The Internets, Criminal Profiles, and The Law
A 26-year old man was arrested for killing, assaulting, and planning to cannibalize a girl. What also stood out in the story was that fact that his blogging indicated such tendencies. According to the article on Yahoo! News (“Cannibalism suspect faces murder trial” by Sean Murphy of The Associated Press):
“My fantasies are just getting weirder and weirder. Dangerously weird,” Underwood wrote in September 2004. “If people knew the kinds of things I think about anymore, I’d probably be locked away. No probably about it, I know I would be.”
A self-fulfilling prophecy? Read the rest of this entry »
Stupid people who should not be rooting for terrorists
There are a variety of people who root for terrorism-sympathizing peoples. This includes rooting for Hezbollah, Hamas, other Palestinian militant organizations, Islamist regimes and societies, and so on. This includes protesting against those people who are fighting these threats; these valiant warriors against oppression and terrorism include Jews, the State of Israel, the Israeli Defense Forces, the Armed Forces of The United States, The Government of The United States, and so on and so forth. This amuses me because these same people, in the lands for which they are protesting or rooting, would be oppressed, suppressed, prosecuted, persecuted, and most likely (considering their outspoken nature) killed.
Such categories, from which such amusing protestors come from, are: Read the rest of this entry »
Signs of the Times
On August 21, 2006, Chris Muir of Day by Day posted this cartoon, which I found to be quite amusing:
WickedPinto and the “one hardened old soldier who was always negative…”
I’m going to do something I rarely do: speak about a specific commenter. I mention a number of y’all, but I’ve never really posted about my thoughts about any specific commenter.
WickedPinto is unique. He has already made a name for himself on the internets, particularly on the Ace of Spades HQ. Some people like his comments, others ignore then, and yet others seem to dislike them. WickedPinto is very forthright and direct. He says what he means and means what he says. There’s a frankness and integrity to him that I find refreshing.
And although he doesn’t have a doctorate, like many aware, street-smart, and book-smart people, he is quite insightful, thought-provoking, and sound.
I don’t agree with everything he says, but I always want to hear his opinion anyway. Especially when things are so confusing, his views are excellent to bring one’s focus on what matters.
I hope this will also convince others to speak up: your thoughts are always welcome. I enjoy hearing what other people think. It’s nice to “hear” voices other than those in my head. 
That said, I think his recent comment deserves to be posted here. (I love it that all comments get emailed to me! By the way, this is how you can all be sure I read every single comment made.) This is a good explanation of why we fight, why we must fight, why we must continue onwards no matter what. Plus, it’s quite entertaining as well. (I’m going to have to read the series he mentions. They’re by David Eddings. WickedPinto refers to The Belgariad and The Malloreon. I have been aware that Eddings is a popular author but have yet to get these series. Of his books I have only read The Elder Gods of The Dreamer series.)
Theres a series of books, I forget the name of the author off the top of my head, but he wrote a series titled “the belgariad,” and “the malloreon” I think were the names of the respective trillogies. Anyways, in that series of fantasy books, there is this one hardened old soldier who was always negative about a battle before they went into battle, or establlished defenses. Talking about how “the siege of (name of fantasy city) lasted 12 years! and at the end it took 20 to rebuild the city” only to turn around and establish defense of a city thinking it was gonna take 20 years to fight off the siege. (this is all useless info, I’m just trying to say that this character was the classic bitchy serviceman, who complained constantly while still doing his job superbly)
There is one point in one of the books where there is this peace loving nation, that has no idea of how to fight a war, never fought a war and didn’t understand why they were now at war. The old soldier guy says “well it’s not a war until you defend yourselves, if you want peace, just let them in and don’t fight them, you will have your peace, but it won’t look like this one” or something to that affect. Later the main character asked him if he thought he was serious and the old soldier says “absolutely! the first battle of a war is always the fault of the defender” Then a bunch of long stories about other nations, and some philosophical thing following, and closing out with another question by the main character of “if thats so why you still in the war business?” (all of this is paraphrased, and memory) to which this guy who has been a soldier for decades, and the old soldier says “I hate war, and I hate battle, but I got into this because I loved my home”
I don’t know what I mean by that, but it serves the purpose of relating to this speaking of “peace” with the UN and French voice. To me anyways.
Thanks, Wicked!
Muslim versus Jewish accomplishments
Christopher Taylor mentioned this webpage in a comment section, and I think it’s very insightful. “The Jews are NOT the problem” by Bithead of BitsBlog. It contrasts Muslim Nobel Prize winners with Jewish winners, and offers some suggestions as to how this disparity can be overcome.
Thank you, Christopher Taylor.
