Islam has no place in western civilization

ESPECIALLY not in the United States. Read what I have to say carefully before you start babbling about the First Amendment. I'm pretty much a hard nosed Constitutionalist.

Muslims don't assimilate. They want to change their new home to fit them. Mamdani has already taken over a city owned building and is using it for a mosque. One of his lieutenants has already said Islam will be in every home in the United States. Another has said their goal is to destroy the Constitution and replace it with Sharia law. Other Muslim leaders have said the same things. 

There have been criticisms over people bringing their dogs into their homes. The new and improved NYC grocery store doesn't sell pork products. Restaurants have been hassled over serving pork barbecue. Muslims want to ban alcohol. 

Muslims have hassled people for eating in public during Ramadan citing that they are fasting and it annoys them. Sorry about that but I am eating my lunch where and when I want and demand to be able do it in peace. 

Imams have stated they want to replace the Constitution with Sharia Law. Islam is actually a religion of conquering. Everywhere they land they insist the locals bend to them. I have no intentions whatsoever of living under Sharia law or changing my habits to accommodate newcomers. It's their job to assimilate.

The Quran permits them to lie, cheat, steal and even murder unbelievers.

It's not a religion, it is a terrorist organization. It destroys everything it touches. It was directly responsible for 9-11. A big example of that is Iran which has supplied many groups with arms and ammunition to go after western nations in general and the United States in particular. The Taliban, Hezbollah, Hamas and others come to mind as I sit here. All have been given money and arms from Iran and other Muslim sources.

They have killed any number of Americans and Islam in general and Iran in particular is a clear and present danger to the United States. Period.

The United States hosts every religion in the world that I am aware of and probably some I'm not aware of. We all seem to get along together and they have all assimilated well...EXCEPT the Muslims. They get along with none of the other religions. In fact they don't even get along with themselves. Sunni and Shiite Muslims are constantly going after each other. 

One time I wished a Hindu a merry Christmas and he smiled and replied that even though he was Hindi he loved Christians offering to share their holiday with him. He was gracious.

Not so when I offered a Muslim cab driver to buy him lunch. He could have simply said he was Muslim and fasting and been halfway decent about it. Instead he got $hitty about it.

Another time I offered a Jewish subcontractor a ham sandwich (I didn't know he was Jewish) when I was making lunch at work and he graciously begged off. It later got back to me that the Jew had gone and told my supervisor I was a nice guy for offering him lunch. Gracious.

Muslims simply have no place in western civilization. For the record the first war our then fledgling nation fought was with the Barbary pirates. They were not Irish Catholics or Methodists. They were Muslims. Our dealings go way back.

Japan has told the small handful of Muslims there to go whistle and I'm sure they'll soon get the boot. Denmark and Sweden have had a bellyful of Muslims and are in the process of giving large numbers of them the boot.

England and France are screwed royally. France seem to have a number of Catholic churches falling prey to mysterious fires and although the Notre Dame fire is officially listed as being caused by a worker it would be interesting to know of the employees possible connection with Islam. The Mayor of London is a Muslim and you might just as well write England off.

My solution is to follow the leadership of the Japanese and expel any non native born Muslim. We should also designate Islam to be a domestic terrorist group and encourage the rest to leave. 

Before anyone accuses me of being a Nazi, I don't advocate camps, death chambers or any harm be done to these people. I simply want them to leave and go somewhere else. That's fair and reasonable.

This is the Islamic Doomsday clock. I figure that right now we are between 7 and 8 O'clock. They've done a damned good job at 4 O'clock. They have taken New York City!

I've said what I said. As a hard nosed Constitutionalist it was difficult for me to come to this conclusion. I have always stood on the side of liberty but it has occurred to me that those people simply want to take our liberties away from us.

Historically in the early 70s I had a leave them alone attitude toward gays. By the mid 80s I had dealings with the TG community and left them alone, preferring to treat them the same way they treated me which for the most part was civilly. I had and still have a live and let live attitude. 

Before you decide to go off on me, do your own research. You just might find I am not too far off base when I say the biggest threat to democracy is Islam. Open your eyes and look around.

Here's a list. The list is not all inclusive. It is a plain and simple fact.

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Books.

I have had two I wanted to read and just finished one of them. 

"The Filthy Thirteen" which was a memoir of a WW2 paratrooper. I finished it wondering how accurate it really was. Much of it sounded a little over the top to me regarding his run-ins with officers and NCOs.

The other one arriving soon is "The Simple Sounds of Freedom" which is about the only USGI ever to join the Russian Army.

He was captured a few days after D Day in France, escaped from the PW camp a couple of times, finally making good an escape where he worked his way east and met the Russian forces. 

Instead of asking the Russians for repatriation he simple joined the Soviet Army and fought alongside them for a while.  Later he was wounded and sent to a hospital. 

A Soviet general was visiting and found out the non-Russian was there and made arrangements to return him to the States.

I kind of like off the wall WW2 incidents. It makes for good reading. Especially when it's about ordinary people in extraordinary situations.

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After 50 years I realize I miss

my old coffee boiler.

For some reason I woke up with a hankering for Old School boiled coffee. I do not know why I would like such a nasty beverage as this upon wakeup but I do want a cup or three.

I had a real chuck wagon gallon boiler for a while when I lived in a tipi and would make up a batch every few days. Surprisingly it drew many favorable comments.

Later when I lived in more civilized housing I'd make a  basic 9 cup batch with a percolator I took the guts out of.

Today I think I'm going to go to Goodwill or maybe Walmart if I feel like getting dressed up and grab a stovetop percolator and use that.

Drip coffee is OK but I do believe it is time to build me a pot of Old School cowboy coffee.

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we have gotten too lax with criminals.

I just read where some clown with 54 arrests just got arrested for murdering someone. What was he doing out on the streets to begin with? It's obvious the system isn't working if that is the case.

Back in the early 60s there was an episode of a long forgotten television show 'Car 54 where are you?'

There was an episode where Car 54s beat was the lowest crime beat in the entire city. Police officials wanted to know why and discovered that Toody and Muldoon had endeared themselves and were so useful to the community that the locals decided they were too valuable to have to waste their time doing police work so they handled it themselves. Robbers and thieves woke up on an alley outside of Car 54's beat. Here's a link to the episode. The good part is the last third of it.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQEridEINzw 

Needless to say, if the locals did decide to  get rid of the police and police themselves it would soon reduce things to chaos. 

However the system doesn't seem to be doing it's job and because of that I am of the mind that there are circumstances that I would cover for someone that did take the law into their own hands.

People are getting sick and tired of catch and release judges and recently after someone murdered a rapist that raped his daughter and was given no prison time simply whacked the rapist and got off.

It wasn't long ago I would have wanted to see the killer get time because I don't generally believe in extra legal justice but that has been changing over the years. If the system fails something must be done to keep things from falling into chaos.

People think the police (and by extension the courts) only protect us from criminals. The fail to realize the police protect society from itself. 

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The heaving line

Early on in my career I worked on a bunker barge. We refueled ships.

Ships don't pull into the corner Sunoco and stick the nozzle in the tank filler. The fuel is delivered to them. A barge comes alongside and ties up alongside, a barge hose is sent up, normally a 6 inch in diameter hose. The hose gets bolted to the manifold and the barge pumps the fuel into the ship. 

Anyway, there was this Korean crewed ship and the crew was pretty lazy. They just wanted us to hang on with 2 lines which is illegal. we required at least six.  

Most ships would throw down a heaving line and pull our deck lines up.  These guys made us throw our heaving line up and then after they removed it they would throw the whole thing back instead of just the end with the weighted monkey's fist.

That angered me so I busted my ass to make them bust theirs by making them pull up at least 8 lines. The bastards could have tried to make it easier for both of us but tried to be lazy and wound up doing more work because of it.

They became a monthly customer and my pard and I decided that enough was enough. we decided to fix their ass good. We started to beg, borrow or steal all the 3/8s manila we could find and spliced into one long heaving line. It was at least an entire mile long but probably closer to a nautical mile of 6000 feet long. There was a monkey's fist on one end and the other end was back spliced. 

We left the tail out of the humongous galvanized tub we coiled it up in and about 90 feet of the end with the monkey's fist out the other side. The tail we tied to the deck line and covered the tub the pile of line with a tarp to hide it from the ship's crew.

When we came alongside I threw the monkey's fist aloft and one of the deckhands caught it and started pulling it up. It went from the strange to the ridiculous to the sublime as they kept pulling more and more 3/8s inch line up. Finally they got well over a mile of heaving line up and the deck line came with it. They were rather exhausted.

They found the monkey's fist and threw it down and it was repeated that way until all six deck lines were made fast. They sure had a pile of manila line on deck. 

The fueling went efficiently and flawlessly.

After everything was finished and we sailed they dropped our deck lines and we snapped them and they landed on deck. We'd coil them after we sailed.

When the last line was off a deckhand threw us our monkey's fist back and the crew gathered to watch me have to haul all 6000 feet of line back aboard. 

I pulled back about 85 feet, pulled out my knife, cut it and we sailed off leaving them a huge rat's nest of line on their deck. Their jaws dropped.

A month later when we came up alongside them they threw a heaving line down to us made of the 3/8ths manila rat's nest we had left behind a month earlier and everything went smoothly thereafter. They probably had made about 50 to 60 heaving lines out of what we had left behind!

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Sad news.

My ex-wife just passed last night. I got the call from my former brother in law last night at 2240.

The animosity between us ended shortly after the divorce and we became friends afterwards so this is nothing to cheer about.

She passed as a result of the medications she was taking for depression which is actually what broke up our marriage in the first place. She had a choice between fighting depression at the cost of longevity and she chose to fight the depression. Personally I would have done the same thing.

She passed peacefully, thank God.

Maybe I'll eventually post part of it.

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A long term immigrant would pick up on this almost immediately.

One of my handful of immigrant friends some time back told me he learned British English in school. While he said he arrived in the States with a basic skill for communication he felt he didn't speak the American dialect as well as he should have. 

Now he speaks excellent unaccented American English. He's worked hard at it and because of that he says he's constantly still picking up little 'Americanisms' that go with the language and the culture.

I always say that when you pick up and see the humor in little things like I posted you've conquered Americanisms to the point beyond that of many native born Americans.

when an immigrant reads something like this and laughs themselves silly it's a damned good indicator that they have assimilated.

                                                       

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Shortly after the birth of our nation we fought the Barbary Pirates.

 

When the Barbary pirates were seizing our ships and ransoming their crews a hue and cry went up throughout the nation. "Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute." 

Our Sailors and Marines defeated the Barbary pirates and it is mentioned in the Marine's Hymn, 'to the shores of Tripoli'.

Somewhere along the line a couple of our presidents seemed to have skipped history class or failed to let all of this sink in because Obama and Biden paid tribute to Iran in the form of handing Iran pallets of cash and releasing frozen Iranian funds. 

The entire Iranian mess goes back to Jimmy carter who didn't have the balls to slap Iran silly and end things then and there. The can got kicked down the road for the next 47 years until our current POTUS decided to pick it up and deal with it.

Apparently the president remembered what Thomas Jefferson did. 

Iran has only managed to get more dangerous over time. 

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For those of you that are interested. Spread the word.

In a previous post I mentioned that the Japanese PM had acquired a taste for SKIPPY (brand specific) peanut butter and I am going to send her a jar.

Someone asked me for contact information. 

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi
1-6-1 Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8914, Japan.

I just thought of something. Maybe we can get something rolling. Spread the word and see if we can get a few more people to do this.

Maybe we can get something rolling. Spread the word.

If nothing else the Japanese security weenies will go nuts. 

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The fastest form of communication is Rumor Control.

Back in the 90s sometime the subject of rumor control was being discussed by a couple of us in tha parking lot before crew change. 

Alvin, John and I were talking about it. John and I were old salts. Alvin was sort of a newbie. John and I decided to show Alvin how well it worked. We made up a rumor and decided to spread it to see how fast it made the rounds.

The rumor was a corker. 'All barges are going to be issued sextants and navigation tools and all tankermen are being sent to the six week celestial navigation course at Piney Point.' 

The alleged reason was so anchored barge crews could check and see if their anchor was dragging.

Never mind the fact that celestial navigation isn't all that accurate. Few tankerman know anything about it.

The three of us set our watches as this was pre-cell phone. Most of us didn't have one then because they were terribly expensive. Tugs and barges did have fixed cell phones installed.

They were supposedly for official use only but like a lot of things that got stretched.

John, headed to New York Harbor, would start the rumor at exactly 1300. Alvin and I would log the time it got to us via the jungle telegraph. John would log when it got back to him which would cover his ass because he could now honestly say he had heard the rumor from someone else. There really was no way the office could trace it back to anyone.

At 1304 the barge cell phone rang and sure enough, the rumor was in full swing. By about 1308 people started calling their port captains asking "What's this $hit I heard about having to go to school at Piney Point for six weeks?"

By 1309 people had started calling their reliefs and passing the word. There were people at home that were living in places like Idaho.

About the only one of us that didn't get the word was Jimmy Beardsley because he was incommunicado because he had taken his family to see the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone or some damned thing and was out in space somewhere.

A couple of days later the tugs all got faxes denying everything which was really too late because the rumor died about as fast as it started. When the office denied it early on Rumor Control spread the denial almost instantly.

The next time I ran into Alvin he told me he was astonished. I told him to keep everything under his hat because if the office ever got wind of who started this there would be hell to pay. I didn't have to tell him twice.

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Trump's Pearl Harbor comment to the Japanese reporter

could probably be described as being so tasteless it was tasteful.

Fact it it was hilarious and the Japanese PM had a hard time keeping it together..

Time has passed and of the original 16.4 million American participants the estimate is that under 45,000 are still alive. The median age is about 98 years old. Estimates are that by 2030 under 8000 will be alive. For the Japanese the estimates are now under 1000. Don't ask me why this is. I believe about 7 million Japanese served.

The war has been long over and with the participants gone healing is pretty much complete.  

As a kid I brought home some anti German/Japanese things from school and my father sat me down and told me the war was long over and pointed out that the Axis military people were no different than our GIs. None of them wanted to be there. They just wanted to go home, marry the girl of their dreams and raise a few kids.

He also pointed out to me that a German that had gotten taken prisoner in North Africa and was sent to a stateside PW camp lived nearby. He had decided shortly after repatriation to Germany to move to the States because he saw it as a land of opportunity. IIRC his kids were a bit younger than me so I never hung out with them.

I'm reasonably sure that Sanae Takaichi, the Japanese Prime Minister took little or no offense to President Trump's comments whatsoever. From what I have seen she likes Americans.

In 1928 a (then) Japanese captain named Tadimichi Kuribayashi came to the States as a student/attache and lived here for about two years. He made many American friends. Kuribayashi is best known for his incredible defense of the Island of Iwo Jima. From what I have read about this man he's my favorite WW2 personality that I would want to have dinner and drinks with.

PM Takaichi has something in common with Kuribayashi. She, too spent two years in the States. She lived here working for a Colorado representative on a modest stipend and reportedly acquired a taste for Skippy peanut butter. I'm sure she knows how we are and much like Kuribayashi generally likes us. She broke both Japanese and American protocol when the President met her at the White House door. She neither bowed not took his offered hand. Instead she charged up to him and gave him a big hug. 

That tells me she know Americans when she abandoned protocol.

It would be interesting to find out what the general Japanese population thought about their PM breaking protocol. It would also be interesting to see what the average Japanese citizen thinks over his comment.

As for PM Takaichi, she obviously thought something was outright hilarious but tried to hide it. The question is what she found funny. Personally my best guess is she got hit with a double whammy. Still, I don't think she was so much amused with Trump's comment as she was watching the Japanese reporter ask a stupid question and get brought up short by President Trump. I'm sure she's more than aware that the President is a bull in a China shop and not too surprised to see him to give an answer like that.

I instinctively like that woman. I think I'll mail her a jar of Skippy peanut butter.   

  

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