Dangerous Dan

Now that the Butcher of Baghdad is burning in the depths of hell, let's look back at some of the lighter times:

Here we have Saddam's statue coming down.

We found his hidey-hole!

He was making a living as a mall Santa in Tikrit.

The great tyrant, whose palaces had gold toilet fixtures, gets checked out, for lice among other things.

No need to ask the question of boxers or briefs at the MTV Q&A.

Once the ruler, then on trial.

Saddam Hussein has been executed.

Now this coupling can finally happen.

I hold a special irritation for those who use the Holocaust in poor comparisons in order to make their plight seem as dire as what happened to the Jewish people. Not only is it disrespectful, but it inevitably works in the opposite direction by making the actual Holocaust not seem as bad as it really was. This is why PeTA and their moronic "holocaust on your plate" campaign deserve nothing but contempt.

The latest example comes from Hispanic groups who didn't like the recent crackdown on and deportation of 1,300 illegal immigrants. Representatives from these groups are comparing such roundups to the arrest and imprisonment of Jews during the 1930′s:

"This unfortunately reminds me of when Hitler began rounding up the Jews for no reason and locking them up," Democratic Party activist Carla Vela said. "Now they're coming for the Latinos, who will they come for next?"

Unless the Hispanics in question were U.S. citizens who were arrested for absolutely no other reason than that they were Hispanic, and unless they were then sent to concentration camps where they were forced to engage in slave labor until they died and/or were killed in mass executions, this seems like a bad comparison. In fact, those Hispanics who were arrested were not U.S. citizens and were actively breaking U.S. law by being in the U.S., they were treated well while in custody, fed, and returned to their countries of origin. This was absolutely nothing like Germany of the 1930′s and comparing in this way is not only disgusting, it is irresponsible. Don't cry genocide where it doesn't exist or nobody will pay attention when it actually does occur – that or the severity of genocide will be thought relatively insignificant due to such false comparisons.

Yes, I'm still alive. Just little time to post. Lest I end the year without any more posts, though, here are a couple.