Wild Boars Enlist Selves In War Against Terror

Wild boars like this one stampeded and killed 3 ISIS militants

I know terrorism and ISIS is not a laughing matter, given how many thousands of people these militants have killed.  

However, I can't resist a little sense of satisfaction about what happened to three ISIS fighters in Iraq recently.

The militants were hiding in some bushes, planning another ambush, when a herd of wild boars stampeded through, killing the three militants. 

The militants had executed a couple dozen people trying to flee the area, so these three militants got what they deserved.

This is an awful thing to say, but I hope their deaths by stampede was painful and terrifying.

Locals said the militants probably disturbed the notoriously short-tempered boars while they were setting up their attack.

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz Enthusiastically Help With ISIS Marketing Campaign

This image is hyperbole, but still, Donald Trump is
doing quite a good job marketing ISIS recruitment.  

The world is reeling again from the latest outrage from ISIS and its supporter - this time that double bombing in Brussels that killed 31 people.

Once again, the story is a familiar arc. To most of us, the Brussels attack is a horrific outrage, a tragedy.

To radical so-called Muslims, it's a marketing campaign, and there are people in the United States, leading politicians and candidates mind you, that are making the marketing campaign all the more successful.

I know that calling these deadly attacks a marketing campaign is crass, but it kinda is. They're meant to stir up anti-Musllim sentiment in the West, which the extremists then use to say how awful the West is to Muslims so join us.

Some disillusioned people will go and join them, and more will perpetrate attacks, and the cycle goes on and on.

It's obviously not easy at all to counteract these "marketing" attacks. If it were, this would be done by now.

The Obama administration is probably not doing a perfect job at managing this, and of course his actions are open for scrutiny.

However, the likes of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are making the ISIS terrorist "ad campaign" of sorts all the more effective.

Trump and Cruz aren't intentionally helping ISIS, obviously. It's just that ehy are putting their own ambitions over our national interests. They know some voters want simple statements that exude American strength and toughness. Hysterics and bluster sells.

So Cruz tells us he wants police to "patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods," whatever that means.

Never mind that's unconstitutional, and police departments don't report to the President. Cruz, a Harvard law graduate, should know that and probably does, but that's besides the point when you're trying to become dictator, or president or whatever he wants.

Law and order guy Bill Bratton, the NYPD Police Commissioner, said it best: "We don't need a president that doesn't respect the values that form the foundation of this country. "

Bratton noted that 900 or so NYPD officers are Muslim. So they have to "patrol and secure" themselves?

Meanwhile, our favorite fascist blowhard, Donald Trump, is trying to outdo everybody on this one, and trying to take full advantage of Brussels to advance his campaign. It's all about him. And showing what a supposed tough guy he is.

It was the usual blather from Trump. Close the borders to Muslims, waterboard suspects, despite what the Geneva convention says, go after families of terrorists, even if they didn't do anything wrong, and blame Obama for everything.

As Mother Jones noted, Trump is unwittingly one of the worlds biggest ISIS boosters, doing everything in his power it seems, to make them stronger.

Says Mother Jones:

"........Terrorism expert Malcolm Nance, the head of the Terrorism Asymmetrics Project and a veteran of Navy intelligence, took Trump to taks for doing the propoganda work of ISIS.

'Good God, they're probably cutting videos of this right now,' Nance said on MSNBC about Trump's comments. 'Donald Trump right now is validating the cartoonish view that they tell their operatives...that America is a racist nation, xenophobic, anti-Muslim and that's why you must carry out terrorist attacks against them...It's irresponsible and needs to stop.'"

Don't count on it, Malcolm

National interest is besides the point for Trump.

And sure enough, just a couple days after Nance made that comment about ISIS making videos of Trump, it appears they have, according to The Hill.

So yeah, this blowharded stupidity and shrillness from Trump and Cruz must sound wonderful to their base, which probably isn't big enough anyway to get them through the general election. (We hope)

Trump and Cruz must sound awfully wonderful to ISIS terrorist recruits, too.

Dear Morons: ISIS Bookstore In Denver Not Run By Terrorists

Note to morons: This is a peaceful New Age store
in Colorado, not a terrorist advetising tool.

Theres's a retail shop outside of Denver owned by a perfectly nice couple.

It's called Isis Books & Gifts and it sells books and gifts about religion, spirituality and healing. They have supplies for Tarot readers, the Wicca community, essential oils, that type of thing.

As most normal people would expect, Isis Books and Gifts, which has been there in Englewood, Colorado for something like two decades, is named after an Egyptian goddess of women and healing.

But morons and hysterics are around us, and these doofuses think since the place is named Isis, its a terrorist organization brazenly advertising itself right in suburban Denver.

So they keep vandalizing the place, according to the AP.

I guess part of the problem is the media, including me, keeps calling the horrible terrorist organization responsible for the Paris attacks and another zillion atrocities ISIS. The name sounds cool. A lot of people in government call the terrorists ISIL, and I should probably start doing the same

Still, people are stupid, and they see the word ISIS and start screaming "Terrorist!" And they keep vandalizing the little book store in Englewood, Colorado because they're too stupid to know any better.

On the bright side, the store's owners say the business at the store remains steady, even if they have to keep repairing signs and such after the stupid people come through.

They also have no plans to change the name of the store. After all, the Egyptian goddess the store is named after is a sign of peace.

And Lord knows we could use more peace. And fewer morons.

So What Do We Do About The Idiots Trying To Blow Up The World?

Once again, we're shell shocked by yet another huge terrorist attack. (In case you've been alone in a cave the past couple of days, a coordinated attack by suspected ISIS terrorists on a concert hall, a soccer game and a restaurant/bar in Paris killed more than 120 people.)

We're all going through our usual expressions of sympathy and solidarity to the terrorism victims in Paris.

I'm not disparaging that. Paris needs all the support it can get. They need to know the world is behind them.

I'm just despairing because we've done this sad song and dance so often I've lost count. And we will do it again.

The thing about fundamentalists of any stripe is this: They lack the intellectual firepower that most of us have to live in a world in which people differ from the rest of us. So they use actual, physical firepower to demand everyone adhere to the same crude simplistic beliefs they have.

That's why 129 or so people in Paris were executed yesterday for the "crime" of attending a rock concert, or going to a soccer game, or stopping by the tavern for a glass of wine.

The Atlantic lists additional crimes we are guilty of that Islamic terrorists think should be punished by death. Such as going to a bar in Bali, watching the Boston Marathon or going to work in New York City.

Obviously, nobody knows how to stop people with this hideous mindset.  There's plenty of noisy talk and yelling over what to do. We either ISIS bomb them too much or not enough.  We're either too nice or not nice enough to refugees fleeing the ISIS-polluted Middle East. We're too Islamophobic or not Islamophobic enough.

Our world leaders' understandable inability to quash ISIS and their ilk means we're going to go through tragedies like Paris again and again, just like we saw in New York, London, Bali, Turkey and a whole bunch of other places.

There was probably a method to the madness of the Paris attacks, as there always is. The conventional wisdom, which I buy, is that ISIS wanted to provoke a backlash. More bombing, a big clampdown on refugees, discrimination against Muslims.

That way, they can say claim they are right, the West really wants to get rid of Muslims. It's a vicious cycle.

ISIS, in their fake flowery language, said they were killing western people, people of loose morals, prostitutes as they called the innocent Parisians. Again, because everybody is supposedly expected to be just like the fundamentalists, because their heads explode when people act with freedom and independent thought, and don't adhere to their gloomy, prison like mindset.

Religion through the centuries has done a lot of good in the world. But from the most hard core, rigid fundamentalists, their religion has brought us nothing but suffering, death, oppression and hate. Amazing how much damage a small minority of lunatics can cause.

It's been going on for thousands of years in one form or another, so I'm pessimistic about ever stopping it.

All we can do is defiantly put our freedoms, our intellectual skills, our social liberalism, our independent thought, our quest for peace and our desire for a full and wide ranging life front and center. Especially when something like this happens.

I do like how people initially reacted to the latest terrorist attack in France. When police evacuated the soccer stadium, departing fans spontaneously started singing the French National Anthem.  Across the world, governments lit up famous landmarks with the red, white and blue colors of the French flag, a nice symbol of solidarity with Paris combined with a perfect "fuck you" gesture toward ISIS.

Near the nightclub where the worst of the Paris violence happened, a musician named Davide Martello pulled a portable piano on his bike, set it up amid a scrum of reporters and onlookers, and played John Lennon's "Imagine," that famous ode to peace and tolerance and fairness.

"Imagine" won't change any minds among ISIS, but it is a reminder of what the rest of us need to strive toward.

No, scumbags like the ISIS idiots aren't going away anytime soon.  But neither will the world's majority of people who only want to live their lives, as fully and freely as possible.

This desire is the ultimate and best way to torture the fundamentalists we detest.

I'll let you go with the video of Martello playing "Imagine" on that Paris street yesterday:

Latest Outrage: Extreme Right Wing THRILLED Humanitarian U.S. ISIS Hostage Died

The thoroughly odious Debbie Schlussel is
apparently about the only person on the planet
happy that American hostage Kayla Mueller died.  

For the past 24 hours, it seems all I heard on the news was what a great person Kayla Mueller was.

She was the 26-year-old American held hostage by ISIS, that horrible fundamentalist bunch of idiots who kill, behead, torture, and otherwise brutalize anyone they disagree with. Her death was confirmed yesterday. 

Mueller's death really does sound like a huge loss.

Everyone who came in contact with her talked about what a humanitarian she was, how she would help anybody in need, how she was a model for the rest of us to follow. How we need more people like Mueller.

Judging from the news, I'm totally inspired by Mueller. I hope everyone else is too.

But that's too much too hope, of course, because there are idiots in the world. Some people are not like Mueller. Far from it.

According to Talking Points Memo,  evil conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel is already dancing on Mueller's grave, thrilled that she is gone.

Here's the odious Schlussel's headline to her latest blog post:

"Kayla Mueller: Dead ISIS Hostage was Jew-Hating, Anti-Israel Bitch."

Why the cruelty? Apparently, Mueller's humanitarian work included helping some Palestinians. Mueller might have been sympathetic to Palestinians distrust and anger toward Israel.

In Schlussel's blotto world, that means she was basically a terrorist.

I don't know exactly what Mueller's viewpoint on Israel and Palestine was. Whatever Mueller's opinion, it's totally fine to either agree or disagree with it.

But if you disagree, you gleefully dance on her grave?   Debbie, darling, you are one sick, consumed by hate, scary ball of dark clouds, to say the least.

Oh, and I'm not done with our Debbie. Oh, no. She's got a world of hate up her sleeve.

Apparently Little Debbie is ecstatic that other American hostages died at the hands of ISIS:

"Ever single of of these hostages has been a leftist America-hater. They are anti-American 'journalists' there to tell us how 'moderate' and 'democratic' these beheaders and live-human burners are. Or are they anti-American 'aid workers' (that's like the Middle East version of Barack Obama's 'community organizer.)'"

Hmmm. Interesting. I follow the news pretty damn closely, and I have not heard of one instance of an American hostage, or anybody, left wing or right wing, tell us how "moderate" and "democratic" the terrorists from ISIS who behead and burn innocent people are.

All I ever hear is how ISIS must be stopped ASAP to stop them from committing more horrors.

But Little Debbie lives in her own parallel universe where everybody except her is bent on the destruction of Israel, and with it her sicko blog that is apparently the source of her income.

She tries to outdo everyone, so you really have to give Little Debbie an "A" for effort.

Back in 2011 she was kind of happy that a monster, Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in Norway, including many children and teens, because he was unhappy that Norway's ruling party, in his mind, was too multicultural and endangering Norway's identity.

Little Debbie apparently LOVES it when kids or young adults are killed by a mad murderer.

The teens that died were at a camp run by the party that was ruling Norway at the time. Pretty innocent. Very much as if the Republican or Democratic parties in the United States sponsored summer camps for kids here.

But, the campers in Norway were too leftist for her taste, so it was probably good that the kids died, in Little Debbie's sick mind. To her, the Norwegian teens were Hamas terrorists

"What goes around comes around. You support terrorists against innocent civilians in Israel, then you get attacked by terrorists who are upset with your support.

"I shed no tears for thes Hamasnik campers with a Scandinavian dialet. Perpetrators are not victims. Hamas collaborators don't get my pity. They never will."

I probably should't waste time on Little Debbie. But it's probably for the best we try to be aware of sick people like Little Debbie.

You always gotta watch out for the wackos.