Check this out – and I hate to criticize, but this really is not the way to get your point across. Yes, you have a big beef with the USA. Yes, the USA is fighting you on your turf. No, you may not take it out on civilians and claim the USA made you do it.

Do you get it yet? Has it dawned on you that the ideal we are fighting against does not care if you are directly involved in the fight or not, if you are in any way connected to the USA you are a legitimate target in their eyes? Yes, you, with the “Islam is a Religion of Peace” poster – has it occurred to you that the only peace they are interested in is their own?

There was a brief article in the paper today (I read the Arizona Republic, with large grains of salt) about how the elections on Tuesday have the Republicans “worried” and how they sent a “message” to the GOP. I will tell you this – it won’t matter if the next President is Republican, Democratic, or a third party; male or female – the fact that we have the freedom to elect our leaders is a major sticking point in the craw of the members of the “Religion of Peace.” Not that we can attack at will, but that we have dared to stand up to them. We have shown that we will not tolerate their intolerance. And that is unacceptable to them.

Those of you with the ability to read, understand, and digest facts should consider linking to Proteus at his web site and read back through his archives. His essays lay it out, point by point, very clearly.

Update
The first link seems to have broken. It was a story that att.net had on their front page. I guess the news just isn’t worth keeping straight. I apologize for the inconvenience.

The President had been receiving flack about who knew what before the attacks on 9/11. Based on the loudest responses to the current war on terror, the ones who are bleating the loudest won’t be happy no matter what kind of a response the USA had provided.

For instance:

If the security levels had been implemented and raised prior to 9/11, thereby preventing the attack from occurring in the first place, the sheep would have been complaining about the infringement on their personal rights.

If you ask them, they will say “No, no – we would have allowed that, considering what happened on 9/11.” Don’t try to remind them of the paradox involved in their statement, they don’t want to hear it.

Since the leaders of the USA now have confirmable intelligence that there is a terrorist organization that has plans to attack the USA, and the leaders of the USA are actually doing something about it (keeping that same terrorist organization busy in their own backyard), why are the bleaters saying we shouldn’t be involved? Don’t they want us to protect the USA, considering how many more 9/11 attacks have been curtailed?

I say all this to present this: Prevention, or the perception of prevention, will guard against more attacks than can be counted, since there is no poll to track the number of attacks that haven’t happened because of a perceived lack of success on the part of the attackers.

Here in The Valley of the Sun, two high-school boys were working the late shift, closing the Subway shop where they worked. Two men came in, one kept watch, the other attacked the boys, shooting them several times with a rifle while the boys were trying to get away. Both boys were killed. If there was a law that allowed workers to carry personal weapons, and the would-be attackers knew that there was a chance the planned victims could be armed, there would have been a much different outcome: the boys would have finished closing, gone home, and seen the next day’s sunrise. Because the attackers would not have wanted to risk their own lives to attack someone who could fight back.

Transfer that thought process to the world’s situation today, and you can see why we have to demonstrate that this country will not back down from what it has set out to accomplish, until every last one of the terrorists are no longer able to spread their brand of evangelism. If we back down, or show weakness, the terrorists will be emboldened and attack even stronger than before. And, they will attack here on our soil. We cannot let that happen. Ever.

Go read the essays over at Bill’s site; he has a good grasp of what’s going on. Go. Read. Think. Think. THINK.

Bits and pieces floating in my mind:

BlogMad is a soon-to-be-released blog circulation tool – in the vein of BlogExplosion or Blog Soldiers. Click the link on the left margin, please.

I write these entries on my breaks and at lunch – so sometimes they come up short or choppy. Sometimes what I tried to write doesn’t come out the way it was intended, so you don’t even see it. Breaks are ten minutes, twice a day. Lunch is thirty minutes, once a day. Once in a while I can get time at home to write an entry – but home time is time to be with TMBWitW, so there’s not a lot of blogging from home.

I joined the Notebored (link at left) and now I realize that I don’t really have anything to write. Maybe next I should join a cooking club, then I won’t eat anything and loose the gut I’ve been slowly growing all these years.

There are too many blogs that are good reading and not enough time to read them all. I apologize to those who belong to the BlogExplosion/Soldier/Mad groups for not really spending a lot of time – I will stop and comment if I have seen your work before, or if you say something that gets me right then.

See you in church…

Sometime over the last few weeks, my site counter topped the 1000 mark. I’ve been tied up with so many different things that I totally missed the occasion.

Anyone remember if they were number 1000? Would you be so kind as to let me know if it was you? Just drop a comment here, or e-mail me at carycartter AT gmail DOT com.

No fabulous prize, just a big thank you for supporting this blog.

Before I forget – thank you, all of you, for reading. Either all of you for logging in at least once, or the two of you who don’t have anything better to do who have logged in waaaay too many times. No, really – thanks.

I was going to write a big long post about the difference between the way women are treated here in the great United States and the way females are treated under Islamic Law. (hint: under US law, women are not considered possessions)

Then, I thought about how political that would sound, and I decided not to. I’m trying to be a good Christian and love everyone. I really am. I’m also trying to learn to trust God more. TMBWitW is trying to talk me out of re-arming. I am strongly considering purchasing weaponry for personal and property protection. Yes, I am purposely considering exercising my rights under the second amendment. Liberals are feeling light-headed; they can sense the distrubance like a pebble dropped in an empty mind. I mean pool. A pool of water. That’s what I meant.

Anyway – I am not going to be a fixture in the political blogosphere. Too many good ones out there already, especially this guy. He has a habit of pointing out the obvious to the oblivious and making them appear small minded. Not that they need help appearing small-minded, but you know what I mean.

Back to work. Breaks are too short.