(I received this piece from a Nevada County friend and a community leader.  Its author is anonymous, and I post it here with a few edits as a message that should be doubly on our minds today.)

Any Islamic OPEC minister could look you in the eyes and state:

“Islam is at war with you infidels. We have been since the embargo in the 1970’s. You are so arrogant you haven’t even recognized it, and so dumb that you don’t even know that Vienna 1683 was just halftime. You have more missiles, bombs, and technology; so we are fighting with the best weapons we have and extracting on a net basis about $700 billion/year out of your economy.  Now halftime is over, we have resumed our offensive, and you idiots still think that you are fighting ‘terrorism’.  We will destroy you! Death to the infidels!

And while I am here I would like to thank you for the following:

Not developing your 250-300 year supply of oil shale and tar sands. We know if you did this, it would create millions of jobs for US citizens, expand your technology and engineering capabilities, and keep the wealth in the US instead of sending it to us to finance our war against you bastards.

Thanks for limiting Defense Department purchases of oil sands from your neighbors to the north. We love it when you confuse your allies.

Thanks for over-regulating every segment of your economy and thus delaying, by decades, the development of alternate fuel technologies.

Thanks for limiting drilling off your coasts, in Alaska, and anywhere there is a bug, bird, fish, or plant that might be inconvenienced. Better that your people suffer! Glad to see our lobbying efforts have been so effective.

Corn based Ethanol. Praise Allah for this sham program! Perhaps you will destroy yourself from the inside with theses types of policies. This is truly a gift from Allah, praise his name! We never would have thought of this one! This is better than when you pay your farmers NOT TO GROW FOOD. Now you have them use more energy to create less energy, and simultaneously drive food prices through the roof. We thank your brainless politicians and the US Congress!!!!

We also love it when your ignorant pundits assure your people that what we say about America and the west in our newspapers, our TV, and on our websites is only the ravings of a minority for local consumption and does not represent the true sentiments of our people.  It is a blessing that you continue to accept the sugar-coated words we tell your leaders at receptions, conferences, and media events.

And finally, we appreciate your letting us fleece you without end. You will be glad to know we have been accumulating shares in your banks, real estate, and publicly held companies. We also finance a good portion of your debt and now manipulate your markets, currency, and economies to our benefit.  And in Europe and your own country we are already there and will outbreed you.  To push us out now will require that you shut down your own decadent society.

THANK YOU AMERICA, truly we could not do it without you.  Allah be praised!”