Tribute

“Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute” -- Thomas Jefferson (his response to the Barbary pirates demand for money to keep them from attacking U.S. shipping.)

Tribute is nothing more than ransom paid to keep some entity from harming you. There are many instances of this practice … from the Mafia demanding a percentage of the profits of businesses as “protection money” to Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and other race baiters shaking down American businesses so that they are not accused of “racism” … see: ABC News Story.

Now the Muslims are getting into the payoff racket with demands for “Halal certification” which is a statement that a food purveyor has met the standards of the Islam faith. In exchange for paying a fee schedule, these purveyors are “allowed” to sell their products or services to the Muslim community … see the Australian schedule of demands: Q Society Story and in Malaysia: Malaysian Halal Rate Schedule. Unfortunately, many suspect that this certification money finds its way into funding much Muslim terrorism around the world.

In fact the recent jihad attack by a Muslim radical from Iran on a Sydney, Australia coffee shop seems somehow connected with this shop’s refusal to pay Halal tribute … see: Atlas Shrugged Story. Unfortunately, the number of businesses who do pay this Halal bribe seems to be large and growing.

What did Lenin say, “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them?” But, in this case, we seem to be giving them the rope.

Afterward: For validation of Sharpton's sleezeball style see: NY Post Story. Also my wife had an interesting comment, "Aren't taxes a form of protection money?"

Damn!

Here follows a series of on-the-street interviews with the yo-yos marching at the climate protests in New York City this past weekend ... see: Powerline Blog ... watch the video ... it's priceless!. I say "damn" because I would have loved to have this interviewer ask the following question, "What percent of our Earth's atmosphere now is carbon dioxide?" I am certain that the answers would reflect the hysteria that these useful idiots are experiencing. I sincerely believe that most of them would have suggested well over 10% ,.. but nothing like 1%. However, you who read this blog religiously would know that the actual number is much less than 1/10 of 1%. In fact the actual number is 0.04% (see: Wilipedia Entry) ... and this fraction has only grown by 0.0065 percentage points over the last 34 years (see: Answers' Answer)! 300 million years ago (during the Carboniferous Period) carbon dioxide was over ten times as prevalent as it is today ... yet the world survived then very nicely thank you.

I might have even had this interviewer instead ask the question as to what the percentage of carbon monoxide is in our atmosphere ... as I am also reasonably sure that most of these self-defined saviours of our planet would not know the difference. The term "useful idiots" was well chosen by Lenin.

In the Name of Allah

The Islamic Society of Boston has received many gifts from the City of Boston. Among them, Boston’s now departed mayor, Thomas "Mumbles" Menino (D), allowed this society to purchase the land upon which this mosque was built for $175,000 when it was valued at over $2 million. It also has received (surprise!) many government grants-in-aid. This Society boasts a number of famous terrorists as former members, central among them the two Tsarnaev brothers, aka the Boston Marathon Bombers. In addition to these two extremely bad apples this mosque also has had as its attemdees:

• Abdurahman Alamoudi, the mosque’s founder and first president, was sentenced to 23 years in prison in 2004 for plotting terrorism. He had raised money for al Qaeda in the U.S.

• Aafia Siddiqui, who was sentenced to 86 years in prison in 2010 for planning a New York chemical attack.

• Tarek Mehanna, who was sentenced 17 years in prison in 2012 for conspiring to use automatic weapons to murder shoppers in a suburban Boston mall.

• Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a mosque trustee and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader, was banned from the U.S. after issuing a fatwa that called for the killing of U.S. soldiers.

• Jamal Badawi, a former trustee who in 2007 was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a plan to funnel more than $12 million to Palestinian suicide bombers.

• Ahmad Abousamra, the top propagandist for ISIS, who traveled to Pakistan and Yemen to train to kill Americans

This stellar list is from the following source: Wikipedia Entry.  I wonder how many more are lurking in the shadows there?

Who was it, Lenin, who said that the capitalism would sell the Soviet Union the rope with which to hang it? Apparently we have extended this indulgence to the Islamic terrorists. Speaking of which why is that Obama administration so reluctant to utter these words,“Islamic terrorists?” I do wonder if President Obama will keep to this restriction in his Wednesday address to the nation about the ISIS threat and strategy? (I do hope that this "strategy" is not full of what we won't do. I sincerely doubt if ISIS has any such compunctions.)

Watch and see …

Are We F-ing Crazy?

The United States is to supply Pakistan (the same ones who apparently were harboring Bin Laden for six years) with 85 Raven drone aircraft ... for whatever lame purpose.  See: Drones to Pakistan   We also are providing Pakistan with something over $4 billion of foreign aid per year.  See: Foreign Aid to Pakistan  What did Lenin once say ... "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."?  Only now, we are giving them the rope.