Time for a million Muslim march in Washington to protest their violent extremists

A christian church being burnt in the name of Islam

In the wake of the horrific Muslim terror attack in Kenya, the “religion of peace” is starting to get a black eye.

I was speaking to a friend the other day, who was once married to a Muslim and has close ties to the worldwide Muslim community. We both agree that the Muslims we personally know are kind decent people and not at all associated with the daily jihad violence seen around the world.  They abhor the crazies amongst them.

The worlds 1.2 billion Catholics have one spokesman who can support or condemn policy and speak out for them. They have a pope and his message is mostly of kindness and compassion for each other.

But Muslims have no main leader to speak for them and as a result, the ones among them who preach a brand of hatred and violence seem to grab the attention of the media.

In the latest round of senseless violence:

The storming of a “western” shopping center in Nairobi Kenya by Muslim extremists resulted in the slaughter of every non Muslim they could put their gun sights on….72 dead so far. Alarmingly, it seems that among the Muslim terrorists who attacked the mall, were American Muslims recruited from Minnesota and Maine. Minnesota is known to have a large Muslim Somali community, and they are reportedly recruited to take part in terrorist activity.

While the Kenya attack was occurring, in another part of the world a pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a 130-year-old Anglican church in Pakistan. The bombings were timed for Sunday Mass, killing at least 78 people in the deadliest attack on Christians in the predominantly Muslim country.

Ongoing attacks on Christians by Muslim Brotherhood adherents have resulted in churches getting torched and countless Christians murdered in Egypt. See: There Is a Bulls eye on the Back of Every Christian Living in Egypt

In the Syrian civil war, Muslim “rebels” have systematically targeted Christian towns, destroying them and killing the inhabitants.

Violent oppression of Christians has become the norm in Muslim-majority nations, especially in Africa and the Middle East. In some countries it is government sanctioned violence that burns down churches and imprison parishioners.

In others countries, groups and vigilantes take matters into their hands by murdering Christians and driving them out of regions they have called home for centuries. Read more: Heads roll as the religion of “turn the other cheek,” meets the religion of “peace”

According to the latest State Department report on worldwide terrorism, there were 6,771 terrorist attacks in 2012, fueled by an upsurge in state sponsored terrorism by Iran.  See: What 2012 Terrorism Statistics Reveal

America is still jittery after getting another wake up call when Boston was bombed by Jihadists during the historic Boston Marathon.

Many people are starting to question why peaceful Muslims tolerate this violence being waged on Muslim and non Muslim in the name of their religion.  There is no other religion in the world that is surrounded by such violence under its banner. 

America is the most religiously tolerant country in the world and accepts all sorts of different beliefs…..As long as they are not violent towards us. We know that all Muslims are not terrorists, but it seems that most of today’s terrorists are Muslim.

America and the worlds tolerance is being stretched thin by one atrocity after another being waged under the banner of a religion.  Even though the percentage of the extremists among Muslims is small, it is painting the whole religion with a violent paintbrush.

It is time for leaders among the Muslim faithful to step forward and condemn the violence.  It would be totally appropriate and appreciated by the world to see a massive show of condemnation of this violence.  A symbolic way to show it would be a million Muslim march on Washington DC… Americans of every stripe would gladly join in a show of solidarity.

Company that brought medical relief to Ireland, Mushatt's to serve the rest of the world

Mushatt's isn’t yet a household name in America, but Michael Foley is determined to change that. Foley has been the president of Mushatts LLC, since 2010 and since then has worked hard to introduce his company to other parts of the world.  

Mushatt's has a rich history in Ireland where it helped thousands of poor families overcome ailments that beset them during the tenement days of poverty.

Harry Mushatt set up his “chemist” shop in Dublin’s poorest tenement district, known as the Liberties in the 1920’s. An excerpt from “Dublin Tenement Life” helps explain what the times were like back then:

“You never saw doctors.  You could go to a chemist and even if your throat was cut, he’d give you a cure for it.  He’d put a dressing on it.  Mr. Mushatt was in Francis Street-he was the masterpiece, for a bad chest, bad back…..from north, south, east and west, people’d  come for them.  People trusted him as he concocted his own old fashioned medicines in the rear compounding room.  His lotions, potions, and tablets were thought to be the purest medicines.  People really believed in them, swore by them.”

No one was more famous than Harry Mushatt and his brother who served the people of the “Liberties” for nearly half a century from their tiny shop on Francis Street.

Harry Mushatt tells it like it is back then in “Dublin Tenement Life:”

“We made our own medicines in the shop. My brother and I made up forty-four different preparations, from skin ointments, psoriasis ointments, foot pastes, stomach bottles, skin crèmes, tablets for kidneys, headaches, neuralgia….all different things. Oh, there was a bond of trust and they’d come into the shop and it would be packed out.  Tenement people, if one wasn’t feeling well, or met with an accident, Go to Mushatts!, they’d say....They came from all over Dublin”

The chemists and apothecaries of that by-gone era have now been replaced by impersonal chain store pharmacies, it is hard to find that personal touch and relationship that Harry Mushatt gave to his community.

Yet after all of these years, Mushatt's is still carrying on the family tradition of helping folks with their unique brand of remedies. 

Although Harry Mushatt and his brother are long gone, their carefully guarded secret notebook with the formula for every one of their potions and compounds has been handed down to a new generation of pharmacist.  Sean Foley  has made available Mushatt's medicines at his Foley Pharmacy on Thomas Street in Dublin and far beyond.

Mushatt's No. 9 skin therapy products have been making inroads throughout the US and Europe under the careful guidance of Michael Foley, an Irishman, with an extensive background in running successful international business operations.

Foley was longtime CEO of Heineken USA and later served as CEO of Aer Lingus, besides other roles in his extensive background in business.

The successful use of the Mushatt's secret notebook, with relief from so many of mankind’s maladies, has translated into comfort  for the millions of people who purchase Mushatt's products in Ireland, the US and Europe.

Listen to their therapeutic uses here

Mushatt’s No. 9 range of medicated ointments and creams are made to the original 1922 formulation and contain unique ingredients to treat psoriasis, eczema and other skin conditions and are body specific to treat the scalp, skin or face. Clinical tests have shown Mushatt’s No. 9 products to be hypoallergenic and a non-irritant.

Mushatts is available from most major on line pharmacies, including Drugstore.com, Walgreens.com, CVS .com, Amazon.com, as well as a growing number of good retail pharmacy stores throughout the USA.

Another mass shooting, this time in a Washington gun free zone

The crime scene in Washington following the shooting of 12 innocent people

On a naval base where it is against the rules to carry weapons and in a city with some of the strictest gun laws in the US, a gunman chooses to disobey their rules and gun down a dozen victims.

The shooting at the Washington Naval Yard in Washington DC on Monday, follows a familiar pattern in mass shooting history: The gunman finds a location where he knows his victims cannot shoot back and he can attain maximum mayhem.

On Monday that resulted in 12 innocent people shot dead and others left wounded.

No matter what the motives behind this shooting, whether it is terrorist related, a grievance, or just a mental case on a rampage, this incident shows it is time to stop disarming or making it almost impossible for law abiding citizens to be armed.

Most people would think a military installation would be a poor choice for a gunman to find unarmed, defenseless victims.  After all most of our military personnel are trained in the use of firearms and are trusted to use those weapons in the defense of our country.

But most US soldiers on military bases are not allowed to carry weapons, except for the military police who are usually stretched thin. Regulations forbid military personnel from carrying their personal firearms and make it almost impossible for commanders to issue firearms to soldiers in the U.S. for personal protection.

It seems the government has decided it can’t trust its own service members.

This same idiotic mindset made it possible for Major Nidal Hassan at the Fort Hood Army base to leisurely slaughter 13 and wound over 30 in a room full of unarmed soldiers, before armed base police arrived.

The knee jerk reaction to this latest shooting will be to call for more gun control laws, but ask Chicago and Washington DC how those extremely strict gun laws are working out.

Obviously if military personnel/employees had been trusted to carry side arms on military bases, the death toll in these mass shootings would have been far less, or the incidents never would have been attempted.

Obviously, if law abiding citizens, including educators, had been armed during recent tragedies in Aurora Colorado, Sandy Elementary and Fort Hood, perhaps these and other tragedies could have been averted.  See Mother Jones article: US Mass Shootings, 1982-2012: Data From Mother Jones' Investigation.

 John Lott wrote a book titled: “More Guns, Less Crime.”  In it he has statistics where gun laws have been liberalized and ordinary law abiding citizens were encouraged to own and carry firearms, crime is reduced,,,…mass shootings are almost unheard of.

“Violent crime rates go down when states pass "shall issue" concealed carry laws. He presents the results of his statistical analysis of crime data for every county in the United States during 29 years from 1977 to 2005. The book examines city, county and state level data from the entire United States and measures the impact of 11 different types of gun control laws on crime rates.”

Perhaps its time to examine a radical idea and make it easier for the law abiding US citizen to carry a personal firearm, than it is for  the criminals who routinely prey on them.

Robert Murray says prominent Americans are discussing impeaching President Obama

Obama "waging war on coal gas and oil"

The direct speaking Robert Murray pulled no punches when he addressed the Bluefield Coal show in West Virginia today.

The CEO of Murray Energy, one of America’s largest coal producers, had a lot to say and the word impeachment was one of them during a hard hitting keynote speech to the coal mining industry, as well as to the rest of America.

Murray warned that Obama's disastrous energy policies are leading America to a European model of energy poverty as evidenced by huge price spikes to consumers in Britain and Germany…

“They are destroying low cost electricity in America for everyone, including our citizens on fixed incomes and our manufacturers of products that compete in the global marketplace.  European countries, particularly Germany went this route with disastrous consequences”

See: Germany says Solar is path to bankruptcy


He backed up Germany's energy plight with: “Germany spent 194 billion in the past 10 years on their “green” Obama experiment, including 10.2 billion in subsidies for solar alone. The result is German electric prices have jumped 61% and 15% of German families live in energy poverty.”……All of their predictions on the cost of solar and wind power were understated five-fold”

 “To make up for German’s energy shortfall created by the loss of nuclear power and the inefficiency of “green” electricity, Germany is currently building 23 new coal-fired electricity generating plants.”

many cannot afford to heat their homes

 Great Britain is another canary in the “green” mineshaft as their citizens’ struggle with huge price increases in electricity:  “Their electricity prices have risen more than than 70% since 2005.  Further, electricity prices are expected to increase another 54% by 2020.”……..and other European countries are now faced with power black outs.  Mr. Obama, his supporters and most democrats in Congress will not recognize this.”

See: Britain quietly tries to install its unpopular windmills in Ireland

Murray pointed the spotlight on the actual damage these Obama “green” policies will wreak on America:  “Mr. Obama’s EPA alone will destroy much of America’s economy, resulting in the loss of 2.15 million jobs and nearly 200 billion in electricity rate increases by 2020, according to recent expert studies.”

If there is a keystone to modern society, it is the availability of relatively cheap and abundant energy and Murray spelled it out:  “Low cost electricity is a staple of life.  President Obama and his radical appointees are generating a huge crisis for America in what they are doing to the cost and reliability of electric power for our citizens.”

Murray put a personal tie into why he is so passionate about Obama's disastrous energy policies:

coal miners

“Mr. Obama's actions are a human issue to me, as I know the names of many Americans whose jobs and family livelihoods are being destroyed as he appeases his radical environmentalist, unionist, liberal elitist Hollywood character and other constituents.  These folks are my employees.”

“These good Americans only want to work in honor and dignity.  But when their jobs and those of their neighbors are eliminated in the coal mining areas of America, they have no one to sell their homes to, which is generally their only possession.  Thus these people, who only want to work, are prohibited from doing so and fall to the negative side of the economic ledger for the rest of their lives.  This is not the America that I have always cherished.”

 See: Elite environmentalists tell coal miners to build amusement parks to take the place of their mining jobs.

Robert Murray ominously closed out his speech with a warning to the President and those who insist on taking America down a path that will eventually lead to disaster for the country:

“Many prominent Americans are now discussing the need to impeach President Obama…maybe you will want to be a part of this effort.”

Snakes in a Church: National Geographic brings you inside a bizarre American cult

Serpents have gotten a bad rap throughout history. In Genesis, the serpent beguiled Eve to lure Adam into taking the fateful bite of the apple.

In the New Testament, the Book of Revelation makes use of the serpent several times to identify Satan the dragon, as an ancient serpent.


The absence of snakes in Ireland gave rise to the legend that in the 5th century patron St. Patrick, had chased them all into the sea.

Lets face it, many people are very afraid of snakes because they slither, hiss and can strike you with sharp fangs that deliver lethal poison.  To bolster that reputation and fear, snake bites kill at least one hundred thousand people per year and injure perhaps another million.

The Bible has many archaic passages, if you search you can take one and create a religion with it…some would be called cults:

“They will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

This is the basis of the 100 year old Christian Pentecostal sect known as the “Holiness.”

National Geographic takes us inside this bizarre world of cult religion to reveal the strange practices that most people would recoil from. “Snake Salvation” Premieres Tuesday, September 10, at 9:00 and 9:30 PM ET/PT

These true believers feel their only salvation and way to heaven is to handle and dance with deadly snakes while speaking in strange tongues, even quaffing down a chaser of strychnine to add a bit more excitement…..But they also believe, not participating in their religious practice will destine them to hell.

To understand this obscure religion practiced mainly in the back country of Appalachia, executive producer Matthew Testa follows the exploits of 2 pastors and their adherents as they pursue their beliefs and maintain their churches.

Testa said: "They firmly believe they are commanded by the Bible to take up serpents as a sign to non-believers, and feel strongly they are exercising their religious freedom as guaranteed by the Constitution. They often say, 'God's law trumps the law of man. "

One of the Pastors is 9 fingered Jamie Coots, (lost his other finger to a rattlesnake bite).  Coots has lead the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name for nearly 20 years, which was founded by his snake handling grandfather in Middlesboro Kentucky. See family tradition here

The other Pastor is 22 year old Andrew Hamblin, who used to be a member of Pastor Jamies congregation.  Hamblin is struggling to provide for his wife and 5 children and must rely on food stamps as he tries to maintain his church.

Episodes of  Snake Salvation will follow these two Pastors as they find and sustain their collection of venomous snakes to use in their services.  They head out on snake roundups, racing to find dens of their coveted cold-blooded reptiles before winter starts and the snakes go into hiding.

With both pastors too financially strapped to purchase their supply, they are often forced to get creative to keep their stock thriving,( See the snake room) be it snake trading at “Repticon,” the reptile convention, or illegally transporting venomous reptiles from warmer climates across state lines. Even if they can keep their snake population thriving, and stay out of jail, they’re also challenged to find and retain followers to their unorthodox faith.

Many community members scoff at their bizarre practices, members of their own families teeter on faithfulness and reformed criminals use it as their best defense against backsliding into sin. Viewers will even see occasions when church members were bitten by the venomous serpents as National Geographic cameras were rolling. But the pastors’ own faith never falters that they’ll be able to inspire their masses to seek their personal  Snake Salvation. See a trailer here

FYI to Pastor Jamie and Pastor Andrew: There is also a passage in the Bible that says“Do Not Tempt God”

Is the President's credibility on the line in Syria?…Sorry, that was lost long ago

After almost five years of constant assaults on our sense of credibility, President Obama's chickens are coming home to roost…You can tell the end is near when television comedians start to make fun of his and his entire administrations, uneasy relationship with the truth.

Late night television host Jay Leno best summed up Americas feelings with:

“Despite what the critics say, President Obama says the lack of response to Syria so far does not threaten his credibility. And you know something? He's right. The economy, Benghazi, the spying scandal... that threatens his credibility, but this other stuff...no.”

Not only are Americans burned out by President Obamas chronic “misspeaks” and "Clintonesque" statements that require a legal definition of what the meaning of is, is…..

.......Americas sense of credibility has been assaulted by almost five years of White House underlings telling us not to believe our own lying eyes, but to believe the Obama administration.  

Stuttering and yammering professional spin doctors pose as White House press spokesmen, never giving a straight answer to questions asked.…the list stretches interminably.

But eventually the piper has to be paid for years of evading and when the President proclaimed,  just before the last election, Syria better not cross his “Red Line” by using chemical weapons, he unwittingly painted himself into a box.

His words came back to haunt him as chemical agents have been used in Syria to kill and disable.

The problem for President Obama is not so much that these chemicals have been used, but WHO is using them.The death toll in this civil war is over 100,000, chemical weapons have accounted for a miniscule amount of these deaths.

President Obama claims it is the evil regime of Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria who is gassing his own people in this vicious civil war. But Assad and his chief ally, Russias President Vladimir Putin, claim it is the rebels themselves who are using chemical weapons.

President Obama and Secretary of state John Kerry, who himself has a long history of stretching credibility, both claim Assads regime needs to be degraded as punishment for using chemical weapons, which would give a boost to the rebels who are fighting for control of the country. 

But Americans have taken a hard look at just who the rebels are in Syria and they don’t like the brutal images they are seeing. Jihadists from all over the world, including Al Qaeda, swell rebel ranks. See graphic video of Syrian "rebels" executing captured government hostages here.

Many in America wonder why we would be supporting the very forces who are intent on destroying America and western civilization? 

Americans are also leery of past foreign policy decisions by President Obama that opened the door for Muslim Brotherhood control of Egypt and by helping to kill the leader of Libya, plunged that once orderly country into Islamic chaos.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, no stranger to Islamic extremism,  has called secretary of State Kerry a liar.  Putin claims he has proof the rebels have used chemicals against the Syrian people in order to inflame animosity towards Assad.

So it is coming down to who are we supposed to believe? …and that is the crux of President Obamas problem as he asks Congress to approve his use of American military force against the Assad regime.

"Fool us once, shame on you, fool us twice, shame on us."

It is a sad state of affairs that Americans can no longer believe what their government  tells them anymore…and a leader of a former communist country and head of the KGB, has equal credibility with the White House.

Evidently congress is feeling the same after listening to Obama administration officials plea their case in front of them. Skeptical members of Congress asked scathing questions without regard to party affiliation.  A straw poll today reflected that feeling with 190 congress members saying they would vote against the president’s request.

Of course, typically,  President Obama is trying to deflect this and claim it is the international community who set the red line, but unfortunately for President Obama, there are video tapes of his now infamous statement claiming it was his red line…..confirming what our own lying eyes and ears already knew.

Workers of the world unite…against Obamacare

The greatest supporters of  “Obamacare," (disingenuously called the “Affordable Healthcare Act), are starting to openly revolt as promises made to them are not matching up to reality.

In a stunning move, 40,000 dues paying members of the International Longshoremen/Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced they have formally ended their association with Richard Trumkas AFL-CIO.

Trumka one of the most frequent White House guests of the Obama administration, played a key role in ginning up union support for the passage of Obamacare.  A main selling point was unions wouldn’t be taxed on their existing Cadillac healthcare plans.

In the August 29th letter to Trumka; Longshoreman Union President Robert McEllrath said: "President Obama ran on a platform that he would not tax medical plans and at the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention, you stated that labor would not stand for a tax on our benefits."

But since that time President Obama has proposed a tax on those unions “Cadillac” health plans and the AFL/CIO under Trumkas leadership has lined up in lockstep behind Obama.

McEllrath closed with: "We feel the Federation has done a great disservice to the labor movement and all working people by going along to get along,"

This is spelling trouble in labor paradise for President Obama as he tries to take Obamacare from promise to harsh reality.

Even Trumka said in a recent press conference regarding Obamacare:  “Somebody” needs to fix the law pronto!


To add fuel to the anti Obamacare fire, in July, leaders of three major U.S. unions, including the Teamsters, sent a scathing letter to Democratic leaders:

In it they warned-unless changes are made, Obamacare will “destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class.”  If not modified, Obamacare will “destroy the very health and well being of our members along with millions of other hardworking Americans.”

Does “fixing something” mean more special exemption carve outs and subsidies for the special protected classes of politicians and Obama supporters? If Obama tries an end run to make an exception for union members, look for a defection of political support for his party as the 2014 elections loom and public resentment grows.

Already organized labor is at an all time low in the private sector with just 11.3% of the workforce.  If workers are forced to pay taxes on healthcare plans they consider sacrosanct, especially after they were promised it would never happen…look for a tidal wave of defections from unions.

If unions lose, the Democrat party will lose. If unions win, the Democrat party will lose.