You just have to be thankful he wasn’t an underwear bomber.
Bruce Schneier
TALES FROM THE CRYPT(OGRAPHER)
Bostons weekly dig
In response to a comment about the TSA requiring the removal of shoes at airport “security” check points because there was one Islamic extremist that tried to blow up a plane with a bomb hidden in his shoe.
[Bruce agrees with me that existing airport “security” is less than worthless. Read the article.–Joe]
The right of citizens to be safe in their homes and communities can never be subject to a popular vote.
It is astonishing that in a city where the leaders preach how open they are to diversity, they encouraged voters to blindly march to the polls last November to practice a blatant, egregious and despicable form of social bigotry against their neighbors and fellow citizens.
Working to deprive others of their property and their right to self-defense just because you don’t like firearms is morally repugnant, and with today’s ruling, the people who pushed Proposition H last fall should feel ashamed of themselves.
Alan Gottlieb
Second Amendment Foundation
June 13, 2006
Judge Rejects San Francisco’s Handgun Ban
[I’m pleased SAF/CCRKBA is continuing to push the bigotry meme. Also of interest is the city bigots announced today they are going to appeal the decision.–Joe]
It would be unreasonable to expect the HTML parser to be able to understand every language both present and future. (At least not until clairvoyance has been perfected.)
Raymond Chen
June 5, 2006
[I absolutely love this quote. Understatement in the first sentence followed by the only known exception to the stated rule. Succinct yet complete encapsulation of the situation. Some people get annoyed at me when I find exceptions to their overly broad generalizations but I think they are an essential component of understanding the situation and almost always just trying to help. Today, as most days, Raymond is my technological and word-smithing hero.-Joe]
In Iraq and Afghanistan, al Qaeda has taken a stand.
They know that if progress and democracy take root in those two previously failed and terrorized states, then their values of violence and hatred against those who disagree with them will in turn be uprooted.
That’s why they fight and why they will continue to fight very hard.
For three years, al Qaeda have sought to murder innocent people, promote sectarian killing and wreck the democratic process in Iraq.
This terrorism is a global movement. Their attack in Iraq has only ever been part of a wider attack that they have carried into conflicts and countries the world over.
Indeed, there is barely a major nation in the world that has not felt the outreach of their evil.
Defeat them in Iraq and we will defeat them everywhere.
We need to do so armed, of course, with weapons, but also with one simple idea — that where people want to live in freedom and be governed by democracy, they should be able to do so and the world should stand united behind them.
In Iraq today, that idea has shown its worth.
Tony Blair
Prime Minister of Britain
June 8, 2006
Blair: Blow to al Qaeda everywhere
CNN
Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and … know nothing but the word of God.
Martin Luther
[I admire Luther for his honesty even though I dispise his contempt for reason and truth. Most present day haters of reason, nearly all advocates of gun control, are not nearly so open about it.–Joe]
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but — more frequently than not — struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
Martin Luther
[The benefits of socialism, communism, and gun control are faiths as well. Factual data and reason are hated by most, no matter how well intentioned, promoters of those belief systems.–Joe]
We want to give you the joyous news of the martyrdom of the mujahed sheik Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The death of our leaders is life for us. It will only increase our persistence in continuing holy war so that the word of God will be supreme.
Abu Abdel-Rahman al-Iraqi
Identified as the deputy “emir” or leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.
June 6, 2006
Quad Cities Times–Spiritual adviser led to al-Zarqawi
[Note the goal, that the word of his God to be supreme and hence the end of human rights as we know them. It also sounds to me like a example for When Prophecy Fails.–Joe]
Al-Zarqawi was eliminated.
Nouri al-Malki
Prime Minister of Iraq
June 8, 2006
Top terrorist killed in air raid
See also:
[There was no competition for today’s “Quote of the day”.–Joe]
Cybercast News Service: What do liberal environmentalists have against toilets that use water?
Ann Coulter: They admire the living situation of the earthworm and believe humans should emulate it.
This is why they adore primitive societies where people crap in holes behind their mud huts. They pray that these primitives never leave the mud huts — unless it’s to come clean their designer spa bathrooms “off the books.”
Cybercast News Service: Do you think any of them has ever used the type of dry toilet that they advocate?
Ann Coulter: Well, that would certainly explain why they’re so cranky all the time. Dry toilets are worthless. You can’t even use them to destroy a copy of the Koran. And believe me, I’ve tried.
Ann Coulter
June 6, 2006
CNSNew.com
[There are a lot of things I disagree with Coulter about but she does have a wicked sense of humor and a complete lack of mercy for her victims. I admire both of those traits.–Joe]
The danger is the trust between the community and the police may be broken. The community feels very vulnerable.
Muhammad Abdul Bari
Muslim Council of Britain leader
Terror raid could ‘damage trust’
BBC News–June 6, 2006
[And I thought that trust was broken July 7, 2005 when Muslim extremists blew up trains in The Tube and a bus. Trust, but verify. That’s my advice.–Joe]
There’s a power struggle going on over control of the human consciousness. We are a cell of health surrounded by plague. It’s not men’s minds that are at stake, but their consciousness, their awareness. This isn’t a struggle over a market area. Make no mistake about it. This is a struggle over what’s to judged valuable in our universe.
Dr. Larry Piaget
A character in The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert
[There is great subtleness in this book. There is vast room for interpretation as to who the “good guys” and who are the “bad guys”. Some call Herbert a prophet in this book. I can see why.–Joe]
Verbal Target Indicator: Yelling without reason in a fight or when someone says something stupid like, “Hey, my gun is not loaded!” in a fight.
From the Greg Hamilton to English Dictionary by Meredith Robinson
Mr Blair has murdered more than 100,000 people in Iraq and the Iraqi people are an occupied people, illegally invaded. They have the moral and legal right to resist that occupation.
Why would that right be restricted to the poor, bloody infantry that Mr Blair sent into the streets of Iraq?
If the Iraqis have the right, as they do under international law and under any moral philosophy, to resist foreign invaders of their country (then) that must include the man who is giving the orders.
George Galloway
Friday May 26, 2006
The Guardian
Speaking from Cuba, where he earlier in the week shared a TV stage with President Fidel Castro.
[The irony of it all…happy with Castro while advocating the murder of a leader that helped save so many people from a murderous tyrant.–Joe]
Putting guns back on the street after they’ve seen the police station is just asking for more trouble. Every single gun seized by the police should find its end in a furnace. Anything less is nothing more than a contribution to the gun violence our nation is currently suffering from.
The Gun Guys
Your Gun Guys Daily Update (daily email)
June 1, 2006
[I understand now. He is in favor of the death penality on the first offense–for the gun instead of the criminal. The “Gun Guys” have mental problems.–Joe]
The discovery of sugar powder was a landmark event in the history of the Benson family. In total significance, it ranked right up there with Pearl Harbor and catching our first mink. For my brother and I, it certainly was the moral equivalent of our first piece of ass.
Ragnar Benson
Chapter 7, page 85
Ragnar’s Guide to Home and Recreational Use of High Explosives
[Sugar powder is a substitute for black powder made from household sugar and potassium chlorate.–Joe]
No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.
Theodore Roosevelt
[England, Chicago, Washington D.C., New Jersey, San Francisco, etc. please take note.–Joe]
The “armed populace at large” becomes the libertarian fantasy of some people, arrested in political adolescence, who have an extreme difficulty accommodating to public authority and giving the “consent of the governed”. The fantasy is that this is a viable concept. The right to be armed outside of the law is a right and a fantasy that has to be maintained by defeating legislation. It succeeds because everyone else fails.
The Potowmack Institute
As revised on November 11, 2005
[They completely neglect to consider the concept of inalienable rights such as freedom of speech and other rights guaranteed by our Bill of Rights so it’s no wonder they arrive at the wrong conclusion in regards to firearms. Thanks to Lyle for pointing these guys out.–Joe]
The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet church-yard in the land. In this observance no form of ceremony is prescribed, but posts and comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.
John A. Logan
Commander-in-Chief
N.P. CHIPMAN
Adjutant General General Orders No.11
WASHINGTON, D.C.
May 5, 1868
I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-62), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist.
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849).
Clitorises are the best thing in the world! No other piece of the human body has the SOLE PURPOSE of bringing pleasure. If that’s not the coolest thing ever, I don’t know how you expect to find any sort of sexual happiness in your life.
Xenia Huffman-Scott
Celebration of Ovulation
An anthology Moscow Idaho English period 6.
May 5, 2006