Bent Corner

Now that the Mimbai crisis is finally over, Indian is casting suspicion on Pakistani militant groups.

One of the terrorists, Azam Amir Kasab, 21, from Pakistan, was captured alive.  He had been pretending to be dead and when he was being transported to the hospital, someone noticed he was breathing. His injuries turned out to by very minor.

Kasab told investigators that he and his fellow terrorists were told to target whites, preferably Americans and the British.

It’s also been reported that the Mumbai attacks were funded in part by cash raised in British mosques.

Pakistan officials are adiment that they were not involved in the attacks and are demanding that Inda prove that Pakistan is responsible by producing evidece linking them to the attacks.

If India confirms that Pakistan is involved in the attacks, how do they respond?  Both Pakistan and India have nuclear weapons.  If the two countries go to war over this incident, can they refrain from going nuclear?

I’m not sure this is of any suprise to anyone, but officials in India are coming to the conclusion that Pakistan may be behind the terror attacks in Mumbai. From The Times of India:

While initial reports from India suggested the Mumbai carnage was a localised attack by militant malcontents in India because of the “Deccan Mujaheddin” decoy that was used to claim responsibility, evidence cited by Indian army and security experts based on phone intercepts, nature of weaponry, mode of entry by sea etc., has quickly focused the attention on Pakistan.

I’ll admit that when I first heard that the attacks were being carried out by Islamic terrorists, I immediately thought Pakistan was involved. Mostly that’s because I know that India and Pakistan don’t get along. I’m also somewhat of a religious bigot and when I hear that something blew up and people were killed, I think that Muslims and not Southern Baptists or Mormons were involved.

I’m not saying that all Muslims are terrorists. I’m only saying that most terrorists are Muslim.

An 8-year old Connecticut boy lost control of the fully automatic Uzi submachine gun he was firing and shot himself in the head. Christopher Bizilj was pronounced dead at Baystate Medical Center.

Just what was an 8-year old doing firing a fully automatic weapon? He was attending the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the Westfield Sportsman’s Club in neighboring Massachusetts with his father, Charles Bizilj.

The boy’s father was standing about ten feet away when he turned around to grab a camera. The father wanted to make a video of his son firing the Uzi that he could post on YouTube. Who doesn’t like to watch videos on YouTube of 8-year old children firing fully automatic weapons?

Massachusetts authorities are looking into the possibility of charging Charles Bizilj with a crime. I doubt they will be successful in that the Second Amendment ensures all Americans the right to allow their children to blow their heads off with Israeli paratrooper submachine guns.

It’s what the Founding Fathers wanted.

I’ll be perfectly honest and admit that there is a lot about the federal financial bailout plan that I just don’t understand. The way I understand it is that unless Congress does everything President Bush and U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson tells them to do, the financial apocalypse (OMG!) will happen and we will end up living in a world that looks and smells very much like the one featured in the Mad Max movies.

Plus, it will be really hard for businesses to get cheap loans.

Secretary Paulson wants the congress to move quickly and to not ask questions.  We all know that the congress does a bang-up job when they are told to hurry and not question what is being asked of them. They passed the Patriot Act without bothering to read it and they voted to authorize military force in Iraq without asking a whole lot of questions.

Some of the details emerging about Secretary Paulson’s bailout include the fact that not only will American financial institutions be bailed out, but foreign ones will too. Also, the CEO’s in charge of these failed financial institutions will not be prohibited from receiving lucrative bonuses or payouts for all their hard work running their companies into the ground.

After all, most if not all of them are undoubtedly Republicans.

If you are a Boston city official, you probably jumped under your desk in fear the very first second this image appeared on your computer monitor. It’s an LED sign powered by batteries. The LED’s are laid out in the shape of a cartoon character. A cartoon character flipping the middle finger.

Quit scary, isn’t it?

Not particularly. Unless you had a bad experience as a kid with a Lite-Brite. Remember those? I never had one, but I think my cousin did. I remember seeing them every year in the Sears Christmas catalog.

These signs appeared in over 10 American cities to promote the upcoming Aqua Teen Hunger Force cartoon. Boston city officials were the only ones to freak out over it. They gave a whole new meaning to the term freaking out. They actually thought these signs were bombs planted by terrorists. They tied up the city of Boston for nearly 10 hours because they thought these signs were bombs.

How embarrassing for the city of Boston. The people that run their city are idiots. They overreact to Lite-Brite signs.