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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
a troll who will quickly become the new frontrunner for the daily/weekly award for most factually uninformed, reason challenged, poster of "teh most teh stoopidist stuff on da toobz". Hey Zoltan--does it "burn" being as dumb as my yellow lab? Difference between you and her is that she's about unconditional love and you, well, . . . at this point hard to say but my initial impression is you're about false equivalency, blinkered doctrinal faith in whatever, bitterness, and reflexive dissemination of rhetorical offal. Defending Paul Wolfowitz on any level is just plain moronic and misinformed. Why don't you go back the the Faux News comment section where you'll have lots of kindred spirits to talk to. If not prepare to get worked because this place does not suffer fools lightly. Maybe Wolfowitz's cronyism and incompetence was what turned all the World Bank employees against him rather than his attempts to "clean up" the institution? Wolfowitz as a paragon of moral virtue and principaled business competence--get serious.
Disclaimer: I'm no fan of the World Bank.
Maybe some sort of (attempted) satirical, imagined, mind-meld of (shooter + G.C.) ? One can only hope. The implications otherwise, are sad & disturbing. :()
I'm back from a gruelling experience of fixing a computer that had a horrible series of trojans and viruses (viri?) and it took killing the beasties with a complete reinstall to rid the machine of them. Just in time to meet our new whackjob, Zoltan. Whatever
I think we are "selective" about our "outrage" because there is so much to be outraged about. It's kind of like coming home after a tornado and your house is in shambles. You can only tackle a few things at a time, in order of importance: clean up a bathroom, clear out the kitchen, clear out a bedroom. Later, you can get to the rest of the rooms.
As one commentor noted: "Defending Paul Wolfowitz on any level is just plain moronic and misinformed."
Seriously. What a douchebag.
The reason Zoltan can't go to Faux News with his silly-azz free-style stream-of-consciousness babble is because the idiots at the Faux sites won't even bother to try and read it. At least some here may have given it a whirl. I consider myself a bit of a poet, so I was willing to try and make the connections.
After which, I decided it was mumbo-jumbo.
Ignoring him is the best option.
Meanwhile, I smell a rat with the ISI's refusal to cooperate with the Mubai disaster. Hmmm. Anyone else see the connection here? Remember, the ISI had a hand in 9/11.
Ahhh, yes. The plot thickens.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/171237
Right Tilt
The Mumbai attacks have given India's Hindu right-wing opposition a boost ahead of upcoming elections.
By Jayshree Bajoria | Nov 29, 2008The recent violence is a boon to the right-wing Hindu dominated Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) [...]
Even as the security forces battled the terrorists holed in Mumbai, the BJP had begun to use the opportunity to point to a weak government "soft" on terrorism. Frontpage newspaper adverts in Delhi on Friday, the day before the city goes to the polls, said the incident shows that the ruling Congress-led government is "unwilling and incapable" of dealing with terrorism. [...]
The BJP's candidate for prime minister, Lal Krishna Advani, was responsible for leading the Hindu activists that tore down the 16th century Babri Mosque in 1992, resulting in Hindu-Muslim riots across the country. [...]
The Mumbai attacks might also divert attention away from the recent reports of possible links between BJP-associated Hindu nationalist organizations such as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and suspected Hindu terrorists—a first for a mainstream Indian party. The BJP has denounced a probe into these links [...]
- - Newsweek
sysprog, I dig that subject heading:
Newsweek - - to combat terrorism, India turns towards - - terrorists
Oh, our "major" media!
Fingers-on-lips producing ptbptbptb!! sounds.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081129.DOUG29/TPStory
[...] India does have a problem with terrorism and extremism, one that threatens to destabilize the amazing humanitarian and economic progress it has made in recent years. But it isn't one of Islamic extremists trying to take over the state. Quite the contrary.
The most prominent Indian killed in the terrorist attacks on Wednesday was Harmant Karkare, the head of Mumbai's anti-terrorism squad, who was assassinated in the city's central train station along with several of his deputies.
The day before, he had received a death threat. That didn't surprise him, he told reporters, as it came just days after he had filed charges against 10 men in India's recent major terrorist attack, the Sept. 29 bombings in the city of Malegaon that killed nine and injured 80.
The accused are Hindu nationalist activists, young women and men associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Mr. Karkare also linked BJP-tied Hindus with the much deadlier bomb attacks in Malegaon two years ago, which killed 37 and injured 125 and had been blamed by local police on Muslim groups - an odd accusation, since the targets in both attacks were mosques.
EPIDEMIC OF TERRORISM
These were not lone attacks. In the past decade, India has seen an epidemic of Hindu terrorism that reached its nadir - I hope - in 2002, when almost 2,000 Muslims were slaughtered in the state of Gujarat. That massacre, like so many others, had been whipped up by Hindu-nationalist parties, in response to an earlier, smaller instance of Muslim violence.
There are certainly extremists from both religions. But there's a difference: One side has formed a government and is trying to do so again. [...]
The BJP ruled India from 1998 to 2004, and its politics are those of racial nationalism - it was born of Hindutva movements that get their ideas directly from German national socialism.
That's right: The movement that has overtaken and politicized sections of this traditionally peaceful religion believes India should be an "Aryan" nation, and, in the same confusion of linguistic and racial identities that made Adolf Hitler's movement possible, it believes that only Hindus (and sometimes only Hindus from the central state of Maharashtra) are legitimate citizens. [...]
- - GLOBE AND MAIL
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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