Palinofobia

Slate magazine is just one of the countless media outlets convulsing with St. Vitus’ Dance over that demonic succubus Sarah Palin. In its reader forum, The Fray, one supposed Palinophobe took dead aim at the former Alaska governor’s writing chops, excerpting the following sentence from her book:

“The apartment was small, with slanting floors and irregular heat and a buzzer downstairs that didn’t work, so that visitors had to call ahead from a pay phone at the corner gas station, where a black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night in vigilant patrol, its jaws clamped around an empty beer bottle.”

Other readers pounced like wolf-sized Dobermans on an intruder. One guffawed, “That sentence by Sarah Palin could be entered into the annual Bulwer-Lytton bad writing contest. It could have a chance at winning a (sic) honorable mention, at any rate.”

But soon, the original contributor confessed: “I probably should have mentioned that the sentence quoted above was not written by Sarah Palin. It’s taken from the first paragraph of ‘Dreams From My Father,’ written by Barack Obama.”

The ruse should have been allowed to fester longer, but the point was made nonetheless: Some people hate Palin first and ask questions later.

Il resto della Palinophobia qui.

E un'analisi degna dell'autore qui da VDH.

The ultimate (vicious) dilettantes

Obama e' un dilettante pericoloso, e i suoi tirapiedi sono al confine del criminale. Stavolta Eric Holder manda il mastermind di 9/11 a processo civile a New York. Nello stesso tempo uno degli attentatori del Cole va (giustamente, peraltro) davanti a una corte militare. Legittimo intravedere un processo indiretto a Bush. Da leggere i due commenti di Charen e Krauthammer.

By the time Obama came to office, KSM was ready to go before a military commission, plead guilty and be executed. It’s Obama who blocked a process that would have yielded the swiftest and most certain justice. Indeed, the perfect justice. Whenever a jihadist volunteers for martyrdom, we should grant his wish. Instead, this one, the most murderous and unrepentant of all, gets to dance and declaim at the scene of his crime.

Seminario del visiting jihadist - 2

Krauthammer dettaglia ancora.

Grand Rounds are the most serious academic event at a teaching hospital — attending physicians, residents and students gather for a lecture on an instructive case history or therapeutic finding.

I've been to dozens of these. In fact, I gave one myself on post-traumatic retrograde amnesia — as you can see, these lectures are fairly technical. Not Hasan's. His was an hourlong disquisition on what he called the Koranic view of military service, jihad and war. [...]

"he was the kind of guy who the staff actually stood around in the hallway saying: Do you think he's a terrorist, or is he just weird?"

Seminario del visiting jihadist

How do we know that the attack at Fort Hood was an act of Islamist terrorism? Simple, Major Nidal Hassan told us so. You’ve seen reports of a long list of things he did and said along these lines. But what’s most amazing of all is this: Hassan is the first terrorist in history to give an academic lecture explaining why he was about to attack. Yet that still isn’t enough for too many people—including the president of the United States--to understand that the murderous assault at Fort Hood was a Jihad attack.

L'analisi di Barry Rubin sta qui.

Il maggiore Hasan in effetti si era posto il problema in dettaglio: in questa presentazione fatta ad altri soldati musulmani. Tre le cose che saltano all'occhio:
"hard for you to balance Islamic beliefs that might be conflicting with current war; feelings of guilt; is that what you expected.

Mulsim soldiers should not serve in any capacity that renders them at risk of hurting/killing believers unjustly.

Recommendation: DoD should allow said soldiers the option of being released as Conscientious objectors" to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events.

(Adverse events? Alcuni esempi alla slide 13, tra cui il sig. Akbar che ha fatto una strage con una granata tra i compagni della 101esima divisione paracadutisti - ma ce ne sono altri.)

Tristemente, that Hassan’s lecture has not been the centerpiece of the whole post-massacre debate is a true example of how impoverished are the “experts,” journalists, and politicians at dealing with these issues. Of course, without exploring the Islamic factor, they're wasting everyone's time. They're also going to be wasting quite a few lives.

E se qualcuno si chiedesse perche` il tizio sia diventato un nutbag islamista, ecco qui. Il jihadismo e' infiltrato, e di brutto. Il prossimo botto e' solo questione di tempo.

Azzurrina

A Quartu il 28 e 29 novembre. Wow. Vedi ultima riga anno 1996.

State of denial

Dopo Fort Hood, l'America obamiana è sotto shock - o meglio dovrebbe esserlo: the enemy is us - almeno in parte, e fanno fatica ad ammetterlo.

Giurisprudenza

Alla faccia della sentenza della Corte per i diritti umani di Strasburgo.

Tranquillo weekend di abboffo e autostrada

Sabato: seduta musicale alternativeggiante in zona Esquilino, e a seguire abbuffata di bistecche globally warming, polenta, vino friulano e castagne sui colli sacrofanesi. Qui Giovanni (dx) e il cugino Matteo (sn) ripresi (credits: zio Pietro) in una pausa delle schermaglie per il possesso dei giocattoli...



... e qui i "vecchi" F., le cui già preoccupanti pellacce sono peggiorate dall'evidente masticazione:



Domenica: partenza tardiva per il torneo di basket a Sora (FR) in cui gioca Isabella con lo Spirito. Manchiamo la finale (vinta !) ma facciamo un giro nel traffico di Sora, che non ci si crede ma e' quasi bellina. Incrociamo Isa in albergo per una mezz'ora: è contenta, vincere le fa bene. Con le sue compagne si sgranocchia pane al finocchietto prodotto -dicono loro- dalla famiglia di Anna Tatangelo. Loro partono verso FCO (dove arrivano all'ultimo secondo utile) e noi verso Roma nord: viaggio fairly da tregenda in un traffico indiavolato. Gio resiste a lungo, ma alla fine si addormenta in macchina e salta la cena. Miracolo, dorme filato quasi fino alle 7 - un successo.

Iran oh cara

Ad Uncommon knowledge su National review si parla di Iran, e c'è VDH in persona: uno, due, tre, quattro, cinque. (Video di 7-8 minuti l'uno.)

Poi c'e' il solito agghiacciante e tagliente e smartissimo Spengler che disseziona Obama e la sua ritirata da potenza mondiale, with reference to Iran, che è di moda.