Logic & Sanity

President Stupidly

What does our president have to say about yesterday's terrorist attack?

The president made the comments as the commander of Fort Hood, the US’s largest base for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, quoted witnesses as saying the suspected gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, shouted the Muslim declaration “Allahu Akbar” – God is great – as he opened fire. Speaking at the White House, Mr Obama said: “We don’t know all the answers yet, and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.”

So a person of the muslim faith, who's known for prior anti-American statements, kills a dozen American soldiers while yelling "Allakh Akhbar", and we shouldn't jump to conclusions. Yet Obama didn't extend the same consideration to the Cambridge police back in July. Quite telling.

What's going on here??

There could not have been a worse time of year for revelations to emerge about unpaid taxes by Tom Daschle and other prospective members of Barack Obama’s administration.

And what's up with India?????

India has warned US President Barack Obama that he risks “barking up the wrong tree” if he seeks to broker a settlement between Pakistan and India over the disputed territory of Kashmir.

And why is the European Union acting up?

How dare theey question The Messiah? Don't they not know that ethics and geopolitical realities are for the mere mortals?

Hell frozen over?

Looks like Bush's policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a success - Egypt is rightly blaming Hamas for the Israeli strike. We've come a long way now that we have arab states practicing reason - this will put pressure on the palestinians to be reasonable in their actions and not rely on the blind support of arabs. And what more can one ask for? Reasonable people can always come to an agreement via diplomacy so we are on the right path!

*yawn*

So, an arab journalist, Muntader al-Zaidi, throws his shoes at Dubya during a press conference in Iraq, and the arabs go apeshit celebrating his courage and bad aim. Iraqis take a break from killing each other, while other arabs take a break from cheering on the suicide bombers (martyrs!) who are killing Iraqis. Quite a few Libyans blew up quite a few iraqis over the years, so today Libyans gave al-Zaidi an award for courage.  It was only natural, since he was apparently upset over the innocent Iraqis killed. And, ofcourse, how does one forget about the liberal bloggers who have finally found true love and are calling for him to be released. Certainly they can't wait to see who will he throws his shoes at next. Would it be at one of the dictators who are cheering for him?  Qadaffi? Bashar al-Assad? Nah, those guys are small potatoes, it wouldn't take much courage to defy them.

Obama's pastor

A lot of things have been written about Obama's pastor and Obama supposedly knowing or not knowing of his fiery speeches, but I think a more important point has been missed. I haven't seen anyone point out the reception with which these speeches were received at Obama's very church. See here (skip to 00:30), as Jeremiah Wright blasts America. Are there gasps of shock from the congregants? Nope. Passive silence? Nope. People cheering and apllauding? Yes. This is the church Obama attended for almost twenty years, and amongst those cheering and applauding people he has sat. Twenty years? Heck, those people were his family.

Europe blockades Israel

A number of European states are refusing to allow El Al cargo planes carrying Israel Defense Forces equipment from stopover landings in their airports.

The refusal came from states considered friendly with Israel, including Britain, Germany and Italy, according to Captain Etai Regev, the chairman of El Al's pilots' union.

Well, this will do wonders for the peace in the middle east. You have the state of Israel, which is constantly getting attacked by (muslim state supported) terrorists. Most of the muslims in the area deny its right to exist and call for its destruction, and now Europe is actively working to undermine its defenses. Europeans refuse to talk about sanctions when it comes to Iran, yet they are quick in punishing Israel.

Shouldn't someone out there worry about Israel (which has nukes, by the way) getting radicalized? Something tells me that Israel just might treat Lebanon as Russia did Chechnya in the next conflict. Perhaps they should.

Tip-toeing along the line of the world opinion hasn't done them much good so far...

Mark Steyn on Washington Journal

One of my personal heros, Mark Steyn, was on C-SPAN's Washington Journal today. As always, he did not disappoint. You can see the whole thing here (bottom link). Mark Steyn comes on in the second hour (just fast forward).

Yet another excuse for terror...

The first Muslim to be crowned Miss England has warned that stereotyping members of her community is leading some towards extremism.

Hammasa Kohistani made history last year when she was chosen to represent England in the Miss World pageant.

But one year on, the 19-year-old student from Hounslow feels that winning the coveted beauty title last September was a "sugar coating" for Muslims who have become more alienated in the past 12 months.

She said: "The attitude towards Muslims has got worse over the year. Also the Muslims' attitude to British people has got worse.

What a sorry excuse! How about the attitude and the bombs towards the non-Muslims by the members of her community? Another year of "stereotyping" and she is she going to don a burka, I guess...

Silly Brits

This is the dramatic moment when President George Bush is gunned down by a sniper after a public address at a hotel, in a gripping new docudrama soon to be aired on TV.

Set around October 2007, President Bush is assassinated as he leaves the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago.

Death of a President, shot in the style of a retrospective documentary, looks at the effect the assassination of Bush has on America in light of its 'War on Terror'.

The 90 minutes feature explores who could have planned the murder, with a Syrian-born man wrongly put in the frame.

Peter Dale, head of More4, which is due to air the film on October 9, said the drama was a "thought-provoking critique" of contemporary US society.

A "thought-provoking critique" from the continent that brought us two world wars and the holocaust? Critique away, lads.

Not so serial

Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.

But hey, at least he means well, right?