It’s not a “failure of leadership”

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is calling Mayor Barret’s veto of the city’s latest half-assed public transportation proposal a failure of leadership.

What the Journal editorial writers fail to understand is that real leadership sometimes means refusing to take people to a place they shouldn’t be going.

(For example, tadalafil healing the Donner party was definitely a failure of leadership.)

Add comment May 11th, 2006

When it comes to the death penalty the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel isn’t being fair

Today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial argues that Wisconsin shouldn’t reinstate the death penalty because there is no way to administer it “fairly.”

Soft thinking, cialis stuff as usual.

The same argument could be made of any punishment for any crime.

Since no two crimes are exactly alike, any attempt to punish two slightly different crimes using a pre-defined system will be inherently unfair to some degree.

1 comment May 10th, 2006

Why settle for two posts on the same topic when you can have three?

Jessica McBride has a good take I missed on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s “Get-to-Know-Islam Better” editorial.

Rick at Shark and Shepherd weighs in here.

Add comment May 4th, 2006

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel chides us for “misunderstanding” Islam.

The editorial writers at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel just can’t understand how Americans can have a negative view of Islam.

They note:

A Washington Post-ABC News poll in early March showed negative views of Islam have grown and that many Americans believe that Islam encourages violence against non-Muslims.

They go on to say:

Let us suggest that misperceptions abound precisely because so does much ignorance.

I’d like to offer an alternative explanation.

Perhaps it isn’t ignorance, viagra generic check but knowledge that makes so many Americans disagree with the Journal Sentinel’s assertion that “real” Islam is just an innocent victim of American ignorance.

The knowledge that:

• The legitimate ISLAMIC leaders of Iran called for Salman Rushdie to be murdered for having the gall tor write a novel that could be seen as critical of Islam.
• The murderers who caused 9/11 did so with “Allah’s” name on their lips.
• Every day innocents in Iraq and Israel are being killed by ISLAMIC suicide bombing martyrs.
• Theo van Gogh was murdered by an offended Muslim.
• Hundreds died in the riots over CARTOONS of Mohammed.
• The legitimate muslims in Afghanistan wanted to kill a man for renouncing Islam in favor of Christianity.

Instead of questioning why so many Americans think Islam is a religion that encourages hatred and violence, sick perhaps the Journal Sentinel should be asking why so many Muslims seem to embrace hatred and violence in the name of their religion.

5 comments May 4th, 2006

The headline read: “Parents say MPS lags in providing special education”

But couldn’t the headline of this article just have read “Parents say MPS lags in providing any education?”

Add comment May 1st, 2006

As usual, the Journal Sentinel is not doing a bang-up job when it comes to guns.

Words matter.

After reading today’s anti-gun editorial in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, discount viagra advice I have to conclude that the members of the editorial board either don’t understand the plain meaning of words or have a political agenda they are trying to move forward by torturing the English language to mislead readers and misrepresent reality.

According to the editorial:

Barrett told the Journal Sentinel Editorial Board last week there were 26 homicides this year in Milwaukee as of Thursday, check 19 of them caused by firearms. Between 70% and 80% of all homicides in Milwaukee result from firearms, nurse he said.

No. None of those homicides were “caused” by firearms.

The only way a firearm can “cause” a murder is if the dispute was ABOUT the firearm.

Firearms can be used in murders. They do not cause them.

(Some of you might remember the post I made debunking the claim that guns “cause” crimes. In a nutshell, more than 99.99 percent of the guns in America are NOT used in a crime. If guns cause crime they don’t seem to be very good at it.)

What causes crime in Milwaukee is an inner-city culture that does not value education, traditional families, or taking responsibility.

However, that being said, I agree with the Journal Sentinel’s main point that it should be easier to keep track of handguns.

I am not one of those people who think keeping track of guns is the first step towards confiscation. Law abiding gun owners do themselves no favor by allowing their guns to be lumped in with the ones used by killers in the inner cities.

In fact, I would really like to see the sale and ownership of handguns in America follow these rules:

1.) Anyone can own and keep a gun in their home.

2.) Anyone (except felons) can legally carry a gun after taking training and obtaining a license.

3.) Gun sales and transfers are carefully tracked. If a gun you own/owned is used for a crime, you are held partially responsible unless you documented a transfer or reported it stolen.

4.) Guns are manufactured in a way where only the legitimate owner can fire the weapon. (I’m looking forward to the day when the technology exists to accomplish this. It might take the form of RFID tags embedded in the gun and in a ring worn by the owner. Or maybe even some sort of DNA reading technology. Either way, I believe a day will come when a child won’t be able to hurt himself or others with his parent’s gun because the gun won’t fire for anyone but the legitimate owner.)

Add comment May 1st, 2006

Maybe little pinch?

The “crab” commercial for the Honda Element is the first piece of advertising in years that made me smile.

Watch it once (just click on the crab in the lower lefthand corner), cialis sales remedy and I promise you too will be asking “why no pinch?”

1 comment April 30th, 2006

Sensenbrenner is a “hurdle,” but Feingold is “heroic?”

When Wisconsin Congressman James Sensenbrenner takes a principled stand against illegal immigration, viagra sales recipe he’s called a “hurdle, viagra sale ” “willfulll,” and a “buzzsaw” in the pages of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

(They also implied Sensenbrenner is standing in the way of immigration “reforms,” even though he’s the one who initiated the immigration reform discussion in the first place.)

But when Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold grandstands by calling for a censure of the president of the United States, the references the paper chooses include “heroic” and “guts.”

Perhaps the Journal Sentinel should consider keeping the editorializing out of their news stories and restricting it to the editorial page where it belongs.

Add comment April 28th, 2006

When Political Correctness can be deadly

A 12-year-old boy is missing.

Of course, tadalafil order if I saw him, discount I wouldn’t know it.

Because, as usual, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel would rather be politically correct than give us a full description that included the boy’s race.

1 comment April 28th, 2006

The only thing illegal immigrants are demonstrating is their own chutzpah

In an editorial about the ongoing illegal immigration debate, viagra canada health the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said:

Demonstrations are as American as apple pie, viagra canada which makes puzzling the vilification in some quarters of those demonstrating.

No. What’s puzzling is the people who don’t understand that demonstrations are fine…sneaking illegally into another country and then demonstrating for rights and privleges you haven’t earned is not.

10 comments April 26th, 2006