The claim of responsibility for the Madrid massacre is probably not from al Qaeda, according to Memri. Worth a read.
DERBYSHIRE AWARD NOMINEE: “Rich: I recently read Tim Jeal’s excellent biography of Robert Baden-Powell (title: “The Boy-Man”), founder of the Boy Scouts. Jeal shows how the Boy Scout movement was, from its very beginnings, plagued by pederasts. Baden-Powell’s first two appointees to the post of medical director at the movement’s main camp, for instance, both had to be dismissed for “gross misconduct” with the boys. Only a society as wilfully stupid and sunk in dogma as our own could imagine that an organization for boys would NOT attract the attention of pederasts. To insist on the “right” of homosexuals to serve as scoutmasters is to pour gasoline on a smouldering fire. (And before anyone e-mails in to tell me that homosexuality and pederasty are utterly different things, not related to each other in any way, shape or form whatsoever: I DON’T BELIEVE YOU.)” – John Derbyshire, equating homosexuality with child abuse. It is the oldest, most sickening piece of bigotry around, used against Jews in one era just as it is now used against homosexuals. There is no more logical connection between homosexuality and pedophilia than heterosexuality and pedophilia, or heterosexuality and rape. Look, there are legitimate public policy disagreements about how we treat homosexuals in society. But linking gays with child-molesters, in this way, and asserting it as a matter of faith, immune to any argumentation, is simply bigotry.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is important to remember that this resolution does not authorize the use of American ground troops in Bosnia, nor does it specifically authorize the use of air or naval power. It simply associates the U.S. Senate with the current policies of this administration and of the Security Council.” – John Kerry, as quoted by David Brooks. The good senator from Massachusetts is not complicated; he’s someone unable to tell the difference between complexity and inanity.
The Dish 