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American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
It’s rapidly become an “Everyone Else is Blogging It, I Might As Well Too” thing, but I have to do it anyway because it fits into something we’ve been discussing here of late; specifically, is it always a rationally moderate thing to compromise with people? All people? All the time? No matter what their values are?
The Lockerbie bomber has been freed on “compassionate grounds”:
The only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing returned home Thursday to a cheering crowd after his release from a Scottish prison — an outrage to many relatives of the 270 people who perished when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded.
President Barack Obama said the Scottish decision to free terminally ill Abdel Baset al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds was a mistake and said he should be under house arrest. Obama warned Libya not to give him a hero’s welcome.
Despite the warning, thousands of young men were on hand at a Tripoli airport where al-Megrahi’s plane touched down. Some threw flower petals as he stepped from the plane. He wore a a dark suit and a burgundy tie and appeared visibly tired.
He was accompanied by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s son, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, who was dressed in a traditional white robe and golden embroidered vest. The son pledged last year to bring al-Megrahi home and raised his hand victoriously to the crowd as he exited the plane. They then sped off in a convoy of white sedans.
International photographers and camera crews — along with most Libyan broadcast media — were barred from filming the arrival at the airport, which decades ago had been part of a U.S. air base.
Al-Megrahi’s release disgusted many victims’ relatives.
“You get that lump in your throat and you feel like you’re going to throw up,” said Norma Maslowski, of Haddonfield, New Jersey, whose 30-year-old daughter, Diane, died in the attack.
“This isn’t about compassionate release. This is part of give-Gadhafi-what-he-wants-so-we-can-have-the-oil,” said Susan Cohen, of Cape May Court House, New Jersey. Her 20-year-old daughter, Theodora, was killed.
I am not questioning the humanity of the Lockerbie bomber.
I am challenging the civil nature of those who freed him. They turned justice on its head for no better reason than to prove what swell folks they are. What they really accomplished was the exact opposite.
They’re worse than creeps. They have revealed a code of “ethics” that besmirches whatever contract comes into contact with it. Forget about governing a jurisdiction; people like this can’t be trusted to know right from wrong any better than a dog can be trusted to pay a mortgage on time.
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If the Scots really wanted to show compassion they should have put a round in the brain of that dying animal. Or let someone with some balls do it.
What is happening to the UK, did someone start putting estrogen in their drinking water years ago?
- tim | 08/21/2009 @ 06:24Funny how some in the United Kingdom still wax poetic about the good old days when their Empire “ruled the waves.” Then their government does some stupid crap like this and wonders why they’re no longer feared and respected as they once were.
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