Ball Diamond Ball

Here’s a clip from the AP, via MyWay News:

“I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts,” Pace said.

The newspaper said Pace did not address concerns raised by a 2005 government audit that showed some 10,000 troops, including more than 50 specialists in Arabic, have been discharged because of the policy.

Stand Fast General! A man willing to die for his country should be willing to retire for his principles.

Apology “neither required nor desired”.

Incidentally, this policy was designed to keep the topic off of the table, not to keep gays out of the military. President Clinton wanted them in, the military wanted them out, and Congress hammered out this … Continue reading →

I really do feel for the poor Palestinian slob who thinks he is in a separate country and wants to raise his kids, work an honest day, etc… but those folks are a weapon wielded by the larger Arab world. It’s a monstrous, evil, deadly, shitty game they force on us, and the only thing worse than winning a deadly shitty game is losing one.

One day, we were having a discussion about religion, and the lack thereof on the part of, uh, some of us. Here’s my take:

I call myself agnostic, as the whole point is that I admit I don’t know the nature of the unknowable. You know, being mortal and all. I get a kick out of “Atheists” who want to prove that there is no Creator. Go ahead, I say, but be quick about it–Jesus is coming.

Heh.

I guess that if anything, I’m a Zionist. I feel politically very Jewish these days. I looked into the least religious variety of Judaism, but for crying out loud, it’s a bunch of idiots dressed up as a church. With no God. How’s that supposed to work? At that … Continue reading →

Little Green Footballs is a family place (er, depending on the time of day, and the temperature of the topic…), and we were discussing various traditions among the membership. Over there we have Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Ba’Hai, Mormons, Buddhists (I think), and so on. A sense of humor is a pre-requisite.

I may be agnostic (or I may not, heh), but I come from the Protestant tradition. These are my traditions:

• Don’t laugh–that’s not funny.
• Please be quiet, I’m thinking.
• What’s that on your face? Ewww, it’s food.
• Use your fork, not your fingers.
• Say “Hell” if you want, and “Damn” if you must, but “have got” will get your mouth washed out with soap.
• Don’t scuff your heels on the ground–walk like a human.
• My … Continue reading →
  

This is from 04DEC2006, just after President Bush announced that our Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton had resigned, and that the President had accepted it. We knew what that meant–that the President had decided not to try to force the new Democrat-controlled Congress to confirm Bolton. I was unhappy because Bolton had impressed supporters and critics alike, and I thought that despite the unfair and childish objections from some of the loony left, his nomination had a chance of being confirmed after the fantastic performance he had turned in. Sadly, we never got to find out.

I don’t get upset at very much.

Bush Accepts Bolton’s Resignation

I am now upset.

After the Cheney years, the Powell years, and the Rice years, we finally come … Continue reading →

I Ran across this at the Poetry Barn. Was wondering what would be a fair price.

L3ftist Poetry,
Sorry bout the caps,
Habits you know,
Grammarscian Diagram,
of Angry breasts,
and Ulululululating volvos,
off me pig,
grunting ziopecker
I AM NOT IMPRESS
sorry bout the commas
forgot where i was and who was grading this
neocryptozionisticexpialidocious
the thr33 was like an e
i cant believe i got a c
nary shall there be a pecker
within sight or half an acre
sorry bout the rhyme
it becomes truly vhallenging to vlout all the roles at wunst
shit i broke the flout flaunt float flight
three strikes im in rule
Jawj W. Boosh dont care bou bla peopl
i declear the crudase
in my reciprocating tunnel of love
JIHAD … Continue reading →

Here’s the scoop, from UPI:

International Intelligence Published: March 12, 2007 at 2:06 PM Email Story | Print Preview | License Egypt court endorses verdict on blogger

CAIRO, March 12 (UPI) — An Egyptian appeals court endorsed a verdict sentencing a blogger to 4 years in prison on charges of insulting Islam and the president.

Judicial sources said Monday an appeals court in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria approved the verdict issued last month against 22-year-old Abdul Karim Nabil Amer. He was convicted on charges of “ridiculing Islam … Continue reading →

The Things I Do Not Know

I do not know why this article by UCLA literature professor Saree Makdisi hits me so hard. It hits me harder than most others which are just like it, and that is a large number, to be sure. Hatred of Jews is not in short supply these days, and articles like this one come frequently, and more frequently as time goes by.

He is not saying anything which hasn’t been said before, or even recently, and he contributes nothing original to the current wave of Jew-Hatred. He is only harping on the same Neo-Nazi talking points which have made the rounds from Gaza and Jeddah to Paris and D.C. and back. The media closes the loop for this self-reinforcing putrid system … Continue reading →

Steve Stanton, the City Manager of Largo, Florida, wants to be a woman. Didn’t tell his wife. Didn’t tell his son. Didn’t tell the city. Didn’t tell the voters. But when a local newspaper, er, scooped him, he had to go public. Here’s a quote from his hastily arranged television press conference: “I hope my son isn’t watching.”

Coward.

He has been a very good city manager for years and years. Recently he was publicly rewarded with a salary increase. This doesn’t change the recently revealed basic fact, however, that he is insane. Stark, raving, screaming, cut-off-my-penis-and-call-me-Shirley insane.

Anyone can see that this is a mental illness. If you wanted a doctor to cut off your hand because you have always felt that you had one hand too … Continue reading →

This is an article from the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ):

894. ART. 94. MUTINY OR SEDITION

(a) Any person subject to this chapter who–

(1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;

(2) with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition;

(3) fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer … Continue reading →