Secret Service Foils Plot to Kidnap President

MFNS - A spokesman for the Secret Service Monday revealed a foiled plot believed to have been hatch by members of a yet unidentified foreign terrorist group. 

The plot, to kidnap President Barack Obama by using a trap-like device located on the grounds of the White House, was uncovered by a grounds keeper early Saturday morning near the exit the president uses when leaving the White house by Marine One.  It is believed the clever trapping device was set to be used when the President left for Paris and the Unity Rally, which he did not attend.

Photos of the trapping device were released showing the top-secret apparatus primed and ready to close upon the unsuspecting victim.  The trap, obviously of middle-east origin, had printing on it translated into English as "Acme Traps"

A grounds-keeper discovered the booby trapped device during his morning rounds picking up cigarette butts from the sidewalk outside the exit.  The trap was quickly disarmed and removed by an experienced EOD team brought in from nearby Quantico Marine Base. At no time was the President in any danger.

White House officials had ‘no comment’ when reporters asked who they believed set the trap.  

ISIS issued a statement denying any involvement in the plot, saying "It is ludicrous to believe we would waste Allah's time and our energy to kidnap someone the American people would not be willing to pay ransom for his return". He also added "we would be afraid we would have to pay America to take him back".

After being throughly checked for safety, the ‘bait’ was later chilled and consumed during the First Lady's luncheon held in the west wing dinning room.  

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Mohammad Image of the Day

Mohammad along with Gabriel, the giver of the Koran, visit Hell and see a demon punishing "shameless women" who had exposed their hair to strangers. For this crime of inciting lust in men, the women are strung up by their hair and burned for eternity. Persian Art, 15th century.

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Politics Make for Some of the Strangest Decisions in D.C.

by Robert Janicki

In what could be the strangest political turnaround in recent times, comes this news in the face of the recent bungling by House conservatives in mismanaging a revolt against Speaker John Boehner.

As soon as the voting for the Speakership was over, Boehner announced some new changes in committee assignments and chairmanships.  Most thought that the bloodletting had begun, with Boehner apparently bludgeoning the conservative upstarts for their audacity in challenging his leadership.  Moves were made by Boehner and hard core conservative bloggers became enraged.

Now comes some quiet changes that very could bode well for the influence of House conservatives in the 114th Congressional Term.

Rather than punish and isolate those who opposed him as leader, Boehner surprised many on Friday by embracing an immigration plan that's tougher than lawmakers had expected. It would block President Barack Obama's recent limits on deportations and undo protections for immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.

As the rebellious hard-liners celebrated, mainstream Republicans said Boehner's decision probably portends firmly conservative approaches to other issues. That would complicate life for some of the more moderate Senate Republicans and ensure fierce battles with the Democratic president.

Now, I don't want to throw cold water on what could become something positive for all House Republicans, but I have to admit that I am holding off any celebration until I actually see some consistent movement in the Republican House caucus toward a more conservative stance.  

The key point here is to see a consistent and measured movement to the right in the House.  A one time bone thrown to House conservatives will do nothing to assuage their concern for the same old practices of the Republican establishment leadership in the House.  

Boehner had better be prepared to make this move to the right a regular practice, or else things may only get worse for all House Republicans, thus giving Democrats a wedge to derail a Republican House agenda going forward.

Conservatives have to understand that despite Republicans having a substantial majority in the House, they still have an uphill battle with more moderate Republican Senators, who have their own battles to pass legislation in the Senate.  Some of what comes out of Congress, will undoubtedly find a presidential veto waiting to be exercised by Barrack Obama.  That may not always be a bad thing, since, if exercised regularly by Obama, it will firmly characterize Obama and Democrats as the "party of NO!", a label Democrats enjoyed hanging on Republicans and caused them problems at the ballot box.

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Rob Janicki is a retired educator, strong supporter of the 2nd amendment and all around good guy, as well as owner/operator of the website Wired Right  and owes me 20 bucks. 

Mohammad Image of the Day

Illustration showing Mohammed (on the right) preaching his final sermon to his earliest converts, on Mount Ararat near Mecca; taken from a medieval-era manuscript of the astronomical treatise The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries by the Persian scholar al-Biruni; currently housed in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Manuscrits Arabe 1489 fol. 5v). This scene was popular among medieval Islamic artists, and several nearly identical versions of this drawing   were made in the Middle Ages.

Satire Extremists Erase Head of Terrorist Cartoon

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MFNS - An unidentified group of satirists has leaked a terrifying video depicting the brutal decartooning of an unknown terrorist’s head. The video, shot in what appears to be a drawing studio, starts with a proclamation that the cartoon was sentenced to death for various crimes and continues with the gruesome, methodical erasure of the head of what appears to be a drawing of an Islamic fundamentalist.

“It was horrifying. They took a Staedler eraser and started wiping the head off without an iota of empathy for the unfortunate cartoon,” stated an anonymous source who claimed to be a witness  to the massacre. “I will never forget how the paper was shaking and twisting under the eraser.”

The video ends with an eerie promise that more ink will be spilled and that the world’s terror networks will be “brought to their knees” during an event referred to only as “The Night of the Quill.”

Mohammad Image of the Day

In 1999, Islamic art expert Wijdan Ali wrote a scholarly overview of the Muslim tradition of depicting Mohammad.  In that essay, Ali demonstrates that the prohibition against depicting Mohammad did not start to arise until as late as the 16th or 17th century, despite the media's continuing false claims that it has always been forbidden for Muslims to draw Mohammad.  Until comparatively recently in Islamic history, depictions of Mohammad (especially in Shi'ite areas) continued to be produced. 

Mohammed receiving his first revelation from the angel Gabriel (or as I believe a fallen angel). Miniature illustration on vellum from the book Jami' al-Tawarikh (literally "Compendium of Chronicles" but often referred to as The Universal History or History of the World), by Rashid al-Din, published in Tabriz, Persia, 1307 A.D. Now in the collection of the Edinburgh University Library, Scotland

(images via Mohammed Image Archive)

Islam swept the Arabian Peninsula, and later most of the ancient world with the blade of the sword.  With it's founder's prophetic words and instructions, it's history filled with forced conversion and violence unlike any religion know to man. Present world events show us the legacy of the boy who suffered seizures, fell under the influence of supposed angelic (?) visions and took children as wives, has once again raised it's twisted bloodthirsty ideology to scourge civilized man .   

Will You Make Us Watch?

As someone born on your Continent and spent a large part of my early life living in Europe, a descendant of French and Belgian immigrants and an American Patriot, I have something to ask my dear European freinds. 

You have now witnessed your own 911. Will I watch as you wait till the Louvre is set afire for being immoral and an offense to Allah, or your magnificent Cathedrals turned into mosque?  Will you now drop the pretense of an all inclusive society I always questioned and never understood as a young girl , as I watched your culture degraded little by little while living in your midst . Will you now Wake Up?

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