Sunday, April 29, 2007
Losing Blogging Powers...
It seems I'm running out of blog-steam. No force left to make the case. I see no will in America for turning back into the fight on the war for civilization.
I find myself wondering what it would be like for Obama to win. To have the final two-year paralysis of the Bush administration followed by four years of senseless blatthering about hope. To be calling UN conferences about the genocide taking place in Iraq. To have every American serviceman who can get out do so. To watch in horror but complete passivity as Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt become nuclear-armed states. To drive the border patrol to complete ineffectiveness with gross mismanagement and prosecution of agents.
These things are obvious. America chooses not to see. Perhaps after we're struck again.
I'll leave this up for a while in case my spirits are restored. Thanks for stopping by and reading.
Best Wishes
Keith
I find myself wondering what it would be like for Obama to win. To have the final two-year paralysis of the Bush administration followed by four years of senseless blatthering about hope. To be calling UN conferences about the genocide taking place in Iraq. To have every American serviceman who can get out do so. To watch in horror but complete passivity as Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt become nuclear-armed states. To drive the border patrol to complete ineffectiveness with gross mismanagement and prosecution of agents.
These things are obvious. America chooses not to see. Perhaps after we're struck again.
I'll leave this up for a while in case my spirits are restored. Thanks for stopping by and reading.
Best Wishes
Keith
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Olmert: The Man Who Knew too Little...
and talked too much.
Idiot
"Iran's nuclear program can be thrown back by years in a ten day attack using thousands of Tomahawk cruise missiles," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted as saying in an interview published online by the German magazine Focus on Saturday.
Idiot
Friday, April 27, 2007
New Words!
Nanosweat - the sweat that builds-up in your iPod nano armband at the gym.
Nanosmell - the smell that radiates off your armband if you stuff it in your gym bag and don't let it dry out between workouts.
Nanoboil - the inflamed growth under your arm where the nano armband friction has opened a small aperture in the epidermis and injected the nanosweat.
My recommendation? Do not travel down this road.
Nanosmell - the smell that radiates off your armband if you stuff it in your gym bag and don't let it dry out between workouts.
Nanoboil - the inflamed growth under your arm where the nano armband friction has opened a small aperture in the epidermis and injected the nanosweat.
My recommendation? Do not travel down this road.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Sending Dollar Bills
The new tactic in charitable fund raising is to send a dollar bill visible through the envelope window in the solicitation mail. It must be an effective tactic since I've gotten three dollar bills this way in the last two weeks.
It pisses me off when an organization I've sent money to in the past sends dollar bills out to get people to open the envelopes. When I get one, I open it, put the dollar in my pocker, and cross that organization off the list of organizations I'll ever send money to again. I'm not donating to you for this.
It pisses me off when an organization I've sent money to in the past sends dollar bills out to get people to open the envelopes. When I get one, I open it, put the dollar in my pocker, and cross that organization off the list of organizations I'll ever send money to again. I'm not donating to you for this.
Joke of the Day
Chelsea Clinton ask an American soldier who he feared: His answer was Osama, Obama, and Yo Mama.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Well - I hope they get this right.
Auckland has come up with a novel plan for getting rid of hundreds of thousands of tonnes of human waste - use it to fill one of its many extinct volcanos, then turn it into a regional park.
And if it's actually not extinct - the phrase "shit-storm" could take on a whole new meaning.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Save the Italian
Mark Steyn, National Review, De-Boning the Turkey, April 17, 2007
The world is going to hell. It's depressing, but at least we have Mark Steyn so we can go down laughing.
But what I find odd is the idea that merely drawing attention to Europe’s self-extinction is “racist”. If he had a tail and hung from a tree in the rain forest or was shivering on that ice floe instead of Al Gore’s polar bear, we’d all be chipping in donations to the Save The Italian campaign. But, because he doesn’t, it’s “racist” even to discuss it.
The world is going to hell. It's depressing, but at least we have Mark Steyn so we can go down laughing.
Friday, April 13, 2007
DEBKA File: Turkey Invades Iraq
The bombing of the Iraqi Parliament is bad, this report from DEBKA file may be worse.
The Turks are not interested in a Kurdish homeland with an oil field (Kirkuk). They have legitimate grievances with the PKK, which is a terrorist group. Their ambition, however, is not just to shut down the PKK, but to shutdown Kurdistan. It is stunning that they are willing to go across the border while the US is still in Iraq. They risked a conflict with US forces. They perceive us as so weak that this is not an impediment.
Of all the utter foolishness of those who want us to leave Iraq, the most ignorant drivel is that we are the reason for the violence, and consequently it will stop after we go. All of Iraq will be a bloodbath, not just Baghdad.
They crossed at several points – 20 km deep to target PKK camps east of Zaho and 30-40 kms up to the rural areas of Haftanin, Sinaht and Pirbela provinces. The Turkish army is also clearing landmines that could impede its cross-border offensive against rebel Kurdish camps. DEBKAfile adds: Ankara accuses Iraqi Kurdistan of harboring the PKK terrorists, allowing them to stage cross-border raids into Turkey and run back for cover.
Earlier this week, Ankara and Iraqi Kurdish leaders swapped threats over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
The Turks are not interested in a Kurdish homeland with an oil field (Kirkuk). They have legitimate grievances with the PKK, which is a terrorist group. Their ambition, however, is not just to shut down the PKK, but to shutdown Kurdistan. It is stunning that they are willing to go across the border while the US is still in Iraq. They risked a conflict with US forces. They perceive us as so weak that this is not an impediment.
Of all the utter foolishness of those who want us to leave Iraq, the most ignorant drivel is that we are the reason for the violence, and consequently it will stop after we go. All of Iraq will be a bloodbath, not just Baghdad.
Monday, April 09, 2007
The Insane Global Warming Panic
Tell your friends and neighbors. I'm glad, and surprised, that Newsweek published this:
From Newsweek here, by MIT Professor of Meteorology Richard Lindzen. HT: DrudgeReport. It's a short piece, read and share.
Recently many people have said that the earth is facing a crisis requiring urgent action. This statement has nothing to do with science. There is no compelling evidence that the warming trend we've seen will amount to anything close to catastrophe. What most commentators—and many scientists—seem to miss is that the only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes. The earth is always warming or cooling by as much as a few tenths of a degree a year; periods of constant average temperatures are rare. Looking back on the earth's climate history, it's apparent that there's no such thing as an optimal temperature—a climate at which everything is just right. The current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman's forecast for next week.
From Newsweek here, by MIT Professor of Meteorology Richard Lindzen. HT: DrudgeReport. It's a short piece, read and share.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Duncan Hunter
I have already expressed my support for Giuliani in 2008. I believe he is the candidate with the leadership experience, name recognition, and rhetorical power to lead America in the war for civilization. I like Duncan Hunter though - and if we count issue by issue - I'm closer to Hunter than Giuliani. This video (HT Jawa Report) goes straight to the point for me.
The reason I shy away from supporting Hunter in preference to Giuliani is I'm afraid he cannot win the national election. And of course if enough conservatives think that way it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The reason I shy away from supporting Hunter in preference to Giuliani is I'm afraid he cannot win the national election. And of course if enough conservatives think that way it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
EU Referendum: Is this the price?
As the "frightened fifteen" were whisked away in military helicopters from Heathrow, after their arrival from Tehran this morning, we heard news that the "Arab street" is rejoicing in Basra after a roadside bomb killed four British troops and their interpreter, and seriously injured another soldier....
Pictures of the scene (above left) show locals cheering and rejoicing, parading with a soldier's helmet and fragments of the Warrior, in Hayaniya, a slum area on the northwestern outskirts of Basra - known as a stronghold of local (Iranian-backed) Shia militias.
No commentators are making any link between the bomb incident and the Royal Navy hostages, but the loss of face embodied in the humiliating capture of the British personnel and their subsequent behaviour can only have emboldened attackers, who could see for themselves the weakness of British forces.
Appeasement brings its own penalties and, in the greater scheme of things, no one can argue that the events of the last 14 days have in any way improved the prestige of British forces, where winning the respect of the local populace is a vital precursor to dealing successfully with an insurgency.
Check out the whole post, and the pictures, on EU Referendum.
The one opportunity we have to hold Iraq now is to hang-on through the remainder of President Bush's term and then elect a President who has the rhetorical force to make the case for winning. Because the war is being lost in the United States even as our forces improve matters on the ground in Iraq. We'll be alone in Iraq soon. Whether the British yet realize it or not - they have sealed their fate in the Middle East.
To build a self-sustaining pluralistic democracy from the conditions in Iraq now is a daunting task, and bold moves are called for. One such move is to commit oil profits to each and every citizen of Iraq, the Alaska model proposed by Susan Lee. This will tend to pull power away from the sectarian tribes and encourage some of the huge number of capable Iraqi refugees who have left to return and take in interest in Iraq's future.
