Open Threads

There are a few things in life that I look forward to, and Mark Steyn’s columns are one of them (Sports Illustrated on Thursday in the mail and bottles of wineFriday afternoon are two other things). His latest offering skewers the corrupt House of Saud (though not with the relentless tenacity of Charles Johnson).

There are only two convincing positions on the House of Saud and 9/11: a) They’re indirectly responsible for it; b) They’re directly responsible for it. There’s a lot of evidence for the former — the Saudi funding of extreme Islamist madrassahs, etc. — and a certain amount of not yet totally compelling evidence for the latter — a Saudi “humanitarian aid” office in the Balkans set up by a member of the Royal Family which appears to be a front for terrorism. Reasonable people can disagree whether it’s (a) or (b) but for Americans to argue that the Saudis are our allies in the war on terrorism is like Ron Goldman joining O.J. in his search for the real killers.

Yeah. What he said.

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Blithering Idiot has a link here to my fan mail (hate mail), and then he claims that the mail is one of the reasons he could never be a conservative Republican. Me either, but I don’t know what the mail has to do with anything. If I am missing something, William, let me know what it is (sometimes I am not too sharp).

BTW- if you are an NFL fan, his posting for today has the link to the NFL IQ test (which is not an oxymoron)…

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George Bush is about to make the second-worst mistake in his young Presidency (the first being his refusal to tell Congress to pound salt and that there was NO WAY IN HELL he would sign CFR). According to Reuters reports, our President is about to levy 30% tariffs on imported steel for up to three years, in a blatant act of patronage and political cynicism.

Note to Bush- Protectionism does not work. This will only prop up an industry that should have long ago gone bankrupt because of its inability to compete in a global market. Instead of going bankrupt, being bought out, and letting those assets be used by a responsible, productive entity, they will now be protected, choke and wheeze along on life-support for a couple more years, and cause retaliation from every other nation so that every American can pay more for imported products. Good thinking, boys.

And before someone fires back that our competitors are propped up by their government, let me remind you that they are SOCIALISTS, and that is one of the annoying things that they do.

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Morons with Keyboards

If What Really Happened and Art Bell don’t give you enough conspiracy theories, or if you don’t get enough up close and personal terrorist apologizing and anti-semitism, you might want to drop by and check out this asshole’s site. Sorry for the language, but this guy earned it.

I have been reading him for a little bit, and his writing and logic remind me of what Herb Brooks once said to one of his players. This is paraphrased, but essentially he told a player that ” each day you are playing worse and worse and today you are playing like it is next week.” Jak’s view is written like it is the next millenium.

** Update **

Jak’s Views responds:

I’m not sure I’ve actually been called an “asshole” online before. But I guess it was just a question of time.

At least this guy has the common decency to label his site as “ill-informed.”

[dripping sarcasm] Gee. I never would have thought someone might disagree with me and then make some pithy comment about my title being accurate. I better hurry up and change it. [/dripping sarcasm]

This is why this guy is a drooling idiot terrorist sympathizer who deserves any venom I desire to heap on him. In his daily ‘log,’ he once again refers to all the people killed, bemoaning that Palestinian deaths are not reported (god knows how our intrepid leftist got the ‘unreported’ stats he has posted if they were not widely available in the mainstream media). Check out this little sentence:

This morning, a Palestinian militant and 3 Israeli civilians were killed during an attack in Tel Aviv.

This is the story he is referring to:

At about 2:15 a.m. a lone gunman armed with an M-16 assault rifle fired into a popular Tel Aviv night spot, killing three Israelis and wounding 30 before he himself was shot, the police said.

BTW- in Jak’s world, the word ‘militant’ means what everyone else in the world would call ‘suicidal, homicidal maniac.’

Thanks for keeping us posted, Jakass.

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Uthant is back, with their take on the shadow government.

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Paging Bjorn Staerk

Another obnoxious Orwell quotation here….

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Damned If You do…

On October 31, 2001, the BBC reported comments from several of the leading newspapers in the states that the terror warnings issued by the administration were pointless and needlessly scaring American citzens, Here is a sampling of what the BBC reported observing in these papers of record:

Washington Times

“It is certainly a cause for worry when the attorney-general of the United States shows up on national television, ashen-faced and puffy-eyed, heaving heavy sighs before going into a hastily called news briefing on terrorism.”

USA Today

“No one was given information to guide rational decisions. Even some police agencies, which can do far more to thwart an attack, were complaining about the vagueness of the warning.”

“Yet despite the generalised anxiety such imprecise warnings induce, this almost certainly isn’t the last one the country will receive.”

The Boston Herald

“With each ambiguous warning, another wave of anxiety sweeps through an already jittery nation, causing many Americans to stay close to home and cancel travel plans,” the paper says.

“It’s generating massive amounts of anxiety,” local clinical psycologist Dr Thomas Tokarz tells the paper. “It’s the uncertainty of what will happen next,” he adds.

The New York Times

The New York Times believes that “the Bush administration must continue to keep the public informed, even when the information is unpleasant and unsatisfactorily vague.”

“There is, of course, the danger that too many warnings could become mere background noise, and that somewhere down the road the public would wind up ignoring the one that really matters,” it adds.

“But the nation is better off frightened and informed than left happily in the dark,” it concludes.

Shouldn’t the current administration be widely praised for refusing to panic New Yorkers with bogus stories about nuclear devices? Not according to Mr. Bloomberg.

I am taking bets as to how long it will be before Maureen Dowd uses this as evidence of the evil-doings of the ‘shadow government,’ or ‘secret government,’ as Idiot Extraordinaire and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is now fond of calling the contingency plan

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