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September 21st 2008

Sunday Scan – 9/21/08

A Mighty Wind

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s wind power ready to step up, step in and replace tried and trusted energy-producing technologies? Well, this photo seems to say maybe not. I am reminded of a Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live when Amy Poehler reported:

According to a new report by the Energy Department, wind turbines can produce a fifth of the nation’s annual electricity needs within about two decades. Which could drastically reduce our dependence on foreign wind.

Twenty percent in twenty years – oh, great! Let’s just shut down the oil biz now and twiddle our thumbs ’til 2028. As Dylan said (in a line William Ayres really, really liked), “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

Hat-tip: Jim Continue Reading »

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September 7th 2008

Just Another Poor, Suffering Terrorist

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et’s revisit those terrible, terrible roots of terrorism, shall we? You know, the aching poverty and heavy burden of being a pathetic post-colonial backwater suffering because of globalization. To help us understand this horrible situation, here’s a bit of bio on a recently arrested terrorist:

She is one of three children of a British- trained Pakistani doctor. She moved to the US from Pakistan in 1990 to live with her brother, an architect, and study. After completing her neuroscience doctoral thesis she married a Pakistani anaesthesiologist and lived in a flat in Boston.

Poor baby, so mistreated by the West. No wonder she, one Aafia Siddiqui:

  • Was questioned by the FBI after here husband allegedly purchased night-vision goggles and body armour on the internet. Within months the couple moved back to Pakistan but soon separated.
  • Married Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, known as Ammar alBaluchi, a nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a cousin of Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre in New York.
  • Was arrested in Afghanistan when she was seen acting suspiciously outside a provincial governor’s compound, identifying herself as a boy – but besides being wrong on that, they found in her possession numerous documents about “the creation of explosives, chemical weapons and other weapons, descriptions of U.S. landmarks in the US, documents about US military assets and excerpts from The Anarchist Arsenal.
  • Grabbed an M16 while being held for interrogation and fired two shots at an Army captain. (She missed when a translator pushed the rifle away.)

All this info from Times of London; read the whole article, complete with the lame defense being set up to make her a heroic martyr of US mistreatment.

Included on the list of targets carried by our long-suffering Ms. Siddiqui was the USDA’s Plum Island Animal Disease Center, which the feds want to use as a biological terrorism research center. Put that together with a neuroscience doctorate and you realize that the terrorists who will hurt is us are not theflea-bitten, uneducated, suffering terrorists, but those that were once a part of us.

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August 24th 2008

Sunday Scan

Super Nan Readies For Denver Showdown

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est you think this week’s Democratic convention in Denver will be just a showcase for the pontificating and grandstanding leaders of the party that knows what’s good for us even if we don’t, Nancy Pelosi stands ready to set you straight. This is no small deal.

“We’ve got a planet to save. Nothing less is at stake other than civilization as we know it today.” (source)

Thank God we’ve got a proven, capable Dem savior like Barack Obama to get us through the fight with the super-nemesis, Maverick Man.

And Joe Biden? The perfect sidekick for The Mighty O and Super Nan, sez Madam Speaker:

“Joe Biden is the all-American boy.”

I’m sure he looks great in tights, too.

hat-tip: Urgent Agenda Continue Reading »

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August 3rd 2008

Sunday Scan

Torture, Torture, Torture! It’s The American Way

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e Americans just have to swallow hard and admit it: Abu Ghraib just reflects our national loving fixation with torture. We’re just a torturing bunch. Why, we can even buy sophisticated Tortureware® for our own happy use! So sez the UN:

TASER electronic stun guns are a form of torture that can kill, a UN committee has declared after several recent deaths in North America.

“The use of these weapons causes acute pain, constituting a form of torture,” the UN’s Committee against Torture said. …

The UN committee made its comments in recommendations to Portugal, which has bought the newest Taser X26 stun gun for use by police.

Portugal “should consider giving up the use of the Taser X26,” as its use can have a grave physical and mental impact on those targeted, which violates the UN’s Convention against Torture, the experts said.

Pornography is supposedly hard to define, despite the “I know it when I see it”‘ definition that works for most of us. Pansy bureaucrats who concern themselves with a Quixotic quest for a perfect world are telling us that torture is too hard for us to know when we see it, and by defining more and more practices as torture, they’re just playing into the hands of the bad guys. Continue Reading »

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July 29th 2008

Pakistan Hit Offs Al-Qaeda Bomb-Maker

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t’s finally come out: the target of the most recent missile attack in the Pakistan border region is Abu Khabab al-Masri, al-Qaeda’s premier bomb and WMD techie, who was thought to have been killed at least once before. This time, it looks like we smoked him – but let’s wait for confirming evidence.

If al-Masari’s DNA is splattered about the bombed out target, the world is much better off without him. Counterterrorism blog says al-Masari, “an Egyptian also known as Midhat Mursi al Sayid Umar, ran Al Qaeda’s top training base in Afghanistan, and literally wrote ‘the book’ on chemical and biological warfare for terrorists worldwide.” He is credited with the design of the Richard Reid shoe bomb, and materminding a deadly attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad in 1995.

Let’s hope he’s gone.

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