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January 9, 2010

It’s only January 9th, but South Carolina’s congressman Gresham Barrett might already be idiot of the year

Filed under: idiots, iran, republicans, war on terrorism — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — toma @ 6:04 pm

Maybe it’s hard to write a decent bill when you can’t see past your pointy hat and fluffy white robe. Maybe that cross you were burning for Winter heat has gone out, and it’s just too cold not be a xenophobic dolt.

Whatever the reason, Gresham Barrett has uncorked a bill so god-damned dumb, it’s actually pretty funny. Here’s his press release:

WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Congressman J. Gresham Barrett (SC-03) announced that in response to recent failures in national security, he will update and reintroduce the Stop Terrorists Entry Program Act, which he originally authored back in 2003. The STEP Act of 2010 amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to bar admission of aliens from countries that have strong ties to terrorist regimes and also from the terrorist detainee facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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He’s outraged at President Obama’s inability to protect Americans. And who could blame him, what with the hundreds of terrorist attacks and the thousands of corpses choking off our streets? Well, specifically, who could blame him after those two Muslim incidents, the ones that really stick in his craw: Nidal Hasan’s shooting up Fort Hood and Umar Farouk Adulmutallab’s trying to bomb the Northwest flight into Detroit? Somebody, please, do something…

“While President Obama may have declared an end to the War on Terror, it is clear our enemies did not get the message. Twice in the past two months, radical Islamic terrorists have attacked our nation and the Administration has failed to adapt its national security and immigration policies to counter the renewed resolve of those who seek to harm our citizens . . .

“In light of these unfortunate facts, I intend to introduce legislation that will enhance our national security through common sense changes to our current immigration laws. The STEP Act of 2010 bars the admission of aliens from countries designated as State Sponsors of Terrorism as well as Yemen to the United States . . .”

The State Department has indentified (sic) the following states as sponsors of terrorism: Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria. Given recent reports of increased levels of terrorist activities in Yemen, Congressman Barrett has requested that its citizens not be allowed to enter the United States.

So citizens of Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria and Yemen would be barred from entry or deported if they’re already here. Well, so much for The Great America rescuing people from violence and oppression. Hey you, huddled masses, yearning to breathe free–beat it. I can’t even begin to imagine how many rabid right-wing Cubans will get tossed out. And that’s only if Florida’s got a pretty well-armed and willing National Guard.

The best part of this idiot’s anti-Muslim gambit? Hasan, the American, and Mutallab, the Nigerian, wouldn’t have come within a mile of being touched by Barrett’s brilliant law.

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November 10, 2009

Here comes Fox’s Lt. Col. Ralph ‘Bob’ Peters to call it terrorism: “It’s clear that the problem is Islam”

Filed under: I hate you, controversy, fox, horror, race, religion — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — toma @ 7:15 pm

This guy is a thoroughly rancid talking head who Fox trots out to throw around nasty shit. See here and here and here and here.



It’s too early to say what the massacre at Foot Hood was–we just don’t have enough reliable information about the mass murderer, Hasan, and his thoughts and motives to say what his intentions were. But, generally, a terrorist act is a small part of a large overall plan. Terrorism usually has large political aims, and a single act doesn’t likely change anything, including even the perpetrator’s goals, if he survives.

If Hasan acted out of extreme emotional stress without any thought as to what his actions meant in a larger context, then I don’t see how you call that ‘terrorism.’ The facts that he was being deployed, was adamantly opposed to it and was increasingly distressed as the date approached probably point in the opposite direction, but we’ll see. Because of the great symbolism attached to terrorists’ acts, the dates they choose to attack are not generally random.

This, for example, is clearly terrorism.

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Right-wing hackery over Ft. Hood tragedy and P.C. continues: David Warren says “…we must not shed crocodile tears.”

Filed under: controversy, horror, race, religion — Tags: , , , , , , , , — toma @ 10:30 am

*sigh*

I really wish they’d get past the formality of pretending to be cool-headed and sober and get to settling in with wild-eyed hysteria. These ‘intellectuals’ are annoying.

Fort Hood: Let’s Drop the Political Correctness
By David Warren

For a person with old-fashioned values, and an old-fashioned sense of English word meanings, the reports of the Fort Hood massacre were almost as provoking as what happened there.

With Warren’s surprising post-modern sense of Aramaic word meanings, if he’d been reading those reports of the massacre, we would have been deprived of this post. Lucky us. Here’s an English word that’s old enough: provocative.

In the larger view of things, they may be more consequential.

Let me make that latter point plain. I am saying the words and attitudes conveyed in the reporting of a massacre can be, and in this case are, more consequential than the massacre itself.

Well, this is some sort of job security ploy, isn’t it? ‘Sure, a massacre is bad, but the words on the internet that follow it are what’s really dangerous. And I should know because I read, write and criticize words on the internet.’ Warren’s an idiot. You can ‘report’ whatever you like about me, but please don’t shoot me in the face and kill me. Given what a bullet ripping through my grey matter will do to my life, bloggers and their attitudes are pretty inconsequential.

Having said that, I must not leave the impression I think little of the loss of a dozen human beings, the perhaps permanent maiming of many more, and all the consequences of this horror in the lives of their families and friends. But we must not shed crocodile tears. My heart goes out to the victims, but from a great distance: I know none of them personally, I know no one who knows them.

Given that he claims to have an essential and classic grasp of the English language, you’d think he would know the origin of ‘crocodile tears’. The phrase came from witnessing crocs appear to cry as they ate their victims. So it’s a false expression of sadness by the perpetrator. Either Warren thinks that ‘we’ shot everybody or he’s not as smart as he’d like to pretend. No matter your relationship to the language, you’re not seeing any universal insincerity of sadness over the massacre, so I have no idea what he’s getting at.

…We should not allow ourselves to be moved by the cold hearts of professional tear-jerkers because when we reward that kind of thing we help perpetuate an emotional order that is dangerously false. We should instead be annoyed by attempts to manipulate us.

Falsehood has more consequences than the revelation of personal insincerity.

Err, wha? What does that even mean? If I said ‘I really think David Warren wrote a great post,’ wouldn’t that be both a falsehood and personally insincere? And what does the ‘revelation’ of insincerity have to do with anything? The distinctions are…what? The greater danger is…?

What happened at Fort Hood was no kind of “tragedy.” It was a criminal act, of the terrorist sort, performed by a man acting upon known Islamist motives.

Okay, boing, we’re done. Warren is just foisting spastic rhetoric. He’s an alien to his precious English and to rational thought, so he’s not adding anything to the discussion other than digital epilepsy. To him, 9/11 was also ‘a criminal act, of the terrorist sort, performed by [men] acting upon known Islamist motives‘, and therefore ‘no kind of “tragedy.”‘

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November 9, 2009

After one incident where an a-hole Muslim snaps and kills people, Forbes’ Varadarajan asks if we should call it ‘Going Muslim’

Filed under: controversy, horror, race, religion — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — toma @ 4:20 pm

Nidal Malik Hasan

Nidal Malik Hasan

The guy who posted this, Tunku Varadarajan, obviously thinks he’s pretty sharp for dispensing with the annoying political correctness and calling the Ft. Hood massacre for what it is. We’ve gotten unfortunately used to events where a worker ‘goes postal’, so maybe it’s time we started calling these Muslim killings ‘going Muslim.’ Except for the fact that nothing like it has ever happened before, duh.

‘Going Muslim‘
Tunku Varadarajan, 11.09.09, 12:00 AM EST

America after Fort Hood.

“Going postal” is a piquant American phrase that describes the phenomenon of violent rage in which a worker–archetypically a postal worker–”snaps” and guns down his colleagues.

As the enormity of the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sinks in, we must ask whether we are confronting a new phenomenon of violent rage, one we might dub–disconcertingly–”Going Muslim.” This phrase would describe the turn of events where a seemingly integrated Muslim-American–a friendly donut vendor in New York, say, or an officer in the U.S. Army at Fort Hood–discards his apparent integration into American society and elects to vindicate his religion in an act of messianic violence against his fellow Americans. This would appear to be what happened in the case of Maj. Hasan.

The stupidity and laziness apparent here are obvious, but I’ll point it out anyway. There’s no reason to assign a familiar name to a ‘phenomenon’ when it’s an unprecedented event. If a little green man broke into your house and shot your dog, would you call it ‘going alien’? If he came down the chimney, would you call it ‘going Santa’?

And there’s an obvious taint of ‘Muslims are dirty foreigners’ here throughout Varadarajan’s post. When an over-wrought worker ‘goes postal’, he’s apparently not a ’seemingly integrated’ guy who ‘discards his apparent integration into American society’. That’s just what happens when Muslims do it.

Note to Tunku: Hasan was born in Arlington, Virginia.

The difference between “going postal,” in the conventional sense, and “going Muslim,” in the sense that I suggest, is that there would not necessarily be a psychological “snapping” point in the case of the imminently violent Muslim; instead, there could be a calculated discarding of camouflage–the camouflage of integration–in an act of revelatory catharsis. In spite of suggestions by some who know him that he had a history of “harassment” as a Muslim in the army, Maj. Hasan did not “snap” in the “postal” manner. He gave away his possessions on the morning of his day of murder. He even gave away–to a neighbor–a packet of frozen broccoli that he did not wish to see go to waste, even as he mapped in his mind the laying waste of lives at Fort Hood. His was a meticulous, even punctilious “departure.”

So not only was he a dirty foreigner, he was a sneaky dirty foreigner.

It’d be more accurate to say that a thinly veiled internet slur upon American Muslims is ‘going Varadarajan’, don’t you think? Incidentally, any of you seen what this guy looks like?

That’s one filthy-looking beard. And who the hell spells their name with two Us and five As? Somebody at Forbes should take a loooooong look at this guy.

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November 6, 2009

Jerome Corsi is a putrid, lying pile of shit: Ft. Hood ‘Shooter advised Obama transition’

Filed under: *holes, propaganda — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — toma @ 5:48 pm

Jerome Corsi is light-years beyond shameless. This is a professional, habitual liar of such abysmal character as to be worthy of being chucked overboard on the high seas, accompanied by a chorus of black-hearted sharks’ booing. Followed by the holding of snouts as a massive, oozing slick propagated…

HOMELAND INSECURITY
Shooter advised Obama transition
Fort Hood triggerman aided team on Homeland Security task force

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

NEW YORK – Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter in yesterday’s massacre at Fort Hood, played a homeland security advisory role in President Barack Obama’s transition into the White House, according to a key university policy institute document…

“Well, if you were wondering what paranoiac smear artist would be the first to step out and attempt to name President Barack Obama as the man who guided Nidal Malik Hasan to his murderous rampage at Fort Hood yesterday, the answer — naturally! — is Jerome Corsi.”

The Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University published a document May 19, entitled “Thinking Anew – Security Priorities for the Next Administration: Proceedings Report of the HSPI Presidential Transition Task Force, April 2008 – January 2009,” in which Hasan of the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine is listed on page 29 of the document as a Task Force Event Participant…

“Corsi hangs his entire allegation on a document produced on May 19, 2009 by The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute entitled ‘Thinking Anew, Security Priorities For The Next Administration.’ In that document, Nidal Hasan is listed, on page 29, as a ‘Task Force Event Participant.’ He was one of hundreds of people listed as a ‘participant.’ Significantly, Nidal was not the author of the document. He was not a member of the HSPI’s ‘Presidential Transition Task Force.’ Nor was he a member of the HSPI’s ‘Task Force Staff.’ He was not a member of the HSPI’s Steering Committee or a briefer to the task force.”

Noting that the Obama administration transition was proceeding, the GWU Homeland Security Policy Institute report described on the first page the role of the Presidential Transition Task Force as including “representatives from past Administrations, State government, Fortune 500 companies, academia, research institutions and non-governmental organizations with global reach…”

“I contacted Frank Cilluffo, the director of the HSPI at George Washington University, who tells me that Nidal Hasan has no affiliation with the HSPI or with George Washington University, at all. ‘[Hasan] has no role on the task force, other than the fact that he attended these meetings as an audience member, as did hundreds of others.’ Hasan’s name appears on the list of participants only because he provided the HSPI with an RSVP, indicating his attendance. Cilluffo told me, ‘We always record RSVPs and publish them as a matter of transparency, and will continue to do so.’”

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