AUTOmatic Times Hits The Streets – 11-year-old Editor-in-Chief

By Bob Grafe, Columnist

For Publication:  December 24, 2009 

© A couple of months ago, I wrote a column in which the question was asked “Where have all the newspaper boys gone?”

  Shortly after the column appeared in newspaper print (and on the Internet), I received word that there was at least one remaining newspaper boy.  This is his story – and a very special Christmas present for this columnist.

  A few days ago I had the privilege of meeting this young newspaper man (the Editor-in-Chief of the AUTOmatic Times) and his colleague/sister.  I had requested an interview with them and was granted one.

  After hearty handshakes all around, I was presented with the following written (typed) “response” to my “newspaper boy” column: 

  “My family and I recently read an article entitled “Where have all the newspaper boys gone?” by Bob Grafe dated September 3, 2009.  I absolutely loved this story.  It was like actually being right there with you, Mr. Grafe, when you were ten years old.  I could imagine being in the empty lot beside Ernie’s Barber Shop helping you find bottles.

  It must have been like being on a great adventure going from house to house and knowing that so many people were looking out for you, keeping you safe while you did your work.

  Although you did a lot of work, I think getting $25 must have been exciting for you.  I also loved reading about the barber shop owner.  You were a very smart business man for such a young age, and working out a trade for haircuts was very smart of you.

  You ask the question about where have all the newspaper boys gone and I would like to answer that question for you this holiday season.

  My name is Dawson and I am 11 years old.  When I was just10 years old, I watched a movie called Kit Kittredge and was, at that time, inspired to create a newspaper entitled AUTOmatic Times.  I share my newspaper with close family and friends online. 

  I use the local newspaper, TV, and Internet to help me with research articles.  My Mom pays me a penny a word for all my articles.  I do not charge anyone for my paper and I love when people want to read my paper.  I learn a lot also by writing my paper.

  The answer to your question is that there are still newspaper boys in the world, I am one.  I also earn enough money with my once-a-month newspaper to hire my sister Shelby (age 9) who is a great reporter for me.

  I wish that our world was safe enough to go on adventures in town like the ones you had … but in today’s world we kids have to be safe.  We still read articles and share stories, but, again, we kids have to be safe.

  Anyway, I wanted you to know that your story was so detailed that it was like watching a movie.  You did a great job.

  And, this holiday, I really wanted you to know that there are still newspaper boys and girls in this world!

  Merry Christmas from Dawson and Shelby (Smith)

P.S.  I just made $4.50 for this article and I am enclosing it for you.  I want you to buy some donut holes this Christmas for yourself and know that it came from a newspaper boy.”

  My reaction to receiving this very thoughtful Christmas present was mixed.  I really wanted to profusely thank both Dawson and Shelby on the spot for their sincere kindness. 

  But, I was about to conduct an unbiased and in-depth interview with them.  I must remain professional and at least a bit aloof, I thought to myself.  After all, I could be interviewing future media moguls.

  My hunch was confirmed when Dawson revealed that he was already Wall Street wise.  “I lost $13 in the stock market.” he said when asked about his “business” interests. 

  Both Dawson and Shelby also mentioned that they were into “making movies.”  When I looked questioningly at their parents sitting at the conference table with them, both nodded in the affirmative – with smiles.

  Movie scripts are written, sets designed, characters developed and actual movie “shoots” completed and edited by this talented duo.

  And, what about AUTOmatic Times.  What was one of the more important stories covered by Dawson – this modern-day Internet equipped newspaper boy turned Editor-in-Chief.

  “Well, I wrote a lot about trash.” Said Dawson.  “You know.  Littering.”

  You might also find an article in a future edition about Dawson’s favorite car, the 2006 Ford Mustang or his favorite food – supreme-style pizza.

  When asked how they come up with ideas for their newspaper they replied that they “play office” a lot to get the feel for what really goes on. 

  And raw politics isn’t off limits for AUTOmatic Times’ Editor-in-Chief who firmly mentioned that “Kids need the right to vote for president.”  Staff writer Shelby demonstrated her editorial capabilities when she recommended that the world could be changed for the better if “toys were free.”

  Dawson mentioned that education was important and commented that Benjamin Franklin might have had a college degree in “scientific imagining.”

  When asked who they felt was the most important person in the world, they both paused and then said that they “didn’t know.”

  But when asked who they might ask over for a special dinner party, their responses were without hesitation.  “Miss Linda, Mr. Jet and Jasmine.”  When asked why, they said they were “close friends and very caring.”  And, “Mr. Jet lets us decorate his gate on holidays,” they said.

  After our interview was completed, Dawson and Shelby were given a tour of a “really big” newspaper building and even had a chance to have their pictures taken standing next to a “huge” printing press.

  As they departed the building through the front door, my editor and I just looked at each other with an unspoken reminder that as the seasons come and go through life it becomes ever so obvious that we need to hold onto “the good” when we experience it – and we just had.

  May you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Every Minute In Life Counts!!

By:  Bob Grafe, Columnist

© Did you know that you only have 10,512,000 minutes left to live?  That is correct if you are now a senior citizen age 65 and you expect to live to be age 85 – allowing for 20 more years of living.

  Put another way, you have 7,300 more wake-up calls and a little more than 1,000 weeks to get all those things still remaining to do in your life … done!

  Look at it this way:  You have the same time available and remaining to complete an entirely new career – the same as does a man or woman just beginning a 20-year career in the military.  And, you have the side benefit of no one actually shooting at you.

  There’s still plenty of time to get done what you want to get done – but, you have to go about the task with a well thought-out plan in place.

  So, where do you begin?

  Perhaps the first order of business is to inventory all of your personal time and financial expense commitments that now encumber your personal 24-hour day and your bank account.

  The financial expense commitments portion of the inventory will probably be the easiest to complete.  The personal time commitment portion is much more difficult because it is much more personal involving your emotional investment with many friends and relatives in your life. 

  As you review your personal time commitments be sure to ask yourself, for example, if you are committed to spending one weekend each month away from home with grandchildren, or a special civic organization’s project, or teaching special classes at your church, or with helping out with duties at your senior citizen center, or maybe committed to visiting dear friends and relatives in rest homes, or maybe working at a part-time job that you really enjoy, or maybe just spending a quality weekend at home with your spouse … or any number of other good things to do “one” weekend each month. 

  Well, something has to give because you run out of month before you run out of that special “one” weekend each month – it looks more like “every” weekend is taken up and then some.

  A high level of personal time commitments for on-going activities that are not considered by you to be “very” important may interfere with your desire to complete your list of things that you want to get done – while there is still time to do so. 

  Once that current inventory of personal time commitments is completed, take a deep breath and prioritize the inventory list into three areas:  Very Important; Less Important; and Not Important.  Keep the list private for a few days while you ponder what you have written down.  Then, review the list and make appropriate changes that you have thought about.

  Now, with a blank piece of paper, using the same inventory list categories of Very Important; Less Important; and Not Important, write down those things in life that you really want to accomplish during this “next” 20-year career of yours that is just waiting to begin.  Prioritize your list and then let those private ideas incubate for a couple of days before you make changes to your “final” prioritized list of things you want to accomplish.

  Like it or not, the “other” list of financial commitments that you will have to complete during this life’s inventory process will help to bring into focus those important items that you want to get accomplished – and that you can actually afford.

  For best results with your future list of accomplishments, be totally honest with yourself when you complete your financial commitments analysis.  Don’t be tempted to over-state or under-state either projected expenses or income.  

  These simple steps will help to un-clutter your life allowing you a better picture of what you want to accomplish with your remaining years – what is truly important to you.

  It will help the process along if you begin by placing all of the televisions in your house in the garage sale that you should have.  Garage sales help to un-clutter your life.  Or just drop all your “junk” off at a Goodwill Industries collection site.  Remember, one person’s “junk” is another person’s “bargain.” 

  Be sure to get a receipt for your donation since you also have another 20 or so annual IRS tax return forms to complete between age 65 and 85.  Maybe you’ll find some hidden tax right-offs among your treasures donated to Goodwill or other charitable organizations.

  To help with the “financial” un-cluttering process, you might consider canceling those subscriptions to unread magazines, special “discount” membership offers for “seniors,”  those “special” credit cards now infrequently used, and other commitments that may not provide you with the benefits once promised but seldom delivered – but still cost you that monthly or annual fee.

  Likewise, it is probably a good time to continue with your personal time commitment inventory tweaking by evaluating your membership in various worthwhile organizations.  Some community organizations may still offer you an opportunity to be of service within a specific area and some national organizations may continue to offer you an opportunity to contribute time or funds for good causes.

  But, some have outlived your ability to contribute either financially or with your time and they may need to be dropped from your list of commitments.

  Once your life is a little less cluttered, your personal time commitments and financial commitments inventory tasks are completed and well thought-out, your next 20-year career will be ready to tackle with gusto – perhaps just in time for the new year!

 Submitted by Bob Grafe for publication on Thursday, December 10, 2009.

A 1950s Thanksgiving Lesson In Miss Rumbleheart’s Class

Bob Grafe, Columnist

© Thanksgiving Day is a good day to reflect back on all of the many blessings each one of us has received in this life — especially for those of us old enough to recall both the good and the bad times and are wise enough to recognize the difference.

  I can recall back over half a century ago when the early-morning chill seemed to envelope the concrete basement classroom at my aging Lincoln Elementary School.  It was there that my also aging school teacher, Miss Rumbleheart, ran her third-grade class with the disciplined style of a very disgruntled Army drill sergeant.

  And even though Thanksgiving was the very next day, Miss Rumbleheart made it perfectly clear that she was there that school day for the sole purpose of teaching us the FOUR “R’s” … read’n, right’n, rithmatic’n and ruler’n.

  If you didn’t perform to her standard with the first three R’s, her 18-inch wooden ruler “Whack” would quickly move you back on task.

  Those were the days before school lawyer’n became popular and when long-reaching rulers helped make “no child left behind” a much easier goal to achieve.

  I still remember that late fall school day when for the first time I got the inkling that Miss Rumbleheart might actually HAVE a heart.

  It was mid-morning and the radiator next to the window across the room from my ink-well style desk had finally stopped crackling for awhile.  I noticed that Miss Rumbleheart seemed a little more odd than usual that day.

  Surprisingly, Whack the ruler hadn’t moved from her desk all morning — making all of us students very thankful as we prepared for a Thanksgiving school holiday.

  “Let’s make a list on the blackboard.” She announced.  “Tell me what you’re thankful for.  It’s going to be Thanksgiving tomorrow, and you’d better be thankful for something!”

  As she went around our third-grade classroom asking for input from each child, the blackboard quickly filled with such things as my mom and dad; new shoes; a new bike; cherry Coke; a new dress; my puppy “Buster;” a big radio; The Lone Ranger; grandma and grandpa; and the like.

  When the blackboard was filled to capacity, Susan, the girl at the desk next to me raised her hand to ask a question.  With a bit of annoyance in her voice, our teacher said to Susan, “Yes, what is it?”

  Susan shyly asked “Miss Rumbleheart, what are you thankful for?”

  With a silence in the classroom similar only to those times when Miss Rumbleheart was going to send someone to the principal’s office for doing something really bad, she sat down at her desk and seemed to be thinking without saying a word for the longest time.

  Then she began.

  She told us about how she almost married many years ago, but “things” just didn’t work out.

  However, she quickly added that she had also wanted children of her own — but  was very thankful to have had so many wonderful school children to teach and to keep safe each day for so many years.

  The Korean War had been going on for a couple of years, and Miss Rumbleheart told us how thankful she was for living in a country where she had freedoms that many other peoples of the world did not.

  She said that she was thankful for all those who were serving in the military and who fought for our freedoms and to keep us all safe.  “My nephew is in the Army, and he is fighting in Korea.” She noted.  “They say the war will be over soon, and I’m thankful for that.  We all, everyone in our family, really miss him.”

  “It always makes me proud to see the American flag flying high,” she said, adding that we were lucky to live in America and that we should always be thankful for “our special country.”

    She said that she was thankful that she felt safe to walk in her neighborhood and while shopping.  “People in our town are very polite to each other and we care about each other.  I feel safe here and I’m sure thankful for that.”

  Television was new then, and she said that she was thankful for being able to see and hear such wonderful things on television.  “What a blessing the television is.” She said.  “We’ll all be able to learn so many new things with it that radio just can’t duplicate.”

  With a smile, she recalled that it made her and the school’s principal very thankful to not have to hear “any foul language” from the students at our school.  Again, she told us how proud she was of us for our good manners.

  She said that she was thankful for all the families who raised such wonderful children for her to teach in school.  And, she added that she was very thankful to have had the opportunity to have “such a special job as a school teacher.”

  “I have been truly blessed.” She said.

  As she was about to finish talking, I remember seeing some tears in her eyes that she unsuccessfully attempted to hide as she told us how thankful she was for her family, her friends and her God.

  The rest of that day remains a bit of a blur.  However, the memory of those good feelings and precious teachings about the blessings of living, especially living in America that Miss Rumbleheart instilled in me and many others that day, lingers on even now.

  When we returned from our Thanksgiving holiday, Miss Rumbleheart was there to greet us at the door – “Whack” the ruler in hand.  Back to the four R’s we went — but, with a new appreciation for our master senior citizen school teacher.

  As for me, I’m very thankful for having been blessed with many wonderful teachers throughout the years while living in our great country — but, I’m especially thankful for Miss Rumbleheart and how she forever taught me about being thankful.

America Is Under Attack By Islamic Terrorists

These words represent the thoughts and concerns of most true American patriots.  Lt. Col. Allen West’s comments need wide exposure — because they are the words of truth!  Bob Grafe

The following is a statement released by Retired Lt. Col. Allen West:

This past Thursday 13 American Soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood Texas. As I watched in horror and then anger I recalled my two years of final service in the Army as a Battalion Commander at Ft Hood, 2002-2004. My wife and two daughters were stunned at the incident having lived on the post in family housing.

A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our “Band of Brothers and Sisters” can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units. A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors train for war, to serve and protect our Nation.
On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.

There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered. To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for cowardice. Our Country has become so paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in America, an Army post. We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is despicable. The fact that there are some who have now created an entire new classification called; “pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” is unconscionable.

This is not a “man caused disaster”. It is what it is, an Islamic jihadist attack.
We have seen this before in 2003 when a SGT Hasan of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) threw hand grenades and opened fire into his Commanding Officer’s tent in Kuwait. We have seen the foiled attempt of Albanian Muslims who sought to attack Ft Dix, NJ. Recently we saw a young convert to Islam named Carlos Bledsoe travel to Yemen, receive terrorist training, and return to gun down two US Soldiers at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army recruiting station. We thwarted another Islamic terrorist plot in North Carolina which had US Marine Corps Base, Quantico as a target.

What have we done with all these prevalent trends? Nothing. What we see are recalcitrant leaders who are refusing to confront the issue, Islamic terrorist infiltration into America, and possibly further into our Armed Services. Instead we have a multiculturalism and diversity syndrome on steroids.

Major Hasan should have never been transferred to Ft Hood, matter of fact he should have been Chaptered from the Army. His previous statements, poor evaluation reports, and the fact that the FBI had him under investigation for jihadist website posting should have been proof positive. However, what we have is a typical liberal approach to find a victim, not the 13 and 30 Soldiers and Civilian, but rather the poor shooter. A shooter who we are told was a great American, who loved the Army and serving his Nation and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) stating that his actions had nothing to do with religious belief.

We know that Major Hasan deliberately planned this episode; he did give away his possessions. He stood atop a table in the confined space of the Soldier Readiness Center shouting “Allahu Akhbar”, same chant as the 9-11 terrorists and those we fight against overseas in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation.

No one in leadership seems willing to sound the alarm for the American people; they are therefore complicit in any future attacks. Our Congress should suspend the insidious action to vote on a preposterous and unconstitutional healthcare bill and resolve the issue of “protecting the American people”.

The recent incidents in Dearborn Michigan, Boston Massachusetts, Dallas Texas, and Chicago Illinois should bear witness to the fact that we have an Islamic terrorism issue in America. And don’t have CAIR call me and try to issue a vanilla press statement; they are an illegitimate terrorist associated organization which should be disbanded. We have Saudi Arabia funding close to 80% of the mosques in the United States, one right here in South Florida, Pompano Beach. Are we building churches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia? Are “Kaffirs” and “Infidels” allowed travel to Mecca? So much for peaceful coexistence.

Saudi Arabia is sponsoring radical Imams who enter into our prisons and convert young men into a virulent Wahabbist ideology….one resulting in four individuals wanting to destroy synagogues in New York with plastic explosives. Thank God the explosives were dummy. They are sponsoring textbooks which present Islamic centric revisionist history in our schools.

We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate the theo-political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society. We must begin to demand surveillance of suspected Imams and mosques that are spreading hate and preaching the overthrow of our Constitutional Republic……that speech is not protected under First Amendment, it is sedition and if done by an American treason. There should not be some 30 Islamic terrorist training camps in America that has nothing to do with First Amendment, Freedom of Religion. The Saudis are not our friends and any American political figure who believes such is delusional. When tolerance becomes a one way street it certainly leads to cultural suicide. We are on that street. Liberals cannot be trusted to defend our Republic, because their sympathies obviously lie with their perceived victim, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.

I make no apologies for these words, and anyone angered by them, please, go to Ft Hood and look into the eyes of the real victims. The tragedy at Ft Hood Texas did not have to happen. Consider now the feelings of those there and on every military installation in the world. Consider the feelings of the Warriors deployed into combat zones who now are concerned that their loved ones at home are in a combat zone.
Ft Hood suffered an Islamic jihadist attack, stop the denial, and realize a simple point.

The reality of your enemy must become your own.
Steadfast and Loyal,
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret)

You’re Not The Only One Concerned With Muslim-Favored Political Correctness And Multiculturalism

For those of you who are concerned about the direction this country is taking regarding political correctness and multiculturalism, please read the following which appears this week in the Peter Morrison Report online.  Bob Grafe

Summary of this week’s Peter Morrison report:

The recent massacre at Fort Hood demonstrates the dangers of
immigration, affirmative action, multiculturalism and political
correctness.  If it weren’t for these policies, this and many other
preventable horrors could have been avoided.  It’s time to reverse
course and get back to sanity in America.

My prayers are for the victims and their families, and I see it as
a solemn duty for all Americans to carefully examine the true
causes of this tragedy to help ensure a similar terrorist act will
never happen again.

Full report:

On November 5, all of America was stunned when the news broke that
there had been a mass shooting at Fort Hood in Killeen, with many
casualties.  Eventually we learned that thirteen people had been
murdered, and dozens others wounded in just a few minutes, all the
work of one man, Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan.  Hasan is a
Muslim of Palestinian descent, and when his name was first
broadcast, tens of millions of Americans naturally wondered if his
race and religion didn’t play a huge role in motivating him to go
on a mass killing spree.  Our worst fears were confirmed when we
learned that Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar!,” an Arabic phrase for
“Allah is the Greatest!” as he mowed down unarmed American
soldiers.  How could this happen in the US military?

The liberal media went into crisis mode immediately to nip that
question in the bud.  For them, the crisis wasn’t that dozens of
people had been murdered or wounded on America’s most populous
military base by a treasonous Arab Muslim.  No, for the media, the
crisis was that “racists” and “bigots” out there in flyover country
might start putting two and two together and start asking some
questions of our leaders the media would rather they didn’t ask. On
top of this, they wanted to keep America’s anger in check, in order
to make sure that this brutal massacre didn’t slow down America’s
rapid decline into a nightmare of multiculturalism and political
correctness.

The spin started right away, and it’s been going on ever since.
One national news show said it was too bad the killer’s name wasn’t
Smith.  We were told that Hasan was mentally ill, and his religion
had absolutely nothing to do with the massacre, and only a bigot
would think otherwise.  Several media outlets suggested that Hasan
was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, even though he
had never seen combat.  There were also countless articles and news
items fretting about a possible “backlash” and how it might affect
Muslims in America.  Look at how Barack Obama himself reacted.
After an outrageous and shocking display of insensitivity where he
“gave a shout out” to someone before casually discussing the
massacre for a couple of minutes and then went back to business as
usual, he stressed that American’s shouldn’t “jump to conclusions.”

As Ann Coulter and others have said, to liberals, Hasan and Muslims
are the real victims of the Fort Hood massacre. They go out of
their way to blame everyone and everything except Hasan and his
religion of Jihad.  Compare the media’s reaction to the Fort Hood
massacre with their response to the murders of abortionist George
Tiller and a guard at the Holocaust museum.  In those cases, plenty
of media pundits had no qualms about blaming the entire pro-life
movement or “right wingers” for the actions of one person. The
Hasan massacre didn’t fit Obama’s and the media’s narrative -
whites, heterosexuals, Americans, Republicans, Christians, US
military = bad, while non-whites, homosexuals, foreigners,
Democrats, Muslims = good.

The media reaction was bad enough, but what was even more shocking
was what came out a few days later.  Several members of the Army
and the intelligence community have made statements which would
cause any normal person to wonder why Hasan wasn’t locked up or
dishonorably discharged years ago.  Colleagues say he was
constantly engaging in “anti-American rants.” One says Hasan once
stated that “infidels” should be set on fire.  We’re told that
Hasan regularly made statements to the effect that Muslims
shouldn’t fight for America against Muslim countries. Incredibly,
we’ve also learned that the FBI was aware that Hasan was trying to
contact al Qaeda, but did nothing about it.  Equally amazing is the
report that Hasan once gave a speech to a military medical
conference in which he said that non-Muslims “should be beheaded
and have boiling oil poured down their throats.”  Again, absolutely
nothing was done, even though many military doctors were in
attendance at this speech.

How could such a thing happen in America?  Actually, the question
should be why we’re surprised that something like this has taken
place.  The Fort Hood massacre was the predictable result of
decades of massive immigration from third world countries,
affirmative action, enforcement of political correctness and
“celebration” of diversity and multiculturalism.   All of these
policies would be bad enough on their own, but when combined they
result in a prescription for disaster, on both a small and large
scale.

By most accounts, Hasan should’ve been a shining success story.
He’s a second generation immigrant, whose parents came here
legally, and who is fully “assimilated.” He speaks English well,
was smart enough in high school that the Army paid for his medical
school, and he became a licensed medical doctor.  His relatives
assure us that he is a “moderate” Muslim.  Until November 5th,
Nidal Malik Hasan was the kind of person politicians like to point
to as proof that the “American dream” is still alive, and that
third world immigration makes our country stronger.

However, somewhere along the way the “American dream” turned into a
nightmare.  If Hasan is a moderate Muslim, I’d hate to meet a
radical one.  He may have done well in high school, but several of
his classmates at medical school say he was unqualified to be
studying at that level, and lazy to boot.  Yet, because of quotas
and affirmative action, he still was given a degree. One military
source says officers who heard him praise suicide bombers and call
for the beheading of infidels say that they didn’t complain
“because they’re afraid of getting an equal-opportunity complaint
that can end careers.” 

Why did this happen?  It happened because political correctness and
the craze for “diversity” are rampant in the military, just as they
are in every aspect of government.  The head of the Navy even
declared diversity to be “a strategic imperative.”  In a climate
like that, it’s apparently not the Muslim calling for beheadings
and suicide bombings that’s the problem; it’s the person who raises
a red flag about him, because he might interfere with his
commanding officer meeting his diversity goals.  Even after Fort
Hood, Army Chief of Staff George Casey’s main concern seems to be
for Muslim soldiers, not America’s future.  He’s hoping that
nothing is done to keep Muslims out of the military, because,
according to him, “a diverse army gives us strength.” Perhaps he’s
recently read the dystopian novel 1984, in which “Ignorance Is
Strength.” In another few years, we’ll learn that “Diversity Is
Unity”.

The result of this political correctness is destroying our country
from within.  We’re importing millions of third world peoples with
no connections to us or our culture, and expecting them all to
ignore their racial, religious and tribal loyalties and swear
allegiance to a multicultural USA.  We tell ourselves the absurd
fairy tale that a nation made up of every ethnic and religious
group under the sun, speaking all kinds of languages, with many of
the groups hating us and/or each other, somehow will make us less
divisive and “stronger.”

Americans that actually love their country are discriminated
against, while people like Hasan are given all kinds of quotas and
affirmative action.  Anyone that dissents gets attacked for their
opinion.  If anyone says that maybe a Muslim that talks about
beheading non-Muslims shouldn’t be in our military, or that
security agents at airports shouldn’t focus on old ladies while
ignoring young Arabic men dressed in Muslim garb that are acting
suspicious, they’re denounced as “racists” and “bigots.”
 
If we don’t change our policies, we’d unfortunately better get used
to seeing more Fort Hood type events in the near future. If the
America we grew up in is going to survive, this madness has to
stop, and it has to stop right away.  Stopping illegal immigration
and reducing and reforming legal immigration are top priorities.
That’s the first step.  Then we need to eliminate all quotas,
preferences, and other forms of affirmative action.  Finally, we
have to stop risking the lives of our families and fellow Americans
by letting false accusations of “bigotry” and “racial
discrimination” stand in the way of common sense or law
enforcement, both locally and nationally.  As conservatives, we
must start speaking out about these things and insisting that the
GOP act on our concerns. Contrary to what the media would have you
believe, this unspeakable tragedy could have been avoided due to
all the warning signs. For the sake of the future lives that are at
stake, we should do our best to prevent a similar situation from
happening again.

Sources:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/11/06/dan-gainor-obama-ft-hood-murders-speech-shocked/

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2009/11/13/nyt-columnists-who-blamed-conservatives-right-wing-killings-ignoring-fo

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6526030/Fort-Hood-gunman-had-told-US-military-colleagues-that-infidels-should-have-their-throats-cut.html

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/12/texas.fort.hood.hasan/

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Prison Muslim Imam Becomes Speechless

The following is a thought-provoking story sent to me by a good Christian friend, an American citizen, and a distinguished United States military veteran.  Enjoy the read.   Bob Grafe

  This is a true story about the Muslim beliefs.  The author, Rick Mathes, is a well-known leader in prison ministry.
 
  The man who walks with God always gets to his destination.  If you have a pulse you have a purpose.
 
  The Muslim religion is the fastest growing religion per capita in the
United States , especially in the minority races!!  Last month I attended my annual training session that’s required for maintaining my state prison
security clearance.
 
  During the training session there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Muslim faiths, who explained each of their beliefs.
 
  I was particularly interested in what the Islamic had to say. The Muslim gave a great presentation of the basics of Islam, complete with a video. After the presentations, time was provided for questions and answers.

  When it was my turn, I directed my question to the Muslim and asked: ‘Please, correct me if I’m wrong, but I understand that most Imams and clerics of Islam have declared a holy jihad [Holy war] against the infidels of the world and, that by killing an infidel, (which is a command to all Muslims) they are assured of a place in heaven. If that’s the case, can you
 give me the definition of an infidel?’
 
  There was no disagreement with my statements and, without hesitation, he replied, ‘Non-believers!’
 
  I responded, ‘So, let me make sure I have this straight. All followers of Allah have been commanded to kill everyone who is not of your faith so they can have a place in heaven.  Is that correct?’
 
  The expression on his face changed from one of authority and command to that of a little boy who had just been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.’
 
  He sheepishly replied, ‘Yes.’  I then stated, ‘Well, sir, I have a real problem trying to imagine Pope John Paul commanding all Catholics to kill those of your faith or Dr. Stanley ordering all Protestants to do the same in order to guarantee them a place in heaven!’
 
  The Muslim was speechless! 
 
  I continued, ‘I also have a problem with being your friend when you and your brother clerics are telling your followers to kill me! Let me ask you a question: Would you rather have your Allah, who tells you to kill me in order for you to go to heaven, or my Jesus who tells me to love you because I am going to heaven and He wants you to be there with me?’
 
  You could have heard a pin drop as the Imam hung his head in shame. Needless to say, the organizers and/or promoters of the ‘Diversification’ training seminar were not happy with my way of dealing with the Islamic Imam, and exposing the truth about the Muslims’ beliefs.
 
  In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the President!
 
  I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us send it on!

  This is your chance to make a difference … send this story on to those you care about!

Obama Declares His Islamic Faith–Over and Over!

President Obama has declared his Islamic Faith over and over again.  See and listen for yourself right here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28

Feds Seek Seizures Of $500 Million In U.S. Muslim Terrorists’ Assets

A borrowed Associated Press story that just cries out for additional distribution to potential readers who are seeking answers about the War On Terror suspects living within the United States.  It’s time we connected all known Muslim “dots” to better understand the terrorists’ game plan.  Bob Grafe

 

Published:  November 12, 2009

 

By ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press Writer Adam Goldman, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK – Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.

In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court against the Alavi Foundation, seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets.

The assets include bank accounts; Islamic centers consisting of schools and mosques in New York City, Maryland, California and Houston; more than 100 acres in Virginia; and a 36-story glass office tower in New York.

Confiscating the properties would be a sharp blow against Iran, which has been accused by the U.S. government of bankrolling terrorism and trying to build a nuclear bomb.

A telephone call and e-mail to Iran’s U.N. Mission seeking comment were not immediately answered.

John D. Winter, the Alavi Foundation’s lawyer, said it intends to litigate the case and prevail. He said the foundation has been cooperating with the government’s investigation for the better part of a year.

“Obviously the foundation is disappointed that the government has decided to bring this action,” Winter told The Associated Press.

It is extremely rare for U.S. law enforcement authorities to seize a house of worship, a step fraught with questions about the First Amendment right to freedom of religion.

The action against the Shiite Muslim mosques is sure to inflame relations between the U.S. government and American Muslims, many of whom are fearful of a backlash after last week’s Fort Hood shooting rampage, blamed on a Muslim American major.

“Whatever the details of the government’s case against the owners of the mosques, as a civil rights organization we are concerned that the seizure of American houses of worship could have a chilling effect on the religious freedom of citizens of all faiths and may send a negative message to Muslims worldwide,” said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

The mosques and the skyscraper will remain open while the forfeiture case works its way through court in what could be a long process. What will happen to them if the government ultimately prevails is unclear. But the government typically sells properties it has seized through forfeiture, and the proceeds are sometimes distributed to crime victims.

“No action has been taken against any tenants or occupants of those properties,” U.S. attorney’s office spokeswoman Yusill Scribner said. “The tenants and occupants remain free to use the properties as they have before today’s filing. There are no allegations of any wrongdoing on the part of any of these tenants or occupants.”

Prosecutors said the Alavi Foundation managed the office tower on behalf of the Iranian government and, working with a front company known as Assa Corp., illegally funneled millions in rental income to Iran’s state-owned Bank Melli. Bank Melli has been accused by a U.S. Treasury official of providing support for Iran’s nuclear program, and it is illegal in the United States to do business with the bank.

The U.S. has long suspected the foundation was an arm of the Iranian government; a 97-page complaint details involvement in foundation business by several top Iranian officials, including the deputy prime minister and ambassadors to the United Nations.

“For two decades, the Alavi Foundation’s affairs have been directed by various Iranian officials, including Iranian ambassadors to the United Nations, in violation of a series of American laws,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

There were no raids Thursday as part of the forfeiture action. The government is simply required to post notices of the civil complaint on the property.

As prosecutors outlined their allegations against Alavi, the Islamic centers and the schools they run carried on with normal activity. The mosques’ leaders had no immediate comment.

Parents lined up in their cars to pick up their children at the schools within the Islamic Education Center of Greater Houston and the Islamic Education Center in Rockville, Md. No notices of the forfeiture action were posted at either place as of late Thursday.

At the Islamic Institute of New York, a mosque and school in Queens, two U.S. marshals came to the door and rang the bell repeatedly. The marshals taped a forfeiture notice to the window and left a large document sitting on the ground. After they left a group of men came out of the building and took the document.

The fourth Islamic center marked for seizure is in Carmichael, Calif.

The skyscraper, known as the Piaget building, was erected in the 1970s under the shah of Iran, who was overthrown in 1979. The tenants include law and investment firms and other businesses.

The sleek, modern building, last valued at $570 million to $650 million in 2007, has served as an important source of income for the foundation over the past 36 years. The most recent tax records show the foundation earned $4.5 million from rents in 2007.

Rents collected from the building help fund the centers and other ventures, such as sending educational literature to imprisoned Muslims in the U.S. The foundation has also invested in dozens of mosques around the country and supported Iranian academics at prominent universities.

If federal prosecutors seize the skyscraper, the Alavi Foundation would have almost no way to continue supporting the Islamic centers, which house schools and mosques. That could leave a major void in Shiite communities, and hard feelings toward the FBI, which played a big role in the investigation.

The forfeiture action comes at a tense moment in U.S.-Iranian relations, with the two sides at odds over Iran’s nuclear program and its arrest of three American hikers.

But Michael Rubin, an expert on Iran at the American Enterprise Institute, said the timing of the forfeiture action was probably a coincidence, not an effort to influence Iran on those issues.

“Suspicion about the Alavi Foundation transcends three administrations,” Rubin said. “It’s taken ages dealing with the nuts and bolts of the investigation. It’s not the type of investigation which is part of any larger strategy.”

Legal scholars said they know of only a few cases in U.S. history in which law enforcement authorities have seized a house of worship. Marc Stern, a religious-liberty expert with the American Jewish Congress, called such cases extremely rare.

The Alavi Foundation is the successor organization to the Pahlavi Foundation, a nonprofit group used by the shah to advance Iran’s charitable interests in America. But authorities said its agenda changed after the fall of the shah.

In 2007, the United States accused Bank Melli of providing services to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs and put the bank on its list of companies whose assets must be frozen. Washington has imposed sanctions against various other Iranian businesses.

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Associated Press writers Samantha Gross in New York City, Juan A. Lozano in Houston, investigative researcher Randy Herschaft in New York City and AP photographer Jacquelyn Martin in Maryland contributed to this report.

Senior Citizens Could Replace Muslims In Military–War On Terror Security Could Be Enhanced

Published:  November 11, 2009

By:  Bob Grafe, Columnist

©  As we “baby-boomers” bounce less than gracefully into our retirement years, it may be time to reconsider just exactly what our retirement activities will be.

  Depending on how one’s pension plans and investment portfolios are currently doing, that will tend to drive much of our personal activity planning.

  At sixty-something, many of us are very concerned about the direction that our country has taken on many life-style fronts—the collapse within our country’s financial structure being only one of many such perceived national failures.

  With government showing serious signs of being totally out of control on many critical fronts, it appears certain that the about-to-enter retirement generation is also about to re-invent the retiree—from the “relax in the sun RVer” to the “seasoned patriot” called back to duty.

  With new disturbing revelations continuing to leak out about last week’s Fort Hood shooter (a practicing life-long Muslim and a field-grade officer in the U.S. Army), current and retired United States military personnel are less-than-quietly voicing their concerns.

  Concerns about how and why our country is using active-duty military personnel who are members of the Islamic religion (estimated at nearly 4,000 active-duty personnel) to provide so-called “intelligence” while our country is engaged in the War on Terror (focused largely against Muslim-majority countries and Muslim terrorist groups world-wide) which resulted from the various attacks against the U.S. including the most devastating attacks on September 11, 2001.

  This may be asking way too much from an American religious group with a very real potential for conflicting loyalties between country and religion.

  There must be a better way to provide excellent intelligence without providing the perfect storm characteristics that may have triggered the death and injury to so many of our U.S. soldiers at Fort Hood last week.

  Since Congress recently found it appropriate to fund billions of tax-payer dollars for such community action groups as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), under the quasi-government umbrella of AmeriCorps, the funds are now readily available for a “qualified” workforce to be mustered together to assist our country during this time of violence and attack from abroad and from within and to provide many other needed services.

  Who other than patriotic senior citizens of all political stripes could and should be called into action to assist our country to get it back on its feet again—and soon!

  ACORN has been totally discredited as a social service agency and acknowledged as such by Congress.  By contrast, senior citizens are some of the finest, most honest, moral and certainly most capable of any group in our society who has both the willingness and the experience to help put this country back together again.

  With both part and full-time efforts, this new group of senior patriots could be trained to do the tasks that the military has required only one religious group to do—to learn the terrorist’s foreign languages, their cultural customs and habits—and to provide “listening” and other intelligence tasks for our military and other protective agencies.

  Just like during World War II, seniors and others committed to the American way of life joined forces with common beliefs, drive, work ethic and excellence to help defeat the enemy—not from combat’s front lines across the oceans—from right here at home.

  Our government leaders at the time of World War II didn’t embed those living within our homeland borders (those who had strong national and cultural ties with the enemy) into our military ranks.  That would have been considered treason and anti-American by the vast majority of our American citizens.

  The United States effectively won World War II and protected its citizens by applying such military tactics—and didn’t worry about political correctness because, if we had, that might have actually caused us to lose the war.

  American senior citizens of all races, creeds, gender and political persuasion are one of the most (if not the most) patriotic groups in our country.  They have proven over and over again that one needs to put God and country first in all aspects of life in order to actually provide for a more perfect union.

  For example, given the opportunity to help with our national defense, especially after training in the intelligence field, accomplishes several worthy national goals.

  By definition, it would help our country’s national defenses.  It would also call upon the sage advice and effort of thousands of skilled and experienced devoted American senior citizens who may need to (or prefer to) work a little longer for a variety of reasons.

  These same seniors could be called upon to provide many of the services that AmeriCorps currently provides within our local, state and even national communities.   

  The artificial employment barriers of age, and even some employment disqualifying disabilities and unrealistic employment expectations might have to be suspended, altered or removed in some cases—for the cause of defending all of our freedoms—allowing for a win-win situation for both the country and for our senior citizens.

  Having patriotic senior citizens taking a very active part in the re-building of this country’s defenses, community tasks, and private sector service and business ventures is nothing less that the perfect quid-pro-quo.

  The country wins and so do many of our talented and patriotic senior citizens.

Now Is The Time To Destroy Those Remaining Muslim Terrorists Residing Within The Borders Of The United States Of America!

© The Fort Hood Muslim terrorist coward who shot over 100 bullets at unarmed American military personnel this week (murdering and wounding over 50 brave Americans) deserves to be burned together with his beloved Koran satanic hate book in a large fire pit.  The large fire pit designed to throw this Islamic terrorist coward freak into needs to be large and deep–deep enough to hold the many terrorists identified at the following Muslim terrorist website as well as the Fort Hood coward shooter:  http://www.revolutionmuslim.com/ 

Check out the Muslim website (and others), check your local homeland for security, and “remove” all Muslim terrorists who are a real threat to this country.

The time for action to destroy Muslim terrorists inside the borders of the United States of America is NOW!  If our military and law enforcement will not or cannot assist, it may be left up to us to protect our country by our own means.

Bob Grafe, Columnist