Thanks to my alert wife who’s watching the Fox News scroll, I just found out that those three medical students who caused all the ruckus in Florida the other day have been refused internships at the hospital where they were going, at least temporarily.
I love it. Actions have consequences, assholes.
I hate Gannett.
Unfortunately they bought the Indianapolis Star (which was already a crap newspaper and had been for years under the Pulliam “leadership”) and took it to the left. To make it worse, we had to endure a 20th anniversary salute to USA Today in the Focus (opinion) section of the paper this morning. Gahhh. “USA Yesterday — News for the unwashed masses”.
At least they still run a more-or-less right wing editorial page and leave the lefties (home grown and imported) on the op-ed. That way I can wrap garbage in the op-ed without losing the good stuff.
Just keep trying to change the subject
The ACLU clearly still doesn’t get it.
It seems like the events of the past couple of days would make it clear that the ACLU doesn’t speak for the general public. But hell, they haven’t spoken for the general public for years.
UPDATE: Maybe the ACLU should read Glenn Reynolds more often.
Injustice, yes…but against whom?
From Fox News:
One of three men detained after a terror scare on a Florida highway said the experience was an injustice that should never be repeated.
“I learned that injustice, regardless against whom, is wrong,” Ayman Gheith said in a television interview late Friday. “It is against us today, tomorrow it could be against you.”
Yeah, right. But only if we do stupid things like joke audibly in a restaurant in a red state that we’re going to commit a terrorist act, and then run a toll plaza in Florida without paying, and then don’t cooperate with the officers who arrest us.
Here is a perfect example of an attempt to shove the blame for this entire sorry escapade off on someone else. I would never have let these sorry excuses for humanity go free; I would have charged them with something, at the very least with failure to pay toll. I think I would also have suggested that maybe a trip to Guantanamo might be in their future if they didn’t cooperate fully and immediately.
Get a clue, Mr. Gheith. This entire experience was your own damn fault, and you and your buddies ought to be made to pay for it. And to make matters worse, you had to cry racism:
Speaking to reporters after his release, Gheith, who has a long beard and wore a skull cap, said the woman may have been influenced by his appearance.
“She saw obviously the way I was dressed and maybe she put a little salt and pepper into her story,” he said.
Sure, I automatically believe that. Not.
Any injustice that was done here was done to the people of Georgia and Florida, who are going to have to pick up the tab for all this bullshit. I think they should send Mr. Gheith and Co. the bill.
And we’re up.
Hopefully the blog will run a bit faster. We went from a P233 running Linux Red Hat 7.2 to a Celeron 500 running the same.
Technical note
I will be moving the blog (and other things) to a new machine sometime this weekend. The address won’t change but there may be downtime involved.
Not that I get that many hits 🙂
Exactly.
This isn’t a “clash of civilizations” so much as two clashes within civilizations — in the West, between those who believe in the values of liberal democracy and those too numbed by multiculturalist bromides to recognize even the most direct assault on them; and in the Islamic world, between what’s left of the moderate Muslim temperament and the Saudi-radicalized death-cult Islamists.
More rampant moral clarity can be found by reading the rest of Mark Steyn’s article in the National Post from yesterday.
Damn, Jonah.
The “international community” banged their collective spoons on their U.N. highchairs, demanding that the United States work with and through them. Bush ignored their pleadings even as the din of their tantrums became near-deafening. Then, slowly, he turned to the U.N. and squished it.
Read the whole thing. It’s brilliant.
And speaking of putzes…
“[W]ithout America there would be no Israel.”
And trying to bring down an American jetliner by detonating your shoes was going to destroy America how?
I wish I had kept the link I had where someone was comparing the terrorist mentality to a dream world, wherein all you had to do was commit the acts of 9/11 and you automatically won (even if, in reality, you didn’t), which explained why there weren’t any follow-ons to 9/11 — in their minds, al-Qaeda had already won and America was already destroyed.
The problem with that is, if they really are living in a dream world, they probably won’t stop dreaming.