Super Cala Fragilistic.. Hypo Allergenic Cats!

Well I'll be. Hypoallergenic Cats! I never heard of this, but if it's not news to you just ignore my infatuation. From their site:

ALLERCA has produced the world's first scientifically hypoallergenic cats. These cats allow some of the millions of people with feline allergies to finally enjoy the love and companionship of a household pet without suffering from allergic symptoms. The cat allergen is a potent protein secreted by the cat’s skin and salivary glands. While some breeds of cats have been promoted as having less allergen than others, scientists have shown that all cats, regardless of breed, produce allergens. ALLERCA has focused on naturally occurring genetic divergences (GD) already present in cats that do no harm to the cats in any way. [The technique] was developed using proprietary methods under pending patents. The resulting ALLERCA GD hypoallergenic cats improve the health and quality of life for millions of cat-allergy sufferers. The cats come in all coat colors and patterns. The coat is medium-long with low maintenance and minimal shedding.

Well I'll be! Oh, I said that already. I'm just in such awe. I don't even have cat allergies and I want one! Just not sure about the "naturally occurring genetic divergences" with patents pending. Is this going to spark a movie called 'Cats', similar to Hitchcock's 'Birds'?... ;)

Read more about it at http://www.allerca.com/

Ad Radio Comming to a School Bus Near You

NJ has become the 11th state to begin allowing radio station broadcasting specifically designed for school buses.

The Washington Post reports... Every morning and every afternoon on their way to and from school, kids across the country will be listening to the dynamic programming of Bus [specific] radio providing advertiser's with a unique and effective way to reach the highly sought after teen and tween market. The radio network plays music, public-service announcements, contests and, of course, ads, aimed at kids. The [idea] is the brainchild of Michael Yanoff and Steven Shulman, the same two executives who created 'Cover Concepts', a company that has provided schools with millions of free book covers -- full of bold, colorful ads for Kellogg's, McDonald's, Calvin Klein, Nike and other major national advertisers. Now owned by comic-book king Marvel Enterprises, Cover Concepts says it reaches 30 million school-age children in 43,000 U.S. public schools

Advocates of the program say it ensures kid-safe content, while those against it say school should be a non commercialized environment, not seen and used as a place for marketing companies to reach our children. Personally I think the 'kid-safe content' aspect is a good thing, I've heard a lot of non-appropriate content on regular radio stations played on buses. However, at the same time I think it's not right for businesses (or schools) to capitilize on the 'target market' factor that's inherently created with school buses. Hmmm, honestly, this is a tough one. What are your thoughts?

Kill Those EVIL School Children and Teachers!!

Source: National Education Association (NEA) Today Magazine, October 2006

In Afganistan more then 120 schools have been set on fire and another 200 forced to close [due to attacks] by Islamic Extremists. Forty sutdents and teachers have been killed this year. The insurgents claim educating girls is anti-islam, and they oppose government run schools because they teach subjects other than religion. One 14 year old boy told the Associated Press "[The Taliban] want us illiterate so we have nothing else to do but pick up a gun."

Funny, the 14 year old boy is wiser than half the people in the United States. How the liberal left can hear strories like this and STILL say Bush is the bad guy is truly beyond logic and reason. I am seriously thinking about getting that book "Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left"... In this tour de force on the most important issue of our time, David Horowitz confronts the paradox of how so many Americans, including the leadership of the Democratic Party, could turn against the War on Terror. He finds an answer in a political Left that shares a view of America as the "Great Satan" with America’s radical Islamic enemies"

The Liberal leftists like to go on shopping sprees in their cadilac escalades while on their cell phones, not giving a care in the world to the tragedies going on in other nations. Well, some people do. And in this case, the issue happens to also involve our safety here at home. These are the same people who have doing acts of terrorism since the 80s, 90's and 9/11.

The Good, The Bad and The Derranged

This guy gives a speech criticizing Bush, all while being proud of the horrific violence that is going on in Iraq in the name of the Jihad. The number of innocent civilians being slain in Iraq is nausiating. I just saw a story about an elderly woman who was murdered by a "Death Squad", just because as a Shiite she is viewed by the Sunnis as a supporter of the West. So they drove by and *deliberately* shot this *innocent* old woman *6* times. And this guy Al-Zawawi, or whatever the heck his name is, sits there and condems Bush for seeking peace, stability and free will for the people there. And this GUY says the Christian religion is false?? Sees nothing wrong with muslims murdering innocent people - it's 'Christians and Westerners' who are wrong. What a severely derranged person! Surely normal people can see who the bad people are here. If you think it's Bush, you have some serious screws loose.

MY STANCE ON BUSH
I think we made a mistake going into Iraq. We should have focused on Afghanistan, where the Taliban are (the people responsible for 9/11). Right now that region is very unstable even though NATO is there. We should be there in full force, not so much Iraq. Sadam was evil, but what is going on there now is by far not an improvement for the people there. However, I support Bush because I definitely think we do need to be taking an offensive stance in the War on Terror, for our safety and survival. If you don't feel this way then you are either in 'bipartisan denial', or simply in the dark about the threat of Islamic Exremism.

Can You Say "Armageddon"

“Israel should be wiped off the face of the map!”
“America is the great satan”
“We want nuclear technology… for energy”
“I will share our nuclear technology with fellow Arab countries”

AP News, 9/28/06
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stood firm on his insistence that Iran has a right to pursue its atomic program and showed no sign of compromise over the U.N. Security Council's demand that his government suspend uranium enrichment."

This is the beginning of the end, right here. Nuclear weapons in the hands of the Middle East is our civilization's worst nightmare. The liberal left and many in the general population are in denial, though in this particular case ignorance isn't bliss. 9/11 showed us that the derranged islamic extremists can and will use ANY means to attack us. They've since admitted 9/11 was a failure, stating the next attack must be bigger and more effetive in destroying us so we cannot retaliate. They lust for nuclear weapons capability, it’s the utlimate solution to their cause. And soon they will have it. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an evil man, he has publicly stated Israel should be 'wiped off the face of the map', and he has referred to us as the 'great satan'. Hence nuclear weapons ending up in the hands of terrorists is imminent. The extremists just recently announced they will not stop until Islam takes over the world. Folks, the picture can't get any clearer than this. Wakey wakey!

The UN gave several deadlines, yet Russia and China are against sanctions stating that 'diplomacy has not been exhausted'. Has not been exhausted? Which planet are they on? Well mucho dinero is flowing into their pockets from Iran, so we all know we can’t count on them for our safety. Lets just hope someone in the international community has the kahonas to see the threat we are facing and take necessary action if needed. The Middle East conflict is an area were we must remain on the offensive, if we want to live.

Pope Tells it Like it Is

Last week Pope Benedict XVI, in a speech to university professors during a pilgrimage to his native Germany, quoted the words of a Byzantine emperor who characterized some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, Islam's founder, as "evil and inhuman."

"The emperor comes to speak about the issue of jihad, holy war... He said I quote, 'Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."

Personally I give the Pope credit here. He's doing what no other person in the world spotlight will do — pointing out the source of violence in the Muslim religion. Muslims keep telling us that Islam is a "religion of peace", yet every day we hear about Shiites and Sunis murdering each other, and groups like Taliban and Hamas speaking of 'Jihad' and 'infadels'. It's hard for us to hear one thing but see another. The Pope has gone and pointed out something to us all. We should not let this one hide behind political correctness. I just hope he doesn't get assassinated now.

Polar Bears Drowning

OSLO (Reuters) 9.15.06
Polar bears are drowning and receding Arctic glaciers have uncovered previously unknown islands in a drastic 2006 summer thaw widely blamed on global warming. Signs of wrenching changes are apparent around the Arctic region due to unusual warmth - three new islands this year have been uncovered because the glaciers have retreated. "On a trip this summer we saw a couple of polar bears in the sea east of Svalbard - one of them looked to be dead and the other one looked to be exhausted," said Julian Dowdeswell, head of the Scott Polar Research Institute in England. "The bears had apparently been stranded at sea due to the melting ice". Smith concluded that the shrinking ice should be a wake-up call for governments to cut emissions of greenhouse gases which most scientists say are causing global warming.

This is one area where the liberal Left and I agree—we really need to be more concerned our environment. I've read several articles about Global Warming and it is a VERY SERIOUS issue. This is another area where people just like to put their heads in the sand (particularly the selfish people in their million dollar homes and their Hummers who don't care about the future generations of this planet). Hopefully we'll all pull together as a human race and do something before it's too late. Some recognize the severity of this issue. For the rest, please stop being selfish for one minute and elucidate youself on this issue — you can start here

Off to the Races!

I'm hoping to race next Saturday. I just received the following info from Hunterdon Sailing Club...

Lake Nockamixon Open Regatta Sat 9/23 - all boats invited. Skippers meeting 10:00 am. This is one of four yearly invitational regatta open to any boat; scored with the Portsmouth Handicap system. Lake Nockamixon is particularly nice this time of the year, as the forested shores are showing fall color from several species of trees. Hope to see you there!

I have never been to this lake so I am especially excited about the opportunity. As explained on the Lake's website: "the 1,450-acre Lake is surrouned by the 5,283-acre Nockamixon State Park along PA 563, just off of PA 313, five miles east of Quakertown and nine miles west of Doylestown.

Sounds great!!

Democrats Don't Get it

Nearing the 5th anniversary of 9/11, president Bush in his speech Monday talked about the threat that America (and the world) still faces. He attributes the lack of any further terrorist attacks on our soil to the pro-active stance we've taken...

"We are safer because we've taken action to protect our homeland. We are safer because we are on the offense against our enemies overseas. We're safer because of the skill and sacrifice of the brave Americans who defend our people.

As president, I took an oath to protect this country. And I will continue using every element of national power to pursue our enemies and to prevent attacks on the United States of America. Over the past five years, we have waged an unprecedented campaign against terror at home and abroad.

Because we're on the offensive, it's more difficult for Al Qaida to transfer funds through the international banking system. Because we're on the offensive, Al Qaida can no longer communicate openly without fear of destruction. And because we're on the offense, Al Qaida can no longer move about widely"

Sadly the democrats don't understand that this translates to our safety. Even more scary is that they view concern about the terrorists as 'propaganda'. Folks, we must not let such ignorant partisanism affect the safety of our country - for us and for our future generations.

Liberals Strike America's Safety Again

President Bush’s bill authorizing his wiretapping program stalled while going through the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday. Once again partisan quibbles put Americans safety at risk.

I just don’t get it people. This is a National Security Agency's surveillance program (created after the Sept. 11 attacks) which monitors phone calls and e-mails between *terrorism suspects* overseas and those on American soil. Folks, they're not listening in on your steamy phone calls with your lover overseas, or your holiday wishes to grandma in France, they are monitoring for terrorist related activities. Terrorists, you know, those evil people who blow up innocent men, women and children indiscriminately. This is one of the things our government is doing to help protect us against this new threat we face - a threat which has reached us and seeks inexorably to do so again. The fact that news reports in December disclosed the program is pathetic enough, but trying to stop it is akin to treason. It has me so upset because it ultimately can affect the safety of me and my family.

This is simply lunacy on the part of a few Liberals in our government system. Everyone acknowledges the possibility of another terrorist attack. Even Democratic Senator Joe Biden said “The al-Qaida terrorist network clearly wants to strike the United States again, perhaps with an attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001... I believe they're planning something as large and complex as 9/11... if you look at their modus operandi, that's how they have proceeded, that's how they have worked... And, I believe that's what they're doing. These folks are in it for the long haul.” (source - AP news)

So why the opposition to a National Security plan to help prevent it? It just doesn’t make sense, but that’s Liberals for you. (notice, the guy's hiding his face in the photo).

ADDENDUM
Another example of lunacy. Everyone knows about the "9/11 Commision Report", right? It's out there all over the place in the media. It's a study of how our government 'failed to protect us' from the terrorists attack on 9.11. However, here we have the wiretap issue, where those same people are trying to hinder our government's ability to protect us. Hello?? Logic? Reason? Are you there???

Come Mr. Taliban

Whack!.. Whack!.. "I'll teach you to forget your Burkah!" ..Whack!

"Scores of Taliban Fighters Killed in NATO Offensive"
Well, we know one group of people who are particularly happy about yesterdays news headline - Afghan women. The Taliban are widely criticized by Western countries for their oppression of women. Women rights are strictly limited and their physical abuse is permitted. They must cover up their skin in public, failure to do so could attract a public beating (as above). Young women are not allowed to attend school, and they can be beaten for appearing in public without a male escort. But they are allowed to go out for water alone. - Source: Wikipedia.com

Boy, that muslim religion just has so many perks I tell ya... beat women, raise your child to become a suicide bomb, kill infadels - such an admirable way of life. We Westerners just don't know what we're missing.

The above photograph is a clip from footage filmed by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. The video can be seen at www.rawa.us/movies/beating.mpg

So Long to A Good Friend

Stingray kills 'Crocodile Hunter' Irwin
(from AP news)CAIRNS, Australia - Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44. Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called "Ocean's Deadliest" when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous barb on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said. "He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat at the time. Crew members aboard the boat, 'Croc One', called emergency services in the nearest city, and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Low Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later.

A sad day. I watched many of his shows with my nephew. He had a dynamic, animated personality and truly cared about the well being of Australia's wildlife. Thanks for brightening our days Steve, we'll miss you.

How Twisted Can You Get????

Thousands of Iraqis have been kidnapped in recent months amid a rising tide of sectarian violence and the bodies of murdered torture victims are found daily in Baghdad's streets and waterways... and Bush planned it!!! What the... ?

"The newest U.S. strategy: Iraqis kill each other instead of the Marines"
(Recent news article on the Al Jazeera Magazine site)
Bush’s administration is now sowing the seeds of strife and civil war, to entice hatred and fuel the tension between Iraq’s ethnic groups so as to have them do the fighting and kill themselves instead of the U.S. Marines. Washington has become a participant in the “match of terror” going on in Iraq. Several news reports [have] hinted at the fact that the U.S. army, part of a change in strategy, has abandoned traditional military means it had pursued against Iraqi resistance and is now flaming sectarian strife... a cheaper weapon [which] the U.S. has decided to use. By turning Iraqi ethnic groups against each other [it] will leave no faction capable or equipped to fight the occupation forces.

Whoa! I'm serious - this is recent news article on the Al Jazeera Magazine site. These are the kind of stories that are promulgated by terrorist-supporting media. Everything reported on that site is so spun with anti-American and anti-Israel bias, I can’t believe it’s even permitted as journalism.

This article captures the twisted propaganda that is being spewed out over there. I guess insane, biased conspiracy theories are covered under 'freedom of the press'. Amazing. Oh, and I recognized some of the editor's names there from the NY Times ;)

Hatred on Display

Iran's response to the offensive Muslim cartoons in the Danish newspaper with an 'exhibition' of Holocaust-offensive cartoons in Tehran is downright despicable. That's a response one would expect from a dejected racist adolescent, not the leaders of a country. But unfortunately we can understand this coming from a president who has stated “Israel should be wiped off the map” and that the Holocaust was a “myth”. And a place where the foreign ministry spokesman - Hamid Reza Asefi - followed up those commets by stating “I have seen those [concentration] camps myself… and in my opinion, there has been a lot of exaggeration going on."

AGAIN the world is shown the anti-zionist, evil hatred that exists over there. More facts for the Left to cast to the wind.

*** UPDATE ***
From AP News, 9/3/06: Iran has announced it will hold a conference, to determine 'the truth' behind the Holocaust.

Wow. That doesn't even need my comment.

American Psycho

(AP News)
CAIRO, Egypt - American Adam Yehiye Gadahn, a 28-year-old American who the FBI believes attended al-Qaida training camps in Pakistan appeared in a videotape with the terror group's deputy leader Saturday and called on his countrymen to convert to Islam...

"To the American people and the people of the West in general ... God sent his Prophet Muhammad with guidance and the religion of truth ... and sent him as a herald.... It is time for the Christians, Jews, Buddhists and atheists to cast off the cloak of the spiritual darkness which enshrouds them and emerge into the light of Islam"

He denounced Christianity as a "hollow shell of a religion, whose followers cling to an empty faith and a false conviction in their own salvation." "It is time for the unbelievers to discard these incoherent and illogical beliefs," he said. "We invite all Americans and other unbelievers to Islam, wherever they are."

Sorry dude but I think I prefer my 'hollow shell' religion to one that promotes beheading people.
But don't worry, I'm sure you'll get lots of followers.

To Each His Own?

Teaching children to kill, awe, isn't that cute.

There is an Evil out there, why so many in the West are ignoring it is beyond me. I know you have important cell phone conversations and shopping at Bloomingdales to do - and we don't want to offend muslims by being concerned about this - but I'm sorry, worrying about it after another 9/11 will be too late. So please, go outside your comfort microcosm for a second and get this...

Education Turned Brainwashing
Tens of thousands of religious schools, or 'madrassas', throughout the Islamic world, have been overtaken by radical Islamists and turned into schools of jihad. As poverty remains extreme throughout the Islamic world, madrassas often are the only sources education. However, these schools substitute arms training and religious indoctrination in place of practical education. According to Pakistani accounts, over the last two decades, hundreds of these schools have become jihad training camps in disguise. The textbooks that were prescribed for 6-year olds in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan are an example of this type of education. First grade language lessons included the following text: “Ahmed has a sword. He performs Jihad with his sword. My uncle has a weapon. He performs Jihad with his weapon. Jihad is an obligation for everyone. Anyone who wants to do the will of God should start jihad under the flag of Islam against the infidels.”

Children as young as 8 are taught about Kalashinkov rifles and how many people can be killed with a hand grenade. Other well-known examples of this kind of mis-education include the Palestinian Authority’s K-12 guerilla training summer camps, the practice of wrapping five- and six year olds in suicide bomber belts in street processions, and Palestinian TV Sesame Street-like programs, television commercials and school textbooks promoting suicide attacks.

source: http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations/108/cohe1029.htm

OK, you can go back to watchin Desperate Housewives now.