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Terror Threat Against U.S. Said Serious
Surely this guy Serious must know something else the rest of us don’t?
America’s first Muslim congressman has provoked outrage by apparently comparing President George W Bush to Adolf Hitler and hinting that he might have been responsible for the September 11 attacks.
Addressing a gathering of atheists in his home state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, a Democrat, compared the 9/11 atrocities to the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1933. This was probably burned down by the Nazis in order to justify Hitler’s later seizure of emergency powers.
“It’s almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that,” Mr Ellison said. “After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and it put the leader [Hitler] of that country in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted.”…
Interesting observation from Rep Ellison. (He is the same representative who had previously offered us another nuanced interpretation on another president.) And it is certainly a novel one. Has it ever before been offered, ummmm, by anyone else?
However, to further assist us along the path to full enlightenment, if Rep Ellison would be so kind as to supply us with what he is also kind of reminded of when it comes to a few other minor incidents that took place prior to George W. Bush’s having “seized power” on January 20, 2001, as well as afterwards? (Except for, of course, the September 11, 2001 “Reichstag fire”.) For many, those evoke the ongoing issue of . . .
The Dhimmitude of the West
Anyway, the Telegraph continues:
…After his speech was reported, Mr Ellison said he accepted that Osama bin Laden was responsible for 9/11…
Next, the required public, post-speech “clarification”. However, that’s sure not going to make others too happy either.
CNN:
Most Iranians support nuclear inspections, a democratic government and normal relations with the United States, a poll by a U.S.-based organization has found…
…Terror Free Tomorrow, which has prominent Democrats and Republicans on its advisory board, conducted interviews in Farsi with 1,000 Iranians by telephone last month. The sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
“Face-to-face interviewing in Iran can be difficult for interviewers who risk possible prosecution and imprisonment. The last poll to ask similar controversial questions was conducted in September 2002 by Abbas Abdi inside Iran, who was imprisoned as a result,” Terror Free Tomorrow said in its report on the poll…
One realizes the heart is in the right place here, but sampling errors are beside the point. For accurate polling in any dictatorship is simply out of the question.
Just think about it: if a subject is fearful of answering face-to-face questions honestly, why would he be any more willing to feel secure in responding to questions over his home telephone line?
Chimpanzees scampering on a treadmill have provided support for the notion that ancient human ancestors began walking on two legs because it used less energy than quadrupedal knuckle-walking, scientists said…
…The chimpanzees were taught to walk on the treadmill both quadrupedally and bipedally, the scientists said.
“These guys are smart enough that they would hit the stop button on the treadmill when they were done. If they didn’t want to walk on the treadmill, they’d just hit the stop button or they’d jump off,” [University of Arizona anthropologist David] Raichlen said…
Wait a second. Where did our ancient human ancestors get all the necessary treadmills? They must have needed tens of thousands of them to enable all of the then wanna-be bipedallers to get the required amount of upright walking practice?
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