Congressman Threatens Islamic Holy Sites

Threaten to bomb Mecca, that's a real great way to prevent terrorism you idiot! That kind of crap is precisely the reason they hate us.

Rep. Tancredo's spokesman does raise a very good question however. "We have an enemy with no uniform, no state, who looks like you and me and only emerges right before an attack. How do we go after someone like that?"

The answer is you limit their ability to recruit by promoting peace and economic stability. If you combat poverty, you will start to take away the pool of eligibles. On the other hand, if you talk about bombing Mecca then you could certainly go a long way towards a Jihad of millions, instead of a few hundreds or thousands.

Religious Discrimination

City Weeklyreports on a discrimination case against a Utah teacher for not being LDS. This is really sad, because the actions of a few people will reflect negatively on many. It looks like a classic case of stupidity to me. Imagine, an English teach that wanted to teach Steinbeck! The gall! The Attorney Generals office "cannot ethically provide any further representation to defendants". Compensate her or preferably reinstate her.

Pot calling the kettle black

China upset about Unocal vote ? "We demand that the U.S. Congress correct its mistaken ways of politicizing economic and trade issues and stop interfering in the normal commercial exchanges between enterprises of two countries," the Foreign Ministry said in a faxed statement. Wow! How about China's continued manipulation of currency values to benefit chinese exports. I think that generally free trade and government non-involvement is good. But when a country continually shows that it is willing to do everything possible to manipulate the market place to its favor, we are justified in looking carefully at this.

Totally Ridiculous

Utah Independent reports a mother who tatooed a gambling website's url on her head for $10k. When Fantine sold her teeth to send money to Cosette it made me cry. This makes me want to cry for a different reason. I'm sorry, but that is just ridiculous.

Guantanamo fuels hatred

Reuters reports that our treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo is fueling hatred towards Americans and helping Al Qaeda and other extremist groups to recruit more effectively. I agree. I think that the real solution to terrorism against America is to give young islamic males a better alternative. I know that true Islam does not teach the kind of hate and violence that we see constantly from so many. But from their perspective, its the only escape. If we don't fuel the hatred by our actions towards prisoners, and if we step even further, and start to work towards the addressing the problems of poverty and economic distress we will go a long way towards making things better. It seems that American core values like freedom, hard work, love of country and family are not things that will be rejected. But our continuing policy of punishing countries economically (and invading them), seems to foster hate among the people that tends to keep evil leaders in power. By working with countries, we can empower the people to make decisions based on a moral code and ideals. That will not happen when they are simply trying to feed their family each day. Rather than spending billions on an army that will never solve the problem, why not spend much less working with people to make their lives better. Give them an alternative to hate.