Desert Gypsies in 1950

Cool Story of a Couple Desert Gypsies from the May 1959 Desert Magazine.  This wonderful magazine disappeared in the 1980’s, but once in a while you can find a few old issues in used bookshops. I also found an internet archive that you can download old issues for free, check out this great site: Desert Magazine Archives. If you like to camp out and have some desert fun, this is a great resource. Although some of the places in the deserts of the southwest are now off limits because of a Federal government land grab, there’s still a lot of places to go.  The old Desert Magazine is also packed with articles on lost gold mines and places to pan gold.  Don’t forget that until the early 1970’s gold prices were fixed at $35 per once, and now gold is over $1,750.  Working hard to get a little “color” is a lot more profitable now.

Some of our greatest authors also loved the desert, a good example is Erle Stanley Gardner the great mystery writer.  Mr. Gardner loved the desert and often went on long expeditions, even down to the Mexican bad lands.  He also wrote some riveting books on “Hunting Lost Mines by Helicopter”, and books on exploring Baha, Califonrnia.  There was actually a Gardner museum up in Ventura at one time, but the web site seems to be down, maybe the museum is gone.  For a while it was in an old library bus, packed with Gardner memorabilia, and the bus would show up at schools and downtown Ventura during festivals.

Here’s a fan site that lists all of Gardner’s books on his gypsy travels: Erle Stanley Gardner Bibliography. You can see all the cool books he wrote on desert camping and exploration.  I have read many of them and they are all great.  Gardner really made a production out of his gypsy travels.  He usually had his “cast of characters”, old friends, who traveled with him.  He also brought his secretary and dictated some stories while enjoying the desert.  Might as well turn that sand into some coin while you are at it!

Desert Gypsies 1.pdf

Desert Gypsies 2.pdf

Desert Gypsies 3.pdf

Desert Gypsies 4.pdf

Desert Gypsies 5.pdf

 

 

Will Court Blow Out Obama From White House?

Biden May Be President!  Latest on Obama/Barry Sotero Birth Case

VERY QUIETLY OBAMA’S CITIZENSHIP CASE REACHES THE SUPREME COURT

AP – WASHINGTON D.C.

In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama’s qualifications for the presidency, the group “Americans for Freedom of Information” has Released copies of President Obama’s college transcripts from Occidental College … Released today, the transcript school indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate. The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program. To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship.

This document would seem to provide the smoking gun that many of Obama’s detractors have been seeking. Along with the evidence that he was first born in Kenya and there is no record of him ever applying for US citizenship, this is looking pretty grim. The news has created a firestorm at the White House as the release casts increasing doubt about Obama’s legitimacy and qualification to serve as President article titled, “Obama Eligibility Questioned,” leading some to speculate that the story may overshadow economic issues on Obama’s first official visit to the U.K. In a related matter, under growing pressure from several groups, Justice Antonin Scalia announced that the Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments concerning Obama’s legal eligibility to serve as President in a case brought by Leo Donofrio of New Jersey . This lawsuit claims Obama’s dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president.. Donofrio’s case is just one of 18 suits brought by citizens demanding proof of Obama’s citizenship or qualification to serve as president.

Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama’s campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records. Mr. Kreep indicated that the investigation is still ongoing but that the final report will be provided to the U.S. Attorney general, Eric Holder. Mr. Holder has refused to comment on the matter.

LET OTHER FOLKS KNOW THIS NEWS, THE MEDIA WON’T!

Issue of Passport?

While I’ve little interest in getting in the middle of the Obama birth issue, Paul Hollrah over at FSM did so yesterday and believes the issue can be resolved by Obama answering one simple question: What passport did he use when he was shuttling between New York , Jakarta , and Karachi ?

So how did a young man who arrived in New York in early June 1981, without the price of a hotel room in his pocket, suddenly come up with the price of a round-the-world trip just a month later?

And once he was on a plane, shuttling between New York , Jakarta , and Karachi , what passport was he offering when he passed through Customs and Immigration?

The American people not only deserve to have answers to these questions, they must have answers. It makes the debate over Obama’s citizenship a rather short and simple one.

Q: Did he travel to Pakistan in 1981, at age 20?

A : Yes, by his own admission.

Q: What passport did he travel under?

A: There are only three possibilities.

1) He traveled with a U.S. … Passport,

2) He traveled with a British passport, or

3) He traveled with an Indonesia passport.

Q: Is it possible that Obama traveled with a U.S. Passport in 1981?

A: No. It is not possible. Pakistan was on the U.S. . State Department’s “no travel” list in 1981.

Conclusion: When Obama went to Pakistan in 1981 he was traveling either with a British passport or an Indonesian passport.

If he were traveling with a British passport that would provide proof that he was born in Kenya on August 4, 1961, not in Hawaii as he claims.. And if he were traveling with an Indonesian passport that would tend to prove that he relinquished whatever previous citizenship he held, British or American, prior to being adopted by his Indonesian step-father in 1967.

Whatever the truth of the matter, the American people need to know how he managed to become a “natural born” American citizen between 1981 and 2008.

Given the destructive nature of his plans for America, as illustrated by his speech before Congress and the disastrous spending plan he has presented to Congress, the sooner we learn the truth of all this, the better.

If you Don’t care that Your President is not a natural born Citizen and in Violation of the Constitution, then Delete this, and then lower your American Flag to half-staff, because the U.S. Constitution is already on life-support, and won’t survive much longer .

If you do care then share this to as many patriotic Americans as you can, because our country is being looted and ransacked!

R. Brady

Many Very Unhappy Apple iPhone Customers!

Many users of the iPhone 4 or 4s or the new iPhone 5 are extremely unhappy with the battery life performance in the phone after upgrading to IOS 6 (or 6.0.1). It seems that after upgrading to IOS, the battery drains much faster than it did prior to the upgrade.

Title: iPhone 5 battery life is way worse than iPhone 4

Over 168 pages ( 2,753 + replies) !!!

You can read the latest posts here.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4329696?start=2490&tstart=0

And here is another thread on the same subject…

Title: iOS 6 iPhone 4s battery drain

Over 106 pages (1672+ replies) !!!

iOS 6 iPhone 4s battery drain

And here is another big issue… ( 582 Replies +)

The iPhone 5 uses Cellular Data over WiFi?

edited: 11-28-12

Does Sexgate Mean “Hail To The New Chief” – President Biden?

Here’s something to consider:  The unfolding “Sexgate” scandal could lead to the impeachment or resignation of President Obama, and the installation of a new President: Joe Biden.  It could happen, although at this point it is only speculation.  But as we have seen in the past in this country, arrogance, lying, bad behavior, and incompetence can cause a rapid change in public attitude.

Look at Nixon.  A landslide victory if there ever was one.  Then came Watergate.  Lies, cover-ups, slush funds, cash hush money payoffs, and complete arrogance led to his resignation.  At some point, even an adoring public, when told the truth, will turn on a politician.  Why?  Because of the obsessive – compulsive nature of the American people.  It’s like a woman, maybe like your wife.  She loves you to death.  But if you betray her, cheat on her, humiliate her, watch out!  Chances are she will dump your sorry ass into the street.  And you will have deserved it, if you are that much of a moron. The “Sexgate” scandal is already showing signs of that.  Married men and women cheating on each other.  Lies to protect the President during an election.  Lies and cover-ups about foreign policy disasters (Benghazi).  Some Generals and high officials of giant corporations acting stupid and arrogant.  What it is going to get down to is what Obama knew, participated in, and did in the various cover-ups, resignations and scandals.  Sure, his army of minions will be out there trying to protect him.  But it might not work.

Remember in California when we had the recall of Gov. Gray Davis?  He went on television to defend himself, but it was obvious that the man was so arrogant and self-delusional that he just could not understand how angry the public was with him. And with his case, it was not even any personal misbehavior, it was mainly his handling of the electricity crises and his non-stop fund raising.  The homeless people used to call him the best pan-handler in California.  One jealous guy who had a begging spot at a freeway off ramp told me he wanted to be able to raise money like Gov. Gray Davis, he could work one or two days and then go to Hawaii for the rest of the year. Davis was astonished when he was recalled, and “Arnold”, the movie muscleman, took over.

Some advice to Joe Biden:  stay in the shadows on this crazy Sexgate – Benghazi stuff.  You might be the next President of the United States!

posted by: Ed Murray

It’s The Interest Stupid!

It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World

Thursday, 08 November 2012 10:10 By Ellen Brown, Truthout | News Analysis

Shredded money and percentage Interest charges are a strongly regressive tax that the poor pay to the rich. A public banking system could realize savings up to 40 percent – allowing taxes to be cut, services increased and market stability created – with banks feeding the economy rather than feeding off it.

In the 2012 edition of Occupy Money released last week, Professor Margrit Kennedy writes that a stunning 35 percent to 40 percent of everything we buy goes to interest. This interest goes to bankers, financiers, and bondholders, who take a 35 percent to 40 percent cut of our GDP. That helps explain how wealth is systematically transferred from Main Street to Wall Street. The rich get progressively richer at the expense of the poor, not just because of “Wall Street greed,” but because of the inexorable mathematics of our private banking system.

This hidden tribute to the banks will come as a surprise to most people, who think that if they pay their credit card bills on time and don’t take out loans, they aren’t paying interest. This, says Dr. Kennedy, is not true.

To read the rest of this interesting article, go to:

http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=158501

Our comment:  In ancient times, about 3,500 BC, our system of economics began as a debt system.  The ancient Sumerians, the founders of modern western civilization, invented it.  Interest was a common thing, used by tradesmen and business people.  Exact records were kept on baked clay tablets of these transactions.  But there was one difference: the Sumerians knew that simple mathematics showed that interest payments, creating money or credit out of thin air, would eventually take its toll on their society, and all the wealth would eventually end up in the hands of a few.  But they had a solution.  Every six decades or so they reset the counter, and all interest payment and debt was forgiven.  Everyone started over again.  This tradition carried down to the middle ages when the Catholic Church declared “Jubilees”, which were debt forgiveness and time to celebrate economic freedom.  The absolute greed of our 20th century rulers and bankers, who have decided to go for the whole pot of wealth come what may, and our ignorant “leaders” both in politics and religion, have ensured that we have arrived at the tipping point today.  Most of the real wealth in America is owned by a very few at the top.  How long will the serfs allow this to continue?

 

“Sexgate” Scandal and the Secrets of Benghazi

U.S. Top Military Brass Under Siege as Corruption and Sex Scandals Roll Out

What are the consequences going to be from the unfolding scandals now rocking the U.S. military command structure?  It is clear that morale and confidence are going to take a big hit.  Consider a few points:

—General William E. Ward, U.S. Commander of AFRICOM was blasted by the Department of Defense Inspector General for numerous offenses, including “misconduct related to official and unofficial travel”, misused a Government vehicle by allowing his spouse to use a hardened vehicle”, “wasted Government resources”, and much more. Gen. Ward served with AFRICOM from its activation in October 2007 until his departure on March 9, 2011.  His travel documents show that he took 79 trips from April 30, 2008 and March 9, 2011, for an astounding 389 days of Temporary Duty, including 273 days in the Continental U.S.  The question here is:  Who was minding the store?  AFRICOM had just been created, with 54 countries under its area, when the revolutions and upheavals of the Arab Spring exploded on December 18, 2010.  To date, rulers have been forced from power in Tunesia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen;  civil uprisings have erupted in Bahrain and Syria; major protests have broken out in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Sudan; and minor protests have occurred in Lebanon, Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, and Western Sahara. Meanwhile Gen. Ward was traveling around with his wife, much of the time in D.C. having a great time.  This is the background to the Benghazi attack which claimed the lives of four Americans. One would think that during this critical time in North Africa that there would have been plenty for Gen. Ward to attend to. Like at his command post.

—Gen. David Petraeus. No need to go into his military record here.  Our new CIA director was embroiled in a steamy relationship with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.  Were they an item while she was traveling with him in Afghanistan?  The twisted story of the relationships and actions of the individuals who have been caught up in this scandal reads like a cheap porn-spy novel, and it gets stranger every day.  He must also have had a lot of extra time on his hands while CIA Director, because he took the time to write a letter to the Judge supporting Natalie Khawam (Jill Kelley’s twin sister – you know, she’s the one who went to the FBI complaining about threatening emails from Paula Broadwell) who was involved in a bitter child custody fight.  Here’s something weird:  cops in D.C. say that a jogger found Paula Broadwell’s drivers license in Rock Creek Park!  Huh?  The things that turn up in Washington D.C. parks.  Usually it’s dead bodies, like Chandra Levy, whose remains were found in the very same park in May of 2002.  But all this stuff serves to obscure the big story that popped out just before the election:  What happened at Benghazi?  Did Petraeus cover something up for Obama?  Did he agree to hold his resignation until after the election?  It is more than interesting that two of the most powerful figures in America, Gen. Petraeus of the CIA, and Christopher Kubasik, CEO of Lockheed, the biggest defense contractor,  resigned almost on the same day, both because of sex scandals.  What are the odds of that? Don’t ask me, go to Vegas for that one.

—Gen John Allen.  Now things really get weird.  Gen. Allen took over in Afghanistan in July, 2011.  He also turns out to be a “friend” of Jill Kelley.  Wow!  Jill and Natalie sure had a lot of “friends” among the highest ranking Brass in the U.S. military forces.  What the hell were they up to?  Were these two twin sisters (both from Lebanon) running some kind of a dating service to introduce middle eastern women to American military officers?  Jill Kelley and Gen. Allen were exchanging 20-30,000 emails?  Are you kidding me?  Who’s running the war?  To send that volume of stuff, the guy must be tweeting her while he’s shaving, in conferences, while planning attacks, pushing buttons to launch drones, talking to the President, tweeting every second of the day like some drooling punk at Starbucks.  It’s unimaginable, but the men-folk want to know how he does it. Forget about having one girl friend, a guy with those skills could be running 100 chicks at one time.  Thumbs, do your stuff!

I know, I know, I’ve gone over the cliff on this one.  But consider this:  Jill Kelley is some kind of special State Department Liaison to the Joint Special Operations Command.  The very same group that worked with the CIA and the Pentagon to investigate the attack on the Benghazi Compound.  Say what?  Was Jill in on that investigation?  What does she know about Benghazi, and when did she know it?  Is she some kind of spook?  A mole for some Middle Eastern country?  She has run up supposedly tens of thousands of dollars in debt to throw all those parties down at her mansion in Florida.  Some press accounts say she has had two properties foreclosed and has boo-ku credit card debt.  One account said the Kelley’s debt was in the million dollar range, or more.  What a bunch of party animals.

And then there’s the whole mystery of the emails from Paula Broadwell.  Threatening her to “stay away from my man” type of emails, sent anonymously of course.  So Jill goes to one of her “friends”, this time a powerful FBI man, Frederick Humphries.  He has a strong background in the national security state, involved in big anti-terrorism stuff, like the so-called “Millennium Plot” to blow up LAX, the international airport in Los Angeles.  Jill talks Humphries into tracing the anonymous emails to find out who is “threatening” her.  He gets the cyber squad and tracks the emails back to Paula Broadwell and then finds out about Gen. Petraeus.  Stop right here for a moment for a pause of sanity.  Take a deep breath.  Now believe me, if you call the FBI and say that you are getting some threatening emails about a personal relationship you are having, and you want them to check it out for you, guess what the FBI is  going to do?  They are going to hang up on you.  They don’t care about your personal problems, they have other things to do.  And they will tell you not to call back and bother them again.  But Jill is connected.  One phone call, baby, and the wheels start turning.

So FBI man Humphries finds out about Petraeus.  He reports it, but not much happens.  The election is coming.  So in October he allegedly decides to move things forward himself.  He goes to the Romney campaign, to a contact he had when he was in Washington State, Congressman Dave Reichert.  What happens next is scary.  Reichert sends Humphries to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who turns the matter over to FBI Director Robert Mueller! Humphries is screwed. He’s not just thrown under the bus by the Republicans, but he’s flattened by a 100 ton bulldozer. The October Surprise is safe, the Benghazi secrets are safe, the Petraeus resignation is safe, Obama is safe….. until after the election. And what happened to Humphries?  No one in the outside world knows.  The FBI says they are “reviewing” his conduct, he has been re-assigned.  Yeah, like to Guantanamo.

Is the Nation now governed by an army of Narcissistic Leaders?  The Harvard Business Review just published a piece by Jeffrey Pfeffer.  He says that a lot of the men leading the country and the business world are characterized by traits of dominance, self-confidence, a sense of entitlement, grandiosity and low empathy.  They are narcissistic, self-absorbed power freaks.  Is this country doomed to be run by these types?  Are we headed back to the good old days of Feudalism, the days of powerful rulers and sorry serfs?  Some claim that even Obama is in that camp.  It’s a good bet that in the following weeks we are going to see and hear a lot more about “Sexgate” and the travails of the rich, the famous, and the once-powerful. Walking down the road to our new Capitol, Narcissism City, one can’t help thinking about the troops, the boots on the ground, the pilots, the sailors.  One guy on a blog commented about Gen. Ward.  He said if an enlisted man had done what the General did, he would be in jail forever.  What about the other generals?  Is this show going to end soon?  The troops have to be thinking hard right now.  I’m risking my butt out here for this?  For our leadership to be cavorting around in this fashion?  Time to dump out the rot and get back to business.  Narcissism belongs in Hollywood, not on the battlefield.

Posted by Robert S. Newport, Jr.

bob.newport@aol.com

 

“SEXGATE” – Time Line

“SEXGATE” Time Line

Are CIA -Army Sex Scandals Linked to Contract Fraud and

Ensuing Corporate Sex Scandals?

Here is the Time Line Ver. 1.0

Suzannah B. Troy, a New York community activist and blogger (http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com) thinks that there is a connection between all these military – CIA sex scandals, corporate sex scandals, and massive contractor fraud and bidding over-runs. We tracked down her comments and put things in a time-line of sorts so that researchers and investigators can easily start looking to see if there is any connection between all these events. This will be updated as the scandal widens.

2005: Hewlitt-Packard awarded a contract on New York’s 911 Unified Call Center. The project was estimated to cost $1.3 billion dollars and be completed by 2007.

August 6, 2010: Hewlitt-Packard CEO and President Mark Hurd resigns after a sexual harassment blow up involving former reality TV actress Jodie Fisher. Hurd received $12.2 million in severance, plus stock options estimated to be $34.6 million.

March 14, 2012: N.Y. Times (http://www.NYTimes.com) article reports that the CityTime project in New York, which was to modernize the payroll system, was plagued by widespread fraud. The project started out at $73 million and ballooned to nearly $700 million. Under an agreement that lets them off the hook for Federal prosecution, SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) agreed to reimburse the City of New York a whopping 80% of the money it spent on the project; with penalties it is $500 million in restitution.

May 31, 2012: Spectrum (http://spectrum.ieee.org) reports that N.Y. City Comptroller John Liu stated that Hewlett-Packard, the initial prime contractor on the city’s 911 Unified Call System had committed potential fraud and had over-billed as much as $163 million. The project started out in 2005, estimated cost $1.3 billion and completion in 2007. Now they say cost is $2.3 billion and completion date in 2015. Question: How many lives would have been saved during the recent hurricane Sandy if the call system had been in operation as it should have been?

June 25, 2012: Federal News Radio (http://www.federalnewsradio.com) reports that SAIC had filed a protest with the GAO (Government Accountability Office) saying that they should have gotten the $4.6 billion dollar bid on a contract to continue work on the Global Information Grid, a project for the Defense Information Systems Agency. SAIC was bidding against Lockheed for this project. Possibly the fraud charges in New York had something to do with the Defense Department awarding the contract to Lockheed instead of SAIC.

August 30, 2012: N.Y. Times (http://www.NYTimes.com) reports that SAIC planned to divide itself into 2 separate publicly traded companies. One company will be their government services, and the other company will be for national security technology, health and engineering.

October 2, 2012: Federal News Radio reported that the GAO denied the protest filed by SAIC and the contract with Lockheed stays in place

October 3, 2012: Lockheed News (http://www.lockheedmartin.com) reports that it has received a $4.6 billion dollar Defense Information Systems Agency Contract. This beat out the bid from SAIC, which had run the program since 2001.

November 6, 2012: N.Y. Post (http://nypost.com) says that the N.Y. 911 Unified Call System is a 2 Billion dollar fiasco

November 6, 2012: CIA General David Petraeus resigns over a sex scandal, having an adulterous affair with a married woman who wrote his biography. Did Gen. Petraeus have anything to do with the DISA’s Global Information Grid?

November 12, 2012: BizJournal (http://www.bizjournals.com) reports Lockheed CEO Christopher Kubasik, who was to become Lockheed Martin Corp.’s CEO in January 2013, resigned after an investigation found he had a personal relationship with a subordinate. In plain English, sex scandal. He will receive $3.5 million in separation payments.

Posted by Uncle Paulie

 

Could Bitcoin Become the Globalist Digital Replacement For Fiat Currency?

Susanne Posel – FULL ARTICLE

Occupy Corporatism
November 12, 2012

According to their website, Bitcoin is “an experimental new digital currency” that uses “peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority.” It is through open source software that Bitcoin can operate. This alternative currency was created by an anonymous person calling themself Satoshi Nakamoto.

As with most incremental changes in our society, the move to cashless transactions has been mostly voluntary. Nearly every business offers the use of debit and credit cards in lieu of cash to pay for products and services. As the digital takeover becomes common place, Americans are unwittingly acquiescing to the furtherance of the cashless society. With this move come dangers that are not discussed in the mainstream. Cashless transactions are glorified, without the dark side brought into the social meme.

The illusion is that this digital currency can allow any “two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party”; however while based on the collective control of computers, a “chain of digital signatures” and a “trusted central authority” to keep the monetary system from relying on printed fiat.

According to Deutsche Bank analysts Daniel Brebner and Xiao Fu, gold is “not really a commodity at all.” Berbner and Fu explain: “While it is included in the commodities basket it is in fact a medium of exchange and one that is officially recognized (if not publically used as such). We see gold as an officially recognized form of money for one primary reason: it is widely held by most of the world’s larger central banks as a component of reserves.”

Gold is deemed “good money” and fiat currency is represented as “bad money” because the central banking cartels confuse the worth of paper over precious metals to keep the populace in the dark as to currency value to claim a monopoly over worth and circulation as well as hoard precious metals for consumption purposes.

 

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L.A. Housing Partnership 2012 Holiday Food Distribution

Schedule of Food Distribution Nov/Dec 2012

Place:  2614 W. 7th Street, Los Angeles.

Date:  Wednesday November 21, 2012

Time: 4:00pm

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Date: December – No Food Distribution at that location.  But a big food distro at “Winter Festival” on Monday, December 17, 2012 at MacArthur Park.

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Posted by Uncle Paulie/ Thanks to Barbara B. for this update.

Gay Parade Spotlights Differences Between the Christian and Muslim World

Anti-Christian gay parade shows differences

between Christians and Moslems

 

A somewhat insulting anti-Christian, anti-Jesus parade in Hollywood by a small group of gays  in recent years spotlights the difference between the Christian and the Muslim worlds. The parade, in which a grown man in diapers is being pushed down Hollywood Boulevard to see his “mommy” at his home at Virgin Records (note the store is now closed down) while a mob of dressed up gays are singing “Silent Night, Holy Night”, hardly raised an eyebrow. The media never mentioned it; the Christians just shook their heads, wondering what new insults they will have to endure during their joyous holiday season.

Compare this to the recent anti-Mohammad video that caused such an explosive reaction in the Middle East. Riots in Cairo at our Embassy, westerners threatened with death, and an ugly mood all around. In Libya, a pre-planned attack against our Embassy in which four Americans, including the Ambassador, were killed, took place in a very hostile atmosphere. Although the video was not the cause of the attack, the Libyans were becoming more anti-Western by the day.  A lot of this because of a video made by an unknown guy and hardly seen by anyone until blared out in the Muslim press.

Meanwhile, in Hollywood, California, a small but insulting, mocking parade goes almost unnoticed. I would challenge those gays to go to the streets of Cairo and put on an anti-Muslim parade, like dragging a mannequin of Mohammad behind a camel. How many of them would come back to Hollywood in pine boxes? Gays want to be treated equally in all matters, maybe they should give some respect to others, including, dare we use the word, “Christians”.

But the larger issue is that America spends billions of dollars in foreign aid, much going to Muslim countries. When do we pressure these countries to change their ways, respect freedom of speech and freedom of religion?  Probably never. Maybe a good Christmas present to the Christian community would be to fire everyone in the State Department.  Why should we support rotten governments around the world who are reviling us, our beliefs, and our religious tolerance? And, by the way, our sexual tolerance.  Being openly gay in the Muslim world is dangerous.  Some countries in Africa are threatening to murder homosexuals and may be doing so at this moment.  How much foreign aid and support is given to these countries and why do we continue to do it?  Killing Christians in Egypt (which is happening) or gays in Africa, should motivate the State Department to issue some strong words:  like stop this crap or you will never get another dime from us and we will embargo and sanction your evil country.

A final point: if you are in a personal bad situation and are hungry, you can go to one of the many Christian churches in the area for a free dinner.  They will not ask you if you are gay or straight, Christian, Jew or Muslim.  They will just feed you.  And they will do it with a tremendous joy in their hearts.

 

You can watch the video here: http://youtu.be/sz0AtmAQ1-8

Posted by Ed Murray