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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (76482)	12/18/2009 11:07:14 AM
From: Honey_Bee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224729

Lorne, LOL...no, it isn't you. It was me..... I went back and re-read your post again and realized that I had misunderstood what it was all about. I guess I just wanted to be sure I didn't miss anything. 8^) .

To: lorne who wrote (76482)	12/18/2009 12:16:32 PM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224729

Seattle Jury finds Sanity..in their vote and in the Killer Joel Mowbray reports: A verdict in Seattle By Scott Our occasional contributor Joel Mowbray reports on the trial of Naveed Haq in Seattle: This week was significant in the fight against terrorism. The case against Naveed Haq went to verdict. Haq is the Muslim man who walked into the office of the Seattle Jewish Federation in 2006 and went on a shooting rampage moments after uttering, "I'm a Muslim-American, and I'm angry at Israel." The case is important because of what it says about how ordinary Americans view fundamentalist Islam. Many in the media have excused murderous behavior in the name of Islam as the actions of a "crazy" person. For proof, look no further than the reaction of the chattering classes to Maj. Hasan's murder spree at Ft. Hood last month. With Haq, the jury had the "crazy" label handed to them on a silver platter. Even the prosecution acknowledged that Haq suffered from a history of mental illness. The twelve men and women in proudly liberal Seattle, however, rejected the politically correct cop-out. Though Haq was not facing terrorism charges, the jury found him guilty on Tuesday of aggravated first-degree murder, five counts of attempted first-degree murder, one count of unlawful imprisonment and one count of malicious harassment, which is Washington state's hate-crime law. The verdict suggests that even in deep blue pockets of the country, a terrorist's stated motives will be taken at face value. Even if that isn't the same as those same people willing to make terrorism a political priority, it does at least indicate that delusional denial isn't as widespread as we might fear. It helped that in this trial the prosecution was able to play damning audiotapes of phone calls Haq made to his family after the shooting. In one of the ten recorded phone calls, Haq told his mother that he was "a soldier of Islam." In the 911 tape, Haq told the dispatcher, "I don't care if I die." Haq explained that the world was ignoring the suffering of Muslims, so his reason was "just to make a point." By finding Haq guilty when the insanity defense could have won so easily, the Seattle jury "made the point" that common sense can prevail when it's needed most.

To: lorne who wrote (76482)	12/18/2009 12:48:50 PM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224729

Blizzard in Copenhagen (with video) I knew that the Copenhagen conference would be a time to break out the shovels. I just didn’t realize that they would be snow shovels. Well, actually I suspected it would. The Copenhagen Post: “Bitter cold and steady snowfall has paralyzed the country’s roads and public transport since yesterday, and the icy cold weather is expected to get even worse over the next couple days.” What have I been saying? On Sunday night, the forecast was for record cold today in Copenhagen. Later that was upgraded to cold. Now, 4 inches of snow have fallen on the Church of Global Warming Clearwater Revival. Bloomberg News: “World leaders flying into Copenhagen today to discuss a solution to global warming will first face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow on the Danish capital overnight.” Divine intervention? I don’t know. But it does show that it is time to use real science — not political science — to determine A. What the hell the temperature is, B. What the temperature has been in the past millenniums, and C. What the optimum temperature of the Earth should be. I am not scientists, but I do think having an entire continent submerged under ice is a pretty big waste of space. Covering Greenland with ice is equally wasteful. Polar bears are just grizzly bears in white suits. Get over it. Meanwhile we “deniers” do appreciate that the Greenlier-Than-Thou crowd has been forced by their Climategate scandal to back down and call us skeptics. Previously, Snow-penhagen. This entry was posted on Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 11:29 AM and is filed under All. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. blogs.dailymail.com