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“All Sniper All The Time” doesn’t seem to be letting up any.

Some Congresscritter from Georgia thinks it would be a good idea to strip US citizenship from turncoats like John Walker Lindh.
I agree. But I think it should be stripped from them by lethal injection, or gas chamber, or electrocution, or hanging, or being shot in the back of the head with a large-calibre pistol. Not by some obscure law that will probably be honored more in the breach than in the observance (like the Logan Act).
The penalty for betraying your fellow citizens should be DEATH. What part of this do our representatives, senators, Presidents, and judges not understand?

Seriously busy at work. Tonight is also a mess. Probably no major bloggage till tomorrow (I barely even have time to read my daily list…).

…it’s interesting to hear that he’s probably not al-Qaeda. This boy sounds like a home-grown moron, even if he’s not the disaffected white trash I figured he probably was, and even if he is a Muslim.

If I hadn’t seen this on Fox this afternoon, I wouldn’t have even known about it. Fox has nothing on their website about it at all.
Apparently an Aeroflot 767 landed today at JFK at around 2PM EDT, and was met by FBI, Customs, and Port Authority police who boarded the plane looking for radioactive material.
Google News found articles here, here, and here. Nothing in US media at all, apparently. Wait, here’s one from WABC in New York. Searches at Fox, CNN, and PMSNBC came up negative.
Who’s trying to cover this up?

on the continuing media blackout of news from Iran.
He’s right. Faster, damn it.

This is a great read for anyone who has been suffering through national news coverage for the last couple of weeks (apropos of my rants yesterday). Further, Collins makes a trenchant point about relativity that I did not think to make:

The shrieking headlines on paper and screen tell another story, one of relativity. In the span of time in which the sniper has killed 10 people, what detectives call “traditional homicides” have killed 21 in the same metropolitan district. It is what the Washington Post calls “everyday violence”: car-jackings, knifings, drive-by shootings. Backpage stuff, even the robbery-killing of a man whose mother was killed in the crash of the American Airlines plane into the Pentagon. But “traditional homicides” are old hat. There’ve been 203 in the District of Columbia so far this year. No Chief Moose to decry their deaths. No interest in the caliber or the degree of difficulty of the shot.

Good stuff.

…hopefully with satellite tracking devices implanted in their butts, but maybe that idea’s too subtle for our intelligence people. Anyway, story over at Fox.

…that the Bondsmen didn’t have what it takes. Much as I grieve to root for an AL team, my money’s on the Angels.

Now let us dis the Democrats (Amen).
It occurred to me after I posted the note about the news media’s culpability for 9/11 and the nation’s lax attitude about national security that Democrats are equally to blame for it, and continue to be to blame for it now, by obfuscating the real issues that face the country and claiming that the President doesn’t care about the economy and domestic issues.
Frankly, it seems to me that by prosecuting a war against people who are determined to see us go down one way or the other, the President is extremely concerned about the economy and domestic issues … which won’t be issues at all if we don’t utterly defeat the terrorist threat. What kind of economy do they think we’re going to have if we let another 9/11 happen? Who will really care about homelessness and welfare and health insurance if, God forbid, a nuke pops in, say, Chicago? (Well, we’ll care, all right, but not in quite the same way. “Oh my God! The survivors are homeless and destitute and without health care! What can we do to help?” Quite a different kind of homelessness and destitution and health care crisis in my opinion.)
Anyone who votes Democratic in the next election is, on at least one level, an enemy of freedom. Democrats have proven that all they care about is power. They don’t care a whit about the things that are truly important to Americans; they just want to be in charge and lord it over the little people, whom they want to deprive of the ultimate means of defense against tyranny.
Republicans on the other hand just want everyone to get rich and be secure in their lives. Sounds good to me.