Missing the subject….:-)

Various types of humor

This is in reaction to Mr. Trump endorsing Willard “Mitt” Romney…

This is a take on a famous right wing cartoonist….

Camera FAIL….this guy is NOT me.

No comment….:)

Other things
This lady is “off the charts” adorable….

Links
Here are 5 of the typical regrets that the dying have. They are: “I wish I had been true to myself”, “I wish I hadn’t worked so hard”, “I wish I could have expressed my feelings”, “I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends”, or “I wish I could have allowed myself to be happier”. Mine: well, I am not dead yet, but my regret will be in my underachievement; I regret my underachievement and (at best) mediocrity. I never truly excelled at anything.

Religion
Yes, President Obama couched many of his political goals in religious terms. I admit that I groan rather loudly when I hear this…but that is who he is. I take solace that he works out on Sunday morning instead of going to church.

Taking religious freedom for granted
Some Muslims (in Europe) think that the laws concerning dogs should conform to THEIR religious beliefs…

Update: Please note that the Muslim politician referred to in this story has issued a denial and says his words were taken out of context. Apologies for over-hasty posting of the original story on our part. We will now close comments on this thread.
The Mods

A Dutch Muslim politician has called for a ban on dogs in The Hague, the third-largest city in the Netherlands.

Islamic legal tradition holds that dogs are “unclean” animals, and some say the call to ban them in Holland and elsewhere represents an attempted encroachment of Islamic Sharia law in Europe.

This latest canine controversy — which the Dutch public has greeted with a mix of amusement and outrage — follows dozens of other Muslim-vs-dog-related incidents in Europe. Critics say it reflects the growing assertiveness of Muslims in Europe as they attempt to impose Islamic legal and religious norms on European society.

The Dutch dustup erupted after Hasan Küçük, a Turkish-Dutch representative on The Hague city council for the Islam Democrats, vehemently opposed a proposal by the Party for the Animals (Partij voor de Dieren) to make the city more dog friendly.

According to a January 28 report in the Amsterdam-based newspaper De Telegraaf, Küçük counter-argued that keeping dogs as pets is tantamount to animal abuse and he then called for the possession of dogs in The Hague to be criminalized.

According to its website, the Islam Democrats [ID] party is “founded on the Islamic principles of justice, equality and solidarity. ID is a bottom-up response to the large gap between the Muslim and immigrant communities and local politics…ID focuses on the political awareness within the Muslim and immigrant communities. Awareness about the need to organize, but also the need for mutual support.”

Paul ter Linden, who represents the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) on The Hague city council, responded to Küçük by saying: “In this country pet ownership is legal. Whoever disagrees with this should move to another country.”

Dutch political commentators believe Küçük’s declarations are a provocation designed to stir up the Muslim population in The Hague. Muslims — who now make up more than 12% of the city’s population of 500,000 — view dogs as ritually unclean animals and Küçük’s call for a ban on them is a sure vote-getter, they say.

The incident in Holland follows dog-related controversies in other European countries.

In Spain, two Islamic groups based in Lérida — a city in the northeastern region of Catalonia where 29,000 Muslims now make up around 20% of the city’s total population — asked local officials to regulate the presence of dogs in public spaces so they do not “offend Muslims.”

Though I find this somewhat amusing, I also think that Muslims of this type would make great conservative Republicans…this idea that everyone else should be captive to their ideas of morals would fit right in with our religious social conservatives.

But where Muslims are in control, it can get even worse:

Jakarta. A defiant declaration of atheism by an Indonesian civil servant has inflamed passions in the world’s most populous Muslim nation, pitting non-believers and believers against each other.

The trouble began when civil servant Alexander Aan posted a message on the Facebook page of Atheist Minang, a group of Indonesians with godless beliefs. It read: “God doesn’t exist.”

The post so enraged residents in Aan’s hometown of Pulau Punjung in West Sumatra province that an angry mob of dozens stormed his office and beat up the 30-year-old.

To add insult to injury, police then arrested him and now want to press blasphemy charges that could see him locked up for five years.

Muslim extremists have called for Aan to be beheaded but fellow atheists have rallied round, and urged him to stand by his convictions despite the pressure.

“Dear Alex, stick to your beliefs. This country has no right to restrict your faith,” Fahd Singa Diwirja wrote on the same Facebook page, where Aan is one of the administrators.[...]

Although Indonesia’s constitution guarantees freedom of religion, it only recognizes six faiths: Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, Protestantism and Confucianism.

Perceived blasphemy against any one of these religions carries a maximum five-year jail term.

The United States of America does a good job in this area, compared to other countries.