Some of us have to work :) More stuff tonight.
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April 2004 Archives
Olliver North rips Andy Rooney a new one in this op-ed, They're heroes to me. I wrote about Andy's article here, the original article is no longer online.
May 1 marks the start of Military Appreciation Month. Millions of Americans will show their gratitude for the troops in a variety of ways. When Lance Corporal Conyers appeared with me the other night on Fox News's "Hannity & Colmes," Sean Hannity showed his appreciation to Conyers by promising to buy him a big, thick, juicy steak from Ruth's Chris steakhouse when he gets home. What are you going to do for them, Andy, other than criticize? One thing you could do to show your appreciation for our troops who are defending your right to speak is to shut the hell up.Amen.
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I happened across this via two blogs, Busy Mom led me to No Quarters which led me to this article Most lawn mower accidents result of human error. The good news is you don't understand the why of the article until it's too late. Good stuff.
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We've been down this road before. Explaining how if we can get the dominoes to fall the right way in Iraq, the rest of the Arab world could very well follow, bringing stability to an unstable place in the world. Iraq Key to Arab World Democracy explains what is going on.
Let me quote the important part of the article:
Just as Americans toughed out the dark days of the titanic battles with Nazism, fascism and communism last century, so must we tough out the titanic battle with Islamic fascists this century.This is important to remember. We make or break the next hundred years right now in Iraq.
Look at the enemy in Iraq. His savage tactics -- killing civilians and soldiers alike, Iraqis and coalition forces indiscriminately -- indicates what Iraq would be like should we cut and run.
The barbarians would again wreck havoc there. Rather than sickening torture and brutality being inflicted by Saddam's regime, it would now be inflicted by local power brokers.
No great improvement for a lot of American prestige, blood and treasure spilled.
The enemy now fights in Iraq with fierce determination. But for what? To end American occupation? That'll happen in 90 days or so, with Iraqis assuming sovereignty. To restore Saddam? The coward -- who sent millions of young Iraqis to die in battle, and himself meekly surrendered with a rifle in his lap -- would be torn to sheds were he not incarcerated, and protected, by American troops. To establish a mullah-cracy, as in Iran? Just go next door and ask Iranians how they like life under their corrupt, incompetent and vicious mullahs.
No, the enemy's purpose is to end any U.S. attempt to spread decency and, yes, democracy in the Arab world. The stakes are high in Iraq. If it goes right there, peaceful transformations can go right in Egypt, Jordan, the Gulf states --even Saudi Arabia and Iran.
If Iraq goes even wrong-er, the more reasonable Arab countries will be on the defensive, getting even worse than now. Our own battles against Islamic fascists (search) will be even more isolated and difficult than now.
Sure, we're doing all this for Iraq's future. But we're doing this for our own future, too. We must stay the course, lest increasingly dark dots paint our future.
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I bring this up because there are people who wail about "all the deaths in Iraq." I want to bring some perspective onto this subject.
First of all, we have lost approximately 527 soldiers in the year since we brought down the statue of Saddam. We are currently attempting to pacify a section of Iraq that Saddam couldn't pacify.
We lost 17,401 people last year, just from DUI accidents. That's about 1,450 people a month. 47 a day, every day. And these deaths are young and old, male and female, black and white. Children are dying in these cars because some idiot thinks he can drive better drunk than sober.
Here's another statistic. We lose about 5,000 babies a year, all under the age of three. If losing a soldier is a tragedy, then losing a child is a catastrophe.
These soldiers are dying for something. They are dying to provide a peace that the world may yet see. Dying in a DUI accident, or in a diaper pail is a wasted death.
Please, make the distinction and don't let our military deaths become wasted deaths.
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Another article on Air America, suggesting that nobody is listening. America Tunes Out Leftist Hate Radio.
No numbers are given, but anybody who isn't already a deep liberal is quickly tired of the diatribe coming from those stations. I tried giving it a listen, I really did. But the constant cutting-down of everybody made me feel like this was a multiple-hour comedy show, or I was in the 8th grade all over again.
The only thing they did was ridicule: the CIA, the military, the cops, President Bush, you name it. This is Hate Radio.With hate speech like this, you're only going to get the already converted, and alienate any moderates and certainly not win any conversions from the Conservative side of the aisle. At least when Rush puts something down, he puts the action down, not the person and he backs it up with facts. This wins people over from both the Liberal and moderate camps.
Liberals and Democrats have a tendency to only talk to each other. According to their ratings, no one else is tuning in. The Democrats should heed the maxim, "Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much." And no one tunes in. The overwhelming popularity of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and conservative websites such as FrontPage Magazine prove where America really stands. It does not stand with the Left, and it certainly does not stand with Air America.The party of diversity has none. They refuse to listen to any ideas other than their own. They refuse to look at facts. I can't blame them, when you're as wrong as often as they are, you'd ignore the plain, clear facts too.
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It seems this town of wealthy people are over-reacting a bit. Florida town will soon have cameras and computers running background checks on every car and driver.
This is going too far, but then again they have the money to pay the taxes to make their little town an electronic fortress, most likely to the same standard that their own houses are wired up to.
This is the hard way that they will find that computers are as fallible as people. All that needs to happen is one plate gets misread and get crossed with either a stolen car or a car of a violent felon. Then a felony stop gets performed on a rich lady and that security system for the town will be tossed out so fast it will make your head spin.
Freedom is like air. You never notice how valuable it is until it's gone.
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I thought this was about high blood pressure.
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...he's done.
When the Village Voice, that last bastion of Liberalism says that Kerry is unelectable, you better believe it. John Kerry Must Go and there is no doubt about it.
With growing issues over his wealth (which makes fellow plutocrat Bush seem a charity case by comparison), the miasma over his medals and ribbons (or ribbons and medals), his uninspiring record in the Senate (yes war, no war), and wishy-washy efforts to mimic Bill Clinton's triangulation gimmickry (the protractor factor), Kerry sinks day by day. The pros all know that the candidate who starts each morning by having to explain himself is a goner.I love the smell of burning Liberals in the morning. When they set themselves on fire by making stupid mistake after stupid mistake, it smells like...victory.
Oh, sure, the fight hasn't begun yet, we're still firing ranging shots. A brilliant move at the Democrat convention would be to actually nominate somebody else instead of Kerry, which would screw up the GOP machine. We're so invested and set-up to devastate Kerry that if they elect an Edwards/Clinton ticket (or Dean/Edwards, etc., you get the idea) instead, there will be some grinding of the gears as we reset to take care of the new contender.
Don't take it for granted that Kerry will make it. The GOP has done such a good job of burning Kerry at the stake and he is such an uninspiring candidate, that the majority of people voting for him are doing it because he's not Bush. Imagine if they found a truly popular candidate.
Don't take it for granted that we'll be facing Kerry in November.
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I found this article, It's Morning After in America, and my spirits are buoyed.
If you listen carefully, you can hear something shifting deep beneath the manic surface of American culture. Rap stars have taken to wearing designer suits. Miranda Hobbs, Sex and the City's redhead, has abandoned hooking up and a Manhattan co-op for a husband and a Brooklyn fixer-upper, where she helps tend her baby and ailing mother-in-law; even nympho Samantha has found a "meaningful relationship." Madonna is writing children's books. Gloria Steinem is an old married lady.It is a somewhat long article, but it provides example after example that things are looking up in the old US of A. The bad things are down, the good things are back. It looks like the nuclear family is reforming and so on. It did my heart good to read these things and it should do the same to you.
Yessiree, family values are hot! Capitalism is cool! Seven-grain bread is so yesterday, and red meat is back!
Happy day to you!
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4 Mile Creek, run by an Army officer currently in Iraq, lends his commentary in the debate over Ribbons vs. Medals. I couldn't have said it better myself.
(Update) I've earned all my medals and I'm damn proud of them. The ribbons I wear on my uniform, that represent those medals, also represent the pride I feel in what I do for a profession, the sacrifices my family has made during my deployments, and the recognition I've received for being a good soldier.Amen, brother, amen.
Throw them away?
Hell, I better be buried with 'em on.
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Well, well, well. It seems that the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court was the keynote speaker at an MLGBA (Mass. Lesbian and Gay Bar Association) event. It's still being hashed out as to whether it was a fund raiser or not. Author of Homosexual Marriage Ruling is Under Fire, Won't Budge.
This new information shows that a conflict of interest exists with Justice Margaret Marshall, whether she admits it or not. She should have recused herself from the case, which would have resulted in a 3-3 tie and thrown the case out. Instead, it passed 4-3 and Justice Marshall wrote the majority opinion.
Shame on you Justice Marshall.
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This article brought up some interesting points. Kerry's kiss of death.
Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood, had some rather, um, strong views on parenthood back then.
Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood had this to say about blacks, immigrants and indigents: "...human weeds, 'reckless breeders','spawning...human beings who should never have been born.' (Pivot of Civilization).I lost the quote, but it said that Hitler got his idea for exterminating the Jews from the American eugenics movements. I know the laws against Jews were nothing more than an expanded set of Jim Crow laws. Which would explain why Hitler thought America would join him in his war.
On the extermination of blacks: "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," she said. "If it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." (Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, by Linda Gordon).
Like advocates of population control at the United Nations, Sanger believed that couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, as she wrote in her Plan for Peace Birth Control Review, April 1932.
The 30's was an, interesting, period of our history. While it has been romanticized, I don't think I would want to go through it. Between the Depression, racism and a build up to a world war, it must have been even more scary time than now. Too bad I can't ask my parents about it any more. They died three months apart about two years ago.
To get back to modern times, if word of Ms. Sangers manifesto (especially if PP still uses it) gets out, it could really hurt Kerry. I hope it does.
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In another display to show that Europeans are out of touch with reality, US Air Marshals are being denied on trans-Atlantic flights. U.S. Lets Europe Veto Air Marshals.
We are up against an enemy that understands nothing but the use of open, naked force. That's what they want to use on us and we must be willing and able to inflict twice as much back on them to either wipe them out or get them to realize that it's not worth it.
But these Europeans, who all just want to get along, don't want armed people (even if it is police) on airplanes. Of course, should a 9/11 happen to them, then they will arm the planes better then the Israel's airline (the name escapes me).
Some people just don't see the train coming at them.
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Jessie Jackson, that ever loved shake down artist, has been denounced for his comments about Iraq. Black Activists Denounce Jesse Jackson For Calling War in Iraq 'Murder'.
The murdering bastards in Iraq are not the American troops, but rather the cowardly insurgents they are fighting. It is the homicide bombs that are killing the children and other innocents in Iraq, not our soldiers.
Another Liberal suffering from Cranial-Rectal Inversion. (That's medial-speak for he's got his head up his ass)
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While I got some things done today, I also had two major attacks and three minor ones. What a day. It is very upsetting to be sidelined for a couple of hours, cowering in a corner or under the covers, unable to do anything about it.
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Watching Meet the Press yesterday, they had a poll for the Democrats and the largest percentage of those who would vote for Kerry (38%) would do so because simply he's not Bush. Which means 38% of the Democrat electorate would probably vote for Satan before they would vote for Bush.
Simply, it's seething hatred against a man who is doing the right thing without lamenting over it. Bush is quietly doing what he sees as the right thing to do, without having to consult polls or focus groups. Bush is a man of inner strength, strong morals and a clear set of core values, none of which is possessed by either the prior president, nor the current Democrat contender.
I think this is what pisses the Left off more than anything. Bush sees things in black and white instead of the intellectual "nuanced" view of infinite shades of grey. His clear idea of good and evil clashes with the Liberal outlook of "those people aren't really bad, they're just disadvantaged." They may be disadvantaged, but that is no excuse for the outright evil of wanting to kill other people wholesale simply because we believe differently than they do.
Liberals who moan and wail over this war hold the belief that the US deserved 9/11. Those people have no idea as to the true relationship of such things as war and peace.
The opposite of war is not peace, but slavery. For as long as there are people who are willing to violently push their agenda, your choices are to either violently resist or submit. Never forget this.
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There has been a lawsuit going on for some time between the National Association of Rocketry and the Tripoli Rocketry Association vs. BATFE. Well, the judge in the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC agreed with the rocketeers and told the BATFE to get their grubby little fingers out of our hobby.
The ruling is rather specific, but it's a crack and we are going to try and make it wider faster than the BATFE can nail it shut.
If you want to help donate, please go here.
Thanks.
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Boy was this a busy week. Last Monday was Waco and Oklahoma City, Tuesday was Columbine, now today was Chernobyl. Conducting unauthorized experiments, one of the nuclear reactors exploded and then melted into the offices under the reactor. Hundreds of people died from radiation exposure, thousands more from cancer brought about by the radiation. The cloud reached into parts of Eastern Europe.
The town is deserted today, except for the reactor operators who continue to operate the remaining reactor and supply power to the (relatively) unaffected towns in the surrounding area.
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I got this from a NewsMax email alert, so I'll quote the whole thing here:
Kerry Ignores Black CongressmanYes, yes, yes. The party of tolerance and diversity. We all know how well blacks were integrated into the "first black presidency." Oh, that's right. They weren't. They ran smack dab into that infernal glass ceiling. They were there for tokens, and I ain't talking subway tokens.
America's self-described would-be "second black president" has a lot of work to do to shed his image as an uptight, condescending New Englander.
This was obvious during Kerry's visit this past week to Palm Beach County, Fla.
Our reporter on the scene was surprised by the crowd at Palm Beach Community College.
The speech was billed as part of Kerry's "college tour." But only a handful of young people bothered to show up.
Kerry's campaign claimed 3,000 attendees. We counted only a few dozen blacks and even fewer Hispanics. Bad news for a party that takes the black and Latino vote for granted.
Of course, the Massachusetts Democrat exploited the few blacks who did show up by stacking the benches on stage with an unusually high percentage of his "multi-cultural" campaign. Such a nice photo opportunity, accurate or not.
But Kerry's discomfort with nonwhites was apparent in the way he introduced the VIPs campaigning with him.
He gushed over Sens. Bob Graham, Bill Nelson and Joe Lieberman and insisted that each one take the spotlight for a softball question from the crowd.
And he practically ignored the black congressman who was with them, Rep. Kendrick Meek.
Finally, midway through Kerry's harangue, which he had labeled as a "town meeting," Kerry suddenly dropped a reference to Meek - and then ignored him for the rest of the rally.
It's really a shame when it comes right down to it. The "champion" of the black people does more to keep them in their place than the so called "slavemaster Republicans." Just remember, when it came down to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Republicans were FOR it, the Democrats were AGAINST it.
It's the Democrats that had the KKK members, it's the Democrats that stood in the doorways of schools and colleges and said, "You filthy [N-word]s ain't getting in here!"
Don't forget your history.
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I know you're waiting for my witty, rapier-like remarks on Liberals and stuff like that, but my attacks are back. I get to spend an hour or two researching and writing, then have to spend more time hiding under the covers or in the closet. I haven't had the mental clarity to bring forth the comments that I would like to on the world. My comments on news articles have been placeholders to keep things rolling here.
When I feel better, I might try working on expanding my core values over there to the right. Who knows. I have a medication appointment next Wednesday, let's hope I can get a positive change to my cocktail.
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This Earth Day, Progress Worth Celebrating has some worthwhile points, only because the person writing the article has good, solid facts to back him up.
Despite what the eco-nuts are screaming, our air is cleaner, our water is more drinkable and things are better than they were in 1970. From the article, here are some numbers:
Average vehicle emissions are dropping about 10 percent per year as the fleet turns over to inherently cleaner vehicles, including SUVs.I like those numbers. The bad news is I'm getting a 404 when trying to get the report that they came from. Here's the link anyway, hopefully they will get it fixed soon: "2004 Index of Leading Environmental Indicators".
Auto emissions of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds are down 67 percent since 1985, according to EPA data.
The percentage of the U.S. population served by water systems with no reported violations of regulatory standards rose from 79 percent to 94 percent during 1993 to 2002.
Private efforts such as Ducks Unlimited have been successfully conserved habitat for waterfowl and other wildlife.
"Toxic" chemical releases have declined by 55 percent since 1988, while industry output has increased by 40 percent thanks to productivity gains and technological improvements.
Here comes the caveat:
But now in many, if not most, areas of environmental protection, we have reached the point of diminishing returns and we must look hard to see whether we are producing real benefits for the costs incurred.For those of you who don't know what the "point of diminishing returns" means, let's put it this way:
You have a computer that you want to upgrade. For $100, you can double its performance. You like what you got even better, so you invest another $200, but this time you can only squeeze out a 50% increase of performance. Then only 25%, 12% and so on, until it costs $1000 to get you a 1-2% increase of performance. Is that small increase of performance worth that amount of money?
So we are faced with here. If we poured an almost infinite amount of money into it, we possibly could reach perfection, but is there an acceptable level that is "good enough?" Of course the eco-nuts want perfection, they have no real-world realities to get in their way of a perfect nature. We all want perfection, but most of us realize that we can't have our lifestyle as it is today without some pollution. We just have to find out what is an acceptable level and work towards that.
I don't like pollution, but I accept a limited amount as a byproduct of our society. One that has transportation that can take me around the world in hours. A world that has miraculous medical practices. An existence where I don't have to live in a dirt floor hut and worry about dying of old age because I'm 42. Eco-nuts may think that kind of "natural" existence is the way to go, but I don't.
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Here is an interesting article, Discrepancies noted in Kerry's record show that he grabbed some action for himself.
At least one and probably more actions were claimed by Kerry that were not his.
Vietnam combat records posted on John F. Kerry's campaign website for the month of January 1969 as evidence of his service aboard swift boat No. 94 describe action that occurred before Kerry was skipper of that craft, according to the officer who said he commanded the boat at the time.This puts a hole in his boat, doesn't it? After all, "sexing up" reports that could be easily countered with the facts does seem to be a frequent way this campaign shoots itself in the foot.
It could be Kerry's head is so far up his ass that he thinks he can say anything and not worry about other people coming up with the facts to disprove him.
Shame on you Mr. Kerry.
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I liked this story, I thought it was funny. Kerry Says His 'Family' Owns SUV, Not He.
Like the difference of who 'owns' the SUV matters. My wife can't drive, but for numerous reasons, she owns our (dead) family vehicle. I'm the one who drives it because I have the license. Same thing here. It doesn't matter who owns the vehicle, as long as someone in the immediate family does, then in essence, so does John.
Get over it, you have a gas-guzzling SUV, whether or not you admit it.
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You know, I usually don't watch The West Wing, but it's the only thing on before Law and Order. Anyway, they had one scene where CWA (Communication Workers of America) reps were in the White House trying to hold the administration to a promise to keep their jobs in America instead of "letting" them go overseas. That's what brought my attention to this: Outsourcing Debate Tainted by Myths, Misconceptions.
It is very important that you read this article and know the facts of the case instead of relying on limited anecdotal evidence. While we lose certain jobs overseas, we pick up more from insourcing, other countries outsourcing to us.
But that's not usually the way it works. Many times, American companies will create new jobs specifically for overseas workers, jobs they'd never consider if forced by law to give them to Americans, because they'd be too expensive. Many recent domestic start-up companies have spent their first few years of existence employing only overseas workers, with a few executives here in the U.S. overseeing things. Once they've established financial footing, these companies can then expand, and begin to hire more expensive American workers.There are only some things you can outsource, other things must stay here in the US because you just can't run wire and do installs from India.
America is actually a net importer when it comes to jobs. Far more foreign companies come to America to hire people than American companies go overseas to hire cheap foreign labor. We're even a net importer of tech jobs.
There's no doubt people get hurt in the short-run when the economy shifts and embraces new business models, but it's been that way since the industrial revolution. Those self-correcting measures have in the long run made us the most prosperous, comfortable and productive society in history.And it will always be like that.
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Here is another classic example as to why the far-Left environmentalism groups are wacko. They now want to get rid of diapers because they are a hazard to world health and contribute to landfills. Diaperless Babies Seen As Earth-Friendly Solution.
Their idea is to "get in tune with the baby to predict their movements." Yeah, right. And their solution is to hold the child over the toilet, bucket, bush, etc, providing we correctly predict the moment has arrived.
Incredibly, some environmentalists actually prefer that the foul messes we normally capture in diapers and landfills, spill instead onto our linoleum, carpets, and even our children," [Robert] Bidinotto told CNSNews.com.And just to show you how stupid and hypocritical these eco-nuts are, here's a quote:
[Scott] Noelle finally chose to go diaperless and looked to traditional cultures for inspiration. "How I longed for a simple, dirt-floored, baby-friendly hut like that of a Yequana family," he wrote.If Scott really wants a dirt floored house, why doesn't he live in one? I'm sure he would love the rest of the natural things the Yequana have to worry about, like dying of old age at 40, rampant disease, 1/3 of babies dying in the first year of life, a good portion of women dying in childbirth, etc.
He has it so good that he doesn't know how good it is, which is probably why him and his fellow nuts long for the old life. They don't realize how tough of a time our ancestors had it.
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This article, MI5-Style Intel Agency Could Be Hard Sell in U.S. talks about a CIA equivalent agency tasked with intelligence gathering domestically here in the US.
This is a bad idea. Law enforcement already has these apparatus' in place, and with Homeland Security, we are already skating the edge of having a secret police. I do not want a Gestapo spying on every move I make, especially with extra-Constitutional powers that such internal security forces might want "to do their job the right way."
Therein lies the path to a police state, and that is the last place I want to live in.
Papers, please?
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I found this article on Yahoo!, Heinz Co. Is Campaign Weapon for Bush and thought that irony is pretty ironic.
While Mr. and Mrs. Heinz is running for president under the Democrat banner, the actual company where their millions are coming from is in support of President Bush.
I just thought is was funny that her own company is aligned the other way from her and her husband.
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Gotta get ready and go to work. See you tonight.
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This article, Immigrants' voting rights becoming a major issue has me a little unnerved.
While the story goes out of its way to say (several times) that "non-citizen voting is not prohibited by the Constitution," it still isn't right. The Oath of Citizenship, whose first part is, "...that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen..." So it assumes that immigrants still have allegiances to their country of origin until they become American citizens.
Which leads to an interesting question. What if, a group of Arabs filled up a school district, elected a majority of sympathetic politicians and, by using the force of the majority, started calling for anti-US propaganda to be taught in these schools? Don't laugh, because it could happen. We are already on that verge with the Liberals in control of the schools, it wouldn't be too far to start active anti-American "teaching."
Anything can happen. It's up to the citizenry to make sure that it doesn't.
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I played hooky from work Saturday so I could attend a Rogue Trader tournament. Games Workshop (the people who own Warhammer 40K) opened a manufacturing facility here in Memphis, and they used some of the warehouse space to create a "Battle Bunker," a 2,000+ square foot gaming area.
Anyhow, I played three games and I had the same results as the tournament at MidSouthCon. One game I was obliterated, one game I obliterated my opponent and one game I barely won. With 26 players in the tournament, I finished a respectable 9th. No certificates this time, but I did enjoy myself. Please don't tell anybody at my work, okay? Thanks.
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Today marks the anniversary of two heinous acts in American history. In 1993, an overzealous Federal Agent force burned the Branch Davidians to death. A truly black day in history, when you have a government kill its own citizens wholesale, whatever the reason.
Also, at this moment, today in 1995, our worst case of domestic terrorism took place at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Never forget these incidents. If we do, they will happen again.
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A thoughtful read, An Empire? You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, brings up the point of how we could turn into a true empire building country.
If we get a NBC attack in this country (and I'm betting on one between 10/10 and 10/31/04) we are going to find out who did it, then show the world exactly what a saturation-level nuclear strike does. That will be our big stick. Then we will speak quietly, asking for every terrorist, every cell, every organization, and those who do not comply, wash, rinse, repeat.
What would an American empire look like? Post-war Iraq shows we couldn't afford to use our military to directly rule multiple nations, so our Empire would most likely use the Roman Empire's tactic of letting favored local elites govern while we maintained control of the military. We would also surely keep a close watch on nuclear power plants, pesticide producers and pharmaceutical manufacturers and end the conditioning of future terrorists by preventing schools and the media from bombarding innocent youths with virulent anti-American propaganda. Most importantly, however, our Empire would improve the living conditions for the majority of people in the lands we conquered.Except for those we obliterated to get everyone's attention, of course. Any resistance, any uprising, we pull our troops back and destroy the city.
If there is not a radical change towards peace in the Muslim faith, if the people do not rise up and silence these hate-spewing clerics, we may have to wipe out the entire region. I do not write those words lightly, because I certainly do not want a billion deaths on my hands.
Something must be done, and no American can do it. We can only change conditions, we cannot change hearts. Those who are filled with hate will hate us no matter what, and if those who really want peace do not offer them up to us, we may be forced to "Kill them all and let God sort them out." Actually, the proper quote was "Kill them all. God will recognize His own."
Please do not make us do this. Because if there is a NBC Event (and I ain't talking television) we will.
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Now details are coming out about just how courageous Mr. Kerry was in Vietnam. Kerry's War Wound Called 'Fingernail Scrape'.
You would think that Mr. Kerry had earned those Purple Hearts, but after this story I don't think so. It has been previously reported that out of three "wounds," he only spent one day in the hospital. And don't cha know...
Kerry was awarded two additional Purple Hearts for subsequent wounds that have also been described as minor. He then invoked a little-used regulation that entitled a triple Purple Heart winner to return to the United States.So he only spends four months in-country, and then bails out on a technicality.
The citation for his medal also basically reads, "After taking fire from shore, Lt. Kerry grounds his boat, jumps out and shoots a dead VC."
Some hero.
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This article, 1996 PDB Detailed al-Qaida Plot shows just how stupid the Clinton Administration was.
Here was a PDB that laid the whole plan of 9/11 out and it was not even thought of worthy of the "Great" Clintons attention.
And it will never see the light of day because the one person who was responsible for it IS SITTING ON THE COMMISSION HERSELF. I forget her name, but multiple people have called for her resignation and she has refused. She should be giving testimony instead of on the commission. But the sole reason why she is on the commission and not testifying is to cover Clintons ass.
So the commission is turning into a partisan duck shoot, with Bush as the only target.
UPDATE: From Alpha Patriot:
On the subject of [Jamie] Gorelick recusing herself from the commission, according to staffers chairman Gov. Tom Kean asked Gorelick if she would step down but "she flat out shut him down".
"She's on that commission for a reason, and it isn't because of her brilliant legal mind," says a former DNC and Clinton White House staffer. "She's there to make sure Bush and his team look as bad as possible and to protect the Clintons and Reno."
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I've got some things on the hook, but I've run out of time to get to work. I'll see you tonight.
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I found this via USS Clueless and once I started going through the comics I was howling so hard my sides started hurting.
Hello Kitty meets (and defeats) Call of Cthulhu. ROTFLOL. Go see Hello Cthulhu and be sure to read from the beginning.
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Okay folks, I'm taking a big step here and opening my posts up to comments. Please don't troll or ad hominem me too bad ;-)
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Kill Bill is the 4th film by Quentin Tarantino, but I only have Pulp Fiction and From Dusk Till Dawn in addition to Kill Bill. I have been meaning to pick up Jackie Brown for a while, but have never gotten around to it.
I got Kill Bill, Vol 1 on DVD yesterday, to refresh myself of the story before I see Vol 2 in a few days. Vol 1 is, in classic Tarantino style, telling the story from the middle to the beginning and then to the end. It has gore galore, in an homage to Akira Kurasawa's movies. It also throws in a lot of John Woo's martial arts spinning moves, and even a bit of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I've been told that Vol 2 is more Spaghetti Western than martial arts, just to keep things fresh.
Tarantino has also made statements about Vol 3, which should come out in 15-20 years when the kid actors are old enough to be adults and continue the story.
No spoilers here, just rent the damn movie, okay? On my say so, you can tell the clerk at the video store that I sent you. He may look at you like you're crazy, but that's just part of the code.
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It seems that Air America is having cash flow problems. They lost two of their five stations yesterday because they didn't pay their bills. STATION OWNER CLAIMS: AIR AMERICA 'BOUNCES CHECK'; LIBERAL RADIO NET TAKEN OFF IN LOS ANGELES, CHICAGO AFTER ONLY TWO WEEKS
Remember, AA is like one big infomercial, they are paying for every second of air time, as opposed to other talk stations paying for the shows and then recouping the cost by selling commercials.
Here's the full story, since Drudge put it on one of his temporary pages:
After just two weeks on the air, Air America Radio, the fledgling liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo, appears to have encountered serious cash-flow problems.An interesting turn of events, don't you think? To be fair, they did sign on one new station somewhere in the Northwest, but I'm not sure where. Frankin just kind of glossed over the whole situation. "We lost two stations, but we did pick one new one up, and on to other things..."
The CHICAGO TRIBUNE is developing a story, insiders tell DRUDGE, on how the network was pulled off the air this morning in Chicago and Los Angeles, the network's second- and third-largest markets, because, the owner of both stations said, the network bounced a check and owes him more than $1 million! A charge the network strongly denies.
A Chicago source familiar with the situation said a Multicultural representative showed up at WNTD's offices Wednesday morning, kicked out Air America's lone staffer overseeing the network's feed to the station from New York, switched over to a Spanish-language feed, and changed the locks on the doors...
Air America filed a complaint Wednesday in New York state Supreme Court charging Multicultural with breaching their contract and seeking an injunction to force Multicultural to restore the Air America broadcast on both stations.
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This appeared in an issue of the American Rifleman and was reprinted with permission for Newsmax.
America's New King George.
In 1776, the American people threw off the oppressive yoke of King George III, and created the most free society the world had ever seen. But today, another King George - a Hungarian-born billionaire named George Soros, who rules a shadow empire by funding a global agenda that includes borderless civil disarmament - has made Americans less free than at almost any time in our nation's history.Read the rest.
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While I can't stand the positions of Liberals, they are there for a reason, to keep me honest. They cause me to critically examine my thoughts and actions to help me make sure that I am doing the right thing. Liberals provide a balance, their Yin to my Yang, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Now comes this: Democracy May Fail in South Africa.
With an end to a multiple party system, especially when that single party has Marxist objectives, disaster for true democracy cannot be far behind.
This situation makes clear that democracy is not a sure and natural thing, as long as people grab for personal power. The people must want freedom from the grassroots. South Africans are giving away freedom for safety, and we all know what Benjamin Franklin said about that.
This also disheartens me about Iraq. All of our sacrifice, all of our blood may come to naught if the people don't want freedom as Americans experience it. We can defeat all of the Ba'athists and foreign terrorists, but if they create their own government that is little different from what they had before, it will have all been a waste.
Freedom must be earned, it can never be given. And it must be done so every day.
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Some people collect stamps, some collect cars. I collect the wisdoms written on bumper stickers. I keep finding and losing this link, BumperTalk, where you can get almost anything you want as far as a bumper sticker goes. Please check it out.
I may try to tackle some code to put this stuff at the top of my page, like American Realpolitik does.
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I meant to put this stuff up last night, but I was having attacks all day, and they got worse when I got back to my apartment.
Anyway, enjoy.
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Texas didn't officially rejoin the Union. They introduce a bill every year to secede from the Union, which gets voted down by a vote or two. There were a couple of paperbacks about a Texas that did secede from the Union, and they were hilarious.
Anyhow, if Kerry wins, how do you expect that vote to go?
Hat tip to Alpha Patriot
The Republic of TexasI think it's time to move to Texas.....
Texas has given all those complainers plenty of time to get used to the results. After seeing the whiners along the inauguration route, the folks from Texas have decided that we might just take matters into our own hands.
Here is our solution:
#1: Let John Kerry become President of the United States (all 49 states).
#2: George W. Bush becomes the President of the Republic of Texas.
So what does Texas have to do to survive as a Republic?
Space: NASA is in Houston, Texas (we will control the space industry).
Defense Industry: We have over 65% of it. (The term "Don't mess with Texas," will take on a whole new meaning.)
Gasoline: We refine over 85% of the gasoline in the United States.
Oil: We can supply all the oil that the Republic of Texas will need for the next 300 years. Yankee states? Sorry about that.
Natural Gas: Again we have all we need and it's too bad about those northern states. John Kerry will figure a way to keep them warm....
Computer Industry: We currently lead the nation in producing computer chips and communications: Small places like Texas Instruments, Dell Computer, EDS, Raytheon, National Semiconductor, Motorola, Intel, AMD, Atmel, Applied Materials, Ball Semiconductor, Dallas Semiconductor, Delphi, Nortel, Alcatel, etc., etc. The list goes on and on.
Health Centers: We have the largest research centers for Cancer research, the best burn centers and the top trauma units in the world and other large health planning centers.
Education: We have enough colleges to keep us going: U.T., Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Rice, SMU, University of Houston, Baylor, UNT, Texas Women's University, etc. Ivy grows better in the south anyway.
Labor: We have a ready supply of workers (just open the border when we need some more).
Industry: We have control of the paper industry, plastics, insurance, etc.
National Defense: In case of a foreign invasion, we have the Texas National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard. We don't have an army but since everybody down here has at least six rifles and a pile of ammo, we can raise an army in 24 hours if we need it. If the situation really gets bad, we can always call Department of Public Safety and ask them to send over a couple of Texas Rangers. :-)
Food Supply: We are totally self sufficient in beef, poultry, hogs and vegetable produce and everybody down here knows how to cook them so that they taste good. Don't need any food.
This just names a few of the items that will keep the Republic of Texas in good shape. There isn't a thing out there that we need and don't have.
Now to the rest of the United States under President Kerry: Since you won't have the refineries to get gas for your cars, only President Kerry will be able to drive around in his 9 mile per gallon SUV. The rest of the United States will have to walk or ride bikes.
You won't have any TV as the space center in Houston will cut off your communications. You won't have any natural gas to heat your homes but since Mr. Kerry has predicted global warming, you will not need the gas.
Signed, The People in Texas
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Found on USS Clueless from a comment thread on The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, this nice rendition of Gilbert and Sullivan. Written by George Turner.
I am the very model of a modern left wing democrat.
I vent my spleen and prattle in forums on the internet.
I can't hold long a single thought. I need to take my Ritalin.
Now what was that you asked of me? Did I just take my vitamin?
I cannot lose an argument, so why don't you get used to it.
I won't concede a single point, even if there's no truth in it.
No matter what you say to me, I'll post back an ad-homenim.
Regardless of the things you do, you're all BushHitler's supermen
They call me Post-It Note's bleat boy, and I post crap like it was true.
On all the countless websites that my drivel is cross-posted to.
Chorus:
We call him Post-It Note's bleat boy, and he posts crap like it was true.
On all the countless weblogs that his drivel is cross-posted to.
On all the countless weblogs that his drivel is cross-posted to.
Your weblog I will litter with my often posted snivelling
And you all have to pay the bill, supporting all my drivelling.
My posts sum up in six bad lines of mindless dreck and scribbling,
But lots of carps and doodoo too, plump out my posts with twiddling.
Impossible to penetrate much less on which to cogitate
I don't see how you can relate, to my simplistic mental state.
I will flame you with invective till you yield to my perspective.
Of socialist utopia when we join the big collective.
My whole outlook is progressive my belief is so obsessive
All your taxes are regressive cause with stuff we are possessive.
Chorus:
His whole outlook is progressive his belief is so obsessive
All our taxes are regressive cause with stuff they are possessive.
All our taxes are regressive cause with stuff they are possessive.
I'm ignorant of simple facts, both social and historical.
So don't confuse me with your lies, just argue metaphorical.
No matter what you say to me, I'll argue opposite you see.
If provably you show I'm wrong I'll change the question joyfully.
My facts are bad, conclusions too, my arguments erroneous,
You'll be crying oh "boo hoo", cause I'm so sanctimonious.
My learning is extensive but is nothing more than Chomskyia,
Designed to fan my hatred of the Empire called Amerika,
Your ruler soon is coming down, we'll crush him like a big ass clown
John Kerry soon will wear the crown, so I don't care if you all drown.
I am the very model of a left wing personality.
I intersperse mendacity with vacuous opacity.
Chorus:
He is the very model of a left wing personality.
He'll intersperse mendacity with vacuous opacity.
He'll intersperse mendacity with vacuous opacity.
*Applause*
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