Category: General

Christopher Hitchens and Genocide- by Justin Raimondo:

You know the paranoiac stereotypes of atheists held by many fundamentalists, about how they’re basically out to destroy religion? It turns out that Christopher Htichens, one of the most prominent spokesmen for modern atheism, is out there advocating the slaughter of Muslims just because they’re Muslim — because Islam is a particularly pernicious form of Theism, which is itself evil and must be stamped out. No kidding. Presumably Jews and Christians get a pass for now, but right now he considers us to be in a “clash of civilizations” against Islam, and he thinks nuclear weaponry would be a great next move in the conflict.

Because of this apocalyptic agenda, he favors Rudy Giuliani for president — he seems likeliest to take us in the genocidal direction of which Hitchens approves.

Wow.

Sometimes my representative Vern Ehlers comes through for me.

Hooray for a Republican doing the right thing!

Dennis Kucinich, ironically, is voting against the bill, because they’ve changed it from the original version, which he did vote for, in order to exclude children of legal (not illegal… legal) immigrants. Nobody ever accused Dennis Kucinich of being excessively pragmatic…

Via Brave New Films:

Voting Machines Giving Florida New Headache – New York Times:

Across the nation, jurisdictions that experimented with touch-screen voting after 2000 are starting to scale back or abandon it based on a growing perception that the machines are unreliable and concern that they do not provide a paper trail in case questions arise. California will sharply scale back touch-screen voting next year after a review by the secretary of state found it was vulnerable to hackers.

Florida is the biggest state to reject touch screens so sweepingly, and its deadline for removing them, July 1, 2008, is the most imminent.

Let’s not forget that sometimes things actually change for the better.

Amway sues to ID bloggers – mlive.com:

The case could be called Amway versus the Internet, or some might argue, Amway versus free speech.

The Ada Township-based multi-level marketing giant this week filed a sweeping suit in Ottawa County Circuit Court against 30 people classified as John Does for disparaging the company in blogs, online forums and YouTube videos.

Amway always was a class act, wasn’t it?

I feel bad when I criticize Amway, because West Michigan is littered with philanthropic works from the founders, which is great. But I wouldn’t want my worst enemy sucked into being one of their lowly “distributors” trying to sell products nobody wants for the benefit of the dozen people above them on the supply line, each of whose sole contribution was sucking the next one into the business. I understand that technically, legally speaking, they are not a “pyramid scheme” but the comparison is sure hard to avoid.

Amway and Blackwater. West Michigan’s sure contributed some winners to the corporate world, hasn’t it?