The liberals can come after me all they want. I usually don't have to worry about them blowing themselves over two acres of wallpaper. They just spew rhetoric, and not a kidney at mach two.

I watched part of the Obama statement from the economic summit today. He's done. He's lost his nerve, and has no capacity to make critical decisions on the prosecution of a military campaign that will inflict the losses required to shut ISIS down. He has tempered his decision making based on his trips to hospitals to see injured vets. Obviously this has affected his decision making. I'm not saying he can't feel empathy and sympathy for them, and that he can't feel bad that they were injured. He knew when he took the job, that sending people to war means they die and get maimed. Now he's trying to make war 'safe' again.

The following will be VERY CONTROVERSIAL, but read it a couple times to let it percolate. In order to WIN this fight, not just contain or degrade ISIS, we are going to have to be prepared to kill...innocent civilians. Before you flip out, read the WHOLE post.

The reason why the fight against ISIS and al-Qaeda and Hamas and Hezbollah is taking so long is that post WW2 we took the total inhumanity of the strategic bombing campaigns that were engaged in, and tried to make war 'safer' for non-combatants. In WW2 we flattened entire cities to destroy factories capable of making weapons. We flattened train stations, bus depots, and ports for ships in order to deny the enemy war making capabilities. When we did that, we killed the workers at those locations, and bombed nearby housing with the 'misses'.

After the war, countries proclaimed such wholesale killing had to stop. So, we worked on 'smart' bombs. Drop fewer bombs, have higher rates of success hitting the intended targets, and fewer civilians would have to die. Yea for technology!

We then tried to leverage that thinking into other facets of military strategy. 'Smart' artillery shells, mortar shells, even 'smart' bullets. War-fighting was supposed to become this clean, clinical, lest we say surgical expression of state sanctioned violence and was meant to eradicate the enemy with a minimum of fuss.

Problem is, we wound up fighting urban warfare campaigns in areas where the buildings were still standing. Where we might be able to task a tank to hit a building, but surely couldn't level entire neighborhoods anymore. THAT would be a war crime, right?

So now, ONE of the reasons why you have PTSD is that soldiers were forced to fight in a much more restricted battle space in which the enemy held the upper hand of terrain. The enemy also held the advantage of using the civilian population as human shields through which we were not allowed to engage them. You forced young men and women to be constantly exposed to an enemy that they weren't allowed to kill or even engage. All the while, the enemy itself had no rules. Car bombs, truck bombs, roadside bombs, bike bombs, even child bombs. They would shoot at you by lying on the ground and firing from under the burka of a woman who could only stand still or be shot by the terrorist, or have her family be killed because she failed to help the terrorist. Make an 18 yr old American kid decide that he has to shoot the woman in order to flush out the terrorist. Nope, that won't mess you up. Again, we made the mistake of trying to fight an enemy 'by the rules' for whom the rules DON'T EXIST.

We prided ourselves in saying that because we don't kill civilians we were the better people. We were more civilized. We were morally superior. So, how's that worked out for ya? Huh? Seriously. Have we actually 'won' a war in the last oh say 25 years?

Now. If you want to DEFEAT ISIS you issue an ultimatum. Civilians have 48 hours to leave. The military will establish checkpoints to validate those leaving. After that, the real WAR begins. Any place that is ISIS controlled is eligible to be wiped off the map.

If the wives, old folks, and kids didn't leave town, that's no longer on us. You use cluster munitions to attack large tracts of battle space, and you use land mines to deny ISIS the ability to run in all directions. You use snipers to take out ISIS members trying to clear the minefields, and you can starve them out if you want to be more 'civil' about it.

Less civil is you simply carpet bomb ISIS into oblivion. They will only understand stark, utter and brutal violence when it comes to visit them in the dead of night and turns their world upside down.

Since Obama has already decided that the U.S. will not deploy ground troops in any significant number, he will be left with the choice of either walking away, or ACTUALLY killing terrorists on a wholesale level. If that means killing their families as well, you'll do it knowing that you gave them more of a chance to survive than they would ever have given you.

Sorry if reality is getting in the way.

*drops mic*

The liberals can come after me all they want. I usually don't have to worry about them blowing themselves over two acres of wallpaper. They just spew rhetoric, and not a kidney at mach two.

I watched part of the Obama statement from the economic summit today. He's done. He's lost his nerve, and has no capacity to make critical decisions on the prosecution of a military campaign that will inflict the losses required to shut ISIS down. He has tempered his decision making based on his trips to hospitals to see injured vets. Obviously this has affected his decision making. I'm not saying he can't feel empathy and sympathy for them, and that he can't feel bad that they were injured. He knew when he took the job, that sending people to war means they die and get maimed. Now he's trying to make war 'safe' again.

The following will be VERY CONTROVERSIAL, but read it a couple times to let it percolate. In order to WIN this fight, not just contain or degrade ISIS, we are going to have to be prepared to kill...innocent civilians. Before you flip out, read the WHOLE post.

The reason why the fight against ISIS and al-Qaeda and Hamas and Hezbollah is taking so long is that post WW2 we took the total inhumanity of the strategic bombing campaigns that were engaged in, and tried to make war 'safer' for non-combatants. In WW2 we flattened entire cities to destroy factories capable of making weapons. We flattened train stations, bus depots, and ports for ships in order to deny the enemy war making capabilities. When we did that, we killed the workers at those locations, and bombed nearby housing with the 'misses'.

After the war, countries proclaimed such wholesale killing had to stop. So, we worked on 'smart' bombs. Drop fewer bombs, have higher rates of success hitting the intended targets, and fewer civilians would have to die. Yea for technology!

We then tried to leverage that thinking into other facets of military strategy. 'Smart' artillery shells, mortar shells, even 'smart' bullets. War-fighting was supposed to become this clean, clinical, lest we say surgical expression of state sanctioned violence and was meant to eradicate the enemy with a minimum of fuss.

Problem is, we wound up fighting urban warfare campaigns in areas where the buildings were still standing. Where we might be able to task a tank to hit a building, but surely couldn't level entire neighborhoods anymore. THAT would be a war crime, right?

So now, ONE of the reasons why you have PTSD is that soldiers were forced to fight in a much more restricted battle space in which the enemy held the upper hand of terrain. The enemy also held the advantage of using the civilian population as human shields through which we were not allowed to engage them. You forced young men and women to be constantly exposed to an enemy that they weren't allowed to kill or even engage. All the while, the enemy itself had no rules. Car bombs, truck bombs, roadside bombs, bike bombs, even child bombs. They would shoot at you by lying on the ground and firing from under the burka of a woman who could only stand still or be shot by the terrorist, or have her family be killed because she failed to help the terrorist. Make an 18 yr old American kid decide that he has to shoot the woman in order to flush out the terrorist. Nope, that won't mess you up. Again, we made the mistake of trying to fight an enemy 'by the rules' for whom the rules DON'T EXIST.

We prided ourselves in saying that because we don't kill civilians we were the better people. We were more civilized. We were morally superior. So, how's that worked out for ya? Huh? Seriously. Have we actually 'won' a war in the last oh say 25 years?

Now. If you want to DEFEAT ISIS you issue an ultimatum. Civilians have 48 hours to leave. The military will establish checkpoints to validate those leaving. After that, the real WAR begins. Any place that is ISIS controlled is eligible to be wiped off the map.

If the wives, old folks, and kids didn't leave town, that's no longer on us. You use cluster munitions to attack large tracts of battle space, and you use land mines to deny ISIS the ability to run in all directions. You use snipers to take out ISIS members trying to clear the minefields, and you can starve them out if you want to be more 'civil' about it.

Less civil is you simply carpet bomb ISIS into oblivion. They will only understand stark, utter and brutal violence when it comes to visit them in the dead of night and turns their world upside down.

Since Obama has already decided that the U.S. will not deploy ground troops in any significant number, he will be left with the choice of either walking away, or ACTUALLY killing terrorists on a wholesale level. If that means killing their families as well, you'll do it knowing that you gave them more of a chance to survive than they would ever have given you.

This is the fastest way to get

*drops mic*

So no one wants to blame the Muslims, cause we'll hurt their feelings, and allegedly demonize them unfairly. It would be 'Islamophobic' in terms of current politically correct thinking.

So when someone is going to be stupid enough to accuse me of being 'phobic' about Islam, I simply provide them with facts.

1) Since 9/11 there have been over 27,000 terrorist attacks committed by Muslims.
2) Islam purports to be a religion of peace, and it's 'only a few misguided souls' who are perverting the religion. So let's look at the reality. Words of Muslims themselves. We do that by reviewing the information provided by polls taken of Muslim thoughts and attitudes.

- 25%of British Muslims thought the 7/7 suicide bombers were justified.
- 31% of Turks support suicide bombings against westerners that are in Iraq
- 32% of Palestinians support the killings of Israeli families, including their children.
- The following stats reflect the number of people who support attacks on Americans around the world Egypt 61% Indonesia 32% Pakistan 41% Moroccans 38% Palestinians 83% Jordanians 62%
- Muslims who think that suicide bombings are acceptable to defend Islam Indonesia 15% Nigeria 34 Brits 35% French 42% German 22% Spain 29% and finally 26% of American Muslims.

Of note is that American Muslims, who say they identify strongly with their religion are THREE HUNDRED PERCENT more likely to feel that suicide bombings are justifiable.

All stats are from Pew Research 2007-2010. There is no reason to believe Muslims have become any less agreeable in their thinking on these topics since then.

So when someone wants to try and bamboozle you with the all Muslims are peaceful, the religion is peaceful, we don't think violence is a solution, we are tolerant of other religions and societies position, it is demonstrably false, and the biggest pile of horse*hit you will ever be fed in your lifetime.

The mother of one of the suicide bombers is now saying her son never wanted to be a suicide bomber. Obviously he was suffering from 'stress' and that's why he shot up and suicide bombed a Paris cafe on Friday night.

The grand mufti in Australia says the bombings are against Islam, but that it was caused by racism, Islamophobia, heightened societal security procedures, foreign policy, and military intervention. Islam had NOTHING to with it.

Proof however of how unfocused the fight against Islam is can be shown in the following. Democratic candidate for Minnesota state legislature Dan Kimmel tweeted out on Saturday night during the Democratic debate "ISIS isn't necessarily evil. It is made up of people doing what they think is best for their community." Following the uproar over his post, he walked it back, and then retired from the race at the request of the Democratic Party.

Me thinks the FBI wants something to show for all this work they've supposedly done. By investigating the emails, and applying a little common sense, they'll want to know why something that wasn't classified a couple years ago suddenly becomes nuclear when Hillary leaves office.

They'll also want to see if tabs were scrubbed from e-mails. This way she can honestly claim there was no classified material marked as such when she handled it. IF her staff scrubs it, she reads it, sends it back and then THEY re-tab it, well she's off the hook right?

Well not so fast. As a cabinet level employee who dealt with secret information all the time, she knows what she was reading was not for general consumption. If the stuff can't be put on the front page of the paper tomorrow, then it's classified.

Well this sort of probe is what Martha Stewart got jailed on. If the FBI questions you, and not even under oath, the law can be used if they feel you caused them to incur extra costs and time investigating the case. IF you play with documents, coach people on how to answer questions, are evasive yourself, then the FBI has this tool. I guess it's one step below obstruction of justice.

Useful for those white collar crimes where people hedge their bets by answering "I don't recall." If they find evidence you recalled just fine the day before they talked to you, well these

Love Pauley, hope she heals soon. Homelessness? Violence? On the one hand, nothing new for most of us. We come into contact with homeless people daily if you're an urban dweller. Occasionally, someone panhandling can be become abusive, and aggressive if they don't get what they want.

Pauley wants it 'handled' with full everything. Mental health care, housing, etc. Well we actually used to do that back in the day with institutional care. Most street people had either a mental condition or an addiction issue. We used to pick them up, jail them, and they went through the legal system. If convicted of a crime, they went to mental institution for long term care.

In the late 60's a movement started to empty the hospitals, make these people part of society, just give them a big bottle of meds, and make them promise to take the pills every day.

We got the halfway house concept, with low paid government workers tasked to check up on people every day or to be live in den mothers. The government provided monthly welfare checks. The afflicted sold their drugs for recreational ones, and when off their meds, assaulted others in the home or outside the home.

So the group homes were all licensed for one part of town, and the mentally ill were marginalized and ghettoized. Everyone knew where the 'crazy' part of town was. They became easy prey for street crime, and were sometimes defrauded by caregivers.

The 80's and 90's gave us 'rehab', but your HMO or your company paid for it. Great if you had a job, not so much if you slept in a box. As the 'yuppies' rose to power, street people were an eyesore. They were a nuisance and lowered property values. The problem was most cities and states had dismantled their large institutions and there was no where for these people to go.

Best solution was 'outpatient' care. Go somewhere every day to get your meds.

You want it 'handled'? You'll need to build multi-use long term care facilities for the boomers going senile, needing palliative care, hospice care, and mental health care.

<--- (smacks forehead)...Why do I bother?

That screeching sound your hear is the Norwegian disarmament bus doing a u-turn after the events in Paris.

I'm thinking the cops may just want to hold onto their guns a tad longer.

Well the French have been bombing the crap out of Syrian infrastructure recently, trying to help the Syrian regime out the door.

The Syrians have also threatened to attack a French aircraft carrier should it come within range of the Syrian (maybe even Russian?) air force.

Witnesses report some attackers yelling "This is for Syria!". Unclear if it was pro-Syrian terrorists, or ISIS attackers maybe thinking they are fighting for Syria.

Of note, reports are now that 7 of the 8 known attackers detonated suicide vests. Other reports spoke of AK-47's and grenades being used.
Since France doesn't have a 'Jihadis R Us' store to pick up the tools of the trade, authorities will need to follow the money.

Someone had to provide weapons, explosives, ammo, the ability to smuggle the materials into France, provide safe houses, transport, and other sundry items. Half a dozen folding stock AK's, say 30 mags already loaded with ammo to save space, 8 back packs, and say a case or two of grenades. All of that could be packed in a medium sized crate, and tossed into a cargo container amongst a load of scrap metal, machine parts, or industrial tools.

Of course if people had been carrying concealed weapons, the ability to resist attacks, end attacks, or scare off the attackers may have saved lives. No guarantees however, but I imagine these guys would have been surprised as hell to have someone shoot back, and they would have been thrown off their game.

So apparently the concept of 'irony' is not being taught at any of the higher learning institutions in America.

The black kid who was hunger striking on the MU campus was all about people checking their 'white privilege'. Apparently his dad, a railroad executive makes EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS a year, and the family has a net worth of TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS.

Um, brah? Check your rich kid privilege at the door, and ask your dad if he wants to adopt a white guy to give the family some diversity?

Well of course you are going to give a 4 year old a 'gay' coloring book. They all have a problem with drawing 'straight' lines at that age,right?

I saw the Campbell's soup ad earlier in the week where the kid has both of his 'dads' feeding him soup. So maybe the commercial is a warning that we'll be raising a tolerant, but forcibly fed obese generation of LGBTQI baby veal?

The coloring book is nothing but social conditioning. Same as all these 'safe space' and 'micro-aggression' idiots running around college campuses, and soon to be holding employee education seminars in your workplace.

You will learn how saying "I'm not a racist." ACTUALLY makes you a racist. How saying to the black woman at the office "Your hair looks nice today." is racist, and a subtle insult that she usually has a nappy head.

You will learn that asking the Asian person in your math class for help is racist, because you are assuming that all Asians are good at math. So, if you asked the Asian person "Are you good at math?" in order to find out IF they actually could actually be helpful, realize that too would be racist.

You might want to try "Excuse me, Sum Yung Guy, do you think you could be helpful in discussing various mathematical problems with a C+ student in order to improve his or her marks?"

Reality TV is made to socially engineer people, and the acceptance of drug use, alcohol use, opulent lifestyles, and various political, moral, and social issues that have all been addressed in media to try and win people over.

When TV was first widely available, even a husband and wife could not be shown in the same bed. Now? Likely everything a man and woman can do in bed has been committed to film.

Society has simply kept pushing the boundaries, and pressed for more and more freedom to act out, and to be accepted for how we act. People as a general rule now have little shame for how they act in public. Nudity, vulgar language, open drug use, violence, alcohol abuse. Don't expect an apology if you're upset by it, or it happens in front of your kids. People rarely are embarrassed anymore. The conventional wisdom seems to be if you don't like it, look somewhere else. I'm entitled. Your refusal to encourage and appreciate my self expression displays your lack of sophistication, and an obviously bigoted view of human diversity.

Whatever you say snowflake.

Sorry, but where I come from it's just 'squirrel !'. That way everyone looks. There's no need to say 'look', it's superfluous.

Didn't know you had a copyright on how one refers to rodentia. Have your people call my people.

The context was to encapsulate the point, and emphasize the need for the reader to be attentive to the events taking place. Perfectly valid.

I appreciate however that people care enough to critique my posts on a message board that maybe 50 out of about 7 billion people may read.

Gives me hope for humanity, man.

*sniff* (honk!) ewwww (tosses tissue)

Wow, talk about perfect timing....The White House is in full back slapping mode, talking to the press tonight a mile a minute about how they might have finally killed 'Jihad John', the masked executioner of ISIS. The death is not yet confirmed, but the WH says he was targeted in the drone attack.

A couple other stories from the news today that the White House evidently DIDN'T want to talk to you about.......

First, a Secret Service agent was arrested in a sting operation involving adults attempting to have sex with underage children. He was a member of the White House security detail, and used computers and cellphones WHILE in the WH, to send pics of himself to a 14 yr old girl in order to set up a meeting for sex. The 'girl' was a cop on the internet. He turned himself in and confessed.

Second, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter fires his personal aide Lt. General Ron Lewis( a three star general) for an unnamed offense and has asked the Inspector General's office to investigate. No one has been able to give even a loose description of the alleged transgression such as it being theft, or sexual harassment issue, or bribery for example. Of note was prior to June this year Lewis was a one-star general. His second and then third stars came within a couple months of each other.

Third, the FBI announced a widening of its probe into Hillary Clinton's emails. Looking now at laws that deal with false statements made to the FBI, they are looking to determine what information was provided by Clinton and her aides. If that information was misleading, or covered up other facts, or caused the FBI to engage in extra investigations to confirm or debunk it, charges could be laid. Each felony charge brings a 5 year sentence. These were the same laws used to prosecute Martha Stewart. Of note is that statements need not be given under oath to be subject to the law.

Sooooo, we can talk about how we MAYBE killed a terrorist, OR we can just IGNORE that there is a pedophile guarding the President, that the top aide to the Secretary of Defense has committed some unknown offense that cost him his job, and that your former secretary of state is now being investigated, along with her staff for lying to the FBI, on top of her egregious handling of classified materials.

Funny how the terrorist just happened to get found today.

SQUIRREL!!

Hugh Grant maybe? He may have found some of the 'rough trade' he was searching for years ago when he was still with Elizabeth Hurley.

Tough road ahead for whomever it is though. Lots of drugs out there to help as long as it doesn't escalate into full blown AIDS. You can be HIV+ for life and still live pretty normally.

I think we'll get a hint if certain people decide they won't do romantic scenes or action movies anymore. Thus the reduced chance of passing on any bodily fluids like blood.

Would be ironic if it turns out to be someone who represents the Hollywood AIDS fundraising campaigns.

Based on the description of the exes, I'm thinking maybe Gene Simmons of KISS?

A legendary 'swordsmen' of allegedly 20,000 conquests, rumored to have a massive collection of Polaroids he took of all of them, stored in safety deposit boxes in L.A.

Well, keep in mind that should Michigan 'fall', and become Michiganistan, you realize that it has a border crossing with Canada, right?

So if your concern was that Mexican people smugglers are trying to get the long feared 'dirty bomber' into American via Mexico, how about he just walks across the bridge from Canada?

Merely a hypothesis mind you. People tend to forget that wiping out the infidel is not a next week deal, but is actually a 25 to 50 year plan.

Sure you don't want to reconsider unrestricted mosque construction? Not like they've ever been used for anything illegal, right?

Well Michigan already has 'Dearbornistan' which refers to parts of Dearborn being overrun by the Muslim community, and what it has meant to the non-Muslim locals there.

After the gay wedding pizzeria issue in Indiana, some guy went with a hidden video camera to the Muslim bakeries in Dearborn. He asks the store owner do you make wedding cakes? OF course, says the baker. Do you do picture cakes? Sure, says the baker. Our intrepid reporter then pulls out a picture of him and a buddy holding hands. He says he wants this picture on his cake, and something like 'I Love You Steve'.

The baker 'suddenly' can't make the cake, BUT see his buddy at the bakery across the street. So the scenario is repeated across the street, down the block, around the corner, the next block over, etc etc.

We never see a Muslim bakery in Dearborn that would agree to a same sex wedding cake. Don't recall THAT as a national debate on CNN for a week like Memories Pizza was.

I love watching the Israel haters and the Palis whine. Is Israel perfect? By no means. Has Israel engaged in excessive force against the Palis? For sure. Not everyone can get shot by 'accident'. But in my opinion, they've brought it on themselves.

Do Israeli cops and soldiers beat on Pali rock throwing kids when they think no one is watching? I have no doubt.

Why? They are trying to beat out of these kids the idea that it's ok to attack Israel, and that they don't want it continuing for another almost 70 years. The cops and soldiers are frustrated that for some of them, they've done this almost daily their entire adult lives.

The Palis say 'Israel should obey the UN! The UN says Israel should do this and Israel should do that. Obey the UN!'

Look a Palestinian in the eye and ask him, 'Well the UN created Israel. Why can't YOU obey what the UN says and leave them alone?' The Palis freak out at that point.'The Jews stole our land, we have to get it back!' and off they go screaming about how the Jews ripped them off.

Israel for it's part has always looked the UN in the face and said 'Ok, you want us to do X. No problem. Just one condition. We have these wackjobs living next door. You policy puts us at risk. Can you, the UN guarantee our safety if we agree to your resolution?'

The UN always says No, it can't guarantee Israel's safety. So then Israel says, why would we do it?

Here's something everyone needs to think about though. We are seven decades removed from the holocaust. Those who have direct knowledge of it are almost all dead. The first generation born after the war are in their 70's and are leaving government service. Up until now, Israel as a country, and as a government always had a very good idea of what genocide is. They have been hesitant to wipe out the Palis because it almost happened to the Jews. So Israel has an institutional moral conscience, and that has always applied the brakes to bombing the Palis into extinction.

As they get further removed from history, and as the carriers of the Holocaust story die off, the moral locks on the Israeli conscience become looser. I don't think Palis understand that there will be a day where Israel has a moral certitude about wiping them out, and will actually look to do so. Only the desire to stop killing Jews actually ensures the survival of the Palis in the future.

Maybe a car left running near an open window? Pop the hood (bonnet) to see maybe if someone had a leaky exhaust manifold?

Carbon monoxide poisoning you'd expect more kids passing out, vomiting, blue fingernails due to lack of oxygen, impaired decision making on the part of the adults, etc.

Story says they deployed a HAZMAT unit, so they should have been able to 'sniff' mechanically for it with detection equipment.

Schools have been terror targets over the last 40 years. Over 3,000 attacks on schools in 110 countries since 1970. These 'attacks' range from simple arson to looting, and even missile strikes and armed occupation by security forces or insurgent attacks.

Could it have been a 'recon' of the school to see generally how first responders would deploy, and how quickly? Wouldn't be the first time.

Security forces in Israel and coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan became targets of secondary attacks when responding to primary incidents. A device would be detonated, or an armed attack initiated. Lookouts would then wait for 15-20 minutes as scores of first responders flooded the area. Once the desired 'density' of personnel was present, a second and more powerful device would be detonated killing and wounding emergency workers and security forces.

I would check CCTV recordings in the area for someone sitting in a vehicle or standing on a street corner checking their watch before the first emergency vehicle arrives. Maybe check cell tower records for text messages that could be construed as a 'go' code or a 'mission successful' message.

New catch phrase for the left...

"Ears Up! (Don't Speak!)"
"Ears Up! (Don't Speak!)"

I'm offended, that you would be offended, by the offense of offensiveness, in order to illustrate in an entirely inoffensive manner, how offensive it is to be offended, where no offense is intended!

(shakes head a couple times after squeezing that one out.)

The asst prof Click only resigned from a 'courtesy appointment', not from her real job. The courtesy appointment to another 'school' of study is given to a staff member who provides valuable assistance, but not so much as to warrant being given another assistant professor or professor appointment. Just an overblown thank you.

Another professor however did resign today after it was discovered he had sent his students a social media posting encouraging them to come to class for a test and not be intimidated by the events on campus. He originally said he would give the test to anyone who showed up.

Instead of taking back their school from the PC bullies, a number of students complained the prof was not providing a 'safe space' for them and this was unacceptable behavior from the prof.

A short time later he posted that there would be no test, it would be given another time with no penalties for missing it today, and oh yeah, by the way he was resigning.

Apparently he was well liked by many of the students. I don't know why the prof just rolled over, but maybe it was to prove a point. Once the PC crowd condemns you, your career is over at that campus.

Personally, if I ever had a kid from that school for a job interview, I'd have the rejection e-mail sent before they even left the building. These kids have become so full of themselves in 'social justice warrior' mode they would destroy any corporate cohesiveness your company has managed to construct up to this point in its history.

Let's just say, not team players.

Well that took the discussion right off the rails.....so let's try to get it back on.

The POINT is this company is falling all over itself to engage in verbal bafflegab in order to justify a change to its service that has be the norm for several years.

INSTEAD of spouting new age crap that the new cup design 'allows everyone to tell their story' just give a clear reason for the change.

The THEORY is that people complained the images on the cup represented Christmas, so in turn THAT means they represented Christianity. MANY people are not comfortable with that idea. Hence your kids schools having a 'The Festival of Lights' or a 'Holiday Concert' or a 'Winter Celebration' instead of a Christmas Concert.

Starbucks feeling the heat, decided to dump these nasty 'Christian' images entirely. You know, like the evangelical snowflake, Lutheran wrapped present,and Baptist winking Santa!

So instead of coming clean, and risking a groundswell of Christian dollars walking down the street to Dunkin' Donuts, it tried to BS its way out of removing what were actually NON-RELIGIOUS symbols to appease the complainers.

Hey Starbucks? Nut up, tell the truth, and suck up whatever the consequences to your bottom line might be. I'd think more highly of you if you did, and might actually buy a coffee from your pretentious barrista training facility one day.

What I find disheartening is that people try to apologize for these honor killings by applying a label that the killers have misinterpreted their religion, or are somehow 'radical' or 'fundamentalist'.

The story plainly says... "Baric affirmed that given immigration trends in the last decade -- an influx from Middle Eastern and South Asian countries where honor violence is part of the culture -- the problem will continue to worsen if authorities don't identify and address it."

The key words 'part of the culture'. Not part of the religion. It's how things are in THAT part of the world. C-U-L-T-U-R-A-L.

So when honor killings happen in Middle Eastern countries and are accepted as the 'cultural norm', how come when they happen in North America we immediately go into "Oh Islam is peaceful, he's just a little confused." mode?

Stop mollycoddling Muslims as somehow being people incapable of barbaric behavior just because you'd feel better if it weren't true. Take the time to actually read the Koran. Read the Hadith. Read the Green Book written by the old Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran. Women and girls are treated like garbage, and clerics provide the religious justifications for it every day.

Honor killings are murder,pure and simple. When the cops interview these killers they never have remorse, because they know it was their duty to do so. They never plead insanity, and are proud of what they've done. Western elites and intelligentsia simply need to stop making excuses for the behavior.

Last time I looked, the shrapnel from a car bomb never cared if you voted for Obama or not......

*drops mic*