Yes.  And this makes a complete nonsense of Dear Leader's latest speech about how he's made the homeland more 'secure.'

Nothing is secure from a lunatic with a meat cleaver, egged on by a religion of hate.

The discussion on Denise McAllister's thread about whether there is some sort of  moral equivalence between three people killed in Boston and 3000 people killed on September 11 is absurd.

Many years ago, I sold what was a relatively new product--the IBM PC--to local corporations.  Our sales target was a $1 million a year.

I was new at this, and was dismayed when I saw my co-workers waltzing into places like Alcoa and US Steel, and selling fifty, or a hundred thousand dollars worth of PCs at a clip.  I thought I'd never get there.

Then it occurred to me that there were basically two ways to get to $1 million--with a few very large orders, or with many more relatively small ones.

I got to my goal the second way.  It was a lot more work, but I got there.

Sooner or later, the lunatics with the meat cleavers will get there too.

Thank you, Mollie.  

As a survivor of 20 years of half-baked healthcare process improvement teams and quality management initiatives, I can safely say that one of the very few things that actually works is one of the simplest:  keep people informed.

If someone is going to have to sit in an emergency department waiting room  with a minor injury for two hours before being seen, he who is contacted  every 15 minutes or so and told that the doctors are dealing with severe injuries from an auto accident, or that someone's been brought in with a heart attack or stroke, will be a lot happier than he who is just left in a corner to rot.  Even if both of them end up waiting the exact same amount of time.

Please let us know what you're doing.  And what to expect.

Yes to having to sign in repeatedly on iPhone. Not so bad on PC. Flaky quote button on PC. Acknowledgement of issues would be nice.

Yes, it does sound a bit like him.  

I used to love Desert Island Discs!

Was it terrorism?

Well, that which Mark Steyn is fond of calling the "Amalgamated Union of Lone Wolves" seems to have struck again.

Case closed, methinks.

I will check out the biography, thanks for the link.  Being a Brummie myself, with several relatives who attended King Edward's school, and an Aunt who idolized him, I've always had a soft spot for our Enoch, despite his occasional forays over the top.  

These sorts of words are all well and good.

I am under the impression, though, that the Muslim youth of Europe are being radicalized at high rates, and that their parents and grandparents, who emigrated from their own countries decades ago, are the by far the lesser part of the problem.

So, what are the 'moderate' and 'reasonable' Muslims (who are probably decreasing in number), going to do about the religious lunatics, zealots and murderers (who are not)?

And how effective will it be?

As for the response of the bystanders to yesterday's horror, if I may repeat a comment I made last week, 'These are not my Grandfather's Brits.'

More's the pity.

Enoch was right.

His full speech is posted here.  At times it is a hard speech to like.  But it is also a difficult speech to argue with, forty-five years on.

I think he means it.

Yes, but these are not my Grandfather's Brits.  Trust me.

What other songs or artists do you find to be ridiculously overplayed?

Well, this is not precisely an answer to the exact question, but it has been my long held contention that, at any time, in any place, an episode of one, or the other, generations of Star Trek is surely playing on the television.

Most recently observed in 2008, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Prior to that, 2005, a lovely bed and breakfast at the foot of Mt Snowdon in Wales.  Watching TV, thinking--oh, I don't know what this is, but obviously they are speaking Welsh.

Only to figure out, when Patrick Stewart showed up, that they were Klingons, speaking, well, Klingon, and it was--guess what--an episode of Star Trek.

Kind of made me feel at home.

Exactly.  The IRS is well within its purview denying tax exempt status to organizations that don't meet the criteria.  If they do so in a way which clearly punishes one set of viewpoints, whether they be ethical, religious, or polititcal,  over another, then that's one sort of grist for the investigative mill.

What I object to most, though, is the sort of "Name and Shame" campaigns that have been conducted by the IRS, which has taken actions that are clearly beyond its purview, and that those outrageous actions are applauded by the likes of Jeffrey Toobin and Harry Reid, as though the IRS is some sort of public interest whistleblower.

This is basically what Harry Reid said yesterday.  To paraphrase:

It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.  If the IRS doesn't do it, then who will.  Someone has to control these awful, politically motivated, racist outfits who want to masquerade as tax-exempt organizations.

So, now we have Jeffrey Toobin:

A handful of I.R.S. employees saw this and tried, in a small way, to impose some small sense of order.

Helloooo, IRS . . . How about this?  

If you think an organization doesn't deserve tax-exempt status, DON'T GIVE IT TAX EXEMPT STATUS.  What was it Nancy Reagan kept repeating?

JUST SAY NO.

Do your (real) job, for Pete's sake.

When he died in 2007, my father enjoyed his 15 minutes of posthumous fame as the man who, during a 1960's UN visit to the what is now Northern Nigeria, jailed a tribal chieftan who had recently eaten the local tax collector because he admired the man's ability to collect money, and because he wanted to enhance his own abilities in that regard by eating the guy.

It's important to remember, whether you treat this sort of behavior as a humorous aside, or with the revulsion that this disgusting video of whichever side it is in the Syrian bloodbath deserves, that these people (please do not flag me for overgeneralization here), are Not Like Us.

Not at all.

And when we understand and acknowledge that, in both the private and public sphere, then we will have gone a long way to dealing with the problem.  Which isn't us.

I agree.  Pictures and photos are very powerful.  However, they can be misused for political and financial gain, as they often were in the Nigerian civil war.  

For a more recent example, look for the many 'heartrending' photographs of Palestinian children allegedly killed by Israeli missiles, starting with this one.

Don't believe everything you hear.

Don't believe everything you see, either.

What?I thought he was a model citizen.