Long ago, a very talented fellow named Cat Stevens wrote a song about love, hope and optimism titled 'Peace Train.'  The song was something of an anthem for the anti-war protesters of the Viet Nam era...

And then he went over to the 'Dark Side' and became a devout Muslim.  He changed his name to Yusuf Islam and left the singing industry, apparently forever. In 1989 he was universally derided  when he allegedly went on record supporting the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's death sentence against The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie. Stevens's records were burned and taken out of stores, and many radio stations permanently boycotted his music. After thinking it over for nearly 10 years, Stevens claimed he was highly misquoted, that he didn't support the Ayatollah's sentence. Rather, he merely reiterated the Koran's teachings about those who "defame the prophet."

Here is an updated version of Steven’s ‘Peace Train’ with emphasis on Yusuf Islam’s ‘Religion of Peace.’  Almost too powerful for words… warning, some images are graphic.

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I'm surprised it took the Times this long, the truly sick part is they see no problem with the ethnic cleansing, reprisal killings, genocide and destabilization of the Middle East that will follow our exit...

The Road Home

It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit.

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I was unaware that jogging is for self-centered people, silly me, this whole time I just thought it was for exercise.....

Washington -The sight of the new French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, jogging - often wearing his favorite NYPD T- shirt - has fired up a tempest in a Reebok in France and Britain this summer.

Sarkozy's running is an un- French, right-wing conspiracy, suggests Paris' left-wing newspaper Liberation. In response, British commentators gleefully conclude: The French have lost their minds, again.

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Sometimes, it is awfully hard to take these Leftwingers seriously... they're good for so much entertainment...

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Repackaging is quite the order of the day when products flop in the marketplace. So we have the curious spectacle of morphing press coverage. For example, an early Reuters report bluntly described the extremely poor turnout for the free Live Earth concert in Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach (on a "perfect" winter night - when tropical Rio is merely comfortably warm) as les than 100,000. Since the hype had it that over a million would come, and since Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones managed at least twice as many concert goers a year ago in the same location, it does look like an embarrassment.

But in the hands of the Associated Press, the same concert was a huge success - the biggest crowds in the whole world for the triumphant effort. Suddenly less than one hundred thousand became "400,000" and they were "packed" onto the famous beach, which just recently was thought able to handle a million-plus concert-goers

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And we're not talking about Vince Foster's death, either... Turns out the average Joe is smart enough Not to vote for Hillary under any condition... there is hope yet!

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One voice: Wrapped in hats, gloves, jackets and boots, Nunatak, the British Antarctic Survey's band, joined the Live Earth concerts at the weekend, playing from a frozen ice shelf in Antarctica in front of 17 employees.

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A wide gulf has opened between presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and her old employer, the Rose Law Firm — to the apparent satisfaction of both sides

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A religious edict by a prominent Saudi cleric suggesting liberals are not real Muslims has enflamed debate over reforms in the conservative Islamic state, with self-professed liberals fearing they will be attacked.

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Officials at Live Earth Johannesburg have blamed the effects of climate change for poor audience attendance at Saturday's (07Jul07) South African event.

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The Pennsauken man who shot and wounded a member of the U.S. Air Force before killing himself left suicide notes that indicated he was “angry at the government and wanted to make a statement” on Independence Day, one of the man’s relatives said yesterday.

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Despite having performed at a show ("Live Earth") to raise awareness about the environment, in her private life, Madonna the pop singer invests a lot of money in corporations known for creating pollution.

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(Hat Tip to our man Weasel for the pic!  Nice of him to take pity on the sexually frustrated jihadists ...   more »