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Mohammed Atta & his federal loan officer (A reminder that some people learned nothing from 9/11)
National Post via Free Republic ^ | June 10, 2002 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 11/10/2009 7:17:04 AM PST by beaversmom

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1 posted on 11/10/2009 7:17:06 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

Political correctness kills.


3 posted on 11/10/2009 7:26:22 AM PST by mrsmel
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To: beaversmom

thanks for the refresher


4 posted on 11/10/2009 7:31:56 AM PST by RDTF (How can you have a terrorist sympathizer counseling soldiers coming back from killing terrorists??)
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To: beaversmom

I once worked on a consulting project for the Agriculture Dept. The ready availability of loans, grants, subsidies, etc. was astonishing. It was not lost on us that applying for this government largesse would be easy and certainly beat working for a living.


5 posted on 11/10/2009 7:32:31 AM PST by Starboard
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To: beaversmom

THanks for posting. I had never read this before. It is appalling and it is appalling that she sat there, took all that guff, and never reported it until after the fact. Burocracy!


6 posted on 11/10/2009 7:33:35 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: beaversmom
We are at a critical crossroads here, and I wouldn't be surprised if this incident of blatant terrorism at Ft. Hood will be retrospectively considered the time and place where the line was drawn.

With “business as usual”, think of the present and future implications of this action. No military base, nor it's personnel and families, can be considered safe anymore, at lease without significant change in operating procedures, not the least of which MUST BE mandatory carry of a side arm by all on-base personnel. And that is only the tip of the iceberg....We know that there are sleeper cells all over this country. It just became painfully apparent that they have infiltrated our military. This cannot be ignored!

At a time when true patriots are considered right-wing extremists and terrorists, and the real terrorists must be given “the benefit of a doubt”, we need to realize that the handwriting is on the wall.

Stay awake, arm yourselves with as much real information as possible (as well as with other things!), and join your local groups of like minded patriots. The time of the fecal matter hitting the whirling blades in near!

Militant

7 posted on 11/10/2009 7:35:41 AM PST by militant2 (I may not agree with everything you say, but......hell, I don't agree with anything you say!)
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To: beaversmom

Amazing.


8 posted on 11/10/2009 7:37:08 AM PST by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: mrsmel

**Political correctness kills.**

At what point did we all succumb to this pervasive guilt?

When did we, Americans, lose our ability to discriminate between good and evil, between respect for decent people and accommodation for trashy behavior, morals and degenerates?

When did we abhor capital punishment for murdering psychopaths but accept abortion/murder of innocents?

When did we lose the courage of our convictions and embrace the cowardice of compromise?

When did you last feel really, really comfortable with your life, sure of your purpose and optimistic for the future of this Nation?


9 posted on 11/10/2009 7:43:25 AM PST by sodpoodle (Never give up- Keep Up!!!)
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This is something I discuss quite a bit both online and IRL, and something I have been observing for some time now.

Remember folks: Money talks. Monied Middle Eastern families send their kids to the US to get educated in American colleges. This has been going on for years and years (and years). Americans of Middle Eastern descent, and Middle Eastern nationals who are not US citizens, are allowed to get away with rudeness, snobbery, and outright hatefulness because of political correctness on the surface—under the surface it’s really more about money and political back-scratching, due in large part to our dependence on foreign oil. Americans have gotten so used to being ordered around and spit on by Middle Easterners here in the US that they are basically at this point wearing what amounts to blinders where any issue involving a person of Middle Eastern descent is concerned. This generates quite a bit of anger, as one might well imagine. Angry Americans then vent their pent-up spite on other Americans who, though harmless and well-intentioned, make convenient targets.

Any liberal/socialist person, regardless of how nice, forward-thinking, and “tolerant” he or she may seem, who urges or forces you to look the other way when a Middle Eastern person is exhibiting hatred or contempt for American culture in public, is not your friend; rather, the opposite. If anything, I am hopeful that this tragedy has at least put some of those PC thugs in their places—I doubt that it will shut them up entirely, however—unfortunately.


10 posted on 11/10/2009 7:45:07 AM PST by Scarlett156 (political correctness kills)
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To: beaversmom

A MUST READ AND BE CAUTIOUS AND TERRIFIED!! ISLAM IS NOT A PEACEFUL RELIGION! and AMERICA”S BEREAUCRATS ARE IGNORANT!!


11 posted on 11/10/2009 7:59:55 AM PST by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: Scarlett156

Twenty years ago my husband was an instructor at NAS Millington Tn.
They had Saudi students that they COULD NOT fail, period.They would be late to class, rude, not know the material... they were in.
Apparently if they got sent back to Saudi w/o passing the training, well let’s say it wouldn’t be a good day for them.
This used to get on his last nerve.


12 posted on 11/10/2009 8:03:29 AM PST by ronniesgal (happy birthday, devildogs!!!)
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To: beaversmom

a culture sensitivity-trained into a coma.
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Yes, well that training started in the 1970s in the military...

and it was all one sided then ...

just as it is now...

“White Americans are the enemy that need to change their treatment of the “victims”...”

And so we became our own worse enemies...


13 posted on 11/10/2009 8:04:19 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: afraidfortherepublic

If I, as a white American grandmother, had threatened to cut her throat, I would have been arrested and put in prison...


14 posted on 11/10/2009 8:08:47 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: militant2
militant2 said: "... retrospectively considered the time and place where the line was drawn."

I disagree. 9/11 was supposed to be that time and the World Trade Center that place.

Unfortunately, the majority of liberals would have blood dripping from the slit throats of their children before even becoming aware that there is a problem.

Liberals expect to be rewarded for their intentions of making the world a peaceful place. Reality plays no part in that expectation.

15 posted on 11/10/2009 8:10:04 AM PST by William Tell
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To: RDTF; afraidfortherepublic

You both are welcome.


16 posted on 11/10/2009 8:11:12 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: Scarlett156; Tennessee Nana
Any liberal/socialist person, regardless of how nice, forward-thinking, and “tolerant” he or she may seem, who urges or forces you to look the other way when a Middle Eastern person is exhibiting hatred or contempt for American culture in public, is not your friend

Very funny you should mention that Scarlett. I posted the video below on my FaceBook page which had been posted yesterday on FR:

REVOLUTION MUSLIM STREET DAWAH"

I only received one reply and it was from a liberal minded friend. It struck me what she chose to concentrate on. I haven't replied yet, but I will:

It's a shame that innocent American Muslims are once again going to be the target of bias (Not those in the video, but the vast majority of American Muslims). They had it hard after 911 and I expect it will be the same now.

17 posted on 11/10/2009 8:19:33 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: afraidfortherepublic

This almost sounds like satire, but sadly with all the PC, i’m sure it’s true. I can’t imagine myself, sitting there listening to this, and doing NOTHING. I would have reported the guy and called police. She looks like an idiot who has been sitting behind a desk, with a good job, for too long. She had her chance to be a good citizen and possibly a hero. Those behaviors he exhibited were too bizarre not to be taken seriously.


18 posted on 11/10/2009 8:19:35 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: nutmeg

bookmark


19 posted on 11/10/2009 8:21:56 AM PST by nutmeg (Obamunism is destroying America)
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To: whatisthetruth; dynachrome

FYI ping


20 posted on 11/10/2009 8:36:06 AM PST by beaversmom
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