Monday, March 22, 2004

"Superstitious Ritual"

Claire Wolfe has a post up regarding background checks and how everyone seems to be getting onboard with this.  Whoo, Whoooo.  In fact, Claire’s post informs us that you too can check individuals’ backgrounds by picking up the handy dandy background check kit in a box at Sam’s Club. But the main reason I link to this bit of news, is the following line posted by Claire in regards to this.  I laughed out loud.

"But in a larger sense all this checking and screening is no more useful than waving a cross at somebody you think might be a vampire."

The rest of Claire’s comments on this are worth your time also.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/22 at 11:50 AM
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VOPA (Violence of Political Action)

Not so long ago I wouldn’t have understood the validity of the above statement.  Heck, I had to ask a friend what VOPA was an acronym for when I first saw it used.

Here’s a bit of conversation, related by Xenophon, between Pericles and Alcibiades, which explains it rather nicely, I think.  From a post by Roderick T. Long titled "Xenophon on Law and Violence."

Posted by John Venlet on 03/22 at 05:02 AM
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Did the Islamofascists Bomb France?

“Raffarin tipped to go after Socialists, far-right triumph."

Via Google News.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/22 at 04:50 AM
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Monster Propaganda Job

"The department is creating the job to make sure that dramatic portrayals of it are as accurate as possible, spokesman Dennis Murphy said Friday."

The department spoken of in the above quote is the Department of Homeland Security and the statement is, I guess, justification for this.

"The Homeland Security Department has posted a job for a ‘’liaison to the entertainment industry.’’ The salary could be as high as $136,000, plus benefits."

Yeah, but can I hob nob with the stars?

Via Arthur Silber.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/22 at 04:30 AM
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False Outrage

So, I stop by Drudge this morning and he has emblazoned across the top of the page, in blood red letters, “Hamas Leader Killed in Israel." Drudge also has six additional blood red letter links to other fallout stories on this incident.  Clicking the link to the story, one can find this quote.

"Yussef Haddad, 35, a taxi driver, said he saw the missiles hit Yassin and the bodyguards.

“Their bodies were shattered,” he said."

I’m guessing that Yussef’s statement is supposed to be an expression of outrage.  Hmm, let me see if I have this right.  Sharon targets and kills this Hamas leader and 3 of his henchman or fawning acolytes, and the entire Palestinian population expresses outrage and a taxi driver laments that the “bodies were shattered.” Don’t the Palestinians normally celebrate, profusely, when bodies are shattered.  Well, as long as they are Jew bodies they do.

If you think about this incident a little deeper, shouldn’t the Palestinian’s be celebrating over the Hamas guy’s shattered body.  I mean, isn’t this guy now wallowing in pleasure, he’s a martyr after all, with his 70 doe eyed virgins?

The New York Times leads with this story also.  If it had been a Palestinian blowing up some innocent Jews on a bus would it be a lead story?

Update: More false outrage from Reuters. “Muslim Fury, Western Condemnation at Yassin Killing."

Does this mean killing “leaders” is multiple levels higher of morally wrong than killing innocents?

Posted by John Venlet on 03/22 at 04:08 AM
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Gilgamesh Found?

Archaeologists working in Iraq believe they have found not only the city of Gilgamesh, but also the tomb of the King of Gilgamesh. Though a lot of digging remains to be done to ascertain the validity of this claim, the archaeologists have found tantalizing clues that this may in actuality be the real deal.

Via Fred Lapides.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/22 at 03:59 AM
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