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I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

osama's most recent musings

Bin Laden’s final months come to light

by  on Apr. 30, 2012, under Arizona Republic News
A few months before Osama bin Laden’s death, websites linked to al-Qaida ran excited commentary about a proposed new killing machine dubbed the “human lawn mower.” The idea was to attach rotating blades to the front of a pickup truck and drive the contraption into crowds.
While some jihadists admired the idea, one graying veteran of the terrorist movement took a stand against it. That was bin Laden himself, by then living out his twilight years in a Pakistan villa with ample time to think about his legacy. The man who famously ordered jetliners flown into skyscrapers drew the line at cutting down humans like weeds.
“He was upset about it,” said a former U.S. intelligence official who viewed bin Laden’s writings on the subject, part of a trove of documents seized from the terrorist’s compound in Pakistan a year ago this week. “He felt it conflicted with his vision for what he wanted al-Qaida to be.”
Bin Laden’s chances for trying to remake al-Qaida’s image ended abruptly when Navy SEALs kicked in the door of his hideout. But in the year since his death, U.S. officials have gained a deeper understanding of the man, his internal struggles and his plans for the terrorist group he co-founded.
Although some insights from the documents have been revealed over the past year, new excerpts reveal the extent of bin Laden’s obsession with ideological purity as he sought to manage the group’s demoralized and scattered networks in his final years.
They show him seeking to reassert control over factions of loosely affiliated jihadists from Yemen to Somalia, as well as independent actors whom he believed had sullied al-Qaida’s reputation and muddied its central message.
The new details about bin Laden’s final months were provided in interviews with current and former U.S. officials, several of whom spoke on condition of anonymity to provide assessments of documents that are not yet public, as well as a pair of new books that quote extensively from the documents recovered from computer equipment seized during the May 1 raid.
Bin Laden emerges from these accounts as a chief executive fully engaged in the group’s myriad crises, grappling with financial problems, recruitment, rebellious field managers and sudden staff vacancies resulting from the unrelenting U.S. drone campaign.
In some memos, he worried about his own security, and in others, he fretted about missing a huge potential marketing opportunity: the Arab Spring, with its millions of street revolutionaries looking to reshape politics in the Middle East.
The Saudi who built the world’s first truly global jihadist movement is viewed as distracted at times by mundane details, such as which crops should be planted by al-Shabab allies in Somalia. He was coolly cordial with former partner Ayman al-Zawahiri but increasingly drawn to the ideas of a younger lieutenant who possessed a firmer grasp of the power of the Internet and an ambition to modernize al-Qaida’s message.
The new deputy, Libyan-born Atiyah Abd Al Rahman, a veteran of Algeria’s brutal Muslim-against-Muslim violence in the 1990s, emerged in bin Laden’s final year as a key advocate for reining in al-Qaida-inspired carnage in Iraq and other Middle Eastern lands.
With bin Laden’s support, Atiyah, as the aide is informally known, began trying to codify rules of behavior for al-Qaida and its affiliates, warning that killings of innocent Muslims would hurt the organization and probably violate Shariah, or Islamic law.
The killing of Americans, including non-combatants, would meanwhile remain permissible, even obligatory. Bin Laden’s aversion to the “human lawn mower” was noted last year in a report on ProPublica’s website.
“To the end, Atiyah kept trying to rein in attacks inside the Middle East,” said Jarret Brachman, an author and consultant on al-Qaida to U.S. government agencies. “Both he and bin Laden remained rabid in their hatred for the West. But they felt that attacks within Muslim countries were bad for their public image.”
Among the documents seized in the raid were thousands of electronic memos and missives that captured conversations between bin Laden and his deputies around the world, U.S. officials say. Because the security-conscious bin Laden had no Internet connection, the documents were hand-delivered by couriers over circuits that would require up to a month to complete.
Despite bin Laden’s physical isolation, the documents show him as a hands-on manager who participated in the terrorist group’s operational planning and strategic thinking while also giving orders and advice to field operatives scattered worldwide.
The exchanges were described in interviews, as well as in new books, including “Manhunt,” by Peter L. Bergen, and “Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of al Qa’ida after 9/11,” by Seth G. Jones.
“He was not a recluse; he was the CEO of a global terrorist organization,” said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA counterterrorism official and White House adviser on terrorist groups. “He was receiving communications from al-Qaida’s operatives literally around the world, and he was instructing them to carry out acts of terror.”
But bin Laden was a weakened leader, presiding over a group that had lost scores of key operatives to U.S. drone strikes while being pursued around the world.
Increasingly, bin Laden’s musings about future terrorist strikes took on a fanciful air, given the group’s dwindling resources.
Occasionally, his talk of bold attacks was met with shrugs and skepticism, said one senior U.S. counterterrorism official familiar with the documents.

Snopes sponsored by Soros

It has long been suspected that Snopes really slant things but this was really shocking.
That being said, Ill bet you didn't know this: Kagan was representing Obama in all the petitions to prove his American born citizenship.
Now she will end up helping rule on them when they come up.
Folks, this is really ugly.  Chicago Politics; and the beat goes on and on and on. Once again the US Senate is selling us out!
Now we know why Obama nominated Elana Kagan for the Supreme Court.
Pull up the Supreme Courts website, go to the docket and search for Obama.
She was the Solicitor General for all the suits against him filed with the Supreme Court to show proof of natural born citizenship.
All of the requests were denied of course. They were never heard.
It just keeps getting deeper and deeper, doesn't it?
The American people mean nothing any longer.
It's all about payback time for those who compromised themselves to elect someone who really has no true right to even be there.
Here are some websites of the Supreme Court Docket:
You can look up some of these hearings and guess what?
Elana Kagan is the attorney representing Obama!
Check out these prior petitions:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/09-8857.htm
http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/09-6790.htm
http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/09-724.htm
If you are not interested in justice or in truth; don't read, just simply delete. However, if you hold sacred the freedoms granted to you by the U.S. Constitution spend a few moments to read these petitions.
There truly is tyranny at it's greatest.;

Good Quote, John ... !

Subject: Quote of the Day - Good one (jlv)

 
The quote of the day comes from David Burge at the Iowa Hawk Blog:
"Apparently, I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his own money than what Barack Obama does with mine."

With apologies for all the beautiful blondes ... thanks Ramey!


OK, I know you haven't heard from me for a while on this subject so this is an attempt to catch up!

THE BLONDES ARE BACK
A blonde & her husband are lying in bed listening to the next door neighbor's dog. It has been in the backyard barking for hours & hours. The blonde jumps up out of bed and says, "I've had enough of this." She goes downstairs. The blonde finally comes back up to bed and her husband says, "The dog is still barking, what have you been doing?" The blonde says, "I put the dog in our backyard ..... let's see how THEY like it!”
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Two Blondes With Hammers...

Lisa & Judy were doing some carpenter work on a Habitat for Humanity House. Lisa was nailing down house siding, would reach into her nail pouch, pull out a nail & either toss it over her shoulder or nail it in. Judy, figuring this was worth looking into, asked, “Why are you throwing those nails away?”

Lisa explained, “When I pull a nail out of my pouch, about half of them have the head on the wrong end & I throw them away.”

Judy got completely upset & yelled, “You moron! Those nails aren't defective! They're for the other side of the house!”
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Did you hear about the two blondes who froze to death in a drive-in movie? They had gone to see 'Closed for the Winter.'
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You might have to think twice about this one.

A blonde hurried into the emergency room late one night with the tip of her index finger shot off.
“How did this happen?” the emergency room doctor asked her.

“Well, I was trying to commit suicide,” the blonde replied.

“What?” sputtered the doctor. “You tried to commit suicide by shooting off your finger?”

“No, silly,” the blonde said. “First I put the gun to my chest & then I thought, “I just paid $6, 000.00 for these implants... I'm not shooting myself in the chest.”

“So then?” asked the doctor.

“Then I put the gun in my mouth, & I thought, “I just paid $3,000.00 to get my teeth straightened. I'm not shooting myself in the mouth.”

“So then?”

“Then I put the gun to my ear, & I thought: ‘This is going to make a loud noise.’ So I put my finger in my other ear before I pulled the trigger.”
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A blonde was driving home after a game & got caught in a really bad hailstorm. Her car was covered with dents, so the next day she took it to a repair shop. The shop owner saw that she was a blonde, so he decided to have some fun. He told her to go home and blow into the tail pipe really hard & all the dents would pop out.

So, the blonde went home, got down on her hands & knees & started blowing into her tailpipe. Nothing happened. So she blew a little harder, & still nothing happened.

Her blonde roommate saw her & asked, “What are you doing?”
The first blonde told her how the repairman had instructed her to blow into the tail pipe in order to get all the dents to pop out.
The roommate rolled her eyes & said, “Uh, like hello! You need to roll up the windows first.”
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These are just too cute not to pass on!!!!

A blonde was shopping at Target & came across a shiny silver thermos.
She was quite fascinated by it, so she picked it up & took it to the clerk to ask what it was.

The clerk said, “Why, that's a thermos ... It keeps hot things hot, And cold things cold.”

“Wow,” said the blonde, “that's amazing.....I'm going to buy it!”

So she bought the thermos & took it to work the next day. Her boss saw it on her desk. “What's that,” he asked?

“Why, that's a thermos ... It keeps hot things hot & cold things cold,” she replied.

Her boss inquired, “What do you have in it?”

The blond replied ... “Two popsicles & some coffee.”

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AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST

A blonde goes into work one morning crying her eyes out. Her boss asked sympathetically, “What's the matter?”

The blonde replies, “Early this morning I got a phone call saying that my mother had passed away.”
The boss, feeling sorry for her, says, “Why don't you go home for the day? Take the day off to relax & rest.”

“Thanks, but I'd be better off here. I need to keep my mind off it & I have the best chance of doing that here.”

The boss agrees & allows the blonde to work as usual. A couple of hours pass & the boss decides to check on the blonde. He looks out from his office & sees the blonde crying hysterically.

“What's so bad now? Are you gonna be okay?” he asks.

“No!” exclaims the blonde. “I just received a horrible call from my sister. Her mother died, too!”

Blondes Are The Best!!!

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