Arthur D. Hlavaty

The North Carolina terrorist menace

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

The terrorists, having failed to prevent the United States from moving a step closer to a first-world healthcare system by legitimate means (legislative, judiciary, electoral) and continued nagging (40+ legislative gestures), have managed to shut down the government. Stay tuned.

Peter King's war on some terror

Thanx to The Rude Pundit

ETA: Thoreau weighs in.

People who want to be considered respectable, patriotic, and peaceful citizens cannot hide their heads in the sand when members of their ethnic and religious group support terrorism. They have a responsibility to take a stand. As a Catholic who is part Irish, I therefore promise to pimp slap IRA supporter Peter King if I ever meet him. I also hope that he gets renditioned to an MI6 black site.

I hope this is sufficient to demonstrate my opposition to terrorism, despite my questionable ethnic and religious background.

Suicide bombers as nitwits

Nowhere is the gap between sinister stereotype and ridiculous reality more apparent than in Afghanistan, where it’s fair to say that the Taliban employ the world’s worst suicide bombers: one in two manages to kill only himself. And this success rate hasn’t improved at all in the five years they’ve been using suicide bombers, despite the experience of hundreds of attacks—or attempted attacks. In Afghanistan, as in many cultures, a manly embrace is a time-honored tradition for warriors before they go off to face death. Thus, many suicide bombers never even make it out of their training camp or safe house, as the pressure from these group hugs triggers the explosives in suicide vests. According to several sources at the United Nations, as many as six would-be suicide bombers died last July after one such embrace in Paktika.

Thanx to Making Light.

Making Light has a thorough rundown on the white terrorists.

Specifically, Glenn Beck

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