No hint

The Associated Press: Ore. fire raises Muslims' fears of attack backlash.

Another link in the poverty-leads-to-terrorism chain

Or maybe not... Today a woman from Pakistan who went to MIT will stand trial in NYC. Yeah, the MIT in Boston.

For those with a battle of the sexes sense of humor:

In the summer of 2008, a shopkeeper in the Afghan city of Ghazni noticed a strange sight: a woman in a burqa drawing a map. In a region where nearly all females are illiterate, he found it suspicious and called the police, according to an Afghan intelligence official.

(Insert joke about women reading 'n learnin stuff just causing problems here.)

The majority of the article goes on to explain what a great case she's going to have in a civilian court. Look for this one to last 10 years over the course of its appeal lifetime.

Siddiqui’s family, including her sister, Fowzia, a Harvard-trained epilepsy specialist, publicly accused the United States of secretly detaining and torturing Siddqui at the US military base in Bagram.

She offered little evidence of that claim, except a report that a former prisoner had seen her there. The charges have sparked deep outrage in Pakistan, where Siddiqui is widely viewed as a victim.

She went to MIT and her sister went to Harvard. It's like we're just forcing them to become terrorists.

We are all serious

So terrorism is a serious business. I know it. You know it. We all know it. I know that Obama knows it. But when I watch Obama give a speech or talk about it - I can't tell that he knows it. I basically have to take it on faith. I have to convince myself: "well, of course he takes it seriously, I mean, what kind of person wouldn't?" But it just doesn't register - I don't see it in his tone or mannerisms; it just doesn't seem to register on his emotional radar. Instead I feel like he takes this war and terrorism in general seriously in the manner I take my taxes - or visits to the dentist - seriously.

Unfortunately this doesn't inspire confidence in me. I don't want my Commander in Chief to conduct a war like I fill out my 1040 - with intermittent channel surfing and long sighs of irritation: for the love of the Home Tree^tm, when will this be over?

This could entirely be a matter of political grooming but you'd have a hard time convincing many people that Bush had more "polishing" than Obama. If there's any word that can be used to describe Obama it's polished. I hope that this is the case and that Obama really does take these wars and national security as deadly serious as Bush made me believe he did. 

Compare these comments by Bush back in 2006 recently reposted at the Foundry with those made by Obama over the past week:

See what I mean?