September Dawn

 More than 100 years before Sept. 11, 2001, another act of religious fanaticism claimed the lives of upwards of 120 men, women and children when a band of Mormon militiamen and Paiute Indians slaughtered a wagon train of westward-bound Christian settlers.

 

This tragic tale chronicles those events, juxtaposing a fictional love story and a fact-based account of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre.

Terence Stamp, Jon Voight, Lolita Davidovich and Dean Cain star.

Last night, we had the opportunity to watch this movie. My wife and I really enjoyed it. I recommend it to you.

Zimbabwe formerly Rhodesia

In Zimbabwe, inflation is measured by the hour, not month-over-month as in America and the rest of the developed world.

A single cigarette now costs z$500,000 – but who knows what it will sell for a couple of hours from now. And many bill denominations are literally not worth the paper they are printed on. Single-ply squares of toilet paper are often worth more. Old bills blow through the street like trash, not worth the time or effort to pick them up.

The basic reason the inflation rate has zoomed out of control is quite simple.

You Can’t Print Your Way To Prosperity.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is, in his own words, a “Hitler of the time.” Mugabe said in a 2003 speech at the state funeral of one of his cabinet ministers:

“This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their right to their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold.”

When Robert Mugabe took over as president from former Prime Minister Ian Smith, the country was one of the most prosperous in all Africa. The Rhodesian dollar, for example, had a value even exceeding the U.S. dollar.

Then Mugabe embarked on his program of confiscating white-owned farms, in the name of land redistribution.

Zimbabwe, which was once the breadbasket of Africa, saw farm production dry up and wither away as the new untrained black land owners failed to produce crops.

Next, Mugabe began to confiscate white-owned businesses, with similarly disastrous results.

The result was massive unemployment and skyrocketing national debt levels.

To deal with his economic problems, Mugabe decided to crank up the printing presses and create the money needed to pay the bills. As his economy collapsed, the massive money-printing scheme only helped to speed the descent.

When you print money by the boat load, then drop it by helicopters into the economy, there can only be one probable result-hyperinflation. All existing money in circulation rapidly became worthless.

People’s life savings were destroyed, the cost of bananas and toothpaste soared into the thousands, and businesses could no longer function.

Zimbabwe, once the crown jewel of Africa, became a basket case.

If you would like to read more about Mugabe, check out http://www.africancrisis.org or http://www.statenews.com

Know Your Enemy

A super liberal, Sara Robinson, wrote a very interesting article When Change Is Not Enough: Seven Steps to Revolution. I strongly recommend y’all read it. She shows us the mindset of the left.

Less-Educated American Workers Displaced By Foreigners

Numbers USA researcher, Joe Jenkins, has just reconfirmed these horrifying figures:

2 million – The increase in the number of Americans without a high school degree who became jobless between 2000 and 2005.

1.5 million – The number of immigrants without a high school degree who were imported by Congress between 2000 and 2005 to take American jobs.

Not surprisingly during that same period, the wages for both these immigrants and native-born workers without a high school degree have plummeted. The cheap labor lobbies may want to do away with immigration law, but they can never rescind the law of supply and demand.

Check out Numbers USA website for a lot more information on the immigration problem.

A Great Video Commentary on Islam by Pat Condell

Pat Condell on Islam

Muslim’s Want Obama

DOHA, Feb 18, 2008 (AFP) Delegates at a US-Islamic World Forum voiced support on Monday for US presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

Commander & Chief?

http://www.geeskaafrika.com/ethiopia_31aug06.htm

Obama Wants Summit With Muslim Countries

PARIS (Reuters) Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told a French magazine in an interview that if he wins office, he will hold a summit with Muslim countries. Paris Match quoted Obama as saying,”Once I’m elected, I want to organize a summit in the Muslim world, with all the heads of state, to have an honest discussion about ways to bridge the gap that grows every day between Muslims and the West,”

Farrakhan Sings Obama’s Praises

(Associated Press) Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday, Feb 24, 2008, that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the “hope of the entire world” that the U.S. will change for the better.

“This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better,” he said. “This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama’s audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed.”

Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion’s founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father.

“A black man with a white mother became a savior to us,” he told the crowd of mostly followers. “A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.”

Farrakhan has drawn attention for calling Judaism a “gutter religion” and suggesting crack cocaine might have been a CIA plot to enslave blacks.

President Reagan’s Last Words

If you watched the memorial service for Ronald Reagan, you probably noticed that Bill and Hillary were both dozing off.

President Ronald Reagan, who never missed a chance for a good one-liner, raised his head out of his casket and said…..

“I see the Clintons are finally sleeping together.”