Ockham’s Razor – Since October 2001 – by Scott Kirwin
Archive for June 2004
You don’t have to be dead to appreciate my thanks for serving your country. You have protected me and my family. You have sacrificed so that I and mine won’t have to. You have given up your freedom and in many cases your lives so that I can live free.
Thank you.
As strident as this site has been against terror and radical Islam, it has also been supportive of the gay community. That said, I have often wondered why I often found the mainstream gay groups allied against the war on terror. It simply didn’t make sense to me. We were fighting hatred & bigotry. The Taliban collapsed walls on homosexuals for christ sake. Then there’s this story. Money quote: “Sheikh Sharkhawy, a cleric at the prestigious London Central Mosque in Regent’s Park, compares homosexuality to a “cancer tumour.” He argues “we must burn all gays to prevent paedophilia and the spread of AIDS.”
We must burn all gays? Excuse me, but the Middle Ages passed a thousand years ago. This guy is clearly a psycho, yet where are the Act-Up crowds? Where is GLAAD? Gay groups in the UK should be screaming for this guy’s deportation.
Instead we get silence.
Silence = Death
You don’t have to be gay to understand that.
Oh for a Howard Dean right now…
John Kerry is calling for more support from our “allies” in Iraq.
What, does he think that’s going to convince me to vote for him? “You know honey, I think the way to solve the Iraq problem is to bring in the French.”
WTF is he on? Does he honestly believe that message is going to “sell” in the Midwest and South? It might fly with Limousine Liberals who actually eat French food (when’s the last time you did? I mean come on, when I think of the great cuisines of the world – Chinese, Indian, Italian, Mexican – I don’t think of the French) but it isn’t going to work with the NASCAR and Office Dad crowds.
When I started this site over 2.5 years ago, I did so with the hope that the world would unite against the intolerance of the Islamo-fascists. I felt that it was only a matter of time before Muslims in the West spoke with one voice against the terror committed in the name of their God and in doing so, make it harder for the terrorists to operate.
Unfortunately, the silence of the Muslim groups in the West is deafening. Groups like CAIR are more concerned with whinging about every perceived slight against a Muslim then they are about the hijacking of their own religion by people who behead others on camera.
By the looks of things, it’s on its way.
As one commentator has stated, it’s like rhinos mating; while I don’t care to watch it, I don’t like the idea of barring them from doing it. And as Dennis Miller has said: “My problem isn’t with the two guys who want to get married; my problem is with the nutjobs who want to blow up the building they’re doing it in.”
Looks like some from
are trying to attack us. What’s sad is that it evidently has nothing to do with
our content; it’s only because they can.
They can’t overthrow their government or reform their religion. They can’t
control their own lives or live in freedom. But they can run scripts.
Pathetic.
Bush has apologized. Rumsfeld has apologized. So who hasn’t apologized?
September 11 – The Muslim community.
Atrocities in Iraq – Saddam Hussein and the Bath Party
The kidnapping of people in Iraq – The Muslim community.
The execution of an Italian soldier – The Muslim community.
Taliban atrocities in Afghanistan – The Muslim community.
The murder of Daniel Pearl – The Muslim community.
The car bombs targeting Shi’a in Iraq – The Muslim community.
The slaughter of 4 American contractors and the defiling of their bodies – The
Muslim community.
Islam is a religion of peace? It’s sure one of silence.
If the American soldiers in Iraq are all torturers, then the Muslims of the world are all homicide bombers.
The 9-11 Commission should be looking at structural reform – not finger pointing.
So far I see Rice focussing on the former, the Commission the latter. It kind
of reminds me of the disgraceful
treatment of Admiral Kimmel over Pearl Harbor. As one comedian has said:
"I don’t blame the Clinton administration (for the attack) or the Bush
Administration. I blame the Bin Laden Administration."
MSNBC is running the headline “New Hamas Leader Takes Harder Line“. I’m not sure what a harder line he could take, since the previous leader advocated an Islamic state and the execution of all Jews in the Middle East. Call me a softy, but that sounds like a pretty damned hard line to me. After all, it’s not like there was ever a line that Hamas refused to cross. They killed children in a pizza restaurant, families sitting down to Seder, teenagers at a disco. They sent out a mother to blow herself up and leave behind orphans. In fact the one group that they rarely attacked were the soldiers and police who could fight back.
So the Hamas founder gets himself splattered in Gaza, and the new leader wants to take a harder line. Killing innocent children is the hardest line you can take in my opinion, and there is nowhere left to go. The Israelis know this, and that’s why they aren’t afraid of Hamas anymore. Hamas has played all of its cards – there is nothing left. Now Israel holds the cards and are the ones to decide what line to cross. And there is nothing – absolutely nothing that Hamas can do about it but run or die. For the sake of the murdered innocents, I hope that it is the latter.
Will Saletan’s Case Against Bush. Excellent and highly recommended read. Money quote: “Bush’s overconfidence” reflected in a series of exaggerations wholly unnecessary to the punishment of Saddam for his noncompliance with U.N. inspections” has trashed our credibility and cost us vital help with other terrorist and WMD-related threats.”
http://www.thunderinghooves.net/
MSNBC had a story on this farmer. If you live in the Northwest, you might want to check him out for your meat needs. We’re all for it – considering Ronald McDonald tried poisoning me the other day (won’t let the kids eat his crap but it’s near the office). It will be nice when more farmers go back to the future and do the same.
Why We Fight – By Steven Den Beste. Proof once again that this retired engineer is Bernard Lewis in disguise. A must read for all.
There is nothing like the reasoned perspective of an outsider to give you a window on yourself. For 58 years, Alistair Cooke did that for Americans in his weekly “Letter from America”. For those of you who haven’t experienced listening to his insights on the BBC Worldservice, you have missed out on something wonderful and sublime. For me, “This is London” and Alistair Cooke will forever represent Civilization no matter what uncivilized place I find myself in, be it the African Bush or the Suburban Shopping Mall (yes, I consider malls uncivilized).
Cooke has now retired, at the age of 95 according to this article in The Guardian.
Thanks, Alistair for being a friend to all Americans and proving once again why our “special relationship” with the UK remains special.
