What if this showed up on a “right wing” blog?

Over at Huffpo, Russell Shaw postulates a pre-election terror attack, and opines that it just might be a good idea.

What if another terror attack just before this fall’s elections could save many thousand-times the lives lost?

I start from the premise that there is already a substantial portion of the electorate that tends to vote GOP because they feel that Bush has “kept us safe,” and that the Republicans do a better job combating terrorism.

I’m going waaaay out on a limb here and guessing that if Mr. Shaw knew what I thought of his idea he’d whine that I was “questioning his patriotism.”

And about that, at least, he’d be right.

Saying So

The Patriot Post, which used to be called The Federalist has an excellent lead item today. They ask the question, “is Islam fascist?”. And the answer is yes.

Like other forms of fascism, Islam’s expansionist impulse would involve violence, subjugation to the state, and conformity to the ideology of the system. As Mohammed writes in the Koran, “Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Messenger have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection (Surah 009.029).” Further, Al Bukhari records Mohammed as saying: “I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah’.”

Read the whole thing. And if you haven’t subscribed to their email newsletter, shame on you.

What’s your tiny URL?

Perhaps this should be called tinyurlmancy.

I just typed in www.tinyurl.com/craig and found out I’m a “sport utility trailer”. My last name gets me to a book on AIX 5L Administration (whatever that is) on Amazon.

Aiming this lens at politics, I find this somehow comforting.

Try http://www.tinyurl.com/%5Byour name here] and see what you get.