Open thread for Sunday September 30: The Last day of Summer edition
Here is the open thread for Sunday, September 30th; please feel free to post links to any interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the day.
Well, the weather in New Hampshire has certainly changed over the last couple of weeks and there is no denying the fact that the Summer is over.
In the year 2000 The Cure released “Bloodflowers’ which was their follow up CD to the disappointing “Wild Mood Swings’ CD from 1996. While ‘Wild Mood Swings’ had a few terrific tracks on it the CD as a whole was forgettable. “Bloodflowers’ remains an underrated album from The Cure but from beginning to end it is a terrific CD which deserves more accolades than it receives.
In keeping with the end of Summer theme I give you “The Last Day of Summer’ by The Cure from the aforementioned ‘Bloodflowers’ CD.
Enjoy and have a great day.
America's Watchtower 
Autum in your neck of the woods is a beautiful time of year. It does, howevere, indicate that winter is on its way. Where I live it is summer all year around. I do miss the seasons…well, not so much winter. I went to college at Michig<n Tech a life time ago. It is located on a small peninsula that sticks out into Lake Supirior, dirextly east of Duluth, Minnesota. Because of the lake effects, we average about 200 inches of snow per season. One year while I was there we got just over 300 inches of snow. That is a lot of shoveling.That I do not miss!
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It is cooling off here in Central Illinois, as well. I am so looking forward to Fall, am tired of the high heat, humidity and not much rain this summer. Of course if we get a bad Winter, we have alot of blowing and drifting here, it is flat land and nothing to stop it but the cars and trees and houses, so we get alot of drifts. I lived in Wisconsin for about 4 years and loved the stuff you could do there in the Winter. Chicago gets those lake effect snows, too, Jim. I bet you do miss the changing seasons. Does Christmas feel like Christmas to you? I imagine if you had lived there all your life you would not know the difference, but I don’t know if I would have a very easy time not having the 4 seasons.
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The mid-West and the North East have the most beautiful Autums. I lived many years in New Mexico and Nevada. Where they have trees, in the mountains, they are pine and so we didn’t have the Autum colors. The temperatures were great, however. There are places in Venezuela at elevations over 3500 feet, where the climate is ideal. I don’t happen to live in one of those areas. Next to the coast it is very hot!
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Along the Mississippi north of Alton, Ill. going to Grafton is the most beautiful drive around St. Louis. The cliffs are there and the Piasa Bird image on the cliffs and then there are Eagles that nest there, so they are always flying around. The colors are beautlful in the trees and there are alot of places you can stop along there to have mulled cider, or stronger. It is such a great place, the bikers are out in full force this time of year as well. I usually take my mom up there for the drive and scenery. I have heard 2 different opinions on what the colors will be this year, some say with the lack of rain, we will have more color, but I just don’t know. Others say we need rain FOR the colors…guess we will see. I grew up on the river in East. St. Louis, Il. so guess I am always drawn back there for some reason.
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I can’t even image having to deal with lake effect snow, snowfall from the storms is enough. Never mind piling on more on top of that! But it is always nice when the snow melts and we see the first signs of green in Spring time.
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It is beautiful around here this time of year and it is great sleeping at night with a slight chill in the air. It is always a little sad when Summer ends because that means Winter is on the way.
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A German’s View of Islam
This is by far the best explanation of the Muslim terrorist situation I have
ever read. His references to past history are accurate and clear. Not
long, easy to understand, and well worth the read. The author of this email
is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected
psychiatrist.
A German’s View on Islam
A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a
number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people
were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward
fanaticism. ‘Very few people were true Nazis,’ he said, ‘but many enjoyed
the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one
of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority
just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us,
and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost
everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my
factories.’
We are told again and again by ‘experts’ and ‘talking heads’ that Islam is
the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to
live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is
entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better,
and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the
globe in the name of Islam.
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is
the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting
wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or
tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire
continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder,
or honour-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is
the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims
and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to
become suicide bombers.
The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the ‘silent
majority,’ is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace,
yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20
million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China’s huge
population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a
staggering 70 million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering
sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia
in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million
Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.
And who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be
said that the majority of Rwandans were ‘peace loving’?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our
powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:
Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because
like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day and find that the
fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans,
Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have
died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.
As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group
that counts–the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about
it, and send it on – before it’s too late.
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Wow! You are right, Linda. That is the best explantion I have seen of what we and the world face. Until the majority of Muslims syand up and say ebough and if necessary go to war to rid themselves of the fanatic imans, nothing will change. Obama and the politically correct idiots are wrong. And, if they and we don’t recognize the treat of fantical Islam, we will all be dead wrong!
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It was an eye opener for me, I have never heard it explained that well, Jim. Hopefully someone else will post it on their blogs to spread it, seems like something others should read, too.
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I agree with Jim, this is probably the best explanation of what is happening in the Muslim world and it ties it in perfectly with history on what will happen if everyone sits back and continues to marginalize the impact the extremists will have if nothing is done to stop them. Thanks for sharing this Lou.
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Your entry, lou222, is not politically correct. It may be correct from a historical, factual, ethical, moral and spiritual perspective, as well as a few other perspectives I have failed to recognize, but it is not “politically” correct and is therefore racist. Be quiet and stop spreading lies about Islam, racist troublemaker.
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SO you admit that Lou is historically and factually correct yet believe that she shouldn’t be able to say it because you think it isn’t politically correct. Because of this–even thought you admit it is accurate–you call her a racist troublemaker. So in your opinion you believe rewriting history in the name of political correctness is in order? This is the type of censorship that political correctness was designed to implement and it is truly dangerous.
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If I was not the person I am, I would say to you, “bite me”. However, I will just say, I am entitled to my opinion and posting as I please, as you are to yours. I really don’t care for what YOU said, as well, but will not refer to you as a “racist troublemaker”, that would bring me down to your petty level.
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Once again we have 2 American soldiers dead along with 3 Afghan soldiers. Of course there are 2 different stories, a “misunderstanding”. How many more need to die before we pull our people out of there and let them fight it out themselves? If I were a soldier over there now, there is no way I would trust one of the Afghan “friends”, isn’t that what they are called? Obama needs to get his head out of his butt and put some people in charge of the military that know what they are doing, we used to have that until he took over. He doesn’t and it appears they don’t and our men and women are paying the ultimate price. What is it going to take to get him and his administration out of office?
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A sad day for our troops over there for sure, I think it is about time to cut our loses and leave these people to fight it out among themselves.
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Bill Whittle for your pleasure:
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In the last open thread you asked where Bill Whittle was, now he is back with a vengeance. Great stuff Lou, thank for sharing it. I will probably post this later on tonight.
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Down at barnes hospital in stay louis. Mom had a stroke called a cerebral amyloid angiopathy from what I remember. Apparently a lot of dementia patients have them. Her age of 92 is a factor. We will bring her home instead of the nursing home where she was supposed to get therapy for the broken femur. Would appreciate
good vibes our way’ hate hospitals and st. louis traffic. Will have my tablet but not as handy as at home.
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Above post is me, lou222 these tablets are not as user friendly at posting, sorry.
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Sorry to hear about your mother Lou, my thoughts are with you and your family.
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