So There It Is (And Here It Comes)

Ahem. This is what TMR calls "a teachable moment".

If the University of San Diego was on it's game, this student would already have received a visit from her school Dean, accompanied by the campus police, instructing her to pack her things and prepare to leave campus - she's done. As she was scurried to collect her belongings, the authorities would further inform the young woman she's not going "home" but immediately into the hands of the C.I.A., which is arranging for her to be handed over to Hezbollah or Hamas - her choice - because America's enemies must be targeted away from the mainland, if possible, so as not to interfere with the rhythm of daytime network and cable television.

Then, once the cops were sure they had made the right impression - the rebel's crying, paranoid, afraid for her well-being and that of her family, including the dog - the Dean would stop the charade and tell her, essentially, "don't be a sap" (the world's made of waaay too many saps) and for a start, take that stupid tablecloth from around your neck, you're in college.

Then the authorities would leave, shaking their heads.

As I see it, alone, it could be worth the price of tuition.

Grand Opening/Grand Closing

This definition for "open-minded" is the Picture of the Week, over at a site called Islam: Religion of Peace, and I have to say, this is actually a spiritual two-fer, because the gunman also exemplifies that other popular NewAge notion of the Left:

You can believe what you want to believe.

But the idea that, if believers stopped believing in nonsense, fewer of these horrible things would be happening - like the gunman, above, wouldn't have a reason to be shooting that other guy - seems to escape most people. As former-radical David Horowitz has said:

“Here, in a nutshell, is why conservatives are conservative and why radicals are dangerous. Because conservatives pay attention to the consequences of actions, including their own, and radicals don’t.”

Now, of course, I know that bad things would still happen if people stopped believing in weird things - take away all the guns and, I'm sure, people would resort to stabbing one another to death (which, like all murders, bites a big-assed hole in another NewAge classic: "We're All One") - but don't you think stabbings would be less lethal for, let's say, innocent bystanders if that were the case?

I've always said NewAge is more of a threat to those around the NewAger than to the NewAger themselves. Just compare the difference in fallout between a NewAger like Rielle Hunter and John Edwards: she's on a relative upswing, since her plan was implemented, while his is finished. The same thing goes for any other solipsistic feel-good ideas that - until you consider the real world downsides - seem to make sense on the surface.

"You can believe what you want to believe"? Fine. Whatever:

That guy's dead.

Once You're Out You Have To Stick It To Them