Apparently there is enough evidence for the Army to be “investigating” an alleged attempt by (maybe possibly) Muslim soldiers to poison the food supply of their fellow soldiers, but not enough evidence to say there is, uh, any evidence.
Kinda like how John Brennan noted after the Christmas Day bomber attempt that there have been no terrorist attacks on US soil. Interesting how an adviser to the president somehow forgot about the murder of Private Long by an Islamist and, of course, the mass murder horror at Ft. Hood.
Army Investigates Alleged Attempt by Soldiers to Poison Food at Fort Jackson
The U.S. Army is investigating allegations that soldiers were attempting to poison the food supply at Fort Jackson in South Carolina.
The ongoing probe began two months ago, Chris Grey, a spokesman for the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, told Fox News.
The Army is taking the allegations “extremely seriously,” Grey said, but so far, “there is no credible information to support the allegations.”
Five suspects, detained in December, were part of an Arabic translation program called “09 Lima” and use Arabic as their first language, two sources told Fox News. Another military source said they were Muslim. It wasn’t clear whether they were still being held.
Grey would not confirm or deny the sources’ information.
Yep, another good, solid B+ for our Dumb Bastard-in-Chief.
Don’t have a dispute with a religious person (shhh! Muslim) if you’re standing in a line in Britain. Shamso Miah punched another bank customer twice when they argued over who was next in line. Miah wound up in court but the judge, Tony Blair’s wife, decided to suspend his prison sentence.
“You are a religious man and you know this is not acceptable behaviour.”
Miah went to the bank directly from a mosque.
An atheist group filed suit. I guess they would like to punch people once in awhile too.
Shamso Miah, 25, of Redbridge, east London, broke a man’s jaw following a row in a bank queue.
Sitting as a judge, Ms Booth – wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair – said she would suspend his sentence on the basis of his religious belief.
The National Secular Society claims her attitude was discriminatory and unjust.
Inner London Crown Court heard that Miah, 25, of Redbridge, east London, went into a bank in East Ham and became embroiled in a dispute with Mohammed Furcan about who was next in the queue.
Miah – who had just been to a mosque – punched Mr Furcan inside the bank, and again outside the building.
The National Secular Society has complained to the Office for Judicial Complaints, suggesting that Mrs Blair acted in an unjust and discriminatory way, and suggesting that she might have treated a non-religious person less leniently.
She might have treated people of other religions less leniently too. What do you think?
Unlike many fictional costumed heroes, the Phantom does not have supernatural powers of any kind, but relies on his strength, intellect and reputation of being an immortal ghost to defeat his opponents. He is protected at home in large part by the Bandar pygmies, or “Poison-People”, whose fearsome reputation is enough to keep the uninvited out of his jungle.
PC disclaimer:
The cartoon character The Phantom just popped into my head when I read the following article. PC conditioning immediately kicked in cautioning me not to connect Obama to The Phantom. Even though The Phantom is an heroic figure, he lived in a jungle. In Africa. That’s problematic nowadays. The PC police go ballistic over innocent references to things like fictional settings for cartoon characters or, well, just about anything that can be construed as a racial slur. Actually, it was the conditioned thought reflex that made me remember for a minute that Obama is black. I’ll borrow Chris Matthew’s excuse. It’s a good thing I had the thought because it shows how Obama has transcended race. Besides, I loved reading The Phantom in the Sunday comics when I was a kid.
A trade publication is reporting this afternoon that President Obama’s 2011 federal budget proposal will assume receipt of billions of dollars in revenue generated from the cap-and-trade program even though that proposal appears now to be all but dead in Congress.
“The White House told Sen. John Kerry’s office that the president plans to assume revenue from the controversial climate policy approach. Kerry aides said they had assurances the revenue won’t be designated for issues unrelated to energy policy and combating climate change
The House bill projects cap-and-trade revenues of $873 billion.
Whether it’s the $650 billion projected by the Senate bill or the $873 billion of the House bill, it appears highly unlikely, to put it charitably, that either measure will make it to Obama’s desk with the cap-and-trade program intact. That means Obama will be counting phantom revenue as part of his next federal budget proposal.
But then Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus program has produced two million phantom jobs located in phantom zip codes in phantom congressional districts, so perhaps nobody should be surprised to see phantom revenues in a White House budget proposal.
…anyone who sees the Phantom’s true face without his mask will certainly “die a terrible death”.
Maybe in a comic book world or Chicago. For America, unmasking this President and defeating his pygmies in Congress is the way to save ourselves and our country.
President Obama demanded answers, Tuesday, on why a suspected terrorists was allowed onboard a flight bound for the U.S., despite previous warning signs that he was planning an attack.
After meeting with his security team, Obama said the intelligence community “failed to connect the dots” leading up to the Christmas day terror plot.
The administration has since increased security, but the president plans to hold those behind the mistakes accountable.
You may have seen this video before. It’s been around for awhile, but this is a good time to watch once again. Bob Carter, noted critic of climate change alarmism, says we must acknowledge that human activity has an effect on local climates, in some cases warming, in others, cooling. The case for global effects is greatly overstated by the alarmists. CO2 is a minor green house gas and will affect warming, but doubling CO2 from pre-industrial times will result in only a one degree warming. Most of that effect has already occurred. It is a waste of money to impose draconian limits on emissions and causes unnecessary harm to economies.
Scientists are so intimidated against speaking out against the alarmist view, no one knows what the consensus is. In Carter’s opinion, the majority of scientists think it is prudent to look at the human effect on climate, but at the moment we cannot say that effect is above the level of “noise”.
He warns that the real climate danger is global cooling. We may very well be in for a cooling something like that of the Little Ice Age.
We are frighteningly close to having the radical alarmists win this one.
The smart people are going to study and define hate then teach the kids how to be agents for social change. What could go wrong?
Political Correctness was an amusing loony left notion in the beginning, giving male names to hurricanes, spelling “woman” “womin”, quirky things like that. It got seriously irritating when we had to drop Christmas for The Winter Festival, but PC kept rolling along. It continued getting worse over the years while we all learned to self-censor our thoughts and actions to the point of getting 13 people killed at Fort Hood. Sane people think it’s finally time to pull back from PC. The radicals think it’s time to kick it up a notch. They want to formally define hate within society and develop a comprehensive program to “educate” the young to be social change agents.
The idea for Hate Studies came out of Gonzaga University in 1997. The initial premise, as usual, sounds worthy.
What makes hate tick?” Mohr, director of Gonzaga’s Institute for Action Against Hate, wondered. “How can we stop it?”
Gonzaga founded the institute a decade ago after some black law students received threatening letters. It has since started a Journal of Hate Studies, hosted a conference and offered its first class on hatred last spring.
The hope is that other universities will follow suit, said Ken Stern of the American Jewish Committee in New York, who has been involved in the effort. “We wanted to approach hate more intelligently,” he said.
A year ago during the run-up to Halloween, I was contemplating the possibility of passing out politically incorrect candy. I’m pleased to report that I wasn’t prosecuted or sued. So I figure I’ll press my luck and try again.
Why do I bother? It’s cheaper and easier just to go to the local supermarket and buy the same old same old. I guess I just need to do things differently (and preferably disagreeably). This seems to be a theme of my existence.
The following is my post of a year ago, when I first contemplated my folly. The older comments were posted in response to my query of whether I dared proceed:
Evil Candy!
Maynard’s Plea
I (Maynard) suffer from an unusual variant of Tourette’s syndrome. I am randomly compelled to commit acts of gross political incorrectness. This is a serious offence in California.
My immediate fall from grace started (as so many depraved acts do) with an Internet click. I stumbled across a source of nostalgic candy. (I subsequently found there are many such vendors.)
My immediate reaction was, “This is neat stuff!” But I didn’t rush to buy anything. What do I need candy for? I don’t really eat it.
Then the devil whispered in my ear: “Maynard! Buy a load of candy cigarettes and give them to children on Halloween!”
I’ve never been a smoker, but neither do I have anything against smokers. I’m glad there’s no longer smoking on airplanes. But other than that, I perceive smokers as having become one of our national whipping boys. There’s no compelling public interest to justify the legal harassment of smokers, and the excessive regulation of smoking sets a hideous precedent for other nanny-state-type controls. This is a vote-with-your-feet-not-with-a-ballot situation.
I remember candy cigarettes from the days of my misspent youth. Later they disappeared from the shelves. But I see they’re not really gone; they just were forced into hiding. And that ain’t right!
Should I pass out candy cigarettes on Halloween? Is this a funny thing to do? An amusing challenge to the excesses of the era? Or does it fall into the category of not fun and not funny? Crass and pointlessly offensive? Or maybe it’s fun and/or funny, but nevertheless a bad idea because somebody will shoot me?
Angry activists gathered outside a Richmond, Virginia strip club decrying abomination! and sounding alarm over the deteriorating standards in America. Prudish church ladies? No. It was the NAACP. The self-described libertarian owner of Club Velvet, Mr. Samuel J.T. Moore III, had unfurled an Obama as The Joker banner outside his building.
“This country is going to hell in a handbag,“ Moore said, “and the current administration is making things irreversibly worse.“
Mr. Moore is not the ideal champion of liberty.
Moore’s club is awaiting a state Alcoholic Beverage Control hearing on alleged violations. Earlier this year Moore was convicted of three misdemeanor charges related to having sex with a minor and another woman at his apartment in the club, and filming it illegally.
The bold Mr. Moore sent one of his “dancers”, Kaitlyn McGee, out to read a statement.
“Mr. Moore would like to say that anyone who believes that his banner is racist is an ignoramus.”
The ignoramuses from the NAACP said–
“…the Joker banner was typical of what they called escalating attacks on the president – from depictions of Obama as Hitler at rallies to South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You lie!” outburst during Obama’s recent nationally televised address to Congress.”
“Racism is as American as apple pie,” Khalfani [King Salim Khalfani, president of the Virginia NAACP] said. “The presence of a president that as African blood is very, very troublesome to many in this country.”
“As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t really bother me,” she said. “You could say a lot worse things about him.”
It isn’t clear from the reporting to which man she is referring. You could say that about either. In fact, I think it is a neat response to the race card. Just imagine the reaction.
There are an array of jokers in this mix at implausibly named Shockoe Bottom, but the assault on free speech is no laughing matter. No situation is too small—or too ludicrous—for the enemies of liberty.
I read about these delightful little imps in this article in the Jerusalem Post. Seems that somebody decided to make a cartoon parody of Palestinian terrorists in the style of “South Park”.
Is this a valid vehicle of humor? Just as some say one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, others see one man’s humor as another man’s hate crime. But I’m not an advocate of moral relativism; some things are just wrong. The Post article quotes a Palestinian “peace activist” as saying, “These videos are dangerous and full of lies… This type of video will in no case favor reconciliation between Jewish and Arab communities. On the contrary, it can only spawn hate.” It’s a challenge that supporters should certainly be able to address. Considering the reality of terrorism and Jew-hatred, and the hypocritical double standard of political correctness, I think they can do so.
Enough of the philosophical arguments; you’ve heard them all before. You can watch and decide for yourself. I’ll admit that I laughed. There are six short episodes so far (~3 minutes each). They’re on YouTube, but I’m not embedding them here because, like South Park, they’re a bit salty for the page. For more, click to AhmedAndSalim.com. Here’s the episode guide. Or to get directly to Episode 1 on YouTube, go here.
Susan came in second on tonight’s “Britain’s Got Talent” finale. Just one more sign of how liberal attitudes and political correctness is a flagstone of mediocrity, compromise, and ultimately, failure. Susan will be fine; just like Adam Lambert she has gained worldwide fame and appreciation, and whatever career she wants is available to her. Here’s the video of the finale. I think we can trust we’re going to hear a lot more from Susan Boyle. If we’re lucky, maybe we’ll get one more Scot to add to America
Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders has been outspoken in sounding the warning of the rise of Islamic Fascism and its threat to Europe. See my earlier blog notes here and here.
Europe does not have the First Amendment protection Americans enjoy, so it’s generally easier to curtail free speech in Europe. Some of us have been concerned that the proliferation of “hate crime” legislation in America will — if our courts are not properly diligent (and I don’t trust them) — chip away at the First Amendment and be used to enforce politically correct expression under penalty of law. We’re already seeing “speech codes” proliferate at, for example, universities. Is this the wave of the future?
The Wilders trial may become a lightning rod of controversy, as Wilders will probably submit as much evidence as the court will allow showing his statements were true and not libelous. Will the event help bring about greater awareness and concern, or will it merely become a circus radiating much heat and no light? I guess we’ll find out.
Obama came from the hard Left, but he won the presidency by making appeals to the Center and even the Right. Now that he’s got to make decisions, somebody is bound to be disappointed. This article discusses the rising tensions as internal factions start to battle within the Obama camp.
Disagreements among senior Democrats and members of his team over who he should pick has given the President-Elect a wake up call about the treacherous partisan waters he now has to navigate, according to those familiar with the discussions.
Wall Street was expecting that Obama would, in the course of his first press conference, announce his Treasury Secretary. The name Lawrence Summers loomed large. Summers was Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, and his selection would inspire confidence. However, he came under attack from ideologues for lapses of political incorrectness (see his Wikipedia entry for details.
For example, as President of Harvard, he acknowledged that there are physical differences in the development of male and female brains. This is of course a fact, but we’re not supposed to explore it, especially in an institution of higher learning. This gaffe is still haunting Mr. Summers.
Patterico nails it. Let’s hope the McCain team pays attention to this analysis and realize why they need to take the gloves off, stop being afraid of being called names, and not let Obama’s race-baiting gang take control of this…
A post by Maynard With the political arguments swirling fast and furious, here’s what I see as the bottom line on Obama. I don’t place much faith in what a candidate says and does after declaring his or her candidacy….
Pwoor wittle Barewee, no one doing their job but him! I guess when he can’t Blame Bush he’ll blame everyone else.
When Religion is a Punch Line
by Pat_S on February 4, 2010 · 5 comments
A post by Pat
Don’t have a dispute with a religious person (shhh! Muslim) if you’re standing in a line in Britain. Shamso Miah punched another bank customer twice when they argued over who was next in line. Miah wound up in court but the judge, Tony Blair’s wife, decided to suspend his prison sentence.
Miah went to the bank directly from a mosque.
An atheist group filed suit. I guess they would like to punch people once in awhile too.
Complaint after Cherie Booth spares religious man jail
She might have treated people of other religions less leniently too. What do you think?
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