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Taking a Break, Well Sort Of

The lovely Mrs. Shabazz and I are packing up today and hitting the road for parts somewhat unknown.  It’s part honeymoon/road trip/family member’s wedding.  And although I promised to be a good husband, my wife promised to let me do one of my jobs while I am away.

So I do plan to post, just every other day.  I’ve had some ideas in mind for a while on the state of local and state politics that I’ve been meaning to write.  So while she’s tanning by the water, I’ll be blogging with a scotch and water.  Check back in a day or two and try to behave yourselves.

Posted: 09|15|10 at 6:00 am by Abdul Hakim-Shabazz
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  • pascal

    http://www.melaniephillips.com/londonistan/ Maybe time for you to read her book and learn how English law has been affected by muslim sharia. Too, France has just banned burquas and other full body robes. At least one country has banned the construction of minarets.
    Our media does not do a very good job of covering France and it’s problems with Muslim civil violence. Our media would prefer that the American people remain ignorant – at least that is my opinion. Squish governments like U.K have become havens for those peaceful loving Islamic extremists.
    The values of Muslim “culture” always clash with the values of the rest of us. Our host gets around this by the JFK argument (I’m not really a Catholic) (I’m not really a Muslim). How does Andre handle it?

  • Think Again

    You’re on vaca, Abdul, and fully entitled to ignore the above jibberish.

    Most of us do anyway.

  • pascal

    http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/ A pretty good source for sharia commentary but it only suitable for those with the time and ability to read.

  • Think Again

    Abdul, make it stop. Please.

  • Rico

    You’re such a suckup, TA! So denying the truth about the threat radical Islamists pose makes you Abdul’s friend?

    The Iranian Mullahs have called for the death of all Koran burners. These are the Islamic spiritual leaders of millions of Muslims.

    Do you still want to equate a moronic pastor in Florida who wants to burn a book to that threat? Maybe it’s best we just don’t talk/write about it any of this. It’s far more comfortable that way.

  • pascal

    If the stoops at the Indy Star can bring DA Tully into a smear campaign against Marvin Scott for being ahead of an issue it could be discussed on a forum hosted by someone who knows something about it. Not enough in my view, as for openers the separation of Church and State is a Christian development. It does NOT EXIST in the muslim culture. This fact is causing grave difficulties in Europe and parts of America. TA who is also a DA prefers to ignore those problems and kick the can down the road.
    Contra Rico, the threat is essentially muslim and has nothing to do with how much or how little radicalism they may have. It is in the DNA of the heresy. Sharia law is a historical and actual fact and I suppose DA TA would like to avoid the experiences of France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and even the stinking Swedes.
    Reading a book, Londonstan, would be a useful exercise for anyone able to read. To be as ignorant as TA, the Star editorial board, and the Tully shrimp is to say that what has happened elsewhere and what is happening elsewhere is not something that can happen here. Those who maintain that view are not part of a strawman argument, they are just stupid.

  • pascal

    Has anyone heard the Guv talking about his new University? He says that Indiana needs more college graduates. That may be true and it may be false. The ACT folks suggest that only 25% of high school students have the academic skills necessary to pass entry-level college courses. On average, Indiana students are less prepared than the average US student. However, in Indiana a much larger than 25% of high school graduates go on to “collich” where great numbers of them fail after parting and using considerable money.
    But, Mitch’s new University promises that for its students to graduate they will need to pass a competency test. One of the majors that will be offered is Education. I’d wager that most readers of this blog could pass that compentency test right now. I wonder how many licensed teachers in Indiana could?

  • Think Again

    You have a disturbing habit of asking questions, which, carefully framed, have narrow answers, and when you don’t get the answer you desire…you shut down, and/or dismiss the answering party (in advance).

    It’s also known as paranoid. In the military, it’s called a -re-emptive strike. Effective, if your opponent is mindless and clueless. I’m not either one of those.

    For the record, I don’t equate the nutcase Florida pastor, with very disturbed radical fendamentalist Muslims who want us all dead.

    Both are troubling, but one, of course, is far more dangerous.
    The pastor is harmless. His brain is like a BB on a 4-lane highway. He telegraphs his moves, he’s transparent, and…wiat a minute, this behavior is kinda familiar to you, isn’t it? Hmmmm.

    Suckup? Hardly. I’m just way “over” pascal’s droning on and on…it’s like Chinese water tortue, in a blog kinda way. And I don’t want to be Abdul’s friend. On or off line.

    Sorry, Abdul. Nothing personal. We have nothing in common.
    Except, that we probably both admire strong personalities who are well-versed and well-spoken.

    (Cue for you to leave, Rico)

  • Think Again

    Entertaining, but don’t EVER equate me to Tully in any capacity or form. I work harder by 9 AM every day than he does in a week. So do most posters here, I’d judge.

  • pascal

    As our host remains on hiatus the following from Powerline should be of interest. It is sort of like history in that for decades various journalists in America were thought to be on the Soviet payroll by folks like Senator Joe McCarthy. Well, history is proving that ole Tailgunner Joe was 100% corrrect,
    “Joe McCarthy labeled Karr as “Pearson’s KGB handler”. Pearson defended his associate and said he only worked for the paper so he could get free passes to Yankee games. Recent research into the files of the KGB revealed that Karr was indeed, as McCarthy charged, a Soviet agent.

    Pearson once encountered McCarthy at a Press Club function. McCarthy became so incensed that he started to throw punches at Pearson. Only the intervention of fellow Quaker Richard Nixon saved Pearson from serious injury. Nixon certainly had reason later in his career to have strongly regretted his intervention on Pearson’s behalf.

    During the last years of my working life I was obliged to deal with the press. One of the many great and small joys of retirement is that I never have to talk with a journalist again. ”
    More things you won’t read in your liberal newspaper.

  • Taxpayer 834512

    I think it’s stretching incredulity for me to come to Tully’s partial defense, but here goes. I think he does a fine job on slam-dunk investigative stuff not requiring political evaluation or tough questions of a party that might deny him access to his next story. For instance I think he did the city a great service in the Phoenix apartments and Manuel High School coverage.

    When it gets to tough questions needed from politicians or theoretically impartial coverage, well……

  • Taxpayer 834512

    As ranted many times before, I concur with Pascal on the tilt of our dying sources of “journalism” (theoretically, equitable coverage seeking the truth; right up there with “reform” of late). It is bewildering to me that mainstream newspapers don’t at least put on a better pretense of balanced ideological coverage just for fiscal survival, given the economic thriving of the Fox networks and the Wall Street Journal.

    They don’t have to abandon exemplary reporting of the liberal side of things, just “spread the wealth” of genuinely journalistic work ethic. Imagine the sonic blast of affront that would reverberate across the country from a President McCain that chose to withhold all his personal records. That’s how askew things are, corresponding to a yawning need and potential market success that I think is there for the taking.

    If I hit the lottery, I’d like to start “The Journalism Channel” on cable.

  • Think Again

    The Journalism Channel. Brilliant. It may get pooh-poohed, but hell, I never thought the Food Channel would work.

    24/7 good journalists reporting, commenting and videos….I can see it now.

    It was what Ted Turner envisioned with CNN. (Sigh)

  • pascal

    The subtext is that if the higher standards of “journalism” that existed in the McCarthy Era were so low that stinking communists could fly under liberal radar then why wouldn’t today’s lower caliber “journalists” also be on the take? Short answer-they probably are, and for peanuts.

  • Think Again

    Pascal, does ANYthing make you happy? And, are there black helicopters constantly hovering over you, everywhere you go?

    What a miserable life.

  • Rico

    Great point, TA. Ignorance is bliss. That explains your happiness.

  • pascal

    Another issue you can’t deal with? The nexus of communists and liberals was such that Truman dismissed congressional probes into his communist riddled administration because he thought it mere politics. The Pentagon decided to NOT tell Truman that the Soviet code had been broken and that his administration had been compromised. Liberals spent the next 20 to 30 years defending Alger Hiss….some probably still do.
    That journalists take money in exchange for lying should not, I guess be newsworthy since it happens all of the time but the Soviet dollars, Stalin’s dollars, only went to liberals.

  • pascal

    “”The mayor’s priority was to protect the over 60,000 jobs tied to the hospitality industry,” Vane said. “If Mrs. Kennedy doesn’t think those jobs are important, she should say so.”-does anyone besides Wilson10000 think there really are 60,000 jobs in that industry in Indianapolis? More to the point, maybe this particular ripoff is a good reason for doing away with all TIF Districts if their revenues unused are to be considered “pots of money” for the Mayor’s discretionary doling out to unworthy charities.

  • Rico

    SHOCKING NEWS TO REPORT!!!!

    The men who were arrested for plotting to kill the pope were Muslims! Hmmmmm

  • attackav8r

    HA HA HA…what the hell would YOU know about the military!?!

  • pascal

    Folks who have read Londonstan would not be surprised if the arabs (that is what I read) arrested were Muslims. The Muslim problems in the UK are quite substantial-that is, the problems they cause to those more civilized, or,more plainly (as Ann Coulter would say) those used to indoor plumbing.

  • pascal

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1312918/POPES-UK-VISIT-Six-men-arrested-plot-harm-Benedict-XVI.html Wherein it is clear that these arrests were precautionary and without substantial evidence. Of course, Muslims, being unable to read well (same as the journalists covering the story) were unfamiliar with the Regensburg Address and its actual words. It is a densely packed 4,000 word speech slamming evil tendencies of Western civilization as much as the shortcomings of Islam-done by an illustration between a ruler in Byzantium and a highly educated (for that time) Muslim. The speech was and remains a couple of levels above what journalists can easily comprehend.
    Anyone interested in elevating their game can get excellent crib notes from Ignatius Press, Schall’s commentary on same, even so, it is not an easy read.

  • pascal

    Another slow day at the blog so this from PowerLine:”Cartoonist In Hiding After Death Threats:

    A cartoonist in Seattle who promoted an “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” last spring is now in hiding after her life was threatened by Islamic extremists.

    The cartoonist, Molly Norris, has changed her name and has stopped producing work for a local alternative newspaper, Seattle Weekly, according to the newspaper’s editor, Mark D. Fefer.

    Mr. Fefer declined an interview request Thursday, citing “the sensitivity of the situation.” But in a letter to readers about Ms. Norris on Wednesday, he said that “on the insistence of top security specialists at the F.B.I., she is, as they put it, ‘going ghost’: moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity.”

    If only we could get that mosque built a stone’s throw from Ground Zero, they would realize what nice guys we really are.
    “

  • pascal

    http://blackgenocide.org/ Lot of interesting facts at this site. Indianapolis PP follows the national PP pattern of targeting minority neighborhoods for extermination of Blacks. Will Andre Carson’s vote to have government pay for abortions lead to an increase in Black Deaths from Abortion? Blacks amount to about 13% of the US population but already account for 35% of the total killed. I thought Muslims did not tolerate abortion or abortionists.

  • pascal

    For students of journalism history….”In the 1990′s Stone’s reputation was posthumously rocked…when a retired KGB agent said that he (I.F. Stone, sic) had been a paid agent of the Soviet Union.” This prominant journalist of the left had long been thought to be a fellow traveller by the educated but the liberal left denied it…and probably still do.

  • pascal

    Has anyone else noticed that this year there seem to be a lot of butterflys? Does anyone know why that might be? I also think there are a greater variety of them than usual. I have noticed but two woolly worms. Also, the butterflys are large enough in some cases to challenge the hummingbirds at the hibiscus trees.