand.

"Look at this," the vegetable seller said to me, holding up a tomato. "What does it look like?"

"A tomato," I said.

"No, it is a tomato, but what does it look like."

"It looks like a tomato, that's what leads me to conclude it is a tomato. If it looked like a horse, I'd say it was a horse. It does not. It looks like a tomato. It is a tomato." I think I am making a philosophical point, maybe Hume or something, but it's almost 120F outside and I don't want to be dilly dallying asking about Al Qaeda. If the terrorists don't get me, the police might. Hume can wait.

"Okay," he relents, "what else might it resemble? Notice it is red, like a woman's lipstick. It is soft and round. Get it? It reminds you of a woman's flesh."

"I see," I said. But I thought, man do you need a wife if you look at a tomato and think that.

Then he picked up the cucumber and was about to ask me what I thought it looked like, when I cut him off. That one I could follow better. If a tomato was a woman, I could well assume what a cucumber was.

Full Story: "Iraq`s Sexy Salad Days" »

Muslim graffiti
Photo by: EDgAr H.

A reader left a comment to my article Islam is a Phony Religion making the argument that just as we do not judge all of Christianity by the actions of a few psychopaths (giving the example of the bombing of abortion clinics), so should we not judge Islam by the acts of some of its followers.

I responded:

When Christians behave savagely they are strongly condemned and no ecclesiastical polity sanctions, excuses, or condones the acts.

When Muslims behave savagely, honor killings, stoning, hanging of gays, etc, it is done not only with the knowledge of an Islamic government, but with its blessings and under its authority.

When Christians go wild, 99% of Christians are appalled. When Muslims go wild, hundreds of thousands celebrate in the streets, hang posters of the martyrs in their windows, pen poesies of their savagery, and dance in the street as they did on 9/11.

Please, there is no comparison.

Full Story: "When Christians go Wild" »

Photo Credit:(AP Photo/McCann Family)

This March 2007 photo shows British girl Madeleine McCann who was reported missing during a family holiday in the Algarve region of Portugal. Officials in Portugal halted their investigation into the case today because, they say, detectives have found no evidence of a crime during their 14-month investigation.

FOX News, Portuguese Authorities Close Investigation of Missing British Girl Due to Reported Lack of Evidence

Madeleine's parents said she vanished from their hotel room while they were eating dinner with friends at a resort's poolside restaurant in the sleepy vacation town of Praia da Luz, about 120 miles south of Lisbon.

Police previously said DNA evidence, though inconclusive, led them to doubt the McCann's version of events.
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Lawyers for the McCanns, who have hired private investigators to find their daughter, may now ask a judge to grant them access to the police file. Officials have said it runs to 10 volumes. Access to the case file is permitted, at a judge's discretion, to "interested parties."
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The McCanns also traveled to Brussels, Morocco and Spain in their effort to raise public awareness of their daughter's disappearance. They have also campaigned for the introduction of a Europe-wide child abduction alert similar to the Amber Alert system in the United States.

Full Story: "Did they check Muslims for missing girl Madeleine McCann?" »

ataturk.jpg
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Whenever I criticize Islam for its present day barbarity, I get emails and comments criticizing Christianity and Judaism for its past barbarities. When I explain that Christianity and Judaism have become civilized while Islam is still rooted in its primitive and savage 7th century past, a Muslim apologist will point to Iraq and ask aren't we raping, torturing and burning Iraqi civilians under the banner of Christianity just as Christians once did to Muslims during the Crusades.

Full Story: "Death to the Crusader Occupiers" »

hindu goddess laxmi, Lakshmi
Photo Credit: Askmen.com

I started blogging in January of 2006; but had I started years earlier I doubt I would have overlooked posting an article about India's most famous actress, Aishwarya Rai who won the Miss World contest in 1994. In 2003 she was voted the most attractive woman of 2003 by HELLO Magazine.

There are more photos below.

Full Story: "Aishwarya Rai - Most Beautiful Woman in the World" »

It Pays to be A Union Boss
Photo Credit: Right on the Left Coast

In a previous post Griffiti Tags and the Decline of Neighborhoods it was pointed out that a city that does not pay attention to petty crimes such as graffiti tagging will invite "more vandalism and more serious crime because it sends the message that the city doesn't care and isn't paying attention." Today I would like to cover the role of Unions in the destruction of downtown urban business districts.

I live in Bayonne, a mostly Democratic town, in one of the most corrupt counties in one of the most corrupt states in the country. Living in a city filled with Democrats means that Unions get to dictate how things are built in the city.

Full Story: "How to Destroy a Downtown Business District" »