CAIR EDUCATES JOURNALISTS

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has decided to launch a campaign to indoctrinate American journalists. Yesterday CAIR announced the launch of a new initiative called "Beyond Stereotypes," which they say will enhance journalists' understanding of Islam and Muslims.

CAIR will be distributing newly-published "American Muslims: A Journalist's Guide to Understanding Islam and Muslim." It will be going to more than 40,000 editors, reporters, producers and journalists around the country. But guess what? You, yourself can sponsor a copy to be sent to a local media outlet! Doesn't that sound like fun?

The guide will provide "an Islamic prospective" on issues such as Islam and democracy, freedom of religion, women's rights, and interfaith relations. And if the guide isn't enough, CAIR also offers tips on pro-active educational activities like hosting media events and holding meetings with newspaper editorial boards.

OK - Journalists. Here's your first assignment: Go to Ibrahim Hooper and the rest of the leadership of CAIR and ask them one simple question; to wit: "Would you like to see the United States under Islamic law?" No hedging .. no mumbling ... yes or no.

IS MEDIA MATTERS WORKING FOR CAIR?

Don't know yet .. but the question seems to be on the minds of a lot of my broadcast colleagues. Is Hillary Clinton's Media Matters taking audio tapes of remarks made by conservative talk show hosts on their programs and forwarding those tapes to various leftist public interest groups - such as the Hamas front CAIR - to be used in campaigns against those particular shows and their advertisers? It is no secret that Hillary abhors talk radio and considers conservative talk hosts to be the biggest threat to her ascension to power in the White House. It's also no secret that when Hillary says "frog" David Brock jumps. Maybe HCMM will save me all the research and just come out with a statement either acknowledging or denying the rumors ... Maybe today!

NASA'S NEWS ON CLIMATE CHANGE

NASA and university scientists have determined that reversals in Arctic Ocean circulation, which is caused by atmospheric circulation changes, vary by the decades. "The results suggest not all the large changes seen in Arctic climate in recent years are a result of long-term trends associated with global warming."

Not to get too scientific on you, the pattern of circulation in the Arctic affected the salinity of the upper ocean near the North Pole, which decreased its weight (specific gravity) and changed its circulation. But this is a naturally occurring change. "Our study confirms many changes seen in upper Arctic Ocean circulation in the 1990s were mostly decadal in nature, rather than trends caused by global warming."

According to the report, it is too early to say but the Arctic Ocean is ready to start swinging back to its counterclockwise circulation pattern .. but change back it will, and then back the other way ... and so forth. I wonder what OwlGore will be saying when that happens.

Meanwhile, the UN is working on its guide to tackling climate change. Take a look at this statement again from the Director of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change:

"Everyone will feel its effects, but global warming will hit the poorest countries hardest and will 'threaten the very survival' of some people ... Failing to recognize the urgency of this message and act on it would be nothing less than criminally irresponsible' and a direct attack on the world's poorest people."

The solution? Well, for the UN, I guarantee you that the solution will be massive transfers of money from governments with democratically elected governments and strong economies - like the United States - to countries run by half-assed dictators with no freedoms, no free markets, and huge numbers of impoverished people. International wealth redistribution through the United Nations ... all powered by GLOBAL WARMING!

AUSTRALIANS ON MUSLIMS

Godwin Goh of Australia's Christian Democratic Party said that if his party is elected, it would lobby the Federal Government to change its anti-discrimination laws. And why does he want to do that? Because Mr. Goh wants a 10-year ban on Islamic immigration to Australia, and he wants a ban on the construction of Islamic schools or mosques. Current law in Australia would make these bans illegal, hence why Goh wants to change the discrimination laws.

Mr. Goh says it will take a decade to review the impact of Muslim immigration. And when it comes to schools, Mr. Goh says he does not want any Islamic schools because they teach extreme versions of Islam. He says that in an Islamic school in Victoria, a teacher asked the students who their hero was, and the unanimous response was "Osama bin Laden."

I do like the ban on Muslim immigration idea. It's our house .. we decide who gets to come live with us.

RESIDENTS OF MACON ON EDGE

Oprah Winfrey travels to Macon, Georgia tomorrow to broadcast her TV show. As I understand it, this will be the first stop on some sort of tours. Anyway ... residents of Macon are a bit nervous about this particular visit because of ... their mayor.

Jack Ellis has been embarrassing Macon for far too many years now .. and he has less than a month to serve in office. He recently converted to Islam taking the name Hakim Mansour Ellis. He seems to think this is cool because some Africans brought to this country as slaves practiced Islam. His term as mayor has been marked by almost no major accomplishments ... but he did manage to parlay the position into repeated and expensive trips to Africa. Ellis is also a fan of Venezuelan strong man Hugo Chavez, having sent him a "message of solidarity" earlier this year.

Macon residents are concerned that Oprah is going to invite Ellis to be on the show on Friday ... and the result will be a lasting embarrassment for the City of Macon. The best thing Oprah could do for her hosts this Friday is to ignore their inane lame duck mayor ... talk, instead, to Rick Reichert. He's the Mayor elect and will be taking office in a few weeks ... and he won over 95% of the vote in the election. That's the guy who should represent Macon right now ... not Hakim Yabba Dabba Monsour Ellis.

OK .. THIS ONE BROUGHT TEARS TO EVEN MY EYES!

Oprah calls this the greatest love story ever told. You need to take some time out of this day to read this ... right now. Not later. Stories like this are why I have faith that God exists ... not because of the some pastor preaching dogma from a book ... but because of this story. Click here for the story ... and then we'll move on to ....

OFFENDING ATHEISTS

In Utah, the state erected dozens of crosses to honor fallen Utah Highway Patrol troopers. But then the atheists got upset because crosses are a religious symbol, but they were put up by the state. And so they sued, obviously claiming a violation of the constitutional separation of church and state. The issue is now in the hands of a federal court judge.

Why is it that so many atheists are such jerks?

NO MORE HO HO HO

Santas in Australia are being told not to say "ho, ho, ho." And why on earth are they being told that? Because the term "ho" could frighten children and even be derogatory to women.

A Santa recruitment firm, Westaff, supplies Santas across the country but has been training them to say "ha, ha, ha" rather than "ho, ho, ho." But apparently Santas across Australia are rebelling. Two Santa hopefuls have already quit after being told he would be propagating an American slang for a prostitute.

Westaff's national Santa co-coordinator says that the advice given to Santas is that they "should be mindful of children having their first Santa experience." Because, apparently, the youth of today are already familiar with the term "ho" before they can even walk.

Now here in the United States, we have our own issues with Santa. In Winchester, Massachusetts a government school principal has canceled a seventh-grade field trip to see "Miracle of 34th Street" because "it is too focused on Santa Claus."

McCall Middle School Principal Evander French said that parents complained about the "narrow focus on Santa Claus." It is also not tied to the children's curriculum. French says that he is not "anti-Santa" but that it is his job to make sure that the curriculum is "appropriate for everybody."

Students will be refunded their $20. Meanwhile, the school will still take its annual trip to North Shore Music Theatre's "A Christmas Carol," which is apparently OK because it is about a season and the human condition --- and it focuses on ghosts.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Yep, it's about time to start thinking about decorating the house for the holidays. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

On the same day that Eliot Spitzer scraps his asinine idea to give illegal aliens drivers licenses, Hillary Clinton came out and said that she doesn't support the idea.

What does John McCain have to do to make me support him (as if my support would be any big deal). Well .. this would be a start. Well .. maybe not him, but at least one of his supporters.

Have you signed up for your Clinton Library Card yet? I'm still wondering if the Clinton library has a replica of that little room off the Oval Office .. you know, the one place in the entire White House where Clinton actually had a clear idea as to just what he was actually doing? Yeah .. that room. The one with the humidor.

Warren Buffett says that he supports the estate tax as a check on those evil rich people who accumulate too much wealth. In the meantime, Buffett still has not written a check to the Treasury Department for all of those taxes he says he should have paid ... but didn't.

One of Indonesia's leading Muslims says that the US war on terror an 'insult to Muslims.' I think the world is "hinderance" rather than insult.

Here's an interesting report. More active soldiers died during two years of peacetime in the early 1980s than died in a two-year period of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A man calls a phone number he saw on the wall of portable toilet at the fair ... leaves a message on the voicemail asking for the person to perform sex acts on him. The voicemail, it turns out, belongs to a 15-year-old girl. The man is now a sex offender. I read a story recently (can't find it now) about someone putting the local number of Hillary's campaign in the blank after the "For a good time call _____" Not nice.

There is a new wave of companies experimenting with "parenting at work" policies, which would allow workers to bring their children, including infants, into work. Oh yeah ... that ought to work.

According to liberals, it is not OK for politicians to pray for rain ... but they can pray to stop global warming.

One out of every three British adults think that Mount Everest is in Europe, while only half knew that the Nile is the world's longest river.

Should little Gabriel be allowed to stay in the United States with his foster parents or be sent back to Mexico to a grandmother he has never met?

Parents in Maryland could face up to ten days in jail and a $50 fine for each day that their child fails to meet the state's immunization requirements. This is only going to get worse.

Students at the University of New Mexico are upset because birth control prices are increasing. One student, Ambrosia Ortiz, says that "students shouldn't have to choose between birth control and their cell phone bill or birth control and their gym membership." Give me a break. This student body must be a real trip.

A 70-year-old German man wants to become a Swiss citizen, but first he must go back to school to re-learn German.

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