What is in the water down there in South Carolina?

Wasn't it bad enough that they inflicted "Fritz" Hollings on us for 40-odd years?

And Graham's only 55 years old. OM(!)G --

This time it'll be a bar code.

I think, IIRC, they already used that one in The Terminator.

“I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.” -- Q’uran, Surah 8:12

“O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.” -- Q’uran, Surah 5:51

The Messenger of Allah said: "I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah ... " -- from Sahih Muslim 1:33

Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform a that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah." -- from Sahih Bukhari 2:24

The Religion of Peace. Submit, and you shall have peace ...

Those who think that "Zionism" is the root of the problem need to do their homework.

“The last day will not come until the Muslims confront the Jews and the Muslims destroy them. In that day Allah will give a voice to the rocks and the trees and they will cry out, ‘Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him!’” -- from the Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith

The Religion of Peace. Oh, yeah!

If Cameron is looking for a new project, he ought to consider doing The Life of Mohammed. A perfect topic for the kind of epic film that he likes to create. A wealth of sources to draw on; it seems likely that more words have been written about Mohammed than any other human in history. A guaranteed world-wide audience; starting with, but certainly not limited to, a global Muslim population in excess of 1.5 billion. Violence. War. Sex. Think of what Cameron could do with Mohammed’s marriage to his last wife, Aisha, whom he married when she was 6 years old (and consummated the marriage when she attained the age of 9). As well as Mohammed’s other relationships, which numbered in the dozens. Or consider the Prophet’s unceasing wars of conquest against the other tribes of Saudi Arabia; the subject just begs for a proper treatment on film!

The potential of such a fascinating topic would be more than worth the risk of Cameron ending up like Theo Van Gogh ...

From an article in American Thinker dated March 26, 2006 :

“Death for apostacy is part and parcel of Islamic scripture and tradition.”

“There is also a consensus by all four schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence (i.e., Maliki, Hanbali, Hanafi, and Shafi'i), as well as Shi'ite jurists, that apostates from Islam must be put to death.”

Full article : Under the Scimitar of Damocles by Andrew Bostom.

Of course there are no protests against Muslim gay-bashing. In the first place, Muslims are regarded as the ultimate victims, thus those who are slaves of the PC creed will never dare utter so much as a peep. Second, there is no percentage in being critical of Muslims because it invites retaliation, up to and including murder. See : Salman Rushdie, Theo Van Gogh, Kurt Westergaard, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and others. These are the charming, jolly, goodhearted people who carry protest signs that read, Behead Those Who Insult Islam ! And they mean it, dude --

We do not need an elected leader whose first thought every day is, "How can I find ways to reach across the aisle and work with the Democrats?"

We need leaders who will fight the Democrats' bad ideas, and just as important, who will fight to explain exactly how bad those ideas are.

The reason Senator McCain has not opposed the Dems and their ideas is that, from "campaign reform" to TARP, he has agreed with those ideas. No amount of personal honor can make up for McCain's shortcomings.