Bent Corner

People from the anti-choice group Face the Truth came to Hagerstown yesterday and terrorized people with giant scary abortion photos. Hagerstown is only one stop on their 15 city terror tour.  Who knows, maybe they will make a stop in your city too.

My biggest problem with groups like this is that they take photos from a medical procedure and blow them up to 100 times the actual size to make them look like something they are not. They then wave these giant posters in your face and demand (demand!) you look at them.

It doesn’t matter who you are.
It doesn’t matter how old you are.
It doesn’t matter how young you are.

They will force you to look at their ghastly pictures.

It’s as though their right to make you look at ginned up photos is more important than your right not to see the photos.

Some members of Face the Truth even dragged their young children to the event and made them hold signs denouncing a woman’s right to choose.

The members of Face the Truth and other similar anti-choice groups want you to think that a fetus is the same thing as a human baby.  The reality is that the two are not the same. Just because a gigantic posterized photo of a fetus might look like a human baby doesn’t make it an actual human baby. Have you ever seen a pig fetus? They too kind of look like a human baby. The same thing applies to a monkey fetus. They look remarkably similar to a human fetus.

That doesn’t mean they are human, even if they look like they are human.  Looks can be deceiving.

A federal jury convicted three Ohio men of plotting to attack U.S. troops overseas. Mohammad Amawi, Marwan El-Hindi, and Wassim Mazloum were convicted of conspiring to kill or injure people outside the United States and face sentences of life in prison.

Not that I want to tell a wannabe terrorist how to take care of his business, but I think they would have had an easier time carrying out their terrorist plans if they didn’t make themselves look like terrorist extras from a really bad Chuck Norris movie.

Not that there is such a thing as a really good Chuck Norris movie.

What were these guys thinking? The fella on the right looks like he has West Virgina roadkill hanging from his chin.

If they really wanted to stick it to American service members, they should have just opened a pawn shop or a payday loan store outside a military base. That’s what everyone else that wants to screw over military people do.

Many of my fellow Democrats are in a tizzy over something President Bush said to the Israeli parliament. From the BBC:

“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals,” said Mr Bush in his speech.

“We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement.”

Why is everyone — including Barack Obama — assuming that Bush was referring to Obama?

When I first heard about the comment, I assumed Bush was referring to Jimmy Carter, not Barack Obama. Jimmy Carter is the one who recently met with leaders of Hamas, a terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel.

Funny that nobody thought he was referring to Hillary Clinton. Then again, she made is quite clear what her response would if she was president if and when Iran were to ever launch a nuclear attack against Israel.

Now that I think about it, many of my fellow Democrats got in a tizzy over that too. Go figure.

The most disappointing thing learned from the once classified assessment on global terrorism isn’t that the world has more terrorists then ever before. It isn’t that the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq made the world more dangerous. Anyone that has read a newspaper or watched the news on TV already knew these things to be true. No, the most troubling thing about this report is that once again George W. Bush proves that he ignores his own intelligence reports. Did he even read it? The report is dated April 2006. How many times has he and his administration argued that the war in Iraq was making us safer? He should have known this was a lie.

There is a reason some people like to call Bush a liar. He constantly says things that aren’t true. Things he has to know aren’t true.

I guess it’s easy to ignore something if you have never read it. Or in the case of Bush, had someone read it to you. Bush said the freshly unclassified report supported his arguments that the world is safer because of the Iraq invasion and occupation. If you read all three and a half pages released from the report, you see that’s simply not true. The released segments warn about the spread of terrorism and contrasted greatly with the Bush administration’s optimistic declarations.

“If this trend continues, threats to U.S. interests at home and abroad will become more diverse, leading to increasing attacks worldwide,”

Instead of saying that invading Iraq has made things better, The report says the complete opposite. It says that the war in Iraq has become a “cause célèbre” for Islamic extremists. It’s become a training ground for Islamic terrorists. Either Bush has not had someone read him the report or he just doesn’t believe what it says. I don’t know which of the two is worse.

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Read the declassified NIE report (.pdf)