H&I* Fires, 18 APR 2007

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Excuse the interrupt and out of sequence post:
Hey, Koreans! Don't take on a sense of collective guilt over this. Don't listen to the jackalopes who are going nutso right now. It wasn't your fault. He's not a reflection of you all anymore than the Unibomber was representative of Caucasians.

There's no need for S. Korea, the Korean-American community, or individual families that just happen to have Korean blood in them to apologize or feel any shame over this. There's no need for you to feel any worse than the rest of us about this. Don't let anybody brow beat you over this. It wasn't your fault. It had absolutely no connection to you in any real sense. His parents were from the 'Hermit Kingdom'. That's the only connection you and this gun spree nutjob had. That's it. That's the same as my connection to Michael Collins because my family is from Ireland---i.e. an absolutely unsubstantial one. Not your fault. Don't feel responsible for it. It isn't about you. It's about him.

Hey jackalopes! Don't be jackholes about it, people. Being Korean or Christian or anything other than him being a sick, sick man had nothing to do with this. Grow up and stop trying to find a group of people to hate. This kind of nonsense angers me. So knock it off already(particularly you, Ms. swsnbn(ss!)). Join the 21st Century would you?
--ry
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She who shall not be named (she'll sue!) shows that she's damn near insane, if not a full blown bigot, here.

You know what swsnbn(ss!)? Ismail Ax could be a WoW (World of Warcraft for the non-online gaming crowd) handle or on par with writing 'Holden Caufield' on his arms as it this point as nobody knows what it means or why that jackalope wrote it. Not everything that happens is part of a Islamicist/Terrorist plot. Put the remote control down. Pop that '24' dvd out your player. You're getting paranoid, swsnbn(ss!) and making the rest of us look bad.

I think someone better check if swsnbn(ss!) is armed and refer her to some psych counseling regardless.
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Gray and Pink. Can't be better highlighted than this.
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Eugene Volohk offers his opinion on 'what we're going to do about it?'
-- ry
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Oh, and the Lord Salamander, Der 'Phibian, has a post about the future Zumwalt class/DDG-1000 destroyer.

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My, La Schussel is on a tear, isn't she? Complete with all caps shouting and stuff. You can name her, Ry, just don't post pictures of her. That would be bad.

-the Armorer

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SWWBO - it looks like we'll have to be careful when we do that bathroom re-model... H/t, Mike L. -the Armorer

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Thinking big. Really big. Really really big.

Then there's...Piggybacking - I'm of the opinion that if you have a wireless network, and you don't secure it from unauthorized users, you're an idiot. Interesting issues raised in this article. I'm of the opinion if you are too lazy to read the very simple instructions that come with a wireless router - and don't at least set up MAC-address level security on your network, you're laying out an invitation. It isn't rocket science. If you literally cannot comprehend the router instructions, then you should either pay someone to do it for you, or skip it and stick with a cable. I'm continually amazed at how many unsecure networks there are when I travel. The three that currently exist in my neighborhood either use encryption or MAC-address level access control.-the Armorer

Lastly - Bill - while I'm glad your Governor is recovering, just what was he doing that justified his using emergency lights to speed along the highway? And one hopes his ticket for no seatbelt is in the mail. *Especially* if the state is picking up the medical tab. -the Armorer

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-Kat

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Building on the "broken clock" theme regarding La Schlussel that Oldloadr and I are jousting about in the comments, comes this - which, in a sense, supports both of us.

First it was Johnny Muhammad, now it was [He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Space] aka Ismail Ax. Precisely how many mass shooters have to turn out to have adopted Muslim names before we get it? Islam has become the tribe of choice of those who hate American society. I'm not talking about people who grew up as Muslims, confident and secure in their faith, good fathers, sons and neighbors. I'm talking about the angry, malignant, narcissist loners who want to reject their community utterly, to throw off their 'slave name' and represent the downtrodden of the earth by shooting their friends and neighbors.

Herein lies the crux, and what Ry was after with his bigotry comment. La Schlussel sees a mosque-driven conspiracy in every olive-skinned bearded face she runs across who is behaving less than properly in her view - and, I suspect, figures the others are just hiding it better. And she can certainly be right, and just as often, or more so, wrong. I see the shooter in the mold from the quote - he was a faddist murderer, adopting a form that is highly visible - lending credence to La Schlussel's attitudes, while not actually being the same thing - but in enables tarring with a wide brush. Just as the lone internet geek paradigm tars with a wide brush.

You can read the rest here, at TCS Daily. -the Armorer

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