Was it that Jewess Muslim-baiter Pam Geller and her anti-mosque diatribes that set this kid off?  Or was it the scotch?

MSNBC.com reported: “When arrested, Enright was carrying two notebooks that described his experiences in Afghanistan, along with an empty bottle of scotch, police have said.”

This raises at least two existential questions.  First, is it possible to have an empty bottle of scotch?  I can see how one could have an empty scotch bottle. but once the bottle is drained, how can you consider it a bottle “of scotch?”  My astute reader(s) will immediately see that this is an alcoholic’s version of that old Buddhist favorite: What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Second, are there human beings is this world who are so hopelessly stupid that some Islamophobic demagogue like Pam Geller could whip them into such a frenzy that they would stab a complete stranger just because he is a Muslim?  See my Aug23.2010 post Toxic voices from the Right.

OK, well, if you saw the video of the moron in the blue construction helmet in NYC giving the black guy a hard time because he looked like a Muslim, I guess you’ll be able to answer this second question on your own.  We’ll have to work on the first one.

[Aug29.2010 note: Frank Rich of the NYT has checked in on the Koch/Bircher money trail and Jane Mayer’s article.]

And here’s a HuffPost article on Pamela Geller and a link to her web page. Talk about virulence, this woman is so toxic she has a skull and cross-bones inked on her butt. She is the Right wing-nut, apartheid-Zionist, Bronx Muslim-basher who cooked up the “Ground Zero Mosque” bs. She has been given a voice on every news network, but mostly — you guessed it — FOX. She is a good example of how much intellectual carnage a deranged zealot with a copy of the First Amendment and a keyboard can cause. When Lincoln said the Constitution isn’t a suicide pact, he hadn’t heard about Geller. She is going to end up getting someone killed with her Muslim-bashing.

“Jesus Christ,” I would mutter to myself, “don’t they have any noise by-laws in this town?  If that steeple was a minaret and that noise was a Muslim call to prayers, these people would have the cops in here to shut them down quicker’n you could say ‘What First Amendment?’ ”

And I was right, maybe even prescient, which is by no means normal for me.  This week the NYT ran an article that has been bouncing all over the blogosphere about all the trouble local communities are causing Muslim congregations.  And featured in that NYT article is Murfeesboro, TN, another tobacco town just a hollow or two yonder from my mom’s.  Seems like all across the country – from Gotham to  Hicksville –  patriotic Americans are throwing a collective hissy-fit over the idea that Muslims are building mosques.  Localized mosque-hysteria movements are spinning off of the normal tea baggers’ generalized hysteria faster than maggots growing on August road-kill.  Take my word for it, sooner or later the National Rifle Association is going to jump in to take the lead on this anti-mosque crusade, but for the moment damned if it isn’t the Anti-Defamation League that is the major provocateur.  (Was Heston a Jew?)

The subtle message from the NYT – a faint, barely suggestive push-back – is that this sort of religious jingoism and intolerance is just not American.  It’s not even Constitutional.  Hogwash.  As usual, the NYT has it wrong.  I mean any fool will tell you – and by that I mean that any tea-bagger will tell you – that religious tolerance obviously doesn’t include tolerance of Muslims.  That’s just axiomatic.  I mean, religious tolerance doesn’t even include tolerance of Jews – which makes the Anti-Defamation League’s mosque-bashing so side-splitting funny.  After all, Arabs and Jews are Semites, and there is nothing in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution about tolerating Semites.  Not a single word.  I’ve checked it out myself.

If you study this issue as carefully as I have, you will see that obviously, what the Fondling Fathers meant by “religious tolerance” is Presbyterians tolerating Baptists, and Baptists tolerating Methodists, and all of them tolerating Catholics, barely.  (If I had a black board and some chalk, I’d diagram this for you.)  Of course today we leave the Catholics out of this ecumenical circle-jerk because Catholics are either pedophiles or financially supporting pedophiles or covering up pedophiles.  Consequently, the only religious tolerance permitted by the Fondling Fathers today is protestant-on-protestant tolerance.

And so it follows that the First Amendment right to religious freedom means that every American has the absolute and inalienable (Oh! how I love that word!) right to worship God anyway they want so long as it’s in a protestant church that has been certified by Glenn Beck to be Sharia and Torah free.  If you need any further proof of this Constitutional restriction on the meaning of religious tolerance, just look at the test that immigrants have to take to become a US citizen.  But first a little historical background.

During the summer of 1787, the Fondling Fathers met secretly in Philadelphia to write the Constitution and devise the practical application part of the US citizenship test that has been passed down generation to generation to this day.  In fact, this practical test is mostly what they were working on all that summer – that and how to keep Washington from throwing all of the Treasury’s new dollar coins across the Potomac.  The test they came up with goes like this: first you weave your fingers of both hands together so only the tops of your knuckles are showing.  Then you straighten out your index fingers and press them together.  Then you say the magic American incantation.  “This is the church and this is the steeple, open the door and see all the people.” And as you say “open the door” you turn your hands so the palms are up to show all of your interlocked finger tips wiggling around like a bunch of pumped-up, Bible-thumping Baptists with hyperactive bladders at the end of a 2-hour sermon.

At least that was the original test proposed by Ben Franklin, but it really pissed off Jefferson, Madison,  Mason, Washington and other Fondling Fathers who were fond of fondling their slaves.  And so the magic American incantation was changed to: “This is the church and this is the steeple, open the door and see all the white people.”  And that became the practical part of the US citizenship test, and has remained so to this day.

Now it will be immediately obvious to all of you loony-tunes, fundamentalist Christians that this test must have been ordained by God.  And the reason we know that is just try changing the magic American incantation to: “This is the mosque and this is the minaret, open the door and . . .”  –  well . . . there is absolutely nothing that rhymes with “minaret,” except maybe “cigarette” and they didn’t have cigarettes in 1787.  They didn’t even have reefers.  If God had wanted the magic American incantation to include Muslims, He would have given the Fondling Fathers a word to rhyme with “minaret.”  And by the way, don’t even think about fitting “synagogue” into this thing, which just proves that neither type of Semites — Jews or Muslims — are included in American-style religious tolerance.  And this is why having the Anti-Defamation League bashing the mosques is so radically hilarious.  (No kidding, was Heston a Jew??)

And so on the basis of my deep understanding of American constitutional law and history, I believe the tea baggers have this one right, only they haven’t gone far enough.  Not only do they need to pull all the building permits on the mosques, they need to put all the synagogues to the wreaking ball as well.  After all, as Patrick Henry used to say when he wasn’t out back fondling his slaves, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

2. Does this look like something from Avatar? And like Avatar, imagine the feeling of being on your feet again after being paralyzed for 5 years. Link

3. Watch this jive-dancin’ scene closely, on full screen. At 1:15 a paper drops on the ground, falling from the back pocket of the dude in the stripes. If you look closely, it looks like he is dropping it on purpose. The dude in the T-shirt looks down at the paper but doesn’t pick it up — he is the only one that never touches the paper. At 2:37 the dude in the black picks the paper up and at 2:47 he does some sort of surreptitious hand-off of a small packet with the dude in the red, but he still has the paper. At 3:00 the dude in black hands the packet and the paper to the guy in red, who then puts the packet back in his own pocket. The paper thus goes from the dude in the stripes, to the dude in black, to the dude in red. It then disappears from the video. The good news for these guys is that this week Congress passed a bill that makes time served for crack only 8x longer than time served for powder, rather than 18x longer. They can sure move, can’t they? Link

4. This is actually the finger of God writing in the night sky. If you stand on your head, you can read it. It says: “Yur all screwed.” Link

5. Watch carefully. She hits the first cone — twice, but doesn’t touch any of the remaining dozens of cones. (Man, what a performance!) Link

6. If you want a close up look at the elusive e-fox, Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, you can’t get any closer than this July 2010 TED lecture. The interviewer’s off-hand comment pretty well sums it up: “Light is good.” Link

7. Must see for bachelors: how to iron a dress shirt. (From the inside!) I love his last fleeting motion when he scratches his neck. Link

8. Playback of all the nuclear explosions — 1945 - 1998. Absolutely no mistaking who the nuclear aggressor in this world is — look at the counts. But those two explosions at the very end - Pakistan, courtesy of A.Q. Khan - are the scariest. Link   And here’s a similar approach to showing all of the Afghanistan IEDs. Look at the way the rate is accelerating. Who is making these things that fast??  At least the rate of nukes is decreasing. Link

9. One wedding that will be family lore for decades to come — at least for the photographer’s family. Link

10. Actually teaching a robotic arm to flip pancakes. OK, now teach it to butter those suckers. Link

11. I’ve paddled my share of canoes in the Everglades with a fair few American alligators watching sleepily from the banks or gliding harmlessly under the boat. But I would almost certainly pass on this trip. FYI alligators are no longer on the endangered species list in case you can’t guess from the vid. Link

I recently got one of those be-a-patriot-and-pass-it-on Emails from a Numballs fan, who also happens to be one of my best friends, which is the only reason I read it.  It showed the graph below, which was produced by the  “official climatologist” for EIB, Numballs’ phony “Excellence In Broadcasting” carnival.  Read more . . .

Environment — 018

About the time LeVine’s opinion piece came out in Al Jazeera, a member of the Canadian Parliament, Libby Davies from Vancouver, made a public comment about the Israeli occupation of Palestine that set off fireworks from the Canadian Neo-cons, including Zionist-butt-kisser Prime Minister Harper.

That evening Steven Quinn on CBC radio interviewed Denis Pilon, a political scientist at the University of Victoria.  Quinn asked some very relevant questions about why it is that any mention of Israel in a negative tone brings such exaggerated reactions from politicians — even non-Jews.  Pilon struggled for an answer, and never did succeed.  He failed, for instance, to speculate on the money politicians receive from Jewsish donors and organizations and what effect that has on reactions.  But Quinn’s questions were pointed and Pilon’s answers were honest — trying to understand why it is that any criticism of Israel brings such outrage.  The Pilon interview can be heard here.  Link

LeVine and Pilon are right, Israel has an amazing knack for shutting down negative dialog.  My explanation for this phenom is the time-worn, jaded one: Jews control so much of what gets put out by the media, they can pretty well be sure their arguments are heard first, last, and loudest.  But not here on the LogoPhere where everybody’s BS gets equal airtime.

As for Chuck Schumer — for anyone who had any doubts, his let’s strangle Gaza sentiments prove he is a American Jew representing Israel in the US Congress.  Had any congressman made a comment about strangling Israel, he would have been tarred and feathered and run out of town — the way Helen Thomas was.  The fact that the US media ignored Schumer’s apartheid statements tells us all we need to know about who runs the media.

– The Gutter Grunt
P/I — 002.

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P/I — 001

These are serious allegations, but they are too complex to explain here.  Besides, I can’t paste the CDC graphs I need to prove the point.

I know what you’re thinkin’ — the ole’ Gutter Grunt is cooking up another conspiracy theory. Over at the mother site I have gone all out and published the CDC’s own data and statements.  I show you their falsified data, and I give you all the links.   You can see it here, and then make up your own mind.

The complete lecture is posted on FluTrackers.  http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19396

If you want to get an idea of what the near future looks like, this is mandatory reading. More here . . .  

Here are excerpts from the CDC and from Homeland Security’s  Water and Wastewater Annex to the Guide for Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources. (“Annex”)  You can download the whole W/W/ Annex here: http://wwn-online.com/Whitepapers/2009/08/Flu-Pandemix-Annex/Asset.aspx

More here . . .