Back last month, I made the Washington ComPost with one of my posts. It created a firestorm of comments on that one post. I did a post a couple of days later rebutting all of the comments made by then. It seems Bonnie has come back for more. At least I think it’s the same Bonnie, she doesn’t leave a real address for me to talk to her.
Bonnie Writes: (My previous writing is preceded by the “>>”)

>>The main reason to invade Iraq was not for oil, not for WMD, not even for stopping the thousands of executions a year by the Ba’athists. It was to get rid of terrorists.
B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T. I believe that you believe that, but I also believe that’s the lie BushCo has told the true believers like you because they need you to think they’re doing something good to cover up the fact they’re doing something horrific. No terrorists were in Iraq before we invaded it. Why didn’t we invade Saudi Arabia, where almost all the 9/11 hiackers came from?

What I mean by getting rid of terrorists is to create conditions that preclude the formation of terrorists, not to draw them out and kill them. Although if the first way doesn’t work, we are foced to resort to the second.

>>And there is two ways we are doing that. First, we are killing terrorists wholesale.
I find your bloodlust disgusting. We are killing human beings wholesale. That is why so many of us are against this war. We’ve killed 100,000 human beings in Iraq. We make such a BFD about 9/11, but 9/11 was peanuts compared to the human life we’ve wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan. And most of the people we’re fighting are not terrorists, they’re Iraqis fighting against a foreign occupier. Yes, a lot of them are also monsters who kill their own people with car bombs. But they never would be fighting us if we didn’t go there and kill 100,000 of them and sell off their entire economy and leave them jobless with no electricity and clean water. If China invaded us and you grabbed a gun and fought back, would that make you a terrorist?

You think 9/11 was a BFD, but they started it, and we are going to finish it, because nobody of any sense of decency wants anybody to go through that again. I’m sorry we have to kill anybody, but there are times it must be done. I do not have a bloodlust, but I will protect myself, proactively if need be. We are killing terrorists. The terrorists are killing the people of Iraq with their car bombs. So every time a terrorist kills a civilian, you blame it on Bush? The terrorists are purposefully trying to destabilize the Iraqi democratic process, which the Iraqi people want.
The reason why there is no electricity is because the infrastructure is in tatters. Tatters from years of no maintenance, when Saddam was building palaces instead of taking care of his people. The same thing with the water. The infrastructure has not been maintained, and that’s on top of the terrorist attacks that are disrupting the flow of water to the civilians.
If I was a Canadian who slipped into the US to kill American civilians, then yes I would be a terrorist. You seem to have this picture of a terrorist as a noble, self-sacrificing Iraqi who is against the US. Most (if not all) of the terrorists are coming in from places like Iran and Syria. They are intent on making Iraq an Islamic Theocracy rather than a secular democracy.

>>And as long as they focus on Iraq, they can’t mount operations in America. Where would you rather have the next suicide bomber? Baghdad or Boston?>We are building a stable democracy in Iraq,
We are? Looks to me like we’ve created one of the worst hells on earth. How did they do it in Germany and Japan after WW2? I have no idea, but whatever they did right then, they’re certainly doing it all wrong now.

You truly do not know your history. A group of SS, known as the Werewolves, performed terrorist attacks against German civilians and US forces as late as 1952. That’s 7 years if you don’t have enough fingers to count that high. And now Germany is at least a nominal friend. It took years for Japan to become the stable democracy and friend it is today. What, you think we did it in 6 weeks?
And if “they” are so powerful with their sneaking terror attacks, why has there not been another attack in America? The attacks in Spain and Britain, while tragic and shocking, do not have the same impact (pun intended) as 9/11. I am convinced that we will have another attack on US soil, and this time it will be nuclear, but I hope we can do everything possible to prevent it.

>>in the middle of tribal sheikdoms and Islamic theocracys. If we can complete this task, the other nations around Iraq will ask, “Why can’t we have that?”
That’s a lovely dream, but how realistic is that? It seems like a longshot to me considering most arab muslims hate the United States and all it stands for. Why not flip that around… say Al Q’aida invades mexico and takes it over and tries to turn it into a Muslim theocracy in the hopes that the U.S. and Canada will say, “Why can’t we have that?” and become Muslim theocracies too. Seems about as likely to happen. A pipe dream seems like a pretty flimsy reason to murder 100,000 human beings and destroy millions of lives.

Okay, I’ll give you a choice. You can live as an independent female, able to vote and hold a job, or you can climb into a burka and walk three steps behind your husband or brother, unable to read, hold a job or vote. Sure, why can’t we have that?

>>That, being freedom and a healthy, stable economy.
Have you seen the executive orders by Paul Bremer in the early days of the occupation, selling off their entire economy to foreign corporations and allowing them to then take all their profits out of Iraq? Why didn’t we hire Iraqis to rebuild their own country instead of paying westerners $10,000 a week to do it? Because all the war profiteers wouldn’t make as much money. Do you see the word Halliburton and think “good”??

I must at least partially concede this point because I don’t know the reasoning behind the actions, but I can not believe that Haliburton or any other company did it out of war profits or anything like that. There were reasons as to why it was done like that, but I don’t know what they were, and neither do you.

>>If we can find jobs for the 18-24 year old Muslim men, they will have a reason not to become suicide bombers.
The lead 9/11 hijackers were middle class and well educated and I would imagine had jobs before they went nuts with their religion. Unemployment isn’t what drives a suicide bomber.

No, not by itself, but when a young man finds his life empty and without meaning or purpose, then it makes it easier for the radical Imams to recruit them with dreams of 72 virgins.

>> The radical Imams will have lost their grip and hopefully an Islamic Martin Luther will come about.
That would be a wonderful thing. I totally agree with you there. But as long as they are attacked by the great satan, that’s only going to give those nutty imams more followers. Iran was on its way to liberalizing itself before we started threatening it. They just voted in a conservative president. Being attacked strenghtened our resolve, why don’t you think it strengthens theirs when they’re attacked and threatened?
>>Does that help, or are you even listening?
Yes, that helps, and yes, I’m listening loud and clear. I watch Fox news for as long as I can stomach it, and I’m halfway through Sean Hannity’s book. I see very clearly this complete blueprint of reality that’s dictated from the white house through corporate news and Bill O’Reilly and down to you, the good German. The whole rest of the world sees it and half of America sees it. But I can scream the truth right into your face and it’ll blow right past you, because you want to believe the fairy tale that we are the Good fighting the Evil. And the violence you support will escalate, and more terrorists will join up, and they’ll kill us and we’ll kill them and you’ll masturbate to Shock and Awe XIV on CNN and the economy will go down the toilet and America will be ruined BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO REFUSE TO SEE THE TRUTH!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do not “masturbate to Shock and Awe.” I do not take pleasure in the killing of anybody, or anything. But this does not stop me from doing what needs to be done. I get my news from the people working and fighting on the ground. You get your news from the reporters who are too afraid to leave the hotel.
I have a question, if Gore had won in 2000, and 9/11 happened, and Gore did the same exact things that Bush has done, would you be saying the same words now? I don’t think so. I would, but you probably wouldn’t. You’d be agreeing with Gore and his reasons.
While we aren’t perfect, we are the closest damn thing we have to Good in this world. If you don’t believe that, then get the hell out of this country and go where your views are more appreciated. And you can sure as hell believe that the other side is Evil, because they want to suppress everybody, you and me included, into a 13th century Theocracy. If suppressing me into something I don’t want to do isn’t Evil, I don’t know what is.
Write back soon. I enjoy our conversations.

Here’s a case of real recycling: Warship built with steel from Twin Towers.

In tribute to victims of the 9-11 attack on New York City, the U.S. Navy is using ten tons of steel from the World Trade Center to build a new warship that will help defend the nation from terrorism.

I can’t think of a better use for this steel than to put it into a warship and send it off against the foes of this country.
How about you?

Nothing really out there to comment on that I’m interested in. I’m not feeling quite right and will probably go down in flames this afternoon when I play Epic with Mike.
I am working on a second army for Epic, one that I am keeping secret for the moment until I play Mike with it for the first time. I can’t even drop any hits because Mike reads this regularly. Depending on what I can get from the Battle Bunker today will depend on how quickly I can field my force. I already have a little over 2,000 points worth of forces, but it’s all infantry. I need some other support to make a good combined arms force.
That’s about it for now. I’ll post some pictures after the first battle with my new army.

Well it seems that everybody in Cindy’s family has deserted her on this crusade to exact revenge on President Bush for the death of her son.
First came the letter from Casey’s Aunts, Uncles and Cousins, declaring that Cindy does not represent them with her views. Now this: Protesting Mom’s Husband Wants a Divorce.
Don’t worry. Cindy has all kind of new friends that will stand with her. Until her notoriety wanes at least. Then her “friends” will latch onto the next grieving mother who blames Bush for the death of her baby.
EXTRA STUFF: Here’s what Cindy didn’t want you to see. Google cached these pictures of President Bush giving a peck on the cheek of Cindy, in consoling her on the death of her son. Not quite the unfeeling bastard she wants you to believe he is.
Cindy, I’m sorry you didn’t get what you wanted out of that meeting, but how many people rate a second audience with the President? Not even many heads of state rate a first audience unless something important is going on with them that interests the US. You got your five minutes with the President, he personally thanked you for your son’s service and sacrifice. Whatever more you want you’re not going to get. And it is precisely the anti-war stance you have taken that is preventing you from seeing the President again. If he does meet with you, it would quickly turn into a debacle and the press would have a field day with it.
Which is why it will never happen.

You can tell when Bill Clinton is lying, its’ whenever his lips are moving. Clinton: I Would Have Attacked Bin Laden.
He continues to try and revise history, by showing that he would have been tougher on bin Laded given the chance. Let me just remind you that it was his administration that put up “the wall” (thanks to Jamie Gorelick, Assistant AG) between the FBI and CIA, preventing them from sharing intelligence.
It was also the Clinton Administration that tried to treat terrorism as a law-enforcement issue instead of a national security crisis. It was Clinton who turned down bin Laden’s head on a platter because “We didn’t have anything to charge him with.”
Now he says this:

“I desperately wish that I had been president when the FBI and CIA finally confirmed, officially, that bin Laden was responsible for the attack on the U.S.S. Cole,” Clinton tells New York magazine this week. “Then we could have launched an attack on Afghanistan early.”
[...]
“I always thought that bin Laden was a bigger threat than the Bush administration did,” he told New York magazine.

Oh, please. If you thought that, why in the hell didn’t you do anything about it? You attacked Al Qaeda training camps with cruise missiles only to knock Monica’s name and stained dress off the front page.
Just remember that he will say (but not actually do) anything to make you believe that he had a perfect presidency.

My boss says my affect has changed. This means the way I carry myself, the way I act, the way my face looks has changed in a marked way.
And I suppose it has. I missed posting even an apology Friday, and I have nothing but this today.
I have a lot on my mind as well. Maybe that is what is holding me down. My major concern right now is the upcoming change to my cocktail when I see my medication nurse next week. I will be coming off my Wellbutrin XL because I am now limited to two name-brand prescription drugs, and we have decided that mood stability is more important than my manicness or depression. It’s a dangerous tight rope I am walking, and if I fall off it means my life.
Which is one of the reasons why I feel it is important to post something, 5 days a week. If I go without posting for more than a couple of days, I need somebody to start looking for me. Call my landlord and have them open my apartment. I may be raising quite a stink by then. Unless I’ve done myself in in a public and spectacular manor, earning a place in the Evening News.
Let’s get this straight. I have no intention of hurting myself. But the last time my medications were dicked with, I ended up in the dark screaming like I was being tortured. I wanted to bust my head open because I could feel my brain undulating under my skull. These medications when used properly can save someones life. Used improperly, they can drive someone to end their own life to get away from the feelings that drown you.
Let’s hope it never comes to that.

Well, it took about a year, but I just watched the series finale of Babylon 5. I have all five seasons and I’ve been watching 1-3 episodes a week, usually on my weekdays off. It has taken a year because I have been unable to afford buying the complete set, or a new season when I finished one.
B5 is, in my never to be humble opinion, the second greatest Sci-Fi series ever, second only to the present Battlestar Galactica. A close third was the canceled Firefly.
Now that I’m finished with the series, I think I’ll get the movies so I can get the complete B5 experience (rattling the tip jar). Then I’ll start all over again. It’s a good series that doesn’t deserve to rot unwatched.

It looks like one of our SCOTUS Justices is starting to see the light. Justice Breyer: ‘Not all our decisions are right’.
Looking to foreign laws and rulings for their own makes SCOTUS look rather stupid. Especially the ruling Kelo vs. The City of New London was so blatant against our Constitution that two Justices are facing actions against them under this very ruling.
Here’s your daily dose of Bull droppings to keep your BS meter calibrated:

“We’re not bound by any foreign law,” Breyer said, “but this is a world in which more and more countries have come to have democratic systems of government with documents like our Constitution that protect things like free expression. And there are judges, and the judges have a job somewhat similar to mine, and so why not sometimes, on unusual occasions probably, look and see what they said if it’s relevant. Maybe we can learn something. I mean they’re human beings, too.”

There is no country like ours in the world. No other country was founded by the People, with the Constitution being a limiting document upon the federal government. No other country puts the freedom of the People first, and government second. That is, those countries that even have some sort of Constitution. Most countries don’t have such a document. The government is just in power and can do whatever they want to do.
To look to other countries for rulings on Americans is just plain wrong. I don’t expect other countries to use our rulings to affect their law, and I sure don’t expect the same from our SCOTUS.

This is certainly a twist. TV Ad Attacking Court Nominee Provokes Furor.
I reported in the post below that NARAL is paying for a rather misleading ad. Let me rephrase that. A nasty personal attack that has no basis in reality.
Well, it looks like at least some Democrats think that the NARAL ad crossed the line:

Within the larger liberal coalition of which Naral is a part, there was considerable uneasiness about the advertisement, although leaders of other groups generally refused to speak on the record. One who did, Frances Kissling, the longtime president of Catholics for a Free Choice, said she was “deeply upset and offended” by the advertisement, which she called “far too intemperate and far too personal.”
Ms. Kissling, who initiated the conversation with a reporter, said the ad “does step over the line into the kind of personal character attack we shouldn’t be engaging in.”
She added: “As a pro-choice person, I don’t like being placed on the defensive by my leaders. Naral should pull it and move on.”
Walter Dellinger, a former acting solicitor general in the Clinton administration and longtime Naral supporter, sent a letter on Wednesday to the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and its ranking Democrat, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, respectively. Mr. Dellinger said he had disagreed with Mr. Roberts’s argument in the Bray case but considered it unfair to give “the impression that Roberts is somehow associated with clinic bombers.” He added that “it would be regrettable if the only refutation of these assertions about Roberts came from groups opposed to abortion rights.”

If this continues, I may have to retract my prior statements about at least some Liberals. It does seem that there is a line for some of them that they won’t cross. Good for them.

From Drudge:

CNN has reviewed and agreed to run a controversial ad produced by a pro-abortion group that falsely accuses Supreme Court nominee John Roberts of filing legal papers supporting a convicted clinic bomber!
The news network has agreed to a $125,000 ad buy from NARAL, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, for a commercial which depicts a bombed out 1998 Birmingham, AL abortion clinic.
The Birmingham clinic was bombed seven years after Roberts signed the legal briefing.
The linking of Roberts to “violent fringe groups” is the sharpest attack against the nominee thus far.
However, the non-partisan University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Factcheck.org reviewed the NARAL ad and found it to be “false.”
Factcheck.org found “in words and images, the ad conveys the idea that Roberts took a legal position excusing bombing of abortion clinics, which is false.”
The Republican National Committee is preparing to send a letter to television stations asking them to pull the spot, according to sources.
The RNC’s letter claims: “NARAL’s ad is a deliberate misrepresentation of the facts that has no purpose but to mislead the American people.”

Who said this is to be a civil and respectable discussion? Why the Left. And when it comes right down to it, this is their method of civil discourse.
“We can say anything we want, while you can only say we want you to say.”
Yeah, right.

You should watch this: Planned Parenthood Golden Gate.
Just remember, Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger, a rather vile racist that thought the Black race should be exterminated. How better to do so than to have as many black abortions as possible. How much do you want to bet there aren’t any abortion clinics in the better part of town where all the White folk live?
Showing opponents to abortion as evil looking people who should be dealt with violently (drowning them in a trash can, blowing them up) is an abomination. Imagine the uproar if the pro-life people put out a similar cartoon from their prospective…
And why is the murder of a pregnant woman a “double homicide” while the abortion of the fetus is a choice? If the fetus has standing under the law to be counted as a person in one right, why not in both cases?
I am not against the choice, but I am against abortion being the first choice. I always hope that the choice should be for life and to give the child up for adoption.
Watch this cartoon. Listen to what the “heroine” is actually saying. Understand the dodges this “cartoon” makes.
Notice particularly the part where the “evil” pro-life man (who gets drowned in a trash can) who asks, “What about STD’s? Those Birth Control methods don’t prevent STDs.” Then one of the teenagers says in typical teenager fashion, “Well, I don’t plan on getting any STDs.” The man then says, “No one ever plans to get one…”
Watch it. And be disgusted.

Well, it looks like Judge Mathis isn’t a very good judge. Bush, GOP Labeled ‘Thieves’ Who ‘Need to be Locked Up’.
Here are some remarks from the esteemed Judge Mathis:

“They all need to be locked up because they are all criminals and they are all thieves,” said Judge Greg Mathis, the star of the syndicated television program “The Judge Mathis Show.”
[...]
“[The] Supreme Court was an accomplice to the biggest election crime in history in 2000. And I call it a crime because indeed that is exactly what it was,” he said to applause.
[...]
“They shot and missed when they enslaved, segregated and oppressed our people. They shot and missed when they stole the past two presidential elections. They shot and missed when they denied our right to vote,” Mathis said.

The judge is not very cognizant of the law, nor of the decisions passed by SCOTUS over the 2000 elections.
Just to recap, with Florida so close in votes, Democrats wanted to recount just 5 or so counties, all of them heavily Democrat. The Florida Supreme Court and the SCOTUS ruled that you need to recount all of the counties. And it seems to have escaped his notice, but the MSM bought about a dozen recounts of Florida, and Bush won every one of them. How’s that for ignoring the facts?
And need I bring up which side of the aisle was for Jim Crow? It sure wasn’t the Republicans. What side was against the Voting Rights act of 1965? The Democrats. What present presidency put multiple Black people in high ranking positions? What recently former presidency didn’t put any minorities in high ranking positions? I’ll let you find out the answers by yourself. If you don’t know by now, you need to do the research yourself.
I think what they mean by “denying blacks the right to vote” was denying them the “right” to vote multiple times under different names, lying about ID so they can get provisional ballots in multiple districts, etc., etc., etc..
These people are full of bull droppings. What they say has no congruence with the truth.

Howard “The Scream” Dean, in charge of the Democrat National Committee, thinks that they aren’t getting their message out. Dean Says Democrats Must Take Offensive.
I hate to tell you this Howard, but your message is getting out. You are the party for higher taxes and more Welfare. You believe the State should be raising your kids because you’re too stupid to do it yourself. You are all for class warfare. When the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was on the floor of the Congress, Democrats opposed it. You stand for Abortion on demand and gay marriage.
Too bad that’s not what most of America believes in. Oh, you’re message is getting out, and it is repulsing more voters than you could ever hope of reeling in.
So you’re going to have to lie to get voters. Very, very few people want more taxes, so you’re going to have to say, “I’m against taxes” while campaigning, then raise taxes and say, “It’s necessary” while in office.
Good Luck with that message thing. You’ll need it.

It seems that today is a rather slow news day. The dominant coverage is the death of Peter Jennings, news anchor for ABC for many, many years. He died of lung cancer after years of heavy smoking.
I can’t seem to get going this morning, which is the reason why this late post. I got up 90 minutes late, then crawled back into bed for another two hours.
Have fun throughout the day, I have lots of errands to do today.

What a day! 10 straight hours of wargaming, almost as good as a MidSouthCon! Mike, my son and I attended. Mike played with some of my forces, I played with the rest and my son played his Tau forces on the side of Disorder.
Mike and I warmed up with a small game of Epic. It got called at the end of turn 2 due to it was time for the Mega battle. I’m glad, as I was getting my butt handed to me for once.
This was an unlimited point battle, bring everything you have as tricked out as you can, but you need to adhere to a Force Organization Chart, which limits how many of the different types of units you can have.
We got the Mega-Battle started up about 3pm. Instead of one big table with a slugfest, this was three different tables, with each table affecting the others. One was a space hulk with a planetary bombardment cannon. Another table had planetary defenses, large bombardment cannons that were aimed at the last table where the main action was taking place.
I was elected team captain for the Forces of Order, the more-or-less good guys (In this universe, there are no “good” guys, only bad and not-so-bad).
With all pictures, click for a full size picture.
Here is the Forces of Order set up and ready to go. We still have all of our mounted troops and other vehicles off the board in reserve.

Here is the main fortress, where the Forces of Order must hold on. As you can see, one wall has already been breached and Forces of Disorder (the bad guys) are already pouring into the fortress. If this is lost, we lose the table!



Here is a view of the defenders of the Planetary Defenses table, you can see Ork bikes in the distance advancing toward the guns.



This was the easiest victory of the day. This is the space hulk table, with the victorious Forces of Order controlling the gun. This comes down on the main table later in the game.



Here is the battle in the advanced stages. Things are not looking good for the Forces of Order. We are being swamped by Tyranids and Chaos demons.



Battle of the Titans. On the left is a Tyranid Bio-Titan, the right is an Eldar Titan. These two slugged it out without a winner before the game was called.



We got to fire the planetary defenses 4 times. We had to guess the distance from one table to the other. I guessed 25 feet the first time and fell well short. The rest of the shots landed pretty much on target, but failed to do any permanent damage.
Also on turn 4 we got to fire the weapon from the space hulk. When we deal with template weapons, we are talking normally about palm sized or CD sized templates. For this weapon, we used the lid to a 25 gallon trash can, about 2 1/2 feet in diameter. Devastating is not descriptive enough to detail the carnage unleashed by this orbital strike.
When we had a glimmer of hope after the devastating space hulk strike, but then the last nail of the coffin was nailed in. Chaos takes over planets by corrupting the citizens of the planet and turning them against the Imperium. One player on the Forces of Order, our biggest point player, changed sides and started attacking us! He didn’t do it willingly, he was told by the store staff when he walked in that he would be playing the traitor. He didn’t have a choice in the matter.
By the end of turn 4, the Forces of Disorder had the main table well in control, but the space hulk and Planetary Defense tables were still in Imperium control.
It turned out we held the Forces of Disorder to a tie.
To be continued next month after the next Mega-Battle. The results of this action will carry over into the next one.