I actually know the TimeOut people.

Moonbats, every one of 'em.

Hail ants!

What a clueless, clueless person, he doesn't read or listen to OBL, does he?

Does anyone here have the Simpsons audio snip that we reference here frequently about welcoming our new overlords? Was it the Mayor or Kent Brockman? Just saying, it would be perfect here.

Jesus Christ...

TimeOut New York is a nutroots paradise but this is completely ridiculous!

they are all equal? hahahahahahaha

What a load of BS. Anyone ever seen how Arabs treat other Muslims who are not Arab?

Lets just skip right over the "ONCE YOU HAVE SUBMITTED" bit - la la la, no more racism, just like magic.

Liberalism means never having to say you get it.

Is there a reason that he failed to mention gender oppression along with the bogus claim of ethinc equality?

Yeah, all muslims are equal--just like in the Sudan.

(it was Kenny Brocklestein (AKA Kent Brockman) who welcomed "our new insect overlords")

This welcoming of the Islamic takeover meshes very nicely with the observations I made about Chris Hedges in my Hitchens-Hedges report. I said that the Left is now starting to overtly embrace Islam, and no longer hewing to its blanket anti-religion stance.

Say goodbye to your principles, boys! And say goodbye to feminism and equality, girls!

. End of story for British civilization .

Once you have submitted

All ethnicities are equal, as long as they are all Muslim.

Is my sundial broken? Is it 1984?

2+2=5. Not because I want you to say that, but because you believe it.

Orwell's either spinning or laughing in his grave. Maybe both.

Once you have submitted to Allah had your head chopped off you are a Muslim dead – it doesn’t matter what colour you are

#4 Spenser (with an S)

I already beat you to it in comment #2. Kent Brockman put up a sign that said "Hail ants!" While saying, "I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords."

Welcoming the Caliphate.
wow.

Race relations
Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story.

Sell your soul and live in slavery...easy.

Oh yeah, and does he just assume that the secular set of laws wwould remain in place? He seems to fail to realize that Sharia would not be far behind the mass conversion of the whole of London. Kiss your personal liberties goodbye...

Proving once again that to these clowns, even cultural slavery is preferable to the eeeeeeevil West. What tools. Makes me wonder if they even READ the drivel they write.

Slightly off topic: for a good read about what these "intellectuals" are, read Tom Wolfe's Hooking Up. It's a couple of years old, but still spot on.

#6: What a load of BS. Anyone ever seen how Arabs treat other Muslims who are not Arab?

Or how Persians view Arabs. Mislabeling a Persian as an Arab is one of the highest insults imaginable, outside of "dog testicle" (torghe meh saag) and "dirt to your father's head."

Social justice
Each Muslim is obliged to pay zakat, a welfare tax of 2.5 per cent of annual income, that is distributed to the poor and the needy. If the working population of London, 5.2 million, was predominantly Muslim this would produce approximately £3.2bn each year. More importantly, everyone would be obliged to consider those Londoners who haven’t shared their good fortune. London would become a little less cruel.

Much like Saudi Arabia.

The only part this clown got right was, "...end of story."

Heh! I eagerly await the outcome.

Race relations
Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story.

Never!

Ever!

I will fight to the death, or, the victory of freedom loving people, whichever may come first.

This can't be serious, can it? It's not scrappleface? Wow, just WOW.

Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are.

That's right. Once you're a 'slim, your brain is infra-dead.

Hodges suffers from being enamored of Utopia - any Utopia - as long as it pretends to appear egalitarian.

End of story is pretty much spot on.

The rest of it is crap.

Here's the video of Kent Brockman welcoming our new insect overlords.

Race relations
Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story.

Pretty much endo of story alright. You are now simply fodder to be fed into the Islamic war machine. Whether you die at the hands of another Mualim for not being Muslim enough or you strapped explosives to your chest and walk into a pizza parlor and disinegrate it is the same. End of story.

Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story.

Unless, of course, you are a black Sudanese Muslim from Darfur, in which case you are slaughtered and your wife & children enslaved. But you're still a Muslim. End of story.

Or if you're the wrong sort of Muslim, like say a Shia in Iraq, then your mosque gets bombed by the Sunnis. But you're still a Muslim. End of story.

Or if you try to stop being a Muslim, in which case you are imprisoned tortured & murdered. But you're still a Muslim. End of story.

Yea Zombie, but do you have the audio link? Huh, do ya?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if I recall correctly there is no word(s) in Arabic for "black" that doesn't also mean "slave".

For any and all who still believe that Islam is a religion of peace, please do some further research.

This is what Islam believes, world domination, by whatever means necessary, and yet, many people believe that Islam can peacefully exist with other religions.

Please do some more research, your childrens and grandchildrens lives depend on it.

Hmmmmm, Then why are arab muslims so down on the black muslims. Guess that works in theory but not in practice

Race relations
Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story.*

*Offer void in Somalia and certain other locations.

I hear the Marriage Phrase "To Honor and OBEY!"
is getting a return! :-0

That is some dumb article.
Talk about buying in !
Kent Brockman

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others

Orwell

He is the sort of lazy POS that goes beyond low expectations to no expectations. With Islam hew does not have to compete in the real world,the Laissez-faire world that all cowards fear.

Man, what ignoramuses.

They actually believe that Islamic rule in London would be a kind of Marxist-multicultural paradise.

All over the world Muslims live in peace with others, tolerate women's choices, respect homosexuals and have a special place for secular, elite leftist... right?

What a day dreaming twit. Ecology? Try to find a tree in a Muslimcountry. The streets are garbage dumps. Public Health. Hahahahahah Race relations? Nothing to see here, move on. The man is a danger to himself and otherss. Give him Paris Hilton's remaining sentence in lovely Tehran.

Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story.

Once you are slaves of allah (or whoever be the powers be who claim to represent and enforce allah's will), it doesn't matter. End of story.

ecology---mass graves are good for the plants

education-girls don't go t oschool. taxpayers save lots of money. Also, nobody gets beyond the 3rd grade, or at least until they learn how to apply for welfare

public health--alcohol based cleansers haraam.

arts-- rip, tear, slash, burn all portraits. Kill all the gays, close all the plays. Instead focus on cool geometric shapes

social justice--tower hill will once again have the excitement of beheadings!

Everyone who works for TimeOut London are already bent over, with their rear-ends open to Islamists.

Her's just echoing that dhimmi who said over & over "Islam is a religion of peace"

Not so different, now is it?

In a country of complete idiots every idiot is equal to every other idiot.

I was back in London a few years ago and took some pictures in Marble Arch which looks like Londonistan and some fine muslim men told me they wanted my film. I told them the camera was digital and to sod off.

#34 rebublic

If people want to understand who violent and opressive this faith is, all they need to do is read the Koran.

The 7 year "peace treaty" is coming soon.

The ignorance displayed by this pin-headed fool is mind-blowing.

once your covered with the blood of infidels .. he should have said.

Oh brother.

What next from TaqquiyaOUT?

'Headchopping is the new black'?

Yeah... but of course the big question is:

Is Hodges a muslim? If not, WHY not, since he obviously believes they are ALL THAT and a bag of falafel?

I tend to be suspicious of those who view themselves as open minded and decry - end of story. How open minded is that! LOLOL

Oh, so THAT's the problem, we haven't submitted to ISLAM. Well, there you go! I'm such a silly infidel.

Time to stock up on bacon if you're in the UK.

I thought the first two paragraphs were right on, especially the mention of Charles who has publicly stated that he wants to be crowned as "Defender of the FAITHS" (Long Live The Queen, at least longer than that rotter son of hers). Then the author starts lying. Islamic London would be 13th century London, just as the Islamic world is the 13th century world. Embrace it and die.

A message for Hodges:

[Link: www.metacafe.com...]

republic: Please do some more research, your childrens and grandchildrens lives depend on it.

Excluding children and grandchildren of dumb leftist, multiculturalism-loving parents? They can be saved and informed, you know?

Thanks, Jimash!

It really is a battle between individuality vs. group mind. Why are those in individualistic societies so ready to give in to the group mind?

Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story.

But for you women, its lights out!

halifa also applies to recycling: in 2006, 12,000 Muslims attended a series of sermons at the East London Mosque explaining the theological evidence for a link between behaving in an environmentally sustainable way and the Islamic faith.

You have to admit, it would all be worth it - the 7th century theocracy, the violent intolerance, the beheadings, the subjugation of women, etc. - if we could all get a little more recycling out of the deal.

Bring back donkeys in the streets and the dumping of feces into the Thames!

/The 7th century ROCKS

Hodges lists the many ways in which an Islamic London would be a vast improvement—ecology, education, public health, arts, social justice, you name it.

That's what they said about Hitler's Reich. He had the trains running on time too.

Neville Chamberlain lives!

OK, folks, this has got to be a parody. Because one would have to be clinically insane to write this paragraph, which appears in the article:

Public health

On the surface, Islamic health doesn’t look good: the 2001 census showed that 24 per cent of Muslim women and 21 per cent of Muslim men suffered long-term illness and disability. But these are factors of social conditions rather than religion. In fact, Islam offers Londoners potential health benefits: the Muslim act of prayer is designed to keep worshippers fit, their joints supple and, at five times a day, their stomachs trim. The regular washing of the feet and hands required before prayers promotes public hygiene and would reduce the transmission of superbugs in London’s hospitals.

The Jane Fonda Workout -- in a burka!

#48 david e

In a country of complete idiots every idiot is equal to every other idiot.

According to Orwell, aren't some idiots deemed more equal than others?

I'm not British, but if I was, I'd be wondering how to write off Jizya from my income taxes. And of course I'd start looking through a Burqa catalog from Dhimmis-R-Us.

#50 shoeless

#34 rebublic

If people want to understand who violent and opressive this faith is, all they need to do is read the Koran.

Many Americans still regard Islam a "religion" of peace, with knowledge of the Koran.

They try, to paint a rosy picture of Islam, and call these people "moderates", when the most liberal of Islamics, are the ones who are commiting the acts of terrorism, and convincing idiots, like this idot who wrote this article.

There is no such thing as "moderate" Islam, there is just Islam, and a person either believes in Islam, or they don't.

Yet, the truly ignorant, or complicit, continue to call Islam a religion of peace.

The converse is also true. If you are an Infidel, you are an Infidel, no matter what color your skin.

Death to Infidels!

Yes, Mohammedans are quite egalitarian.

This guy is most likely the dumbest of all liberals this side of Fat Rosie. The "arts" do not, and have never existed in Islam. Education is for men only; and "social justice" is also for men only.

If this is true, then Darfur is a figment of the world's imagination. Black Africans were never enslaved to be sold off to the British, Dutch, and Portuguese slave traders. There is no divide between Sunni and Shia who actually love each other.

There is a sayin' in the South, "He needed killing", this now seems to be the only way we will be able to save ourselves from the traitors amongst us; we will need to rise up and take care of these folks ourselves before we will be able to save ourselves.

On D-Day + 63 years and a day, freedom is still worth fighting and dying for, regardless of what these cowards and traitors think.

Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what gender sexual orientation colour you are. End of story.

So.... racism is the only evil?

and concludes with this jawdropper:

If a Muslim woman dropped her jaw, I ask you ladies and gentlemen, would any one see it? Would a Muslim man even care?

[I've updated the...if a tree falls in the woods...]

That's what they said about Hitler's Reich. He had the trains running on time too.

I think that was attributed to Mussolini, but your point is certainly valid.

#4 Spenser (with an S) 6/07/2007 9:23:18 am

PDT

Does anyone here have the Simpsons audio snip that we reference here frequently about welcoming our new overlords? Was it the Mayor or Kent Brockman? Just saying, it would be perfect here.

That same episode came to my mind immediately upon reading that article!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uAHzj5VcZKo

Bad news: Women stoned to death in Trafalgar Sword of the Infidel-Slayer Square for adultery.

Good news: Compact flourescent bulbs for everyone!

(Bad news: Electricity grid went out, and we don't know how to fix it)

Duh. We obviously have some serious defect in modern society. In nature, nothing that stupid is allowed to survive, much less reproduce.

I am truly at a loss as to anything I could say that wouldn't get deleted.

Zombie's right. Except for the source, the paragraph she copied on public health would have to be a parody. There is no way those sentences could be serious.

And furthermore, I thought the essence of tolerance was treating people who are not in your group (whatever that group is), with respect and decency. What this asshat is saying is that Islam is wonderfully tolerant... as long as you're part of its group.

To laugh?
To cry?
To throw up?
What to do...?
Guess I'll go make another cup of coffee.

From the article:

On the surface, Islamic health doesn’t look good: the 2001 census showed that 24 per cent of Muslim women and 21 per cent of Muslim men suffered long-term illness and disability. But these are factors of social conditions rather than religion. In fact, Islam offers Londoners potential health benefits: the Muslim act of prayer is designed to keep worshippers fit, their joints supple and, at five times a day, their stomachs trim.

The reality is that Muslim immigrants find its easy to apply for disability benefits. After all taking advantage of kaffirs generosity is no sin for Muslims.

#79 Occasional Reder

Good news: Compact flourescent bulbs for everyone!

"Mercury poisoning kills 2 billion worldwide"

Maybe this is what Algore desires.

He was quoted as saying there are too many people on earth.

#71 republic

#50 shoeless

#34 rebublic

If people want to understand who violent and opressive this faith is, all they need to do is read the Koran.

Many Americans still regard Islam a "religion" of peace, with knowledge of the Koran.

They try, to paint a rosy picture of Islam, and call these people "moderates", when the most liberal of Islamics, are the ones who are commiting the acts of terrorism, and convincing idiots, like this idot who wrote this article.

There is no such thing as "moderate" Islam, there is just Islam, and a person either believes in Islam, or they don't.

Yet, the truly ignorant, or complicit, continue to call Islam a religion of peace.

Just read chapter 9 of the Koran... that is a good place to get an idea of how peacful the religion is...

the Muslim act of prayer is designed to keep worshippers fit, their joints supple and, at five times a day, their stomachs trim.

Unless you are rich nobility (mostly fat) or at Gitmo (all fat)

The annual fasting month of Ramadan instils self-discipline, courtesy and social cohesion. And Londoners would benefit philosophically and physically from even a short period when we weren’t constantly ramming food into our mouths.

Not eating is good?

In an Islamic London, Christians and Jews – with their allegiance to the Bible and the Talmud – would be protected as ‘peoples of the book’.

They just have to pay the tax

Some of the finest art in London is already Islamic

Just no people in the art

#79 Occasional Reader

Yeah. And for anyone who really things Muslims could do a better job of running London, I refer you to the (fact-based) scene near the end of Lawrence of Arabia in which they try to run Damascus.

#51 republic 6/07/2007 9:35:38 am PDT

The 7 year "peace treaty" is coming soon.

Some say it already has:

See the ENRP / EuroMed policy rolled out Jan 1, 2007, for 7 years, with a midterm review at 3.5 on 2010.

#87 shoeless

#34 rebublic

That made me laugh.

Thank you.

71 republic ..There is no such thing as "moderate" Islam, there is just Islam, and a person either believes in Islam, or they don't

That's what I have been saying since my first post here.

I think hodges is just in it for the 3 wives. Maybe tired of his old bat at home.

Hmmmm, my happy little Catholic parish in Aldine, TX has a Filipino pastor, a Salvadoran priest, and African-American, African, Filipino, Vietnamese, South Asian/Indian, Mexican and even a few Caucasian parishoners. As it says in the Acts of the Apostles, we are all equal before the Lord.

BTW, we have two different groups of Africans, both were colorful clothes to Mass, but one group, about 15 people total, wear matching fabric in a black and white pattern, the women in dresses, the men in a toga like outfit with a shoulder exposed.

Kinda cool, really.

I don't think it's a parody.
It is a mental disorder.
What some people will "submit " to in order to make Cat Stevens cool again. OY.

I love how this fool pretends that the health issues in Islamic countries is a social problem... given that the religion governs the society, i can't see how they can be separated like that

#91 coz

Some say it already has:

See the ENRP / EuroMed policy rolled out Jan 1, 2007, for 7 years, with a midterm review at 3.5 on 2010.

The 7 year "peace treaty", is signed by Israel and the Arab/Muslim world, in a very public, obvious signing.

It hasn't happened just yet.

In the same way, the newly Mexicanized Los Angeles is a big improvement over the boring American version. Salsa is so much more nutritious than ketchup.

APRIL FOOLS! (I hope)

Well even the UK readers think this story is a joke.

[Link: www.timeout.com...]

"What in the world prompted TO to give Michael Hodges a forum to spew such thinly veiled hatred and venom against one of our communities?"

"Please tell me that this is an April Fools article whose publication was delayed due to technical problems. God I hope so, otherwise, "Welcome to Londonstan"

"Good little dhimmi! You're just far enough out of touch with reality that your Muslim overlords might actually let you live on as a protected second-class citizen when they take over.
Congrats. You've hit rock bottom and you've even started to dig."

"The article never explains why an Islamic London wouldn't be a horrible, patriarchal, homophobic place"

"...it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story."

Ah London, the new Darfur.

Public Health? LOL.

Better get ready for the return of those medieval favorites: cholera, typhoid fever, the Black Plague...

At the end of the article they ask for "feedback" - give them some.

[Link: www.timeout.com...]

If England would just stop calling a truck a lorry that would solve half thier problem.

WE should convert now, before the price of indonesian slave girls goes up.

#86 republic:

When factoring in the mercury emitted during the burning of coal and other fossil fuels, CFLs produce less mercury, even counting the amount in each bulb.

But, since we're on the subject of junk science and climate change, the NYT is announcing this as if it's big news. The US has agreed to consider a global warming package.

Just like Clinton agreed to consider Kyoto - and the Senate rejected it 95-0 before Bush ever took office.

And it must be a slow news day because the AP is trumping that we're nearing yet another grim milestone of 3,500 Americans killed in Iraq.

...must have missed that whole "Darfur" thing.

Some of the comments reveal an amazing amount of cognitive dissonance and stupidity. For example:

Alan said...

This is possibly the most ill-informed and poorly researched article I have seen in a long time. If the right wing policies advocated in this article were adopted...

Mike Richards said...

What in the world prompted TO to give Michael Hodges a forum to spew such thinly veiled hatred and venom against one of our communities? Neo-conn shock-bloggers spread fear and disgust through lies and half-truths... this is what they do, they don't know any better.

Yup, that's right, folks: These morons think it's the right and the neo-cons (code name for "Jews" and those who support Israel) who are pushing for an Islamic London. Seriously, how can anyone be so amazingly disconnected from reality?

Also, Mohammed Youssef and a couple others conflate criticism of Islam with racism.

Now, most of the commenters do "get it." But a frighteningly large number just plain don't...

A Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) Tornado Watch has been issued for Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Madison, WI isn't included in the watch, yet.

#106 alansfmd

I made a short and sweet comment about 7/7. Can't argue that.

Unless you're a conspiracy theorist and claim it was an inside job. But you can't reason with those people anyway

Wow, somebody must be paying Michael Hodges a lot of oil money---and, in return, he's going his best to make his benefactors look good.

There is no doubt now that the Left, on both sides of the Atlantic, side with Islam.

(Anybody want to make a bet as to when Prince Chuckles is going to announce his reversion to Islam?)

#68 zombie 6/07/2007

OK, folks, this has got to be a parody.

My thoughts, entirely. Either that or the muslims have kidnapped Iowahawk and forced him to smoke crack cocaine and type out their thoughts.

There's a one little detail the author of the article left out:

The US gave to Britain nuclear technology in the '50s. Britain now has a substantial nuclear arsenal, as well as ICBMs.

If Muslims take over Brtitain, they could literally hold the entire world hostage with nuclear blackmail.

Consequently, the US would have to either invade England to destroy their entire arsenal, or bomb the place to smithereens.

Details, details.

This reads more and more like satire....

What if the CNN "journalism" of today existed 63 years ago?

The Crisis on Ohmaha

Must see video.

#117 Zombie

I say we launch NOW! Avoid the rush....

#88 simmonL

Yes, according to the Left, not eating is good. Look at the way they go on and on against fast food outlets, such as McDonald's, and rail against obesity and fat in society. They'd love nothing better than to regulate our food intake. They're obsessed with diet, as witness the current plethora of new age/organic food fads.

They also love paying taxes, ecoology, humility before one's betters and all religions that aren't Judeo/Christian. Islam is tailor made for them. They are now on the side of the coming Caliphate.

#117 Zombie

You're right. If England goes Islamic, there's going to be a hell of a lot of trouble, for the entire world.

Hey, this has got to be an April Fools joke....right? Right? Hello, is this thing on?

Goodbye, Brits...hope you enjoy your burqas.

Wouldn't it be nice if we were Du`aa

Then we wouldn't have to be Haram

And wouldn't it be nice to live Shahadah

In the kind of Ummah we belong

#112 MoonbatBane

I suspect those commentors only read the first part of the article, got angry, quit reading and blasted off comments.

'Not eating would be important as well. The annual fasting month of Ramadan instils self-discipline, courtesy and social cohesion.'

. Revenge truck bombings enforce sectarian discipline and cohesion during Ramadan throughout the restive Muslim south.

#32 [deleted]

Oh dear, you naughty girl, Mandy. I didn't see what you wrote that got you deleted, but it must have been poor etiquette. Tsk, tsk.

The same can be said of Christianity. St. Paul is very big on this subject.

These guys seem to be your average liberal. Willing, even eager, to ignore the evidence of their eyes, if that will advance their agenda.

Anyone who thinks that Muslims have no bigots in their midts, has never met any Muslims.

OT: History Channel has a program on the Muslim Brotherhood right now

Once again, thank you George Washington! Thank you so much! I would not want to live in their colony.

#94 ploome hineni

In an Islamic London, Christians and Jews – with their allegiance to the Bible and the Talmud – would be protected as ‘peoples of the book’.

Right... just like the Jews in Israel are protected by their Arab neighbours or the Iraqi Christians who are "protected" by their Muslim neighbours.

#112 MoonbatBane

I think those people agree with me that this is so over the top that it is parody. Even they think no one could be this stupid.

#117/zombie

I believe we have a chain of custody agreement with Britan and hopefully France,in the event that there is a question as to security of these weapons custody could be transfered to the U.S.

#100 republic 6/07/2007 9:48:31 am PDT

The 7 year "peace treaty", is signed by Israel and the Arab/Muslim world, in a very public, obvious signing.

It hasn't happened just yet.

All I've seen on that is this:

Dan 9:27
He will confirm a covenant with many for one seven. In the middle of the seven he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.

Is there more?

In the 90's the Oslo Accord was signed. The ENRP offers financial incentives to the EuroMed nations to adhere to that treaty. Thus confirming a covenant of many with Israel. And it just so happens to be a 7 year funding instrument. It also happens to be implemented through Javier Solana, who is the Foreign Policy Chief to the EU as established by UN Reccomendation 666. Not kidding, look it up.

/disclaimer ... coz is a total nutjob

Interesting.
I had never watched an end of the world before.

I've read more believeable stuff in Pentouse Forum

O, England, how very sad thy fate!

(Apologies to John Keats: Chatterton)

Oh, sorry, that is a PDS (Particularly Dangerous Situation) Tornado Watch

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 358
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1135 AM CDT THU JUN 7 2007

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN IOWA
SMALL PART OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS
PART OF WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN
PARTS OF SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA
MUCH OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN WISCONSIN
LAKE SUPERIOR

EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY MORNING AND EVENING FROM 1135 AM UNTIL 1000 PM CDT.

...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION...

DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL TO 2.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER... THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 85 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF KENNEDY WISCONSIN TO 45 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF OTTUMWA IOWA. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 357...

DISCUSSION...VERY STRONG SHEAR PROFILES IN PLACE ACROSS WATCH WITH APPROACH OF VIGOROUS UPPER TROUGH AND DEEP SURFACE LOW. AIR MASS HAS BECOME STRONGLY UNSTABLE AND WEAKLY CAPPED. SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP RAPIDLY ALONG W EDGE OF WATCH WHERE MOISTURE/INSTABILITY GRADIENT LOCATED. POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR STRONG/LONG LIVED TORNADOES TO DEVELOP BY MID AFTERNOON ALONG WITH VERY DAMAGING WINDS.

If you look closely, there is actually two front like features, one more of a dry line feature from near Kansas City to the Wisconsin/Minnesota state line, which is clearly visible, and the more difficult to see cold front, visible only in Western Minnesota. While the best tornado potential will be with the airmass with mid to upper teen dewpoints ahead of the dry line, the air between the two boundaries has dewpoints around 10ºC, and with full June insolation, may also destabilize enough for additional severe storms.

First radar indicated tornado of the day between Rochester and Minneapolis

So Mohammed's okay, but Jesus is "gay"? What is wrong with these people?

Charles: Please drop the ads at the top of the page that cause a pop-up. Very annoying.

'...Consequently, the US would have to either invade England to destroy their entire arsenal, or bomb the place to smithereens.'

Dying horribly, painfully, in a nuclear inferno would be a blessing compared to becoming an Islamic state.

Dear America,
Please promise me that is this ever happens you won't think twice about obliterating us.
Your old pal,
Britain.

Hey Ed,

How's the weather today?

The annual fasting month of Ramadan instils self-discipline, courtesy and social cohesion. And Londoners would benefit philosophically and physically from even a short period when we weren’t constantly ramming food into our mouths.

Umm, that's exactly what Ramadan fast is--an excuse for gluttony. They just stuff their faces after sundown.

#142 Doug

Don't feed the weather troll ;-)

Islam non racist....
That's why the Uzbek war with the Tajiks who war with the Pashtun who war with the Sindh and the Khow and all the above war with the persians and the Hazara. No racism there.

this has got to be satirical. the whole thing reads like thinly veiled criticism. even the use of the word "submit" at the end screams of tounge-in-cheek sarcasm. the TimeOut folks are certainly leftists, but as leftists remember along with america, they also hate religion.

if this isnt satire, it damn well should be.

There are people who believe the Uk will turn to an extreme right solution of hard mass violence . A Cromwell type that will make a violent solution , And these people are the Optimists !

I think this is satire.
I'm almost positive this is satire.

If you read his other stuff you will notice that his writing style is a dry over the top kind of sarcasm that just looks weirder than hell when you first read it.

He's lambasting London Cyclists and making fun of the shallow London art scene to get free beer.
Just search his name in Time Out

I seriously think he's goofing on the Multi-Cults on a level we are not used to seeing.

Race relations
Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story.

Where's my rifle ?

128 Kenneth

I got deleted? Whoops!

#121 talkin

Yes, according to the Left, not eating is good. Look at the way they go on and on against fast food outlets, such as McDonald's, and rail against obesity and fat in society.

They friggin' ruined Micky D's fries and KFC chicken forever. Bastards.

Holocaust deniers are on the march around the world - from Switzerland to Japan.

The Islamists would have no problem with the Holocaust denials, but for one tiny detail - they'd love to finish the job.

"Under Islam all ethnicities are equal"

Some, however, will be more equal than others.
/at our whim

134 bulwrk

Very interesting. Anyone know more?

Mmmmmmmm, supple joints......

28 zombie 6/07/2007 9:30:43 am PDT

"Here's the video of Kent Brockman welcoming our new insect overlords."
heh...good one z

Storms are brewing all over.
Tornados expected here in Minneapolis.
Shitstorms predicted in London.

Let's all put on our blinders and go party while we can! Hooray for ignorance!

This assclown is clearly a moonbat of the most potent variety. Absolutely none of his claims stand up to real world scrutiny.

n an Islamic London, Christians and Jews – with their allegiance to the Bible and the Talmud – would be protected as ‘peoples of the book’.

'Protected' is hardly what Jews and Christians are in Muslim countries. More like 'persecuted', 'destroyed', and 'dhimmis' at best.

The annual fasting month of Ramadan instils self-discipline, courtesy and social cohesion. And Londoners would benefit philosophically and physically from even a short period when we weren’t constantly ramming food into our mouths.

When did fasting become solely a Muslim practice? I believe Jews and Christians have practiced it before Mo (Piss Be Upon Him) was in diapers.

Application of halal (Arabic for ‘permissable’) dietary laws across London would free us at a stroke from our addiction to junk food

What? Apparently no one can make rational decisions on what to eat. Enslavement to Islam is the only way to eat healthy. Yes.

Muhammad was one of the first ever environmentalists

But will Al Goracle relinquish his god status if all enviros were to turn Muslim?

Under Islam all ethnicities are equal.

Where does it say this in the Korran? The evidence worldwide does not support this.

On the surface, Islamic health doesn’t look good: the 2001 census showed that 24 per cent of Muslim women and 21 per cent of Muslim men suffered long-term illness and disability. But these are factors of social conditions rather than religion.

What social factors? How can you separate Muslims social life from their 'religion?'

Presently, Muslim students perform less well than non-Muslim students. Again, social factors rather than religion have led to this state of affairs.

Again, what social conditions?

More importantly, everyone would be obliged to consider those Londoners who haven’t shared their good fortune.

Obliged to rat out to the Islamic authorities those that don't contribute to the poverty tax? Hello 1984.

This is scary because it's an attempt, although a very bad one, at rationalizing and promoting massive cultural change to less freedom, less rights, religious dominance, etc. And it's coming from the left. Watch out America, the left here will try this very same hypocritical, nation-destroying bullshit soon. We must act now before we get this shit pushed on us by the elite left.

Kent: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar
caves.

Jimmy the Clam

I am now certain we are right and this is pointed satire. Read the language and dis-regard the source and you'll agree. It reeks of sarcasm, don't you think? I take it as a sign of hope.

Race relations
Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story.

unless, you know, you're black. then you're basically screwed

Hmmm, maybe it is satire. Us Yanks aren't used to that dry Brit sense of humor, and that's what this may be -- dry Brit satire...

#157 kojak

Tornados expected here in Minneapolis.

No they're not, look outside.

/we'll be lucky if we get rain today

#164 killian Bundy

It's been sunny, but it's tree-breaking windy.
It'll rain at quiting time, per usual.

Humid this morning, but rain chances look low, so I watered the lawn and the orange tree yesterday after work. I mowed the day before that.

Going out of town, to a secret location, for a reunion, this weekend, and thus won't be able to water.

Now, most of my family (well, elder moonbat 'Bush is Hitler' brother works for a defense contractor near Kansas City, and younger brother is teaching literature on the campus of a Catholic American university in Rome, before starting his new job at a renowned private institution in the Great Lakes, that if memory serves, has had Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher as commencement speakers) lives in the H-E-B Independent School District, just West of DFW airport, and the new hot spot for drilling for oil and gas in residential neighborhoods (and, because people assumed there was no oil or gas when they subdivided the cattle ranches for neighborhoods, they never bothered keeping the mineral rights, so people like my sister is receiving money for the petroleum under her 1/3rd acre suburban house), my interest in DFW weather is higher than for, say, Minnesota. Since I spent my formative years in Massapequa, NY 11758, I also watch for NYC area blizzards with great delight.

Anyhow, DFW, while potentially rather unstable even at 7 am CDT, also had a rather stout warm and dry layer of air from the Mexican highlands at 800 mb

I just checked, the RUC never lowers convective inhibition less than about -100 Joules/Kg at DFW, but the 12Z WRF suggests the cap becomes breakable late afternoon, with an amazing almost 5000 Joules/Kg CAPE and decent speed and directional shear. If the cap does break at DFW, it could be the severe weather event of an already busy severe weather season, but I'm not at all sure the cap will break. Oklahoma City probably has a better chance for the isolated tornadoes and hail baseball sized or larger, that crunches automotive sheet-metal and stars, or even punches through, automotive safety glass.

Lucas County radar indicated tornado should stay well East of downtown Des Moines.

#154/Ojoe

A hold over from the cold war when there was a very real fear of massive Russian armor formations pouring through the Fulda gap in a suprise attack, overwelming NATO forces before a response could be mounted.

Isn't it amazing how proudly this suicidal clown proclaims his ignorance and stupidity?

Yea, Who's seen the BBC version of The Office. Dry as a bone and hysterical. Someone here should be able to check this guy out and see if we should be up-lifted or kick into a pot for our British lizards.

OT:

Thompson '08 T-Shirt: Kill Terrorists, Protect Borders, Punch Hippies... (includes pic)

I'm going to wear mine in Harvard Square, will time the seconds until accosted by peace loving progressive students. My best guess, under 10 seconds....

#140 Doug

Charles: Please drop the ads at the top of the page that cause a pop-up. Very annoying.

Do a Google search for host file. The third link has one to download. Internet ads all zapped. No software to install or anything. It's great.

I do not think it is satire parody or humour.
The first bit is the parody.
But the author does not come down between the two differing futures. He embraces the ISlamic one. unreservedly.

#32 [deleted] 6/07/2007 9:31:52 am PDT

We've talked about your manners before, dear!

#166 kojak

It'll rain at quiting time, per usual.

I wouldn't bet on it.

/looks like we're in the clear to me

As a Black person whose father is an Igbo from West Africa, I can tell you personally that not all Muslims are "equal", in Islam.

I know many Black Muslims who are treated as sub human in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Arab world. In Islam, the futher you get from being Arab, the lower down on the Muslim racial hiarchy you appear. Just google " Racist Islam Blacks" if you'd like to find out.

Why is it that it is forbidden for the Koran to be translated in a language other than Arabic? Islam has been a vehicle for Arab supremacy wherever it goes.

Race relations
Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story.

Equal? Equally nuts, equally evil, equally misogynistic, maybe. But equal?

#150 Mandy Manners

I got deleted? Whoops!

My response to your deleted, also was deleted.

Sorry Charles.

I think that is my first one in 5,392 comments.

I am sorry.

Don't shiite militiamen still hold 5 Brits hostage? Remember the ones who were taken from inside the Iraq Finance Ministry building?

You wouldn't know it from the "News" page of the Daily Telegraph.

[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]

you will find that "Foreign Mums Fuel Fertility High" and see nice pics of the G8 leaders enjoying powerboating and doing photo ops.

Oh, and you can learn about Paris Hilton too. But British citizens held by Shiite militiamen in Iraq?

...and another thing.

The bigotry in the Arab Muslim world is WORSE than it is in the Christian Western world. Much worse.

And for those of you who know your history, the Middle East was one of the last regions to outlaw slavery, and did so only at the behest of British cannons.

I have forgotten my Civics lesson, what is cloture vote?

UK civility has been overstepped and the colonial emperialists are too busy feeling guilty to bitch slap em right on out of the dole line.

Unless of course you don't want to be a muslim.

Is this tool advocating compulsory conversion to Islam?

He's probably an atheist which makes this even more mind numbing convulted rant even more unbelieveable.

In the words of Ted Sarandis...WOW!

Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story.

    Funny, that's kinda like Malcom X's response to the time he journied to Mecca ... the racist scales were lifted from his eyes and he felt a brotherhood.  It confused him, too, for a bit, but after he began to see people of different races as people first.

    Nation of Islam had him killed for it, of course, but still ... I can see where they'd get a lot of blacks, etc., as converts w/this tactic, as well as moonbats galore ...

};)     [ ... playing Devil's Advocate ...]

#64 simonl
Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story.

But for you women, its lights out!

Uh, actually, don't you mean for non-Arabs it is lights out? There is that little matter of one thousand years of Arabs enslaving blacks, the current Sudan genocide, etc.
And don't forget the Palistinian news cartoons of Condi pregnat with the ape, etc.

Although England has a long tradition of religious bigotry against, for instance, Roman Catholics, it is reasonable to assume that under the guiding hand of Islam a civilised accommodation could be made among faith groups in London.

Reasonable?! His reasoning must be on the same level as C. Hedges. That guiding hand he speaks of is not civilized and is not accommodating.

Trent Lott wants to let us know that his constituents (well the ones he cares about at least) want the amnesty passed.

If we can't do this then we ought to vote to dissolve the Congress and go home till a new Congress," said Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., who added that he's getting calls from constituents upset that Congress can't pass an immigration reform bill.

I'm so pleased and proud that the GOP senators voted to put Lott back into a leadership role after the November 2006 election debacle. His is the kind of leadership and responsiveness to the base that the GOP needs.

/that's sarc

Oh. My. G_d.
It's hard to fathom how brain dead some people can be and still function.
He'll make an excellent dhimmi, though...until its his neck in the noose.

#181 Treesarie

I have forgotten my Civics lesson, what is cloture vote?

It's the vote to cut off debate on a bill.

/the failure to invoke cloture is sometimes known as as a filibuster

Funny Picture on Article...

London Eye... with too many minirates in background.

Dear Mr. Michael Hodges,

My years of experience living in the heartland of Islam assure you that racism and misogeny "under Islam" exist in a greater capacity that anything you have ever experienced in the West.

#143 Spiritualized

Umm, that's exactly what Ramadan fast is--an excuse for gluttony. They just stuff their faces after sundown.

It's more than that.

According to the islamic holy war manual, allah's enemies are safe from attack in the days of the holy month of Ramadan. Can't recall if it says anything about the nights.

Of course, the cycle of the moon(light) is the critical determinant of the start of Ramadan, isn't it?

By eating at night and sleeping all day, after a few days, one may develop a buildup of visual purple, and with enhanced night vision, improve one's chances of discovering a new planet. Or something.

I've only skimmed the comments for the article, but they are by & large asking the author if he is out of his goat-humping mind.

#176 Angryigbo
Welcome to LGF. Too bad that Biafra thing didnt work out for you.

Go to sleep, little dhimmis. Nothing to worry about here. Ssshhhhhhh....

/sharmuta
where ya been?....miss ya

VDH: The Other D-Day

I have searched for the Author's name on their page and the other article that I found (about 9/11) is equally demented and moonbatish.

It is not satire.

#180 AngryIgbo

The bigotry in the Arab Muslim world is WORSE than it is in the Christian Western world. Much worse.

There is no comparison, the Arabs would make the KKK blush!

Here's one gem of a comment from "myPitboss"

After this article, I don't think I can even trust Time Out's restaurant reviews. This is a truly repulsive article and it contaminates the publication forever.

Testify!

#188 funky chicken

If we can't do this then we ought to vote to dissolve the Congress and go home till a new Congress," said Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., who added that he's getting calls from constituents upset that Congress can't pass an immigration reform bill.

Let's see,

Blanket amnesty, no matter how they have attempted to "frame the argument".

Not one illegal immigrant will pasy a penny in fines, no matter how they "frame the argument".

No Illegal immigrant is going to go back to Mexico, and re-enter with some kind of work permit, no matter how they "frame the argument."

Border enforcement?

One border Patrol agent every 15-20 miles, is virtually no real border enforcement.

This immigration bill is a complete joke.

And then, bring in the extended families?

I suppose under sharia, London would have to give up beauty pageants and pubs too.

#140 Doug

I don't get popups... you might have spyware

What an idiot! If you have an ounce of brains you know that the Sunni's hate the druze, the druze hate the shi'ites and the shi'ites hate pretty much everyone else. Oh yes, the Arabs hate the Persians, the Persians hate the Arabs and they all consider the Palestinians to be subhuman refuse. Why do you think none wants them. They are just a tool to get rid of Israel. I could go on, but you get the point.

#184 buzzsawmonkey
I've come up with a Wordpress blogger with that name that links to lgf, and links to Rush and Glenn Beck. Still looking...

#193 abolitionist

Of course, the cycle of the moon(light) is the critical determinant of the start of Ramadan, isn't it?

So can there be ramadan in Alaska? Quick, someone Askimam.com!

In an Islamic London, Christians and Jews – with their allegiance to the Bible and the Talmud – would be protected as ‘peoples of the book’. Hindus and Sikhs manage to live alongside a large Muslim population in India, so why not here? Although England has a long tradition of religious bigotry against, for instance, Roman Catholics, it is reasonable to assume that under the guiding hand of Islam a civilised accommodation could be made among faith groups in London.

This has got to be satire.

In fact, Islam offers Londoners potential health benefits: the Muslim act of prayer is designed to keep worshippers fit, their joints supple and, at five times a day, their stomachs trim. The regular washing of the feet and hands required before prayers promotes public hygiene and would reduce the transmission of superbugs in London’s hospitals.

Alcohol is haram, or forbidden, to Muslims. As London is above the national average for alcohol-related deaths in males, with 17.6 per 100,000 people (Camden has 31.6 per 100,000 males), turning all the city’s pubs into juice bars would have a massive positive effect on public health. Forbid alcohol throughout the country, and you’d avoid many of the 22,000 alcohol-related deaths and the £7.3 billion national bill for alcohol-related crime and disorder each year.

Promotes public hygiene? Sorry, give me a hospital where every single staff member is forced to use cleansers that actually kill germs quickly. (hint: alcohol kills germs)

I'd also kinda prefer it if my doctor and nurse hadn't just been touching their feet. Nasty things end up on the floor in hospitals...

As for the health benefits of prohibiting alcoholic beverages, what about all those studies showing moderate consumption actually provides a variety of health benefits?

And while the alcohol-related crime rate might go down in an Islamic London, just look at the actual violent crime rates in significantly Muslim areas in England, and reconsider your little idea that you'd be better off.

By the last breath of the fourth winds blow
Better raise your ears
The sound of hooves knocks at your door
Lock up your wife and children now
Its time to wield the blade
For now you have got some company

The horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride
They have come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the four horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die

You have been dying since the day
You were born
You know it has all been planned
The quartet of deliverance rides
A sinner once a sinner twice
No need for confession now
Cause now you have got the fight of your life

The horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride
They have come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the four horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die

Time
Has taken its toll on you
The lines that crack your face
Famine
Your body it has torn through
Withered in every place
Pestilence
For what you have had to endure
And what you have put others through
Death
Deliverance for you for sure
There is nothing you can do
So gather round young warriors now
And saddle up your steeds
Killing scores with demon swords
Now is the death of doers of wrong
Swing the judgment hammer down
Safely inside armor blood guts and sweat

The horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride
They have come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the four horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die

...sounds like these days are upon us... would be much better than living under Islamic Law...

#201 republic

we ought to vote to dissolve the Congress

Best idea since canned beer!

I like bottles...

THIS IS FROM THE SAME [DELETED], FROM HIS ARTICLE ABOUT 9/11:
A MOONBAT AND A DANGEROUS ONE, A MR. SUPER-DOUBLETALK

In the years that followed 9/11 Londoners have marched against a war in Iraq that was supposed to punish the hijackers (although none of them were Iraqi) and eliminate Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (although, as our leaders well knew, they didn’t exist). When our tubes and buses have been blown up we’ve been called idiots for wondering if the attacks were in any way connected to our disastrous foreign policy and London bobbies have reacted to the threat of militant Islam by assassinating Brazilian electricians. As I write, the Metropolitan Police have arrested more Muslims for an alleged plot to blow US-bound passenger jets out of the sky, perhaps as that Twin Tower-less skyline was about to come into view. But now, sadly, the main legacy of 9/11 is cynicism.

Race relations
Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story.

HOGWASH - Once you have submitted to Islam, you are screwed.

Abandon hope all ye who enter Islam

#184 buzzsawmonkey

Is Time Out known for their satirical articles? I get the feeling they aren't.

Plus if it is satire, I would expect something over-the-top outrageous in it to identify it as such. Something along the lines of the breast feeding fatwa being a good source of calcium for Londoners.

I think it's a genuine moonbat rave.

You know, David Horowitz was really onto something big in his book Unholy Alliance.

In particular, notice this: once we have embraced this idiotic belief system, THEN ecology, education, public health, arts, social justice will all appear in the "Radiant Future." This is going to happen in ISLAM, which has no concern at all for ecology, education, public health, the arts, or social justice?

Come on! We're talking about people who pollute as much as they possibly can, think that "education" consists of forcing boys (and only boys) to memorize a Koran they don't understand, have no system of public health at ALL, forbid the exercise of the arts (sculpture, painting, music etc.) and treat their Filipino maids as SLAVES?

How do you get that stupid?

"Some are born stupid, some have stupidity thrust upon them, and some make themselves stupid." Combine all three, and you wind up with this idiot.

#209 Shoeless:

What was that, Metallica?

#187 justadot 6/07/2007 10:35:44 am PDT

Although England has a long tradition of religious bigotry against, for instance, Roman Catholics, it is reasonable to assume that under the guiding hand of Islam a civilised accommodation could be made among faith groups in London.
Reasonable?! His reasoning must be on the same level as C. Hedges. That guiding hand he speaks of is not civilized and is not accommodating.

Also, you want to ask which hand will be guiding so you don't get fig-loaded crap on you.

#55 Doda McCheesle 6/07/2007 9:36:38 am PDT

Yeah... but of course the big question is:

Is Hodges a muslim? If not, WHY not, since he obviously believes they are ALL THAT and a bag of falafel?

Hey, Doda, I think you're on to something here. Whenever an idiot praises islam like this, we should insist he backs up what he says by converting. Otherwise, why in hell should we listen to their hypocrisy?

Put up or shut up.

People in MSP, don't give up all hope:

Whle the initial front (as seen on this satellite loop) has swept the deeper moisture to the East, and dewpoints are now aob 10º/50ºF (45ºF in New Ulm!), which means the tornado risk is now slim, ample June sunshine is heating temps well into the 80s (almost 30º), and very cold mid-level temps and strong jet dynamics will accompany the second front moving in from the Dakotas. So a strong, hail producing thunderstorm may still be in your future this afternoon, and, if anything, lower humidity near the surface with warm temps may increase the chance for damaging straight line winds!

Killian,

Thank you, I remember filibuster.

#208 Lurking Faith
Alcohol is haram, or forbidden, to Muslims. As London is above the national average for alcohol-related deaths in males, with 17.6 per 100,000 people (Camden has 31.6 per 100,000 males), turning all the city’s pubs into juice bars would have a massive positive effect on public health. Forbid alcohol throughout the country, and you’d avoid many of the 22,000 alcohol-related deaths and the £7.3 billion national bill for alcohol-related crime and disorder each year.

Note to the Magic Kingdom, that was tried in the former British colonies with disastorious results. The name Al Capone or Elliot Ness ring any bells?

#216 Know Your Enemy:

Yes it is...

"Race relations
Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story."

There isn't a word to describe the off-the-scale lunacy of this statement. I'm glad he added the "End of story" comment. It lets me know that he is the supreme authority on the issue and that further debate is unnecessary. What a craven coward! I guess he expects special treatment for his idiotic public statements when the IEH (Islamic Event Horizon) is crossed in Britain.

I've often heard Liberalism described as a mental disorder. Perhaps a better way of looking at it is "Arrested Development." Think about their behavior. Is it not similar to that of a four year old with siblings? A four year old demands the world be absolutely fair, yet does everything he/her can to obtain special attention and treatment. They choose the opposite side of an argument, not because it makes any sense, but to piss off a sibling. And my favorite, when caught in the cookie jar of malfeasance or failed policy, face covered with crumbs and chocolate, they point the finger at everyone else.

The only down side of this argument is that most four year olds have more self respect.

Once you have submitted, you haven't just submitted. Now, you must submit to being told what to wear {a bomb vest}, where to wear it {in the company of infidels}, and how to die {messily}.

But suppose you can beg off on that. You will still be at risk of oppression for being {a woman, a non-speaker of Arabic, a Sunni when you should have been Shia, Shiite when you should have been Sunni, Sunni but not Wahabbi, not bearded, etc. etc.}

Suppose you're the really submissive type, so all that's OK with you. You will bend to the storm, say anything, and do anything not too dangerous. You're still not out of the woods. Your society cannot carry on the commercial and scientific-technical work that underpins your current standard of living if you have much company in your decision to submit. Capitalism and freedom go together, and there will be no freedom so there can be no capitalism. (Not even the socialist-capitalism of today's Europe.) You will have to submit also to poverty.

You won't just be bending over at prayer time.

201 republic Mr. Lott also wants you to know that the agrees that you and I are racist fearmongers.

F*ck off Trent. Why your sorry ass constituents send you back to Washington time after time when you have shown yourself to be a worthless (for conservative goals), racist, crook, I can't imagine.

And the fact that the GOP senators chose to relect this pig to leadership in late 2006 just shocked the hell out of me. Lott was on the record spewing about being sick of the Porkbusters folks, said he would use his position to get his extra pound of flesh out of his homeowners' insurance folks, has a history of kickbacks to his brother in law, etc.

Please, Mississipians, vote the pecker out of office at the next opportunity.

Another great comment from "Reza"

I too am an 'ex-Muslim', ie someone who was unfortunate enough to be born a Muslim who subsequently rejected it when he started reading books and growing brain cells. Islam, true, real Koranic Islam would have me, and you killed. Sadly, the liberal, white liberals who write garbage like this article don't seem to get it. It's helpful to our argument though that the hateful anti-English Muslim 'citizens' posting here are showing the true face of Islamic ideology.

There's hope yet for England!

221 tfk Jeff Sessions of Alabama is a hero.

Under islam you are as good as dead.

End of story.

168 bulwrk

Thanks for the info.

Sorry to keep posting these comments, but I think there's a lot of potential lizards in the UK

What a load of lying, (islamo-)fascist nonsense from a cringing, hand-wringing left-wing, pathetic excuse for a so-called journalist.
What this utter tripe advocates is an authoritarian nightmare where the likes of this lefty liberal idiot would be amongst the first to be stoned to death (one plus point, I acknowledge).

Is London's Future Islamic?

"Future" implies going forward.

Islam means you are going nowhere.

Why Iran will fight, not compromise

Big problems for the mullahs,

Iranian dissidents put overall unemployment at 30% and youth unemployment at 50%. Government subsidies sustain a very large portion of the population; 42% of the non-agricultural population is employed by the Iranian state,

...The present inflation rate of about 20%, driven by a 40% rate of monetary expansion, suggests that government resources are already exhausted. Governments resort to the printing press when they no longer can raise sufficient funds through taxation, sales of state-owned commodities such as oil, or borrowing...The fact that Iran cannot stabilize its currency suggests a breakdown of political consensus within the regime, and a scramble by different elements in the regime to lay hands on whatever resources it can.

Another possibility is that the official numbers are entirely false, and that Iran already has fallen into a current-account deficit. In a May 19 statement reported by the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), President Mahmud Ahmadinejad denied a report that Iran's imports now exceed $60 billion, against an official estimate of $45 billion. This sort of discrepancy typically occurs when capital flight is disguised as imports through fraudulent invoices and similar devices. A small current-account deficit would be of little concern for a nation with normal access to world capital markets, but Iran is unable to borrow.

That is the background to Ahmadinejad's decree last week reducing private and state bank lending rates to 12% from 14%, that is, 5-10 percentage points below the rate of inflation. If Ahmadinejad were in the pay of a hostile intelligence service, he could not have found a more effective way to sabotage Iran's economy. If the price of goods rises faster than the cost of money, everyone who can will borrow money to purchase and hoard goods. The result will be higher prices and reduced economic activity, and the eventual prospect of hyperinflation, which no government ever has survived. Last week's rate reduction augmented the incentives for capital flight.

...What strategic consequences ensue from Iran's economic misery? Broadly speaking, the choices are two. In the most benign scenario, Iran's clerical establishment will emulate the Soviet Union of 1987, when...Gorbachev acknowledged that communism had led Russia to the brink of ruin in the face of vibrant economic growth among the United States and its allies. Russia no longer had the resources to sustain an arms race with the US, and broke down under the pressure of America's military buildup.

The second choice is an imperial adventure. In fact, Iran is engaged in such an adventure, funding and arming Shi'ite allies from Basra to Beirut, and creating clients selectively among such Sunnis as Hamas in Palestine.

...An old piece of diplomatic wisdom states that one always should give one's enemy a way out. But I see no way out for the pocket empire of Persia. Ahmadinejad and his generation of Revolutionary Guards will fight, and cautious old men like Rafsanjani will not be able to stop them.

#210 BD_VM

#201 republic

we ought to vote to dissolve the Congress

Best idea since canned beer!

Yes, I'm also all for it.

I sense satire

#230 taxfreekiller 6/07/2007 10:57:39 am PDT

Hell ya, tfk wants a fight with Harry Reidless, in fact dingey Harry he gets the first 10 and he can use feet, hands or rocks or a judical review , thats fair uh?

$100.00 on tfk, giving 5:1 odds. Takers?

Doesn't look as if the Germans will roll over as easily.

Court Upholds State's Ban On Head Scarves

#235 buzzsawmonkey
Right - a re-direct to the blog through the authors name to a wordpress blog. Seems to be a Philly person. Writing style similar at blog. Mainly conservative blogroll.
After all, if this article was real, you'd expect it to be written by a Mo or Ismail, right?
So, I'm suspecting another Iowahawk sytle lgfer is gonna pop up and out himself (in the non geoffputerbaugh fashion, that is) for the article. Once he cashes the check, of course.

Tonight there is some type of free John Walker Lindh seminar/rally in Londonistan. Let me see if I find the link..

Mama Winger...

You mean 'Under Islam We are As good as Dead'... Clearly we would (and will) be the resistance... Therefore, we would be the first to go...

I think this piece is meant to be sarcastic;
or as the British would say, a sarki piss-take.
Maybe we Americans really don't have a sense of irony.

Michelle Malkin, hero

Coburn pushes for full enforcement of existing laws
Reid: "This is the president's bill;" Lott "serves notice"
Coburn fails, 42-54;

Sen. Hutchison opposes Coburn amendment--quibbling over construction of the fence. (Here's background on her longstanding objection to the Secure Fence Act provisions.) Says Dorgan amendment is a deal-breaker.

10:36am Eastern. Sen. Harry Darth Reid takes the floor. Says he had a conversation with DHS secretary Chertoff last night. "This is the president's bill...someone should get word to the president that if this bill goes down with all the Dems supporting it...the headline will be 'the president fails again'...when is enough enough?"

#240 JWF

That's good news. It seems for every step they take forward, they take two back.

Isn't it ironic that, if the UK was islamic that about half of this site's left navigation would have to be deleted?

Bars/Pubs
Clubs
Dance
Gay & Lesbian
Kids
Theatre
Astrology
Bingo
Casino

Probably others. Would have to fade into non-existance.

O..M..G read it and weep

Democrat Byron Dorgan, author of the temporary worker program sunset provision that passed after midnight last night, has a piece in NRO arguing against amnesty. Yes, believe it:

America is a great country. Many people from throughout the world would like to come here and take part in the American Dream. I understand that.
But, if we had no restrictions on immigration and just threw open the doors and welcomed everyone from everywhere we’d be over run by people wanting to move to the United States.

So, we try to manage immigration through quotas. Nearly a million and a half people come to our country legally every year through this process. In addition, another one million people plus come here each year to work legally at agricultural jobs.

Now, I’m sensitive to the fact that some immigrants who have come here illegally have worked hard for decades and even raised their families here. We need to take that into account as we try to resolve their status.

But I don’t think we should decide that anybody who showed up here illegally as of last December 31 should be given a green light to stay here and work here permanently.

Our laws need to be enforced — both at the border and at the workplace. Just as someone sneaking across the border illegally should be punished, so too should employers who break the law and hire illegal immigrants for low wages.

Once we’ve secured the border, and taken away the market for illegal labor, then will be the time to consider the best way to address the status of illegal immigrants in our country.

#103 gbl

Yes, the commenters are blistering him:

Michael Hodges, if you ever had any journalistic credability, you can wave it goodbye. I only hope you got some Saudi cash for this insideous piece of islamist propaganda.

and

Maybe under enviornment he should have analyzed the impact 911 had on New York. Such a great contribution to recycling when the 2 buildings fell I guess would be the opinion of this so called journalist.

also

In Public Health, you forgot to mention the reduction in AIDS cases after your Muslim overlords chop off the heads of the GLBT population. I suppose the left thinks killing 4000 Iranian gays had some advantages.

The Dems will blame the Republicans for killing the bill... Thus, the Republicans are evil... Thus, vote for the Dems, we will help the illegals... Thus, amensty passes with a strongwer Dem majority and Dem in the Oval Office...

Overall, a real shitty scenario...

An Islamic London can also look forward to polio outbreaks!

You gotta be kidding me.....Shut down the pubs? Yeah, like that will ever happen.

What a dope.

#245 funky chicken

10:36am Eastern. Sen. Harry Darth Reid takes the floor. Says he had a conversation with DHS secretary Chertoff last night. "This is the president's bill...someone should get word to the president that if this bill goes down with all the Dems supporting it...the headline will be 'the president fails again'...when is enough enough?"

This bill is the Kennedy bill, which President Bush supports.

It is Ted Kennedy's bill.

That alone, says it all.

#248 funky

Great op-ed there. For those who want to read the whole thing, here's a link:

Unlabor Day

Does this future Islamic London mean all those fliers left in call-boxes advertising sex, bondage, spanking and various other traditional British pastimes will feature, instead of the usual matron in a nurse's uniform or leather dominatrix gear, a fetching pair of eyes peering out from under a burka?

Lacks something.

#250tfc3rid

The Dems will blame the Republicans for killing the bill... Thus, the Republicans are evil... Thus, vote for the Dems, we will help the illegals... Thus, amensty passes with a strongwer Dem majority and Dem in the Oval Office...

Overall, a real shitty scenario...

What is even worse, beyond comprehension, is what follows for the then next 4-12 years.

America changed, forever, for the worse, with no way to turn it around, ever agin.

OT -

Listening to Rush right now. Some wacko pet rescue organization is blaming Global Warming for the increase in unwanted kittens.

Lord have mercy ......

#251 Dirk

Yup, it'll meant the end of immunization.

#251 Dirk
"The disinformation - spread by extremist clerics using mosque loudspeakers and illegal radio stations"

This is a case where extremist clerics were involved. MSM says the ones they cover are all moderate.

mean the end

PIMF

This is absolutely amazing. It really reads like a joke.

Just one question for the idiot who wrote it.......

In an Islamic London, Christians and Jews – with their allegiance to the Bible and the Talmud – would be protected as ‘peoples of the book’.

"Protected" from what?

#255 Kenneth

No, they'll feature goats.

#248 funky chicken

Once we’ve secured the border, and taken away the market for illegal labor, then will be the time to consider the best way to address the status of illegal immigrants in our country.

Why is it when one of the very few Democrats says something like this, which I agree with, is that Democrat not called a racist bigot, like the 3/4's of the Republicans are called, who believe this, not just in words?

#253 republic

This bill is the Kennedy bill, which President Bush supports.

It is Ted Kennedy's bill.

That alone, says it all.

eerrrr aaahhhhh, what the hell does that mean?
(in best frogman Kennedy voice)

Although England has a long tradition of religious bigotry against, for instance, Roman Catholics, it is reasonable to assume that under the guiding hand of Islam a civilised accommodation could be made among faith groups in London.

Yeah, just they let the people in Dafour co-exist with them. Or where they have killed almost 2,000 Buddhists in Thailand. There are thousands of examples where Islam has killed thousands during the last 5 or 6 years. This guy has no clue that Islam is a cult of death.

Nice post #236 Kenneth,

If Ahmadinejad were in the pay of a hostile intelligence service, he could not have found a more effective way to sabotage Iran's economy.

This is what scares me. Ahmadinejad MAY BE imploding Iran on purpose. Extreme Mahdi-ism in effort to destabilize the whole region hence the world.

#257 mama winger

Listening to Rush right now. Some wacko pet rescue organization is blaming Global Warming for the increase in unwanted kittens.

mama, this is why that group of people are #1 on the FBI's Domestic Terrorist list.

republic...

I agree... I think we are on the verge of a permanent liberal lefty majority...

Recall the U.S. Senate.

Senate Looks to Restore Rights for Terrorists

National suicide.

#4 Spenser(with an S)

Does anyone here have the Simpsons audio snip that we reference here frequently about welcoming our new overlords?

Will this do? :)

#155 Murqtaad
Did you write this?

#267 republic

Working in the veterinary field, I am constantly amazed at the number of complete nut jobs associated with animal organizations.

These people are scary.

#261 Nonic

Christians and Jews – with their allegiance to the Bible and the Talmud – would be protected as ‘peoples of the book’.
"Protected" from what?

Paisa', you don't understand because you don't want to understand. Mr. capone says he will protect you, you don't need all these questions.

I've read this closely, and while I was prepared for satire based on the opening paragraph, I have come to the conclusion that this man is 100% serious, and this isn't a joke.

I like the comments in timeout.com

This twit would go crazy if someone suggested that the Pope assume control of London, but seems perfectly happy to turn the city over to an inbred half-wit with a hook that believes everyone who disagrees with his barbaric visions should be tortured and then beheaded.

250 tfc The illegals and their backers were gonna break democrat anyway.

This is a chance for the GOP to stand up for US citizens and US blue collar workers who are getting hammered by competition from illegals who will work for crap wages.

I'm actually surprised an enterprising Dem with presidential asperations hasn't come out campaigning to Bush's right on this issue.

I know the unions want those 12 million new members, but even union leaders understand supply and demand and the effects on salaries, don't they?

The GOP is just damned lucky that the democrat party is so in thrall to the hollyweird leftists and anti-war moonbat loons...and George Soros, who quite clearly wants to destroy this nation.

mama winger,

Read that this morning.

Adoption Group: Cat Invasion Due to Global Warming

Global warming has officially jumped the shark.

274 Ed I sadly agree with you.

and tell our enemies, that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our BEEEEEER!"

I liked that comment.