Sometimes someone makes a comparison that really shakes you up!

The clickable link in the title and the one typed out below both lead to a page that makes an all too obvious connection - which, to my chagrin, caught me by surprise at how accurate it really is. Check it out - How are Radical Muslims different from the Klu Klux Klan...kind of scary!

http://ker-plunk.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-are-radical-islamists-different-to.html

The rest of the world ought to treat radical Islam with the same disdain and mistrust as they treat the Klan. We must stop harboring them and make practicing their beliefs very difficult and maybe we will see a change for good eventually. A free society does NOT mean anything goes. Society has a right and a duty to restrict behaviors that are deadly to the whole. We have done it before (sometimes we did it well, sometimes we didn't). If we don't do it soon - well...

How to make breaking & entering legal?

"Let's say I break into your house..."

A lady wrote the best letter in the Editorials in ages!!! It explains things better than all the baloney you hear on TV.

Her point:
Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration.

Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own borders, which might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely (and, I might add, illegaly).

Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests.
Let's say I break into your house.
Let's say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave.

But I say, "I've made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors. I've done all the things you don't like to do. I'm hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house).

According to the protesters:
You are Required to let me stay in your house...
You are Required to add me to your family's insurance plan...
You are Required to Educate my kids...
You are Required to Provide other benefits to me & to my family. (my husband will do all of your yard work because he is also hard-working and honest, except for that breaking in part).

If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my RIGHT to be there.

It's only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I'm just trying to better myself. I'm a hard-working and honest, person, except for well, you know, I did break into your house And what a deal it is for me!!!

I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of cold, uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and bigoted behavior.

Oh yeah, I DEMAND that you to learn MY LANGUAGE so you can communicate with me.

Why can't people see how ridiculous this is?! Only in America .

If you agree with this analogy, pass it on (in English).
Share it if you see the value of it.
If not blow it off.........along with your future Social Security funds, and a lot of other things.

John Wayne, "America, Why I Love Her"

The Hyphen
By John Mitchum and Howard Barnes

The Hyphen, Webster's Dictionary defines,
Is a symbol used to divide a compound word or a single word.
So it seems to me that when a man calls himself
An "Afro-American," a "Mexican-American," "Italian-American,"
An "Irish-American," "Jewish-American,"
What he's sayin' is, "I'm a divided American."

Well, we all came from other places, Different creeds and different races,
To form a nation...to become as one.
Yet look at the harm a line has done-- A simple little line, and yet, As divisive as a line can get... The road to liberty lies true.
The Hyphen's use is up to you.
Used as a bridge, it can span All the differences of Man...
If you use The Hyphen as a wall, You'll make your life mean...and small.
An American is a special breed, ... Where men are equal...and something more...United we stand...divided we fall. We're Americans...and that says it all.

John Wayne's Comments
EVERYONE knows by now that America is made up of every race, color and creed under the sun. The inscription on the base of the Statue of Liberty is for real: "From her beacon-hand flows world-wide welcome."
...Our country stands today as the world's oldest living Republic. We are the greatest sociological experiment that the world has ever known. If we fail our trust, Democracy fails.
Like Ireland, the Middle East has long been divided by ancient hatreds, hatreds that have no place on our shores. Religious wars and fierce idealogical conflicts should never be a part of America; people came to Her to escape religious and political persecution. Sure, we've had our problems. What family doesn't? But they haven't stopped us. The total divisiveness that has burdened many other nations hasn't caught on here...
So bring your recipe for good Irish stew with you, but leave bigotry and hatred behind. Sing and dance to the balalaika but bring no walls with you. Praise God anyway you so desire. Just allow your neighbor the same right. For each person you see has the same needs that you do. We all want respect, concern, and yes, love.
When we all tear down walls of bigotry and prejudice and live in real harmony with ourselves and others, then we'll all say "I am an American," pure and simple. And "The Hyphen" will no longer apply to any of us. When that day comes, the world can count on us for another ten thousand years, for we'll be a brighter, a stronger and an undivided America. (Nuff said)