Shattered Dreams

Most of my life I have asked myself “what if?”  I have always thought that life can be more interesting than it already is by imagining the world in different ways.  Sadly, I came to a realization today that no matter how neat I think it would be, UFO’s and Bigfoot simply do not exist.  I know, bummer huh.

What was the impetus to this great awakening you ask?  Simple.  My cell phone.  I was messing around with it and marveling at what great pictures and movies it is capable of taking.  I got to thinking about all of the interesting clips on YouTube that people have taken with their cell phone.

And then it hit me; with literally millions upon millions of cell phones, all equipped with a fairly decent digital camera, why do we not have some decent pictures of UFO’s or Bigfoot?  Not those cheesy grainy fake pictures, or shaky movies that you just can’t make out.  I mean really good pictures.

With all of the hunters in the woods this time of year we should finally at last have a mug shot of Sasquatch – that is, we would if he existed.

Same for UFO’s.  Those alien abductions?  Someone should have by now captured someone floating out of his or her house and into a UFO on their iphone.  Or perhaps one of the claimed abducted could, while being shown the quadrant of the galaxy the aliens come from, exclaim “hey, could you stand next to the map with me while Zephod takes our picture with my cell phone?”

I’ll keep asking “what if” and looking, but I’m not holding my breath.

As you watch this, think to yourself "where are we as a country right now?"

Are you awake yet?

From Tunisia To The Justice Department: A Clean Sweep For Islam

Posted by Clare M. Lopez Oct 24th 2011 at 7:19 am in Afghanistan, Africa, Featured Story, Foreign Policy,Humanitarian, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamic extremism, Israel, Justice/Legal, Middle East, Obama,Strategy, Terrorism, human rights, sharia | Comments (27)

Across a vast expanse of the Muslim world, from Tunisia to Pakistan, the forces of Islam are rising. Tunisian voters have given the Al Nahda (Muslim Brotherhood) party a dominant position in the national assembly that will write the country’s new constitution. In Libya, Chairman of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, has declared he seeks to make Islamic law the basis for legislation.

In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood campaigns under the slogan, “Islam is the Solution” as Coptic Christians face the worst persecution in decades. Israel just released hundreds of Palestinian terrorists with blood on their hands to ransom Gilad Shalit, an IDF hostage long held by HAMAS in Gaza.

In Syria, Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite dictatorship faces a motley opposition grimly determined to bring it down. With United States (U.S.) backing, the Turks have arranged that most members of the just announced Syrian National Council are Muslim Brothers or like-minded shariah-promoters.

Afghan president Hamid Karzai (the one the U.S. has sacrificed thousands of dead and injured troops and billions of dollars to defend) announced that, should it come to conflict between Pakistan and the U.S., he wants to be clear that he will stand with…Pakistan. He’s in talks with the Taliban, too (so are we). And, just to round out the neighborhood, the powerful Pakistani army commander, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, issued a warning to the U.S. about any moves against the murderous Haqqani Network long sheltered and supported by our Pakistani “ally,” becausePakistan has nukes.

Here at home, the Obama administration’s Justice Department has launched a campaign to extirpate from all training courses under its purview (FBI on down to local law enforcement) any mention of Islamic doctrine, law, or scriptures as a source of motivation for jihadi terrorism. Instructors and trainers who dared inform government students that this is exactly what the jihadis themselves assert are to be blacklisted from ever teaching on a USG contract again.

Pretty much a clean sweep for the forces of Islam wherever one looks these days.