Mid-Week Post

For the median of the work week....


Breaking: a guard is shot at the DC headquarters of the Family Research Council:

A gunman wounded a security guard on Wednesday at the headquarters of Family Research Council, a conservative Christian lobbying group, police said.

The male guard was shot in the arm when he confronted the gunman in the lobby of the building in downtown Washington, a police spokesman said.

Other guards wrestled the gunman to the ground and he was taken into custody. The wounded guard was taken to a hospital, where he is in stable condition, the spokesman said.

The weapon was recovered and the motive for the attack is unknown. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and police are investigating.

In a statement, President Tony Perkins said: “Our first concern is with our colleague who was shot today. Our concern is for him and his family.”

Also:

Two people, including a security guard, were reportedly shot this morning at the headquarters of the pro-life group Family Research Council. ...


Sources told Fox New that after guard took away his gun, the suspect said, “Don’t shoot me, it was not about you, it was what this place stands for.” ...

And what does the place stand for, crackpot?


Cue the blame games from the typical wags.



Saguenay mayor Jean Tremblay offers a sharp retort to Parti Quebecois candidate Djemila Benhabib after she said she would ban the crucifix from the provincial legislature:

What angered the mayor of Saguenay, Que., this week was word that Benhabib, as a committed secularist, would prefer that the crucifix be pulled down from the provincial legislature.

For the purposes of the current election, Benhabib is actually backing the PQ policy that the cross should stay because it’s an important piece of Quebec’s history.

But that wasn’t good enough for Jean Tremblay, the mayor of Saguenay, Que. The conservative, religious mayor has fought a high-profile court battle to keep praying at council meetings — another practice that would be curbed under the PQ’s Charter of Secularism.

“I don’t like that these people come here and try to impose their rules,” the populist mayor said in an interview with Montreal radio station 98.5 FM.

“They’re going to make our culture and religion disappear… We pushover French-Canadians are going to let someone who’s coming here from Algeria dictate to us how to behave, how to respect our culture? We can’t even pronounce her name.”

Ouch.


The nastiness aside, the crucifix is as integral to the withering Quebecois culture as the sugar shack is. The answer to cultural encroachment is not secularism but defending one's culture.


Give Syria nothing:

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has abruptly reversed course on his plan to get badly needed medical supplies into Syria by way of a Canadian aid organization.

Just days after travelling all the way to Jordan to announce some $2-million in aid, Baird confirmed Wednesday that the government will not be providing the money to the group known as Canadian Relief for Syria.

“We wanted to ensure that supplies could make their way to the victims of the Assad regime in the best way possible, and that it wouldn’t fund things like warehouses and infrastructure,” Baird said.

Why aid and embolden the same sort of people who gave us the disastrous Arab Spring?



Related: Israel has a fight on its hands:

An Eilat Sub-District Police spokesman said two massive explosions were heard in Israel's southern-most city Wednesday evening. The IDF confirmed that following reports of blasts, forces have begun scouring the area to check whether the explosions were a result of a Grad rocket attack.

As long as they are not walking over immigrants who applied legally and jumped through all sorts of hoops to be Americans:

Young illegal immigrants are scrambling to get passports and other records in order as the Homeland Security Department starts accepting applications to allow them to avoid deportation and get work permits.

Homeland Security announced the details Tuesday of what documents illegal immigrants would need to prove that they are eligible for the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The announcement came a day before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services was set to begin letting people apply for the program.

Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants potentially could benefit from the program, which President Barack Obama announced in June. The program is beginning just months before what promises to be a tight contest for the White House in which the Hispanic vote may play an important role.

Do we need any more proof that the current administration is a corrupt, fetid pile of cheatery?



This is how retarded the left is:

The headline in Mother Jones reads “Ryan Sponsored Abortion Bill That Would Make Romney’s Kids Criminals.” The subhead declares: “The VP candidate pushed an anti-abortion bill that would outlaw IVF— which Mitt Romney’s children used.” Other outlets, including the Post, have repeated the charges, though in less stark terms. (Our piece, picked up from the Canadian Press, is headlined “Would Paul Ryan’s anti-abortion, anti-IVF bill criminalize Mitt Romney’s son?”) The answer is No:  the allegations are balderdash. Ryan may be “as pro-life as a person can get” (his words), and he has certainly made no bones about wanting to ban abortion, but there is no evidence that he believes in criminalizing in vitro fertilization, and efforts to imply otherwise in order to create a neat little conflict (oooh, Romney’s runningmate would put Romney’s kids in prison if he could!) are misleading and irresponsible.

Again, it must be said: the guy currently in the White House is incompetent and creating distractions only allows him to further ruin you.



Why didn't we have these before?

The U.S. government has agreed to hand over videotapes of Omar Khadr's mental health assessments to Canadian officials, a condition set by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews before he could be transferred to Canadian custody.

The Canadian Press reports the military commission that tried Khadr for killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan agreed to provide the recordings after a joint application by both prosecution and defence lawyers.

The Canadian government already had complete transcripts of the two separate assessments, one each for the prosecution and defence, leading to accusations Toews was stalling the transfer, which was part of Khadr's plea agreement. ...

The U.S. government would like to get rid of him as it tries to fulfill President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign promise to close Guantanamo.

The assessment by Dr. Michael Welner, a key prosecution witness at Khadr's 2010 trial, found the young man was an unrepentant and dangerous jihadist, The Canadian Press says.

A second report by U.S. military psychologist Maj. Alan Hopewell concluded Khadr was defensive and manipulative but mentally stable, upbeat and an independent thinker who considers himself a Canadian.

Khadr pleaded guilty in October 2010 to several charges, including murder in violation of the law of war, in return for an eight-year sentence and an agreement he could be transferred to Canadian custody after serving one more year in Guantanamo.

Omar Khadr murdered and expressed no remorse for killing medic Christopher Speer. Discuss.



Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty lukewarm on the al-Quds rally, the participants of which declare "claims" about the Holocaust "fraudulent":


"I had not known that many of the claims they made about the Holocaust that I had believed unquestioningly for so long were in fact fraudulent."


(two paws up)