If this is true:
From ABCNews.com:
In a new video message released on the internet Friday, American-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn calls on Muslims living in America to carry out deadly one-man terrorist acts using fully automatic weapons purchased at gun shows, and to target major institutions and public figures.
“What are you waiting for?” asks Gadahn in English, and then adds that jihadis shouldn’t worry about getting caught, since so many have been released. “Over these past few years, I’ve seen the release of many, many Mujahideen whom I had never even dreamed would regain their freedom.”
Gadahn, 32, was born in California in 1978 to a Jewish father (musician Phil Pearlman) and Christian mother (Jennifer), as Adam Pearlman. At age 17, he converted to Islam and was recruited by a mosque that had links to al Qaeda. Gadahn later fled to Afghanistan, where he joined up with al Qaeda, met Osama bin Laden and became the terrorist group’s main propagandist.
Ah Islam; we can always count on it to be the religion of peace, understanding and tolerance — its adherents as well.
Never, thank Allah, do its adherents wish to ever take advantage of entitlements from the Evil West that it swears to destroy:
BZ
James King Arness, TV and film actor, passed away yesterday (Friday, June 3rd) at the age of 88 at his Brentwood home in Los Angeles.
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 26th of 1923, James was the older brother of — you guessed it — Peter Graves.
Peter Graves was born Peter Aurness on March 18th of 1926 — and passed away of a heart attack on March 14th of last year (four days prior to his 84th birthday), at the age of 83 — before his older brother, James. Peter was 6’3″ tall. You likely remember Peter Graves as the IMF leader in Mission Impossible (great score by Lalo Schifrin), as well as his classic portrayal as Captain Clarence Oveur in the 1980 movie “Airplane!”
Few people realize this, but the first famous screen appearance of James Arness was in the 1951 Howard Hawks film “The Thing From Another World” (later shortened to “The Thing”), starring Kenneth Tobey. At 6’7″, Arness was the perfect size for a looming creature (which you only glimpsed briefly). The film was from the 1938 novella “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Arness, however, was best known for his portrayal of western Marshal Matt Dillon in the TV series “Gunsmoke,” which ran from 1955 to 1975, in an amazing series of 635 episodes! This qualifies the show as the longest running prime-time series to date in the US. [I should care to point out that the bartender in the Gunsmoke series, Glenn Strange, portrayed Frankenstein in the 1948 film, “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.”]
It was his friend, John Wayne, who actually recommended Arness for the title role of Marshal Dillon because, at the time, Wayne had taken the time to personally record an introduction to the television series. Wayne and Arness had made four films together in the 1950s. It was via that friendship that Arness was introduced to the TV media at large.
In 1989, People magazine chose the top 25 TV stars of all time. James Arness was number 6.
Being well into my sixth decade, I can clearly remember James Arness standing tall and solid.
God bless you, sir.
You provided many people, for many years, with an entertainment form and series that cannot possibly be reproduced in terms of quantity or quality. Those are facts in evidence. May you rest in eternal and comforting peace, sir.
BZ
BZ
Sarah Palin went on a recent whirlwind tour in the Sarah Palin tour-bus the past Memorial Day weekend.
For what reason?
When one customarily takes off in this fashion, it clearly means that one is running for some kind of office. Sarah Palin has announced nothing, yet we find her in some kind of obvious Campaign Mode.
Campaign Mode for what?
No one knows. Does she know? She isn’t saying.
Oddly enough, Politico.com (and I’m not a fan of Politico these days) nails it when they write:
Day 2 of Sarah Palin’s bus tour, and the former vice presidential nominee has prompted little more than confusion over exactly what she is up to.
Though Fox News captured Palin saying, as she got off the bus at one stop, that she thought a Republican could beat President Barack Obama in next year’s election, she has done little to encourage belief that the trip is a precursor to a 2012 run of her own.
“This isn’t a campaign bus,” Palin said, according to reports. “This is a bus to be able to express to America how much we appreciate our foundation and to invite more people to be interested in all that is good about America and to remind ourselves we don’t need to fundamentally transform America, we need to restore what’s good about America.”