the Pentagon seems hell-bent on losing the war.
Misguided Pentagon officials, including Mr. Islam and Mr. England, have initiated an aggressive “outreach” program to U.S. Muslim groups that critics say is lending credibility to what has been identified as a budding support network for Islamist extremists, including front groups for the radical Muslim Brotherhood.
Did I miss the news about the Pentagon relocating to Foggy Bottom?
“Pistol Packin’ Pete” Perata, one of our slimy anti-gun California legislators had his car jacked at gunpoint. Even if he had been armed, giving up the car was the right thing to do. That’s not the point.
The following paragraph used to appear at the end of the sfgate story, and has vanished:
Perata said he never had the permit renewed when it expired two years ago because he “just never had the opportunity to re-qualify” at a gun range. Perata obtained the permit out of security concerns stemming from his work regulating firearms.
Let me translate: “Regulate” means “make unavailable to honest citizens”. When he worked hard to disarm Californians, a few complained in, perhaps, inappropriate ways. He claimed there were “death threats”. For the record, I think he was lying.
His response was to arm himself.
What a hypocrite and a coward.
Extra credit: Try the words Perata and corrupt in your favorite search engine.
The Fred Thompson Blogburst raised enough money to run this ad in Iowa.
Let’s hope it works.
Osama, dude. In case you’re reading my blog: You are cordially invited to Basra.
It’s hard to get excited about many candidates. Fred is at least saying the right things. I just wish his campaign were better run.
Buttle’s World will at least link to the Fred Thompson Blogburst.
I’m not in the spy business, but even I can see this was sloppy.
Long have I grumbled at inattentive drivers who slow too much and too late on the highway, opining that they are the real cause of traffic jams.
Mathematicians at the University of Exeter have now math-modeled it.
My dad used to say that the police should equip one officer at every accident and police action with a ticket gun to slap a hefty fine on anybody who slowed down to look. He was right, too.
Many of the scientists featured in this report consistently stated that numerous colleagues shared their views, but they will not speak out publicly for fear of retribution. Atmospheric scientist Dr. Nathan Paldor, Professor of Dynamical Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, author of almost 70 peer-reviewed studies, explains how many of his fellow scientists have been intimidated.
Skepticism is a virtue. Be virtuous.
I really wish some of the victims in the Nebraska mall shooting would sue the pants off of the mall for failing to provide protection in exchange for turning their mall into a free-fire zone.
Thompson gets the Norris treatment in the best campaign ad of the year.
Two teachers and a principal should be fired, sued, and then fired again for what they did to this little girl.
School officials say the 5th grader was brown-bagging it. She brought a piece of steak for her lunch, but she also brought a steak knife. That’s when deputies were called.
Mark Steyn agrees with me, only he puts it differently. I could paraphrase his position as: Diversity kills.
Now that the Supremes are going to hear a Second Amendment case (for only the second time in U.S. history) you should expect to hear a lot about gun violence.
The MSM is going to scrape up every scare story it can find. I sincerely doubt that the actual incidence of violence will go up. They’re just going to report anything they can find that makes guns look bad.
And they’re not going to report on how the recent random attacks were in “gun free zones”. Well, this last moron thought it was a gun-free zone, but thankfully one woman was packing. In any case, just expect an uptick in reported gun violence.
Her condition is so grave that police have not yet charged the man arrested at the scene until they know whether he will be charged with murder or attempted murder. He was scheduled to appear in Brampton court on Tuesday.
Love the way they call him “the man arrested”.
Update:
She died. Pardon my French, but this f*cktard killed his own daughter for not wearing her symbol of relgious misogyny. Now talk to me about the Religion of Peace.
Because, like, you know, they did that so long ago. It’s different now. Because there’s a presidential election coming up, and the Dimocrats all want to keep running against the lame duck.
Yes.
“I saw my uncle and around 40 men storming up the street clutching axes, hammers, knives and bits of wood,” she said.
“My dad was shouting through the letter box, “I’m going to kill you”, while the others smashed on the window and beat the door.
“They were shouting, ‘We’re going to kill you’ and ‘Traitor’.
What a huge surprise.
I have known three of the plaintiffs in the U.S. Airways suit for almost a decade. Soon after settling in Arizona in 1999, I became involved in the local Muslim community. Before moving to Scottsdale, I usually attended Friday congregational prayer services at the Islamic Community Center of Tempe, Arizona. Often, Ahmed Shqeirat, now the primary plaintiff, delivered sermons at the mosque where he has long been imam. I was struck by the political nature of his sermons. He repeatedly criticized both U.S. domestic and foreign policy and often exaggerated Muslim victimization. He advocated political unification of Muslims internationally and blamed the United States, Israel, and the West for perceived slights. He called for the political empowerment of Muslims in American society.
After hearing several sermons, I spoke and wrote to him to express my dismay at his emphasis of political over spiritual topics. He responded that “secularism is Godlessness” and asserted a right to “speak about political injustice.” The concept of purely spiritual Islam and creation of an intellectual environment welcoming to all Muslims regardless of political persuasion was anathema to him.
He’s way too smart and honest.Everything you need to know about the much-ballyhooed NIE is here.
I’ll bet you thought the Chicken Littles couldn’t get any sillier. How wrong you were.
An absolutely fascinating article at the New Yorker on viruses, retroviruses, and the fossils we carry in our DNA.Not to mention the fact that (assuming you consider viruses life) we can now resurrect extinct life in the lab.
Then, last year, Thierry Heidmann brought one back to life. Combining the tools of genomics, virology, and evolutionary biology, he and his colleagues took a virus that had been extinct for hundreds of thousands of years, figured out how the broken parts were originally aligned, and then pieced them together. After resurrecting the virus, the team placed it in human cells and found that their creation did indeed insert itself into the DNA of those cells. They also mixed the virus with cells taken from hamsters and cats. It quickly infected them all, offering the first evidence that the broken parts could once again be made infectious. The experiment could provide vital clues about how viruses like H.I.V. work. Inevitably, though, it also conjures images of Frankenstein’s monster and Jurassic Park.
“If you think about this for five minutes, it is wild stuff,” John Coffin told me when I visited him in his laboratory at Tufts University, where he is the American Cancer Society Research Professor. Coffin is one of the country’s most distinguished molecular biologists, and was one of the first to explore the role of endogenous retroviruses in human evolution. “I understand that the idea of bringing something dead back to life is fundamentally frightening,” he went on. “It’s a power that science has come to possess and it makes us queasy, and it should. But there are many viruses that are more dangerous than these—more infectious, far riskier to work with, and less potentially useful.’’
Wild and marvelous. It’s a long article (being the New Yorker and all) but worth reading.
