Hartford Auto Insurance Troubles #2

     It is now more than a week since the accident, and I haven't heard from Hartford Auto Insurance. Last night, Chris said, "I had to call Hartford for a claim number so you have to call Hartford for a claim number too. What makes you so special?"
     "I am special to your insurer because you caused me an injury."
     "You're not injured!"
     "My truck is! $700s worth!"
     From this point, things became only more emotional with Chris claiming that the lane out of our complex was only a one lane road, and me responding that she was lying. Finally, there was nothing else to do but open my front door and order her out. She left with uncomplimentary remarks about me and a mandate for me never to talk to her again. This has happened before when I put some boundaries on her behavior.
     I had wanted to ask Chris if she was told by Hartford Insurance Company that I was no one special and would have to call them because they weren't going to call me. I didn't have the opportunity to do that, but I did call Progresssive back to ascertain whether the claim number my agent had given me was theirs or Hartford's. My agent, Ellen, called me back to say it was Hartford's claim number. At least I had that much. I then called the Hartford agent, left a message, and did not get a callback. Ellen had told me this agent was claiming he had called me. In his imagination! I then called the number for his "team" and got a teed-off white man's voice from Indiana. I copied his tone until he ameliorated it. He ended up promising he would call my chosen body shop and approve the repair of my truck as soon as we hung up. We did that, and I drove over to the shop. The white man had done it. Finally, it seemed over with Hartford. What a contrast with the way I was treated by AMICA. Please, whoever the lady is who hits me next, be insured by AMICA! My fog lamp was falling off my grill so the body man quickly and politely removed it. He was also a white man. Peter Nickerson,  352-359-0850
If you have any black panther or bigfoot sightings now or in the past, please call me.
"The measure of a man is not what says,
but what he does and what he allows others
to do in his presence."
-Navy Seal Instructor
I hope his girl/boyfriend would say he met that measure!

Hartford Auto Insurance Troubles #1

Last Thursday, my friend Chris came to my door to tell me that she had run into my truck. But it had suffered little damage compared to hers. We went outside, and she was right. My front bumper and grill were damaged but her entire left side was badly scraped and her left rear side demolished.
     Chris had been on the way to the emergency room because of extreme pain in her head. She had started down the little lane when she realized she didn't have her driver's license. She then began backing up but ended leaving her lane, crossing across the other lane, and into the left front end of my parked truck.
I took her to the emergency room and called Progressive as soon as I got back.
Progressive asked me if I called the police, and I replied, based upon all the events around America in the last years, that I hadn't because I didn't want to be shot. A bit dramatic, but very legal and maybe prescient. Who really knows? I am so tall and bulked up, that a jittery policewoman might fear for her life just talking to me. I would like to develop that later as there are disquieting things happening with the police even in the most loving town in the United States:
Brattleboro, Vermont.
     But first the accident. Chris said she had Hartford insurance, and they would take care of everything. Two years ago, a very attractive registered nurse had taken out my rear bumper as I was on my way for my first date with the One-Eyed Beauty. a gorgeous woman with only one working eye. The nurse was driving a big Cadillac Escalade, and she had MICA insurance. I can't think of a better set of circumstances to be hit by unless it would be that the nurse fell in love with me! A dream of an agent from MICA was in touch with me the next day. She took care of everything including my rental truck. She even called my body shop when I asked her to be sweet to the receptionist Amanda because I feared I had been too sarcastic when I asked if my new rear bumper was coming from Alaska by sled dog and the team ran the Iditarod. Eventually, I was so overcome by gratitude for this AMICA agent that I told her I loved her ( a lonely, poor, old man can fall in love very easily!) Not missing a beat, she replied, "I love you too,Mr.Nickerson.                                                                                              
     You can't love if you can't hate, and I am progressing to the other end of the spectrum with Hartford. It is now seven days since the accident, and Hartford hasn't called me. I spent well over an hour trying to penetrate Hartford's internal telephone system to speak to Chris's agent and to complain to Progressive about being abandoned by Hartford. How do you know for certain if a person has auto insurance and the coverage if the insurance company doesn't call you? Finally I got his number and heard his taped voice saying he would be out of the office until "Tuesday." It was Tuesday! Then a robot said he did not take messages. Now that's real customer service! Doneybrook to be continued
Peter Nickerson, 352-359-0850

I Support Geert Wilders

     Holland just found Geert Wilder guilty of inciting discrimination. It is fitting that he leads the Freedom Party because he should be free to be able to say that he wants to keep Moroccans and Martians out of Holland. What right do federal employees or even we-the people- have to tell someone what is acceptable speech. Acceptable to whom? Who's the Almighty God here? If you find his speech unacceptable, then walk away or turn it off just as I have had to turn the radio hate-show host Cheryl Miller off for the last year. But with the election of Trump, I turn it on so I can gloat over her anger and hatred. No one is making you listen to Geer Wilder. But if you keep up your unprincipled demands for "acceptable" speech, eventually you may not be able to turn off any speech. You may find yourself in the same situation as the poor Tibetans who are forced to listen to evil-sick communistic diatribes blared at them from loudspeakers in the streets. There's no turning off  that. So leave Geer Wilders free to ex press his opinions on whom to allow into Holland and whom not to. As a repre sentative democracy in Holland, he is part of we-the people. We-the people are perfectly free to stop the immigration of Moroccan and Martians through laws,and Geer Wilders, as one of us, is perfectly free to say that we should pass such a law Don't be such crybullies, you federal employees in Holland's court! Three cheers for Geer Wilders from this American!
     Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, peternickerson12@yahoo.com 352-359-0850

Trumpians, Savor The Victory!

Trumpians Savor The Victory!
     As I live in Vermont, during the day there are only liberal radio talk shows. I don't have TV. These shows are so small and lying that I start to shout at them.
But now that Trump has won, I invite you to listen to them verbally writhe with anger that Hellary lost. Specifically, listen in on talk show host Cheryl Miller. Hear them fruitlessly shoot their venom at the truth and the good. Remember what I just learned Teddy Roosevelt is given the credit for saying, "Conservatives get angry at lies; liberals get angry at the truth." Take this time to rejoice not only in the Holidays but also in the knowledge that the liberals not only aren't going to be able to do anything more for at least a while to hurt us, but also rejoice that much of the bad they have done is going to be rolled back.
     All I ask for this cheerful news is that you remember we are a nation of Laws, not of men, especially only one men. Let's not debase ourselves before any charismatic figure. Let's not try to make a God out of a man. Let's make a god out of Reason instead. Watch and react to Trump. Remember, he's just our employee. The most important one, but an employee all the same. Don't let all the beautiful women (and men?) and gold around him overwhelm you into acting like an African slave or European serf. You are his employer.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, peternickerson12@yahoo.com 352-359-0850

Democratic CryBullies

     Just four minutes ago, I shouted at a group of young girls assembling on the square in Brattleboro, Vermont, "Shame on you! You can't generalize! Shame on you! Shame on you!" They were just beginning to hold up signs that read "GOP Sucks!" and "Pussy Grabbers!" We'll see what trouble these kids can fan up. Of course, Vermont immediately went for Hellary. This encounter and maybe the one I have when I leave the library, has capped off a triumphant but still frustrating week. Like our Islamist president said to Eric Kantor: "Eric, I won."
We, the people for the rights of the individual, won a shocker this week. Perhaps, you read my column that Muhammad and now Trump were riding an organic movement of populism. A lot of people did. I got a tremendous spike in my readership, and I thank you. One of my doctors mocked me when I told him about my "organic movement" hypothesis, but who's laughing now?
     As a veteran and a former college student who lived all four years of campus, and many of my vacations and summers because when I left my not-a-home at seventeen, I never went back to spend a night. For years, it was difficult to even visit the place in spite of five younger sibs still there. But I want to say that the kid on TV tearing up the American flag yesterday did not bother me as he was in his own crazy, highly dependent world. He was still sucking the tits of his parents and probably the tits of student loans. I'll bet he wasn't working his way through college. I'll bet he's never held a sustained job except volunteer work to embellish his college applications. He's not in the real world. He's in his college nursery, I'll bet.
     College professors and administrators, almost all lying, hypocritical collectivists, are playing with fire by encouraging hysteria and paranoia among college students because they are damaging their students' mental health. Young people in the early twenties are particularly susceptible to paranoid schizophrenia, and the college establishment is encouraging that. Therefore, the practical talking point I want to give honest people is this: If you are accosted by these loony victimhood-seekers who claim you are doing something to them harmful by merely existing, just say, "I'm not doing anything. I'm not grabbing your pussy- as the little girls are obscenely demonstrating with their signs as I type. The problem is that you are crazy! You are evil-sick! You need to see a psychiatrist or a man of God. Stop projecting your craziness on me! All we have heard from you collectivists is how wonderful diversity is. Now you get a little diversity and you have to demonstrate and swoon in your safe spaces. You are brainwashed, sick, and even evil at times. Get yourself to someone who can help you."
     Remember this one sentence for the hysterical, manipulative collectivists, Patriots: "Stop projecting your craziness on me!"
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary

Most Oustanding Feature of Islam

    The abuse of women seems to be the bedrock of Islam. I was raised by a very authoritarian father who thought he was the cock of the walk at home and thought that I as a young cock needed killing because that was what barnyard roosters did. Little did I know that I could have telephoned the base commander, and maybe he would have listened to me and trimmed my father's supposed tail feather way back. In those day, child protective services was unheard of but it was no coincidence that years later I went into that field. However, with Muslims who are fundamentalists, there is no one for children to appeal to. My understanding is that the boys do not complain because they are favored and are groomed to be cocks of the walk. It is the girls who seem to have no rights and no protection. Their father can keep them at home if he wants. He can make them do whatever he wants them to do including clipping or even rubbing off their genitals without painkillers or putting the child to sleep. He can keep them out of school. He can make them wear body bags on the delusion that they are so beautiful that men won't be able to keep their hands off them if they see them.
By having this delusion, fathers encourage other men to be  roosters and sexually abuse women whenever they have the opportunity. Don't these men catch on to how they are degrading themselves or are they just happy being roosters and male goats instead of men? The wives are unable to deny their husbands of any kind of sex at any time. Islam in some areas may be so strict that women cannot go out without a male escort.
    Do you see how the Islamic male is so dependent upon women? Everything about him is in relation to women. He is a parasite upon women. This is no man.
Peter Nickerson

Turning The Cheek Not Love

    I am reading my second book by Mark Gabriel, PH.D., who gave up Islam to become a Christian. He had been a professor of Islam and an imman in Egypt, but he converted to Christianity as soon as he read Jesus's statement about turning the other cheek to anyone who slaps the first one. Gabriel thought that was wonderful advice. I don't. Perhaps Jesus could see that the Jews were on the verge of rebelling against the parasitic Romans, and knew they would be defeated, everyone found attractive or just needing to be made submissive would be gang-raped, and survivors eventually sold all over the world into slavery. Considering the consequences, perhaps turning the other cheek would be advisable. But it is not good advice in a fairly free world. It is not love to let someone slap you for no good reason. It is not love for a person to allow another person to be a psychopath and it is no love for your self to be slapped. It is simply Christian passivity, and the actions of a coward.
    If you love someone, you stop him when he is doing or saying bad things. If you love yourself, you don't let someone hit you again and you certainly don't turn the other cheek. I don't know what hell Dr. Gabriel went through in Islam to attract him so strongly to the words of Jesus, but passivity is not only immoral but it is an invitation for violence. Sorry sir, but weakness provokes violence just as surely as the lamb calls to the wolf. Getting out of Islam was a good idea, but Christianity shouldn't be teaching you to be blind to reality either.
     Best wishes to you and welcome to America. Thank you for your brave fight to educate Americans about how dangerous and totalitarian Islam can be especially when we have tyrants like Hillary Clinton dismissing anyone who sees the evil side of Islam as "an Islamophobe."
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major
"The measure of a man
 Is not what he says,
 But what he does,
 And what he allows others'
 To do in his presence."
  -US Navy Seal Instructor

Hillary Post

     I would like to urge all anti-Hillarys to put on the back window of their car or truck this: "She's Above The Law!" If we do that all over the country, we will make a powerful statement. It's on the back of my Colorado truck in Brattleboro, Vermont. Let's see it all over America! When you put it up, call (not text) me 352-359-0850 or email me at peternickerson12@yahoo.com. Individuals cooperating together can make a difference. Let's do it! Pete Nickerson

Koranic Contradictions

    One of the major contradictions in the Koran is the 114 verses that speak of love, peace, and forgiveness. These verses were "heard" by Muhammad in Medina where he had to tread lightly and look nice as there was much opposition to his new religion, which included destroying the statues of other people's gods in public places. It appears that intolerance and respect for other people's property were lacking in Islam from the beginning.
    However, when Muhammad moved to Mecca, he was in a very powerful position having driven out two Jewish tribes and having killed the men of another Jewish tribe,and taken their women, children, and property. Now he didn't have to tread lightly. Now he had "revealed" to him Sura 9:5 ( the Koran is not in chronological order) which said, "Fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them, beleaguer them, lie in wait for them in every strategy (of war)..." This verse is known as the Verse of the Sword, and it abrogates the 114 verses of love, peace, and forgiveness.
    Islamic scholars have attempted to overcome these contradictions by deciding that the more recent verses override (nasikh) the earlier ones. Of course, any thinking person would have to ask why, if Allah was all-knowing and all-powerful,  would he contradict himself? Muhammad headed that question off at the pass by "hearing" Angel Gabriel say that Allah said that any Muslim who questioned anything about Islam should be killed. That's called ad baculum logic - logic of the stick. It's the logic of avoiding bodily harm which brings us back to the lynch pin of radical Islam: force. Why did Muhammad have such an extreme love of force? What happened to him?
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major
"The measure of a man'
 Is not what he says,
 But what he does,
 And what he allows others,
 To do in his presence."
-US Navy Seal Instructor

Crusaders? Defenders, Crybullies!

    If radical Islamists don't get what they want through demanding, pushing, intimidating, and attacking then they falsely play the victim role. They have no pride in acting like men. Instead, they are robots programmed by the myth that Allah spoke to the angel Gabriel who spoke to Muhammad. Among the Koran, the Hadith, and the Sharia every move, every thought, a radical Muslim makes is mandated from the past.
    The following comes from Glenn Beck's book It Is About Islam, page 107 so you can verify, and I hope read on. The Crusades were a response to
Islamic imperialism. The key to understanding radical Islam is the word "force."
Everything is done by force because everything is so horrible, no one would do any of it by free choice. Eventually, force brainwashes the convert, and she comes to love the force. If you or someone else can't defeat the aggressor, most people eventually identify with it, no matter how evil it is.
    The Christian crusades were bracketed before and after by Islamic jihad which means Holy War. Some historians have said that without the Christian Crusades, all of Europe would have gone to the Muslim sword. In 1683, the Muslims from the Ottoman Empire were held back from seizing Vienna.
    It is disgusting that Hellary Clinton can turn her back on all that is happening right now with radical Muslim barbarity and imperialism and call those people who don't want others to be murdered "Islamophobes." Her behavior is divorced from reality. She should be elected president of the Lunatics Club, not president of the United States. Hillary is above the law. There's no controlling her. At least America can control Trump. We've made him apologize at least once during the campaign. Madam Secretary will not and cannot come to heel. If she and Obama gave us the creation of the Islamic State, what catastrophes will be next if she becomes President?
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major
"The measure of a man
 Is not what he says,
 But what he does,
 And what he allows others.
 To do in his presence."
-US Navy Seal Instructor 

How To Defeat Sharia Law MuslimTerrorists

     Voltaire is said to have asked God to make his enemies ridiculous, and God did. In the absence of God, I propose we mortals recognize the ridiculousness off Sharia Law and laugh it out of existence.
     Here's the how and the why: The power in Islam is strictly vertical in that power goes from dictator to a smaller dictator on down. The top dictator is Muhammad who claimed that what he was saying and doing was from the lips of God delivered by Archangel Gabriel over the course of twenty-some years. Therefore, one had to do what Muhammad said as it was the word of God, and death was the penalty of disobedience. The smaller dictators beneath Muhammad were the autocratic rulers and caliphs who claimed authority to interpret what Muhammad said and the authority to execute what they claimed Muhammad said on pain of death to any dissenters. At the end of this absolute power hierarchy was, and still is, the married male. Feminists will love the following, but I remind them that I am now doing the job they have been too cowardly to take up. Again, it is a white male making a difference. It is the Sharia Law Muslim married male who is the final despot in this chain of absolute power. He can beat and kill family members as he wishes. He can have his daughters' genitals cut off and then sewn over so that penetration is extremely painful. The hole left for pee is so little that the woman can only dribble when she pees. The dribble is a widely known sound of sexual mutilation in women. He can divorce any of his up to four wives simply by saying, "I divorce you" three times. He can cast out any of his wives, refuse to divorce her for the rest of her life, and she cannot get a divorce, or date, or remarry. He can kill a daughter who has been raped or has had sex without marriage. The married male decides whom his daughters marry, and daughters have to submit to a hymen check by the bridegroom's family if the parents insist on inspecting the goods. The married male decides if and when his wives can leave the home. He can insist on sex at any time from his wives. In his home, the married male Sharia Law Muslim is an absolutely savage god and dictator if it pleasures him. He may earn his living shoveling donkey dung, but he can go at home at night like a King and demand and get unlimited control over his wives and children. He is a god and a dictator in his home, in his harem.
    The Sharia Law Muslims have learned to use terror well on their converts. Their system of power is starkly vertical, with only a few having power unlike
Western democracies in spite of the "progressives" who try to consolidate all power into administrative agencies that can't be legally challenged. It is also a closed system, like communism, in which there is no way out of it. If a woman leaves her tyrannical husband, she is fair game on the streets for touching, raping and even killing. If she is able to escape, the only place she can go is to a country that is kind and respects the civil rights of women and will take her in as a refugee. Mission about impossible. Short of killing the married men, there is no way, but one, to eliminate this system, especially when it is buttressed and furthered by Arabian oil money.The married men are not going to be talked out of being little gods and dictators. They're hooked on the control, the sex, the unaccountable freedom in their little harems. The only other way except for wiping out the men is ridicule.
    The way they behave must be mocked and disrespected as behavior that is so evil and crazy, that it is absurd. Being manly and having honor are of supreme importance to Sharia Law Muslim men. We must point out that running women's lives is not the measure of a man. We must point out that cutting or rubbing off women's genitals, imprisoning them in their harems, depriving them of their civil rights as individuals and persons of their own is not the measure of a man, but of a weak, effeminate boy. Along with the power of our armed forces, we must and can laugh these women-enslaving parasites out of their ancient ideology and insist on behavior that is respectful of the rights of others. This is our next weapon. Men will let us use it. Boys, especially women-parasite boys, won't.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, peternickerson12@yahoo.com
"The measure of a man'
  Is not what he  says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others,
  To do in his presence."
   -Navy Seal Instructor
   

How Palestinian Immigrants Destroyed Lebanon lV

    Hussein's Black September expulsion of Palestinians from Jordan was a calamity for Lebanon. Lebanon was the only Arab countries of twenty-two to accept Palestinian refugees. That fact needs to be kept in mind as you read the duplicitous sweet talk about Arabs caring about anything beyond their person aggrandizement and the spread of Islam. These Arabic countries had vast spaces in which to put the Palestinian refugees. They had the whole Sinai which the Egyptians had not been able to develop due to the drag of their radical Islamic culture. In addition, Nasser and the other Arab heads of states wanted the Palestinians to be their proxy fighters against Israel. These refugees, plus the high rate of Arab reproduction - another factor the European countries need to keep in mind regarding their Arab immigrants- and the exodus of Christians, who could feel the increased hostility due to the increased number of Arabs and saw the future- all resulted in the Arabs achieving a numerical superiority in Lebanon.
    In addition, the non-Muslims in Lebanon were aware of the terrorism of the PLO headed by Yassar Arafat, who was supported by the Soviet Union and other Muslim countries. The Arabs pushed a mandate to "Liberate Palestine" which meant to drive the Israelis into the sea onto the Palestinians. As they gradually became more blaming of Israel for everything wrong and converted to radical Islam, the Palestinians saw Lebanon as a base to wage war against Israel and have Israel make reprisals in Lebanon rather than the densely packed Palestine.
peternickerson12@yahoo.com- Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
  Is not what he say,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows,
  Others to do in his presence."
    - Navy Seal Instructor

Obama's "Benghazing" Venezuela Now

    Obama abandoned the men and women including two Seals and an American Ambassador at an embassy extension and a CIA station in Benghazi.
Some say a subordinate ordered their rescue, but the order got lost in the shuffle. How come? Why did the President allow that to happen? Isn't that negligence of duty? Give me the money and I'll make the complaint in court.
What was he so busy doing- apologizing about America, the savior of this planet? Now he's doing a benghazi on Venezuela. The people - women, children, and men- are suffering from hunger and thirst due to - once again!- another failed socialist economy, and he is doing nothing. He may not be, but Americans are better than that. I call upon the people of America - We, the people, We, the government- to start pushing our lazy, morally challenged, federal employees to
get moving on aiding Venezuela. If our mostly worthless federal employees, excepting many such as those in the Armed Services, don't respond, I ask that we, the people, start without them. An excellent resource would be getting your pastors involved with collecting food and drink for the Venezuelans. The Venezuelans are so ignorant and brain-washed about economics, that they may hate us capitalists, but helping them survive their socialist economy, now on its last leg, is the right thing to do. I'd go to my Episcopal church but gave up on it a year ago when the high priest showed no interest in the Copts being killed in the Middle East. Hillary and socialism are two peas in the same pods, and people starving to death under socialism is a tragic part of that insane ideology, so I do not expect her to show any initiative as it would be calling attention to the failure of socialism. Let'em die, we're going to stick to our crazy ideology! What else can crazies do? But where is Trump on this?
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major

Palestinian Refugees Destroy Lebanon III

   Great waves of Palestinians sought refuge in Jordan in 1948 and again in 1967 as the Arab nations wages war on the little sliver of land, the Nation of Israel. A
terrorist organization know as the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) was set up inside Jordan and used Jordan as a base of operations to launch terrorist attacks into Israel. From the Gaza, Egypt based high level intelligence officers from the Egyptian armies and task them with inflaming the Arabs in Palestine with hate and paranoia toward Israel, badgering them to become terrorists, and aiding them to strike Israelis. Jordan king, Hussein, did not like such a militant group in his country and in 1970, he had the PLO expelled by force from his country. Thousands of Palestinian Arabs were killed by Jordanian Arabs including the PLO shooters and ordinary people who weren't fighters.
    This exodus out of Jordan hastened the destruction of loving, open, Christian
Lebanon who took in the initially grateful Palestinians. Things quickly changed as writer Brigitte Gabriel showed in Because They Hate.
    History is prelude. What the Palestinian Muslims did in beautiful, Christian Lebanon in spite of the efforts of Israel who was endlessly, and unfactually villified, is happening to Europe. She is now taking in Muslim refugees from Islamic Sharia Law countries, and Saudi Arabia is following right behind them with billions of petrodollars, investing them in pro-terrorism activities, such as building mosques in Europe. For Saudi Arabia to do that shows great and unmanly hypocrisy to the world and ill-will to the millions of poor people in the oil-rich Arabic lands. The hypocrisy is that Saudi Arabia builds mosques all around the world yet will not allow Jews, Christians, and other religious people to build temples or churches in Saudi Arabia. Other religions aren't even allowed to practice their religion in Saudi Arabia. This is weak, effeminate behavior on the part of the Saudis. The Saudi should not expect other people to allow their mosques if they won't allow temples and churches in their land. There is no  manhood in being a weasel even if you get what you want. You are still a weasel and not a man. The ill-will the Saudi and other oil billlionaires are showing the poor Arabs in the Middle East is that the billions of petrodollars are going for spreading terrorism -jihad- in other countries rather than trying to improve the lot of the poor by strengthening individual freedom, initiative to invent and innovate so the Arabs have something to sell but oil and camels, education (not religious hate) and property rights, and honesty to get rid of the crippling corruption. These cultural changes would allow people to have more skills and become more employable, and able to make services, innovations, and even inventions that would bring in more money and more and higher-paying employment. Instead, the billions go to promoting hate and jihad.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary,
"The measure of a man
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others,
  To do in his presence."
    Navy Seal Instructor

Why NotTo Join The Islamic State

    It is the end of the work- week in America and time to see what I have learned this week, if anything, to try to dissuade you from the faith of Sharia Islam which I believe is a totalitarian faith of hate and death and is the Islamic State's faith upon pain of death or maybe conversion or maybe submission with many indignities including criminal acts rained down upon you as a non-person. Giving up the faith is a death sentence also. My reading has led to understanding Islamic heaven as a place you don't want to be in. It is very concentrated on animal satisfaction- shade for comfort, non-intoxicating wine for drink, and part-women and boys for sex. The part-women, the "houri," are only part women, as described in the Quran, and the rest of them is something else. They also regrow their hymens after each act of genital penetration so that they are always virgins. The Quran doesn't address if these creatures feel continued discomfort being perpetually deflowered. I would think they would. Having sex with boys is a perversion that no one should look forward to. The Catholic Church has had to pay dearly in reputation for allowing that perversion by its priests, and Islam should too. That perversion needs to be stricken from the Quran immediately. My copy of the Quran tries to hide the practice by saying "...youths like unguarded pearls..." That's not good enough. Boys for sex in Islamic paradise has to go. The Quran is not perfect and must be changed in a big way to reflect this change. Child sexual abuse must be eliminated as a promise in Islamic paradise.
    Take a look at it: You're promised sex with only intact hymens on part-human women and sex with boys. If you're a fairly normal person, where on the spectrum from heaven to hell, does life in Islam's Paradise lie? I'd say on the hell end. I wouldn't want to be there. Why would you?
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
 Is not what he says,
 But what he does,
 And what he allows others,
 To do in his presence."
  -Navy Seal Instructor
"Free Will is your ability to be rational in spite of irrational ideas from your genes and your experiences including the one you are presently having." Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major
















 

Lebanon Destroyed By Palestinian Immigration II

    The second onslaught of immigration from Palestine came because of the Six-Day War of 1967. Palestinians again became refugees in Lebanon and Jordan with the same expectation that the Israelis would be destroyed, and they could return home. Again, Gabriel does not mention Palestinians being forced out of Israel or persecution of them there. Israel was not destroyed, and the refugee population in Jordan and Lebanon increased. Yassar Arafat's PLO set up a small state within Jordan and waged guerilla warfare on Israel until King Hussein ordered his armies to drive the PLO out of Jordan. The armies killed thousands of the PLO and thousands of Palestinian civilians. This "Black September" campaign stabilized Jordan at the expense of Lebanon which like Merkel's Germany kept its borders open to the refugees out of short-sighted compassion. Refugees as refugees make your heart ache, but as new citizens, plugged into social service support, they can become cold-blooded murderers especially if Sharia Muslims.
    On the American scene, I applaud the graffiti artist's rendering of Governor LePage in KKK robes. Both have the right to their free speech. The devil or the reality is in the details, and I'd suggest that the cartoon should be given 24 hours on the wall, and then another graffiti artist could be legally free to make his cartoon. I found LePage unbelievable for his statement that he was worried that giving the antidote to heroin users who had overdosed might encourage others to overdose. First rule, Governor: Do no harm. People's lives come first. It was such a typical Country Club Republican statement! I thought even Down Easterners were beyond that.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others,
  To do in his presence."
   -Navy Seal Instructor
"Free Will is the ability to be think and act rationally in spite of irrational impulses from your genes and your experiences, including the experience you are presently in."- Peter Nickerson

Sharia Islam's Paradise

    I have been reading Islam for about two months trying to find a way to dissuade people from being converted to Sharia Islam. This jihad has been hampered by a terrible memory, and I ask the reader for some mercy with my generalities. For instance, I have just read - doubtlessly I have read it before, of a prominent person, a general, I think, in the Philippines, who said something like, "How can we defeat the Muslims when they look down the barrel of our guns and see Paradise?" Well, of course, they die even if they die willingly, but he is surely alluding to the fact that there are many more to replace each dead fighter because of their belief in a very happy, happy heaven. This is the main Achilles' heel of Sharia Islam. First, this happy, happy heaven is based not on evidence, except supposedly what Muhammad believed he heard from the angel, Michael during his visits to the cave, while riding, and even giving speeches during which he fell into some kind of fit or seizure. I have yet to read a comment about anyone else seeing the angel. In America, it is certainly your prerogative to believe in what you wish, that is, have faith in what you want to have faith in. That is why America in spite of the damage done by the freedom haters is still the greatest land in the world. You can have whatever faith you want, however far out others think it is, and you can openly discuss your faith to those willing to listen. This is very, very different from the Islamic State which Americans don't even know about accurately. This is because our freedom hating president has ordered the military not to report land the IS is taking only land it is losing. But as I have said repeatedly, Obama is best understood as a Shia Muslim not a patriotic American. You could not say this about your caliphate even if you believe it in the IS. Don't you think an individual should be able to be able to do that? Are you not more than a camel or an ass? No one owns you, and has the right to tell you what to think and say.
    Another problem with the Islamic heaven is that it is extremely low-brow in that it rewards you with sex, non-intoxicating wine, and shade. Aren't you more than a camel or an ass? How about compatible friends, schools and universities, libraries,movie theaters, lecture halls computers, TVs, and travel? The Muslims I've been around were very intelligent. Do they become brain dead in Islamic heaven?
    The other problem with Islamic heaven is the sex. Sexually having boys like "unguarded pearls" is illegal as well as morally wrong in the modern world. Besides, where do these boys come from? Do they want to serve as whores? Have their parents- not that they can legally today- agreed to their son's whoring in paradise? Who is the defeated warrior who had the most handsome son around and would not willingly hand him over to the caliph for the caliph's sexual pleasure? So the caliph killed them both. Does Protective Services for Children know about this use of children in Islam heaven? They are probably on the way. It is 2016. We know that the IS makes sex slaves of boys as well as girls and women, so obviously these men would like to pursue that perversion in heaven, but do individual Muslims support this? If you took a free, honest vote, would the "ummah" support boy sex slaves in paradise? Are the Muslims even free to say whether they support it or not? They would be accused of apostasy, wouldn't they? Which means death. Look how individuals have been free in the West to confront the criminal Catholic Church for allowing priests to get away with making their altar boys sex-slaves. Don't you Muslims, especially the Sharia ones, want that kind of freedom? Have you no concept of the civil rights of a human being? Can you not see a person as a non-slave to Muslim,  as a sovereign person, able to look at the evidence, think, and choose for himself? Who has the right to enslave you? Allah? And that's because Mohammad had a fit and said so? Are you sure you want to base a life of total slavery - they'd kill you for your thoughts if they could (and you know that!)- on Mohammad? He was not God, you know. He was a man. The consequences of being a man is that you are not perfect. You Sunni, as compared to the Shia, know that.
    Another problems is with the "houri." the part human female sex slaves who have their hymen restored after each act of intercourse. Who wants to have sex with only a half-human? For many of the men being killed in the IS and in other terrorists groups, they not have had intercourse. If they have intercourse in heaven with only a part human, they have never had sex with a human woman. How sad! It is also sad that a religion has two faces about sex: On earth, it has to be with a wife, temporary wife, sex slave or boy. In heaven, it can be with many part-human women who become virgins after each act or many boys. The results are that observant Muslims boys are sex-starved on earth yet satiated in heaven. Why not more sex on earth so you can have a human, female partner rather than some robotic houri in heaven who has to go through the discomfort of having her hymen broken every time she has sex?  Or be a pervert and have a boy?
    I have read of Morocco's Mohammad VI supposedly implying, as recorded by the Wall Street Journal, that modern Muslims don't believe in the Islamic heaven as described in the Quran. My first reaction was that was simply more Islamic deceit "for the religion." Why do you have to lie for the religion? Perhaps, though Muhammad VI was correct: it is a growing conclusion in the ummah that the Quranic heaven not longer applies, it is outmoded. If so what are you now thinking when you look into the barrel of a gun? Something sane like "this was not worth it?"
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others,
  To do in his presence."
   - Navy Seal Instructor
"Free Will is the ability to be rational in spite of your genes and your experiences including the one you are presently experiencing." Peter Nickerson

The Destruction of Lebanon by Palestinian Immigrants l

    First, word on the home front: I see that Cooter of The Dukes of Hazzard" is going to close one of his show memorabilia stores because the snots in power won't let his customers park behind his store because it's zoned commercial. We're the government -employees, that is,- and we're here to seize and plunder
even in Tennessee. The government employees don't like the redneck culture that is sold in Cooter's stores. Instead of allowing the people, the real government, decide, the government employees,  decide what "should" be allowed. There's no freedom in this, only tyranny. If people didn't want the store, they wouldn't shop there, and Cooter would have to close.
But the parasite government as well as individuals out in the community disdain freedom except freedom to do, say, and sell what they want done, said, and sold.
In other words, they are tyrants trying to legislate culture. Cooter, I knew Jerry Rushing on whom the Dukes of Hazzard is based. We talked on the telephone for years about black panthers and Bigfoot. I'm sure the weak, effeminate "men" would sniff about those topics too. I mention men because generally I don't think women are that interested in freedom. I think they look to comfort in which to raise their children and enjoy themselves. By and large, I think it is men who are idealistic, who want to climb the mountains. But men too are threatened by the controlling government employees and controlling wives. That's why so many married women with two kids say, "I have three children." Men need to realize they can survive for a good while without sex from a woman and without her paycheck, that their manhood is more important than sexual release and more toys. In the West you see, it is widely stated that the rooster and the hen switch identities upon marriage which is vastly different than marital affairs under Sharia Islam where the woman stays in a very inferior position all her life usually.
    The first wave of Palestinians immigrants came in 1948-9, after Israel declared its right as a nation, and was promptly invaded by the five Arab countries around her, including Lebanon. The Arab nations had asked Arabs to leave Israel and promised them they could come back as soon as the five nations drove the Jews into the sea. Brigitte Gabriel, author of Because They Hate doesn't say whether the Arabs in Israel would have been safe with the Jews during this Arabic attack. Could the Jews possibly have that kind of restraint? I know the Arabs wouldn't if they were in the Jews' position. However, the Jews weren't run into the sea. Remarkably, they won, and Lebanon, Gabriel's home, took in 180,000 Palestinian Arabs. The Lebanese and the United Nations National Works Agency set up refugee camps in and around Sidon, Tyre, Tripoli, and the then-beautiful capital, Beirut, the Paris of the Middle East. This was the first of three waves of immigrants that rocked and eventually sank Lebanon, the former Phoenicia.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man,
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others,
  To do in his presence."
    -Navy Seal Instructor
"Free Will is the ability to be rational in spite of the irrational urges from your genes and your experiences."- Peter Nickerson

Christians Buck Up To ISIS

    Being weak is provoking violence. It's not fair, it's just reality. Turning the other cheek when the other one is slapped is not of loving thing to do. How does it express love? It doesn't. It only expresses weakness, and it's almost guaranteed to get you another slap.
    The Islamic State, that cancer of hate and death, killed Christians across Iraq and Syria after President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton pulled American troops out, knowing full well that they had created the opportunity for the colonization of the unguarded area for the Sharia fighters. In northern Iraq, these Sharia terrorists pushed thirty thousand Christians out of the Nineveh Plain where Christians had lived since about the time of Christ according to Robert Spencer's The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS, pp. 126-27.
    In the early part of 2015, the Christians of Iraq stopped turning the other cheek and did the most loving thing: they started fighting back, making it more difficult for the Islamists to sin by murdering people. They received no support from any of the employees of any of the Western governments, but eventually elements of America's true government, the people, began to respond to the Christians' plight. For instance, an Army veteran, Sean Rowe, started the Veterans Against ISIS trying to get American veterans to go fight the cowardly, insane ISIS terrorists in Iraq. A Marine veteran joined an Iraqi militia to fight. Others followed. These were heroic men.
    By "heroic" I do not mean that everything these men did in life was heroic. I mean that they were heroic to go to Iraq and fight the crazed and torturing ISIS
whimps who blow up innocents and rape eight year-olders of both sexes.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man,
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others,
  To do in his presence."
   - Navy Seal Instructor
"Free Will is your ability to be rational in spite of the irrational urges of your genes and your experiences." Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, fighting with the troops the best way I can.

Burkini Or Aquatic Body Bag Ban Lifted At One French Beach

    The burkini or aquatic body bag ban was lifted at one beach in France by order of France's highest court. There are about 29 more localities with the ban according to the Wall Street Journal p A10, 8-29-2016. However, the bans are so  popular that the politicians on both the right and left side of the assembly are supporting them. Nicolas Sarkozy is planning to run for the presidency again, and he wants even more bans of Muslim clothing.
    Why are the French so prissy and controlling? Don' they believe in the freedom of the individual or just the freedom of the collective to take away the freedoms of the individual? They are acting like Sharia Muslims. What moral authority are they going to have to stiffen their world renowned limp spines when the Sharia Muslims have enough immigrants in France to go to these beaches and protest all the skin being shown by people in bikinis and who are naked?
You know that is the next step to the Muslim interest in the beaches. The government employees won't be able to use the principle of the sanctity of individual rights, because they have already walked over that principle in banning burkinis or aquatic body bags. They will have no moral grounds, and it will simply be force. The force of the unprincipled, weak French over Sharia Islamists steeped in the religion of hate and death? No contest.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others,
  To do in his presence."
   -Navy Seal Instructor
"Free Will is the ability to act rationally in spite of irrational urges from your genes and your experiences." Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major.

King Mohammad VI's Speech

    According to the Wall Street Journal, page A9, 8-27/28-2016, there was a major development with the totalitarian religion of Islam. King Mohammed VI of Morocco is reported to have asked in an important speech on August 20 this: "Can anyone of sound mind believe that the reward for Jihad could be some virgins in Paradise? Is it conceivable that anyone who listens to music will be swallowed by the Earth?"
    It is not conceivable to me that Muslims aren't demonstrating in the streets over those questions. Such blasphemy! Is it because the king is considered to be a direct heir of Mohammed, the founding prophet of Islam? Ever since the 8th Century, men have been giving their lives more willingly because of the promise of 72 virgins in Paradise. In fact, during battle Mohammed allegedly informed one of his trusted lieutenants of the sexual situation in heaven that he would earn if if he died in battle. The warrior wanted the virgins in perpetuity so much that he went directly to the front line of the battle and got himself killed. Of course. people believe that promise, as low brow and teenage as it is. Was the King really saying people shouldn't believe that there is such a heaven as well as saying they shouldn't believe music listeners would be swallowed by the earth? If he was saying that, I salute him, but where is the response from the Sharia Muslims? Why am I not reading on the Internet of any explosive and of course, threatening, responses to these remarks? Did the Wall Street Journal get it wrong? Or have Muslims all decided that describing a Paradise that sounds more like a whorehouse in the sky was too immature and have discarded it? So what are the Islamo- Fascists offering their suicide bombers now - a free trip to Disneyland before they blow others and themselves up? I don't think that's going to work.
    I feel like I'm missing something here. Or was what the king of Morocco said planned deceit? In other words, "We believe in the great whorehouse in the sky and people listening to music being swallowed up by the earth, but we know it makes us look mad or hopelessly primitive to the modern world, so we are going to pretend to the modern world we don't believe in these things so we won't be institutionalized or ridiculed." In other words, is it just like the Arab States signing the United Nations Charter that they will respect the inviolable rights of individuals and then passing resolutions back home taking back those rights?
    I can't believe I am so perceptive that there are no other comments about these two amazing things the king said, especially the abrogation of Islamic heaven. I must be missing a lot, but hope not.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others,
  To do in his presence."
   - Navy Seal Instructor
"Free Will is your ability to be rational in spite of the irrational urges from your genes and your experiences."
   - Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major

Review of Sharia in Book, "Islam And Democracy" lll

    Sharia Islam has a visceral rejection of the equality of human beings in direct violation of the United Nations Charter so instead of being honest, the Arab states, of course, lied by signing the charter and then erected national "reservations," and "amendments" to deny the provisions of the United Nations Charter. If they hadn't done that, these states would have appeared at the diplomatic level to have been primitive and savage, as they really were. So the representatives deceitfully and so manly signed on to the charter while their states negated everything they signed onto. Of course, the diplomats of the other countries were lazy or simply playing along in that they did not see what these states had done and confronted them at the United Nations about their dishonesty. This is only one example of how the Islamic states present a false face of modernity in New York but remain a slaughterhouse at home. Mernissi observes that the Arab nations use the United Nations for manipulation and hypocrisy. p 67
    Recently, women have been using academics as a way to escape the harem condition and have taken to the streets to demonstrate. Mernissi applauds their lack of pretension and stilted language, which she finds are bothersome characteristics of the leftists. The educated women are demonstrating against the suffocating Sharia and are contrasting it to the United Nations Charter. The charter, though, has a Trojan Horse that Mernissi doesn't see apparently. It is that after all the rights of the individual are given in the document, there is an escape clause that these rights can be abrogated by the United Nations. They are not inalienable rights as the American Constitution recognizes rights to be. That is an enormous difference: the difference between everything and nothing. So the United Nations Charter has its own despicable, unmanly "reservation" or "amendment" that flushes civil rights down the toilet like a silly, little turd. Bye! Bye, rights! Weren't we clever despots! Amazing how stupid and unassertive people can be not to see our escape clause and kick our lying asses for it! p163
    This does not mean Fatema Mernissi misses all the tricks and yes, buts. She catches on that the Islamic countries can declare that the hijab or face mask is mandatory and that will make more jobs available for men as many places will not employ those wearing the mask. Calling for the wearing of the face mask is also a signal that women working outside the home is not legitimate, and in the tyranny of Islam it is vital to recognize what the authorities are signaling before they institute their draconian punishments. Women will quit their jobs to go back to the harem, giving men more jobs. Finally, Mernissi recognizes that oil money has made possible the rigid authoritarianism that is deaf to compassion, a quality that is supposedly so important to Islam. She writes, "A better term for fundamentalism in Saudi Arabia would be petro-Wahhabism, whose pillar is the veiled woman." p166
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others.
  To do in his presence."
    - Navy Seal Instructor
"Free Will is your ability to be rational in spite of the irrational urges from your genes and your experiences."
 -Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major

Review of Sharia in Book, "Islam And Democracy"lll

    Sharia Islam has a visceral rejection of the equality of human beings in direct violation of the United Nations Charter so instead of being honest, the Arab states, of course, lied by signing the charter and erecting national "reservations," and "amendments" to deny the provisions of the United Nations Charter. If they hadn't done that, these states would have appeared at the diplomatic level to have been primitive and savage, as they really were. So the representatives deceitfully and so manly signed on to the charter while their states negated everything they signed onto. Of course, the diplomats were lazy or simply playing along in that they did not see what these states had done and confronted them at the United Nations about their dishonesty. This is only one example of how the Islamic states present a false face of modernity in New York but remain a slaughterhouse at home. Mernissi observes that the Arab nations use the United Nations for manipulation and hypocrisy. p 67
    Recently, women have been using academics as a way to escape the harem condition and have taken to the streets to demonstrate. Mernissi applauds their lack of pretension and stilted language, marks of the Marxists. The educated women are demonstrating against suffocating Sharia and are contrasting it to the United Nations Charter. The charter has a Trojan Horse that Mernissi doesn't advise us of. It is that after all the rights of the individual are given there is the caveat that these rights can be abrogated by the state. They are not inalienable rights as the American Constitution recognizes. That is an enormous difference: the difference between everything and nothing. So the United Nations Charter has its own despicable, unmanly "reservation" or "amendment" that flushes human civil rights down the toilet like a little turd. Bye! Bye, rights! Weren't we despots clever! Amazing how stupid and unassertive people can be not to see our escape clause and kick our lying asses! p163
    This does not mean Fatema Mernissi misses all the tricks and yes, buts. She catches on that the Islamic countries can declare that the hijab or face mask is mandatory and that will make more jobs available for men as many places will not employ those wearing the mask. Calling for the wearing of the face mask is also a signal that women working outside the home is not legitimate, and in the tyranny of Islam it is vital to recognize what the authorities are signaling before they institute their draconian punishments. Finally, Mernissi recognizes that oil money has made possible the rigid authoritarianism that is deaf to compassion.
She writes, "A better term for fundamentalism in Saudi Arabia would be petro-Wahhabism, whose pillar is the veiled woman."

A Review of Sharia in "Islam And Democracy" Part ll

 In the time of the Mutazila, the time of reason, peace, and intellectual advances ended with the Abbasid dynasty embracing sharia and stripping it of it's questioning, speculative dimension and imams became blood-thirsty tyrants. Reasoning died to mean faith wielded by a tyrannical sharia. pp 36-7
    Sharia became a strict interpretation based on Allah's revealed knowledge in the Arabic language only. This continued to weld reason and personal opinion -thinking aloud- to charges that these activities were weakening Islam and aiding the enemy. p 39 Since these activities were not discussed in Islamic culture, when other Western ideas were brought to the Islam world such as democracy and constitutions, the Islamic people weren't prepared for them and these ideas were rejected and suppressed by the imams.p 48
    Mernissi says the the Koran is for Islam what the United Nations Charter is for democracy. She is wrong for the United States is the fountainhead and main supporter of democracy, but let us go on with Mernissi. She says this charter is a superlaw that gives citizens the freedom to think. We Americans say that is an inalienable right. It comes before birth, and is a part of our being, not something that a mere and pompous government confers upon us. Then she says that sharia condemns freedom of thought. This is another vindication of what I have told you: Sharia means death. In this example, it kills even an unborn baby, and demands that he come out of the womb brain-dead, and like a robot do and "think" only what the total war religion of Sharia Islam tells him to do and think.
He has no freedom to have thoughts. His thoughts are what he's told to think. Is this your idea of yourself - as Sharia's brain-dead person who will be guided not by your own thoughts, not by rationality, but by dictates commanded by force including torture and death. If Sharia Islam is so good, so perfect, why does it have to spread by force, by the sword? If it were really a good religion, wouldn't people flock to it willingly? God knows, the world is certainly aware of Sharia!
If it's good, its goodness will speak to all of us, far and wide. It will not need force or the sword. It needs force and the sword, and the gun and the cowardly bomb that kills innocents because Sharia is bad and despicable! That is why!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man,
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And allows others to do,
  In his presence."
  - Navy Seal Instructor

"Your free will is your ability to be rational in spite of your genes and your
experiences including the one you are having right now." Peter Nickerson, William and Mary Philosophy Major.
P.S. I know we use the bomb that kills innocents too. If you read me, You know I don't support drone use that kills innocents. As far as trying to take back cities from ISIS using bombs, I wonder instead about alternative methods such a war between snipers - but then how do you defend your soldiers against the bombs from ISIS? - and I think about other weapons hinted at in the Wall Street Journal as a pulse gun. But I read there that the Red Cross is against them. If they work, why don't we have the spine to use them anyway? Is it because our president is best understood as an Iranian Islamist? Are our military-industrial-government people against less lethal, more discriminate ways to wage war? Why do our whistle-blowers suffer so much, and why is there less transparency after whistle-blowers blow? We are not perfect, but we have the freedom to think and question what the powerful are doing, and change what they are doing through voting. Sharia Islam does not have that. We are largely self-correcting. Sharia is not. It is still back in the most barbaric part of the Medieval Times and is trying to remain there. Its only defense of itself is death. It can't defend itself except through the death spectrum - frowns, warnings, insults, violence, torture, mutilations, and finally the end of the spectrum: death. It has to conquer the world to survive- to quell all dissent, all freedom of thought. I pity you.

Pigs and Islamist Terrorists lll

    In 1682 and again in 1683, French Admiral Abraham Duquesne visited Algiers with a new and terrible weapon, the mortar. The French consul in town, an old, saintly Vincentine priest by the name of Jean Le Vacher was not able to persuade the French admiral to stop the bombing. He only promised to returned the next year.  He returned the second time with the intention of destroying Algiers. His presence caused a shakeup in the government of the town, and the new dey or governor was the captain of the galleys, Mezzo Morto. He warned the French admiral that every Frenchman in town, beginning with the saintly Jean Le Vacher would be strapped across the muzzle of a huge cannon and the cannon fired if the French admiral did not leave. The admiral began using the terrifying mortars, and the dey began having Frenchman splayed across the huge cannon and splattered into the bay. About twenty innocent French were killed by the murderous Muslims using the mouth of the cannon. The gunner, a renegade from Holland, who actually fired the cruel cannon reportedly suffered from nightmares the rest of his life.
    This could be one of the unintended consequences of decapitating captured Muslim terrorists. The issue of whether someone could do such bloody executions without suffering PTSD would have to be addressed. Is this why the Muslim terrorists like beheading their prisoners- because to other Muslims it means that that person is not going to Paradise if he were a Muslim? If it is, the West may have a tool for the war on Muslim terrorism if we have the resolve to use it on them. It will only take a couple of suicide bombings in America, before we Americans will be strong enough to do it. Again we have a great responsibility to the Special Forces, whom I give the alternate title of the Wolverines, because of their great courage, ferocity, determination, endurance, and the love they have for their children. We do not want to cripple the Wolverines in their service to the country and their buddies whom they depend upon for their lives. All too often in the military being macho gets confused with being stupid. For example, I give you the" clank-clank, I'm a tank" mentality.That mentality was dead set against the autonomy and improvisation of the special operator. The tankers held to a rigid central command and control format which was way too slow and uninformed by today's fluid battlefield. Having Special Forces and other military groups performing beheadings needs study to be sure we're not asking our men and women to lose their minds doing it.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
References:
1. The Pirates of Barbary (2010) by Adrian Tinniswood
2. The Wolverine Way (2010) by Douglas Chadwick
"The measure of a man
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others
  To do in his presence."
   -Navy Seal Instructor
 

Pigs and Islamist Terrorists ll

    Serendipitously, I found another alleged way to stop attacks by Islamists. I read this last night in Adrian Tinniswood's Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests, and Captivity in the 17th -Century Mediterranean, and it began with "The Moroccan qaid, or chieftain, Umar ben Haddu, was camped with an army of 7,000 men less than a mile from town, and his troops were digging a network of trenches and cross-trenches which was coming closer and closer to the forts that defended the English lines....Just before dawn the Moors retreated without having managed to breach the wall, and Wilson, still not daring to open the gates of the fort, let down five men on ropes to clear away the timber seigeworks and burn them. They also decapitated two of the corpses left behind by Umar's army and raised the heads on poles 'in sight of the Moorish camp, which all of the nation hold for the greatest indignity that can be put upon them, because according to their Mahometan superstition, they hold that when they die, their bodies immediately are translated into paradise, but if they are dismembered they can in no wise enter.'"
    To a literalist, this is confusing: the Muslims' head weren't severed immediately so they are already in the supposed great whorehouse in the sky by the time the English dared to get to their dead bodies the next day. So why bother to decapitate them and display their heads? Is it possible they were hoping that the Muslims would think their comrades had been killed by decapitation and therefore weren't going to the whorehouse in the sky?
    But this may give us something to use.  If it is true that death by decapitation denies entrance into the Great Whorehouse In The Sky, we can exploit this by killing and decapitating Islamic terrorists and putting the proceedings on YouTube videos for the world to see. Instead of sending drones with missiles that kill innocents- a grievous wrong as well as a huge mistake as it causes hate for us all over the world [Is this why President Obama insists on using drones over Special Forces?] and it increases the recruitment of terrorists, we can send in Special Forces where possible. Special Forces shoot as accurately kill and discriminately as man can, and they can possibly capture or wound the terrorists, decapitate them, record the proceedings and put the videos on YouTube as proof. Then ISIS and all the other Muslim terrorist groups could no longer guarantee their fighters paradise if they were killed in jihad. This should make jihad dramatically less appetizing.
Reference: Pirates of Barbary (2010) by Adrian Tinniswood. pages 217-8.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others,
  To do in his presence."
   -Navy Seal Instructor

Pigs and Islamists

    Having seen how government employees and their lackeys, by and large, the professionals, handled the question of the panthers' existence including the black panther in both Florida and Vermont, I am skeptical of any statements from them, especially ones that also deride anyone with contrary thoughts as happened in Florida. It did not happen in Vermont, by the way. Vermonters were very polite and much more reflective. Hence, I'm going to open the old question of whether pigs will deter Islamic violence. I have great respect for people on the front lines particularly versus the pompous blowhards at their desks with their degrees on the walls. In looking at some of the Internet comments about this topic, I saw one allegedly from a soldier who claimed that when he was serving in Iraq, he was asked by the Iraqi if his bullets were tipped with pig blood.
    Supposedly, Army Colonel Alexander Rodgers under General Pershing in 1911 used pig parts usefully to deter the fanatical, and all too successful swordsmen, the Juramentos, in the Philippines. More recently, an Israeli official is said to have suggested pig use.
There seems to be no deterrent for Islamic suicide bombers especially when the explosives can be carried beneath a woman's body bag. At this point, training Labradors to detect them by smell seems the best detection, leading one to think that the responsible citizens now needs not only to carry a gun and knife and be trained in the martial arts and weight lifting, but also to be accompanied by a lab trained in explosives detection. I wonder if a Muslim suicide bomber knew his remains would be buried in a pigskin sack, if that would that make him wonder if he were really going to that supposed giant whorehouse in the sky and thus cause him to stop his plans or even give him some hesitation and unease so his stress might be visible out on the street as he was about to blow himself up as well as kill - what was the latest one, 51 people enjoying a wedding?- and mutilating many others.
    If this is going to provoke the sniffers and the screamers, bring it. I'll love it. But if anyone has anything that is evidence-oriented that pigs would be effective against Islamist suicide bombers, I'd like to see it in my comments section of this blog.
Thanks.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
 "The measure of a man,
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others,
  To do in his presence."
   -Navy Seal Instructor

Slavery And Saudi Arabia

    Just as the Western feminists have vilified the white man, the most compassionate men in the world and completely ignored the sexual mutilation of Islamic girls and women, now the crybullies on American campi are villifying long-dead white men for being slaveholders but turning a cowardly, blind eye to the fact that the Saudi Arabian government was still selling slaves in 1964, the year I entered William and Mary. The crybullies who are also demanding "safe areas" on campuses where they won't have to see anything or anyone they might disagree with obviously lack courage. They won't attack Saudi Arabia for having slavery well within my lifetime because there are people and more importantly, organizations that will push back and possibly threaten them or worse. The students - actually non-students because they don't want to learn - are afraid of confrontation. They are bullies who only want to attack dead men who have no one and no organization to defend them.
    I have no problem demanding that vestiges of slavery be obscured in public places. I would not want to have streets, monuments, or other public places named after communists. At the same time, the crybullies' selectivity of targets shows their cowardliness. I understand that universities are designing "safe areas" for the crybullies. I hope these areas are giant wombs, and the crybullies will go into them and grow up.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
    "The measure of a man,
      Is not what he says,
      But what he does,
      And what he allows others,
      To do in his presence."
        - Navy Seal Instructor

France and Burkinis

    The French are not brave with glorious exceptions like the valiant men, women, and children who fought in the French Underground during WW ll. The French are not free either if we look at the distaste the French premier has for Mulim women wearing the so-called burkini at the beach. It appears to be simply the regular body bag that Muslim Sharia women are forced to become captives under. Wall Street Journal carried a picture of a woman wearing one in the water off a beach in Marseille yesterday. The French premier supported local bans on the garb, making himself against freedom. Freedom would be allowing women to wear their body bags at the beach and in the water. Premier Walls said it was against the values of France and the Republic [and everything else good in the whole wide world too!] for women to cover themselves entirely. Really? If that's even true, the value of France should be freedom to cover yourself if you want to. Whose business is it anyway? We know it is the business of the dress police, the hooligans who harass people for their dress or lack of it in Sharia states, but does France want to ape Sharia? But then again, maybe it's just as well that the French premier seems to be no friend of freedom, because the French have repeatedly shown they don't have the guts to keep themselves free. Again with glorious exceptions.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others,
  To do in his presence."
   - Navy Seal Instructor

Sharia Death In Patents

    Death comes in many forms. One is the lack of creation and innovation of a nation. Freedom supports the greatest growth, and since Sharia is utter submission [a form of death in itself], let's look at some of the Sharia world.
In 2015 the U.S. Patent Office had 3,804 patents from Israel. Compare that to 364 from SaudiArabia, 56 from the United Arab Emirates, and 30 from Egypt. This came from "The Meaning of an Olympic Snub" by Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal.
    Another source credits the entire Arab world in 1998 as producing a pitiful 3 technology patents. The Republic of Korea had 779 in comparison. Between 1980 and 2000, the Arab World had 370 but South Korea had 16,000. This comes from Brigitte Gabriel's book, Because They Hate (2006). Freedom speaks volumes and many patents too.
    If you take away the oil from the Arab world, all they export is death. Compare that to Arab Renaissance in the 8th Century the democratic Mutazila Islam was in ascendancy before being smashed by the Sharia- loving Kharijites. In  that era, Muslims invented algebra and trigonometry.
    Last week, I started walking into The Roost when I heard an elderly couple yelling at their patient German Shepherd in the parking lot. The woman screeched, "I hate you and your f.... dog!" I stopped and watched to see if either struck the poor dog. They didn't, but I called 911 anyway. A smooth, sincere voice told me they would take care of it. Other people were watching too, and we waited for the cops. When one drove by The Roost, I knew they weren't coming. I did not enjoy the prospect of walking over to the SUV of an old, highly irritated, hateful man and telling him to be kind to his dog, but the Seal Instructor poem came to mind, and I did it. The shouting, angry man did not pull a gun. He calmed down immediately, looking around him for the cop I had fruitlessly called. The woman walked over and glued herself to me until I was able to shake her off inside The Roost. She complained, "We've been homeless in Maine for five days, and he gets $3,000 a month, and all he does is buy a dog for $37!" I told her that was no reason not to be kind to the dog, and if the dog got too much for her to call 911 and ask for a dog officer. She was telling me about someone in Afghanistan when I was finally able to escape her. The poor dog has to listen to that and the man's diatribes every day with no way out!
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
 "The measure of a man
   Is not what he says,
   But what he does,
   And what he allows others,
   To do in his presence."
    - Navy Seal Instructor

The Evil Kharijites ll

    The Kharijites frightened the Muslim people for centuries, and they were the ones who initiated terrorism. They would kill the imam if they didn't agree with him, and of course, the imam knew this and would be influenced by that dreadful threat hanging over their heads. Instead of using democracy - trying to achieve support for their view and using the power of the free and secret vote of each adult or man for the narrow-minded Muslims- the Kharijites responded to dissension by violence. And so it remains. Philosophically, Islam is divided into two sects with very different behaviors. The Kharijites are the rebels, and they resort to the sword. The Mutazilas are the philosophers and they use democracy. Though Fatema Mernissi, the author of Islam And Democracy doesn't seem to say so, the sine qua non of democracy is free and secret elections. America had an election where a Black Panther criminal showed up at a voting place with a baseball bat in his hand and walked around displaying it. This was an election for the President of the United States and the weak, unprincipled president in power at the time said nothing about it, pandering to the black voters. But black voters should have been mature enough not to want a black man or any person around a voting station brandishing a baseball bat.
    Due to palace intrigues, the Abbasid Dynasty became corrupted in the tenth century and turned on the Mutazilas who had given Islam a century of enlightenment with scientific inventions that put it at the front of the world. The Kharijite tradition took over and suddenly positive values such as reason, personal opinion, and private initiative including creation and innovation were declared anti-Islamic, foreign, and any other smear the hateful, close-minded rebels with swords could think of. They also hunted down killed all the Mutazilas, whom they now denigrated as philosophers, they could find. The curtain of hate and willful ignorance had fallen. And so it remains.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
 "The measure of a man,
   Is not what he says,
   But what he does,
   And what he allows others,
   To do in his presence."
     -Navy Seal Instructor
 Peter

The Evil Khariijites

    On the other side of the good, democratic, rational, individualistic Mutazilas, we apparently have the evil Kharijites. I was introduced to them in Fatema Mernissi's Muslim psychology book, Islam And Democracy; Fear Of The Modern World. I would like to move through her book to see who these people are and where they came from because they apparently run Islam today and have made it into a death religion.
    I realize that the same could be said of Christianity since Christ is supposedly cited as saying we should be in this world but not of it. Our behavior should not be for living in this world but for getting into heaven. Islam does the same but adds the ridiculous reward of seventy-two virgins. That's a whorehouse, not paradise. What is sacred or holy about fornicating? And seventy-two? What man over forty wants seventy-two supposedly lustful women hounding him?
    The first reference I find in Mernissi's book about the Kharijites is that they come from a tradition of political subversion in which their idea of changing the political situation is simply rebel against the imam and even kill him. Unlike, the good Mutazilas, they have nothing to do with democracy. They hate it. The Kharijites created the rebel tradition in the first decades after the death of Muhammad over the question of whether you must be obedient to the imam if he is not protecting your rights. Do you have to show blind obedience or can you use your own judgment? This is a very Western question which America, for one huge example, answered by breaking away from King George lll and England and becoming America after a long, dicey Revolution. Indeed, the Kharijites answered their own question long before America was formed by declaring that you are not obliged to obey. You can "go out" (kharaja) from obedience. In America too, the rebel tradition was strong and remains so today. Look at the huge popularity of the socialist Bernie Sanders and the celebrity Donald Trump.
Peter Nickerson. Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
    "The measure of a man
      Is not what he says....

Islam And the British

Two years ago, Paul Weston was running for election to the British Parliament and giving speeches to gain support. He was arrested after a speech in Winchester. He had talked about the "curses" of Islam saying it was "dreadful" for the people who believed in it. He had spoken against the truth that "every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property." So slavery for Islam didn't end with the closing of the slave markets in 1964 when I went to college but continues more covertly with women. The book I read during orientation - it had nothing to do with my college - was Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. It made me so guilty about men taking advantage of women, that when my girlfriend of six months said she thought it was time we started having sex like adults did, I replied, "I don't want to push you into it." With that, she changed from sitting next to me, which she had just done for the first time and which I loved, to resume sitting on the far side of the car. Of course, she could have said, "I'm not pushing you into anything. I want it too." We were very timid and unassertive back then. But I do not recall the great Betty Friedan, who was supposedly looking after the world of women, saying a thing about how Islam treated women. It was simply the beginning of the feminists' cowardly trick- beat up the white guys who are already the nicest to women of all the males in the world. And white men have been beaten ever since until if you look at an American couple today, it seems that women with their boots, long hair, tight derrieres, and big chests. and tight pants are the strong, martial ones of the pair while the white man pads along with his skinny legs, loose t-shirt, no chest, shorts,flip-flops, and no hair. He looks like his partner's clown.
    So  a white man stands up in England and gives a gutsy, accurate speech about Islam, and the other white men who have been canned into submission and milquetoast discourse can't stand it and have him arrested. His charge is "suspicion of religious/racial harassment." How can you harass a religion? Did Islam say "ouch!" when Weston revealed its nature. Of course, it didn't. Islam is a concept: it is not a living organism. Something has to have life to harass it. Islam has no life. In fact, it is anti-life, wanting to keep everyone culturally in the burning sands of Arabia in the 7th Century. It cannot deal with life except through death and the threat of death. It is a death religion. The only thing it can do is encourage and demand death. By "Islam," I am speaking of the present, dominant form of Islam - alas!- the Kharajite or Sharia strain. The pusilanimous white British didn't say he was wrong because the real facts were ..... No, like children, they called him names like "Islamophobe." So he was arrested, but fortunately the police dropped the charges.
    Thankfully, the Sharia cat in Europe is belling itself now rather than later when there would be too many Muslims to fight and win. The British can see, if they have become stronger in the last two years that the description Paul Weston made of the Islam sect presently in power was spot on. England must lead. The French are gutless. The Germans are passive because of the Nazis. There is fog in the Channel. The continent is cut off.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '64, William and Mary
"The measure of a man
 Is not what he says,
 But what he does,
 And what he allows others,
 To do in his presence."
   - Navy Seal Instructor
Peter Nickerson,

17th Century Islam ll

    Christian Europe was scared of the Islamic Empire. After Constantinople was taken by the Muslims in 1453, the major Catholic powers in the Mediterranean, Spain and Venice, were very anxious about Islam replacing Christianity in Europe by conquest. Protestants in northern Europe were anxious too. Congregations in Germany prayed for protection from the Turks, and their ministers warned the married men that the Muslims would rob them of their families whom they would mistreat and rob them of their possessions, and finally rob them of their belief in Christ and replace it by force with the Islamic devil, Mahomet. People were warned repeatedly that the Muslims and Saracens were not far from their doors. By the beginning of the 17th Century, Islam was being called "the present terror of the world."For centuries later, we could now say that Sharia Islam was the present terror of the world.
    I'd like to move to the Criminal vs Jerk national elections to say that Trump was correct in calling President Obama the founder of the Islamic State because he created the vacuum in Iraq and Syria by withdrawing the American counter-
Crusaders. He was so adamant about a light bootprint and no American fighting in the Sandbox that he refused to send troops to rescue the American Ambassador, two Seals, and a State Department communications experts at the besieged CIA station in Benghazi. He murdered these men, and Hillary went along with it in return for a pass from the FBI and the "Justice" Department on her criminal use of a private, unsecured email server. After Obama cleared out the counter-Crusaders in Iraq and Syria, a vacuum was created, and ISIS rushed into the vast, empty area and declared it a caliphate named the Islamic State. So you see how Trump is right: President Obama is the founder of the Islamic State in that he made the land available for it. I have repeatedly written that the best way for Americans to understand why Obama acts as he does is to see him as a lone-wolf, Islamic soldier. But how many sheep are tough-minded enough to see that. It didn't come easily to me.
    This week I was working on my book at The Roost (fictional name) late one night, when a little man at another table, suddenly asked, "What are you struggling with?"
    "My book," I replied.
    "Someone as brilliant as you should have no problem with that," the stranger said sarcastically.
    "F-    you very much!"
    "Someone with your brilliance should be able to say something more erudite than that," he countered as he got up and walked away.
    "Goodbye, ass-     ," I said.
     He turned toward me, started to say something and left. I waited a minute or so to see if he were returning with a gun, and then went back to work, brilliantly of course.
    Late nights in a public place, you never know what the cat will drag in.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
 Is not what he says,
 But what he does,
 And what he allows others.
 To do in his presence."
  - Navy Seal Instructor

Seventeenth Century Islam

    During the seventeenth century, about one million Europeans were taken by Muslims or their proxies and either killed, ransomed, or sold into slavery. One tenth of them were chosen by the sultans of the ports they came into as their share of the booty. Another one million North Africans were treated similarly. How do the high school graduates at many of our top schools- the crybullies- want to respond to that? Are we going to see them say that their universities can't accept money from Muslims, most particularly in the Middle East Chairs that have been established on campuses to promote a white-washed picture of Islam? Or don't white slaves count for these pampered little brats who have probably never held a job except for resume builders? Do they realize Saudi Arabia didn't close its slave markets until 1964, the year I started college? Do they realize how much of the world Islam controlled, and that it almost took Europe too?
    The dominant power in the Mediterranean, and the biggest market, was the immense Ottoman Empire, a huge aggregate of conquered territories and vassal states which went thousands of miles from the Caspian Sea in the East where it is on the western border of today's Turkmenistan all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, and then south as far as the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Its center was Istanbul, and citizens of Algeria, Athens and Armenia paid taxes to the Ottoman sultan at the Topkapi Palace as did Bulgaria, Baghdad, Cairo, and the Crimea, Hungary, and the Yemen. But did the Muslims control the Mediterranean rather than the Europeans? Stay tuned. This comes from the Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests, and Captivity in the 17th Century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood.
    A word about the Criminal vs Jerk election: It appears to me that Trump did allude to gun-owners taking violent action against Hillary, not voting as Trump tried to cover up his statement. If she were president, the voting would be over, and he was referring to her as being president in his statement. She is a criminal, but the jerk has no business promoting vigilantism. Look at the process though: Trump says or does a jerk event, and instantly the democratic media
( that is, 96% of the media is made of Democrats) is all over the gaffe, and then Trump backs down and changes. This shows that Trump is responsive to the people -the government. This cannot be said of Hillary as she is such a pathological liar or she is so delusional that she doesn't accept that she is wrong or has done wrong. The latest example of that is her lie that FBI Director Come didn't say she had been untrue in her statement about her unauthorized email server. She is intransigent while Trump can be brought to heel, as he should.
She then is more dangerous as President than Trump which which is what you would expect a criminal to be over a mere jerk.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary.
"The measure of a man.
 Is not what he says,
 But what he does,
 And what he allows others,
 To do in his presence."
 - Navy Seal Instructor

Islam Is War

    The caliph or ruler of Obama's creation The Islamic State is Abu Bakr al-Baghadadi. He is a very secretive man, especially with drones frantically flying about trying to find him. He is reported to have made a speech quoting verses from the Quran and finishing his speech with a pithy statement of his own. The first verse was "And He (the Mighty and Majestic) said, 'So let those fight in the cause of Allah who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter [ any evidence of that hereafter? - my question]. And he who fights in the cause of Allah and is killed orachieves victory- We will bestow upon him a great reward [any evidence of that either? - my question]. Quran 4:74
    The other Quranic quote is "And He (the Glorified) said, 'And those who are killed in the cause of Allah- never will he waste their deeds. He will guide them and amend their condition, and admit them to Paradise, [evidence? - my question] which He has made known to them [how? - my question]. Quran 47:4-6
    The caliph's pithy statement (before the drones came) was "O Muslims, Islam was never for a day the religion of peace. Islam is the religion of war."
    I ask you who are already there to look around you and look at the war Islam has brought the area you are in. Look at the destruction of human lives, physically and emotionally, look at the destruction of buildings built so slowly with scarce resources but destroyed in a second. Look at the hell around you and think of the grim future here and the poverty because individual freedom is denied. Think of the pain, the screams, and the hate. Be a human and feel sympathy for these people. They could be people you love in another place and time. Or one of them could be you.  Do you want to buy into this horror? For those thinking of going into it - Don't. Your countries won't want you back. Facial recognition programs will spot you on cameras. Only the rich - your
leaders- will be able to alter their faces enough to fool the camera programs. You will be stuck in a hell hole where you can't think for yourself, will be killed by your own people if you get caught trying to leave and could be bombed by a drone any time of the day or night. Look at socialism in the real world not from the words of smooth snakes. Look at pure socialist countries- Venezuela and North Korea- and see what happens to Marxists and their victims in the real world. Be real because reality is. You're too good for this. Study and get ahead in life. Base your life on free choices for others and yourself. Don't become a hateful, unthinking robot of the caliphate. Find counseling or therapy especially cognitive if you find yourself being wooed by the smooth snakes and their presents. Let people know you're being wooed. Discuss it. Be open.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
 Is not what he says,
 But what he does,
 And what he allows others,
 To do in his presence."
 - Navy Seal Instructor

Criminal vs Jerk ll

    CNN was blasting Trump for employing foreign workers at his businesses. It is a good point being far better to employ Americans. But Americans would want more per hour and probably not be so compliant and flexible about their scheduling. In addition, the hospitality service is very competitive, and you cannot afford to raise your prices significantly above others and be sure your customers won't go to cheaper rates.
    But the larger picture interested me more. Here is Trump building businesses that employ people and draw tourists from all over the world. That means we have foreigners spending money in America. That is, bringing in more money into America for the economy and direct money for Americans or indirect money through job creation.
    Then look at Hillary. First, she is a consumer of Americans' tax money as Secretary of State. More importantly, although she is a multimillionaire from her businesses of writing books, giving essentially blackmail speeches to Big Business - if you want protection from me when I'm president, you better pay me a huge "speech fee," and getting "donations" to her fund in return for hidden
government favors. It's not anyone's duty to contribute a penny to the economy, and she doesn't. But Trump does. In addition, Hillary is anti-business. She's pro-business for herself, of course, but anti-business for the rest of the country because of her stupid Marxist leanings.
    You don't want the Criminal to make the economy worse, hire three Supreme Court judges who will make our life less free and prosperous, and try to do away with our gun rights. Vote for the Jerk. Obama anti-business policies have created a situation right now where more businesses are folding than being created. This has to be stopped. Hillary won't stop it. Trump is already personally doing his part to halt the slide into Venezuela territory. Let him do more as president.