JQuery is a wrapper for javascript. It combines multiple javascript commands making it much easier to traverse the DOM on web pages. Creating dynamic menus, image presentations and other similar tasks is made much easier due to fewer lines of code being necessary. With JQuery you can dynamically change styles by reassigning classes from your CSS, hide and show elements (blocks, div, p etc…).

JQuery syntax may seem a bit strange when you first look at it, but I found that after working with it for a few hours it is not that difficult to grasp and it is very versatile. JQuery provides multiple routes to an object. Objects can be accessed by the div element they reside in, by the ID of the object, by the class of the object and so on.

An example of hiding a div element on the mouseleave event…

The above code is applied to all div elements with the CSS class menu_body assigned to them.

I placed a Simple JQuery Menu Example here for you to see and the Style sheet and HTMLzipped if you want to download it and have a look. I’ll try to post some more later. I do most of my development with .Net. In the next post I’ll have an example of the menu in an ASP.Net page.

If you want to know more go to the official JQuery Site and read all about it. You can download JQuery free and use it in your own pages. The JQuery site also contains excellent tutorials to help get you started. JQuery will be a part of the next release of Visual Studio.
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Software development is stressful. The day doesn’t end for me when I leave the office. Details of the projects I’m working on are always on my mind at some level ranging from a complete domination of all of my thoughts to a lower level that merely interrupts my other thoughts keeping me somewhat edgy and non-attentive to other elements in my environment.

When new project begins and I am planning how I will approach it, I am happy and optimistic. The vision of a completed product and the smiling face of the end user is a motivating image. I look for new technologies that will aid me in creating something better than anything I have created before. My goal really is to deliver something useful and valuable to the customer. Outlines are created showing the work flow, classes to be created, functions to be reused, GUIs, and so forth.

After a couple of weeks there is usually something to show the customer; a starting point or base from which to build. I look forward to presenting, gathering feedback, learning what the customer likes or doesn’t like. I want to have a positive relationship so that the product can make it from conception to delivery in a package that everyone is happy with. Occasionally I work with customers that share this approach, most often I don’t.

People tend to see a website and think they would like one just like it. It should be easy, it’s just some images, a few links, some forms to accept info, maybe a shopping cart and ability to take credit card payments online. Shouldn’t take more than a week or so. In my case, I work for a software development company. I don’t give the customer the estimates, someone else does. So i get stuck trying to finish a project in someone else’s (frequently unrealistic) time frame. This situation is not limited to me or the company I work at. It seems to be endemic in the entire software industry. The largest manufacturer of software in the world, Microsoft, gives bogus estimates and delivers late. When they do finally deliver the software is usually buggy. I spend a lot of time fighting the bugs in Microsoft’s development tools. I don’t think many sales people or project managers allow time for this type of thing in their estimates. It seems that the industry at large has just accepted that this is the way it will be and we (developers) should pride ourselves in finding ways around the bugs rather than being annoyed that we wasted countless hours on it.

Ok, so at this point it seems that I am not happy with what I do. Strangely though I am. Despite wanting to throw my computer out the window some days; wanting to fly to Redmond and scream at Microsoft employees for intentionally releasing software with annoying bugs in it that suck up my valuable time; listening to people complain about fonts, colors, minor differences in the way various browsers render pages (or the way IE is almost completely non-compliant with accepted standards); feeling like I will lose my job and have to live on the street if I don’t get projects completed on time, I love software development.

Writing code, creating web sites, helping friends understand how to use the internet to their advantage…all of these things give me a great feeling of satisfaction, despite the obstacles I sometimes encounter while working on these tasks. I do have requirements when it comes to offering assistance. If you don’t know how to create a folder on your pc, don’t call me for help; I will probably yell at you and hang up. I worked at Microsoft for almost three years doing mostly phone support. I had to quit because it was becoming almost impossible to contain my ire when some dufus called me and asked something so stupid that a six year old could have read it in the manual and figured it out, then complained about having to hold for thirty minutes to ask me the stupid question they could have found on their own in ten minutes or less. Hey, I have to really dig deep quite often and figure out some really perplexing issues – figure out how to make fonts bold in Word or how to divide the numerical contents of two cells on a spreadsheet and show the result in a third cell on your own. If you can’t do at least one of those on your own, then just go watch television.

And don’t tell me that you “just don’t understand computers” – that line don’t cut it any more pal; computers are part of our lives. If you can figure out how to set your VCR or TiVo to record the wrestling match or monster truck derby, you can figure out what CTRL B does. It’s more about motivation and priorities. Exercise your brain a bit.

I bought my first PC when I was 36 years old. I became fascinated by the simplistic Paint program available for DOS on my 286 computer. I never had any issues reading instructions and figuring things out. (Well not many anyway). Computers are incredible. The things we can do with them are incredible. I have the advantage of having grown up without computers. Because of this I believe I appreciate them more than the current generation that views them as a given and not a gift.

I love Photoshop because it is the greatest photographic tool ever invented. I have been a photographer most of my life. In the past I had a darkroom in my house and sometimes spent days working on one special image. I can do more now than I was ever able to do then in an hour with Photoshop. An hour is a really detailed piece of art. Most tasks take a couple of minutes.

I love studying the Bible and current software packages make studying it much easier and faster than the old way which was reading a line at a time, taking notes, marking pages, and going to the Strong’s concordance when one needed some help understanding something.

I love e-mail, the WEB, shopping on line, sharing my photos through this site, being able to complain through blogs like this one and have it available to the entire world in a minute. This is a huge advance. Just twenty years ago only a few people could make their thoughts widely available in less than a week. Wikipedia is one of the greatest tools ever available even though it may have had a rocky start. Almost anything known to man can be found somewhere in the WEB. All this said I have to admit I am not really to fond of social sites like Twitter, Facebook, and the like. Between those and television the ratio of zombies to humans is growing at an alarming rate.

In short, I love computers. I love being able to make them do things. I enjoy working with intelligent people and most software developers (except me maybe) are intelligent people. I love overcoming challenges, being able to do something most people have no inclination or desire to do.

So, why am I an IT Professional?
Being stressed and grouchy makes me happy.

]]> http://joewhitten.com/index.php/2009/07/05/why-am-i-an-it-professional/feed/ 1 http://joewhitten.com/index.php/2009/05/25/big-words-with-no-weight-condemning-the-actions-of-countries/ http://joewhitten.com/index.php/2009/05/25/big-words-with-no-weight-condemning-the-actions-of-countries/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 02:33:34 +0000 admin http://joewhitten.com/?p=1218 How often does the president of the United States along with the leaders of other countries and the United Nations condemn the actions of other countries? The most recent (as of 7:28 Mountain Time, 5/25/2009) is the condemnation of North Korea’s second nuclear test. Does verbally condemning the actions of a regime such as the one in North Korea under the control of a man who apparently has very little intelligence, and the attitude of a child trying to get his way though staging tantrums, really accomplish anything?

Kim Jong-il inherited the rule of North Korea from his father. He has never really accomplished anything noteworthy on his own his entire life. He seems to think of himself as a god. Is a public, verbal condemnation of a narcissistic individual like this really likely to have any effect on his actions? Maybe his next tantrum will be worse because he did not get his way this time, but certainly the condemnation will have no positive effect.

The latest condemnation is not the first one the world has issued against Kim Jong-il, and the previous condemnations resulted in no positive change either. Just last month, April 5, North Korea launched an intercontinental rocket. The U.S. had threatened to shoot it down but instead took no action at all. Wow, Kim Jong-il must really be growing frightened by all of this condemnation. North Korea conducted its first nuclear test at the end of 2006 drawing international condemnation. Judging by the events since then, especially those of the past couple of months, it seems safe to say that condemnations have no effect on North Korea.

Who else has the U.S, other countries, and the United Nations condemned over the past couple of decades?

18 September 2001 – United Nations issues condemnation for the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Can someone explain what purpose that served?

In 2005, the United States and others publicly condemned Mahmud Ahmadinejad for stating that Israel should be wiped off the map and that the Holocaust is a myth.

During Jimmy Carter’s term as president he issued several condemnations against Iran and its leadership. It would take an entire book to explore that issue, but it’s safe to say that his condemnations served no good purpose.

The United States is not alone in it zeal to publicly condemn the actions of other countries. Iran has demanded (December, 2006) that the United Nations condemn Israel’s nuclear program. (Israel has never officially declared that it has a nuclear program.) Iran probably did this to provide itself with an excuse for its own nuclear program when the United Nations failed to issue the condemnation.

This list is nowhere near complete. The point of this post is simply to ask the question: “What is the purpose in publicly condemning something that you are not going to do anything about?” Constantly mouthing off and then not backing up the condemnation serves to strengthen your enemy’s resolve and make you look like a wimp. Well, the current president doesn’t look like he has ever curled a barbell in his life; he probably has the skinniest arms of any president in our history, so I guess it figures that he would enjoy acting tough, knowing that he will never have to tell any one of these people to their face (without his bodyguards) that he thinks their behavior is not satisfactory.

To the president, the United Nations and everyone else in a high position: Stop the Lip Service! No more condemnations without action to back it up. If you are not serious then just keep your mouth shut. ]]> http://joewhitten.com/index.php/2009/05/25/big-words-with-no-weight-condemning-the-actions-of-countries/feed/ 0 http://joewhitten.com/index.php/2009/03/22/hasty-decisions/ http://joewhitten.com/index.php/2009/03/22/hasty-decisions/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:41:20 +0000 admin http://joewhitten.com/?p=473 Hasty, Foolish Decisions and Consequences

Terrorists were hiding there and the evil dictator was speedily acquiring the tools and building nuclear and chemical weapons very quickly. So many of the leaders in the president’s party as well as great military minds said it was so; how could it not be true?. Then some other evil people who may are may not have had any ties with the dictator building the weapons to destroy us attacked us with hijacked airliners.

We had to act – fast. Quick and decisive action was the order of the day. Quick and decisive; well, we’ll be debating the decisive part for generations to come, action was taken. The man who planned the attacks with the airliners is still out there more than seven years later. the man who was not involved and really had no weapons has been hanged. The world hates us more now than they did then. Should we learn a lesson from rushing into action without a plan? Well, yes…did we? Seems not. Will we? History shows that we most likely won’t.

How often does society in general learn anything from mistakes? Go ahead, present a good example. Just try.

Because of those attacks in 2001, many new laws have been passed in the United States. How many of us are completely aware of what these laws mean to our way of life? How many think none if it really matters because the prevailing attitude is that life will go on here in the Unites States regardless of a few bad political decisions now and then?

Too few people are aware of how that incident has made people more sympathetic to a group of people, Islamists, who are determined to rule the world. Instead of realizing that the hijackers represented what Islam truly is, people have bought into the lie that Islam is peaceful and that the killings taking place in the name of Allah every day are being committed by a fringe element of Islam. Political correctness is becoming the weapon of mass suicide.

Making poorly researched, bad decisions is not uncommon on a large scale in the United States. Since I live in the U.S. that is where I’ll limit my examples.

Flu Shots:

In 1976, at the advice of the CDC, WHO, and pharmaceutical corporations, then president, Gerald Ford, provided funding for a massive Swine Flu vaccination program. Because two soldiers at Fort Dix were found to be infected with a new(?) strain of influenza, several organizations convinced the government (the president and congress were convinced or duped) – that a massive, worldwide outbreak like the one that occurred in 1918 which killed 20+ million people could occur again. More on the 1976 vaccination. The evidence was not that great, but the potential for a few corporations and people to make millions of dollars was very great and the plan was approved. It is a certainty that a few thousand people died from the shots and many developed Guillain-Barre (pronounced Gee-Ann Barray; hard G in the first word)Syndrome. Amazingly, people still line up every year for flu shots. Flu strains (there are many different ones) vary from year to year so that it is not really possible to predict which strains will be most active during any season. People die, people contract Guillain-Barre and suffer other symptoms. Flu shots for children also contain mercury. What was learned from 1976? Apparently nothing.

Vietnam War:

We have no doubt all heard plenty from both sides of the argument about whether The United States should have ever been involved in the battle between North and South Vietnam. It could be argued that the United States at least partially caused that war though.

In 1954, after the French suffered a crushing defeat by the Viet Minh, led by Ho Chi Minh they were trapped and forced to eat rats to survive. Though the United States had financed a large part of the French campaign to rule Vietnam, President Eisenhower decided not to offer assistance in the form of air strikes as the French requested. As a result of the French being defeated by a foe they considered incapable of offering any significant resistance to them, a peace conference was scheduled in Geneva Switzerland. The French were allowed to remove their troops and Vietnam was divided into the North and South, the South being non-communist and the North being Communist. The agreement also stated that elections would be held in 1956 to elect a leader and the North and South would be reunited.

The president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, with backing from the United States, decided against allowing South Vietnam to participate in the elections likely because he feared a decisive defeat by Ho Chi Minh. So the United States actively supported South Vietnam reneging on the agreement reached at the peace conference in Geneva. Both countries decided not to live up to the agreement they made for fear that things would not go their way. Considering that the United States pulled out of South Vietnam eventually and let the communist north take control, this decision does not seem, in hindsight, to have been very well thought out.

Eisenhower had sent 1500 “military advisors” to South Vietnam in 1955. He was concerned about a growing communist influence in Asia. In 1959, Hanoi basically declared war against Saigon and South Vietnam.

While Eisenhower believed in using technology – “more bang for the buck” – to combat foes, John Kennedy, who became president in 1961, leaned more toward using combat troops. Kennedy, like Eisenhower, believed that stopping the spread of communism was crucial. To combat the spread of communism Kennedy sent 18,000 troops to South Vietnam. He also approved the use of napalm and defoliants such as agent orange. Countless innocent people including children were victim to these horrible inventions. In attempting to stop evil, the Unites States may very well have become more evil than its enemies. How could anyone not realize that using such inhumane weapons would take such a toll on innocent people. Napalm is basically jellied gasoline. It sticks to a person’s skin and burns though the skin to the muscle and bone causing unthinkable pain. Can evil be fought with more evil?

Because he feared Ngo Dinh Diem would give in to the pressures of Ho Chi Minh’s forces and attempt to create a neutral coalition of some type, Kennedy either sanctioned or allowed South Vietnamese generals to murder him in order to prevent an immediate loss to the North. Was Kennedy concerned about the people of South Vietnam or merely the United States losing face?

The Viet Minh that the United States were fighting were not afraid of death. In fact, they feared allowing foreign powers overtaking their country more than they feared death. By 1965, Johnson being the president, it was clear that the United States was not making progress against the North Vietnamese. By 1968 the United States had over 500,000 troops in Vietnam and we were not winning. The North left the jungles and began fighting in cities. The United States had ravaged the country with bombings and chemicals but the strength of the enemy was not diminished.

Five years after Nixon was elected president, the United States removed its troops from Vietnam. The south instantly fell to the North. Thousands of South Vietnamese evacuated the country seeking refuge in other countries.

Thousands of people died, the United States (despite arguments by many to the contrary) lost face. When the going got too tough, we pulled out. Many men who bravely fought, thinking they were fighting for their country, returned home to a society that shunned them. The way veterans of that war were and still are treated by the United States is a disgrace.
None of what happened in Vietnam would have or should have happened if the agreement reached in Geneva in 1955 had been honored. There is no justification for the destruction and loss of innocent lives in that war. The United States got involved in the affairs of other people without any clear reason. Our sovereignty was not being threatened and South Vietnam was not clearly asking for our intervention.

Today, Vietnam is peaceful and it has a thriving tourist trade. How much sooner could that have come to pass if an unnecessary war, brought about by foolish, hasty decisions had not taken place?

Does anything happening today seem familiar? Did anyone learn anything from that horrible war in Vietnam or is it now just a vague memory and a few lines in history books?
Only a small number of the events of the Vietnam war have been covered here since the point is to show that it was a hastily made, poorly thought out decision. There are numerous sites covering it in more detail however and many films, videos, and books are available for anyone interested in more detail.

Bad financial management:

For years too many people in the United States have been living on extended credit. It has been too easy to obtain credit far beyond any means to repay. Paying high interest rates on credit cards results in less material wealth because money that could be spent on goods is given to companies like Citibank that make billions of dollars exploiting people’s inability to postpone the desire to own what they cannot pay for at the time they buy it. Obtaining a credit card and running it to its limit is a hasty and very unwise decision. Purchasing a $500 piece of furniture and then paying $1000 for it by the time the payments to the credit card company are made is foolish. Living without the piece of furniture for six months and saving enough cash to pay for it when you get it is much wiser. So why don’t more people wait until they can afford to pay cash before buying expensive items?  We live in a hedonistic society that is unwilling to postpone gratification when not forced to do so. People are no longer willing to work toward goals feeling that society owes them all of the conveniences available.

In 2008 a financial crisis occurred in the United States and globally. What caused this catastrophe in the financial sector that is still wrecking the economy in April 2009? Many factors are involved. The unquenchable desire for more wealth is almost certainly the driving force behind the terrible recession that is plaguing the US and the rest of the world. Although the common term used to describe the situation is recession, that seems like a poor descriptor. Recessions are caused by slow downs in areas of economies that people cannot always control. The current crisis was caused almost entirely by stupid, ill conceived schemes to make people rich. Rather than a market driven by supply, demand, and quality. The current economy has been driven by an attitude of making sure that there is no risk in any transaction or business deal. There is a long chain of one group or another agreeing to insure the risks being taken. The insurers thought that by taking enough money from enough people they could cover any losses and still make a handsome profit. Everyone seems to have thought that there was so much money in the world and that production of something actually possessing a value is not necessary for an economy to flourish that  they could continue to reap the fruits of the economic trees even though no one was tending the garden. People have become incredibly myopic in regards to finances and no one seems to care about anyone else as long as they are making money.

The details of the financial crisis of 2008-2009 are far beyond the scope of this paper (and the ability of the author to explain). The reaction to the crisis is the point to be addressed. By October of 2008 we were hearing that if the government was not allowed to pump 700 billion dollars into the failing institutes the country would experience a depression worse than the one that occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century. How could anyone have arrived at that conclusion accurately?

How can a country already at the brink of bankruptcy in terms of debt and deficit come up with almost two trillion dollars to repair a failed economy. What can be repaired by pumping money into a failing system? Is this not like a gambler continuing to borrow so he can place bets in a stacked card game? Too much of the bailout money is being used to save reckless companies like AIG and others or the car manufacturers. The automotive industry in this country had a warning in the 1970s. They ignored it and perversely refused to restructure. Now they are paying the price. Why should anyone have to pay to bail them out? Companies that make stupid decisions should fail and disappear. That’s Capitalism. Are we to become the Socialist States of America? Rather than using the resources we have to rebuild and secure a more solid future, our resources are being squandered on failing institutions that have proven their incompetency. Why do people always think that throwing money at problems is the way to correct them? People have been convinced that if the money is not spent in this foolish, hastily conceived manner, we will go into a depression. Could be we are going into one anyway after a brief period of false optimism.

Consumers and government mirror one another in the United States. Both like to spend beyond their means and then find new ways to borrow to spend more after it is obvious that they are completely broke. The mantra is always “Things are going to improve and we will be able to repay this temporary debt tomorrow”. Why pay your hard earned money today for anything you can get on credit and pay for tomorrow with more credit?
Obama is quick recently to point out that he nor his staff did not create this crisis. While that is true, it does not excuse poor management of a recovery and repeating the same reckless mistakes of the past. The United States needs discipline as a country and a new way of managing our economy and our infrastructure. Without a plan for the future, spending large sums of money on temporary fixes is not going to help the United States in the years to come. It is only going to leave us all further n debt with no manufacturing sector. Unless we are producing something worth value on the global market, we may be n for a very hard crash.
Hasty decisions to spend a lot of money with no plan for change.

Weapons of War, Appeasing the Enemy:

Just a few years ago experts were telling the world that it would be years before Iran could build a nuclear weapon. How foolish is it to think they don’t already have one? When the Manhattan Project was formed to build an atomic bomb to end the Japanese assault on the world, did the U.S. have stockpiles of plutonium at its disposal? Did we build the bomb anyway? Is high grade plutonium necessary to build an atomic bomb? No, it isn’t. Only one of the bombs used to end WW2, the “Fat Man” dropped on Nagasaki, Japan contained plutonium. The other bomb, “Little Boy”, dropped on Hiroshima Japan used uranium-235. Is our government being stupid acting as if Iran cannot build an atom bomb since they don’t have high grade plutonium? Could Iran be using the Plutonium issue as a ruse to hide the fact that they are building a bomb with uranium-235? Recently the news is that Iran is almost ready to build an atomic weapon now. In just a couple of years estimates from experts have gone from Iran being at least ten years from being able to build a nuclear weapon to Iran being almost capable now. The question should not be whether they have one but whether their leaders think there is a specific time that is best to use it on Israel. Making hasty decisions without careful analysis, based on inaccurate assumptions is not in the best interest of national defense.

Iran almost surely has atomic capability already. The Persians invented chess; they are not stupid. The Iranian leaders are almost surely thinking about destroying Israel and the United States. President Obama thinks he can begin dialogue with Iran and solve all of the problems between Iran and the United States. Obama seems to think that he can intellectualize the situation and resolve it. Islam hates everyone who is not Muslim. Is it wise for a leader to try to negotiate with those about whom he knows nothing? Anyone who refers to Islam as peaceful is ignorant. There is no valid excuse for the president of the United States to be so ignorant. There is no excuse for most people in the United States not to recognize the threat posed by Islam. Muslims try to tell others that they are peaceful. Muslims state that the Quran tells them not to kill innocent people which it does. But anyone who is not a Muslim is not innocent according to the Quran.

O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.

Obama, regardless of what he claims, is not a Christian and certainly not Jewish, so maybe that verse won’t apply to him. Maybe if he outlaws the mention of Yeshua’s name and agrees to impose more Sharia like laws in the U.S. he can become pals with Ahmadinejad. With his ultra-liberal mindset Obama may decide to pass laws forbidding speech that criticizes Islam in order to appease the very people who will gleefully chop his head off once they have gained control. If you think this is far-fetched, you need to put your Nintendo down and start paying attention to the world around you.

Hastily deciding that Islam is peaceful and does not pose a threat is foolish. There were many who did not think that Hitler posed a threat. Read about the Munich agreement, reached on 29 September signed by Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier. Chamberlain was a naïve man who thought that diplomacy could bring about an understanding with a group of people whose intent was world domination and who thought nothing of lying in order to gain power. Thinking that a lion would enjoy being petted is a good way for a fool to lose his arm.

From the Bukhari:
Narrated Jabir bin `Abdullah: Allah’s Apostle said, “Who is willing to kill Ka`b bin Al−Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?” Thereupon Muhammad bin Maslama got up saying, “O Allah’s Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?” The Prophet said, “Yes,” Muhammad bin Maslama said, “Then allow me to say a (false) thing (i.e. to deceive Ka`b). “The Prophet said,”You may say it.”
Sura (48:29) – Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard (ruthless) against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves….

The disbelievers are those who do not accept Muhammad as the prophet or Allah as the true God. If you do not accept the teachings of Islam, you are a disbeliever.
Sura (9:30) – And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah, and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah… Allah (Himself) fights against them. How perverse are they!

If you are a Christian, you are perverse.

Surah 5.33 The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;

If you disagree with Islam and see Muhammad as a false prophet, you have a very harsh punishment awaiting you. People who enjoy ridiculing Christians and others may find the consequences of insulting the intolerant members of Islam to be very unpleasant and unlike the reaction they get from members of other beliefs. Those who decide to accept Islam as a religion of peace and tolerance need to turn off the television and start doing some research. Dropping the politically correct attitude might be a good idea as well. Going out of your way to appease people who want to see you obliterated will only result in your death. Before you make a quick and unwise decision about your view of Islam, you are well advised to spend some time learning about its true history and its true goals. Muslims not a race. Don’t allow yourself to be deterred by accusations of racism when you begin to realize the truth of Islam.Obama is demonstrating one of the core weaknesses of liberalism. The idea that he can solve a problem he doesn’t even understand with his intellect. Obama is not that intelligent. If he was, he would have taken the time to thoroughly research Islam and the Quran. Instead he is hastily trying to show the world what a great man he is. When he makes a deal with Iran he will convince himself that he has succeeded and many people will hail his great success. But the people he makes his great deal with won’t think twice about dishonoring it. The United States is not Islam’s friend. We cannot be unless we accept Islamic laws and give up our freedoms. Islam is not a religion of tolerance.

Once again, a hastily made, poorly thought out decision. This one though is going to have grave consequences. The United States is going to distance itself from Israel and begin forming alliances with our enemies thinking that we are securing our peace.