Listen, My Children...

The Jewish Question -- watch it yourself!

When I heard about people being offended that George Allen was asked about being Jewish, I thought they were just being sensitive -- but I just watched it for myself (first clip) (I make no statements about the rest of the page). I am indeed shocked -- especially the "at what point did your Jewish identity end" part of the question. He's right -- if that is an important and pertinent question to ask a political candidate, we should be worried! I'm glad the rest of the audience seemed to agree with me.

I'll kill you if you call me violent again!

I know everyone's said it before, but:

-There are violent protests when the pope quotes someone who called Muslims violent.

-We're regularly told we shouldn't characterize even a minority group within Islam as violent, lest that incite them to justifiably kill us all.

....does nobody see the irony in this? 

Some smokes, not others

Just came across a woman at the gym who's strongly in favor both of outlawing alcohol and tobacco in all forms and of legalizing all controlled substances.  I wonder how many people like her there are?  She was fun!

Charlie Daniels

Rocks.

Those Palestinians

I was wrong about what I said below, it would appear -- apparently, they were:

Five Israeli officers, dressed as Palestinians, jumping for joy, while filming 9/11 as it ocurred

Dancing in the Streets

I wonder, with CNN and all them showing replays of their coverage from 5 years ago, if they'll show the footage they haven't played since then?  Muslim commoners celebrating in the streets, anyone?

Blaming Bush

CNN reports that Americans blame Bush for 9/11.  (Amazing prescience, that, to plan -- from the early 1990s -- because you know who will start term as president in 2001 and what his policies will be.)  However, that's not so surprising when you think of how many people you meet from day to day who say we wouldn't have been attacked in 2001 if we hadn't started an oil-stealing war against Iraq....

A good suggestion:

IMAO says:

Hey, Democrats maybe if you put some this energy to stopping terrorism instead of miniseries, you wouldn't look like such of bunch of worthless little enuchs that you are.

I'm tired of silly people.  I'm tired of people like my Librarianship professor who talks about how librarians have an obligation to not censor anything, and to make sure they offer information on all sides of big issues, "but of course you have to filter out most of the pro-life stuff, because it's inappropriate."  Meh.  Just tired. 

Deterrents' statistics

R. Alex Whitlock takes a position only advanced by backward-looking, science-hating troglodytes.

Wisdom on "Boutique Multiculturalism"

Jeff Goldstein discusses the difficulty people might have reconciling their commitment to tolerance with intolerable cultural practices.  Good stuff.