Good thing we have a “Department of Homeland Security.” Otherwise, things like this might be going on…
Comments Hygiene, Part Deux
The latest loony missive from Robert G. Oler:
I should add. I think that about 1/3 of the GOP is batshit (grin) insane…nuts actually. Vince Foster, wmd [sic] smuggled to Syria, Bush is a moral man…etc etc.
They are dumber then [sic] dirt in terms of their ideology. So is the far left and I enjoy pointing out their flaws as well.
It is fascinating to watch, because it illustrates how nations can go off track. It is almost like investigating an airplane (or any kind really) of accident caused completly [sic] by human error not technology failure [sic–missing comma]. It is great post mortum [sic] to watch the “walls come tumbling down” in the decision making [sic–missing hyphen] process.
Speaking of the Rev [sic–no period] Jerry [sic–presumably Falwell–Robert is into his own nicknames for his imaginary enemies, so one can never know for sure to whom he’s referring]. I watch his act on TV some just to see how the “cover the bust of lady Justice because she has a bust” wing of the gOP [sic] operate (dont [sic] worry I watch nuts like Casey Sheehan as well [sic–his missing comma]…wasnt [sic] it a hoot when they saw all their money get bonked [sic])…
A month before the 06 election he was promising the faithful that “God wont [sic] let the GOP lose control of Congress”. Suckers [sic]
All laping [sic] it up. Just like the jet fuel folks on teh [sic] far left.
OK, I’ve had enough, but I want this to be fair. Open comments section.
Do Mr. Oler’s pompous, ungrammatical, and unjustifiably arrogant contributions add signal, or noise, to this web site? The results will tell whether or not he continues to pollute the comments section here. He is welcome to make his own case, but based on history, he will only continue to keep digging…
[Update a few minutes later]
As can be seen from the first comment, he’s decided to get a sharper spade, and attempt to find a deeper bottom…
An Interesting Question
Is aging natural? Or normal? And even if it is, does that mean we shouldn’t try to beat it?
I think that part of this is people falling prey to the naturalistic fallacy, and mistakenly assigning a good/bad value to “normal.”
Dismantle It
I’ve long been a critic of the Department of Homeland Security as in, I don’t believe that it should exist, or should ever have been formed. Well, it seems that Senator Schumer agrees with me. And he’s even honest enough to take some of the blame.
Who, Me?
The state of Alabama thinks I’m a terrorist.
History Books That Kids Will Want To Read
At least the boys (though perhaps the girls as well). Horrible History.
A Conversation Between Tim Blair…
…and idiots. Univeristy [sic] idiots.
How Stupid Is This?
It’s not just college campuses. Military commanders on the front of the war have made their bases into gun-free zones.
And in a supposedly “conservative” administration.
I wish we’d had better choices to vote for.
Confusing Cause And Effect
Rich Lowry puts paid to the stupid notion that Tony Blair was George Bush’s lap dog:
Long before President Bush arrived in the White House, Blair championed the idea that the West should intervene to stop human-rights abuses in other countries, putting morality above respect for the borders of sovereign countries. It wasn
A Depressing Report From Londonistan
…from Christopher Hitchens:
Returning to the old place after a long absence, I found that it was the scent of Algeria that now predominated along the main thoroughfare of Blackstock Road. This had had a good effect on the quality of the coffee and the spiciness of the grocery stores. But it felt odd, under the gray skies of London, to see women wearing the veil, and even swathed in the chador or the all-enveloping burka. Many of these Algerians, Bangladeshis, and others are also refugees from conflict in their own country. Indeed, they have often been the losers in battles against Middle Eastern and Asian regimes which they regard as insufficiently Islamic. Quite unlike the Irish and the Cypriots, they bring these far-off quarrels along with them. And they also bring a religion which is not ashamed to speak of conquest and violence.
Until he was jailed last year on charges of soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, a man known to the police of several countries as Abu Hamza al-Masri was the imam of the Finsbury Park Mosque. He was a conspicuous figure because, having lost the use of an eye and both hands in an exchange of views in Afghanistan, he sported an opaque eye plus a hook to theatrical effect. Not as nice as he looked, Abu Hamza was nonetheless unfailingly generous with his hospitality. Overnight guests at his mosque’s sleeping quarters have included Richard Reid, the man in whose honor we now all have to take off our shoes at the airport, and Zacarias Moussaoui, the missing team member of September 11, 2001. Other visitors included Ahmed Ressam, arrested for trying to blow up LAX for the millennium, and Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian who planned to don an explosive vest and penetrate the American Embassy in Paris. On July 7, 2005 (“7/7,” as the British call it), a clutch of bombs exploded in London’s transport system. It emerged that one of the suicide murderers had been influenced by the preachings of Abu Hamza, as had two of those attempting to replicate the mission two weeks later.