Sunday, May 22, 2005
On forest, trees, and Koran-in-a-can
"A firm grasp of the Obvious is the Cornerstone of Sanity.” e-C
Dave at Garfield Ridge has nailed it to the wall. I quote:
at the end of the day, the story here isn’t about Newsweek, or the Pentagon.
It’s about adherents of a religion that riot and kill because someone allegedly burned a book.
I don’t care if it was the Koran , the Torah , or Curious George Meets The Electric Fence—this sort of delusional behavior is not only irrational, it’s psychotic. And it shows just how far we have to go for the Islamic world to be brought into the 21st-- hell, the 20th-- century.
...the Left fears Christianity as if it were evil incarnate. Meanwhile, we patronize all Muslims by tacitly accepting sick and violent behavior from these evil men, casually writing off millions of innocent people all because we don’t dare question how anyone practices their religion.
Dead on, eh? And there is more—RTWT while I blogroll this guy.
Suicide by Media
when are we finally gonna tell MSM to tie it in a knot?!
Ever noticed that people believe what you tell them about yourself; whether your behavior demonstrates you believe you are worthy of respect or worthy of derision and mistreatment. That’s why the much-maligned First Impression remains so strong; it is the moment when people grasp how you feel about yourself which informs and guides them in how they relate to you.
Despite the whinging of “It’s not faaair,” no one is going give the same chance of continued association to an Armani-suited, well groomed and relaxed man as he would to a urine-soaked bum screeching about the government failing to fix his underwear. Sure Armani-man has faults, has made mistakes, is imperfect; but I believe he believes he is making every effort to do the Right Thing and to live by his principles. The other fella? What is there to give me any indication that he even has principles, much less expends any effort to match his actions to them; he can’t manage to summon the will to get out of his own urine stream.
It would be many months before Army investigators learned a final horrific detail: Most of the interrogators had believed Mr. Dilawar was an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time.
How is this not pissing ourselves? And whoinhell do we expect to come along and clean US up?
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Saturday, May 21, 2005
Our Own Petard?
One of the prime definitions of sanity is not doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. A firm grasp of the obvious. Another is knowing the difference between Mine and Not-Mine; recognizing which messes are mine to clean up and which messes am I unable to clean up because they are Not-Mine. None of my business.
Imbalance or incorrect perceptions in the first case leads to vast amounts of time spent gazing into one’s own navel wondering and agonizing over which character faults and bad decisions one has made to force someone else to behave badly toward one. Note the italics. Then remember the last time someone made you do something—never happened. It may have happened that someone else behaved in such a way that you changed your mind [or gave up and gave in] just to make them stop tantruming. That was still your choice.
Consider how we [US citizens] responded to Abu Grabby—we tolerated months worth of finger-shaking diatribes in the press and sanctimonious senators maundering on about the evil character of America. We obsessed over how
Meanwhile, several human beings were kidnapped, humiliated on camera with the intent to show that humiliation to the world, and then, again on camera with the intent to show the world, had their heads brutally sawed off. Our response—we acted as if we hadn’t even noticed. Human beings. Heads sawn off.
Now it’s about to happen again. We’re going into paroxysms of self-flagellation over the “mistreatment” of a book while The Enemy states on camera his belief that it is perfectly Right to blow up innocent human beings—children—to further his goals.
Then we will proceed to rend our clothing over a photo of a sociopathic murderer and rapist whose custom it was to gently slide his enemies into a chipper/shredder—feet first so that they could appreciate the experience—and film it for his repeat enjoyment; who allowed his offspring to set up rape rooms and kidnap young girls from public places to be briefly and brutally used and tossed into the street; who had bus-loads of random human beings, including babes in arms, shot and left in the desert to rot; who murdered and buried hundreds of thousands of human beings; a photo of this abomination in tighty-whiteys. Meanwhile, 16 people are killed—dead—and symbols important to US are spat upon and burned on camera with the intent to show the world. [if they’d managed to figure out indoor plumbing, it would have been flushed]
Balance? Nowhere to be found.
I wonder what we will ignore while we dance on our own grave in spasms of self-importance as we swallow whole the Bagram story.
Friday, May 20, 2005
Aw Fromage!
"Team Frants—Merde, Whatever..."
Reuters Paris May 12: The French Interior Minister, Mr Dominique De Villepin announced plans yesterday to step up the fight against illegal immigration and assign more police to deal with unwanted immigrants.
He said France would set up an inter-ministerial service to assess the situation and that the budget assigned to expulsions would be almost tripled to $ 129 million. “It is not a question of forming a new police force but uniting the work of the airborne police and border police in the fight against illegal immigration,” he said, setting out plans for about 600 police to join the ranks of the border police.
He told a news conference that between 200,000 and 400,000 illegal immigrants lived in France and ruled out following Spain’s example of announcing a partial amnesty for illegal immigrants.
...ut Mr Villepin said France must not “turn the country into a sieve” for illegal immigrants, adding: “Massive regularisation is out of the question because it does not yield a solution.”
Mr Villepin said he aimed to raise the number of expulsions to 20,000 this year, from 16,000 last year and 11,000 in 2003.
Didja hear that—expulsions! Wow. Almost hadda look that one up.
Oh, Dubyaaaa—ya listenin’? *ahem* *tap*tap*tap*
hello?
Well, there goes that theory...
sorry TF
And in a completely unrelated story...
... unpredictable, too
[Today] outside the US embassy in London… their faces covered with scarves
“USA watch your back, Osama is coming back”“Kill, kill USA, kill, kill George Bush”
“Bomb, bomb New York”
“George Bush, you will pay, with your blood, with your head.”
“Desecrate today and see another 9/11 tomorrow.”
“Your so-called democracy will fall under the sword of Allah. The day of judgment is coming."
Yes, in London.
Not to say that the girlie-girls at cheerleader camp [the ones who dot their i’s with little hearts] couldn’t have come up with some better chants… Still, it may be time to resurrect this:
...not that I’m feeling a tad honked off this a.m....
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I see London, I see Frants....
from the Saddam’s Secret Catalog
“Saddam Hussein and his regime were bloody and practiced mass killing against the people, therefore, whatever happens to Saddam, whether he is photographed naked or washing his clothes, it means nothing to me. That’s the least he deserves,” Hawre Saliee, a 38-year-old Kurd, said.
...In northern Kirkuk, Marwan Ibrahim, a 31-year-old civil servant, said the pictures were a “humiliation for a man who in the near past was the leader of Iraq and a top Arab leader in the region.”
..."This is an insult to show the former president in such a condition. Saddam is from the past now, so what is the reason for this? It is bad work from the media. Do they want to degrade the Iraqi people? Or they want to provoke their feelings,” said Baghdad businessman Abu Barick, 45.
“It’s important that the people of Iraq see him like that to destroy the myth. Maybe that will kill a bit of the passion in the fanatics who still follow him.
“It’s over, guys. The evil days of Saddam’s Baath Party are never coming back - and here’s the proof,” the source said
..."In our opinion this is a violation of all international agreements and human dignity, therefore we must sue the people responsible and the providers of these pictures, because if you look closely you can see that they were taken from his prison cell,” Ziad Khasawneh of Saddam’s defense team said.
“This is considered as another Abu Ghraib and we will take the necessary legal actions which we have already started,” he told Reuters in Amman.
This could go a coupla ways: 1] more self-destructive rioting 2] derisive laughter. Bets?
OTOH, how nice to wander over to glance at news.google and find Outside the Beltway right there as the second news source.
Thursday, May 19, 2005
It's No Time To Hang Around Here...
Bill Whittle is back
NOT crawling under your beloved house and seeing the foundations rotten with decades of termite damage.
ThanQ! My VRWC
Those Wacky Japanese...
think we can get Li’l Kim to try it?
Kaba Kick is Russian Roulette for kids. The player points the gun at his or her own head and pulls the trigger. Instead of bullets, a pair of feet kick out from the barrel (which is shaped like a pink hippo). If the gun doesn’t fire, the player earns points.
Never too early, I say.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Fool Shoots Self in Foot, Blows Head Off
blames Kool-Aid Bong
All credit to Xrlq on this:
Remember that hateful little bug-bite Michael Crook [“Crook" - bwahaha] and his forsakethetroops.info site? Coupla days ago, the site proclaimed that he ---had been murdered [settle down, settle down] by two soldiers. Yup. It said that.
Xrlq followed up, as he is wont to do, and discovered alas the story, like the fella, is Bullsh!t.
Read the whole thing. bwahahaha
[soo-prize! soo-prize!! soo-prize!!!—the site seems to be down...]
---
Oh, and this is the same fella who, after Xmas, ‘found’ and offered to return a soldier’s camera—for $1,000.
"I would be willing to ensure Mr. Wrigley gets his camera back for a fee. I would say $1,000 would cover it considering his memory stick is so precious to him. It sure looks like this family had a good Christmas."
seriously bent little toad…
More:
Army Times
UrbanGrounds
and—lo and behold—michaelcrook DOT com, whose post ends with the wise words, “but whatever. Life’s too short to stress over mean people.”
*snork*
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
I'd Rather be blue....
thinking of you...
You are a soft, crumbly white blue-streaked cheese. You are very cool and mellow. You are very knowledgeable and wise and people come to you for advice and help.
Blue cheese is a white cheese with blue veins and a sometimes crumbly interior. This cheese usually has tangy, piquant, spicy and peppery flavor. Use in salad dressings with cream cheese for spreads. [Texture: hard, semi-soft ]
ThanQ! Sparks
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A challenge
I got to 3.... Now what?
Sparks [grrr]
Didja ever feel like this?
...and when ya get there *click*
TBK
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The Worst News of the Day -- Many Days
I’m floored.
I’m thinking that the riots ain’t nuthin’ as compared to this potential outcome of the CBS, NY/LAT, Newsweak lame, et al ad nauseum debacles. Combined with our suicidal negligence as regards the education necessary to distinguish a Citizen from that sub-human gaping maw of a disposal machine, a Consumer.
43% of the public says the press has too much freedom, while only 3% of journalists agree
...22% [of the public] say the government should be allowed to censor the press.
...Half of [high schoolers] said they thought newspapers should not be able to publish stories without government approval.
This woeful, criminal ignorance is how the Great Experiment will fail.
ThanQ! Lloyd Briggs
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Oh my....
Let’s play “Compare and Contrast"
And howz about a round of “Which Report is Documented,” too.
...very specific set of rules the military has on handling the Koran,” State Department spokesman Richard A. Boucher [said]
....The Pentagon memo, among other directives, barred military police from touching the Koran. If a copy of the book was to be moved from a cell, the memo said, it must be placed on a “clean, dry detainee towel” and then wrapped without turning it over at any time. Muslim chaplains must then ensure that it is not placed in any offensive area while transported.
...such as the floor, near the toilet or sink, near the feet, or dirty/wet areas. The three-page memorandum, dated Jan. 19, 2003, says that only Muslim chaplains and Muslim interpreters can handle the holy book, and only after putting on clean gloves in full view of detainees.
The detailed rules require U.S. Muslim personnel to use both hands when touching the Koran to signal “respect and reverence,” and specify that the right hand be the primary one used to manipulate any part of the book “due to cultural associations with the left hand.” The Koran should be treated like a “fragile piece of delicate art,” it says.
This is in deference to and demonstrating respect for alQaida terrorists who are bound, determined and committed to killing US, right? Just checkin’.
ThanQ! Outside the Beltway
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