Iran Is The Crazy Kid
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
His jacket might be a different color….
Remember when you were eleven and there was one kid who developed before everyone else? He had the musculature and facial hair of a 30 year old man. On one level, it was disconcerting, on another level, terrifying. Did you mess with muscle kid even if he was a nice guy? No. Did you pick on him? No. Well, you didn’t unless you were crazy. And there’s always a crazy kid, or three, around. Most of the time they floated in their delusions, til they mustered enough strength from the voices in their head, to provoke the muscle kid. And then, they got beat down, but they didn’t care because they were crazy.
Iran is the crazy kid.
The crazy kid is doing crazy stuff off to himself–for now. He’s making things go boom, writing rants inspired by God in mom and dad’s basement, and generally acting antisocial and weird.
What isn’t known until it’s too late, is how crazy is crazy? Will the crazy kid just take on the muscle kid and be smashed into oblivion? Will the crazy kid go Columbine, like he’s threatening, and take out as many as possible while going down for the count himself? No one knows…..‘cuz he’s crazy.
Since the crazy kid seems intent on avoiding the benefits of therapy, the best anyone can do is take away his weapons, watch him and make sure to be armed should he go, well, crazy. It’s better that the crazy kid is dead than the rest of the class.
Barack Obama says he’ll talk with the crazy kid, be his friend, give him a warm huggie hug and the crazy kid will suddenly get uncrazy. His suicidal and homicidal impulses will melt away in the sweet, embrace of Obamessiah goodness. Ahmadinejad’s hatred and loathing for Jews and Israel will evaporate in enlightenment. Yep, that will happen.
Or, Israel, with America’s help, will bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities back to the stone ages after the election but before President Fuzzy comes into office. Sometimes neutralizing a crazy kid is the best a muscled kid can do.
Cross-posted at Right Wing News
Guantanamo Military Tribunals: Bush Reviving al Qaeda According To Tim Rutten
Saturday, June 7th, 2008Here we go. The trials for those accused of plotting 9/11 and other terrorist acts began last week. They are military tribunals and the rat scum who committed the crimes are doing the things one would suspect a terrorist to do–like claim mental illness, decline counsel in hopes that the trial will be null and void, and generally acting persecuted. For all their plots and planning, turns out these jerks rather like life and want to prolong this process. If they can garner sympathy and can make themselves look like a martyr, they’ll do it.
Enter liberals. I love this headline “Just as Al Qaeda is falling apart, Bush’s terrorist tribunals are reviving it.” It goes with the equally inane editorial by Tim Rutten of the LA Times. Consider this:
It’s a sad but salutary thing to recall that number and that terrible day. The consolations of legal justice never can be complete, but they’re all we as a society have to offer the injured and the grieving. That’s why, when it comes to the handling of these cases, the Bush administration’s willful overreaching, contempt for fundamental American values and defiance of basic American notions of due process have set the stage for travesty and further tragedy.
Presidents Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt used military tribunals. Did they demonstrate “contempt for fundamental American values?”
The tragedy that the press currently endures is not having complete, unfettered access to the courtroom. Another tragedy: the press isn’t being allowed to hear every word of testimony to achieve precisely the ends Rutten claims to want to avoid–inflaming the ” fanatic-infested backwaters across the Islamic world.” You see, the government knows that the press doesn’t mind inflaming the idiots in these backwaters. So, to prevent that happening, they will blank out words and phrases used by the terrorists that would be used to stoke and inflame those who would definitely hear it from guys like Rutten.
Here are some of the ways the press has done it’s part to help “calm” those backwaters:
Editing the President’s comments about Iraq and “civil war”–May 19
Remember the flushing the Koran story that was totally bogus?
How about the rush to judgment and broadcasting the Haditha marines story? Real story here.
That’s just three stories I can think of off the top of my head. Any lie, distortion or piece of sensitive information spouted by one of these bastards would be presented as absolute fact by the likes of Rutten, turning the trial into a big propaganda enterprise for al Qaeda, just what Rutten claims Bush is doing.
This trial will end one of two ways–life in prison or execution. I hope for the latter. Like the hanging of Saddam Hussein, the enemy understands nothing except complete and total domination. What Rutten ignores is the mind of the enemy where everything is “en Shallah” or “God willing”. Should these guys end up at the end of a noose, it must be God’s will. It will be further demoralizing and humiliating. They will have died helplessly, ignominiously and worthlessly revealing the al Qaeda way for the dead end it is.
As an aside, Rutten ignores the massive resources, also known as tax dollars, that would go into housing these guys in American prisons and pushing them through the American legal system. Americans do not want that. As an American citizen, I don’t really care what those in the backwaters think, feel or believe about our legal system and military choices. I rather like the notion that terrorists would worry about being snagged as an enemy. Americans might be nice as prison guards, but American justice needs to be viewed as strong. Part of the reason these yahoos think they have a chance against the “Great Satan” is they think we’re weak.
If America is weak, what does that make the terrorist being sent to meet Allah by the American? Super double weak. The message will be uncomfortable for would-be terrorists to receive. Good.
Democrats Admit To Lying About Iraq
Friday, May 23rd, 2008It’s kinda shocking since Democrats don’t usually lie.
Britain’s Civil Liberties
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008How would you feel about the contents of every website visited, cell phone call and email sent being tracked by the government? This would concern me, obviously:
The Home Office will create a database to store the details of every phone call made, every email sent and every web page visited by British citizens in the previous year under plans currently under discussion, it has emerged.
The Government wants to create the system to fight terrorism and crime. The police and security services believe it will make it easier to access important data as communications become more complex.
Somewhere between being frisked at the airport and water boarding, there has to be a balance.
H/T My little brother
Cross-posted at Right Wing News
Afghan Hijacker Works In Airport Lives On Welfare
Friday, May 16th, 2008It’s a nice gig, if you can get it:
Hijack a plane. Threaten and assault passengers. Get let out of jail. Get a job working in an airport and live, rent and tax free, on welfare.
That’s quite a career path.
"Bush Lied; People Died"….It’s Catchy, Bullshit, But Catchy
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Stupid slogans bug me. “Bush lied; People Died” crawled all over me like a thousand roaches. It’s cliché. It’s unimaginative. And it’s just so simpleton simplistic and emotionally stunted. It’s like we’re in first grade, “I am rubber, you are glue, what you say bounces off me and sticks on you.”
Anyway, there are some non-lying reasons we went to Iraq and more will surface:
Today we’re only beginning to learn about what went on behind the scenes in regard to Iraq. One important new source is the recently published War and Decision by Douglas Feith, the No. 3 civilian at the Pentagon from 2001 to 2005. Feith quotes extensively from unpublished documents and contemporary memorandums, just as in the late 1940s Robert Sherwood did in Roosevelt and Hopkins and Winston Churchill did in his World War II histories. The picture Feith paints is at considerable variance from the narratives with which we’ve become familiar.
I just don’t want to hear B…L; P….D (I can’t even write it out) again.
Marines Are Stooopid
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008A friend and staunch Obama supporter argued extensively with me yesterday about the “criminal” Bush. One of his chief arguments was that the military enlistees were a bunch of rubes who “didn’t sign on” for Iraq. They didn’t believe that a “misguided” war was part of the bargain. It seems to me that a soldier should have the idea that he or she might do the work of soldiering and that often involves war.
So, are the new Marine recruits stupid? The Marines hit 142% of their recruiting target. Why? Tigerhawk has some theories:
I wonder three things. First, we are in the middle of a presidential election in which even the anti-war candidates repeatedly claim to “support our wonderful troops”. Perhaps that is rubbing off — I mean, if you have heard nothing but praise for our military from politicians of all stripes for years on end, maybe you might actually absorb the idea that military service is a meaningful and respectable way of life. Second, perhaps new recruits have become a bit desensitized to the risk of combat. After all, we have been at war a long time against a tough enemy in a very difficult part of the world, and notwithstanding predictions to the contrary the numbers of killed and permanently injured remain relatively low as a percentage of the total exposed to the risk. Perhaps new recruits today are more willing to confront the personal risk than during — say — 2005, when recruitment swooned under the press of the war. Finally, I wonder whether the apparent success of the new strategy under David Petraeus is also helping recruitment. It is obviously more appealing to join the military if you can believe that its leadership knows what it is doing.
I also think people are seeing the veterans come back. What an impressive group of people! They walk tall. They seem sensible. I have yet to meet one vet who is crazy in the head or otherwise unstable (the Vietnam mis-perception). They seem strong and centered and mature in a world where young people act aimless, self-centered and immature. It’s nice to see the veterans. They are impressive and not at all the caricature the Left would portray them as.
Maybe, people are accumulating enough evidence to judge for themselves and the media has less impact than it did.
General Betray Us, NOT!–UPDATED
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Well, I haven’t posted on General (or is that Admiral, snort) Petraeus’ testimony. Not because it’s not important, mind you, but because the outcome was foreordained. He would sound imminently reasonable, intelligent, and commanding and the Senators would sound unreasonable, stupid and vapid.
Predictably, the lefties hated the testimony. Ted Kennedy being the most inane, as usual. They are just in denial, plain and simple.
Some complex thoughts on the subject of Iraq here. More thoughts on that corpulent troll Muqtada al-Sadr. I’ve wanted him dead for so dang long. He needs to be expunged from Iraq’s memory.
UPDATE: By the way, Iraq and Afghanistan has created heroes, brave men and women who have sacrificed for their comrades and saved lives by choice, knowing that they’d forfeit their own to do so. Mike Monsoor is one such soldier . Please read all about him.
Gratitude For Our Troops Sign Language Style–UPDATED
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Gateway Pundit shares a way to show gratitude to our troops and it involves something near and now, dear, to my heart: sign language. I’m delighted that this amazing language is being used in such a great way:
Saying Thank you to the troops is easy. Gateway Pundit feels that this week will be especially challenging for our troops this week because of General Petreaus’ testimony before Congress. It will be an opportunity for Congress Critters to express themselves. That’s always dangerous. So the thank you sign will mean a lot to them:
The “Thank You” sign…
The sign we are using is intended to communicate “thank you from the bottom of my heart. “
To make the sign simply place your hand on your heart as though you’re saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Then pull your hand down and out, bending at the elbow (not the wrist), stopping for a moment at about the belly button with your hand flat, palm up, angled toward the person you’re thanking.
According to Norman Heimgartner, Ed.D., author of “Behavioral Traits of Deaf children” and former Professor of Education at the University of Puget Sound, this sign originated in France in the late 1700’s, and was published in “Theorie des Signes”, a dictionary of signs by the Abbe Sicard. The sign was brought to the United States in 1816 by the Reverend Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of Gallaudet University, who later modified it to start at the chin rather than at the heart. That sign is now the standard sign for “thank you” in American Sign Language.
And, if you have a minute HERE is an easy way to express your gratitude to the troops in Iraq.
Freedom’s Watch has more on the expected testimony this week by General Petraeus.
UPDATE: Great, just great! It turns out that this video has caused a stink in the Deaf Community. Well, the way to say thank you in ASL is to do the same hand and arm motion but come to come from the chin. This is an easy enough change and thing to do. Please watch the video, still, the intent is good, but substitute the proper sign when you see it done the wrong way. ASL is not English as hand signals. It is its own language, with it’s own usage demands and own history. I knew that the sign was wrong in the video, but wrongly assumed the modification was specifically for the troops.
No, we don’t want to tell the troops that “we give in”. We want to tell them thank you. When I see a soldier, I just say thanks, but I’m not known for keeping my yapper shut, either.
