Islamofascists Need Airport and Airplanes...

Re(1): ‘Palastinians want Airplanes’, http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/, Charles Johnson
Re(2): ‘Gaza’s ghost airport awaits better days’, AFP

Hat Tip to Charles Johnson of LittleGreenFootballs

The two main quotes of interest from the primary source (another ignorant Journalist that should reattend college to get an education in something other than journalism – maybe Foreign Affairs).

Construction began on the airport after the 1993 Oslo accords were signed in a bid to restore Middle East peace.

The airport functioned primarily as a hub for Arafat when he took trips to other countries.

But when the Israelis destroyed the airport, "all our dreams were stopped cold. We had projected that by 2005 we'd have flights to Paris, Frankfurt and New York," Gharib said.

The Gaza international airport had dreams of flying jumbo jet liners to New York. They decorated their causeways with the founding fathers of Palestine as well.

The tedium of another empty day is broken when a bus full of youngsters pulls in. Waving flags, they flood the halls which are decorated with photographs of so-called martyrs and fill the terminal with their animated chatter.

Nice combination:

1. Airport
2. Airplanes
3. New York City
4. Photos of Martyrs on the causeway walls

Hmmmmmmm. Actually, hhhhhmmmmm…

My thought is: Let them fly their donated planes into Paris and Frankfurt. However, the FAA might want to review a request to fly jumbo jets to New York from Palestine. Maybe we take a look at whose photos are on the wall at the Gaza ‘airport’.

Arianna in the Wrong Weight Class - Against VDH

re(1): ‘This Mismatch of the Century’, LittleGreenFootballs, Charles Johnson
re(2): ‘Huffington and Hanson Debate on US Foreign Policy’, EditorAndPublisher, E&P Staff
re(3): ‘I’m Proud of Myself Today’, BoghieOnYourSix, Roger Bogh
re(4): ‘Making $87M, Paying Same Percent Income, Midicare, Soc. Sec. Taxes as those Making $50,000’, HuffingtonPost posting based on NYT by David Kay Johnston

Uh, Ariana…

You took an entire blog post, 'Making $87M, Paying Same Percent Income, Medicare, Soc. Sec. Taxes as Those Making $50,000' (you copied the contents, excised my comments, and posted using a different URL - very tricky of you), off your vaunted www.HuffingtonPost.com when yours truly guided readers to the fact that you use some rather aggressive tax avoidance strategies to feed at the trough. That was fun, real fun… However, it is considered very bad blog etiquette to remove authored posts and topical comments. When you post, and get whipped, take it like the grown woman I know you to be. Don’t try to send the post and comments down the memory hole.

Please make note of my currently empty ‘My Flameouts’ Section. That section will be a running link list of my blog entries that are proven stupid or wrong. Anybody can be wrong – and not even lie and be wrong, just wrong…

Now, for the topic at hand…

Arianna, you could not handle me. I read books by Victor Davis Hanson. I watch documentaries of which he is a part. I read his blog. I study all I can on topics discussed by him. His most prescient topic might be called American Imperialism by the ignorant left. Arianna, that is you – you are the ignorant left. I am not trying to be insulting, but…

Arianna, do not debate Victor Davis Hanson on ‘American Imperialism’ three days after 9/11 remembrances. I do not care if you think the audience will be in your court. Hanson has dealt with much stronger foes than you in much nastier environments. He has spent his adult life around professorial adult children. He has a dry sense of humor. He is soft spoken. He is an expert – and all in attendance will know he is the subject matter specialist.

Arianna, visit the C-SPAN website to view the mauling Richard Perle executed on Howard Dean. It was not pretty.

Your career as a lightweight lib will be destroyed.

Arianna, get your handlers to bounce out VDH - he is a heavyweight. Have them schedule you against Senator Voinovich. He might cry, so you might win.

For those interested in car crashes and train wrecks:

Debaters: Victor Davis Hanson, Arianna Huffington
Topic: ‘American Imperialism’
Location: Gerald Ford Museum
Date: September 14, 2005

I hope this explosion is televised on C-SPAN...

UPDATE:
I checked all the links to ensure accuracy. At some point after 2005/06/06 @ 2215 the HuffingtonPost replaced their stub post with the original on which I commented. Maybe some complaints. However, good work. It was the right thing to do. Now you need a Flameouts section.

Patrick Ruffini's Staw Poll

re(1): 'August Straw Poll: The Big One', www.PatrickRuffini.com, Patrick Ruffini
re(2): 'Daly Thoughts', http://dalythoughts.com, Gerry Daly

Are you a serious center right political junkie?
Did you follow Gerry Daly's Election College Breakdown in 2004?

or are you a clueless LOP (Low Output Person) who voted for the prettiest candidate in 2004.

If you follow elections then be certain to visit the Ruffini and Daly sites. Very different, but very informative. And, both are now tracking things of current interest - no moonbattery about Ohio or Florida, that game ended months and years ago.

However, if you want to see how conservative candidates might fair with the conservative base check out Patrick Ruffini's new straw pole of likely and fantasy candidates for 2008. I voted, so should you:

Patrick Ruffini's August 2005 Staw Poll

And, yes: That is more of Patrick's fine work at the bottom of the blog. Scroll down to see how President Bush's Social Security Plan affects you...

While at it...

re(1): ‘Box 25-JGR/Flag, American (3)’, Reagan Library, Judge Roberts ‘stuff’

For my effort regarding the 'Adopt A Box' research project, I did find a couple of nuggets in the Reagan Library Reference.

Chapter 485, Section 8j:

That during the ceremony of hoisting or lowering the flag or when the flag is passing in a parade or in a review, all persons present should face the flag, stand at attention, and salute. Those present in uniform should render the right-hand salute. When not in uniform, men should remove the headdress with the right hand holding it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Men without hat merely stand at attention. Women should salute by placing the right hand over the heart. The salute to the flag in the moving column should be rendered at the moment the flag passes.

Thus, men without hats should stand at attention when the flag is presented. The hand-over-heart tradition is for those wearing headgear.


Congressional Record – House, April 27, page 3720

Mark Clark (of Anzio fame) was promoted to Major General
James Doolittle (of Tokyo raid fame) was promoted to Brigadier General

Adopt a Box O'Docs: Box 25-JGR/Flag American (3)

re(1): ‘Adopt a Box O'Docs’, RadioBlogger.com, Duane Patterson
re(2): ‘Box 25-JGR/Flag, American (3)’, Reagan Library, Judge Roberts ‘stuff’

Here is what I can say succinctly and without delay:

I am glad I did not follow my mom’s advice and become a lawyer. Oh my God, this is what a future Justice of the United States Supreme Court did as ‘Associate Counsel to the President’!!!

There is nothing going on here… Move along folks… Move along…

Generalissimo Duane and Hugh, Judge Roberts’ entire input is the response letter to Mrs. Morris archived at the beginning of the Adobe PDF file. Here is what I found:

Judge Roberts is polite:

Thank you for your letter of November 7 to the President. That letter was only recently referred to this office for consideration. Please excuse our delay in responding.

Judge Roberts has judicial temperament:

In your letter you noted your concern over the treatment of our flag at a private school in your neighborhood, and asked to know how the President thinks our flag should be treated and displayed. I am in no position to comment on the treatment of the flag that you complain of in your letter, since I have no direct knowledge of what was done, and it would be unfair to condemn those involved without having the benefit of their side of the story.

Judge provided the citizen with useable documentation:

Congress has, however, codified rules on the proper treatment of the flag. I have enclosed a copy of the pertinent provisions for your information. You will notice that you are correct that the flag should be displayed only from sunrise to sunset, unless it is properly illuminated during the hours of darkness. The flag should not be displayed when the weather is inclement, unless it is an all weather flag. In short,
the understanding of the rules and regulations concerning the flag expressed in
your letter appears to be entirely accurate.

Judge Roberts is patriotic and courteous:

I read with interest and admiration the Bronze Star Medal Citation for your husband that you enclosed with your letter. Please be assured that all of us recognize the debt we owe to those, like your husband, who were willing to risk their lives to safeguard the freedom we all enjoy.

Judge Roberts is timely:
His office received the letter on 1985/11/27 and answered it on 1985/12/12.

Judge Roberts is thorough
The Congressional documentation is quite extensive.

Judge Roberts believes as this citizen does, and writes persuasively:
His letter makes no reference to the fact that the resolution regarding the ‘Display and Use of the Flag of the United States of America’ is non-binding and advisory only. Thus, his letter can be used by the citizen to resolve the issue peacefully within the structure of the code.

I shouldn't do this, but...

re(1): 'I Am Totaly Unimpressed', Moxiegrrrl.com, moxiegrrrl.com

I do not know why I posted this on a dead post on a low brow lib site, but (with some enhancements)...

Moxiegrrrl,

This is probably a dead thread, but for some reason I keep hearing the ‘Chicken Hawk’ screech emanating from the maw of the many libs. You wonder why the relatives of congressmen/women are so underrepresented in the active duty military.

Chicken Hawk,
Chicken Hawk,
Chicken Hawk.

Good, get it out of your system.

I first viewed your site as a link from the MuseumOfLeftWingLunacy.com site. Glad to be back - from Google this time.

Here are the stats you were looking for:

73,597,731 - Population of military age
1,427,000 - Size of active duty military

1.9% - Ratio of those serving to those of age to serve

The problems with these stats are as you noted. They do not factor in the education, physical, and mental requirements for enlistment into our military. For example, many of our brilliant public school High School ‘graduates’ cannot pass the entrance tests to join the Marine Corps. Many more are too fat to ever do the two pull-ups required. Others fail dope tests – the USMC has no tolerance for dope usage and their personnel are tested frequently.

Now, a quick review via Google demonstrates that at least 10 relatives of Congressmen are on active duty in the United States Military. Here are the stats of interest:

525 - Population of Congress Critters
10 - Population of Critter Kids in Active Duty

1.9% - Ratio of kiddies serving to Congress Critters serving

Thus, and this will surprise you, the ratio of close relatives of Congress Critters serving in the military is significantly higher than that found in the general population. Why, how can that be? Simple, Congress Critters are generally in their 50’s and 60’s. Thus, the average rugrat is in his/her 30’s and 40’s. At that age, many of the Critter Kids are too old to enlist, and/or have already served in the armed forces prior to the GWOT.

Maybe you were referencing the difference in enlistment of kiddies by the political party of their Congressional Poppas. Here is gets clearer:

Republicans
231 + 55 = 286 - Population of Republican Congress Critters
8 - Republican Critter Kiddies on active duty
2.8% - Ratio of Republican Critter Kiddies serving

Democrats
203 + 44 = 247 - Population of Democratic Congress Critters
2 - Democratic Critter Kids on active duty
0.8% - Ratio of Democratic Critter Kiddies serving

There does appear to be a difference...

Make your own observations...

Legacies...

re(1): 'Bulletin from Ben', Ben Stein, The American Spectator
re(2): 'The Second White Memo', Ed Morrissey, CaptainsQuartersBlog

Legacies are initiated, defined, and formed over time. Reagan's legacy is still formulating after twenty-five years, but we now know the framework of it. Here are two other legacies being formed:

The beginning of a great mans legacy...

The defining of a small mans legacy...

Total War, Total Victory!

After WWII victory in Europe celebrations, Admiral King stated directly:

For out of this Total War,
Must Come Total Victory...

Then as now...

Why We Fight!

re(1): 'She Does Not Speak for Me', Ronald R. Griffin, www.opinionjournal.com

To Cindy Sheehan:

Those who lost their lives believed in the mission. To honor their memory, and because it's right, we must believe in the mission, too.

We refuse to allow Cindy Sheehan to speak for all of us. Instead, we ask you to learn the individual stories. They are glorious. Honor their memories.

Honor their service. Never dishonor them by giving in. They never did.

This is why we fight...

The Coming War with the Iraqi Caliphate...

The title is a play on Friedman and Lebard's 'The Coming War with Japan' which emphasized the almost certainty of a war with Japan in America's future.

How a Caliphate could form:

I think there is some agreement that a caliphate cannot form unless there is charismatic leadership in a stable capital with a devoted and militarily adequate following.

Here is how that could form – an odd concept.

Let us postulate that:
New forms of energy management result in a decline in oil exports from the Middle East
However, those exports are concentrated to a stable nation or region

Further:
Saudi Arabia is in chaos as a result of a weakened monarchy
Iran becomes a pariah state as a result of WMD ambitions
Syria breaks down into factions and chaos
Iraq revives politically and economically and militarily

Thus:
Iraq controls much of the oil exports, much of the regional wealth, and much of the cultural heritage of the ‘caliphate’.

Odd in that it would be the success of current western ambitions that might lead to a strong, centralized Islam.

Good, bad, indifferent. Would a vibrant Iraq be an aggressive Iraq? Could America challenge its progeny?

We will win - because we must win...

re(1): 'Tactics, Strategy, Grand Strategy: A Warning', The Fourth Rail, Grim

Grim, from 'The Fourth Rail', presents the options in the GWOT...

Those who are antiwar by sentiment are often of good heart, and it can be hard to get someone who is essentially kind to consider an awful truth. But here it is: we cannot lose this global war, and therefore we shall win it.

The war in Iraq is the last hope for winning it while still remaining the kind of people we want to be. It is the last chance to win this war by building cultures up, instead of laying them waste. It is the last hope for kindness. It is the last candle before the dark.

If we fail there -- if we find that we cannot confront the guerrilla in his home, and must either leave or shatter the world behind us -- we will have no further options.
We will not lose, when it comes to nuclear terror. But we will not like what it means to win.

Like it or hate it, we will carry it out. If that terrible fire comes, it will work a dreadful magic. We will turn like Sigurd to our Regin, and have him reforge our broken sword.

The War in Iraq is our last chance to avoid that doom. It merits our total support, for that cause even if not for any other.

Can the Left understand this???

Cyprus and Istanbul, Vacation in Paradise

re(1): 'Al Qaeda Magazine Published Openly in Turkey', LittleGreenFootballs, Charles Johnson

Hey Colin (a friend and work partner), Cyprus has changed in the past thirty years!!!

It is now a giant tourist trap with beautiful buildings, cities, and resorts – not to mention tourists of rather large girth… However, for the single men among you, the women of Turkey are fantastically beautiful – awaiting digital photos to demonstrate the proof. The better half of Turkey has actually overcome my previous favorite – Italy!!! I am already preparing my wife for some of these photos :-}

Istanbul is a beautiful city with great people. The best comparison I can think of is to take the best elements of San Francisco and San Diego and throw them into a single melting pot. The old world charm of San Francisco with the openness and weather of San Diego. What a blast.

Regarding the reference, had I known I could have gotten a copy of this fine magazine I would have certainly sought it out. My rather limited experience in Istanbul rather emphasizes that Turkey is, and will be, a target of radical Islamofascist. This country is very European, very open, very tolerant, and very agressively secularist.

My comment to my fellow travelers is: What would be the effect of Turkey reestablishing itself as the center of Islam – rather than, for example, Saudi Arabia and Iran? One could wish…

Err America: Is this really an Error???

re(1): 'Much More Ahead', The Radio Equalizer, Brin Maloney
re(2): 'Air Enron: Elite Media Blackout Continued', MichaelMalkin.com, Michael Malkin
re(3): 'Air America: Compare the Scandals', CaptainsQuartersBlog.com, Captain Ed
re(4): 'The Air out There', The Weekly Standard, Hugh Hewitt

What do you call a 501(3)c charitable organization that ‘loans’ money to a for-profit political company?

I do not know, but I do know you cannot call it a 501(3)c charitable organization…

While the Err America corporation can legally conceal their financial books from the public, folks should be aware that 501(3)c charitable organizations cannot. All incoming and outgoing disbursements between non-profit and for-profit entities not relating to standard expenses must be documented in the charitable organizations IRS Form 990 (much like your 1040 Income Tax Form). These forms must be made available at request to the public, as do the accounting books that lead to the financial derivations thereof. The ‘loan’ amount, description, and terms are declared on this form.

Needless to say, a 501(3)c charity cannot ‘loan’ money without interest to a political entity. Has Err America presented itself as a political entity?

Washing a million dollars through a non-profit (some of it public tax monies) might be something to look at. Maybe there is some other money laundering going on as well. If the orphans and grannies fund documented their generosity in an incomplete manner, than Spitzer would have the legal means and the legal responsibility to peek at Err America’s financial records – in detail.

Certainly that line will be an example of wonderful fiction. Will it match the lead paragraph in Dickens ‘Tale of Two Cities?

Episode 3

The Sith Lord has yet to come forth, but
Anakin is amongst the children!!!

John Roberts seems uniquely qualified to persuade and guide the Supreme Court into an originalist bent. He has swayed these Justices toward his client’s legal vision in twenty-four of his thirty nine Supreme Court appearances. He is not a direct confrontationist, but instead a man who will read and apply constitutional law – very persuasively.

Plame, Plame, the Plame is here!!!

Is the source a:

High Level Administration source:
We should be looking for someone who left the Administration after the Novak article, and who was not expected to be the source, and who is keeping a low profile - neither pro nor anti Bush. Now, who left the administration quietly and seems to be keeping a low profile. Who seems to be the king in-fighter of the first Bush Administration. Who would the press care for in the first Bush Administration - yes the answer is: Colin Powell...

Another Journalist from the MediaDemocrat Party:
Oooooohhhhhh, Ahhhhhhh... How embarrassing for the MediaDemocrats... Could the unimpeachable source for Novaks column (and Cooper’s for that matter) be a highly rated journalist by the name of --- yes, Judith Miller…

Could our intrepid journalist have received bad intel from the in-fighter extraordinaire? Could she have passed this world shaking scoop on - as though from a super, double secret, Administration source? Just too good to fact check!!! And, then in an ‘Oh my God’ moment, did our professional journalist get cold feet regarding the veracity of the juicy information? Maybe the evil architect gave her some good info???

Miller is sitting in the slam for Powell and to avoid testifying that she, a journalist, was the deep throat for Novak and Cooper.

It would be very embarrassing for the MediaDemocrat Party to out the fact that their unimpeachable sources are themselves – the shills…

Democrats Watch Out!!! Moonbats Jumping!!!

Memo to centrist Democrats. The moonbats running your political party have routinely been wrong, stupid, silly, and easily maneuvered by the Bush Administration. Guess what, moonbats are moonbats. Don’t listen to them.

The moonbats are ranting on the basis of leaked from the grand jury information

Karl Rove knows what he said to the reporters and the grand jury.

Karl Rove doesn’t appear overly worried.

The Media isn’t too convincing.

Moonbats, jump!!! The country will be better for it.

Center Left Democrats, understand that you are dealing with partial information. Let things iron out. The right will demand Rove’s resignation if he acted improperly. Don’t follow the moonbats off the cliff – you don’t have wings (and neither do they).

A Moral Boost for al Qaeda...

Re(1): 'A Tactical Success, but a Strategic Failure', Post-Gazzette.com, Jack Kelly

Jack Kelly's interpretation - and I think right on target:

I suspect the attack was made more to boost morale among the faithful than to intimidate the West. With the conspicuous exception of Madrid, since 9/11 al-Qaida has been getting its brains beaten out. Showing those of waning enthusiasm that it is still strong enough to strike in the citadels of the infidel likely is worth more to al-Qaida's leaders than the negative consequences a stiffening of Western spines might bring.

However, I think that al Qaeda just made a mistake of 9/11 proportions. Especially when one includes the detinations of ordinance that took place yesterday. What do they think the Brittish military in Iraq and Afghanistan are thinking about? How bout those multicultural Londoners? Hhhhhmmmmm....

I'm up,
They see me,
I'm down

I wouldn't be popping up anytime soon...

Watch England...

Re(1): 'Pluck vs Defeatism After the Bombs', WeeklyStandard, Christopher Hitchens
Re(2): RealClearPolitics - Because I really do not know how to credit them enough

If he were American, we would call him a 9/11 Democrat, but he is English. I simply have no clue, but I know he is a street fighter:

In 2001 there was an enemy to hit back at, and some business to conclude with the Taliban. Since then, there has been unfinished business with Saddam Hussein and his notorious fedayeen. But from now on, we must increasingly confront the fact that the war within Islam is also a war within Europe. It's highly probable that the assassins of 7 July are British born, as were several Taliban fighters in the first round in Afghanistan. And the mirror image also exists. Many Muslims take the side of civilization and many European fascists and Communists are sympathetic to jihad.

These are not the bright, clear lines that many people fondly imagine to be heritable from a heroic past. But the nature of the enemy is somewhat similar. Like the fascists that they are, the murderers boast that they love death more than we love life. They imagine that this yell of unreason is intimidating and impressive. We shall undoubtedly go forward and put these grave matters to the proof but, meanwhile:

Death to them and Long Live London!

My guess is that the political system in England is going to get a bit riled up. No tellin...

UPDATE: Sorry about the ugly highlighting. Hitchens' use of language is stunning. Can't do much about it... So rubish on you all...

The Hotbed of the Free Press...

Whoa...

With the 'outing' of Richard Fernandez as Wretchard of the Belmont Club we have:

The Belmont Club
Chrenkoff and
Tim Blair

hailing from the Land Down Under...

That is freedom of the press

Even a grasping American Congress or El Presidente cannot shut them down - as we have seen with the CaptainQartersBlog posts on Canadian scandals (uh, I mean politics).

Plame - Out the Source

Re(1): 'Thin Reed on Rove', CaptainsQuarters, Ed

I dissagree with Ed from CaptainsQuartersBlog regarding letting Miller out of the slam. Here is my post:

Plame worked full time in Washington D.C.

She was not a 007 in Iran.

I want the media to be shoved hard toward responsible journalism. The use of anonymous sources is reprehensible. I am tired of breathless leaks from slugs in parking garages. Back in the Watergate era, the use of anonymous sourcing was minimal and measured. Now, every article from the NYT contains sources from the deep. They are abusing a privilege the citizens of America awarded them – not one the Constitution provides them. They are abusing the privilege to abuse the Administration – not to out massive abuses of state power.

I want to KNOW what the media ACCEPT as expert sources…

The Watergate source was an EXPERT. He was a good source. Nowadays, too many ‘sources’ are simply made up. Too many sources are misquoted. Too many sources are not knowledgeable on the information in the context of what is going on. And, too many journalists are completely ignorant, and completely biased, and completely gotcha oriented, to permit me faith in their use of an ‘anonymous administration source’.

Journalist – get back to basics and give us a reason to trust you. I know it will be hard work (yuk, yuk) but you can do it. In the beginning people like Bill Gertz and Ronan Scarbourogh (spelling, uh) will be trusted. But then one of you will generate a long and successful resume and you will be included. Then you can use unnamed sources.

Miller – you are NOT one of the elite that we trust.

Wretchard: Outed...

Re(1): 'The Belmont Club', The Belmont Club, Richard Fernandez (Wretchard)

Not a lot of info.

The one piece of importance is:

People who knew me in the past, as well as my colleagues at
Pajamas Media, know perfectly well "who" I am, although I think
that information is totally irrelevant.

Um, colleagues...

Very Good...

Like to hear it...

Some real good colleagues at Pajamas Media...

Richard, enjoy yourself, and don't make too much of a job of it...

P.S. I hope I did not play any role with my stupid post and the discussion that followed:

Reactivate these Daily KOS accounts

Re(1): 'The Great Daily KOS Purge', LittleGreenFootballs, Charles

Screw Em, reactivate your kore kommittee accounts now:

Please enter your account id and real name in the comments section...

1. TheVoiceOfLeftistReason (Jerry Springer)
2. BrilliantMindsThinkAlike (Barbara Boxer)
3. YouAmericansAreNazis (Dick Durbin)
4. ILoveAmericaButNotCapitalismOrDemocracy (Noam Chomsky)
5. ILoveTheTroopsWhenTheyComeHome (John Kerry)

Did you accidentally delete your:AdministratorOfTinFoilHatBrigade account you idiot. Sometimes this KOS (cause) costs too much. Oh you moonbats are so...

Islamic Reformation - Faster Please...

Re(1): July 8, 2005 1346, Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds
Re(2): 'The Three Conjectures', The Belmont Club, TC Wretchard
Re(3): 'The Pentagons New Map', Thomas Barnet

Mr. Reynolds' great post contains the wry comment:

Meanwhile, Dick Aubrey writes about Friedman: "He's late to the party. We will win the WOT. The question is...will we respect ourselves in the morning?" So far we're waging the kindest, gentlest war in history. That could change, of course.

This is a question I have been discussing in detail for a number of years. Wretchard posits much the same in his post 'The Three Conjectures' from a sharply different angle.

Basically it comes to this. Bush's leadership is offering a solution short of Total War. That solution is dependent on three things: 1) The Islamic civilization reforming itself to fit in the 20th century (yes, I know it's the 21st century), 2) Patience while the transition is ongoing, and 3) A strength of will capable of deterring terrorist states.

Obviously, the caterwauling Left has reduced the odds of dealing with the Islamofascist movement through something short of total war.

As Mr. Auby, Reynolds, and Wretchard make plain: We will win the War on Terror. As Reynolds and Wretchard postulate, the victory may prove Pyrrhic. History may not judge us well. If the Global War on Terror degrades to Total War, I would like to be the first to thank the ignorant and anti-American Left. One time, not so long ago, one of yours waived a document in the air. The Munich accord resulted in tens of millions of deaths.

Liberal Canard #2: Iraq replaces Afghanistan as a Terrorist Training Camp

I got through to the Hugh Hewitt show this evening (5:07pm) right after the Tom Oliphant interview. I really wanted to ask Mr. Oliphant to define the similarity between the Afghanistan training camps of the 1990s and those of post invasion Iraqi. Ignorant Leftys constantly promote this canard. Here are the differences as I see them:

The Afghani training camps of the 1990s were conceived, built, funded, and activated with government support (Taliban). It was during this period that al Qaeda birthed and grew into manhood as a ‘fighting’ force. The Taliban government fully supported their efforts. We watched from afar with our eyes focused on the stock market.

The Iraqi ‘training’ camp is a live fire zone. American forces are not helping improve the terrorist training curriculum. But, more important, the sovereign state of Iraq is actively recruiting, training, and equipping hundreds of thousands of military and police personnel in the effort to hunt and eradicate the terrorists. I am thinking that Iraq is recruiting more soldiers and police than al Qaeda is. My guess is that the training provided to the Iraqi forces is better than that provided by al-Zarqawi.

Libs, while we slumbered one country actively supported al Qaeda (and probably other charming groups as well – that is why it is called the GWOT). While fully alert, two nations are actively killing terrorists.

I think that is a huge strategic victory…

Liberal Canard #1: Bush’s Hooverville economy…

Re(1): ‘Job Market Update’, PoliPundit, Jayson

The economy is in ruins and things are getting worse:

Uuuuuummmmmm,

The Budget Deficit is coming in $100 Billion under forecast
Tax Revenue is coming in 15% over expectations
Spending growth has been cut by half
and we have 5.0% Unemployment

Libs, I am starting to think I would like to have this yoke around my neck if I were to run for elective office. Look on the bright side - you actually convinced almost half of America that we were in the Great Depression. Your personality review seems to lead toward a career as a flaky used car salesman, a telephone solicitor, or a corrupt politician. Such opportunity.

Lefties, please do not read the smarmly link!!!

Something stinks in the Err, America

No references.

Just listen to Err America

They are showing their spots...

American or anti-American, that is the question. If you listen you will get the answer.

For example:
The rodent who subbing for the Randi Rhodent brilliantly relayed the 'fact' that Iraq is 'Terrorisms Breeding Ground". Iraq took the place of Afghanistan, and is now the place jihadists seek for on-the-job training. Bsicially, Iraq in 2005 is the Afghanistan of 2000.

Hey stupid, listen up.:
In 2000 there was nobody shooting at the terrorist in their bucolic training grounds. And the government fed, clothed, and paid these turds. My cursory review of the web demonstrates that Iraq is a bit different.

Is the Culture war part of the GWOT

Remember, there are many theaters of action in the GWOT.

The terrorists have either made, or were coerced into making, Iraq the key front on the GWOT.

For some reason the hard core left continuously attempts to make the domestic front preeminent. They feel that the efforts in the Middle East are diversionary and duplicitous. I cannot understand why they go to the mat to support a socialist agenda in a capitalist society during a shooting war.

Losing the ‘culture war’ at this point, under these circumstances, is a finality. And they will lose…

Clarity :-{

Re(1): 'The Left Revealed', FrontPage Magazine, Discussion between Horowitz and Lazare
Re(2): 'We Lost Vietnam; We can Lose this one too!', BoghieOnYourSix

Actually, you cannot win.

Clarification is the best you can hope for...

Each member of the Left is an individual. But each incorporates all of the following traits into their belief structure:

1. Racism
2. Ignorance
3. Anti-Americanism

Please Read this...

This is not a censured wingnut of the Left. This is the Left...

Uummm, like the idea - but will Senator Kennedy Aprove???

Re(1): 'Lab Defense: Pain Ray', DefenceTech.org

I like the non-lethal technology.

But when will these eggheads realize that Senator Kennedy will be peering over his red, bloated, nose with his bloodshot eyes when one talks to gleefully about:

The sensation caused by the system has been described by test subjects as feeling like touching a hot frying pan.

Raython has built a Humvee-mounted model, which is currently being tested before a likely trip to Iraq.

Uuummm, can anybody say torture

Torture

TORTURE

I mean, the highly estemed Senator Durbin was complaining about GTMO - maybe the chow.

Actually, after that past few months, who cares what they say - even when they are right. Too much chaff. Ignore it all. Hitler lives and he will be nominated to the Supreme Court. Blah, blah, blah...

Bring the Job Corps Home...

Re(1): 'We Lost In Vietnam, We Can Lose this one too!', BoghieOnYourSix, Boghie

The GWOT is being, and has been, fought on many battlefields. For those who believe that we are fighting an actual war - with deadly enemies – the war is to be fought in various regions of Afghanistan and Iraq and Saudi Arabia and Jordan and Pakistan and the Philippines and Indonesia and Thailand….

I think we have found the Left's battlefield of choice.

It has, and always will be, the culture war – and the remaining theater of operation is the Judiciary. They have lost all the other battles.

It is kindof sad that the far Left finds our efforts in the fighting war to be diversionary, indecisive, and duplicitous. That their support of our troops in foreign lands is limited to bringing the Job Corps (their vision of the Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard) home to mommy before the mission is accomplished.

Personally, I would recommend that the Left allow us to win the GWOT, bring the troops home, wait out Bush’s term, and then fight to the death the culture war that they are losing.

Without all the carping and marching and ACLU maneuvers we may have already been victorious. Lefties, you have not saved a single soldier or terrorist victim’s life in the thirty years we have been at war – the war we have fought for only four years.

We lost Vietnam, we can lose this one too!

Is there a large portion of America thinking that we can simply lose the GWOT?

I am starting to think that the thought process goes as follows:

We lost in Vietnam; we can lose in the Middle East!!!

This thinking can only be understood in terms of ignorance, racism, and anti-Americanism.

Ignorance, because it implies that the war is either not a war or that the war is won. Splitting hairs on where we fight is a sign of ignorance. We do not always define the battlefield - the enemy has a role in that decision. Our major battle now is in the region we call Iraq. I use that term because the most deadly enemy action is not of Iraqis for Iraqis. They are jihadists from foreign lands. In addition, simply because the casualties occur ‘over there’ – much like those on the USS Cole, the African Embassies, the Khobar Towers, the Beirut Marine Barracks, etc… - does not imply that we are not at wa,r nor that we have won. Folks, those casualties imply that we are at war. It’s just that we are fighting it now.

Racist because it implies that the enemy is incapable of causing us harm. This portion of the American citizenry fundamentally believes that these folks are too backward, too savage, and too barbaric to be a viable enemy. They do not respect the enemy, thus they inherently do not respect the people. At its most base, that is racism.

Anti-American because it implies that if the enemy is lucky enough to harm America it will be the ‘other’ that they harm. These people no longer assimilate in the American culture because they do not believe in the fundamentals of modern America. Post-Shock, while they morn the deaths of individuals, they do not morn the destruction of the World Trade Center and Pentagon. They do not morn the aggregate of those whose livelihood placed them in these structures – because as an aggregate, those people are the ‘Little Eichmans’ who oppress us.

They do not think that losing the GWOT will affect them negatively. Actually, losing this conflict will force us to rethink our corupt fundamentals. And, the enemy is not sophisticated enough to harm us while we make these cultural changes.

Unlike the Vietnamese, the Islamofascists have declared war on America. Unlike the Vietnamese, the Islamofascists have routinely murdered Americans for decades. Unlike the Vietnamese, the Islamofascists have attacked our homeland. And, unlike the Vietnamese, Islamic terrorist will view winning this single battle in the Middle East as winning a single battle in the Middle East. If this battle is lost, the war will continue – but it will follow an alternate history similar to one defined by a decisive loss at the Battle of Midway.

Unimpeachable Sources - I

I think I could have reasonably given this post a higher numeric postfix – remembering Rather, Al-Quaquaa, GTMO, Korans, CNN, Foley, Blair, etc… Actually, I think I might be in trouble since my knowledge of Roman Numerals is a bit on the slight side - how do you mark the 23 post? However, since this is the first actual post – but certainly the first of many – I feel compelled to initiate the series at I.

So here goes…

Regarding the Valerie Plame story:

It is apparent that Novak’s unimpeachable sources – remember, it is important to get confirmation of anonymously sourced information – were the journalists Judith Miller of the vaunted New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time Magazine. A brave journalist sourcing stories from unidentified (anonymous) sources who were journalists. It is important to protect Journalist/Journalist privilege. Such Constitutionally protected privilege is at least as important as that which protects communication between clients and attorneys.

Now, it would be interesting to determine what the media considers unimpeachable sources - outside of other media mavens, of course. Who was the deep throat source for Miller and Cooper?

I'm chillin'.

Journalists are chillin'.

Everybodies a'chillin' now.

The Military Listens to Ted the Swimmer...

Re(1): 'The Fat, Alcoholic Slob That Cried Wolf', Froggy Ruminations, Matthew Heidt

Senator Kennedy, take this to heart:

Kennedy himself and his liberal colleagues in Congress are waging an ill advised war against the United States that is most certainly a quagmire. The DNC is dying. Ted Kennedy is a deadender. He is a suicide bomber but his munitions are low order detonations that destroy the bearer and leave only a mess for bystanders to gawk at.

Uuummmm, in the right way...

Remember, Kennedy supports the troops...
As does Durbin
As does Kerry
As does MoveOn.org
As does International ANSWER
As do all the Congress Critters that funded our military at 2.5% of GDP

The China Syndrome

Re(1): 'China Draws a Line in the Sand...', Tigerhawk, Tigerhawk
Re(2): 'Three Conjectures', The Belmont Club, TC Wretchard

A blog I have seen referenced, but never reviewed, had an interesting post on the Foreign Minister of China stating:

"China will never permit the Islamic Republic of Iran to gain access to nuclear weapons"

"Though China does have certain relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, it will never agree to permit such a regime to equipped with nuclear weapons."

Tigerhawk effectively asks the question of why it would be in China's interest to strongly make such a declaration. Wouldn't it be in China's interest to poke the US and Russia in the eye. Isn't directly challenging your most important source of oil economically dangerous to say the least.

I think part of the answer can be found in

1. Wrechard's 'Three Conjectures'. and
2. Barnett's 'The Pentagons New Map' and
3. ‘The Clash of Civilizations’

Basically, for all its faults China lives within the civilized core of nations. One can deal with them in reciprocity. Like the Soviet Union, Trust But Verify. Deterrence functions. There is recognized leadership. Measured response can be made.

Once stateless Islamofascist use, or attempt to use, WMD the game is up and the starting gun is fired. There is no point in measured escalation. There is no command element, there is no deterrent effect, the movement is not limited to any state, and there is no confidence in any agreements.

I postulate that if an Islamofascist terrorist group, let’s say al Qaeda, nukes Paris the retribution will not be limited to coming from France, Europe, and/or even America. Even if the west proves soft and pliable, it is at least somewhat likely that China and Russia will become involved to the extreme. Actually, more than likely.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Re(1): 'Did Lucy Ramerez Find the Downing Street Memos', CaptainsQuartersBlog, Captain Ed
Re(2): 'Memos Show Brittish Concern Over Iraq Plans', AP, Thomas Wagner

To the Democrat/Media Party,

The bell tolls for thee...

The 'Times of London' reporter Mike Smith skillfully (honestly??? yuk, yuk) retyped the smoking gun documents those legions of the Left call 'THE DOWNING STREET MEMOS' onto plain paper to protect his anonymous source. He then destroys the originals.

Brilliant

With the American public showing a whopping 19% confidence level in your field of expertise you destroy your evidence.

Maybe you should have notified the Randi Rhodent (Err America ranter) and Congressman Conyers of this little problem before they jumped into their Birkenstocks and Burlap Sacks for their little march on Washington - with tens of other people.

That impeachment ‘hearing’ is funnier by the second. No real smoking gun. Potentially phony documents. anti-Semitic rants. Form Letters of Condemnation. Almost tens of people on the march. And some of the Left’s most qualified luminaries as witnesses.

Careers are made when you accuse based on retyped copies of reasonable facsimiles of fairly clear copies of fourth party interpretations of 'secret' meetings. Smith's career just shifted into overdrive - clunk, clank, drag, drip...

Mr. Wagner (AP Reporter in linked source story). I think the retyping of the memos show concern over the accuracy of the memos. I think I am concerned that you did not pick this up. I think I am concerned about my unimpeachable sources. I think I will put your byline on my Spam News Service filter. Stupid. Very Stupid.

The Left asks how we lost, we have another question

Re(1): 'By Other Means 3', The Belmont Club, T.C. Wretchard
Re(2): 'Walking the Line', Michael Yon: Online Magazine, Michael Yon

The Left asks how we could have possibly lost the War on Terror - knowing intrinsically that we have lost. See, we are still fighting!!!

But another question, one far more important, and one far less infantile presents itself:

How do we know when we have won???

This is also an important question.

Is the answer going to be we will know victory when we see it??? I can accept that – I guess.

UPDATE:

Michael Yon:

It's important to talk with Generals: they are all very smart or they wouldn't
be Generals, but a General says what he wants people to hear, and sometimes they
do lay it on pretty thick. I wanted to meet soldiers. Combat soldiers in
particular. And combat soldiers before, during and after combat operations.
That's the only place to figure out who is winning and losing this war. "Winning"
meaning the Iraqis embrace and protect their freedom and most
of our folks come home. Losing meaning something other
than this, up to and including to any dreaded stasis.

Faster, Please...

re(1): 'By Other Men 2', The Belmont Club, TC Wretchard

Geographically, spiritually, financially, and logistically the axis of terror has been split on the bisect of Iraq and Afghanistan. Aggressive terrorists and clans must now reside in regions that once exported terror – not incorporated it.

Our current conflict is similar to those fought by the Roman Republic against border barbarians. Rome would divide and conqueror – often without overt military action. Similarly, our ‘counsels’ can travel the world and make things happen as a result of ‘saying what I mean, and meaning what I say’ diplomacy.

Faster, Please…
Syria is on the ropes. Its regime based on a strong man that is no longer such a strong man. Iraqi action could push the issue - and I mean Iraqi action.

Iran is militarily, diplomatically, and culturally vulnerable. If Europe and Japan could be coerced into purchasing oil from a resurgent Iraq (whose production is increasing) than Iran is in a world of sh*t. This coercion could take the form of an overt or nuisance blockade. The UN will soon back this – and Iran is not in a position to break the blockade. We have to get Iraqi oil production up to compensate Europe and Japan for the loss of Iranian production. Let China try to break the UN sanctions that are to come.

Saudi Arabia is the biggest danger long term. They can collapse, but have no structure to sustain order. They are not necessarily a direct enemy, but they are a weak and unbalanced player in our rear. They have also spent decades supporting terror – when it was possible to direct it outwards. It is now directed inwards.

Egypt can recover. It did not have the oil resources to isolate itself.

In all cases, excepting Iran, we want the people in the region making the first move. Iran must be dealt with directly through diplomacy and trade (blockade).

And let us not forget that (somehow, just somehow) Hussein will be in court in July/September. Ahhhh, the joy of watching a dictator (much like their own) get convicted of ‘crimes against humanity’ – and by Iraqis. It might also bump up Coalition moral.

Faster Please… But right now we have to wait…

Media: You are a business too!!!

re(1): 'The MSM isn’t screwing soldiers, but future subscribers', MediaSlander, June 11,2005

I think the hope was that the embeds would come back and fight an internal struggle with the 60’s and 70’s era ‘reporters’ trolling about for bad news. Young reporters embedded into military units had to get a feel for what we were doing and why we were doing it. If their voice is heard, how can it be said that we were not expecting WMD.

The problem is that these reporters are not embedded into units while fighting the terrorist led insurgency – it is too difficult to secure them from danger. Thus, the established ‘Watergate’ reporters with the big names are taking up residence in the Green Zone and reporting on noises in the night.

I still think there is hope for an insurgency in the halls of the media. However, like the GWOT, it will be a long and protracted war.

Helping their hand will be the:

1. Ineffectiveness of the insurgency
2. Expansion of consensual governance in the region
3. and the economic factors noted in your post and validated by the election
   

I, for one, dumped many of my subscriptions based on concepts provided in the post. I reiterate those reasons at least quarterly when solicited for subscriptions. Soon, business interests will demand that our Watergate media listen to their customers. We demand news and opinion – not just opinion. And I want my news based on named sources. And I want documents released in context of all the other documents and discussions occurring at the time.

Sod Off, Coalition of the Un-Willing

re(1): Piss and Wind, The Spectator,

Mark Steyn

But sure, go ahead, close Gitmo and wait for the torrent of rave reviews — right after the complaints that it is culturally insensitive to rebuild the World Trade Center when it’s the burial site of ten devout Muslim flying enthusiasts.

and

As I’ve said before, the jihad’s pretty much a busted flush. I was asked the other day what I thought about the rumours of al-Zarkawi’s death, and I shrugged. If he’s still alive, the media will say: ah-ha, the mastermind has eluded Bush and lives to fight again. If he’s dead, the media will say: now he’s a legendary martyr whose death will rally thousands of young men to the cause. But the truth is that thousands aren’t being rallied to the cause, and the title of Zarkawi’s latest pep talk — ‘Killing of Muslims is justified’ — sums up why. Four years ago, signing on with al-Qa’eda offered the prospect of taking out the Pentagon. Now all they do is kill fellow Muslims in the Middle East. Not the same appeal. As I’ve said before, the jihad’s pretty much a busted flush. I was asked the other day what I thought about the rumours of al-Zarkawi’s death, and I shrugged. If he’s still alive, the media will say: ah-ha, the mastermind has eluded Bush and lives to fight again. If he’s dead, the media will say: now he’s a legendary martyr whose death will rally thousands of young men to the cause. But the truth is that thousands aren’t being rallied to the cause, and the title of Zarkawi’s latest pep talk — ‘Killing of Muslims is justified’ — sums up why. Four years ago, signing on with al-Qa’eda offered the prospect of taking out the Pentagon. Now all they do is kill fellow Muslims in the Middle East. Not the same appeal.

Read the whole article - well worth the registration

By the way, who do you think is winning.

Those Head Choppin, Suicide Murderin, Runnin and Rantin Islamofascists

or

The Coalition of the Un-Willing

or

America and the Coalition of the Willing

News Flash: Greenspan wants educated workforce...

Nothing Better…

Ever spend an hour watching Alan Greenspan teach Libs a free-market economics class…

Enjoyable, thoroughly enjoyable…

So calm. So patient. Answering the same Lib questions over and over again… Remember folks:
There are no stupid questions…
There are no stupid questions…
There are no stupid questions…

I forgot just how wonderful the Soviet 5-year plans were. Just how successful. And he even dropped the Russian term for them – sorry, already forgotten.

Well, howdy doody, Mr. Greenspan just wants our kids lernin… I don’t think he be talkin about lernin eubonics, gender studies, Marxist Economics, conflict resolution, gay studies… Me thinks he might want me to read and write a might better, and add and subtract them number thangies…

I get the impression he is not overly impressed with our current education programs…

Arianna, the web never lies...

re(1): 'Making $87M, Paying Same Percent Income, Medicare, Soc. Sec. Taxes as Those Making $50,000', NYT via HuffingtonPost, David Kay Johnston

For those that may want to see the excised post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/archive/2005/06/making-87m-paying-same-pe.html

Please note the comments (especially the last one) by Thomas Phillips.

Nice, very nice...

I’m proud of myself today…

re(1): 'Making $87M, Paying Same Percent Income, Medicare, Soc. Sec. Taxes as Those Making $50,000', NYT via HuffingtonPost, David Kay Johnston

I looked at the HuffingtonPost today - actually a very attractive and well laid out site. I was going to lob a scud here and tell the world that most of her conservative guest writers don’t seem to be writing much when I came across the NYT slop about the poor paying the same income tax at the super wealthy…

Only a Lib would actually link to this article… Yuk, yuk…

Here are the flaws:
It used Year 2000 (Y2K) data to prove its point
It blames the BusHitler tax cuts for increasing the income gap
The headline implies that a chump like me pays the same tax as a chump like Bill Gates.

Uuuuummmmm, Arrreaaaaannnnnnna - and the mensas at the NYT:
Year 2000 taxes were still using President Clinton’s regulations.
The first BusHitler tax cut (a whopping $300 per dependent) occurred in 2001.
The major tax cuts were enacted for the 2003 tax year…
And the super rich got a massive 1.2% reduction in the upper income tax bracket.

Why am I proud.

I wrote two well reasoned posts on her site and another a bit smarmier. I guess reminding the author of ‘Pigs at the Trough’ that she partaked in some rather aggressive tax avoidance in the recent past was a bit over the top. Arianna, you paid NO federal income tax in 2002 and only $700 in California State income tax. Arianna, don’t run for public office on a populist message when you pay your tax attorneys more than most pay in taxes. Instead, consider picking up a few pounds and pay into the Democratic Machine…

Err America advertises Jerry Springer as…

The Voice of Reason…

Uuuummmm, yeah. That’s right. The first thought that popped in my head. I shall not pick the low hanging fruit – spending my time finding web videos of him at his most reasonable. My guess is that there are some out there – out there – out there…

Actually, to his credit he is a much better host than the ‘Randy Rhodent’. He allows his conservative callers to eat his lunch. Often. Very Often. Very, very often. Then he concedes… When your subject revolves around Bush unilaterally, and uniquely, bombing sites in Iraq prior to Iraqi Freedom than you are going to get spanked. Uuuummm, Jerry, do you remember the 'No Fly Zones', the multiple Tomahawk missile strikes, and the arming of the Kurds?

My guess is that Mr. Springer will find himself to be a ‘9/11 Democrat’ before the year is up. He listens enough to know his arguments – forged in titanic battles against other daytime television stars and those mensa guests of his – are weak, and getting weaker. I just heard two callers destroy him on the Err. He is smart enough, and probably strong enough, to make the transition from Birkenstocks and burlap sacks to getting mugged onstage at college campuses.

Here’s to hoping that his audience remains small before the transition. It will be better for his long term career!

The Conservative Saeculum - Avoiding Flameout

re(1): 'The Conservative Saeculum', Roger Bogh, BoghieOnYourSix
re(2): 'The Conservative Saeculum - Future Flameout', Roger Bogh, BoghieOnYourSix

Uuuuuummmmm, yeah :-(

I included the nomination of John Bolton in my list pointing toward a Conservative saeculum (a long life trend crossing generations). That turned out to be more problematic than expected - due to the admitted ignorance of Senator Voinavich.

I did not include floor votes on President Bush's nominees. Just look at this herd of cats:

• McCain
• Chaffee
• Collins
• Snowe

And some odd ones:

• Warner
• Graham
• DeWine

I have no confidence that the top list of grandees will ever lean center right or vote with the Party on Party votes. To them, President Bush has a responsibility to meet individually, discuss all 220 nominations, and come to a consensus that satisfies 101 individuals – or at least themselves. The bottom list is just Senators being cranky. You can count on at least three wobblies on any vote.

As the centrist Chris Matthews opines: 'Again, the Maveric Wins...' (McCain)
As the centrist Chris Matthews opines: 'The Master of the Compromise...' (McCain)

John McCain predicts fewer filibusters. Gee, what a deal. And the institution of the Senate won. He unknowingly kills any future for Frist.

Yea, Susan Collins is very happy. She can get back to doing the business of the country. Like getting some milk subsidy through... Extrodinary Circumstances is a very high bar - yup, but they crossed it before. Anybody tell you that a path taken is a path known. Susan, did anyone inform you that the business of the country might, just might, be to figure out how to deal with judicial nominations? Did your short term 'solution' resolve the 20 year problem?

Lincoln, this is not yours fathers Senate. I hope you do not mind me donating to anyone who runs against you. I'll make a compromise: I will not send money to any terrorist on the watch list that may run against you. Anyone else gets my cash. I think the stress of high office is affecting the time spent with your family. You will thank me later.

Golly, I’m sure glad the seven illuminati listed above got together with Robert Byrd to get the business of the country going again. Couldn't wait...

By The Way Northeast. Bye Bye... We don't need your trash in the Senate or House.

UPDATE: Does anybody else feel like McCain just attempted a coup in the Senate? If the center holds than he is the power broker. There is no hammer in the Senate leadership.

UPDATE: If the center holds, we will replace conservative Supreme Court justices with milquetoast Supreme Court justices. Not a good thing. How silly will it look to create an unwritten aggreement to replace justices purely via ideology.

Media: Corroborate or Collaborate

Now that the media slime have dredged up three year old stories (about human turds that are being prosecuted no less) I think a ribald cheer should go out to tell the media to be responsible:

Corroborate or Collaborate

Media slugs, validate and justify your trash or accept that you are collaborating with the enemy. Your unthinking, reactionary antics do not make you 'unpatriotic', rather they are informing your customer base that you are either stupid or painfully biased.

NEWSWEEK!!!

While everyone is ranting about the report, the reporter, and the editors – rightfully so – I want the source outed…

Why?

I no longer trust the media

I will never trusted anonymous sources.

I want to know if the trusted source is an operative.

I want to know what an unimpeachable source means to the MSM.

I am tired of major media using unnamed sources as their only backing for articles.


If the trusted, anonymous, qualified, senior source turns out to be some ignorant, ideological, brain dead, junior operative - or vaunted senior Senator from somewhere - I think I have the right to know. NOW. Since I cannot trust the media to vet their sources and their stories, I must be able to do it.

The Ultimate Desecration of the Quran

Re(1); 'Iraqi leader's Koran 'written in blood'', BBC News Online

Saddam had a Quran written in his own blood…

"My life has been full of dangers in which I should have lost a lot of
blood...but since I have bled only a little, I asked somebody to write God's
words with my blood in gratitude," President Saddam Hussein said in a letter
published in the official media.

Hhhhhmmmm

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmm…

Iraq Civilian Casualties of War...

Civilian Casualties in Iraq

Re(1): ‘Iraq’s Dead Counted’, Tim Blair, www.TimBlair.net
Re(2): ‘Iraq Living Conditions Survey 2004’, UN Report
Re(3): ‘Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey’, The Lancet, Les Roberts, Riyadh Lafta, Richard Garfield, Jamal Khudhairi, Gilbert Burnham
Re(4): http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

Please Review and make your own decision (hat tip: Tim Blair):

Lancet Study Findings Summary:

Findings: The risk of death was estimated to be 2·5-fold (95% CI 1·6–4·2) higher after the invasion when compared with the preinvasion period. Two-thirds of all violent deaths were reported in one cluster in the city of Falluja. If we exclude the Falluja data, the risk of death is 1·5-fold (1·1–2·3) higher after the invasion. We estimate that 98 000 more deaths than expected (8000–194 000) happened after the invasion outside of Falluja and far more if the outlier Falluja cluster is included. The major causes of death before the invasion were myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accidents, and other chronic disorders whereas after the invasion violence was the primary cause of death. Violent deaths were widespread, reported in 15 of 33 clusters, and were mainly attributed to coalition forces. Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces were women and children. The risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher (95% CI 8·1–419) than in the period before the war.

Interpretation: Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100 000 excess deaths or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Violence accounted for most of the excess deaths and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most violent deaths. We have shown that collection of public-health information is possible even during periods of extreme violence. Our results need further verification and should lead to changes to reduce noncombatant deaths from air strikes.

Iraq Living Conditions Survey 2004, War-related deaths – between 18,000 and 29,000
The number of deaths of civilians and military personnel in Iraq in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion is another set of figures that have raised controversy. The ILCS data indicates 24,000 deaths, with a 95 percent confidence interval from 18,000 to 29,000 deaths. The confidence interval was estimated using a linearisation technique (using SPSS Complex Samples, version 12).


IraqBodyCount
The website “Iraq Body Count” (http://www.iraqbodycount.net/) estimates that between 14,619 and 16,804 deaths have occurred between the beginning of 2003 and 7 December 2004 (IBC 2004).

Science Sucks:
For those of you who wasted lots of ink defending the Lancet Study in Matthew Yglesias’ and other left and left of center sites – Who do you want to believe?

1. The Lancet Study which estimates a civilian casualty rate in Iraq of between 8,000 and 194,000 with a 95% certainty. Naturally, you assumed the bell curve would demonstrate that the most likely estimate was about 98,000.
   
2. The UN study which estimates a civilian casualty rate in Iraq of between 18,000 and 29,000 with the same 95% certainty. The UN estimate implies a most likely estimate of 24,000 civilian casualties.
   
3. The IraqBodyCount website which documents a casualty rate in Iraq of between 14,619 and 16,804 deaths for the same approximate timeline.

Please note, both the UN and IraqBodyCount casualty count estimates fit within the Lancet Study with a 95% certainty. Yuk, yuk…

By The Way, Saddam Hussein’s finely oiled murder machine would have killed about 30,000 civilians within the same approximate timeline. And that killing would never have ceased or been reduced. And that killing was sanctioned by the state and implicitly accepted by the isolationists, the burlap sack and Birkenstock crowd, and the real politic elites.

By now an additional 70,000 folks would have been euthanized and carefully placed in ditches and under mosque sidewalks for a proper Islamic burial!!!

Maybe, after the honorable French, Germans, and Russians removed the sanctions that were killing all the children in Iraq, Saddam Hussein would have used his enormous oil wealth for the benefit of mankind. Or maybe he would have reconstituted his other petrochemical and nuclear programs…

Base Realignment...

Re(1): BRAC 2005 Closure and Realignment Impacts by State

While everyone is looking at the Congressional and Senatorial winners and losers, I think a more comprehensive review illustrates some other (and potentially more) important patterns:

132 Reserve Centers are CLOSED

• 3,650 jobs were lost in closed (132) Reserve Centers
• 1,327 jobs were lost in realigned (9) Reserve Centers
• 676 jobs were created in gained (9) Reserve Centers

So the DOD Reserve Force lost 4,301 jobs of the 14,684 total lost positions (30%).

Question: How confident is the DOD and the administration in our Reserve Force?

My guess is that we will see a comparable increase in the active duty force structure.

Scud Alert:
And yes, I do have a problem with folks being recruited directly into the reserves. The Army is the biggest culprit in recruiting folks who want to join the job corps and go on camping trips every other month or so – and don’t forget the extra pay check. Surprise, Army recruiting is being clobbered – the campers want the paycheck, but not the work. Now the Army wants to recruit folks for 15 month stints – probably as direct recruit reserves. This is not a good idea.

Hey Army, smell the roses!!!
Shoomaker
Pace
Force Reductions

Tomorrows Brilliant Err America Analysis of the speech...

Just a preview...

Let us carefully look at the following quote from President Bush's long speech about appeasement, the march of freedom, and why we fight:

Successful democracies will be defined by a broader ideal of citizenship -- based on shared principles, shared responsibilities, and respect for all. For my own country, the process of becoming a mature, multi-ethnic democracy was lengthy and violent. Our journey from national independence to equal injustice [sic] included the enslavement of millions, and a four-year civil war. Even after slavery ended, a century passed before an oppressed minority was guaranteed equal rights.

For you libs and Err America listeners: sic means a typographical or verbal error that might be construed as ignorance of/or in contradiction to the context. If you harp on the use of 'injustice' when the context definitely implies the word 'justice' than you will further erode your already miniscule credibility. Err America listeners: You can start the long recovery from your adiction by reading and/or listening to the speech - and speak highly of it!!!

Pulling My Backhanded Slap...

re(1): 'President Discusses Freedom and Democracy in Latvia', G.W. Bush, President of the United States.

Part of my previous two posts were kindof a backhanded slap on what the President stated in his speech. I should have followed my own advice and not taken the MSM as knowledgeable on anything. Do these morons really require college degrees in something other than makeup and hairstyling? 'Never Again' I say again... Here is part of the speech:

As we mark a victory of six days ago -- six decades ago, we are mindful of a paradox. For much of Germany, defeat led to freedom. For much of Eastern and Central Europe, victory brought the iron rule of another empire. V-E Day marked the end of fascism, but it did not end oppression. The agreement at Yalta followed in the unjust tradition of Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Once again, when powerful governments negotiated, the freedom of small nations was somehow expendable. Yet this attempt to sacrifice freedom for the sake of stability left a continent divided and unstable. The captivity of millions in Central and Eastern Europe will be remembered as one of the greatest wrongs of history.

Umm, folks, we have a good one here. A very good one.

It does seem that he has read a bit in his 50+ years. Especially since becoming President.

And Paleocons and Leftist (War for Oil, WMD, other stupid comments):

For all the problems that remain, it is a miracle of history that this young century finds us speaking about the consolidation of freedom throughout Europe. And the stunning democratic gains of the last several decades are only the beginning. freedom is not tired. The ideal of human dignity is not weary. And the next stage of the world democratic movement is already unfolding in the broader Middle East.

We seek democracy in that region for the same reasons we spent decades working for democracy in Europe -- because freedom is the only reliable path to peace. If the Middle East continues to simmer in anger and resentment and hopelessness, caught in a cycle of repression and radicalism, it will produce terrorism of even greater audacity and destructive power. But if the peoples of that region gain the right of self-government, and find hopes to replace their hatreds, then the security of all free nations will be strengthened. We will not repeat the mistakes of other generations, appeasing or excusing tyranny, and sacrificing freedom in the vain pursuit of stability. We have learned our lesson; no one's liberty is expendable. In the long run, our security and true stability depend on the freedom of others. And so, with confidence and resolve, we will stand for freedom across the broader Middle East.

I guess you will just have to accept that this President just does not seem to understand real politic. The Stupid rube!!!

President Bush's Yalta Statement (Part II)

re(1): 'Yalta', Wretchard, The Belmont Club

By the way, would Britain and the United States have been forced to ally with the Soviet Union if they had denied Nazi Germany, Tojo Japan, and Fascist Italy their opportunities in the mid 1930s?

If we (the democratic countries) had formed a coalition of the willing against the above while those miscreants were forming would there have been a WWII? Would there have been a WWIII (Cold War)?

Bush is reminding the democratic nations that there are consequences to being meek and weak. I don’t think he is taking a slam at FDR. FDR did what he could in a nation gripped in the clutches of isolationism and the creeping cloud of socialism. He is reminding us that marching around in burlap sacks and Birkenstocks is not a viable counter to aggression.

President Bush's Yalta Statement

re(1): 'Yalta', Wretchard, The Belmont Club

The agreements made at, and the results of, the Yalta Conference were pre-ordained by the actions taken by the western powers in the five to ten years prior to World War II (and by that I mean 1939). The parents and great grand parents of the knuckle heads that are marching, whining, and interfering in our current conflict against expansionistic aggression were busy marching, whining, interfering, and electing opposition to leadership against the previous expansionistic totalitarian movements. These stupid children, parents, and grand parents praise the very efforts (appeasement in the face of aggression) that result in the world wide conflagration of total war.

Those who cannot see the factual evil in totalitarian Stalinism and Fascist Germany, Italy, and Japan still cannot see it in Hussein, Khomeini, Assad, Wahabi Islam, North Korea, and a revitalized totalitarian China and a re-Stalinizing Russia.

Do these idiots (useful or otherwise) always have to wait until their simplistic world view leads to the death of millions? Do we have to wait until nuclear winter is the only answer to world wide terror?

Maybe there is another country like Czechoslovakia that we can give up for a few more years of ‘peace’. I think we can still hold that conference in Munich. Springtime is beautiful there.

This is a slap at Russia, but it is also a punch at the Paleocons and Leftists in our fat, dumb, and happy western cultures. Their forebears elected the stalwarts of appeasement – Chamberlain, and the chumps who ran France in the years leading to WWII. Now they attempt to elect right wing isolationist (who view the GWOT purely on boarder management) and lefty peaceniks (who view the GWOT purely as American aggression) into our Congresses, Senates, and Executive Branches.

The leadership of Bush, Blair, Howard, Berlesconi, Anznar, and that of the just freed Warsaw Pact countries may preclude a near term catastrophic total war.

Never Forget…

Never forget that cowardice in the face of evil is not a virtue.

September 1, 1939 – December 7, 1941

As the isolationist left and right marched, whined, and squabbled for over two years millions died. A few questions to the Paleocons and the Lefties in America past and present:

1. Are you proud your forefathers watched and whined about the march of evil for over two years prior to World War II?
2. Are you proud that we were forced to ally with the Soviet Union to destroy Germany?
3. Are you proud that our decade of inaction forced the complete destruction of nations?
4. Are you proud that we were forced to end the war with atomic weapons?
5. Are you even cognizant that a measured demonstration of backbone during the remilitarization of the Rhineland and the incursions into China, while thousands would have been killed, might have alleviated the suffering of hundreds of millions?
6. And are your WWII era leaders anything more than a regrettable footnotes in dusty Lefty Political Science studies?

Now, why are you marching, whining, and squabbling when we are trying to stop the onslaught of Islamofascism before it required total war?

Thank you President Bush and those derisively called Neocons for trying to lead the ignorant…

The Left Behind!!!

Now that much of the Left have spent a few months mulling religion, studying polls, and trolling for spiritual talking points, they may understand enough to accept that President Clinton was not the second coming of the messiah. This will be a living document listing reactionary Liberals awaiting a secular messiah- the next FDR!!!

The following have been truly “Left Behind!!!”:

1. Senator Ted Kennedy
2. Senator Patrick Leahy
3. Senator Barbara Boxer
4. Senator Mark Dayton
5. Senator Kenneth Salazar
6. Senator Charles Schumer
7. Senator Harry Reid
   

And for those who lie in purgatory

1. Senator Thomas Daschle

These folks have been “Left Behind” by progress. Some Democrat should initiate an intervention. However, in most cases the patient needs to hit "rock bottom!!!" before they climb out of the hole. Will rock bottom be 45 ranting obstructionists, 42 spitting reactionaries, or 38 ineffective protest voters (ie. Senator John Kerry - see votes on military procurement)?

A strong argument may be made that the list could also be called "The Left's Behind!!!" These and other strong candidates often 'Show Their A*s' when they 'Open Their Mouth'.

Lib Corruption – Part 2

Re(1): “Saddam’s Sugar Daddy”, Claudia Rosett, NROnline
Re(2): “More Food-For-(Oil) Thought”, Roger L Simon, RogerLSimon
Re(3): “Roger Simon’s Mystery”, Wretchard, Belmont Club
Re(4): “Roger Simon’s Mystery 2”, Wretchard, Belmont Club
Re(5): “Martin Offers Elections … In December”, Captain Ed, CaptainsQuartersBlog
Re(6): “Liberals Handed Out Judgeships For Political Favors: Witness”, Captain Ed, CaptainsQuartersBlog
Re(7): “Boulay Made Money From All Sides”, Captain Ed, CaptainsQuartersBlog

Read the links, the primary documents they point to, and the initiating and follow-up posts. This is a story in the making – complex and sweet. Yummy, and teased by a mystery writer, analyzed by a foreign relations analyst, bird dogged by a tenacious journalist, and outed by a firebrand. Yummy…

The UN, the fine Canadian Liberal Party, liberal big business, money laundering, Saddam Hussein, Oil For Food, etc……

Caveat: For my 16 readers this month the following is pure speculation and as such cannot be nominated for “My Flameouts”.

Are we going to witness a connection of corruption between Prime Minister Martin of the Canadian Liberal Party, the Iraq Oil-For-Food Scandal, and U.S. election campaign finance?

Me thinks so.

Ah, the U.N. is good for something.

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Hey Libs, ‘You are what you eat!’

FOBs: Felons, Cons, and Strip Club Owners…

re(1): "Peter Paul and Hillary", dan, Wizblog

Let me introduce you to President Clinton and Senator Clinton supporters:

Mr. David Rosen – Future Felon and Clinton (both) Fundraiser. Seems to have made an ‘inadvertent’ clerical error of a mere $800,000 in campaign finance reporting on a marquee gala Hollywood event praising President Clinton and funding Hillary Clinton’s senatorial campaign.

Mr. Aaron Tonken – Con man and Clinton (both) Fundraiser. Currently residing in Federal Prison for ‘inadvertently’ defrauding donors to gala charity events (other gala events – not the one that Mr. Rosen used as a political fundraiser).

Mr. Peter Paul – Con man and Clinton (both) Fundraiser. Small time Kenneth Lay. He inflated corporate stock value and sold on the bubble. Also reminiscent of those fine, upstanding citizens known affectionately as ‘Robber Barrons’. This solid citizen spent some time in the Lincoln Bedroom.

M. Jim Levin – Chicago strip club owner. Was crass enough to think that one could ingratiate himself to the Clintons by fundraising for their campaigns…

Hey HillBilly, anyone tell you 'You are what you eat!'

A Bomb was a Bomb was a Bomb…

Re(1): “No Experience Necessary”, Dan Stober, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

How many times must this be said:

For veteran bomb designers, accurately predicting the yield of their bomb is of great importance. Dobson and Selden had only a vague idea of the power of their bomb, but did it matter? For an aspiring nuclear state (or a terrorist group), a bomb was a bomb was a bomb. "If Iraq had one of those, you would believe [in it]," Selden said in 1995.

And the Flat Earth Society (Politicians and Ignorant Fools) are shocked that science is science – and the Pope is Catholic:

When, finally, the road show was over, Selden and Dobson were told what they had already guessed: Their labor of three years had succeeded. They had designed a working atom bomb. The reaction from audience members was in proportion to their working knowledge of nuclear weapons. Some civilian officials were stunned, Hudgins said, but most scientists were not.

And we are always questioned – “Why are we in Iraq???”

From his experience, Dobson believes Al Qaeda, if it were not on the run, could attain the world's worst terror weapon. "It seems to me that this Al Qaeda is enough of an organization, with enough people and enough funding that they probably could." He worries about sea-going shipping containers, which are large enough to hold a heavy, conservatively designed weapon that would have a high chance of success.

"They could send it up Chesapeake Bay, San Francisco Bay, Puget Sound, or the Mississippi River. You could go any place, Almost. Most large cities are either coastal or on a major river, where barge-type shipping goes," Dobson said.

Thought through, it should be apparent that to keep the bad guys on the run you have to endanger their sanctuaries, their skilled labor source, their funding source, and their technology source. These resources make much of the Middle East far more dangerous in the mid to long term than even an existing nuclear ‘power’ that cannot sustain their program.

And now for the big weenie:

Selden knew that in another hands-on experiment, U.S. weapons designers had proven the concept at the Nevada Test Site in 1962, when they blew up a bomb using reactor-grade plutonium. Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of Japan's opposition Liberal Party, underscored the point 40 years later. In a speech last April that sent shock waves across Asia, he said: "We have plenty of plutonium in our nuclear power plants, so it's possible for us to produce 3,000 to 4,000 nuclear warheads. If we get serious, we will never be beaten in terms of military power."

And now we have advanced, free market societies in South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, etc… While I cannot vouch for this organization (its clock seem right only about twice a day), how secure do you think 60 year old technology is – that is, is it secret???

Should be an interesting 21st Century.

The Conservative Saeculum - Future Flameout?

Hey Republicraps,

Are you going to make my biggest smack post a poseur?

Some ignorant gubment slug forgets to attend the Bolton ranting and gets all affronted regarding a last second trumped up charge about the nominee being a big meany. Good God!!!

Glad I did not prior post the Judiciary Filibuster rules vote.

Good God Republicrap ‘Leadership’, don’t you know that blowing the Judge issue will be your Mogadishu… Run away and you will not be forgiven… I really hope the Republicrap leadership doesn’t fight like a French Bill Clinton… Run away and the vultures will pick you clean. They will remember…

Should I double down? Last week yes, this week not my cup of tea.

Birds and Barbarians

To the La Raza clown who whined about a Schwarzenegger demand to “close the border”:

Birds and Barbarians migrate,
Citizens of nation states do not...

Do not talk about people migrating like illiterate barbarians and wild geese…

The Conservative Saeculum

Re(1): “The Fourth Turning”, William Strause and Neil Howe

While I drink a good German micro brew I have a revelation!!!

Libs, let’s call it a saeculum and be done with it…

The turning started when the latch key kids who used to shoot each other got religion and gave birth to the “Honor Student” generation. Proud parents driving their soccer challenged youths from one event to another. Children brought up in increasingly tight and communal families – learning to respect social structure… All the while watching the aging blue hair baby boomers prat about with grand ideas and small battles. All that was required was a spark.

For you Libs, was it the 2000 election fiasco or was it 9/11… In the end, historians can determine the beginning of a rising and a falling.*

Lets go backwards

Bolton Confirmation
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope John Paul II Veneration
Negroponte Confirmation
Lebanon Protests
Iraq Elections
Rice Confirmation
U.S. Elections
Afghanistan Elections
Australian Elections
Reagan Veneration
Iraq Liberation
Afghanistan Liberation
9/11
Stem Cell Research Confrontation
China Spyplane Confrontation
2000 Election Fiasco

Libs, pick a win, any win. Oh, that’s right you all hung a good man named Miguel Estrada with your crappy filibuster… You really are quality people, aren’t you… Regardless, it might be time to call it a game and start preparing for the next saeculum. We have had our ‘Fourth Turning’ and the culture wars are largely won. Society is being defined by the conservative movement.

By the way a saeculum is a Latin term for a ‘long lifetime’ – about 80 years. William Strause and Neil Howe postulate that generational trends cycle through four archetypes every saeculum.

It's been a sad half decade for the Liberal Movement. But be positive - some disaster, in say seventy years, may bring you back into power.

* For me, the lib elements of my feeble mind were extinguished when my take home pay declined when I received a major promotion and thus higher pay. You might remember the Clinton Tax Increase. I also work for a Marine Corps where the personal battle cry became "I survived the Clinton Legacy!"

On the topic of Err America - Quickly before its too late

re(1): "New Liberal Talk Radio Ratings Released", Brian Maloney, The Radio Equalizer

Err America is there to provide the nanny state time for public service spots.

I just found out that fruits and nuts were beneficial parts of any healthy diet – and I live in California!!! There will many Err filling opportunities now that the nanny state has determined that there are actually twelve food groups. Wow, Err America can run three one minute spots, four times an hour, and cover all their advertising slots…

The nice thing about Err America is that I can always count on some serious political wisdom when other talk show hosts are cutting to advertisements. I mean, I can listen to Randi Rhodes summarizing some deep thought of the day for a minute, spend a minute ingesting the dietary benefits of sleeping or something, and then jump right back into the saddle – by pressing the reset button on my radio.

Also, it is nice to know that here in San Diego the straight news cuts are provided by the epitome of journalistic integrity – CNN Radio…

Err America is also increasing is audience share by incorporating decent programming - like financial investment show “The Ray Lucia Show”. Me thinks he and his co-hosts might be just a bit right of center…

Err America and Rollerblades...

Damn, I was scudding Err America when the doorbell rang…

The poor sod in a hooded sweatshirt looks me from head to foot and asks what he knew to be a completely embarrassing and inane pitch:

“Would you like to buy a set of rollerblades?”

I mirror his gaze and review the options… “Uuuuhhhh, no. Nice try though!”

I just realized I am in a wheelchair. What am I to do???

The Judiciary and Progress...

Why is the judicial branch important in all aspects of long term change?

I am not a supporter of militarizing the boarder for the following reasons:

• It takes 500 Minitemen to man 25 boarder miles.
• It, therefore, takes 100,000 personnel to man the Mexican and Canadian boarders

That is, it will take about 175,000 government salaries and a huge Marine Corps like support structure to seal the Mexican and Canadian boarder – and this does not resolve coast entry.

However, does anything really matter when any decision directed toward stemming the flow of Mexican citizens (among others) into our country is quickly reviewed by the court – and found lacking? That is, can any progress be made without a legitimate judiciary not stuck in the free sex 60’s? The simple answer is NO. And NO. And again NO…

Proposition 209 in California simply mandated that United States benefits be restricted to United States citizens in non-emergency situations. The 9th Circuit overturned the proposition via a claim that it was unconstitutional. Here are the end-game numbers of this ruling:

6,000,000,000 people in the world
300,000,000 United States citizens.

Thus, 5% of the world’s population (American citizens) is mandated to support the citizens of all other nationalities – currently, largely Mexican citizens. Why are American Citizens responsible for the public support of Mexican citizens?

That is why a bit of judicial balance is needed before extensive structural reform is attempted.

Hey Libbies, War Saves Lives

Re(1): Terrorism's Antibody
Re(2): None So Blind
Re(3): The Bush Dilemma

With the incessant squealing by the Left – a Left that cannot sustain any commitment from inception through completion – it might seem a bit odd that one could postulate a concept of saving lives through decisive conflict.

However, the following questions must be asked:
1. How many lives would have been saved in the mid-20th Century if Hitler had been stopped at the Rhineland, Austria, or Munich?

2. How many lives would have been saved if the Western Democracies had not been forced to ally with the Soviet Union as a result of blundering into Total War.

3. How many lives were actually saved (on all sides) by completely smashing the Nazi, Imperial, and Slave State cultures of Germany, Japan, and The South.

To you lefties:
1. How many people have been murdered as a result of your weakness?

2. How many people have you freed in the last half century?

3. Why is actual leadership an anathema to your movement?

Uuummm, kinda bored - but lookie...

re(1): When Dolphins attack!!! AQ Frogmen

Odd, very odd...

NYT

re(1): Pope John Paul II Dies, Times Can't Find Someone who Liked Him

If only the NYT could find a quote from a supporter of Pope John Paul II.

Maybe they could look for the 1/6th of the worlds population that is Catholic.
Maybe in the 1 Billion Protestants.
Maybe in the millions of Jews that learned to respect and trust him.

I don't know. Kinda hard to find a needle in a haystack of three billion souls. Even the apostate admire the man - at least the billion or so that were locked behind the Iron Curtain.

Thank You Karol Wojtyla, Pope of Popes...