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Terrorism In The US

We're still awaiting details on the terrorist who killed three people in Colorado in Colorado at a Planned Parenthood clinic, but I think its important to remember that this guy killed more people on US soil than ISIS has.

Because Its Thanksgiving

Perhaps the greatest moment in sitcom.

I'm not sure how the civilized world should respond to this, but I'm leaning towards UN intervention, in a manner similar to the Korean War (although that war didn't end ideally).  I don't think there is any reasonable way to destroy this menace without boots on the ground, and yes, I know that military meddling lead to this end in the first place. This is one of those situations where we actually have a degree of common cause with the Russians, so a multinational ground force to seize ISIL's safe havens and hunt down its leaders, much like we occupied Germany and hunted down Nazi leaders.  For a start, we know which buildings ISIL uses in Raqqa for its public functions (courts, administrative, etc).   Time to strike those public symbols of authority.

UPDATE:  And on the other hand, Pierce.

 

The Company He Keeps

Ben Carson looks shadier by the day.

Dr. Carson wrote that Costa was "an extraordinarily successful real estate developer" and "a man of his word. ... I could literally trust him with all of my earthly possessions and rest assured that I would get them all back with interest." Other than his wife, Dr. Carson wrote, "there is no one on this planet that I trust more than Al Costa."

The context for the laudatory comments, though, was Costa's sentencing on one count of health care fraud....

Five years later, the Associated Press reported, Dr. Carson said that those convicted of health care fraud should go to prison for at least a decade and be forced to forfeit “all of one’s personal possessions.”

Costa, by contrast, got two years of probation, a $250,000 fine and $44,579 in restitution.

Obviously, just because Costa committed fraud doesn't mean that Carson is guilty of Costa's crime, but it does reveal that he holds his close friends to a different standard.  This, along with the lies in his autobiography and associations with another questional business certainly call his judgement into question.