As IF Times

link Bin Laden threatens Americans with execution | Reuters.

What to do, what to do.  If everyone just goes about minding their own business, the Taliban will attack them, flying planes into buildings etc..  If the terrorists are pursued on their home turf, the Taliban will attack them.  If we capture an antagonist, have him admit his guilt and then threaten to execute him, the Taliban will attack.  Their folk are just downright hard to please.  On the other hand, if our hero Bin Laden is still alive and issuing threats, which I doubt, how seriously do you take them considering he’s hiding out in some subterranean cave with no air, cable or indoor plumbing?

I’m not sure what news value there is to broadcast the latest threat to the world from public enemy number one.  I can see the value for the terrorists since they delude others to believe that OBL is actually alive and con other recruits to catch American bombs barehanded.  It’s been almost 9 years since that infamous day in September when the Americans were blindsided by the co-ordinated attacks by hijacked airliners.  Innumerate fighters on both sides have been killed during the subsequent military campaign to find or kill the iconic terrorist.  Because of lack of hard evidence to prove his demise, the world is treated to the occasional “still here!” missive from OBL’s camp and the fighting continues.

It may occur to someone one day that the people shooting back at the American led forces may just be people who hate Americans, even without the figurehead OBL issuing the orders.  There certainly is no shortage of those people in the world, even in America it seems.  Someone has be continuing to supply the other side with bullets, guns and RPG’s.  When you consider the billions of dollars it costs the Americans every year to fight, imagine the drain on the people backing OBL’s team.  It makes a lot more sense to have people on our side digging around tracking money flows and arms suppliers.  I’m sure this is happening now and most likely,  the tracks lead not to caves but to banks, industrial companies and certainly nation states.  The best soldiers we have may turn out to be accountants.  We’re all waiting for the day when the money spigot finally gets turned off and the Taliban are out of money.  I’d love to be there in that cave in the near future when an underling comes in to inform the Smelly One, “um, bad news your Shiekness, we’re out of bullets and food.  I’m going home to mom.  Can you get your own ride back?”

link  James Zogby: Frightening GOP Behavior.

I seldom, actually, never read articles from the Huffington Post because I prefer news straight up rather than shaken and twisted.  However, their headlines creep occasionally into the popular press and you can’t avoid their unhinged hyperbole.

This article is typical of the types of news and opinion pieces posted since the passage of the US Healthcare bill.  To distract attention from the wildly unpopular means by which this bill was passed, the left dominated media is playing up stories of “violent” and “dangerous” right wingers who purportedly are threatening Democratic supporters of the bill.  Naturally, racism is also invoked.   Apparently, Sarah Palin is behind the hatred.

Without line by line debunking of this authors’ claims about democracy in action, blah blah blah, let’s just focus on what specific incidences of hatred and violence they are talking about.  Play the tape.

Hmm, nothing.  Nothing on tape, nothing on video.  Let’s contrast that to the recent enlightened display by peace loving Canadians at an Ottawa university where yelling and fist pumping students wouldn’t even allow Ann Coulter to speak.  These peace loving and inclusive people were deemed to be such risk to everyone there,  that the engagement was cancelled.  Contrast this again to the events of last night in Calgary where Coulter had another engagement.  According to The National Post: