I finished The Men Who Stare at Goats by journalist and documentarian Jon Ronson the other day. What a good book, nice narrative journalism. There’s some very disturbing information in there as well. It’s basically about how a few people in the military believed and some still believe in New Age phenomena. It does take a swipe at believing in God in one or two sentences, but besides that it’s a great book that mocks the strange and odd beliefs of some in the military who think that it’s possible to walk through walls and kill goats by just staring at them. There’s a lot of disturbing info, from the torture of Abu Graib detainees to even a martial arts instructor in Florida who trained one of the Sept. 11 hijackers. That instructor still considers that murdering hijacker “like a son.” Sick. He trained the hijackers combat to take over the plane, but I assume he didn’t know the plan then, otherwise he’d be in jail.

I saw on Google Video a documentary by Ronson on Ruby Ridge, and how the media including Bill Maher spinned the story. Maher even compared the kid who was murdered by the federal agent as he ran away, to a dog. What an evil person. If you don’t recall, Maher also mocked the death of Steve Irwin when he died.

If you’re not familiar with the Ruby Ridge story, while I am no fan of white supremacists (the family was NOT white supremacists, they just knew some and lived by some), or fan of any racist no matter what color they are, the man was entrapped with selling a sawed off shotgun to an undercover agent. An FBI sniper later killed his wife when she was unarmed and just opening the front door. Sick and evil. I support law enforcement, both local and federal, but when those same law enforcement murders a kid as he runs away, murdered in the back by an automatic weapon, or when a sniper murders a woman as she holds her baby, then that’s murder and those agents should be in jail. Those in authority should be held to a HIGHER standard instead of a lower standard.

It’s a great book. Check it out.

Some of the photos on zombietime.com are quite frightening, but the captions he puts on there are quite hilarious.  From the sickening pro-aborts at the Walk for Life rally, to the recent anti-Semite “anti-war” protestors who are not really against violence and intolerance since they are violent and intolerant as well.  From this post, my favorite quotes:  “Which pleople?” and “When a mask for the rally you select, into account its effect on people you must take.”  See link to understand.

The mastermind behind the 7/7 bombings in London as well as a key figure in exporting evil jihad to Europe was caught by U.S. Forces: 

The al-Qaeda leader who is thought to have devised the plan for the July 7 suicide bombings in London and an array of terrorist plots against Britain has been captured by the Americans.

Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a former major in Saddam Hussein’s army, was apprehended as he tried to enter Iraq from Iran and was transferred this week to the “high-value detainee programme” at Guantanamo Bay.

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We need to stop Iran from killing some of our troops. From a recent article:

US forces on Friday detained four members of a gang suspected of smuggling armour-piercing bombs from Iran to Iraq and sending back militants for “terrorist training”, the military said.
A statement from US command in Iraq said the suspects were picked up in an early morning raid on the east Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, a known stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia.

“The individuals targeted during the raid are suspected members of a secret cell terrorist network known for facilitating the transport of weapons and explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, from Iran to Iraq,” it said.

The EFP is a form of roadside bomb in which the detonation of an explosive charge inside a steel tube causes a copper disk to deform into a fist-sized chunk of supersonic molten metal that can scythe through armoured vehicles.

Iraq’s Interior Ministry, comprised of mostly Shiite Muslims, runs a few detention centers in Iraq. When U.S. soldiers inspected some of the centers, many of the detainees showed Signs of abuse and torture, according to a Washington Post article.

Recent inspections by joint U.S.-Iraqi forces found more evidence of torture. It would be nice if the Shiites and Sunnis could get past their religious differences and stop killing and torturing each other.

A joint U.S.-Iraqi inspection team photographed the Iraqi men being held at an Interior Ministry detention center in Baghdad Feb. 16, 2006. Photograph provided to the Washington Post.