Needlenose

What’s the profile of a terrorist likely to strike in America’s heartland?  If you say a swarthy, middle-eastern guy in a turban, you’ve been watching too much Faux News!  How about:

“…a white male in his 50′s or 60′s with grey hair that is balding in the middle. He is about 6’1″ and about 220 pounds and was wearing a white shirt and dark pants.”

Man that sounds just like the profile of an American wrong-winger, and surprisingly like a stereotypical serial killer.

Joining in the ranks of Eric Rudolph, Timothy McVeigh and the Anthrax Letter guy, the suspect of today’s murder of an abortion doctor has been apprehended, identity still unreleased.

Don’t be fooled, folks – these pudgy, aging wrong-wing haters aren’t buying guns because they are afraid Obama and the Dems are going to enact gun control legislation, they are buying guns to terrorize the rest of us!

*Update* Evil has a name, Scott Roeder, and apparently he was pretty open about his extremist wrong-wing views and was: a member of the nasty ‘Freemen’ group, once convicted for making explosives, and  one of those guys who went to various anti-abortion events and said obliquely menacing things in a monotone.

*Update* Cristina Page clearly lays out the case for why this isn’t a random incident, but rather part of a pattern of wrong-wing terror:

During the Clinton era, between 1994-2000 there were 6 abortion providers and clinic staff murdered, and 17 attempted murders of abortion providers. There were 12 bombings or arsons during the Clinton years.

During the Bush administration, not only were there no murders, there were no attempted murders. There was one clinic bombing during the Bush years.

Needlenose was hacked by reactionary spammers! I got the login stuff fixed, but when using IE some weird redirect to a malware site occurs. Can’t figure out how to fix it. Mozilla appears safe, or any non-Microsoft browser.

UPDATE (by Swopa): Good news — Green Boy found the offending code, and IE is now safe to use. The bad news is, apparently our CSS style sheet got confused in the process, which is why the layout may be slightly off if you’re using Internet Explorer, or totally hosed on Firefox for Windows. (Mac browsers seem to be unaffected; I’ve checked both Safari and Firefox.)

Stay tuned for further amateur-repair updates. (Can you tell our regular tech whiz has been unavailable the last couple of days, and your less-savvy hosts have been stumbling through this on our own?)