Category Archives: The War

Joke of the day

Posted on August 10, 2010 | 4 comments

The mosque (also called a family center rather than a worship place, though might include a chapel) at ground zero has always seemed inappropriate (at best) to me. So the news that some of its antagonists are proposin g to put a gay bar next door is a hoot. The wellknown lack of tolerance of the Religion of Peace is likely to choke on that one.

UPDATE:  Leave it to Obamalot to step in  it. Right on cue. Barry’s backing the family center/chapel/mosque/whatever it is. Of course he’s splitting hairs between the “right” and the “wisdom.” Well, that’s no surprise.

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The Jew-baiter’s lexicon

Posted on August 1, 2010 | Comments Off on The Jew-baiter’s lexicon

Playing with fire is trendy again. So listen up. You’ll know it when you hear or read it, and you will, you will:

“The Israel Lobby,” “Neocons,” “Good Jews vs. Bad Jews,” “Conflict of Interest,” “No One Can Criticize Israel Without Being Labeled An Anti-Semite,” “Hasbara,” “I Like Jews, I Just Don’t Like Zionists,” “The Uniquely Evil Evil That Is Israel,” “The Awesome Power Of Jewish Mind-Control.”

My buddy Snoopy at the Zionist Entity can tell you all about the mind-control part. He actually does it. (Ignore his flag. He doesn’t mean you.)

UPDATE:  Snoop has this great quote from a Hungarian writer: “An anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.” Heh.

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Finally a good comparison

Posted on July 22, 2010 | Comments Off on Finally a good comparison

I’m frankly sick of the he said, she said arguments about who ran up the deficit, Barry or Bush. I thought it was Barry. Now I know it:

“Once this latest round of stimulus (in the form of expanded unemployment benefits) has gone out the door, we will have spent more trying to stimulate the economy than we spent on the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war — combined. To what end? Ten percent unemployment? A tottering recovery?”

Stimulus, my Aunt Fanny. Come on, November. Time to vote these Demwit bums and their pork wallow out to pasture. Or wherever hack, urban politicians go these days. Chicago, probably.

Via Instapundit.

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McChrystal out, Yon back in

Posted on June 26, 2010 | Comments Off on McChrystal out, Yon back in

Invited, at least. Hope Michael does embed in Afghanistan again. Maybe we can find out what’s really going on out there.

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VDH is such a hoot

Posted on June 24, 2010 | Comments Off on VDH is such a hoot

The famed military historian and one of my favorite authors on our pathetically inept prez:

“His speech today was fine—if one ignores the usual serial invocation of ‘I’, ‘me,’ and ‘my’ that we’ve become accustomed to, as the president tries to radiate authority with first person pronouns rather than common sense reality.”

Heh.

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Yon vindicated?

Posted on June 22, 2010 | Comments Off on Yon vindicated?

Looks like he has been. This is what I meant by bickering generals.

With this funny observation about the legacy media from Instapundit: “Under a Republican President, it’s listen to the generals. Under a Democratic President, it’s all about civilian control of the military.”

UPDATE: The most amazing thing about the McChrystal affair is how dumb the general was. Really, really dumb, as VDH notes:

“Is it smart to be in Paris within a mile of any creep from Rolling Stone? How dumb is that? Such tag-along groupie folk exist to trash the military, and only get close to officers by being disingenuous in a manner that most teenagers would not fall for — much less a four-star general supposedly adept in insurgency trickery.”

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Sgt. Mario Rodriguez Jr., R.I.P.

Posted on June 15, 2010 | Comments Off on Sgt. Mario Rodriguez Jr., R.I.P.

Events keep dragging me back to my earlier conclusion: we need to get out of Afghanistan. Where the indigenous president is a crook, our generals bicker, and our good troops, like Sgt. R., die young, leaving behind small children. All for gains that are increasingly hard to see. Even Gen. Petraeus is stressed.

UPDATE:  Sgt. R.’s remains arrive home in Smithville.

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