Fox News:

A New York City bicycle cabbie who mocked the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl and posted a prayer on the Web calling for the murder of Jews is now sending a “Get Well Soon” message to the suspected Fort Hood gunman, the New York Post reported.

Yousef al-Khattab, a Muslim convert and known jackass, runs RevolutionMuslim.com. He states that the victims of the shooter deserved to be massacred.

“These people are soldiers in a volunteer army,” al-Khattab told the Post. “They expect to see combat. They know the danger.”

If he considers himself a revolutionary (which is possible, but he might be just a lonely guy pretending to be all militant and everything) he should also probably “know the danger.”

Muslim Jackass Yousef al-Khattab

If I took the events of the past couple of days, inlcuding this idiot, and wrote it in the form of a novel, I’d be dismissed as a bigotted, intolerant, hateful hack with not motive but to generally discredit Muslims.

I wonder where this guy rates on the “Muslim scale.” Is he taken seriously by Muslims outside of the radical circles? Or is he just considered a tastelss joke, like the Westboro Baptist crowd is among Christians?

Did I mention that this seems stupid?

A Montana jury has found the maker of Louisville Slugger bats failed to adequately warn about the dangers its product can pose.

Hillerich and Bradsby has been ordered to pay $850,000 to the family of 18-year-old Brandon Patch. The teenager was killed during a 2003 baseball game after being struck in the head by a batted ball off an aluminum bat while pitching during an American Legion game in Helena, MT.

The Patch family argued aluminum bats are dangerous because they cause the ball to travel faster than those hit off wooden bats.

Stupid.

Part of the Hillerich & Bradsby statement released follwing the verdict:
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Not at all what happened
USS Ramage (DDG 61) firing a 5-inch gun in 2008.

Destroyer accidentally fires on Polish port

Three 7.62 rounds from an M240 machine gun equals “fired on Polish port.”

The crew of the destroyer Ramage was doing “routine maintenance” to the ship in the port of Gdynia when a sailor inadvertently fired the burst from one of the warship’s M240 machine guns, the official said.

Thankfully, no one was hurt.

But if you think this headline is bad, check out this Russian headline:

US destroyer shells Polish shore

Rooskie journalism hasn’t lost a step.

Happened to notice this story on Yahoo by Lindsay Robertson: Taylor Lautner’s Shirtless Pics: A Hollywood Double Standard?

Remember the huge uproar in April 2008, when 15-year-old Miley Cyrus appeared in “Vanity Fair” wrapped in a sheet, with her right shoulder and the top of her back visible, implying that, under the sheet, she wasn’t wearing a shirt?…

Now, with the premiere of his movie, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” less than a month away, magazines, websites, and TV are blanketed with images of 17-year-old star Taylor Lautner, shirtless and showing off the body he trained for months to perfect for the role. And yet, none of the cultural critics who turned Miley’s photos into a full-blown “scandal” have said a word about the sexualization of Taylor, who, at 17, is just two years older than Miley was during her “scandal” and is also a minor. So, does Hollywood have a double standard?

I had to check again to make sure that Taylor Lautner was a guy. He is, and I think that the clear answer is “Yes, there are definitely different standards when it comes to males and females without shirts on. Duh.”

What a shocking discovery.

Yesterday I implied that the only good terrorist was a dead terrorist, but some people apparently disagree:

Amherst mulls resolution welcoming Guantanamo detainees

The western Massachusetts university town of Amherst is mulling a resolution urging the Congress to release cleared Guantanamo Bay detainees into the United States and calling for the town to welcome those detainees into the community.

The town’s Select Board voted 2-1 Monday night to endorse a warrant article titled, “Resolution to Assist in the Safe Resettlement of Cleared Guantanamo Detainees.”

“The United States has a long history of being a place of refuge and asylum for persecuted people. There’s nothing new about this,” said Gerry Weiss, one of the two selectmen supporting the resolution. “This is the tradition of the United States.”

The resolution was submitted by Ruth Hooke, a Town Meeting member and a member of Pioneer Valley No More Guantanamos.

You have to read it to believe it. And even then you won’t believe it.

Weiss said he wasn’t concerned that the cleared detainees could be a danger. “I think they were wrongly imprisoned,” he said. “I don’t believe they want revenge. I think they would be very grateful to any people that show them some kindness. They may harbor some ill will toward the US government, but that would be a lot of people.”

What an idiot.

I thought the people who wanted to transfer Guantanamo detainees to maximum security prisons inside the US were dumb, but this guy want to LET THEM GO inside the US.

Via WSJ’s Best of the Web, which notes:

Very longtime readers of this column will remember that we’ve mentioned Amherst before. In October 2001, we wrote about the decision of the Amherst Board of Selectmen to ban the American flag from the city’s Main Street. Jennie Traschen, at the time an associate professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts’ Amherst campus, spoke against the flag, which she described as “a symbol of tyranny and fear and destruction and terrorism.”

The meeting and the vote took place on Sept. 10, 2001.

Obama Wins Nobel Prize in Part for Confronting ‘Great Climatic Challenges’

Look. We all know that the Nobel Peace Prize has as much to do with the real world as the Oscars have to do with film making. At least the Oscars are awarded for things that have already been done, rather than things that someone has said they’re going to do in the future but haven’t really moved on yet.

Really, I guess I don’t see how this does anything but strengthen the comparisons of Barrack Obama to Jimmy Carter.

Kids from the Ron Clark Academy sing a song promoting health care reform on CNN:

Should Murdoc be troubled by this or just embarrassed?

UPDATE: IRS Made Errors in Stimulus Payments to 400,000 Taxpayers

Via Instapundit who writes BUT DON’T WORRY, THEY’LL HANDLE HEALTH CARE JUST FINE

Are you kidding?

Red and yellow lights shone from the top of the Empire State Building at dusk Wednesday, a tribute to communist China’s 60th anniversary that protesters labeled “blatant approval” of totalitarianism and criticized as inappropriate for an icon in the land of the free.

A few days back I posted a YouTube of a Pittsburgh protester being snatch and grabbed by some clowns in BDUs and dismissed it as a poorly-produced hoax:

I’d had a few comments and emails claiming it was for real, but I hadn’t been able to find anything derfinitive online until a reader sent Murdoc a heads up:

Statement from G-20 Joint Information Center to College Politico: The individuals involved in the 9/24/2009 arrest which has appeared online are law enforcement officers from a multi-agency tactical response team assigned to the security operations for the G20. It is not unusual for tactical team members to wear camouflaged fatigues. The type of fatigues the officers wear designates their unit affiliation. Prior to the arrest, the officers observed this subject vandalizing a local business. Due to the hostile nature of the crowd, officer safety and the safety of the person under arrest, the subject was immediately removed from the area.

So these are guys from a G-20 “tactical response team.” Personally, given the shennanigans that these anarchists pull at every G-20 and WTO meeting, maybe they really do need a “tactical response team.” But to arrest a vandal by nabbing him in broad daylight? They just recruited a thousand more protesters for the next meeting.

Suddenly, everyone who should be dismissing these protesters as the anarchist goons that they are has reason to despise the authorities the goons are fighting.

But it wasn’t the military or even the local PD.

I’d be curious to know who mans this “tactical response team.” Guys that couldn’t get in at Blackwater and DynCorp?

Did the “you’re supposed to be quiet” rule for public libraries get repealed at some time? Or are people just ruder and idioter than they used to be?