The Savage Republican

It was just another day in the Lady Logician's life.....I was doing laundry and preparing to start supper all the while reminding the dear child to finish his homework. I had the radio on in the background, tuned into Hugh Hewitt's first hour. OK - Hugh is talking about Senator Reid railing about Vice President Cheney again....nothing new right????? Coming back from commercial they are playing the 3 Stooges theme....The 3 Stooges theme?!?!?! Now he has my attention. This is what Hugh was talking about. Senators Reid, Durbin, Schumer and Stabenow have sent a letter to the President asking him to "rule out the option of a pardon" for Lewis (Scooter) Libby. Pardon me (pun intended) Senator Reid, Senator Schumer.....did I miss something like a conviction here????? I could have sworn the man had not even gone to trial yet....aren't we jumping the gun just a little????? Hoping for a kangaroon court are we?????

"He (Reid) challenged the president in personal terms, urging him to "avoid falling in the footsteps of his father who pardoned six men, some were convicted, some were indicted in the
Iran-Contra scandal."

President Clinton also pardoned a bunch of people too as I recall. He pardoned some 140 people including Susan McDougal (Whitewater Scandal), HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros (lied to the FBI), first brother Roger Clinton (convicted of drug charges), CIA Director John Duetsch (faced criminal charges in connection with his having national secrets on his home computer) and Marc Rich (big time Clinton donor who was indicted of tax evasion ). More details can be found here. The Presidential pardon is a controversial privilege of office. Asking this President to forego that privilege is pandering, political posturing. In a situation like this (where they are in essence demanding that the President bow to the whim of the people that lost the last election) one has to wonder what, if anything, these Senators are willing to give up. Are they willing to give up their privilege of Advise and Consent on Presidential appointments? Somehow I think not. So their grandstanding goes....the Senate Democratic leadership preens before the fawning press and makes a request which the President will (if he is wise) dismiss out of hand.

I have tried really hard not to add yet another voice against Islam. It is not the those voices are wrong, necessarily, it's just that there are so many of those voices, that my one small voice would just add to the cacophany. However, after seeing this story, combined with the non-stop coverage out of Paris - where Muslim youth are rioting against the government, I really have to wonder what they are teaching their children.

The story talks about a childrens program that glorifies homicide bombing. The cartoon was shown in Iranian National Television recently. It appears to be part of the campaign that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched - a campaign calling for the complete destruction of Isreal. It tells the story of two young boys, Abd and Karim, who are taught by an older neighbor how to rig themselves up with explosives in order to "Go and show the Zionists how brave and heroic are the children of Palestine."

As the mother of a son, it breaks my heart to see this. I can not help but put myself in the shoes of a mother over there. Would I really rejoice if my son blew himself up in order to kill others? No. But there are those who do. I guess this really does go to show how different our cultures are. Where we teach our children to respect others and to look out for others, another parent is teaching his child how to hate those who are "different" (not Islamist).

How does all of this tie into the riots in Paris? Again, these young people, most of whom have lived their entire lives in France, were taught to hate their home country. They were taught this by their parents and by their Imams. Which leads me to this question? If you hate the country so much, why did you move there? Now I know that there are those who will say that they moved there in order to "Islamicize" the country. While I don't know if that is indeed the case (for I do not know what is in their hearts) I have to conclude that this may be the case, just by looking at their actions.....

Look what happens when we teach our children to hate.

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