Lightning Bolt

Today the liberal media (CNN) displayed its bias anew ... claiming that lightning kills more Americans than terrorists every year (actually not true -- 2016 lightning kills = 38, 2016 terrorists kills = 49 in the Pulse nightclub alone) ... see: Newsbusters Story. I also had a reader claim that even clothing kills more Americans every year than terrorists ... a claim that may be true but, to me, is clearly specious.

And why is it specious? Here is my answer in a nutshell -- no one in the world has been killed by an atomic weapon since 1945 ... over 70 years ago ... but no one who is able to spell "Obama" would claim that atomic weapons are not an existential danger? And the lightning analogy is also flawed in that, unless Zeus is in the heavens throwing down bolts at his enemies, death by lightning is random and usually singular ... whereas terrorist mayhem is purposeful and most often comes in grisly groups.

Why any loony lefties want to minimize and excuse terrorism seems markedly misguided, naive and even sinister. That anyone in the media would assume such a suicidal stance baffles me.

UH-OH

A suspected radical Islamic terrorist, wearing a suicide vest, killed at least 20 people in an Orlando, Florida nightclub called Pulse and wounded possibly 42 others late last night ... before he was shot dead himself by a police officer ... see: Daily Mail Story. The reason that this is an uh- oh moment is that this nightclub is the premier gay gathering spot in this area.

This event now pits the liberals's refusal to identify such terrorist acts to the Muslim faith, in particular Bathhouse Barry's refusal, and these same lefties' celebration of the gay lifestyle. Muslims consider homosexual activities to be sins punishable by death even though they are reported to be rife within Muslim countries ... in particular Afghanistan. Thus, this is the cognitive dissonance that now will have to be resolved by the Obummer administration.

Prediction -- any statements made by the White House about this Orlando slaughter will say that this was an act of domestic homophobic rage and, again, not refer to radical Islamic terrorism or the Muslim Faith's mortal denouncement of homosexuality.

Update: Now it is reported that 50 have been killed and 53 wounded ... not sure about the suicide vest.

Afterward: It is now 49 dead plus the shooter. Obummer surprisingly did mention terrorists in his comments but not Muslim nor Islamic radicals ... but, as many had predicted, guns were highlighted by our president as the true villian in this massacre. And, in another bizarre twist, Donald Trump has somehow been singled out as at fault by the lefties. This I haven't yet quite figured out.