Points to Ponder

Thomas L. Friedman, "China and India have been catching up to America not only via cheap labor and currencies. They are catching us because they now have free markets like we do, education like we do, access to capital and technology like we do, but, most importantly, values like our Greatest Generation had. That is, a willingness to postpone gratification, invest for the future, work harder than the next guy and hold their kids to the highest expectations. In a flat world where everyone has access to everything, values matter more than ever. Right now the Hindus and Confucians have more Protestant ethics than we do, and as long as that is the case we’ll be No. 11"

Martin Peretz, "Why do not Muslims raise their voices against these at once planned and random killings all over the Islamic world?" This world went into hysteria some months ago when the Mossad took out the Hamas head of its own Murder Inc. But, frankly, Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims. And among those Muslims led by the Imam Rauf there is hardly one who has raised a fuss about the routine and random bloodshed that defines their brotherhood. So, yes, I wonder whether I need honor these people and pretend that they are worthy of the privileges of the First Amendment which I have in my gut the sense that they will abuse"

Steven R. Pearlstein - Since 2007, the manufacturing and construction sectors have each lost 2 million jobs, with finance, hospitality and retailing accounting for 2 million more .. For the past two decades we have allowed our industrial and technological base to deteriorate as talent and capital were grossly misallocated toward other sectors of the economy, even as other countries were able to attract the investment, the technology and the know-how to serve the U.S. and global markets

“Our community focused on education, not politics,” said R. Chandramogan, a Nadar entrepreneur who built India’s largest privately owned dairy company from scratch. “We knew that with education, we could accomplish anything.” Southern India has rocketed far ahead of much of the rest of the country on virtually every score — people here earn more money, are better educated, live longer lives and have fewer children

Mosque at Ground Zero

Some in the name of economic opportunity sold us like in our jobs and our future to China and India and now the same type in the name of freedom and America support a mosque on the site where America was attacked by savage, dogmatic, fanatic, murderous Muslims killing 1000s of innocent.

It's time we fought these people, unless the fight has gone out of us, and we've become lilly-livered pansies used to mutely being raped. That they even dare suggest a mosque shows their disregard and disrespect for American sentiment. They bombed us, hit our ship, blew up our embassies, did 9/11, tried to bomb Time Square again and now want to build a mosque? It's like a rapist flashing his victim.

Militant Muslims and supporters of their Mosque at Ground Zero need a solid kick in the ass, and be put where they belong - in jail, or on a ship to Pakistan where they can blow each other to bits - these hate mongering, freedom suppressing animals and their American supporters.

No mosque on ground zero is my motto my mantra.