Apologists & Loons
on November 7th, 2009 at 8:41 amI knew it would not take long for folks to rush to the role of school marm and tell fellow Americans to “shush” any and all criticism about Muslims for the terrible shooting that took place at Ft. Hood. That alone is sickening to me.
The AP beats the drum.
(AP) U.S. mosques fearful of a backlash after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas are stepping up security.
Nidal Malik Hasan, the man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood, Texas in a rampage that left 13 people dead and dozens wounded, is Muslim.
A board member at All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Sterling, Va., contacted local police to ask for extra patrols. Friday is Islam’s main communal prayer day.
In the Chicago area, the Islamic Society of Northwest Suburbs of Chicago sent e-mails asking Muslims to be more careful.
The Mosque Foundation president in Bridgeview says he’s called police to put them on high alert. Zaher Sahloul says he fears something could be done to Muslims because of “misguided anger.”
His name had barely been released, his heritage and history not immediately known, but the reaction to the suspect accused in the Fort Hood shooting was fast and furious. (more…)
Is a practicing Muslim…check!
Did not like the fact that he would be going to war against Muslims…check!
The base General said that he shouted “Allahu Akbar!” before shooting…check!
But forget all of that. Let’s not rush to any conclusions. Capeesh!
Secondly, you notice how the fear of a backlash is always floated out there, but nothing ever happens?
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Loons
h/t Purple Avenger
Repackage crap and it is still crap (but don’t tell them that).
(spiegel.de) Germany, second only to China as the world’s leading exporter of goods, has been particularly hard-hit by the collapse of global markets. But the mass unemployment some had feared has failed to materialize. Labor experts in many countries are wondering how Germany has done it.
Business wasn’t going well for Schneider, a mid-sized company in the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, at the beginning of the year. But the company, which manufactures camera lenses and filters, did not lay off any of its workers. Instead, it put 230 employees onto a short-time working program, including Dirk Christian, a technical supervisor in a final assembly plant.
Christian, 33, took advantage of his free time to renovate his apartment — and to get married. “Short-term work prevents layoffs,” says Christian, “which, of course, makes it easier to make important life decisions, like getting married.”
Germany currently has 1.1 million workers participating in short-time working programs, known in German as Kurzarbeit. They include people like Christian, who don’t have enough work, but who also are nevertheless not being let go. They stay at home for days or even weeks at a time, and yet they receive 80 to 90 percent of their wages, thanks to subsidies paid by the Federal Employment Agency. (more…)
Now here’s the tiny factoid that was left out of the article.
“Among the top 30 of industrialized and emerging countries Germany is almost at the very top of this ranking with regard to the burden of taxes and contributions, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The tax burden in Germany is particularly high on low-income employees, whose tax and contribution payments amount to 47.3 % of labour costs (2nd rank within OECD), as well as on average-income earners. But even with regard to top-income earners, who earn at least 167 % of the average income, Germany’s tax burden is the fourth highest behind Belgium, Hungary and France.” (source)
Europeans are so cool. They even have a neat name for government waste.
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