Muslim Prayer

Tom C submitted this link describing the content of salat, the prayers Muslims are required to say five or 10 times per day — the number depends on the sect. The prayers include implicit statements that the Jews are cursed and the Christians have gone astray.

A requirement to repeat this throughout the day does not seem to indicate a whole lot of confidence in the their convictions.

It’s kind of Pharisaical, actually.

Compare it to the Our Father.

Out Of Control Government II

Aaron Swartz hung himself Jan. 11 at his home in Brooklyn. He was 26.

Swartz was a widely regarded computer innovator and free speech activist. At 14, he helped develop the widely used Really Simple Syndication (RSS) software. A few years later he developed the software used by the popular Reddit website.

He later helped lead the fight to stop the stop the intrusive Stop Online Piracy Act

Two years ago he really screwed up. He sneaked into the basement wiring closet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and hacked into a network allowing him to download files from JSTOR a digital library of academic papers. A subscription is required to access the papers. Swartz was upset that money from the subscription fees were going to publishers rather than authors.

Well, he was arrested by local authorities and charged with breaking and entering, and then the feds got involved.

“Stealing is stealing,” U.S. Atorney Carmen Otiz, an Obama appointee,  said and using an expansive and innovative interpretation of the 1984 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act found enough charges to throw at Swartz to have him looking at 35 years.

Authur Bomar, it should be noted, served just 11 years for his first murder.

Swartz had trouble raising money for legal fees to fight the federal onslaught. The pressure appeared to much for the young man to take.

Hollywood’s Les Miserables appears to be appropriate for this time and place in our society. Rare kudos to them.

JSTOR, by the way, settled things with Swartz a few months after the break-in after he returned the files. JSTOR declined to pursue civil litigation.

And for you Obama-supporting hipsters, try to comprehend under whose authority Ortiz was acting when she went full-bore against Swartz,  and who pointedly refused to considering taking the steps to apply a 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals that limited the scope of the 1984 law to Massachusetts.

Elections have consequences. Let’s give up on the Constitution, right?

Super Bowl Soup Sale

Saints Peter & Paul Byzantine Rite Catholic Church in Clifton Heights is taking orders for its ever popular “Home-made Super Bowl Soup and Artisan Bread Sale”.  Available are beef vegetable, chicken noodle and crab bisque. All are fresh and homemade as are the loaves of artisan bread being sold to go along with them.

The soup is $7 per quart and the bread is $6 per loaf.

Pick up will be noon, Feb. 3 at the church, 100 S. Penn St., following the 11 a.m. Mass.

To place an order, please email us at SSPeterandPaul@verizon.net or call Kathy at 610-328-4731 by Jan. 28.
 

Off The Internet — Why Gramps Carries A Gun

Courtesy of Cathy Craddock

WHY GRAMPS CARRIES A GUN

I don’t carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don’t carry a gun to scare people.
I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil.
I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.

I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry.
I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.

I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.
I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m a cowboy.
I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.

I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man.
I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.

I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate…

I don’t carry a gun because I love it.
I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.

Police protection is an oxymoron.

When seconds count the police are only minutes away.

Free citizens must protect themselves.

Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.

Personally, I carry a gun because I’m too young to die and too old to take an “ass” whoopin’….

.author unknown (but obviously brilliant)

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A LITTLE GUN HISTORY

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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In 1911, Turkey
established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
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Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.

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China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million.

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You won’t see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information.

Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens.

Take note my fellow Americans, before it’s too late!

The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of this history lesson.

Wiith guns, we are ‘citizens’. Without them, we are ‘subjects’.

During WW II the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED!

If you value your freedom, please spread this anti-gun-control message to all of your friends.

The purpose of fighting is to win.

There is no possible victory in defense.

The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either.

The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

SWITZERLAND ISSUES EVERY HOUSEHOLD A GUN!

SWITZERLAND ‘S GOVERNMENT TRAINS EVERY ADULT THEY ISSUE A RIFLE.

SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY CIVILIZED
COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!

IT’S A NO BRAINER!
DON’T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS IN AN EFFORT
TO MAKE ALL LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.

Tonight’s Meal

Tonight’s meal by Chef William Sr. was pan-roasted chicken thighs marinated in a white wine and lemon juice sauce and seasoned with a Peruvian-style rub. It was served with a side of delicious red beans and rice, and helping of canned succotash well buttered — these are the Obama years after all.

Chef William says the trick is to roast the chicken skin side down for at least two hours and to make a deep cut along the bone so the bird parts are completely cooked.

The dessert by Chef Margaret was a vanilla banana cream pie covered with walnuts.

The wine was a Mirassou chardonnay courtesy of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. Yes it was perfect.