half like you've been gargling abrasive is bad enough: then I started looking at some of the news.
NPR is _____. You fill in the blank.
Edelstein knew some people hated the exploitative display of Iraqi corpses at the film's end, noting that De Palma thinks rubbing Americans' faces with the collateral damage will get us out of Iraq: "I think most Americans are immune to those techniques, but I respect his impulse. 'Redacted' is a crude piece of work but it's the kind of outright agitprop that rarely makes it to the big screen."
And they LIKE it.
Britain(I know, recurring theme), formerly Great Britain, where a revolver in the pocket was simply a tool kept handy*, may be well and truly screwed:
GUN laws should be tightened and BB guns banned from shops, says a Greenock sheriff.
The demand came as a 16-year-old Port Glasgow youth pleaded guilty to having a plastic gun and pellets as ammunition in the street.
Please not he hadn't done anything, he just had it. Can't allow that, you know.
A spokeswoman for the Scottish Government said from 1 October anyone selling air weapons had to be a registered firearms dealer. The age to purchase such items also raised to 18.
She added that Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill had written to the UK secretary of state for justice about Scotland getting powers to legislate on firearms.
Which will probably involve banning anything that somebody might decide could be seen as a weapon by someone. I've rarely been so happy that various of my ancestors got the hell out when they did and came here.
I do have to note that some good things are going on, aside from the troops, ours and Iraqi, kicking the ass off AQI and JAM. For instance, Pimple Bloomberg of NYFC had his imperial demand booted: the courts just denied Bloomberg's motion to dismiss and ordered him to sit for a deposition. ("What do you MEAN I can't say whatever I want about somebody and violate the law? What's thw world coming to?" Hopefully you having your ass sued off, and preferably prosecuted.)
And we have the words of Mark Steyn on the coming election:
You want an anti-war Republican? A pro-abortion Republican? An anti-gun Republican? A pro-illegal immigration Republican? You got 'em! Short of drafting Fidel Castro and Mullah Omar, it's hard to see how the tent could get much bigger. As the new GOP bumper sticker says, "Celebrate Diversity."
Over on the Democratic side, meanwhile, they've got a woman, a black, a Hispanic, a preening metrosexual with an angled nape – and they all think exactly the same.
Overall, I'm still leaning way over toward Fred Thompson.
In Philadelphia, someone slaps the editorial writers on the idiocy of their stands. Using their own words to do it.
And Mr. & Mrs. Kim have safely made the beachhead for their invasion. So things kind of balance out.
Added: Aw, crap, there's just no damned excuse for this:
An 82-year-old hero from World War II died in Glasgow, Scotland because of rules prohibiting dispatchers from notifying an ambulance crew that was 500-yards away. The Daily Record reports former British soldier Ernie Rutkiewicz choked to death as his daughter frantically begged for help.
An ambulance crew was on meal break nearby, but government rules prohibit them from being disturbed and in fact they do not even show up as available on the dispatchers' computers. So it took 22 minutes for help to arrive and by then it was too late.
And I just ran across this Steyn article, which includes this:
But that doesn't entirely explain it, does it? Earlier this year, Channel 4 in London broadcast a documentary called Undercover Mosque in which various imams up and down the land were caught on tape urging men to beat their wives and toss homosexuals off cliffs. Viewers reported some of the statements to the local constabulary. The West Midlands police then decided to investigate not the fire-breathing clerics but the TV producers. As the coppers saw it, insofar as any "hate crime" had been perpetrated, it lay not in the urgings and injunctions of the imams but in a TV production so culturally insensitive as to reveal the imams' views to the general public. As The Spectator's James Forsyth put it, "The reaction of West Midlands police revealed a mindset that views the exposure of a problem as more of a problem than the problem itself."
and
Professor Rosner, Daniel Silva's fictional murder victim, would have understood. At the scene of his ritual slaughter there are no protesters, just piles of tulips and the banner "ONE AMSTERDAM, ONE PEOPLE" — one mass delusion. It's not just that you'll get your throat cut. But that you'll get it cut and they'll still string the same sappy happy-face multiculti banner over the crime scene.
*One of the money quotes from the article:
We are so self-congratulatory about our officially disarmed society, and so dismissive of colonial rednecks, that we have forgotten that within living memory British citizens could buy any gun – rifle, pistol, or machinegun – without any licence. When Dr Watson walked the streets of London with a revolver in his pocket, he was a perfectly ordinary Victorian or Edwardian. Charlotte Brontë recalled that her curate father fastened his watch and pocketed his pistol every morning when he got dressed; Beatrix Potter remarked on a Yorkshire country hotel where only one of the eight or nine guests was not carrying a revolver; in 1909, policemen in Tottenham borrowed at least four pistols from passers-by (and were joined by other armed citizens) when they set off in pursuit of two anarchists unwise enough to attempt an armed robbery. We now are shocked that so many ordinary people should have been carrying guns in the street; the Edwardians were shocked rather by the idea of an armed robbery.
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