There's a word for people who cling to absurd beliefs against massive evidence. They're called cultists, and they're currently in charge. [More]It took struggling though this offensive nonsense all the way to the very last paragraph to finally find something this nitwit said that I could agree with.
[Via Michael R]
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I realize I may seem obsessed with the Islamic threat, but...
Articles like this are read by people who will hand a 10-year-old a full-auto AK or rig him a child-size bomb vest and point him at the infidel. If we are afraid of OUR OWN GUNS, then we are ripe to be conquered by, as Patton said, some son of a bitch sneaking up behind us and beating us to death with a sockful of sh--.
Well, these Salon types are great devotees of the concept of non-conflict. As are all dictators.
I stopped reading Gene Lyons in 1994. Like all leftists, he cannot make the distinction between political opponents and personal enemies. He is the self-inflicted victim of inductive reasoning,* and invariably his conclusions are false, even if his premises may be correct. It's amazing how many ostensibly well-educated people out there cannot construct a valid syllogism.
*Also known as induction or inductive logic, or educated guess in colloquial English, is a kind of reasoning that draws generalized conclusions from a finite collection of specific observations. The premises of an inductive logical argument indicate some degree of support (inductive probability) for the conclusion but do not entail it; that is, they suggest truth but do not ensure it... - Wikipedia
There's a word for people who cling to absurd beliefs against massive evidence. They're called extinct. And they're currently hailing all and sundry, urging them to join the race for the cliff.
"Two cops serving a warrant in St. Petersburg, Fla., are killed and a U.S. marshal wounded by a suspect who escapes."
Wrong. There was no escape. The two police officers (one was K-9 officer) and the U.S. went to a wanted felon's wife's home to inquire as to whereabouts. The felon had defaulted on a court appearance. The wife indicated that he was hiding in the attic crawlspace. The officers are shot as they stick their heads up into the attic or are shot through the ceiling. The officers return fire. The K-9 was not released into the attic. SWAT responds and fires teargas and rifle shot volleys into the attic. Armored vehicles were used to retrieve the wounded and the dead officers. Electrical power is cut off to the entire neighborhood to deny electricity to the one house. Fences of homes in the area were damaged as the SWAT team maneuvered. Three local schools are locked down completely. The neighborhood is cordoned off and evacuated. Later in the day, a front end loader lifted up sections of the roof to find the felon. After the home is half-demolished, the felon's body was found, still in the attic. The City of St. Petersburg under orders of the Mayor complete the demolition of the wife's house and the house contents that evening, with the debris transported to a secure location for sifting of the bits of evidence. The house site is backfilled with sand and the street swept clean. Weapons of the officers and the felon are recovered along with expended bullets embedded in the debris. The felon's wife, who committed no crime but did assist the police effort, is left homeless. There was no escape.
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