Tensions High in Somalia as Thousands Protest
Tensions were high in Somalia's capital today as the Islamic militants who seized control of Mogadishu the day before vowed to set up a religious state, but thousands of people allied with the one of the country's largest clans held a rally to protest that move.From New York Times
Bad news in the Global War on Terror as Somalia falls to Islamic militants who want to set up an Theocracy. And yes, this is where Black Hawk Down happened.
smokescreen
Maybe I'm a cynic but I can't help but think that the gay marriage debate is a smokescreen to keep people from noticing repeal of the estate tax. Just a thought.
Why else would they be working this hard on an amendment that won't pass? They won't get 67 votes in the Senate. They won't get 37 States to ratify it. But if you look at Google News you can see the following:
| 1,880 news articles for: | Estate Tax |
| 3,530 news articles for: | death tax. |
| 9,690 news articles for: | gay marriage |
| 7,420 news articles for: | same sex marriage |
So it looks like something that won't pass is getting four times the coverage of something that will pass.
why does CNN grant an open forum to this particular whack-job and not others
When Coulter is invited to spout her putrescence on Larry King Live, the legitimacy granted to her is CNN's fault, not Coulter's. After all, there's no shortage of desperate attention seekers willing to say and do outlandish things to get noticed. The question is, why does CNN grant an open forum to this particular whack-job and not others?The Grit: The Bleating of Cowards: Hannity, O'Reilly, & Co.
Can someone name a left-wing loony that gets as much TV time as Coulter? Someone who has joked about killing a supreme court justice with rat poison or insulted our troops the way Coulter has? For the life of me, I can't.
the tip of the freakberg
On a projection screen at Stanford Law School, an auditorium full of nerds stared at a picture of a guy who'd done himself up like a cat—not with makeup, but with tattoos and surgery. The guy's whiskers were implanted. His nose had been converted to a cat nose. His teeth had been filed into the shape of cat teeth. His head has been flattened, and he was looking for a doctor to implant a tail. And that's just the tip of the freakberg.From Cyborgs, self-mutilators, and the future of our race. By William Saletan
Not sure I agree with the term freakberg. But this really seems odd. Why would a doctor do something like this? This isn't like Lasik or even something more radical like sexual reassignment. The result of a cat-person's surgery isn't a human with better eyesight or alternate plumbing. It is a person that isn't quite human anymore. One would think that a doctor would stick to the principal of first doing no harm.
The Purpose Driven Life Takers
Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission - both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state - especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. You have never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 years old. You are playing a real-time strategy video game whose creators are linked to the empire of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, best selling author of The Purpose Driven Life.Talk To Action | The Purpose Driven Life Takers (Updated)
It is stuff like this that really tests my faith in free speech.
