Okay, I can't seem to place two lists of things next to each other in an LJ entry, but here's a comparison of the deeds and official treatments of cop-killer Bourque and soldier-killer Zehaf-Bibeau.

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From the NY Times Magazine. Yes, America's possible RepubliTeaLibertarian future is probably more like Pakistan then Somalia, but never mind, there'll be enough misery for lots more people:

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This signed editorial from today's T-C says what I was thinking, only better. It's not exactly news, to people who have been reading the news, and IMIO Canada has slightly retreated in recent years from being "this most civilized of nations", but it needs to be said once in a while, to remind us of where we came from.

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Editorial: Torture, ( Read more... )

And I'm not talking about that stupid "teabag party" thing either (honestly, did no one know about the associations of that word? This is as bad as the time the Conservative Party wanted to call itself the Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party, of CCRAP ( Read more... )

Certainly it is now common knowledge that Glenn Beck is Losing It Big-Time, but I missed this segment of his show that aired in February 09 where they more or less fantasize about insurrection against their own duly elected government ( Read more... )

The US military came out with FM 3-24, "Counterinsurgency", late last year. It is a different manual in that it is not written in the usual style, it incorporated input from social scientists, and it has an annotated bibliography - this last is a first.

Here is the reading list, starting with the canonical works. My comments are offered in [ ( Read more... )

Blip back to http://www.livejournal.com/users/ltmurnau/32712.html#cutid1.

It appears I'm perhaps not so loopy after all...or at least that I'm in better-researched company than I thought.

Will the 2004 Election Be Called Off? Why Three Out of Four Experts ( Read more... )

A moderately interesting weekend, though not enough sleep.

Friday night Betty and I went to the Village. I found a black jacket and three neat videos:

The Bat with Vincent Price, coolest guy in the world, and Agnes Moorehead
The Fall of the House of Usher, even more Vincent Price (coolest guy in the world) and
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