I apologize for this blog losing its momentum lately, I've been really busy and when that happens I tend to post quick bites to Facebook instead. So here's the round-up of my favorites from the past week...

Israel Matzav shares photos from the "World's biggest concentration camp" - GAZA. What do you think now? Pictures certainly do speak volumes in dispelling lies!

Incompetence rules the air these days! There were so many really good articles written about the Flight 253 "panty" bomber that I had trouble narrowing them down, but I think these are probably the top five:

Follow up:

• Jihad Watch - Spencer: Flight 253 and Counterterror's Epic Fail
  
  
• Crossing the Yarden - Idiocy vs Terror
  
  
• The Muqata - Flying the Friendly Skies
  
  
• Infidels are Cool - CNN Source: CIA was tracking Panty Bomber Before Attempted Terrorist Attack and Panty Bomber Groomed by Al Qaeda in London

I have the solution: Federal Marshalls should train, deputize and arm all capable civilians (i.e., over 18, have at least one good shooting arm, are not blind, etc.) on the "one in the head - two in the chest" technique. And politicians who make excuses and create "victims" out of terrorists should be fired. Political correctness needs to thrown out the window and justice/adherence to the U.S. Constitution re-adopted as the social norm.

On the subject of West Bank "Settlements" I was happy to read JTA's report: Ma’ale Adumim planned as Jerusalem suburb. Having lived in the CITY of Ma'ale Adumim for a year, I can tell you from first-hand experience that it is no more a "settlement" than American cities like Albany, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Nashville, Tennessee; or Tempe, Arizona!

That's Ma'ale Adumim on the hilltop. Is this what you picture in your mind's eye when you hear the word "settlement"?

Almost 40,000 people live in Ma'ale Adumim (many of whom are Americans - Jews and Christians) in normal houses with running water and electricity, shopping centers, medical facilities, etc. And right across the other side of Highway 1 is an Arab city of Abu Dis with even nicer housing than many of Ma'ale Adumim's residents can afford.

And this probably isn't what you picture in your mind's eye when you hear about the "plight of the poor 'Palestinian Arabs'", is it?

I can't tell you where the Arab residents of that town get their money from, but I can tell you they aren't living in poverty (and are living better than many Americans)!

The whole "settlers" thing that the media has propogated is no more valid than claiming that people living in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, New York, etc. are settlers because they "stole the land" from the natives hundreds of years ago. Actually it is even less valid since Americans first came to that land from Europe only a few hundred years ago and Jews have lived in the land of Israel (even on the EAST bank of the Jordan River) for thousands of years. In the late 1800s and early 1900s there were NO Arab cities anywhere in this land. The people currently claiming to be "Palestinians" were placed in Israel as political pawns and originated from the surrounding Arab nations. The area EAST of the Jordan River was created as a country by the British Mandate for those people and if they don't like it, there are 21 other Arab nations surrounding the tiny country of Israel that they have a choice to move to.

Enough of the Middle East for the moment, let's get back to issues of American's Rights to Bear Arms... Backwoods Home Magazine published a great article by John Silveira: Abandoning the Constitution! Who’s to blame for our loss of rights? . Check it out, it's a great read!