Double Standard

When a Christian religious fanatic kills an abortion doctor it's never called what it is Domestic Terrorism!!! They are never called extremist's or fanatic's in the press. Which is exactly what they are. In fact, some pundits on Fox News actually have the audacity to glorify such violent behavior. Fanaticism is fanaticism regardless of whether it's Christian, Jew, Moslem, Atheist or Scientologist thats doing it. When you try and intimate others with terror and push your agenda on them by those means it is terrorism plain and simple. It's become a serious problem in this country. That no one wants to face and deal with. They are more than willing to deal with Moslem terrorism but not the hordes of Christian terrorist's who are infesting this country and block abortion clinics every week.

-- tailwind

Yes it is; the Salonisti certainlly DO call it Domestic/Right wing/religious terrorism on those extraordinarily rare occasions (How many have there been? Two in ten years? Four in twenty years?) when an anti-abortion fanatic kills an abortion doctor. (Following which, a Republican state prosecutor usually seeks a death penalty prosecution.)

But, uh, compare to the number of suicide bombings in the name of Islam, all over the world. What are the numbers? Really, what are they? Would we have an average of a major mass killing in the Islamic world once a week, every week, since the year 2000? Might it be more? And think of the vast swath of global terror in the name of Islam -- The original WTC bombing, the embassies, the Beirut barracks, the USS Cole, 9/11, Bali, Madrid, London, the Mumbai hotel, and the thousands of attacks in Israel, in Lebanon, in Pakistan, in Iraq and now in Afghanistan.

Any comparison, any attmept at equation, of "right-wing Christian terror" and "Islamic fundamentalist terror" is a joke. A very, very sick joke that defies every semblance of proportionality that any sensible person might observe. You are an idiot.

Statement by U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer on the Fort Hood Shootings

Friday, November 6, 2009

Today we all mourn the loss of life at Fort Hood, and send our non-denominational and secular prayers to those wounded, even if many of them were from Texas.

Unfortunately, we have learned that alleged shooter, who is to be given the presumption of innocence, as well as counsel from the ACLU, a psychiatrist, and a full military pension, used a semi-automatic handgun in defending his Muslim faith, not that there's anything wrong with that.

But the federal ban on assault weapons, which had saved countless lives since it was enacted in 1994, including the lives of our brave and selfless police officers who are working to keep our communities and American families safe, was allowed to expire under the Bush Administration.

Assault weapons are not used to protect homes and families. They aren't used by hunters. They are used by criminals and gang members who want the ability to instill fear and to fire dozens of rounds in seconds. They are designed as killing machines.

And Fort Hood is home to thousands of assault weapons, as well as much more dangerous weaponry: the M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank, the M2A2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, the M109A6 Paladin Howitzer, the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior, the AH-64D Apache Longbow Helicopter, and the M6 Bradley Linebacker. The Kiowa is capable of carrying combinations of Hellfire missiles, Air-to-Air Stinger missiles, 7-shot 2.75 in (70 mm) Hydra-70 rocket pods and an M296 .50 caliber machine gun. The Apache has similar armament, including a 30mm chain gun capable of firing 625 rounds per minute. The Bradley can be equipped with the Javelin missile system. An Abrams battle tank carries a rifled 105 mm cannon that fires DU (depleted uranium) armor-piercing rounds.

Those weapons have only one pupose; to kill human beings in combat-like settings. Indeed, they were designed to be used in combat. To successfully kill large numbers of the enemies of the American military.

And so we must renew our commitment to work together, across the religious and ideological spectrum, to find common ground and resolve our differences in a peaceful, environmentally-sustainable and responsible way.

It is time to ban all automatic and semi-automatic weapons in the U.S. military. Our brave warriors, and especially all of our brave warriors who are women, children and minorities, deserve no less.

I just wish she had been a better shot, or had a larger clip.

As seen in this remarkable interview with Stephen Colbert:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/61108/november-30-2005/better-know-a-district---michigan-s-13th---carolyn-cheeks-kilpatrick

That interview was done long ago, back when the Democrats allowed Rep. Cheeks Kilpatrick to embarass herself and her party by doing real live interviews with the national media, and before she stopped talking to the press at all in the wake of her son's resignation as Detroit's mayor and his perjury conviction, and her ex-husband's name being linked to an ongoing federal corruption investigation and...

Wow Elephantitis

That was quite the angry rant! Wow!!!! Okay, we will take DeeDee and every Republican you think is a RINO, they are officially welcomed to the party, thanks for offering them up, does that include Lindsey Graham? Olympia Snowe? Susan Collins? John McCain? Hell we will take ex-Senator Link Chaffee too!

...we were just happy to get Joe Lieberman, "who was criticized by extremists in his own party for being too moderate." Isn't that how the song goes?

And as for our castoffs, you won't get any of the people you named, but you can have Arlen Specter, who, thank goodness, appears to be the next in line for "ex-Senator" status. Not a moment too soon for Pat Toomey and the rest of the country.

"...all yours," not "all your's."

I think my worst typos are when something makes me as angry as the Dede Scozzafava story.