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Before The Left Attacks Malkin

Michelle Malkin has received word from the University of Arizona that blogger Deborah Frisch has resigned her position. You can read more at link above. But before the Left starts attacking Michelle for this - and they will, she being the most visible drum they like to beat on at times like this; everyone should pause and give this some thought.

Frisch made some reprehensible and ultimately extremely disturbing remarks, particularly with the whole Jon Benet story as related to Jeff Goldstein's two year old child. And there was more.

No public servant, military man or woman, public school teacher, or even corporate employee would be able to make such remarks without some serious consequences. At the very least, they would likely be mandated to attend some form of counseling, or possible psychiatric evaluation - and it is, first and foremost, the Left which fosters the kind of thought policing today which makes that so.

Deborah Frisch is not a victim in this. She is a well-educated, experienced, professional adult. Over time she has apparently displayed a consistent irresponsible, if not genuinely disturbed, pattern of behavior in and around political discourse while on line.

She resigned either out of instability, or a desire to not face the consequences for her actions in this latest incident. Neither Michelle Malkin, nor any other blogger has the authority to fire Frisch - that's a decision that would have been left to the University of Arizona.

By resigning, Frisch has short-circuited any such process. And that's her right. But doing so does not in any way make her a victim in this case, of Malkin's, or of anyone else. In the end, what Deborah Frisch appears to be is a victim of herself. And beyond encouraging her to take a look at herself and possibly get some help, there should be little more to say about this whole affair, on the Left, or on the Right. It's more sad than it is instructive in any real regard.

Bill at PunditGuy is concerned about what this type of thing does for blogging in general.

The San Moulitsas Fault

h/t lgf

Ace has picked up and expanded on the tremor in the Left Wingosphere over the Armstrong / Hackett / Brown consulting deal. It's interesting, watching political realities sink into the reality-based community.

What I really want to to know is where they found the hot pick of Mary Scott O'Connor.

If you're male, the great thing about being conservative is the ability to enjoy being a sexist without screwing up your political ideology. That's why I feel so bad for Liberal guys ... unless they're Gay, they're always forced to lie!

Getting back to the Left, while the current controversy might be only a small fissure, if Lieberman wins the Democrat primary ... the whole thing could start to spin apart.

Frisch And The FBI

Ace has a new post up on the Deb Frisch affair. I didn't mention it in my previous post, but some, including Frisch have mentioned calling the FBI.

Stands to reason Frisch would at least know who to call, since she participated in an FBI CounterTerrorism Conference in 2002.

Wonder if she learned anything at all. Pg 50 0f the pdf if you're looking.

Update: Good grief. The Moonbat apparently co-habitates with someone else with a young child. Wunnerful more via DC

Typical Liberal Bull

They come out and attack, then when someone responds, they invariably resort to victim mode. So freaking pathetic. I was going to leave this alone, until I just saw her post update:

UPDATE: I have been receiving emails alluding to the fact that I got fired. I was not fired. I resigned. I was not pressured to resign. I just sent my boss an email explaining what was happening and told him I thought it was best for all involved if I resigned.

Protein Wisdom has been down since this all started so it is not possible to see all the comments and everything that led up to this. People are posting snippets of what I posted that have been embellished with references to french kissing and other things I didn't say.

When and if protein wisdom comes on line again, it will be hard to tell what Jeff added or deleted to the transcript.

You can read up on this idiot via MM and Black Five. They want to be free to spew garbage all over the Internet - but in the end, they don't want to be held accountable for their twisted rhetoric and stupid views.

The Captain's Journal

Here's a new blogger out of NC, authored by the Father of a Marine. And another conservative voice enters the new media. Welcome aboard!

Liberals Can't Lose

Well, they can and do - they just can't accept it. Now they are demanding a hand recount in the Bilbray Busby race. But I found a little tid bit from this "non-partisan" objective Democrat who is leading the charge. Seems she's also a big fan of RFK, Jr.'s election analysis - so saith her letter to the New York Times:

A Cause Undermined

It's offensive that The New York Times chose to run an important story about the suppression and manipulation of the vote in the 2004 election in Sunday Styles. This gossipy piece is designed to undermine the seriousness of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s well-referenced article in Rolling Stone.
Gail Jacobson
San Diego, Calif.

BradBlog and the DU folks are already starting to foam at the mouth. Story below from the North County Times. They won't stop until they tear democracy completely down.

In her letter to Registrar Mikel Haas, San Diego resident Barbara Gail Jacobson said she was making the request because, "there were widespread and profound breaches of security allowed in the administration of this election."

She said that because Haas had permitted some of the voting machines to be taken home by poll workers in the days leading up to the election, "both state and federal certification of the machines were invalidated and rendered null."

In a Thursday phone interview, Jacobson said that while she is a registered Democrat, she would be making the same request even if a Democrat had won the election.

"I feel this is beyond party lines," Jacobson said. "If we can't vote people in and out of office who we chose, then we can no longer say we live in a democracy."

Haas was not available for comment Thursday. A spokesman for his office said that Haas was out of town due to a family emergency.

However, in an earlier interview, Haas had said there was nothing unusual about allowing the machines to be taken home and that the practice is widespread across the state. He said that registrars allow poll precinct captains to take the machines home so they will be able to set up the polling stations early on the day of the election.

Another New al-Qaeda Video Released

With sound, some graphic content but not horrible, either. Now at YouTube.

Adam Gadahn

Allah has the video on American al-qaeda member Adam Gadahn.

On file at USC, this appears to be a text he wrote on becoming Muslim:

Michele has much more

(out of sequence) The turning point, perhaps, was when I moved in with my grandparents here in Santa Ana, the county seat of Orange, California. My grandmother, a computer whiz, is hooked up to America Online and I have been scooting the information superhighway since January. But when I moved in, with the intent of finding a job (easier said than done), I begin to visit the religion folders on AOL and the Usenet newsgroups, where I found discussions on Islam to be the most intriguing. You see, I discovered that the beliefs and practices of this religion fit my personal theology and intellect as well as basic human logic. Islam presents God not as an anthropomorphic being but as an entity beyond human comprehension, transcendent of man, independant and undivided. Islam has a holy book that is comprehensible to a layman, and there is no papacy or priesthood that is considered infallible in matters of interpretation: all Muslims are free to reflect and interpret the book given a sufficient education. Islam does not believe that all men are doomed to Hell unless they simply accept that God (apparently unable to forgive otherwise) magnanimously allowed Himself to be tortured on a cross to enable Him to forgive all human beings who just believe that He allowed Himself to be tortured on a cross... Islam does not believe in a Chosen Race. And on and on...

My first seventeen years have been a bit different than the youth experienced by most Americans. I grew up on an extremely rural goat ranch in Western Riverside County, California, where my family raises on average 150 to 200 animals for milk, cheese, and meat. My father is a halal butcher [a butcher who slaughters in an Islamic manner -ed.] and supplies to an Islamic Food Mart a few blocks from the Islamic Center in downtown Los Angeles.

My father was raised agnostic or atheist, but he became a believer in One God when he picked up a Bible left on the beach. He once had a number of Muslim friends, but they've all moved out of California now. My mother was raised Catholic, so she leans towards Christianity (although she, like my father, disregards the Trinity). I and my siblings were/are home-schooled, and as you may know, most home-school families are Christian. In the last 8 or so years, we have been involved with some home-schooling support groups, thus acquainting me with fundamentalist Christianity. It was an eye-opening experience. Setting aside the blind dogmatism and charismatic wackiness, it was quite a shock to me when I realized that these people, in their prayers, were actually praying TO JESUS. You see, I had always believed that Jesus (pbuh) was, at the very most, the Son of God (since that is what the Bible mistranslates "Servant of God" as). As I learned that belief in the Trinity, something I find absolutely ridiculous, is considered by most Christians to be a prerequisite for salvation, I gradually realized I could not be a Christian.

Hard To Figure

Either some people are whistling in the dark, or they're simply blind. I'd like to think it's false bravado. But somehow that doesn't fit with the Left.

Or maybe it does, you figure it out. I can't. Joking is cool but it should either be funny, or at least make a point.

Mai Hoang Long: A Real Man's Name

Not like that silly one his Father gave him at first.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- After nearly two decades of ridicule, a father has agreed to change his son's name from "Fined Six Thousand and Five Hundred" - the amount he was forced to pay in local currency for ignoring Vietnam's two-child policy.

Angry he was being fined for having a fifth child, Mai Xuan Can named his son Mai Phat Sau Nghin Ruoi after the amount he was forced to pay - 6,500 dong (50 cents), said Dai Cuong village chief Nguyen Huy Thuong.

In 1999, local government officials tried to persuade Can to change the name because the boy was constantly being teased by classmates at school. But Can, a former People's Committee official, refused to back down, Thuong said. They appealed to him again recently, and this time it worked.

"I told him that as his son is growing up, he should have another name - not that weird name - and he finally agreed," Thuong said.
 
The son, now 19, finally got a new name: Mai Hoang Long, which means golden dragon.