September 1, 2010
Saving the Planet...
A nutter named Lee was shot at the Discovery Channel headquarters after he became enraged at Discovery Channel's rejection of his suggestion for a show that encouraged people to 'stop having disgusting babies'. Apparently he was partly inspired by Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth".
Personally I prefer George Carlin's take on saving the planet (language warning):
Update: Lee's manifesto.
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August 16, 2010
And the Beat Goes On...
Lots of news the past few months, and I won't try to catch up with all of it here, just quickly talk about one of the most current and inflammatory topics to-day: the proposed mosque near Ground Zero.
I haven't heard one pundit declare that the developers who own the property don't have a legal right to build the mosque. The problem isn't with the legality but with the insensitivity. As many have pointed out, one would hardly suggest that a Japanese culture centre near Pearl Harbour is a good idea. Whatever our relations with Japan now, in 1941 we weren't at war with Imperial Japan yet they launched an early morning attack that killed many and nearly destroyed our naval capabilities. Even today you can see oil slowly leaking from the USS Arizona, which still lies on the bottom. After 69 years, it is still an open wound.
September 11th was an even worse loss of life, and we're only 9 years out from it. The construction of new buildings on the site has been the cause of arguments and scrapped plansm and the design of monument has been at the centre of much heated debate, and comparatively, those are more innocuous things than a mosque 2 blocks away from the site, that would inhabit the foodprint of a building that was damaged when one of the the plane's landing gear smashed into it on that terrible day.
Trying to say it is a lesson in tolerance is absurd. America is very tolerant; we don't need to be lectured to about it. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf can hardly be characterised as a moderate Muslim. He has failed to denounce Hamas as a terror organisation, and has intimated that bin Laden was 'grown in America'. It beggars belief that someone with a CV like that thinks he can lecture us about tolerance. It is radical Islam that has no tolerance and he supports one if its militant arms, Hamas.
As far as I am concerned this effort is just a stick in the eye. bin Laden felt he could use our trusting an open nature against us and he did; this is just another manifestation of that. Of course the NY Times and other dhimmis decry the opposition to the mosque, and paint it as a a gesture of tolerance and peace and any response other than open arms 'rekindle(d) worries that life in the United States may continue to be clouded with mistrust'.
What is even sicker is the obsequiousness that people like Bloomberg are displaying; he has been at the helm while some of the most draconian measures concerning salt, fat and food in general have been enacted, yet then tries to hide behind the mantle of 'we shouldn't tell people what to do (with their property)'. The Mayor has no clothes.
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