Maybe it’s just some form of weakness on my part, but I just can’t seem to make the sights and sounds of 9/11 go away. I can’t embrace a multi-cultural mindset and feel compassion for Muslims in the Western World that consider the London Bombers as martyrs instead of the hellish murderers of innocents. I can’t understand those for whom the most important issue of the day is to be able to marry someone with the same plumbing. And, I just cannot fathom how the mind works for a Federal judge who is more concerned with Flipper and Charlie the tuna than with the ability of our armed forces to protect the Free World — but hey, that’s just me.

Take item one for instance. The Times UK reported on a poll of Britain’s Muslim population about the bombings one year ago today and found:

A SIGNIFICANT minority of British Muslims believe they are at war with the rest of society, the largest poll of Muslims in this country suggests.

The Populus survey for The Times and ITV News has found that more than one in ten thinks that the men who carried out the London bombings of 7/7 should be regarded as “martyrs”. Sixteen per cent of British Muslims, equivalent to more than 150,000 adults, believe that while the attacks were wrong, the cause was right.

If you read the entire article, you find that just about half of Britain’s Muslims think that the government should be more aggressive against home-groan terrorist activities, and just under half believe that what is being preached in the local mosques needs more monitoring, but that 16% that believes the subway bombers’ “cause was right” — that’s a real disturbing number!

The Times quotes Met Commissioner Tariq Ghaffur, Britain’s most prominent Muslim policeman:

“The poll shows that we do have a minority of people within our community who do effectively pose a danger.

“The tipping point between someone feeling anger and alienation and then engaging in the kind of atrocities we saw last July or being exploited by somebody who wants to commit a terrible act is very, very small.”

Unsettling stuff, that. But, on to quandary number-2. With everything that is going on in this troubled world, for some, the right for gays to marry is the most important item on their agenda. Unfortunately for them, this has not been a great week. Gay marriage has now been struck down in the highest courts in both New York and Georgia (congrats, Sis!) From the Chicago Sun Times:

”Clearly, in bringing the case and pushing it as hard as they did, it’s pretty good evidence that they thought they had a substantial chance of victory,” said Ohio State University law professor Marc Spindelman, who tracks lesbian and gay legal issues. ”It’s hard to read the decision as anything other than a rebuff of gay and lesbian couples.”

In Georgia, where three-quarters of voters approved a ban on gay marriage when it was on the ballot in 2004, the top court reinstated the ban Thursday.

I’m on record for NOT redefining the millennia-old Judeo-Christian definition of marriage. In the minds of the pro-gay advocates, that makes me a dangerous radical, out to trample on their Constitutional rights to “marry whomever they want”, and to “privacy”, (by-the-way, neither of which exists in the Constitution. Sorry to be a wet blanket here, but hey . . .) A quote from Dennis Prager is in order:

Liberals’ use of the word “radical” to describe opponents of same-sex marriage illustrates this self-aggrandizing mindset. To describe as “radical” those who wish to preserve the man-woman-based definition of marriage known to every civilization is to stand the word on its head. It is beyond intellectually dishonest — it is mendacity — to describe those who favor preserving the definition of marriage as “radical” rather than to so describe those who wish to change the gender-based definition of marriage for the first time in history. Even if you support same-sex marriage, you should at least have the honesty to admit that it is you who favors something radical.

Honestly, for many Liberals this issue, gay marriage, is much more important than the Global War On Terror. Many more than Moi have remarked that if we lose this war — I think that our ability to sustain the will and the effort to win in the long haul, and it will definitely be A LONG HAUL, is in doubt — gays and lesbians will be a lot worse off than they think they are now, that is if you count being dead as being worse than living in the most free society on the planet. (Despite constant PC efforts by Left, we can still all speak our minds freely.)

About that item number-3: Federal Judge Florence-Marie Cooper ruled on Monday a temporary ban on the Navy’s use of SONAR in the upcoming Navy trials in Hawaiian waters. From Breitbart:

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Monday barring the Navy from using a type of sonar, allegedly harmful to marine mammals, during a Pacific warfare exercise scheduled to begin this week.
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U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper wrote in her order that the plaintiffs “have shown a possibility that RIMPAC 2006 will kill, injure, and disturb many marine species, including marine mammals, in waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands.”

Geez! Since when did the judiciary start running the military? Once again, I’m not alone in having an inquiring mind. Big Lizards is also searching for answers, (h/t: Michelle Malkin).

First the federal judiciary took control away from the president in the treatment of unlawful combatants; then they seized control away from Congress in the ratification and enforcement of the Geneva Conventions and for determining the jurisdiction of the federal courts — which can now determine their own jurisdiction, and the Constitution be damned.

And now, a federal judge (“but some are more equal than others”) has anointed herself the Commander in Chief of the armed forces; she has issued an order to the Navy not to use sonar during a “mid-frequency active sonar” test in the Pacific Ocean. Why? Because sonar might bother whales:
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Lady, we are in a war, for God’s sake. You don’t stop the military from testing the weapons that save our lives every day just because your heart bleeds for Flipper, Shamu and all their undersea chums.

I realize your calendar stops at September 10th; but for the rest of us, what happened the next day changed everything. In particular, it changed forever the level of monkeyshines that we are willing to tolerate in the war against jihadis.

I like the way the Lizards think and have added them to the blogroll.

As I contemplate this list of Leftist concepts and thought I come to the conclusion that — The. Problem. Is. Not. Mine. Whew!

We must never forget — we must stay the course — we must NOT let those who value Flipper more than they do their own lives, and the lives of others, gain control of the Executive branch, hence control of the military. There’s lots o’ work to get done before November! (db)

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