Wingnut anti-Muslim hysteria finally turned violent in New York this week, when a psychopathic rat-eyed 21-year-old blob obsessed with American soldiers and burning with insane hatred for American Muslims repeatedly stabbed a Manhattan taxi driver in the throat with one of those stupid “Leatherman” pocket knives. “I saw so much anger on his face, so much hate,” 43-year-old cabbie Ahmed Sharif said. “I begged him, ‘Please don’t kill me.’ I was thinking about my four kids.” Sharif, an American resident for a quarter century, was able to shut the partition window and lock the drunken lunatic in the back of the cab until police arrived. They charged Michael Enright, 21, with “attempted murder as a hate crime.” Supposedly a film student from upstate, Enright had spent a month videotaping U.S. troops in Afghanistan and had a Facebook page filled with the usual stuff (see picture at top right). Enright had a notebook full of crazy anti-Muslim racism and was so drunk he could barely walk. Sharif has huge gashes in his throat but is recovering. The “9/11 Mosque” angle? Yeah, Sharif says his would-be killer was ranting about the Cordoba House project in Manhattan. UPDATE: Or not, as that detail seems to be missing from the NYDN story we read a few hours ago. Anyway, Enright would’ve been about 11 years old on September 11, 2001. [New York Daily News/The Awl/Talking Points Memo/New York Times]- The bullet-pocked corpses of 72 Latino migrants were found on a ranch in northeast Mexico after a deadly shootout between a gang and the Mexican military. The news here, apparently, is that the victims were slaughtered because they couldn’t pay human smugglers the fee demanded to get them across the U.S. border. Most of the killing fields in Mexico these days are littered with the bodies of people connected in some way or other to the Drug Wars — for instance, the baby deliberately shot last week had chosen to be in the same house as some guy a drug gang chased inside. Random women in Juarez are also murdered by the hundreds for no apparent reason. Here’s a fun quote from a Ciudad Juarez policeman: “The killings here are medieval. We have bodies hung headless from bridges, stuffed upside down in giant cactus pots, lined up by a school playing field with their penises rammed in their mouths. Often, they are accompanied by messages written on walls in the victim’s blood.” [CNN]
- Alaska wingnut Joe Miller’s lead has narrowed to 1,668 votes over Senator Lisa Murkowski in the snowbilly state’s GOP primary. But if Miller the Palindrone does win, it will be because he regularly frothed about teen abortions while Lisa M. just wasn’t crazy enough. [Anchorage Daily News/ADN]
IT'S MORNING IN AMERICA
August 26, 2010
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I have nothing funny to say. Too busy thinking about how much I want to kill the world.
[re=645923]Ted Kennedy Breakdancing[/re]: You don’t need to kill the world, it’s doing it to itself all on its own.
Carlin had a great quotation, it had to do with kids, but it fits here for the good ol US of A:
Have you pictured what this planet is gonna be like in forty to fifty years? It’s gonna be a big, smoking pile of shit! A big, smoking, flaming, stinking, pile of gaseous shit! That’s what’s gonna happen!
In that same vein:
I saw a cute kitten on the way to work this morning…
…it was dead.
The End.
Thanks for the uplifting news, Ken! Smooches!
I’m going to put Slayer’s “Disciple” on infinite loop; God does hate us all.
This post is good…with apologies to Ken Mehlman’s boyfriend.
Drunken wannabe film students attempt murder, not paranoid pudgy white boys enraged by right-wing commentators.
Just responding to the comment that he was about 11 on 9/11 . . . speaking as someone who was also 11 in 2001, the other part of this is that the war in Afghanistan has never not been going on. Um. I thought I had more to say than that but I really don’t.
My personal favorite twist on the attempted hate crime murder of the cabbie story is that yesterday afternoon, after this story had been widely reported, Sean Hannity said on his radio show that no one opposing the “mosque” had done anything violent.
This cabbie already had four–count ‘em, FOUR–Terror Babies®! This upstate patriot is a goddamn HERO!
I’ve already stumbled across people blaming the cabbie-stabbing on Obama. Seriously. “Saying he supported the mosque just inflamed tensions, so this is all his fault”.
As, obviously, the constant anti-Muslim rantings of Fox News and its ilk did nothing whatsoever to increase racial and religious tension in New York.
Drunk fat and stupid is no way to go through life.
Let’s add “with people stabbing tendencies” to that list.
[re=645935]PrimlyStable[/re]: Nor will they take, or be held, to any responsibility; words don’t have consequences, people do.
I clicked on all three links to that nutjob story and I didn’t see where the cabdriver claimed that the assailant said anything about the “Ground Zero Mosque”. In fact, two of the stories specifically say it didn’t have anything to do with that. Am I missing something or is that a joke that went over my head. That happens a lot.
At 21 I was more concerned with my burgeoning repuataion as a bit of a slut, when I had had a drink or two, than thinking of stabbing people.
[re=645925]karen[/re]: And that brings to mind a quote from Nietzsche. I don’t recall for certain but I believe that in Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche bemoans the fact that Humanity had reached the point where it no longer had the power to destroy itself. Wouldn’t he be pleasantly surprised?
I’m still shaking my head over the Enright thing. It doesn’t make sense…how do one going from being an interfaith dialog kind of person to an enraged slasher? It’s just that he’s a mean drunk?
I had an elitist Poli Sci prof tell us that the masses like to go through life “fat, dumb and happy.”
I miss the part where anyone is “happy.”
Stabbings, shootings, violent xenophobia, bloodthirsty drug gangs, and Sarah Palin. I’m going back to bed.
[re=645939]Limeylizzie[/re]: The world needs more people that react to alcohol that way, rather than getting all ragey and stabby.
Unfortunately, I think even if this guy wanted to be a slut he’d have trouble with that, which would probably just make him more ragey and stabby.
At least we have Glenn Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ to look forward to this weekend.
Oh, wait!
“Wingnut anti-Muslim hysteria finally turned violent in New York this week”
On some level, Beck and Fox News must be pleased that they are reaching a younger demographic.
[re=645939]Limeylizzie[/re]: At 21, I was most concerned with hooking up with chicks who had the reputation of being sluts, so I could “stab” them with my porksword.
On the Alaska wingnut election, it’ll be fabulous to see what happens when the average Alaskan realizes that electing “constitutional conservative patriots” means an end to getting $6.00 back for the $1.00 in taxes paid in.
In the immortal words of Nelson Muntz; “HAHA!”
I’m sure that the anti-Muslim hatemongers on Fox and their allies will apologize to Mr. Sharif at about the same the anti-choice fundamentalists apologize to Dr. Tiller’s family.
RESTORING HONOR
[re=645944]Formerly Preferred[/re]: My brother and I are complete opposites when drinking. He gets all morose, angry and punchy, whereas I am the quintessential happy drunk. My brother is in AA while I can continue to partake of my scotch. Win!
[re=645939]Limeylizzie[/re]: [re=645944]Formerly Preferred[/re]: Oh, I was never stabby and ragey, just really friendly and enthusiastic!
[re=645934]smitallica[/re]: Are they Anchor Terror Babies?
[re=645950]Baldar T Flagass[/re]: I don’t remember you, but then I recall so few .
[re=645946]chascates[/re]: Dag it chascates, beat me to it.
[re=645944]Formerly Preferred[/re]: Also, he’s bald whereas I still have almost all of my hair (except for some monk dimming). Win!
[re=645935]PrimlyStable[/re]: Its like blaming MLK for all the lynchings in the sixtys. Those colloreds wouldn’t get all uppity if it weren’t for that preacher speaking up about rights and all.
[re=645946]chascates[/re]: I forgot to mention this yesterday, but one of my colleagues told me excitedly that he is flying to Washington, D.C. tomorrow to attend the Glenn Beck rally.
I told him to take some good pictures and to buy me a t-shirt. I hope he comes through.
Indeed a day for depressing news. Also depressing is that here in Colorado Ken Buck, the utterly loathsome teabaggin’ Republican candidate for Senate, is 3% ahead of incumbent democrat Michael Bennet. Of course, the problem in with polling around here is that they only poll registered voters with land lines (who are home to answer them), which skews the polling insanely towards the olds and fams. For a reference point, Ken Buck is the kind of guy who opposes abortion in all cases that do not directly endanger a woman’s life, even in cases of rape and incest. Health care reform, however, “infringes on personal freedom” and “violates states’ rights”.
Northern Mexico is too sad.
Jeez, why didn’t fatty use his “awesome” combatting Muslin skills where they are “useful” like Afghaninam and Iraqinam?
Oh right… fat coward.
Great, another “film student” gone bad. How will we ever compete economically?
[re=645974]ManchuCandidate[/re]: He did go to Afghanistan, armed with a camera and a dream.
[re=645955]Limeylizzie[/re]: Enthusiastic, drunk sluts RAWK! Raging, drunk man-babies not so much.
[re=645976]4tehlulz[/re]:
Soldiers gone Wild?
Seriously, with “combat” skills he might have been useful as infantry. Those Afghaninam mountains would have thinned down his bubble ass if not Mr Taliban.
[re=645957]Limeylizzie[/re]: I used a different [i]nom de roger[/i] back in those days: Roofie Ralph (pronounced rayf).
[re=645941]Dashboard_Buddha[/re]: As a survivor of Bible camps, confirmation class and other attempts at brainwashing, I can assure you that at least half the guys at any interfaith group are doing it not because they actually want to understand anyone else but want everyone else to convert to their way of thinking (and most of the rest are trying to get into someone’s pants). Of course, my reaction to it all was to start realizing all religion is bullshit, just with different flavors (and that no girl in my church group was going to let me in her pants) so I may be a little jaded.
So my guess is the good little Christian soldier wannabe lost his damn mind when he found out Muslims don’t particularly care for prozelytizing fatasses coming to their country and telling them what they need to do.
[re=645965]drpangloss[/re]: From the sixties, it seems with just a couple word changes some of Dylan’s work pretty much describes today:
A loudmouth TV host preaches to the poor white man
“You got more than Arabs, don’t complain
You’re better than them, you been born with white skin” they explain
And the Muslim’s name
Is used it is plain
For the politician’s gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain’t him to blame
He’s only a pawn in their game.
Sadly, I’m fairly confident that this is far from the last of this kind of incident.
[re=645926]Serolf Divad[/re]: Don’t worry, the kitten is in a better place. Gamboling with yarn and with a hundred cow tits to drink from. The dead people, not so much.
[re=645987]Berkeley Bear[/re]: Interesting idea…if correct, I bet it will show up in his diaries.
[re=645994]Darkness[/re]: Arguably, anybody no longer living in Juarez is in a better place.
[re=645939]Limeylizzie[/re]: Could you please expand on the circumstances, particulars, and events that led you to be concerned with the growing perception of you, at age 21 with a couple of drinks in you, as a slut? No page limit.
[re=645966]loquaciousmusic[/re]: You can order a free t-shirt from Off-the-Mark Levin at: https://www.sickofspending.com/ I’m sure I can find a homeless guy in the city who will wear it.
[re=645939]Limeylizzie[/re]: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: You are welcome here anytime!
Why did Ken run John Candy’s high school yearbook photo?
[re=646019]Tundra Grifter[/re]: On that website, Levin is shown to be standing under water, yet he wearith not a breathing apparatus. Mark Levin is Aquaman?
[re=645973]weejee[/re]: So are we. Because of filth like this.
There was some good news yesterday, though: CNN: Armed Christian militia pulls support for ‘Burn a Quran’ event.
I can hardly wait for Saturday.
[re=646014]V572625694[/re]: Being one of the very few authentic working-class women and an ex-skinhead at a very snooty British university can make a gal go a little wild. That and my awesome rack.
[re=646021]Tundra Grifter[/re]: Why , thank you kindly.In an earlier life I would have thanked you more profoundly.
[re=646024]Dashboard_Buddha[/re]: It’s not water. It’s semen.
The good news is that this chubby faced beady eyed twerp might go to prison and become somebody’s personal butt plug!
That slanty twat Malkin was on faux this morning accusing ‘the left’ of jumping to conclusions about this guy being a teabagger (nobody said teabagger, just a rightie muslim hater) and that he was actually a left wing fanatic. Because clearly left wing fanatics always hate the mooslemms, right?
[re=646027]Limeylizzie[/re]:
Feel free to elaborate at length about your awesome rack. Inquiring minds
wantneed to know.True things:
+Prohibition works to reduce use of prohibited substance and crime related to use thereof.
+Imposing Democracy on countries with histories of internal strife, usually relgion-based, works.
+Ken Mehlman is straight.
What?
[re=646052]Oblios Cap[/re]: When is comes to rack awesomeness, I would like to stress that quality, not just amplitude, is very important. Slender, runner types with teeny boobies can have a very nice rack, just in smaller portions.
Not that I would know anything about this issue.
[re=645926]Serolf Divad[/re]: “FOR SALE: Baby kitten, never born.”
[re=646070]Doglessliberal[/re]:
We’re in total agreement.
That idiot’s picture is just screaming to be captioned “Tough guy, eh?”
[re=646082]Extemporanus[/re]: You know, Hemingway shot himself.
[re=645957]Limeylizzie[/re]: You, my Dear, are why I miss living in jolly Ole England so, so badly! When I came back to the states, I found that “enthusiastic” was replaced by “whaddayagonnagiveme??”
[re=645943]Manos: Hands of Fate[/re]: Isn’t it the shits that, of all the dangerous threats you speak of, the lowest threats to the US are the “bloodthirsty drug gangs”? ALL HAIL MEXICAN COCAINE!!! At least it ain’t Sarah Palin!!
Just like the abortion-doctor murderers. Apocalypse NOW, alfuckinready.
After seeing The Daily Show and Assif Mandvi’s “Tennessee No Evil” piece on the Murfreesboro hater “christian” harpy who doesn’t want a terrorist Muslin mosque in her town but insists that it “has nothing to do with religion,” I was reminded of a ‘lil ditty called “Rednecks.”
With apologies to Randy Newman
Last night I saw Miz Laurie on The Daily Show
Yeah, that smart ass New York Jew
And the Jew laughed at that godly woman
The audience laughed at our christian woman too
Well she may be a fool but she’s our fool
If they think they’re better than her they’re wrong
So I went to the park and I took some paper along
And that’s where I made this song
We talk real funny down here
We don’t know too much and we hate out loud
We’re too dumb to make it in some Northern town
And we’re keepin’ the muslins down
We got dumb-fuck senators from Texas
And us good ol’ boys from Tennessee
And college men from LSU
Went in dumb. Came out dumb too
Hustlin’ ’round Gainesville in their alligator shoes
Gettin’ drunk every weekend at the barbecue
And they’re keepin’ the muslins down
CHORUS
We’re racists – we’re rednecks
We don’t know our ass from a hole in the ground
We’re bigots, we’re rednecks
We are keepin’ the (sand) niggers down.
[re=645973]weejee[/re]: It’s very depressing, but it’s informative as to why maybe there are so many actually law-abiding Mexicans fleeing, across the US border. It ends up, it’s largely not because they’re evil jobstealing terror baby momma’s, so much as because they’re refugees of a pretty horrific scene. And so, even despite the racial profiling, and random tasings/beatings, and kidnappings by the people traffickers themselves (something which is sort of glossed over when people call AZ the “kidnapping capitol of America” is that most of the people being kidnapped are undocumented) and whatnot, it’s still better than staying where they are.
Of course, rather than deal with the actual crimes like kidnappings and extortion by the human traffickers themselves, let’s focus on the people fleeing killing fields at great personal risk, and vilify that group, while also pretending that the horrific stuff happening South of the border is actually happening up here, instead. It’s a great plan that’s certain to fix everything.
[re=646094]GoinGreen[/re]: Yeah Socialism…we are delighted to share the bounty for free!
Drunken sluttery wins the morning! Or at least prevents it from being too depressing.
[re=646024]Dashboard_Buddha[/re]: He’s also starting quite the boiler – no surprise there.
Is The Blob wearing a Cuervo gimmie cowboy hat? I can’t quite read the front label, but that’s my guess. And I sticking to it…
“I begged him, ‘Please don’t kill me.’ I was thinking about my four kids.”
Now we see what those muslin’s are really like. Wanting to live, thinking of their
kidsanchorterror babies. That proves they don’t place the same value onhumanAmerican life as patriotic cab drivers.I want to send this guy a check, for medical expenses. (Mr. Ahmed Sharif, not the murderous bloated toddler.) Anyone have a link?
[re=646109]bago[/re]: Yeah, I only bring it up as a sort of diversion against the hideous news of the day, well, and it was unbelievable fun at the time.
[re=646119]Tundra Grifter[/re]: His shirt says “Irish” something. Many of Irish extraction not happy about that.
Finally, I see it; the redneck rallying-cry “Yeeee-Haw” is the ‘Murrican English cognate of “Jiiii-Had.” Its the same thing!
oh, and also, ordinarily, I find prison-rape jokes distasteful, but in this case, well, there is comfort in knowing that odds are, at this very moment, porky here is squeeling like a pig.
[re=646125]my cup of tea[/re]: not finding anything so far besides others asking.
[re=646127]Limeylizzie[/re]: Thanks for lightening the mood with titty-talk!
Another wingnut wannabe soldier, who in his drunken state, lost his ability to separate fantasy and reality. Now he’s going to get introduced to the many muslims who occupy our prison system. Good luck in Attica!
[re=646169]DemmeFatale[/re]: Always happy to do so.
At least this Muslim hating drunk wasn’t the stabbing kind.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38863919/ns/us_news-life/
It’s getting ugly out there.
Here’s a “poem” I wrote walking to work this morning, before I’d even read any of this news:
Sidewalk Sparrow
Only sleeping? No.
[re=646089]Doglessliberal[/re]: I’ll get right on that…
There are days when my morbid wonderment with the sheer absurdity of America is the only thing that keeps me from killing myself.
Anyone checked that Teabagger’s guide to D.C. site lately to see if they now recommend bringing a Leatherman?
[re=646042]mayor_quimby[/re]: Wait, I thought we left-wing fanatics LOVED teh Mooslims, and want everyone to live under Sharia law. And least, that’s what the teabaggers are always telling us.
[re=646252]Extemporanus[/re]: No! Not suggesting you do, just noting that I don’t want you drifting too far down that hole…
[re=646042]mayor_quimby[/re]: Beat me to the punch. I would have thought it would have taken until tonight before someone went full retard and blame this act of violence on the Left.
Hey, the fact that we can know instantly that humanity is a fucked up tub of greasy grimy gopher guts doesn’t mean we’ve entered the End Times. This shit has gone on for thousands upon thousands of years. You don’t think people were going nuts when Rome fell? Oh, they were.
[re=646160]Prommie[/re]: Oh, and just wait until he’s convicted and the Black Muslim brothers in prison (not that I’m saying that there ARE any Black Muslims in prison) get a crack at him. Rape would be the least of his worries. I give him a week.
Admittedly, it’s hard to tell. But that sure looks like a 20 gauge to me, i.e., a Girl’s Gun.
[re=646426]Neilist[/re]: Is that Buzz Lightyear standing to his left? “TO INFINITY AND…!”
Oh please, please, please let Fat Boy McDumbass share a cell with a Muslin. Please please please, Muhammad, pretty please.
[re=646426]Neilist[/re]: makes sense for this punk, but not girly, just cowardly to stab someone from behind while they are watching the road.
Maybe he will get drunk and shoot himself, now that would be a happy ending.
I went to Juarez a few years ago. The bridge between El Paso and Juarez is possibly the saddest place in America.
The mass killing of girls and young women has been going on there for a decade or so now, probably with police cover up or involvement.
Now it has expanded to everyone else.
At the risk of pissing on every single Wonketter, knowing full well how you love your alcohol, I think one of the opertive words here has to be “drunken”. Drunk people are often assholes, in ways they would never be when sober. But I’m not trying to excuse this asshole, hate is bad, knife cuts to the throat NOT acceptable, just saying drunk=stupid sometimes.
[re=646265]Accordion-o-rama[/re]: you bring a leatherman to dc in January for Mid-Atlantic Leather silly not in the summer
[re=646596]heathenish[/re]: Except for the hate filled diaries he was carrying (see more recent press articles for source), drunk stupid would be the obvious explanation. But it turns out, not so much. Or perhaps, not entirely. I will say, he sure looks sober in today’s pics.
[re=646426]Neilist[/re]: Why, because it takes a girl’s superior accuracy to hit a trap with less that a foot diameter spread of shot?
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