Some of the nonsense you keep hearing:
First Trust Advisors economists Brian Wesbury and Robert Stein argue that labor force concerns are overblown. The latest jobs report, they say, was the best since the economic recovery started. “Let’s not make up reasons to be disappointed when the numbers are getting a little bit better every month,” they wrote in a Monday dispatch.
–Investor’s Business Daily
We’re not making up reasons–we’re swamped in reasons to distrust and loathe the numbers and explanations which squirt freely from this administration.
The blunt fact here is that a real recovery feels like boom, tempered only by the fact that people know it’s all making up for lost time. And that’s the problem here. No matter how much “recovery” happens, we’re … Continue reading
Those two Marines should be reprimanded, but only for doing it wrong: first you piss on the Taliban’s foreheads, THEN you shoot them, and then by God, there will be peace.
Trust me, the Afghan good guys who have suffered under the Taliban see it this way, and our squeamishness is why they do not trust us. Pretending that this is a war between uniformed forces is a disaster. This is a battle against savage animals.
At least *somebody* is trying to to win the F’n war over there.
Besides, in my world (as in, when I’m king), Taliban don’t get funerals–they get composted. So good on ya Devil Dogs! Providing not only fresh fertilizer, but irrigation to the farms of Afghanistan. That’s COIN-plus, right there.
See the retro-green everywhere? Nicely done, don’t you think? Well, that’s all on hold while my country is in extremis. I didn’t serve under five Presidents so that I could be asked to show my “papers please” at TSA checkpoints on the Interstate.
Death to Communism; difficulty to Communists.
Peace out.
If you, like I, have sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution, now is a very good time to decide what that means for you. I have decided what it means for me.
A man who lays claim to bravery in risking his life for his country, but who will not risk his career for the same, is a coward and a liar. Continue reading
America!! F— Yeah!
The drill, which is unprecedented in its size, will include the establishment of US command posts in Israel and IDF command posts at EUCOM headquarters in Germany – with the ultimate goal of establishing joint task forces in the event of a large-scale conflict in the Middle East.
via US commander visits Israel to finalize missile… JPost – Defense.
This cuts both ways. It may be a decive to bolster Israel by establishing an overt US Military presence in Israel, in order to forcibly entangle our responses, but only in case of an attack on Israel. It may also be a device to limit Israel’s freedom in whacking Iran, but with the counterweight of reducing (though not eliminating) her need to do so.
So … Continue reading
Please pardon the brevity–typing this in on an iPhone at the Outlaws’ house.
As promised, your correspondent to the future (the fu-tuuuure…) confirmed the availability of cold beer, hot coffee, and people of good cheer in 2012.
So don’t be shy–hop into the new year with both feet. This just has Vast Right Wing Conspiracy written all over it.
Only about two more hours left in this year. I’ll be up in Yokohama with my wife, having artfully stashed the youngster at the in-laws’. I’ll try to connect and send pics, but the place we’re going (Minato Mirai) is so thronged on New Year’s Eve that it’s difficult to get even a data connection. Still, I’ve always managed.
Stay tuned for a preview of your new year from the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy’s official correspondent to the future (the fu-tuuuure…)
Loughnertarians.
Have you argued with any Ron Paul people? You may be familiar with that infuriating style of argument they use, where they don’t listen so much as they parse, and scan your words for opportunities to demand definitions. They construct non-sequitur syllogisms on the fly, rife with false dilemmas, and while you’re trying to understand what tortured, twisted point they’re attempting to make, they convince themselves that they’ve proven you wrong. Take that, etc.
It’s not conversation, and it’s not even argument. It’s a strange form of self-reassurance by talking to others, a delusion that if they just masturbate hard enough in public, we’ll all be converted. I figured out where I have previously heard this disturbing pattern of high-functioning mental derangement:
Jared Loughner.
I viewed/read his … Continue reading
I’m tired. You’re tired. We’re enjoying the holidays, and grateful for a decent excuse not to work on the political thing for a bit. I want to write about many things, but you know what? I’m tired of writing, and you’re tired of reading.
So enjoy the holidays. Genuinely relax about the political disaster unfolding, because we need to shepherd our resources closely, and now is not an effective time to fight. We have enemies across the ocean and enemies on our shore. We have opponents in the other party, and opponents in our own. The Obama administration negotiates with enemies while fighting against Americans. The Republican Party negotiates with Obama while fighting against the Tea Party. Many of the things we had hoped to acocplish after the … Continue reading
My guess is that the only thing new about this is the publicity.
The DHS outlined plans to scans blogs, Twitter and Facebook for words such as illegal immigrant, outbreak, drill, strain, virus, recovery, deaths, collapse, human to animal and trojan, according to an impact asssessment document filed by the agency.When its search tools net an account using the phrases, they record personal information.
via Tweeting the word drill could mean your Twitter account is read by government spies | Mail Online.
