While Losing The War…
I’m not quite sure what happened to the United States since the end of World War II, but we’ve definitely forgotten how to effectively fight a war and how to completely defeat an enemy.
Even in WWII we screwed around and let communist Russia continue to fester rather than adding them to the list of victories along with Germany and Japan. General Patton wanted us to keep on rolling east into Russia from Europe and had the politicians and the media allowed him to get his wish, imagine how much quieter the next forty years would have been? And think of the money we would have saved on defense?
Next look what a stupid, time consuming, waste of money the concept of having an East and West Germany was. For some reason, which is beyond my understanding, we allowed the Berlin wall to exist when we had in fact defeated the Germans and could have (and should have) told them “hell no” when they wanted to make half the country a Soviet supported communist state.
Again, there you find the product of our lily livered politicians (Democrats AND Republicans) and the leftist members of the mainstream media. They want us to treat our enemies like a bully on the school playground—punch them in the nose, knock them down, and make them all yell “UNCLE.” Instead of finishing the fight, we always let our adversaries back on their feet; dust themselves off, “save face,” only to allow them to come back another day to start picking another fight with the world.
We pushed the communists out of South Korea in the 1950’s and then settled for a “demilitarized zone” along the 38th parallel. What did we get as a country out of that “police action’s” non-victory? We get to fool around with the little troll dictator (Kim Jong Il) fifty years later while the citizens of North Korea stave to death and he threatens the world with nuclear bombs.
Then along comes the Viet Nam conflict. I seem to recall that we inherited that war from the French. President Kennedy jumped in with both feet, Johnson waded in hip deep and even being a Democrat he couldn’t save his political career as a result. Then Nixon was elected to finish the battle, but the media was dead set against him AND the war and the American people got tired of twelve years of fighting (what I call pussy footing around) and we pulled out leaving Saigon to become Ho Chi Men City.
What a waste.
Continuing in our ever developing long line of (non)victories, we have the Gulf War—Chapter I staring President George H W Bush. We pounded Saddam’s “Republican Guard” and had the country on it’s knees in a matter of weeks, but the media and the United Nations and our pansy assed Congress decided to let Saddam cry “uncle” (with his fingers crossed behind his back.)
Talk about “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory…” We then have to spend the next ten years watching President Clinton and the UN inspectors play peek-a-boo with Saddam, even allowing him to push the inspectors out for the last FOUR years before Bush “mislead America into the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Now we’re BACK in Iraq and have spent the past two and one half years doing what Bush 41 should have been allowed to do in 1992. And since Americans are afraid of casualties and a big ground war we’ve allowed the media and the politicians to once again “armchair quarterback” us into the current “quagmire.”
I guaran-damn-tee you that IF our military had been allowed to enter Iraq and fight this war the EXACT way it needed to be fought, with the troop strengths we REALLY needed, WITHOUT at the same time listening to polls, conducting a PR campaign, and worrying about what would be printed on the front pages of the NY and LATimes, there would have been fewer American deaths and much less “insurgency.”
The reality is that the Iraqi people would still be about where they are in creating a new government. You do remember that it took us ELEVEN years to write our constitution?
That’s right, we declared independence from England in 1776 and we wrote the constitution in 1787.
So what’s our hurry in Iraq? How can Senator Kennedy and the media call the situation a “quagmire”?
What really pisses me off is how the media and the “political doves” tell us how to fight a war, and then step away from the outcome if it is negative. They tie our hands, trumpet the death of each and every soldier, publish false accounts of war atrocities from liars like Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey (a John Kerry wanna be), and generally make the proper, brutal, devastating execution of the war impossible.
Last time I checked, fighting a war involved activities like breaking things and killing people. War is not a tea party. War is not a Debutant ball. Somebody (I forget who) once said that “War is Hell…”
This brings me to the point of my story today: Ohio Congressman John Murtha’s call for the immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. I wrote about him on Thursday.
What a useless, partisan, insincere asshole Murtha is. Of course the media has played this story like Murtha is some kind of War Hawk because he is a decorated ex-Marine. Ex-Marine he is, but he is suffering from a severe case of Democratic partisan induced cirrhosis of the brain causing him to deliver massive quantities of “Kerryisms” in front of TV cameras, microphones, and his fellow congressmen.
I found myself laughing my rear end off last night when Dennis Hastert and the rest of the Republicans called Murtha’s bluff.
It turns out that the Democrats didn’t really want to actually have to VOTE on leaving Iraq as Murtha and Kennedy and Dean and the rest of “the usual suspects” have so publicly demanded. The idea of demanding a "plan and/or date for withdrawal" and all of the associated hooplah is apparently a publicity stunt designed to undermine President Bush and the war effort.
Gee, can you imagine that?
Their actual reasons didn’t matter because the Republicans decided to give them their way, put a nonbinding resolution on the floor. Funny thing, Murtha and his fellow Dem’s suddenly had a change or heart or a case of amnesia or something because they didn’t want to have to actually VOTE on pulling out—they just want to talk about and demand that we pull out of Iraq.
In the end, the Republicans shoved the issue down their throats and forced the house to vote on an immediate pullout from Iraq.
The bill lost 403-3, with a number of congressmen not voting or only voting as “present.”
I haven’t used these words so far in writing today, so here goes…CHICKEN SHIT.
It seems, in my somewhat limited Redneck mind, that this issue—pulling out of Iraq before we’re through fighting and defeating our enemy—should now be a moot point.
Yet I know that it won’t be, because the media is biased and disreputable and the Democrats are just plain too worried about regaining their power at all costs to let the president finish what we have started. Things should be very interesting over the next few weeks as the congress takes their end of the year break and the media plays ping pong with the War on Terror.
I have just two final things to say on the subject of demanding an “exit strategy.”
First, the president and our military leaders need to be allowed to fight and finish this war based on their knowledge and experience, not advice delivered from the mouth of Ted Kennedy and written by Paul Krugman on the editorial page of the NY Times.
And Second, I’d like say to John Murtha…”SHUT THE F**K UP, YOU DODDERING OLD IDIOT.”
Saturday, November 19, 2005
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Congressional Treason
The LA Times has the story of the latest BS coming out of the congressional Democrats. This time it's the senior Democratic member of the House Defense Appropriations Committee heard undermining our efforts in public:
WASHINGTON -- Signaling heightened opposition to the war in Iraq from a corner of long-standing support for the military, Rep. John Murtha, a conservative Pennsylvania Democrat, said today the United States should immediately begin to bring its troops home.
Murtha, the senior Democrat on the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee, said the U.S. military forces should be withdrawn as quickly as possible, which could be accomplished within six months. He called for maintaining a rapid-deployment force in the region.
I think that Murtha, like the other chicken shit members of the Republican and Democratic parties, is displaying incredibly bad judgment in criticizing the war with our troops in harms way. It's not like he's talking in a vaccum or singing by himself in the shower.
Of course he waits until the President is in Asia to do it. It obviously makes President Bush's trip less productive and effective if he has to spend all of his time answering the questions raised by reporters covering the news here at home.
The BBC already has more of the story:
"Our troops have become the primary target of the insurgency, they are united against US forces, and we have become a catalyst for violence," Mr Murtha said at an emotional news conference in Washington.
"US troops are the common enemy of the Sunnis, the Saddamists, and the foreign jihadists... I believe we need to turn Iraq over to the Iraqis," he said.
The Malaysia Star continues:
"The U.S. cannot accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily. It is time to bring them home," said Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a senior Democrat on the subcommittee that oversees military spending.
The Swiss know, Australia knows, New Zealand knows, and they've heard in Kuwait.
I think this behavior is completely unacceptable.
Hurrah for all of the partisan, chicken shit Congressmen, Democrat and Republican.
I hope they're happy when we pull out and Baghdad falls like Sigon did in the early 1970's.
Imbecils...
WASHINGTON -- Signaling heightened opposition to the war in Iraq from a corner of long-standing support for the military, Rep. John Murtha, a conservative Pennsylvania Democrat, said today the United States should immediately begin to bring its troops home.
Murtha, the senior Democrat on the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee, said the U.S. military forces should be withdrawn as quickly as possible, which could be accomplished within six months. He called for maintaining a rapid-deployment force in the region.
I think that Murtha, like the other chicken shit members of the Republican and Democratic parties, is displaying incredibly bad judgment in criticizing the war with our troops in harms way. It's not like he's talking in a vaccum or singing by himself in the shower.
Of course he waits until the President is in Asia to do it. It obviously makes President Bush's trip less productive and effective if he has to spend all of his time answering the questions raised by reporters covering the news here at home.
The BBC already has more of the story:
"Our troops have become the primary target of the insurgency, they are united against US forces, and we have become a catalyst for violence," Mr Murtha said at an emotional news conference in Washington.
"US troops are the common enemy of the Sunnis, the Saddamists, and the foreign jihadists... I believe we need to turn Iraq over to the Iraqis," he said.
The Malaysia Star continues:
"The U.S. cannot accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily. It is time to bring them home," said Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a senior Democrat on the subcommittee that oversees military spending.
The Swiss know, Australia knows, New Zealand knows, and they've heard in Kuwait.
I think this behavior is completely unacceptable.
Hurrah for all of the partisan, chicken shit Congressmen, Democrat and Republican.
I hope they're happy when we pull out and Baghdad falls like Sigon did in the early 1970's.
Imbecils...
Stupidity Nets $61 Million Prize
Call Me Insensitive...
A Florida Jury generously handed out $61 million of Ford Motor Company's money this week. Same song, different verse--mean old Ford's SUV's will roll over when handled by inexperienced teen drivers.
MIAMI -- A jury ordered the Ford Motor Co. to pay more than $61 million to the family of a 17-year-old boy killed in a roll-over that occurred when his friend dozed off behind the wheel of an Explorer.
Ford was liable in the accident because it sold a vehicle with poor handling and stability, the jury determined...
Hall was reclining in the front passenger seat and wearing his seat belt when the Explorer rolled over four times on State Road 93 in Collier County on April 20, 1997. He was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene.
OK, help me get this story straight.
You're laying down in the front seat of your dad's SUV, with your shoulder harness flapping in the breeze doing nothing, heading home late after a evening of pimple faced partying.
Your friend, who is supposed to be in charge of driving, falls asleep at the wheel going down the highway at 60 or so miles per hour.
Summoning every ounce of experience from his two years of driving experience, your friend manages to turn the SUV sideways, whereupon it proceeds to roll four times, throwing your scrawney butt out of the vehicle onto the pavement.
When the dust settles and the blue lights stop flashing--YOU'RE DEAD.
How is it that not one but THREE potentially fatal errors (handing a SUV to a teen, a teen laying down in the seat, and a teen falling asleep at the wheel) nets no liability for the teens or the parents in court?
Is it really all Fords fault?
Not $61,000,000 worth...
A Florida Jury generously handed out $61 million of Ford Motor Company's money this week. Same song, different verse--mean old Ford's SUV's will roll over when handled by inexperienced teen drivers.
MIAMI -- A jury ordered the Ford Motor Co. to pay more than $61 million to the family of a 17-year-old boy killed in a roll-over that occurred when his friend dozed off behind the wheel of an Explorer.
Ford was liable in the accident because it sold a vehicle with poor handling and stability, the jury determined...
Hall was reclining in the front passenger seat and wearing his seat belt when the Explorer rolled over four times on State Road 93 in Collier County on April 20, 1997. He was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene.
OK, help me get this story straight.
You're laying down in the front seat of your dad's SUV, with your shoulder harness flapping in the breeze doing nothing, heading home late after a evening of pimple faced partying.
Your friend, who is supposed to be in charge of driving, falls asleep at the wheel going down the highway at 60 or so miles per hour.
Summoning every ounce of experience from his two years of driving experience, your friend manages to turn the SUV sideways, whereupon it proceeds to roll four times, throwing your scrawney butt out of the vehicle onto the pavement.
When the dust settles and the blue lights stop flashing--YOU'RE DEAD.
How is it that not one but THREE potentially fatal errors (handing a SUV to a teen, a teen laying down in the seat, and a teen falling asleep at the wheel) nets no liability for the teens or the parents in court?
Is it really all Fords fault?
Not $61,000,000 worth...
Yesterday We Dogged A Bullet
Hands Off Of The Internet…
Just in case you haven’t thought about it, I'd say that the internet works pretty well for most of us.
I’m one of those people that had access a long time ago when there was really no commercial content. When I started using the internet in the mid 1980’s it was mainly a tool for e-mail and file sharing between universities and government entities.
Beginning in the early to mid 1990’s the retail thing took off, the p0rnograpy started inundating everyone, and the rest is, as they say, history.
Even though the US government is partially responsible for starting the internet, thus far they have had enough sense to keep their stupid, tax grubbing hands off of it. They even created a pseudo private entity, operating under the Commerce Department, called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that handles registering domain names and coordinating Internet server specifications and traffic direction.
As I said, things to date have worked pretty darn well, but Kofi Annan and his ragtag band of communists and socialist dictators over at the United Nations thinks that it’s time for the US to turn the reins over to the UN. They think that it is unfair for the US to continue running the communication system that we developed and paid most of the money to build.
Riiiiight, that’s a good plan.
After all, the UN’s sterling reputation for ethics and fiscal responsibility (see the UN Oil For Food Program) makes them eminently qualified for the task. Let all of those lovers of freedom and free speech—you know, China, Russia, North Korea, Egypt and most of Africa—take control of the world wide web.
Yeah, and within six months it will be illegal for me to write “Kofi Annan is a big fat, black, slobbering, incompetent fool” on my blog without fearing someone knocking on my door with a search warrant. If I say that the Chinese like being intimate with pigs or that Egyptian towel heads are worse than Saudi Arabian towel heads I’ll run the risk of some swarthy man running me down with his car while I’m walking across the street.
The good news is that we’re safe for the time being because they’ve reluctantly decided to let the US keep running things:
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- A summit focusing on narrowing the digital divide between the rich and poor residents and countries opened Wednesday with an agreement of sorts on who will maintain ultimate oversight of the Internet and the flow of information, commerce and dissent.
The World Summit on the Information Society had been overshadowed by a lingering, if not vocal, struggle about overseeing the domain names and technical issues that make the Internet work and keep people from Pakistan to Canada surfing Web sites in the search for information, news and buying and selling.
Negotiators from more than 100 countries agreed late Tuesday to leave the United States in charge of the Internet's addressing system, averting a U.S.-EU showdown at this week's U.N. technology summit.
U.S. officials said early Wednesday that instead of transferring management of the system to an international body such as the United Nations, an international forum would be created to address concerns. The forum, however, would have no binding authority.
Of course they still have some hope over at the UN, because they are going to revisit the issue again in 2006.
If they think that running the internet is so darn important, let the UN go out and develop the technology and pay to start their own system. Call it Outernet or the Undernet or the Kofi-net or whatever they want.
Why should we GIVE them what is clearly OUR computer network? After all, we already let them connect to it and use it basically for free, they just have to pay to get a dial tone or a cable signal in their home or office and they can happily spam us to death with offers to share in millions of misplaced cash from deceased relatives stored in Swiss bank accounts.
And who besides the UN and some Democrats think that poor people have a RIGHT to internet access anyway? Shouldn’t they be concerned with basic things like reading, writing, and math skills? Shouldn't the UN be feeding these people rather than worrying about hooking them up to E-mail?
The problem is that Internet access requires expensive things like computers and modems and little details like a phone or cable system. Is the UN proposing to provide wireless internet access in an oasis in Egypt or a refugee camp in Somalia? I guess it would help me get a Hertz reservation for a Camel rental in Cairo.
And who’s gonna pay for these luxuries in countries full of civil war battles and starving children dying of AIDS? I suppose that the UN would place a tax on “rich” user’s access in the developed world to pay for their bungling administration of internet access for the tribal elders in Niger.
Yeah, right...I think that the temperature would have to drop substantially in Hell before that happens.
Just in case you haven’t thought about it, I'd say that the internet works pretty well for most of us.
I’m one of those people that had access a long time ago when there was really no commercial content. When I started using the internet in the mid 1980’s it was mainly a tool for e-mail and file sharing between universities and government entities.
Beginning in the early to mid 1990’s the retail thing took off, the p0rnograpy started inundating everyone, and the rest is, as they say, history.
Even though the US government is partially responsible for starting the internet, thus far they have had enough sense to keep their stupid, tax grubbing hands off of it. They even created a pseudo private entity, operating under the Commerce Department, called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that handles registering domain names and coordinating Internet server specifications and traffic direction.
As I said, things to date have worked pretty darn well, but Kofi Annan and his ragtag band of communists and socialist dictators over at the United Nations thinks that it’s time for the US to turn the reins over to the UN. They think that it is unfair for the US to continue running the communication system that we developed and paid most of the money to build.
Riiiiight, that’s a good plan.
After all, the UN’s sterling reputation for ethics and fiscal responsibility (see the UN Oil For Food Program) makes them eminently qualified for the task. Let all of those lovers of freedom and free speech—you know, China, Russia, North Korea, Egypt and most of Africa—take control of the world wide web.
Yeah, and within six months it will be illegal for me to write “Kofi Annan is a big fat, black, slobbering, incompetent fool” on my blog without fearing someone knocking on my door with a search warrant. If I say that the Chinese like being intimate with pigs or that Egyptian towel heads are worse than Saudi Arabian towel heads I’ll run the risk of some swarthy man running me down with his car while I’m walking across the street.
The good news is that we’re safe for the time being because they’ve reluctantly decided to let the US keep running things:
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- A summit focusing on narrowing the digital divide between the rich and poor residents and countries opened Wednesday with an agreement of sorts on who will maintain ultimate oversight of the Internet and the flow of information, commerce and dissent.
The World Summit on the Information Society had been overshadowed by a lingering, if not vocal, struggle about overseeing the domain names and technical issues that make the Internet work and keep people from Pakistan to Canada surfing Web sites in the search for information, news and buying and selling.
Negotiators from more than 100 countries agreed late Tuesday to leave the United States in charge of the Internet's addressing system, averting a U.S.-EU showdown at this week's U.N. technology summit.
U.S. officials said early Wednesday that instead of transferring management of the system to an international body such as the United Nations, an international forum would be created to address concerns. The forum, however, would have no binding authority.
Of course they still have some hope over at the UN, because they are going to revisit the issue again in 2006.
If they think that running the internet is so darn important, let the UN go out and develop the technology and pay to start their own system. Call it Outernet or the Undernet or the Kofi-net or whatever they want.
Why should we GIVE them what is clearly OUR computer network? After all, we already let them connect to it and use it basically for free, they just have to pay to get a dial tone or a cable signal in their home or office and they can happily spam us to death with offers to share in millions of misplaced cash from deceased relatives stored in Swiss bank accounts.
And who besides the UN and some Democrats think that poor people have a RIGHT to internet access anyway? Shouldn’t they be concerned with basic things like reading, writing, and math skills? Shouldn't the UN be feeding these people rather than worrying about hooking them up to E-mail?
The problem is that Internet access requires expensive things like computers and modems and little details like a phone or cable system. Is the UN proposing to provide wireless internet access in an oasis in Egypt or a refugee camp in Somalia? I guess it would help me get a Hertz reservation for a Camel rental in Cairo.
And who’s gonna pay for these luxuries in countries full of civil war battles and starving children dying of AIDS? I suppose that the UN would place a tax on “rich” user’s access in the developed world to pay for their bungling administration of internet access for the tribal elders in Niger.
Yeah, right...I think that the temperature would have to drop substantially in Hell before that happens.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Everything You Need To Know...
About "Bird" Flu
Just when I start thinking that I might be learning how to write, I realize that compared to guys like Micheal Fumento, I'm just a belching, farting, bitching fool that happens to write my own free blog.
Here is part of what Mr. Fumento had to say about the so called "avian flu"...
Still, there are those of great influence who would have us think a pandemic is just around the corner. Reassuringly, their explanations are unscientific. One is that "we're overdue" for a pandemic. Google "avian flu" and "pandemic" and "overdue," and you'll get over 40,000 hits. "In the 20th century there were three pandemics, which means an average of one every 30 years," explained one health official to the New York Times. "The last one was in 1968, so it's 37 years. Just on the basis of evolution, of how things go, we're overdue."
Really? It was 39 years from the first pandemic to the second, but only 11 from the second to the third. Is that a pattern, or some white-jacketed yokel demonstrating his ability to do long division? On the other hand, if you knew that this yokel was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, you might be justified in thinking we do have something to be worried about. Nevertheless, Fauci also said some foolish things about the SARS threat, and somehow we managed to survive that.
As to MY opinion of this predicted disaster, don't get me wrong here.
IF you're 100 years old, or IF you have tiny children, or IF you spend most of your life on public transportation, or IF you are otherwise hacking and coughing in poor health--go ahead and get yourself a flu shot. And for God's sake, please be careful with who (or whom or what) you allow yourself to be exposed to.
The rest of us smelly, stinky, mean old outspoken white protestant male Libertarian/Republican bastards like me should just continue smoking cigars, drinking fine Porto, and enjoying life in general because the flu pandemic is really a figment of the imagination of the media and a bunch of "junk scientists."
When and if the experts are shown to be wrong--which they probably will be, let's hold them accountable.
Next time...
OK???
Just when I start thinking that I might be learning how to write, I realize that compared to guys like Micheal Fumento, I'm just a belching, farting, bitching fool that happens to write my own free blog.
Here is part of what Mr. Fumento had to say about the so called "avian flu"...
Still, there are those of great influence who would have us think a pandemic is just around the corner. Reassuringly, their explanations are unscientific. One is that "we're overdue" for a pandemic. Google "avian flu" and "pandemic" and "overdue," and you'll get over 40,000 hits. "In the 20th century there were three pandemics, which means an average of one every 30 years," explained one health official to the New York Times. "The last one was in 1968, so it's 37 years. Just on the basis of evolution, of how things go, we're overdue."
Really? It was 39 years from the first pandemic to the second, but only 11 from the second to the third. Is that a pattern, or some white-jacketed yokel demonstrating his ability to do long division? On the other hand, if you knew that this yokel was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, you might be justified in thinking we do have something to be worried about. Nevertheless, Fauci also said some foolish things about the SARS threat, and somehow we managed to survive that.
As to MY opinion of this predicted disaster, don't get me wrong here.
IF you're 100 years old, or IF you have tiny children, or IF you spend most of your life on public transportation, or IF you are otherwise hacking and coughing in poor health--go ahead and get yourself a flu shot. And for God's sake, please be careful with who (or whom or what) you allow yourself to be exposed to.
The rest of us smelly, stinky, mean old outspoken white protestant male Libertarian/Republican bastards like me should just continue smoking cigars, drinking fine Porto, and enjoying life in general because the flu pandemic is really a figment of the imagination of the media and a bunch of "junk scientists."
When and if the experts are shown to be wrong--which they probably will be, let's hold them accountable.
Next time...
OK???
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Put A Fence Around The Place
And Throw Away The Key...
I don’t know what we’re going to do with them. The more you vote for them, no matter how much you pay them, most US Senators are spineless, partisan morons. The worst thing is, the Republicans seem to be intentionally competing with the Democrats for the title of "Stupidest Human Being on Capital Hill."
Just look at the latest idiocy recounted in this story:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - In a sign of increasing unease among Congressional Republicans over the war in Iraq, the Senate is to consider on Tuesday a Republican proposal that calls for Iraqi forces to take the lead next year in securing the nation and for the Bush administration to lay out its strategy for ending the war.
The Senate is also scheduled to vote Tuesday on a compromise, announced Monday night, that would allow terror detainees some access to federal courts. The Senate had voted last week to prohibit those being held from challenging their detentions in federal court, despite a Supreme Court ruling to the contrary.
Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who is the author of the initial plan, said Monday that he had negotiated a compromise that would allow detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their designation as enemy combatants in federal courts and also allow automatic appeals of any convictions handed down by the military where detainees receive prison terms of 10 years or more or a death sentence.
The proposal on the Iraq war, from Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, and Senator John W. Warner, Republican of Virginia, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, would require the administration to provide extensive new quarterly reports to Congress on subjects like progress in bringing in other countries to help stabilize Iraq. The other appeals related to Iraq are nonbinding and express the position of the Senate.
What the heck is the basis of their rush to get out of Iraq? Re-election?
We've only been there less than three years. Aren’t there still US forces remaining in Germany over 60 years after the end of WWII?
Aren’t there Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force troops still guarding the demilitarized zone in Korea fifty years later?
What’s the big difference here?
And this idea of worrying about terrorists held in Cuba and in other prisons overseas—
GIVE ME A BREAK. I have a suggestion that would completely solve this whole “detainee rights” issue.
JUST LET ALL OF THE MURDERING, TOWELHEADED, SONOFABITCHES GO FREE.
That’s right, turn each and every one of them loose, and GIVE THEM ALL SECURITY JOBS.
Fire the CIA and the Secret Service and hire the former “detainees” as guards for the Senate offices and the suburban Maryland homes of the Senators that are so concerned about their non-existent rights under the US Constitution and the Geneva Conventions.
Better yet, build a 20’ tall fence around all of Washington DC. Then lock all of these poor pitiful, wrongly accused, peace-loving, islamofascists inside. Give them each free food, free cable TV, and a health club membership. Build a big new condo complex and make the congressmen supporting this legislation live there with the former “detainees” as roommates.
I think that Senators Graham, Frist, Warner, and the rest of their lilly livered jellyfish spined associates would quickly change their tune if they had to risk running into one of these “insurgents” on the street, rather than hiding behind the free security they enjoy, paid for with my tax dollars .
If they won't live with them, why should we have to???
I don’t know what we’re going to do with them. The more you vote for them, no matter how much you pay them, most US Senators are spineless, partisan morons. The worst thing is, the Republicans seem to be intentionally competing with the Democrats for the title of "Stupidest Human Being on Capital Hill."
Just look at the latest idiocy recounted in this story:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - In a sign of increasing unease among Congressional Republicans over the war in Iraq, the Senate is to consider on Tuesday a Republican proposal that calls for Iraqi forces to take the lead next year in securing the nation and for the Bush administration to lay out its strategy for ending the war.
The Senate is also scheduled to vote Tuesday on a compromise, announced Monday night, that would allow terror detainees some access to federal courts. The Senate had voted last week to prohibit those being held from challenging their detentions in federal court, despite a Supreme Court ruling to the contrary.
Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who is the author of the initial plan, said Monday that he had negotiated a compromise that would allow detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their designation as enemy combatants in federal courts and also allow automatic appeals of any convictions handed down by the military where detainees receive prison terms of 10 years or more or a death sentence.
The proposal on the Iraq war, from Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, and Senator John W. Warner, Republican of Virginia, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, would require the administration to provide extensive new quarterly reports to Congress on subjects like progress in bringing in other countries to help stabilize Iraq. The other appeals related to Iraq are nonbinding and express the position of the Senate.
What the heck is the basis of their rush to get out of Iraq? Re-election?
We've only been there less than three years. Aren’t there still US forces remaining in Germany over 60 years after the end of WWII?
Aren’t there Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force troops still guarding the demilitarized zone in Korea fifty years later?
What’s the big difference here?
And this idea of worrying about terrorists held in Cuba and in other prisons overseas—
GIVE ME A BREAK. I have a suggestion that would completely solve this whole “detainee rights” issue.
JUST LET ALL OF THE MURDERING, TOWELHEADED, SONOFABITCHES GO FREE.
That’s right, turn each and every one of them loose, and GIVE THEM ALL SECURITY JOBS.
Fire the CIA and the Secret Service and hire the former “detainees” as guards for the Senate offices and the suburban Maryland homes of the Senators that are so concerned about their non-existent rights under the US Constitution and the Geneva Conventions.
Better yet, build a 20’ tall fence around all of Washington DC. Then lock all of these poor pitiful, wrongly accused, peace-loving, islamofascists inside. Give them each free food, free cable TV, and a health club membership. Build a big new condo complex and make the congressmen supporting this legislation live there with the former “detainees” as roommates.
I think that Senators Graham, Frist, Warner, and the rest of their lilly livered jellyfish spined associates would quickly change their tune if they had to risk running into one of these “insurgents” on the street, rather than hiding behind the free security they enjoy, paid for with my tax dollars .
If they won't live with them, why should we have to???
My Letter To An AP Executive Editor
Dear Miss Carroll,
I'm fairly sure that you are aware of the ongoing disassembly of the stories told by Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey about US Military atrocities in Iraq. It seems that the guy has pretty much been dismissed as a teller of untruths and fabrications.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch published their investigative report on November 5th. The Modesto Bee and the Sacramento Bee published editorials and/or articles this past weekend that corrected their earlier reporting and apologized to their readers for their errors and lack of background investigation.
All I've been able to find to date from the keyboards of the Associated Press is silence on this developing story. As a result, the smaller local newspapers and other media outlets that rely on the AP for copy (and that used AP copy recounting the original charges and statements made by Massey) have as yet failed to discuss the substantial turn the story has taken this month.
As an executive editor there at the Associated Press, you of all people should be interested in the AP updating this story, thereby preventing further damage to your organization's reputation.
The AP printed the original hysterical charges made my Massey and you owe it to your readers to continue to accurately and completely update the story no matter what the final outcome is.
We're all waiting, Miss Carroll.
Best Regards,
Virgil R. Rogers, III
St. Simons Island, Georgia
(Hat Tip to Blog Diva Michelle Malkin for the links and the letter idea.)
I'm fairly sure that you are aware of the ongoing disassembly of the stories told by Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey about US Military atrocities in Iraq. It seems that the guy has pretty much been dismissed as a teller of untruths and fabrications.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch published their investigative report on November 5th. The Modesto Bee and the Sacramento Bee published editorials and/or articles this past weekend that corrected their earlier reporting and apologized to their readers for their errors and lack of background investigation.
All I've been able to find to date from the keyboards of the Associated Press is silence on this developing story. As a result, the smaller local newspapers and other media outlets that rely on the AP for copy (and that used AP copy recounting the original charges and statements made by Massey) have as yet failed to discuss the substantial turn the story has taken this month.
As an executive editor there at the Associated Press, you of all people should be interested in the AP updating this story, thereby preventing further damage to your organization's reputation.
The AP printed the original hysterical charges made my Massey and you owe it to your readers to continue to accurately and completely update the story no matter what the final outcome is.
We're all waiting, Miss Carroll.
Best Regards,
Virgil R. Rogers, III
St. Simons Island, Georgia
(Hat Tip to Blog Diva Michelle Malkin for the links and the letter idea.)
Newdow, Old Tricks…
Who (Or What) Does He Trust In?
Do you remember Michael Newdow? He’s the idiot absentee California father that sued his daughter’s school system about the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegence.
It took him two tries—once in 2002 and then again in 2004—but now there are three school districts on the “left coast” where kids aren’t allowed to recite the pledge. Now he’s turned his atheistic attention to our money:
The Sacramento atheist who is suing local school districts to stop them from having students recite the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance has turned his attention to the nation's currency.
Attorney Michael Newdow said he will file a new lawsuit on Thursday against Congress and the U.S. Treasurer to make the U.S. government remove the words "In God We Trust" from the nation's currency. Newdow is expected to argue that the phrase violates the Constitutional decree of separation of church and state.
In my opinion, Mr. Newdow is a truly bored, egotistical, useless moron. I wish I had the spare time and energy that Mike has, because I’d probably have solved some critical problem like finding a cure for the common cold or producing a vaccine for Avian flue or something USEFUL by now. I bet Newdow spent his twelve years in public schools with the other boys and most of the girls kicking his butt and wiping the floor with him.
Why do nerdy little weasels like Newdow always grow up, go to law school, and then proceed to take their sexual frustrations out on the rest of us by constantly screwing with our rights and civil liberties?
Hey Mike Newdow…GET A REAL LIFE.
Do you remember Michael Newdow? He’s the idiot absentee California father that sued his daughter’s school system about the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegence.
It took him two tries—once in 2002 and then again in 2004—but now there are three school districts on the “left coast” where kids aren’t allowed to recite the pledge. Now he’s turned his atheistic attention to our money:
The Sacramento atheist who is suing local school districts to stop them from having students recite the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance has turned his attention to the nation's currency.
Attorney Michael Newdow said he will file a new lawsuit on Thursday against Congress and the U.S. Treasurer to make the U.S. government remove the words "In God We Trust" from the nation's currency. Newdow is expected to argue that the phrase violates the Constitutional decree of separation of church and state.
In my opinion, Mr. Newdow is a truly bored, egotistical, useless moron. I wish I had the spare time and energy that Mike has, because I’d probably have solved some critical problem like finding a cure for the common cold or producing a vaccine for Avian flue or something USEFUL by now. I bet Newdow spent his twelve years in public schools with the other boys and most of the girls kicking his butt and wiping the floor with him.
Why do nerdy little weasels like Newdow always grow up, go to law school, and then proceed to take their sexual frustrations out on the rest of us by constantly screwing with our rights and civil liberties?
Hey Mike Newdow…GET A REAL LIFE.
Monday, November 14, 2005
Shuuuuushhhhhhhhh...
Rocket Scientists At Work
The Republican chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said yesterday that one lesson of the faulty prewar intelligence on Iraq is that senators would take a hard look at intelligence before voting to go to war.
"I think a lot of us would really stop and think a moment before we would ever vote for war or to go and take military action," Sen. Pat Roberts (Kan.) said on "Fox News Sunday."
"We don't accept this intelligence at face value anymore," he added. "We get into preemptive oversight and do digging in regards to our hard targets."
"Take a hard look at the intelligence?"
Isn't that what we've been paying them for already?
I think that I want my money back.
Small bills and coins will be fine...
The Republican chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said yesterday that one lesson of the faulty prewar intelligence on Iraq is that senators would take a hard look at intelligence before voting to go to war.
"I think a lot of us would really stop and think a moment before we would ever vote for war or to go and take military action," Sen. Pat Roberts (Kan.) said on "Fox News Sunday."
"We don't accept this intelligence at face value anymore," he added. "We get into preemptive oversight and do digging in regards to our hard targets."
"Take a hard look at the intelligence?"
Isn't that what we've been paying them for already?
I think that I want my money back.
Small bills and coins will be fine...
Sunday, November 13, 2005
More French Fantasies
The Media’s Still In Denial…
The insanity continues in today’s Moscow Times:
PARIS -- A sharp drop in violence across France fueled police hopes on Sunday that curfews and other measures had curbed the country's worst wave of urban unrest since 1968, despite the first clash in a major city center.
Police fired tear gas to disperse angry youths in Lyon on the 17th successive night of unrest. But cars set ablaze across France were down by one-quarter from the previous night, and fears of a big surge in violence over the weekend proved unfounded.
The intensity of the unrest has dropped since the government adopted emergency measures including curfews last Tuesday to crack down on youths angered by unemployment, racism and a lack of opportunities in France's grim and impoverished suburbs.
"Things could calm down very, very quickly," national police service chief Michel Gaudin told reporters in Paris on Sunday. He said the number of cars set ablaze during the night had fallen to 374 from 502 the previous night, and the number burned in the greater Paris area was "almost normal." Some 212 people were detained in the latest unrest.
Well isn't that special. The number of burned autos in Paris was almost back to normal. According to other reports I've read, that's about 80 cars per night.
I guess that I’m happy if the French are happy, aren’t you?
Now where did I put my matches...
The insanity continues in today’s Moscow Times:
PARIS -- A sharp drop in violence across France fueled police hopes on Sunday that curfews and other measures had curbed the country's worst wave of urban unrest since 1968, despite the first clash in a major city center.
Police fired tear gas to disperse angry youths in Lyon on the 17th successive night of unrest. But cars set ablaze across France were down by one-quarter from the previous night, and fears of a big surge in violence over the weekend proved unfounded.
The intensity of the unrest has dropped since the government adopted emergency measures including curfews last Tuesday to crack down on youths angered by unemployment, racism and a lack of opportunities in France's grim and impoverished suburbs.
"Things could calm down very, very quickly," national police service chief Michel Gaudin told reporters in Paris on Sunday. He said the number of cars set ablaze during the night had fallen to 374 from 502 the previous night, and the number burned in the greater Paris area was "almost normal." Some 212 people were detained in the latest unrest.
Well isn't that special. The number of burned autos in Paris was almost back to normal. According to other reports I've read, that's about 80 cars per night.
I guess that I’m happy if the French are happy, aren’t you?
Now where did I put my matches...
Confused Azalea
I was out wandering around with my camera yesterday and found this confused Azalea that had made exactly one bloom for our enjoyment.
This plant obviously didn't know that it's mid November...
This plant obviously didn't know that it's mid November...
May I Have Your Attention...Please?
Australian treasurer Peter Costello says:
"If you are somebody who wants to live in an Islamic state governed by sharia law you are not going to be happy in Australia, because Australia is not an Islamic state, will never be an Islamic state and will never be governed by sharia law..."
"We are a secular state under our constitution, our law is made by parliament elected in democratic elections."
"We do not derive our laws from religious instruction."
"There are Islamic states around the world that practise sharia law and if that's your object you may well be much more at home in such a country than trying to turn Australia into one of those countries, because it's not going to happen..."
All I can add is a hearty "Amen Brother," followed by a statement that I'd like to see our Congress or President make a similar statement on our behalf.
France should be so lucky as to have leaders that could so firmly state this position.
"If you are somebody who wants to live in an Islamic state governed by sharia law you are not going to be happy in Australia, because Australia is not an Islamic state, will never be an Islamic state and will never be governed by sharia law..."
"We are a secular state under our constitution, our law is made by parliament elected in democratic elections."
"We do not derive our laws from religious instruction."
"There are Islamic states around the world that practise sharia law and if that's your object you may well be much more at home in such a country than trying to turn Australia into one of those countries, because it's not going to happen..."
All I can add is a hearty "Amen Brother," followed by a statement that I'd like to see our Congress or President make a similar statement on our behalf.
France should be so lucky as to have leaders that could so firmly state this position.
