Sunday questions
Why is it that the San Bernardino mass shooting wasn't considered terrorism, even by the President, until it was confirmed that Muslim fundamentalism was the motivation? Why are we still separating ISIS-style terrorism from the Christian-fundamentalist terrorism delivered by Robert Dear in Colorado Springs? White people committing mass killings are always referred to as delusional loners, never as part of a larger group of radicalized Christians. Do Muslim jihadists not also fit the profile of the mentally-unstable?---
ISIS is not a country or an army. It's a group of pirates. You prevent them from extending their reach by offering hope for a better future to Muslim moderates, not by dropping bombs on more and more innocent Muslims, radicalizing the survivors.
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Boko Haram has killed more people than ISIS, more than 20,000 during a six-year uprising in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Benin, and Niger. However, virtually none of those 20,000 are white. Thus, there has been scant news coverage.
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I'm excited to be traveling to Yellowstone National Park next summer-- during the centennial celebration of the National Park Service.
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Interesting developments in the saga of Enos Stanley Kroenke moving the NFL's Rams from St. Louis to Los Angeles following this football season. A number of Kroenke's associates in the NFL cabal seem to favor the alternative stadium plan in Carson, California, that would have the Chargers and Raiders, not the Rams, re-locate to the City of Angels. The league would love to place two teams in L.A., but presumably not three. Kroenke is so nervous that he's been privately offering to share his proposed stadium in Inglewood, CA, with the Chargers and owner Dean Spanos, and therefore freezing out Al Davis' son and the Raiders. Either he'll win or he'll lose, but in any case, he's desperate to leave St. Louis and has certainly burned his bridges there by failing to publicly address fans even one time in the last four years, and failing to engage Mound City politicians that have, without being asked, graciously offered up taxpayer money to build him a new stadium along the Mississippi riverfront. I could care less about the Rams at this point, regardless of which city they're in, but it's fun to watch Kroenke squirm. Could he possibly wind up moving his team to San Diego if the Chargers bolt (word play)?
posted by CM @ 1:56 PM
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