Monthly Archives: July 2006

Kim Jong-Il goes to Washington

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Kim Jong Il goes to Washington
  Okay, it’s a scenario, and one which I do not relish. That little turd is about thirty years overdue to be strung up by his ankles from a lamp-post. He is certainly not overdue for some Presidential treatment.

But the opportunity presents itself for the President to use the awesome power of his office to make a real change in an otherwise stagnant situation. Kim Jong-Il wants bilateral talks? He wants to sit at the big table? Fine. Bring his ass to Washington.

Put him in a room with W, and let the good times roll. President Bush could tell that dime-store dictator that if he doesn’t mend his ways today, there will be Hell to pay tomorrow.

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Israel Justified, Force Appropriate Says Everybody

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Here are the results of my informal and non-scientific poll:

Respondants who support Israel and think current level of force is appropriate:
Arch-Conservative English teacher, Proprietor of this blog.
Conservative Canadian English teacher, eh.
Liberal Democrat English teacher with tattoos, greatly admires Bill Clinton.
Aging Liberal English Teacher, balding with ponytail, greatly admires Jimmy Carter.

Respondants who do not support Israel, think current level of force is too much:
[crickets]

Respondants who will not commit to a position:
Fellow who said “the last I heard, the Ginza strip was given to the… Palestinians?”
Fellow who said “kill them all, let God sort them out.”

So across the political spectrum, it’s 4-0 in favor of Israel, with two abstentions.

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Bob Schieffer, the Middle East, and the Second-Ugliest Truth

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Bob Schieffer has mis-appropriated the fable of the Frog and the Scorpion, and rolled it into the media campaign against Israel. If you start with the world-view that the Middle East is impossible to understand, you wind up condemning Israel. The converse is true as well; If you start by condemning Israel, then the Middle East is impossible to understand. On the other hand, if you start with the idea that the wars in the Middle East can be understood, and have largely rational causes, you wind up with this: the Arabs will accept nothing less than the destruction of Israel.

The story below, as the closing comments of the July 15 2006 broadcast of Face The Nation is how Bob Schieffer views the Middle East: Unfathomable.

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No Twisters in Tornado Alley–Gore Blames Bush

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“No Tornadoes Confirmed In Nebraska-Kansas Area This Year
First Time Since 1950 There’s Been No Tornadoes In Region”

Failed Presidential Candidate and former Senator and Vice-President Albert V. Gore Junior (D-OZ) issued a statement condemning the Bush administration for the lack of tornadoes this year in Kansas and Nebraska. “You can’t have KANzuzz… without tornadoes… [sigh]… and you can’t have NuhBRASkuhh… without any twisters… and… [sigh]… if *I* were president, we would have had a bumper crop of tornadoes. Believe me, a Gore Presidency would have seen F5 tornadoes ripping the roofs off of churches and guillotining whole herds of schoolchildren with flying… duhbreee.”

local6.com – Weather – No Tornadoes Confirmed In Nebraska-Kansas Area This Year

http://www.local6.com/weather/9468760/detail.html

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[Flashback–NK Missile Launches] Ted Turner: Good Riddance to Bad Money

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Ted Turner, departing stage far left a broken and meek man, had this to say:

“I just wish the last five years I could have made a bigger contribution,” Turner said. “I hung in there as long as I could. I’ve done my best.”

Failure. Like a mobster who has been shot in the face to prevent an open-casket service, Turner slinks quietly away, his money having far outlasted his sanity.

Here is Ted Turner’s astounding appearance on CNN, interviewed by a gob-smacked Wolf Blitzer.

Ted Turner: “…I talked with quite a few of the North Korean leaders and South Korean leaders, too, and spent really the most time with the head negotiator for North Korea. And I was really over there to try and persuade North … Continue reading →

Star Jones Reynolds is a Class Act

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WTF? Is this the wrong blog?

Conservative. Republican. Rationalist. Military.

These are not words commonly associated with the (ABC?) television show “The View”. I believe that I have seen the show exactly once, and was astounded at the stupidity, the willful ignorance, the liberalism, the militant idiocy on display. All of that and an around-the-world-and-back snap. Even so, I’m going to wade in on what I guess is some kind of big controversy. It all began innocently enough…

I watch a lot of CNN, I’m afraid, and I was ambushed by a re-run of Larry King on which Star Jones Reynolds was interviewed. She done good. She and I might wind up fistfighting in the aisles of a town hall meeting, but in her current dispute with BabaWawa … Continue reading →

Guardian v. Israel (again…)

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Here’s a stupid article, or opinion piece, or for all I know news story from the guardian. This is a British newspaper, which is also called al-Guardian for its strident anti-Israel tone; like al-Jazeera for al-Bion.

If you scroll through the comments at al-Guardian, you will see that this is the same letter I posted in the online comments section of that paper, with a few minor tweaks (omitted words, misspellings) but nothing substantial has been changed. Note that the response only quotes a single sentence from the article, then proceeds from there. You can read the rest of the article, but it doesn’t get any better. Here is my response:

This is a remarkably densely-written article. And by dense, I mean thick, stupid, obtuse.

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The American Party Party

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America is one big party and we’re all invited. Please kick in for beer and munchies–there is no free ride. Please sign in. Everybody will get a goofy little nametag which may seem a little troublesome, but it is also proof that you are a party-goer in good standing, with full rights to the keg, the buffet, and the selection of music.
Which brings us to The Music! There will be a band, which takes requests, and when they’re not playing, there’s also a thumpin’ stereo system. Bring music! If you don’t like somebody else’s music, just simmer down and they’ll do the same when your music is playing. You can set up other stereos in other rooms, but please, remain part of the party–we’re all in this … Continue reading →

Russ Feingold, Part II

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What Is Russ Feingold On?

Part II
Russ Feingold (D-Atlantis) is full of something, and it isn’t patriotic fervor.
All quotes in this post are taken from his 25 June 2006 appearance on Meet The Press with Tim Russert, whose quotes are indicated by RF and TR, respectively.

Russ Feingold on the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program:

RF: …President Karzai said that he’s very concerned. He said it just yesterday, apparently. He’s very concerned that our strategy in the fight against terrorism isn’t working. He’s concerned that we’re not dealing with the financing of terrorists.

Senator Feingold appears to be criticizing the Bush administration by agreeing with remarks from President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai. Therefore, Feingold seems to think that we are not doing enough to deal with terrorist … Continue reading →