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June 29, 2004
The hot air probably offsets the weight calculation. Posted by Patrick Chester on June 29, 2004 06:27 AM | Read the rest... | Link to this comment People always underestimate weight. Moore looks to me to weigh at about 450 give or take 25 pounds. He seems to be gaining too. I wonder if this is why he is so nasty? Can you imagine how much he wants the approbation of the world, which would normally be quite cruel to someone that large? Posted by pbird on June 29, 2004 07:48 AM | Read the rest... | Link to this comment He just wants us to respect his authoritah! Posted by BarCodeKing on June 29, 2004 09:39 AM | Read the rest... | Link to this comment Mickey Moore-on : The Black Hole (Of Untruth) that walks (moore or less) like a human. Posted by JB on June 29, 2004 01:25 PM | Read the rest... | Link to this comment Have you tried watching Canadian Bacon? Posted by Trace on June 29, 2004 03:01 PM | Read the rest... | Link to this comment Bar Code King: LOL Posted by Professor Kaos on June 29, 2004 05:56 PM | Read the rest... | Link to this comment Pleae post your off-topic and general interest items here.
June 29, 2004
News From The Fifth Column (Of the Fourth Estate) Commentary Page | The Untouchable Chief of Baghdad Iraq veterans often say they are confused by American news coverage, because their experience differs so greatly from what journalists report. Soldiers and Marines point to the slow, steady progress in almost all areas of Iraqi life and wonder why they don%u2019t get much notice %u2013 or in many cases, any notice at all.Make no mistake. The two most powerful newspapers in the world, the New York Times and the Washington Post, are run and staffed primarily by men and women who hate George Bush, hate the Iraqi war, and have no more in common with the American people than Vladimir Putin does. In fact, they have more in common with Vladimir Putin than they do with the American people. The only difference is that Putin is willing to admit he once danced to the sound of the Communist tune. How Long Would Michael Moore Last in the New World Caliphate? Interesting tale. I wonder if there's any truth to it. If there is, it's certainly a nice bit of Islamofascist treachery, and should serve as an underline to the true nature of our enemy. If there are still any soft-headed anti-warriors around who don't understand what it is we are fighting. And there are. Legions of them. Save My "Free" Dental Care! Sun Ottawa Bureau Columnist: Greg Weston - Back where we started In terms of popular vote, Paul Martin called the election when then Liberals were at 38%, the Conservatives at 29%, the NDP 15%, and the Bloc Quebecois, 12%.Socialism is addictive. That's why socialist nations inevitably destroy themselves. Weston says the conservatives didn't overcome fears about a possible hidden agenda of extremist positions on social issues. True, but that's not the heart of the matter. Bill, you're closer to the mark when you say socialism is addictive. In Canada, the drug is government cash. The Canadian electorate is bought and paid for with its own money. Canada's Liberal Party has purchased friends everywhere, and that's why they won. There are not enough un-bought people left in Canada to reform the system. They did lose 34 legislative seats, but 20 of those went to two parties to the left of the Liberals. The income-redistributing NDP took 4, while another 16 went to the Bloc Quebecois. Quebec is the electoral equivalent of a labour union and the Bloc is their bargaining agent, elected because it is perceived as the most effective team to transfer wealth from the rest of Canada to Quebecers. Posted by Lastango on June 29, 2004 09:27 AM | Link to this comment OT: Does anyone know what's up with Jack Sparks aka Burn Rate aka Dixie Flatline, whose last known residence in the blogosphere was burnrate.typepad.com? Posted by Fredrik Nyman on June 29, 2004 10:39 AM | Link to this comment Extremist = taking a page out of America's book. Posted by Sandy P on June 29, 2004 11:21 AM | Link to this comment Not Hitting the Streets Tomorrow, At Least Maybe it's not as bad as you thought it was. Too Bad, Though Liberals Keep Power in Close Election in CanadaIf this were an accurate hed, it would read, "Far Leftists Hold On To Power: Liberals Narrowly Defeated." Any time a party advocates what Canada's Tories do under the rubric of conservatism, then conservative simply doesn't mean anything any more. Of course, much the same can be said of the US Republican Party - or its major candidates, at least. Not One Of Our Enemies Has Ever Followed The Geneva Conventions With Our Troops Yahoo! News - Iraqi Militants Kill U.S. Soldier BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants shot an American hostage in the back of the head saying they killed the soldier because of U.S. policy in Iraq (news - web sites), Al-Jazeera television said Tuesday, hours after Washington transferred sovereignty in Iraq to an interim government.Apparently the Islamist butchers aren't following the Geneva Convention. I wonder to whom we should complain? France? Kofi Annan? The International Criminal Court? Moveon.org? John "Flophouse" Kerry? Bill - correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the Germans during WWI, at least, did abide by 'the laws of civilized warfare'. Not sure re: WWII - I know that pilots were treated well but I'm not sure about GIs. Posted by Dorrin79 on June 29, 2004 01:20 PM | Link to this comment Dorrin: Mixed bag on the ground. I believe that in North Africa, frex, American prisoners were treated fairly decently. OTOH, let's not forget the Malmedy Massacre, where some 50 US soldiers were shot out of hand, after surrendering. I believe that Jewish soldiers were regularly, however, separated out and executed (except, possibly, in North Africa, where Rommel refused to have any SS troops in his ranks). IIRC, they were sometimes even issued false dog-tags that gave them a different religion (but that might be an urban legend). But Bill misses the point: al-Qaeda would have toed the line on Geneva, but it was the EEEVVVILLLLLL Bushies who first decided not to, so it's all Dubya's fault again. [/sarcasm] Posted by Dean on June 29, 2004 01:45 PM | Link to this comment My father's division (104th Infantry Division--Timberwolves) pulled their Jewish soldiers out of the line units after discovering the mutilated bodies of some who had been taken prisoner. Posted by Richard Aubrey on June 29, 2004 01:50 PM | Link to this comment With a few exceptions, the regular German military units mostly complied with regards to the US and the Commonwealth countries. (The SS was far more likely to commit war crimes such as Malmedy, and of course, on the Eastern front, war crimes were SOP.) It says something that the Nazis were better than the Communist and Islamic powers. Posted by Gary and the Samoyeds on June 29, 2004 01:52 PM | Link to this comment Richard: Except we made them eat our K- and C-rations (which, btw, is in accordance w/ the Geneva Conventions). German troops apparently often protested bitterly at being fed the stuff, and couldn't believe that it was the same food that US troops were eating. Posted by Dean on June 29, 2004 02:09 PM | Link to this comment I am kind of split when it comes to this. Apparentely, so are a lot of others. OK, problems here: 1. The GC is meant to protect uniformed, sanctioned troops of signatory countries that have formally declared war against another country. So, that puts a big red X on the GC issue. 2. UCMJ applies to our troops only. 3. the USC protects US Citizens, so they are not entitled to any of the provisions of the USC. Remember most of these guys were part of the Taliban, Al-Queda, Ba-athist, etc. They kill and mame, they cut heads off and play it for all to see. Who gives a shit about their human rights? Most of them barely qualify as humans. I hate to say this, but: The US has a custom of being better then the other guys. We hold ourselves to a higher standard. But I think that the enemy is using that against us now. Like Bush said in Oct '01, we are going to have to have fortitude and the stomach for what needs to be done. Posted by Trace on June 29, 2004 03:16 PM | Link to this comment I think we are in the position of possibly nicing ourselves into a position we will not like. And we will have only some extremely bad choices, shameful choices, in choosing how to recover. But I see that mostly on the domestic front. Posted by Richard Aubrey on June 29, 2004 05:13 PM | Link to this comment Suicidal Mercy THE IRAQ HANDOVER: Fight terrorists and insurgents immediately, remorselessly and comprehensively. For such enemies, survival itself is a victory. If they live to fight another day, they'll fight another day. Armed and determined, a tiny fraction of one percent of the population can undermine efforts to rebuild the state and reform the society. If you don't kill the enemies of peace promptly, they will multiply exponentially.War is not patty cake, and peace isn't, either. Some hard truths from Ralph Peters. (Hat tip: SDN) My husband and I said the same thing last night. Kill them. Posted by Sandy P on June 29, 2004 09:44 AM | Link to this comment My husband and I said that last night. Kill them. Posted by Sandy P on June 29, 2004 09:45 AM | Link to this comment Speak softly, and carry a big stick. Show, don't tell. This applies to everyone in our chain-of-command, from the president down to ambitious generals who turn cities over to terrorists. TR was right a hundred years ago, and he's still right. Don't threaten your enemies. Shut up and kill them. Speak through deeds. Brig. Gen. Kimmitt and GWB need to keep this in the back of their minds. (read: Sadr) Posted by Bashir Gemayel on June 29, 2004 01:10 PM | Link to this comment Two Words: Tactical Nukes. Sorry, but like it or not, this IS and WILL ALWAYS BE a fight to the DEATH. Scare the piss out of them, and NUKE FALLUJA! Posted by Trace on June 29, 2004 03:25 PM | Link to this comment No, I don't advocate the use of "demonstration" nukes. Our nuclear weapons must be reserved, as always, for in extremis situations. But if we were losing cities to terror nukes, or terror bugs, and we had no other options, then I would expect us to use any and everything in our arsenal in our defense. And if it meant trading all of Islam for American safety - and that was really the choice - I wouldn't hesitate. But I wouldn't hesitate if the choice were Great Britain and Europe for America, either. I do not admit to circumstances where we would permit ourselves to be destroyed rather than use nuclear weapons - against anybody at all. Posted by Bill Quick on June 29, 2004 07:10 PM | Link to this comment
June 28, 2004
Did You Feel Something? Huh. You call that a quake? "It was mayhem around here for a while," said Pattie Burke, a dispatcher for the Ottawa Police. Haaahahahahaaahahahaaa..........sissies. Posted by Bashir Gemayel on June 28, 2004 01:52 PM | Link to this comment Wouldn't have quaked if they'd named their town something besides Ottawa. The one-party state to the north is going to the polls today, and there's a slim chance Canadian voters will throw the Liberal Party out of their god-given right to exercise unlimited power in perpetuity. To reassure the electorate that he's no right-wing nut, the conservative candidate - who had supported U.S. intervention in Iraq - said just yesterday that Canada shouldn't send troops there, and couldn't if it wanted to anyway. Yessireeeebob...it'll be a new era in U.S.-Canada relations.
Posted by Lastango on June 28, 2004 02:08 PM | Link to this comment Here in Red America, earthquakes are for the young. My husband and I slept through it, but this AM, our teenage son said "Wow! Did you feel that? It felt like the house was shaking off the foundation!" Earthquake avoidance seems to be one of the few advantages of old age! Posted by paladin on June 28, 2004 02:44 PM | Link to this comment Here in Red America, earthquakes are for the young. My husband and I slept through it, but this AM, our teenage son said "Wow! Did you feel that? It felt like the house was shaking off the foundation!" Earthquake avoidance seems to be one of the few advantages of old age! Posted by paladin on June 28, 2004 02:45 PM | Link to this comment 6.7 in Alaska, 4.3(?) in IL and a woman gave birth to a frog. Any babies born w/their eyes turned in??? Buffy, S1 sign of the apocalypse. Posted by Sandy P on June 28, 2004 04:40 PM | Link to this comment Refreshing Honey-talking Bill lacks George's guts and honourI Apparently not all the Euro rags have succumbed to BJ worship. Could I suggest, at the risk of being accused of "Bush worship" that his first term is perhaps the most successful first term of any President? The nearest competition would be FDR's first term, I guess. Posted by Chuck Simmins on June 28, 2004 07:30 AM | Link to this comment Delightful piece that I almost blogged about this morning. I wrote a little poem about Clinton and his book: He's pure delight in pasty white Posted by Dottie on June 28, 2004 10:12 AM | Link to this comment Only if you're a terrorist, earl. Posted by BarCodeKing on June 28, 2004 10:38 AM | Link to this comment Oh yeah, earl, his first four years have been a disaster when you compare him to the staggeringly successful: Jimmy Carter And I'd argue that from a personal standpoint his inaugural term has been a good deal more successful than William McKinley or Warren Harding. The hyperbolic ahistoricity of the Bush-bashers never fails to amaze me. Posted by David Gillies on June 28, 2004 10:47 AM | Link to this comment That was from an IRISH paper????? That's surprising. Posted by Sandy P on June 28, 2004 11:18 AM | Link to this comment Maybe That's Why They Weren't Suspects - Can't Annoy Prince Bandar, You Know Yahoo! News - 9/11 Panel Questions Two Hijackers' Help WASHINGTON - The FBI (news - web sites) long has contended that not a single al-Qaida operative in the United States collaborated with the 19 hijackers in the Sept. 11 attacks. Yet the commission investigating the attacks has identified two Muslim men who may have had advance knowledge of the plot.If, after reading this article, you don't conclude that the FBI is the biggest collection of blockheads you've heard of, and that the agency makes a joke of the phrase "national security," then I have to assume you'll be voting for John Billion Dollar Baby. What this article curiously fails to mention is that these two bozos were probably being paid by the Saudis, as well. FBI is the biggest collection of blockheads? No. While indeed a collection of blockheads, the FBI is unfortunately not competing in a vacuum for the title of biggest collection of blockheads. Specifically, INS has the FBI beaten hands down in "blockheadedness" and the State Department is running neck and neck with the FBI. And then there's the CIA; I haven't a clue where they would rank in the blockhead competition Clearly there are blockheads in the CIA - Joe "Tea Sippin" Wilson comes to mind - and thus are clearly in the running. But I have difficulty in assessing exactly how good or bad of a job they are doing. So while the FBI has performed abysmally, they're unfortunately not alone. Posted by Jody on June 28, 2004 10:28 AM | Link to this comment So Much For Valerie Plame's Bimboy Illicit sales of uranium from Niger were being negotiated with five states including Iraq at least three years before the US-led invasion, senior European intelligence officials have told the Financial Times.One by one, the left's talking points crumble and disappear. Say, do you think the NYT will apologize? Nah, me neither. In fact, I doubt they'll even print this. Not real news, y'know. (Real news being defined as anything that hurts GWB's campaign). Well, it is interesting. So is this. "By the time you read this post you'll likely already know that today's Financial Times makes stunning new claims about alleged sales of uranium from Niger to Iraq. . . "According to the Financial Times article, that business man is likely himself the forger of the documents and he has a long history of bad acts which, they say, discredit him as a source of information. That last tidbit plays a key part in the FT story because, in their words, the provider of the documents is 'understood to be planning to reveal selected aspects of his story to a US television channel.' "That's what the FT says. "I hear something different. "In fact, I know something different. "My colleagues and I have reported on this matter extensively, spoken to key players involved in the drama, and put together a detailed picture of what happened. And that picture looks remarkably different from this account which is out today -- specifically on the matter of the origins of those forged documents and who was involved." Nothing specific is laid out here, and JMM says that at this time he cannot do so. It will be quite interesting to see how this unfolds. Obviously, someone is lying. Is it the source behind the FT story? The source behind the Marshall story? Other than Lewinsky, have there been any stories where the blogs have had a "scoop" that was contradicting the mainstream press? Posted by Young Goodman Brown on June 28, 2004 06:23 AM | Link to this comment Well, YGB, I guess it depends on who you believe - the Financial Times, or Josh Marshall: TV (Harry) Posted by Inspector Callahan on June 28, 2004 07:47 AM | Link to this comment Belgravia Dispatch has updated his post adding this: "...And there's still the matter, quite aside from the identity of the forger(s), of whether Niger sat at an epicenter of major cross-border trade in uranium or not. We can't just sweep that issue aside, can we?" --- Of course, they could have been trading goats.... Posted by Sandy P on June 28, 2004 09:00 AM | Link to this comment Josh Marshall has been beating that dead Plame horse for months (or is it years?). Of course he's not going to give it up - he'd look like an idiot. Posted by paladin on June 28, 2004 01:13 PM | Link to this comment Josh Marshall has been beating that dead Plame horse for months (or is it years?). Of course he's not going to give it up - he'd look like an idiot. Posted by paladin on June 28, 2004 01:14 PM | Link to this comment What's Marshall going to do if Plame was outed by Hanssen or Ames in the mid-90s? Posted by Sandy P on June 28, 2004 02:10 PM | Link to this comment Putting aside the question of whether Josh Marshall already looks like an idiot, refusing to face the facts will not help him with people who value rational discourse. Posted by Jim Miller on June 28, 2004 05:56 PM | Link to this comment Car Bomb Wedding BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government two days early Monday in a surprise move that apparently caught insurgents off guard, averting a feared campaign of attacks to sabotage the highly symbolic step toward self-rule.If they're trying to kill the baby, do a c-section. The firecrackers will still go off, though.
June 27, 2004
Interesting Way To Look At Things from the Moral (Relative) Minority, Isn't It? Hitler Image Used in Bush Campaign Web Ad This is hilarious. The leftist whack-jobs at Moveon.org create an ad that essentially equates GWB with Hitler, and when the GWB campaign exposes said whack-jobs and their disgusting ad, John Kerry condemns the Bush campaign for using a Hitler ad - the same ad the whack-jobs created. By the way, I don't recall Kerry condemning the ad when it first was outed in the blogosphere, but maybe he whispered and I missed it. Did I? It is a little different when a grassroots org like MoveON.org put something on their website, and then remove it within a few days. Bush's website is a bit different, don't you think? And they refuse to remove it! Posted by dave on June 28, 2004 07:12 AM | Link to this comment The moveon bunch was making an explicit comparison to Hitler. The Bush campaign is just giving examples of how their opponents view things using their own words and images. Posted by (a different) Dave on June 28, 2004 08:22 AM | Link to this comment It's silly, and likely ineffective. Two entries into the contest were yanked from the site and disavowed by MoveOn. The Dems could easily pull together an equally damning commercial with images and comments from the right that are equally retarded. "Herr Howie"? Al Franken as Goebbels? GOPUSA's wonderful Shylock/Jewwy-Jew-Jew column from a few months back? Damn near anything ever written by Misha? Posted by Young Daveman Dave on June 28, 2004 10:17 AM | Link to this comment Misha doesn't work for the Republicans. He just hates Lefties (about twice as much as he hates Republicans). MoveOn, however, IS working for the Kerry campaign -- Kerry's director of Internet communication is also a senior person at MoveOn, and MoveOn people are actively canvassing voters for Kerry's campaign. Posted by Kim du Toit on June 28, 2004 10:48 AM | Link to this comment --Two entries into the contest were yanked from the site and disavowed by MoveOn.-- Only after they were busted and they gave a snarky apology, IIRC. I know Mr. Quick has something in his archives. Posted by Sandy P on June 28, 2004 01:26 PM | Link to this comment The former vice president and party standardbearer calls conservative bloggers brownshirts? A Dem judge likens the GOP to the Nazi putsch? If Kerry won't denounce Nazi-baiting from inside the heart of his party -- not just some peripheral fringe -- he leaves it to the GOP to correct the record and forfeits his right to complain. Posted by Norman Conquest on June 28, 2004 02:17 PM | Link to this comment Norman, you've conquered with that one. You conked 'em. Posted by Tom Cohoe on June 28, 2004 08:15 PM | Link to this comment Something Is Happening, But You Don't Know What It Is At the moment, it still seems to be under the radar, but the blogosphere is picking up interesting vibrations. As has been noted here, the Iowa Electronic Markets have suddenly jumped to a wide Bush margin. The Fair model is still showing a Bush landslide. Major polls are now showing a Bush turnaround and leap to the lead. And the blogosphere's own polling aggregation service, Scott Elliott's Election Projection, is now showing GWB in the lead in the Electoral College vote for the first time since his low point last May 26. I personally expect this trend to continue. Why? Iraq is calming down - or, rather, the American public has decided that dozens of dead Iraqis aren't a problem as long as American lives aren't being wasted. The economy has now been so good for so long that even John Kerry and Michael Moore can no longer effectively contend that we are in some sort of Bush depression. Kerry has seen his best days. I predict that even his post convention bounce won't return the lead to him. There has been considerable instability over the last couple of weeks in the predictors at IEM. But the general trend has been towards widening lead for Bush. I suspect there is some short term "profit taking" involved as the market moves on up. We see similar patterns in NYSE, for example, as major movements in either direction take hold. Posted by Dean Douthat on June 28, 2004 06:27 AM | Link to this comment I said it before, I'll say it again. This election will be like one of those "European Rules" WWF wrestling matches... best 2 out of 3 falls. Florida. Pennsylvania. Ohio. Whichever candidate takes two of these three states wins the election. How much would you pay to have your candidate use a "bad wrestler" move during one of the debates. A foreign object in the trunks? Mr. Fuji's ceremonial salt to the eyes? A folding chair? Umm... perhaps I have revealed too much about my prepubescent television viewing habits... Posted by Young Goodman Brown on June 28, 2004 06:35 AM | Link to this comment Maybe. OTOH, you also have the whole phenomenon of herd movement. Or, as Rockefeller supposedly observed, if your shoeshine boy or doorman have stock tips for you, it's time to sell. Is this simply people jumping on a perceived bandwagon despite the absence of evidence? Or is this people jumping on a real bandwagon because of stuff that we're not seeing (e.g., folks in key battleground states knowing that THEIR state is almost certainly heading one way or another)? Posted by Dean (not Douthat) on June 28, 2004 06:36 AM | Link to this comment Dean: It was Bernard Baruch, not a Rockefeller. Posted by Fred Jacobsen (San Fran) on June 28, 2004 11:46 AM | Link to this comment It seemed to me that there was a major change in mood a week or two ago. I don't neccesarily think it is related, but it seemed to coincide with the jihadi's widely publicized bout of decapitations. Posted by Tim in PA on June 28, 2004 01:16 PM | Link to this comment YGB: A foreign object in the trunks? Mr. Fuji's ceremonial salt to the eyes? A folding chair? Hmm. This explains a lot. :-) Posted by Dean Douthat on June 28, 2004 01:48 PM | Link to this comment I love the concept behind these predictors, but I shudder to think of someday turning on the television to see a report predicting a particular election based on a "cup and handle" formation or because the point-and-figure chart is breaking the 20-day EMA. Posted by Mac on June 28, 2004 08:38 PM | Link to this comment Your Mileage May Vary Here is an interesting report on the effectiveness - or lack of same - of buying a BlogAd on Instapundit's web site. Don't get me in trouble. It may be that a .23% click-through rate is phenomenal. Posted by Steve H. on June 27, 2004 06:34 PM | Link to this comment Steve, that is a phenomenal clik-thru rate. Average is closer to .1. Posted by Bill Quick on June 27, 2004 08:35 PM | Link to this comment Be Careful What You Wish For, Subhuman Islamofascist Butchers Aljazeera.Net - Captive US marine faces execution in Iraq In a video broadcast by Aljazeera on Sunday, the Islamic Retaliation Movement/Armed Resistance Wing said US marine Hassoun Wassef Ali would be beheaded if detainees in US-led occupation prisons were not freed.One beheading is a horrific atrocity. Two beheadings is an obscenity. Three beheadings begin to have the impact of an auto collision - bad, but you see them every day. Of course, this will only serve to increase the desire of Everyday Americans to bomb the hell out of the entire middle east. I know that's what the jihadis want, but they don't understand. If they get their wish, we won't be using 155 mm mortar shells. Our bombs will leave the rubble glowing in the dark - along with the charred bones of Islam itself. All the Marines are saying is that he is AWOL. They do NOT confirm that he is a hostage. He's been missing a week. Posted by Chuck Simmins on June 27, 2004 07:11 PM | Link to this comment I apologize for not remembering the source, but someone else once noted that if the professor in New York got his wish and there were a million Mogadishus, then that would equate to a billion dead Muslims. Posted by charles austin on June 27, 2004 07:13 PM | Link to this comment I am increasingly willing to accept the nuclear option, also leaning toward expelling some (all?) Muslims from the U.S. The fifth column needs to booted back to their original countries. I bet a lot of Americans are approaching my level of frustration. Posted by Kay on June 27, 2004 07:16 PM | Link to this comment Remember Professor John copyright? He went back into the hellhole of the Islamic world a while back and haven't seen a post from him anywhere at his usual haunts. Everytime I see a new prisoner I expect it will be him. Posted by debbie on June 27, 2004 08:26 PM | Link to this comment I forgot to say that copyright John was the first person in the world, years ago, who called the UN dirty, the Toyota Taliban! Boy, did he turn out to be right. Posted by debbie on June 27, 2004 08:34 PM | Link to this comment John Copyright? Possibly seen @ Roger Simon's place. I don't think he knows Tony's banned. IIRC, I thought I read a posting from him somewhere that's why he didn't drop in anymore. Posted by Sandy P on June 27, 2004 10:20 PM | Link to this comment This is a time honored practice for these guys. The Russians have plenty of experience with this phenomenon via the "unrest" in Chechnya. They have even developed a slang insult word "golovorez" which means "someone who slits throats. Posted by Robin Goodfellow on June 28, 2004 05:14 AM | Link to this comment Interesting question to consider: If, in fact, the Islamofascist dingbats currently holding this U.S. Marine (regardless of how they got hold of him, and irrespective of his ethnic origin and/or religious orientation) do behead him, what would you calculate the chances will be that future Marine operations in the Middle East will feature, as an outcome, virtually no live prisoners being taken, on either side? Marines have a tendency to take it very personally when one of their own is severely mistreated - I think beheading may easily be considered by them to fit that description - and they are quite unlikely to surrender (preferring to go down fighting, or even kill themselves) if they believe this sort of horrid death is the best they can expect if captured. Posted by JB on June 28, 2004 08:51 AM | Link to this comment Yes, Marines can be realists in this manner. Our WWII forebears used the name of the manufacturer of our often privately-puchased Bowie knives, Ka-Bar, as a verb, as in, "I Ka-Bar'd that Nip." Significantly, while the Doggies use a bayonet that is essentially an AK bayonet knock-off, Marines have our own sticker, Bowie blade, with Ka-Bar style handle. Tradition. Posted by Lou Gots on June 28, 2004 09:49 AM | Link to this comment Sandy is right. John Copyright is back from Afghanistan and comments occasionally on Roger Simon blog. I exchanged some posts with him. It is definitely the same man. Posted by Katherine on June 28, 2004 10:21 AM | Link to this comment Well, hell, Katherine, ask him to stop by here again. He won't have to put up with Tony Foresta if he does. Posted by Bill Quick on June 28, 2004 05:54 PM | Link to this comment Bill's blogosphere is a small world. Not only did I find out where copyright John is, but what his (supposed) relationship with Tony was at Daily Pundit. It's a small world. On one site I was informed by John's friend that J was actually the infamous David Berkowitz who spammed Tony to death here at Daily Pundit! Maybe some bad news too, since apparently no on has heard from him recently. I guess he went back to the Middle East on his way to Afghanistan last month. I know he has a new book out on Afghanistan in German from Roger's site. One poster said he was sneaking into Iran from Herat. He keeps going back to live in Afghanistan, so we know he's crazy. I saw those pics last year of him in Kandahar with an AK 47 that were posted. I have to say that he was years ahead of the mass media on everything about the ME and the Islamic world; I've stolen his UN as Toyota Taliban when he used it here at least two years ago. Boy, did he turn out to be right. Hope he keeps safe and somehow reads that we're waiting to hear from him. Those Instapundit reports were fabulous. Keep safe and write us J. Posted by debbie on June 28, 2004 06:22 PM | Link to this comment JB, It may interest you that Ralph Peters in NY Post today is recommending that we not worry about taking prisoners in future conflicts like Iraq. Posted by SDN on June 29, 2004 05:08 AM | Link to this comment In the farming area where I grew up, there is now an ironclad rule concerning protected species. If you see a protected animal on your land, immediately shoot it and bury it well. Perhaps not exactly the result envisioned by PETA and friends. For similar reasons, the recent idiotic SCOTUS dicta will likely result in a massive reduction in number of prisoners taken on battlefields by US military. Posted by Dean Douthat on June 29, 2004 06:00 AM | Link to this comment Latest Item on the Waffle House Menu Kerry Undecided About Crossing Picket Line BOSTON (Reuters) - Democrat John Kerry, the party's presumptive presidential nominee, was still deciding on Sunday whether he would deliver a planned speech to U.S. mayors for which he would have to cross a police officers' picket line.Just what I want sitting in the White House - a man of strength and decisiveness like Everyday American J. Frog Billionaire. I don't like "J. Frog Billionaire". The initials are wrong. How about Posted by SteveF on June 27, 2004 06:16 PM | Link to this comment Via Econopundit: From The Corner:
Posted by Sandy P on June 27, 2004 06:22 PM | Link to this comment and the answer.... is...... XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JUNE 27, 2004 20:34:08 ET XXXXX CHASE ON FOR SEALED KERRY DIVORCE DOCUMENTS; PAPER FRENZY AFTER ILLINOIS SENATE RACE RELEASE After last week's front page headlines over ugly unsealed divorce records in the Republican Illinois senate race, media outlets now face a dilemma: What to do about Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry's sealed divorce records! The race is on in political and media circles to gauge the import of Kerry's sealed July 25, 1988 divorce from his first wife, Julia Stimson Thorne. Posted by michael on June 27, 2004 09:55 PM | Link to this comment Malls or Walls - One or the Other Neighbors Should Put Pride Aside Under his proposal, the U.S. would contribute $9 billion annually to a development fund for Mexico %u2014 chicken feed when compared to the tab in Iraq %u2014 and Canada would kick in another $1 billion.If I thought the Mexican government could overcome its culturally ingrained tendency toward corruption, I'd actually be in favor of something like this, since the price would be less than we pay now for our current illegal immigration problems. Unfortunately, I don't think it can - which means, eventually, building a wall. Or we could just stop the 1st $10 billion being sent back..... Posted by Sandy P on June 27, 2004 06:24 PM | Link to this comment Building a 2000-mile wall with government money is a load of crap. Maintaining the wall and the troops to cover it, year after year, is worse crap. Let individual Americans take care of the problem, for essentially no cost to the taxpayer. How can this be done? Easily. Remove all criminal and civil penalties for killing an illegal immigrant on your own property. The property owners in the border states, many of whom are sick of the continuing damage caused by the wetbacks, will probably be glad to lurk on their land on random evenings, night-scoped rifle in hand. It shouldn't take too long before the immigration slows down dramatically. Probably even before the first shooting, if the new law were publicized adequately. Note also that I recommend removing penalties only for shooting illegal immigrants. Full penalties would still apply to shooting of US citizens or legal aliens. (We should also make it ok to shoot people who are assisting in illegal immigration.) As a part-time bounty hunter, I deal with a similar distinction on every job: it's ok to take into custody the bad guy and ok to temporarily restrain others who are interfering with the arrest, but definitely not ok to threaten, harm, or arrest arbitrary people. We face civil and criminal action if we screw up, and we're willing to live with that and take precautions to avoid it. I'm sure that there will be problems even after adopting my plan. One is what to do about the (vast tracts of ) public land along the borders. Another is that some landowners would let wetbacks through, for a fee. And I'm sure that various "civil rights" groups would pitch a fit. But that last is a feature, not a bug. First, with a bit of luck some of them would get so apoplectic that they'd die on the spot. Second, filing lawsuits against shooting varmints would distract them from their lawsuits over the lack of water stations along the wetbacks' main desert routes, and similar specious causes. Posted by SteveF on June 27, 2004 07:45 PM | Link to this comment Sandy, Rep Tom Tancredo of Colorado proposed taxing remittances, the money that workers in the US send to people outside the US. He caught a lot of flak over that, and quickly changed his proposal to reducing US foreign aid by the amount sent home by individuals. See the Denver Post. My own view is rather harsher: zero out the foreign aid budget, unless someone can show explicit authorization for that Federal action. But then, I'm one of those unreconstructed troglodytes who believes that the Tenth Amendment means what it says. Posted by SteveF on June 27, 2004 07:56 PM | Link to this comment Steve, building a wall is perfectly feasible. We hire illegals to do the construction work, and then we contract out to the Mexican government to man it. The contractors are fined a million bucks from their total payments for each illegal that makes it through the wall alive. Posted by Bill Quick on June 27, 2004 08:40 PM | Link to this comment Bill, your idea might work, but only if you hire undocumented workers to do the landscaping. We must make the wall properly respectful of Gaia. These workers must be paid a living wage, of course, and their health needs must be met even if they can't pay for it themselves. And these workers should be allowed to bring over as many of their family members as needed to ensure their happiness and proper mental health. But, on second thought, if we're determined to spend gov't money to keep the illegals out, why not just offer a bounty on the head (body optional) of any illegal alien brought to an Posted by SteveF on June 27, 2004 09:05 PM | Link to this comment The run-of-the-mill undocumented worker who avoids notice of the law has nothing to fear from the bounty hunter. The fact that large numbers of illegal aliens readily cluster at the entrances to home improvement outlets demonstrates that they have little to fear from local and regional law enforcement agencies also. Posted by Bashir Gemayel on June 28, 2004 10:20 AM | Link to this comment The Pariah Factor Mayor in every corner but one / Newsom stays away from Kerry to avoid awkward questions These days, Gavin Newsom seems to be everywhere -- well, almost everywhere.One day in the future, you will see Gavin Newsome running for President on whatever major liberal ticket exists then. He's one of the smartest pols I've ever seen. And he knows a loser when he sees one, too. Oh, he's gussying it up as a "favor" to the Kerry campaign, but he doesn't want any more part of Jonah Frog Kerry than does any other pol with a healthy concern for his own future. Just Wondering Where does this lefty meme about a "shrinking middle class" come from? The truth is, in terms of lifestyle, never has a higher percentage of Americans enjoyed the middle-class (or better) life than do today. In terms of middle-class "income levels," (an ever-shifting standard), the vast majority of those who have left the middle class did so when they moved into the economic upper class. So why does anybody take this notion seriously? We're into "True Believer" territory now, Bill. On the left, the fringe has begun to absorb the liberal mainstream. Thus, ideology is being given primacy over facts and logic, as facts and logic will not deliver the conclusions the leftists insist on. Eric Hoffer's little book has never been more relevant to the tenor of American politics. I wish everyone in America with three functioning brain cells cound be induced to read (or reread) it right now. Posted by Francis W. Porretto on June 27, 2004 09:53 AM | Link to this comment Bill, If you consider the lefty mindset for a second, I'm sure they are right that the middle class is shrinking. For their intents and purposes, middle class people and families like me suddenly become part of the "wealthy class" whenever increasing taxes are mentioned because I earn an income. Posted by JohnO on June 27, 2004 12:57 PM | Link to this comment Spot on, Fran. I first read "The True Believer" a few years ago on the recommendation of a friend at work. I couldn't find anything significant to disagree with in Hoffer's assertions. It brought my view of the world into much sharper focus by bringing together so much cogent social analysis so efficiently. The class warfare schtick practiced by so many on the left looks like it was copied verbatim from the book. Posted by Trevor Saccucci on June 27, 2004 01:46 PM | Link to this comment My "Diversity" (Education Dept., of course) prof, who has a doctorate, says that "we" (she and we, the class) are all working class because to be middle class you must be getting stock or other income, no matter how high your salary is. See? It's easy. Just keep changing the definition. P.S. We get to see "Bowling for Columbine" next Wednesday. Posted by Meezer on June 27, 2004 02:59 PM | Link to this comment Meezer, I think I'd rather down a bushel of broken light bulbs soused in Tabasco sauce than watch Bowling for Columbine. Just remember that you won't have to deal with "Professor Diversity" for that long in the big scheme of things. She has to put up with herself for the rest of her life. As far as class warfare rhetoric goes, I think I'm supposed to be one of "the rich". I live in a 675 square-foot apartment just outside of Washington, DC, for which I pay not quite a thousand bucks a month in rent (utilities included, and I'm lumping in the cost of my parking space in the garage as well). And I'm not at all certain that I'll be able to own my own home close to work until well after I'm dead. Posted by Trevor Saccucci on June 27, 2004 04:02 PM | Link to this comment Remember that J. Forbes Kerry (millionaire; he owns a mansion and a yacht) has decided that $200K is super-rich. What income do you need to qualify for a tract home in Orange or Santa Clara county these days? $150K? 200K? 250K? Sure, in Tucson you can get by on far less, and in South Dakota I'm sure $100K WOULD be "rich." But the Federal tax system is "one size fits all." When I was growing up, we were Middle Class. We didn't have a color TV until I was age 8, no A/C until I was 13 (and then just room A/C and only run at night). We kept our cars (we did have 2) for around 4 years. Our house was 1200 sq ft (plus a finished basement). No VCR of course. No computer until I was age 15 (and then home-built) and certainly no internet. We had 3 dishwashers (My brothers and I). We knew PLENTY of people who were less well-off. In fact, only one family was noticeably wealthier (they had a Cadillac). Now, that standard of living would probably be considered "working poor." What precentage don't have color TV? Or touch-tone phones? Or a microwave oven? Heck, we had a party-line phone until the mid-70s. Posted by Gary and the Samoyeds on June 27, 2004 05:54 PM | Link to this comment What income do you need to qualify for a tract home in Orange or Santa Clara county these days? $150K? 200K? 250K? For the Bay Area, the figure is a bit under $150K the last I heard. (can't remember if it was a news blurb on the tube or in the local paper) Posted by Bashir Gemayel on June 28, 2004 08:26 AM | Link to this comment |
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Ralph Nader says Michael Moore weighs three hundred pounds. I'd say that works only if Moore is two feet, three inches tall. My guess is he's closer to five hundred.
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