And Remember Death is not
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And Remember Death is not an Option
With respects to Steve Rosenbloom.
Forrester vs Simon vs St. Louis Rams
How does one lose an
How does one lose an election to the biggest ass in America besides Torricelli?
Move the boundary of what the biggest ass is.
“This is the biggest bunch of idiots I’ve ever seen in any campaign I’ve ever been involved in,” Roger Salazar, a spokesman for the campaign, said, “and I’ve seen a few.”
Sniper Stuff Jim Henley is
Sniper Stuff
Jim Henley is doing some good stuff on the sniper shootings in Maryland. He points to A Cut on Bias who does some great postings on the likely motivations for the sniper.
Henley answers the question by Andrea Harris about what is so bad if she is wrong about it being Islamist terrorism by saying he’ll answer it afterwards.
The problem is it is a bad conclusion. It is possible, but that doesn’t make it likely. The war bloggers’ culture is one of assuming everything is related to their obsession. Not all senseless violent acts are perpetrated by Islamist terrorists. Their obsession with terrorism causes them to fit square pegs into round holes. All bad in the world isn’t tied to radical Islam.
The shootings in Maryland fit a pattern much closer to that of a spree killer trying to get attention. While it might be possible that this is a terrorist incident one doesn’t look for the less likely scenario and go on and on about it.
Worse, Katz (see below), Dipnuts demonstrating why he deserves the name, and (surprise) Bill Quick all want to claim the media is avoiding the use of the term because they are treating people like sheep. It never seems to cross their mind that they aren’t doing so because it is the less likely scenario and without evidence of it being a terrorist attack, the media is not bound by war blogger obsessions. Katz even makes the claim that the media is purposely looking for a white guy because of some politically correct bias.
What is she hurting? Rational thought. Fortunately the police don’t share the war bloggers’ obsession and have instead focused on likely scenarios.
The underlying claim is that they are being hyper rational beings using logic to deduce that a horrible act 1 year ago means that any horrible act now is suspect. This is assanine though because they are afflicted with hypervigilance that keeps them from making rational deductions depending on the evidence of a particular case.
And race does play a role in this process. I’m pretty damn sure they weren’t running around 1 year after Oklahoma City trying to blame all suspicious acts on irish boys from upstate New York.
Of course, to them, Oklahoma City was covered up by the Powers That Be TM.
Inane Blogger Postings Hell if
Inane Blogger Postings
Hell if I know what caused ’em. They are kinda funny though, so I’ll leave ’em up.
Inane Blogger Tizzy Katz continues
Inane Blogger Tizzy
Katz continues his insistence that the shootings are terrorist related. He claims the targeting of schools is part of the plan, but fails to make a coherent argument why one shooting at a school fits the targeting of schools.
Then he tries to tie in the anthrax letters. Next you know he’ll be tying in Oklahoma City. In fact, if this does turn out to be your typical homegrown fruitcake, I’ll predict that he and others will try and tie to them to Iraq and al Qaeda.
The problem of funding higher
The problem of funding higher education
Light posting–not no posting. Today’s P-D has a good editorial on higher education spending. The problem with Hancock that I didn’t address specifically is that it doesn’t allow for costs that increase faster than the typical rate of inflation. Hancock is essentially set at inflation + some to make room for necessary changes. The problem is some areas go up much faster than inflation and the Hancock caps. Education and health care, two of the areas most supported by the public, are both increasing costs at faster rates than inflation or the Hancock limit.
Higher ed has to get control of its costs, but even given that occurring, spending still needs to be ‘caught up.’ Hancock limits our ability to do so. To provide educational opportunities in the form of student aid, the State of Missouri would have to bump up spending. Doing so in one lump would run into Hancock limits and severely limit other funds.
Higher ed is the easier issue. The real problem with Hancock will come from the effects of rising health care costs which have the ability to bankrupt some states. Hancock is an aggravating factor in this case, not the prime cause.
I mean it this time
I mean it this time
Light blogging for at least the early part of the week. Laptop is acting up and I am busy at work. Anyone know how to swap out HP Laptop fan?
Check out the stuff on Talking Points Memo for a good laugh on the Forrester situation. And when they catch the guy in Maryland–watch the wingnuts either ignore it or say he was framed if it isn’t an Arab. And above all–no retractions. If it is an Arab with actual ties–I’ll post a retraction for a week straight!
Calling the DNC, Calling the
Calling the DNC, Calling the DNC
Tom Friedman identifies the the real problem with the Democrats. The Democrats seem paralyzed in fear of a man who couldn’t win the plurality of votes in the Presidential race. Instead of being against his energy plan, why not present an alternative that shows how beholden he is to energy interests. Why not make the case for multilateralism? Why not make the case for fiscal responsibility?
MoDo hits it All of
MoDo hits it
All of the support coming from the wingnuts in the Christian Coalition for Israel has been quite humorous to watch. Maureen Dowd points out the weirdness here.
Avoiding Middle Eastern Description? Now
Avoiding Middle Eastern Description?
Now Instapundit is noting how hard everyone is trying to avoid the description of the assailants in the DC Burbs as Middle Eastern. Why would that be? Maybe because the witnesses aren’t claiming to have seen Middle Eastern men and Instapud and pals are trying to pin everything they can on Arabs.
And what the hell does Middle Eastern look like anyway?
Another interesting note on how bad Instapud wants this to be an Arab is his pointing out the Hispanic article which was posted early in the morning on the 4th while up above he mentions the specific subject being looked for today. Why would a 36 hour old news story be more reliable than the 2 hour old news story. Because he wants it to be an Arab?