Muslims Making Threats

Is there a stereotype of all Muslims being stupid? If so, it's Muslims like this that reinforce it:

Hammasa Kohistani made history last year when she was chosen to represent England in the Miss World pageant.

But one year on, the 19-year-old student from Hounslow feels that winning the coveted beauty title last September was a "sugar coating" for Muslims who have become more alienated in the past 12 months.

She said: "The attitude towards Muslims has got worse over the year. Also the Muslims' attitude to British people has got worse.

"Even moderate Muslims are turning to terrorism to prove themselves. They think they might as well support it because they are stereotyped anyway. It will take a long time for communities to start mixing in more.

Yeah, "We will bomb you because you think we will bomb you. How dare you think that of us. Now we bomb you."

And she just got through saying that "even moderate Muslims are turning to terrorism to prove themselves" To prove themselves what? Terrorists? Well, Duh. That would be one way to do it. Let's see, how could they prove themselves to not be terrorists? You think long and hard about that Hammasa. Maybe the Muslim community could start by telling their beauty queens to stop making threats.

***Update:A Breitbart AP article points out how some Muslims are actually doing something to reverse the stereotypes:

.....Now the faith's American leaders are starting to warn fellow Muslims about a threat from within.

The 2005 subway attacks in London that investigators say were committed by British-born and -raised Muslims, and the relentless Muslim-engineered sectarian assaults on Iraqi civilians, are among the events that have convinced some U.S. Muslims to change focus.

"This sentiment of denial, that sort of came as a fever to the Muslim community after 9-11, is fading away," said Muqtedar Khan, a political scientist at the University of Delaware and author of "American Muslims." "They realize that there are Muslims who use terrorism, and the community is beginning to stand up to this."

And maybe some Muslims are only paying lip service, but others, like the Muslim who tipped British authorities to the sports-drink bombers, are taking action. That's what is needed to deflate the stereotypes; not veiled threats.
(my favorite for Miss England, Vicki Davies, made zero threats, veiled or otherwise)

Sharp Eye

Shenanigans found! Somebody made Barbara Walters' feet smaller. If you missed this, by the way, don't feel bad. I only found it because I was privy to a closely guarded network secret: Barbara Walters has the biggest feet in the news business. I mean big. Brit Hume is the only other personality who comes close, and his feet are grotesque, like size 18 or something. Back when Barbara was switching jobs, Walter Cronkite commented, in that low-pitched drawl of his, "Maybe she can get a job with the circus or something." Well, Walter always was a mean drunk.

Tireless Monitoring

I'm keeping an eye on Katie Blair and Tara Conner, just in case there's any shenanigans of the unethical photoshopping kind.

Lost Thought

Remember ER? It's changed over the years but when it first came out it was fun to play guess-the-disease along with the characters. The way it worked; they would wheel some guy in and give the symptoms, vital signs etc. and then you started guessing his MC, Medical Condition. If you could beat Dr. Green, you won.

I used to guess pneumothorax a lot. An auto accident comes in, I go into diagnosis mode... Sharp chest pain, Ah-ha, this could be it.... Rapid pulse, Bingo! I'm calling a pneumothorax here. By the time they throw in flared nostrils, I'm jumping on the couch and calling, "Damit woman, bring me a chest tube." The wife always swears she doesn't have a chest tube so I call for a meat thermometer, a Bic pen, and a Pez dispenser instead. (I also used to watch a lot of MacGyver) Not sure what MacGyver would do with those things though. I guess you'd just jam the meat thermometer in the guy's chest and sit there eating Pez till the ambulance arrived. Oh yeah, the pen... um, you could write a message for the ambulance attendant on the guy's forehead, "Hey, someone stabbed this guy with a meat thermometer. Please fix him up."

Unstable?

This pedestrian run-down happened in San Francisco so no doubt some residents will be blaming it on loss of control after an Israeli missile strike. I mean, just look at the damage, only an IDF missile can do that to a car.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The driver in a bloody hit-and-run spree that killed one man and injured more than a dozen people was mentally unstable and feeling stress from a recent arranged marriage, according to relatives...

Ah, unstable. Ya think?

Political Reality

Storm Loses Punch Before Striking Fla.
Aug 29 9:05 PM US/Eastern
By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI
Tropical Storm Ernesto sloshed rather than slammed ashore _ surprising forecasters by failing to strengthen Tuesday as it approached Florida and providing relief to hurricane-weary residents....

I guess with approval ratings down the president doesn't have the political power to whip up a cat-4 or cat-5 anymore.

U.N. In Action

The UN is busy detonating unexploded munitions, which start fires, which spread...
"Dammit, why do the cameras always show up when our asses are on fire?"

Seems like fires would be a predictable aspect of the job.

Big Foot Hezboman

I couldn't figure out why the Red Cross would want to un-link their high-res photo of the Red Cross Ambulance Severe Denting Incident. The images are already out there and it's pretty clear that the thing wasn't hit by a missile. Things that are hit by missiles go boom. Anyway, I thought about how *I* would make those kinds of marks on an ambulance and I decided on a little hatchet to make the gashes, and chains, or a flail (I could borrow the wife's) to make the dents. Then I noticed the boot marks where I would have to stand:







Ah, so that's why they un-linked the high res photo.

"Soooo," says Reuters, "the IDF has developed a missile that delivers high velocity hatchets, chains, and boots." (the fiends)


Also: if you could possibly entertain the thought that a missile did this Heinous Denting, check out zombitime coverage.

Photoshop

Sticky Notes does some Valerie Plame matchmaking. It's down the page a little but I linked to the index because he's got a very interesting CBS photoshop of everyone's favorite Katie up top.

Both those women could use a lumberjack. Not me, you know, or Michael Palin either, but a lumberjack wouldn't do them any harm, is what I'm saying.

The Kofi Show

Does Kofi know public relations, or what? He's a wise man to forego carrying a cult portrait himself.

So his next stop will be Israel, right? Or does he think that it was one-way suffering just because MSN didn't show it? Want to know what question wasn't called out to him during this tour?: "Mr. Secretary, which do you think is worse, that Hezbollah started this conflict by attacking Israel, killing and kidnapping soldiers, or that Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel from civilian areas such as this, thereby inviting return fire that was bound to impact the Lebanese people?"