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The Screedblog's awesome today.
Lileks rips Vonnegut via
The Princess Bride. Priceless.
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Uh that line was NOT uttered by the giant (Fezik), it was said by the spaniard (Inigo Montoya), just one more example of why right wingers are not trusted. What a dipshit.
Posted by: a at November 21, 2005 10:11 PM (4b1rF)
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November 19, 2005
QUICK LINKS
Interesting article on what happened to Iraq's WMDs:
Where the WMDs Went
And an article whose name says it all:
I took Saddam's cash, admits French envoy
UPDATE:
Read SGT Rausch's letter to Hook: Taste of Freedom
The Real Pro-War Crowd: Who They Are and What They Want (Chaos, Anarchy and Death)
And the Western media ran with a completely despicable fakery, once again: McCarthyism 101
And a good quote on a worthwhile Donald Sensing post:
I stand by every word, including what I wrote about WMDs. Why? Because itÂ’s worth remembering that the only reason we have certainty now about SaddamÂ’s WMD programs is because we invaded Iraq.
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Of course, if Tierney is right then the Bush/Rumsfeld Administration is entirely incompetent. If his drug analogy really holds up, then Bush's role in the story is that of the bumbling police chief. If the rationale for the war was to keep WMDs out of the hands of the bad guys, and now they are safe in Syria, then we utterly failed to accomplish our objective.
Posted by: Pericles at November 20, 2005 09:50 AM (eKf5G)
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November 15, 2005
TODAY'S LINKS
Some good posts on RWN:
The Bush Counter-Offensive Continues
How Many Other Mary Mapes Are Working In The Mainstream Media?
From Varifrank:
The J. Patrick Buchanan Memorial Library for Failed Prophets of Doom
(The husband remarked the other day at dinner: "What ever happened to acid rain?" Remember how that was drilled into our heads 20 years ago?)
Also, it's funny how whenever we talk about a "war for oil", someone always brings up the image of the SUV. Oil is used for other things, you know, as our commissaries are realizing. Personally, this is just fine with me; I always thought my local baggers went way overboard with the double-bagging anyway. Two boxes of cereal don't need to be double-bagged.
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Why on earth do you go to places like Right Wing News? You really should be ashamed. It is pure propaganda - as worthless as socialist workers weekly, democratic underground, and their ilk. Eew, you need to get some better taste in sources of news.
Really, RWN doesn't care about the truth, they care about firing off propaganda to support their views. What they say doesn't matter so much as the effect of supporting their side, and whether their side is right or not, they don't care. Do you really care more about your 'team' than the truth?
WRT to the Mary Mapes interview, it was very carefully taken out of the greater context, which was that the secretary who had written the originals has said that while she did not believe that the documents were originals, that there was nothing in them that was not fully in the spirit if not the words of the commander. In other words, the content was still representative of the situation.
WRT to Bush's speeh on veteran's day, when did it become appropriate for the Commander-in-Chief to go to military installation before a military crowd and denounce the opposition party? And why did he deem it appropriate to take the opportuinity to give a vets day speech that essentially ignored vets? Sometimes it's like we are in a banana republic. It is not too surprising that public approval for that shameful speech was lower than his general approval ratings.
On a separate note, the reason that acid rain is under control now is thanks to government regulations that lowered levels of sulphur dioxide emissions into the air, especially from power plants. It is still a problem, as a quick google would show, but thanks to regulation it is not as serious a problem as it would have been. In other words, by getting the message out that sulphur dioxide was creating acid rain, which was a problem, something was done, and now things are not as bad as they would have been without regulation.
Posted by: Sad at November 15, 2005 12:54 PM (ur+Lr)
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Jesus does that Mapes comment sound like "fake but accurate" or what? One last time people. TIMES NEW ROMAN!! PROPORTIONAL SPACING!!! SUPERSCRIPT!!!
You just accused the author of only listening to what she wants to hear and not getting news from an unbiased source and then had the nerve to whip out that Mapes comment. People that still defend that woman have a grip on reality that is on par with holocaust deniers and the flat earth society.
WRT to the Banana republic, Central American dictators don't give speeches denouncing the opposition party. They kill them and burn down their houses. Last time I checked, Harry Reid is fine and so is his house. The Bush is evil exaggerations are so common now that we don't get shocked or surprised by them.
You're right, Sad. Shame on the author. Shame on all of us for letting people like you get away with such irresponsible comments.
Posted by: Joe D. at November 15, 2005 02:06 PM (FmIVz)
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Joe,
Take it easy. WRT Mapes, here's the bottom line. The documents were not the only evidence in the story. The author of the originals stated that the documents' content was an accurate reflection.
So, yes, the docs were not a valid source. But the story was still valid, since witnesses corroborated the evidence presented in them.
If you think that this is akin to flat earth, well, clearly we do not have enough of a starting point to have a discussion, since it appears you are more concerned with your feelings than facts.
WRT Banana Republic comparisons, no analogy is perfect, the comparison was in these respects. Despite his own lack of history as a soldier, Bush has repeatedly strutted in a military uniform, and in that speech to denouncing his political opponents in a speech that should have honored soldiers. There, of course, are many respects in which the U.S. is not like a Banana republic, for instance, the U.S. is not in Central or South America, our primary export is not Babanas etc. This might be confusing to you, but it is the nature of analogies that when comparing two different things, that there will be likenesses and unlikenesses between the things compared. They are, after all, different. Perhaps you might want to read up on the nature of analogies, similes, metaphors, etc. so that this might be more clear to you.
Posted by: Sad at November 15, 2005 04:15 PM (PbrmL)
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Oooh you zinged me! I'll get a grammar text book and I'll show you up on some minor league blog comment section yet!!! You just wait.
By the way, who are these alleged sources? Killian, who supposedly wrote it has been dead for years. Seriously, this debate is a year old. If there were any shred of truth in this story the premier newsman in the country wouldn't have had to resign in shame.
Or was it a plot by Les Moonves at CBS to help corporate America and Bush stay on top? Off to the Democratic underground for some ranting!! Ha! Ha!
Posted by: Joe D. at November 15, 2005 05:53 PM (o2EE5)
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November 10, 2005
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Podhoretz's
Who Is Lying About Iraq? is the last nail in the coffin: Bush did not lie.
Tim sent me a
reminder of French lectures to the US.
And Lara sent me a hilarious parody:
President is sending Marines to France.
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That Podhoretz article was such an amazing act of mendacity it was actually funny. The Pollack article he cites, if read in full context actually is calling Bush a liar - hardly a reasonable source to cite to prove Bush was being honest. I think that the only thing that can be safely shown from that article it is that Podhoretz is lying about Iraq. It certainly doesn't show Bush didn't lie. The fact that he had to so carefully ignore so many facts, and then selectively quote and cite things that actually said the opposite of what he said really makes a case for there being no way to make a case that Bush didn't lie, which shows there is a high probablity Bush was deliberately lying.
Podhoretz himswelf has a very shameful history of deceptive writing, and extremist views, he is hardly one I would cite for anything other than humor. In Norman Podhoretz's world, everything is very simple. There are only two positions to take: uncritical praise of and obeisance toward the Bush administration, which places you on the side of all things good and virtuous, or you hate both the truth and America. I guess it is unsurprising that he can write so dishonestly - after all his outright lies are his way of defending Truth, Justice, and the American way.
Posted by: Mr. Silly at November 12, 2005 08:37 PM (nsQdz)
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November 09, 2005
DANG
OK, if
this man can lose 230 lbs. to join the Army, then I have no excuse for not losing the ten pounds I want to lose. (Thanks,
Hook.)
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November 08, 2005
PARIS LINKS
Two more links about Paris:
Rioters
say "each night we make this place Baghdad"
The Association of Muslim Journalists calls for a
probe into the "violation of MuslimsÂ’ civil rights in France", if you can believe that irony.
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It's actually not ironic at all once you understand how France's economics work, and while it is not a Muslim problem alone, they are part of the largest number affected by the long time measures.
Does this excuse the rioting, no. But you're being pretty selective in your grokking.
Posted by: Julie at November 08, 2005 06:45 AM (DMgiz)
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November 07, 2005
I LOVE JACOBY
Raven1 found a good article:
The good news from Iraq is not fit to print
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You know, I can't see it as really good news, and even if it were, there is such a huge swath of bad news in Iraq that you have to work to be willfully ignorant to imagine that things are going well.
They ratifyied a constitution that establishes Iraq as an Islamic Republic, where all laws must comply with the rule of Islam. The fact that Iran fully approves of their constituion should at least raise an eyebrow, shouldn't it? Is making Iraq a mirror of Iran the best we could do? If so, it certainly wasn't worth the American lives lost.
The Sunni politician had helped draft the new Iraqi constitution was just assassinated.
The vast majority of Sunnis opposed it, exercised their democratic right to vote as a unified voice, and were still marginalized. There was clearly a large amount of vote fraud to ensure that the constitution would pass, as the numbers didn't add up.
Talabani, the Iraqi president said "... at the end of the day my ability to confront the US military is limited and I cannot impose on them my will." Iraq is under the American military occupation, its government is helpless before American decisions about the fate of Iraq. No country is a "democracy" where a foreign military calls the shots, overruling the civilian president.
You might feel better to read a rah-rah story and pretend that things are swell, but you feel better at the expense of ignoring the truth.
Posted by: VOT at November 07, 2005 11:40 PM (1+6tL)
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NICE
More
Mark Steyn. Money quote:
French cynics like the prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, have spent the last two years scoffing at the Bush Doctrine: Why, everyone knows Islam and democracy are incompatible. If so, that's less a problem for Iraq or Afghanistan than for France and Belgium.
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Sarah - I found your account of living on the edge of such a neighborhood fascinating. While in Europe Patti and I went to Paris. We visited a marche' aux puce in such a neighborhood totally without warning. It was frightening to say the least.
Anyway - since I'm out of the Euro/Islam/Iraq blogging business I write just to ask you to remind us...wasn't the ENTIRE point of the Axis of Weasels that avoiding dealing with Saddam would somehow innoculate the weasels from the wrath of of the Muslims? (Oil for Food Kickbacks deliberately overlooked for the purpose of this discussion).
I'm curious to know - are the French, Belgiques, Dutch and Deutsch now shaking their heads in bewilderment or shaking their fists in outrage?
Posted by: Tim at November 07, 2005 09:48 PM (Thge9)
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November 06, 2005
SNIFF
Cali found a heck of an article:
Restaurant is haven for wounded war vets
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Speaking of wounded veterans, please check out Valour-IT, a program of Soldiers' Angels that provides voice-activated laptops to those whose inuries prevent them from using standard computers. Right now there is an inter-service fundraising competition among the milbloggers:
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2005/11/valourit_day_2.html
Sarah, I finally unknotted that fire house of gratitude and affection without drowing anybody, LOL! And I pointed it at Valour-IT.
Posted by: Beth at November 08, 2005 01:10 AM (5I8b6)
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Oops! Should've been "drowNing."
Posted by: Beth at November 08, 2005 01:11 AM (5I8b6)
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November 02, 2005
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My German former co-worker used to often say how lucky we were to be living in Europe instead of the US, you know, where all the crime is. I mean, thank goodness we live in peaceful Europe, where there have been
massive riots in Paris for the past week. Good thing we're not in the Midwest anymore; boy, is it more dangerous there than in Europe! (via LGF)
I had no idea that black people had dibs on New Orleans. Apparently they all called squatters on the city before they left, like my brother used to do with his spot on the sofa when he would go to the kitchen for a drink. And now that Hispanics are moving into New Orleans to take construction jobs, Jesse Jackson is crapping his pants. A large number of black people say they have no plans to return to New Orleans, so Jesse wants to bus them back in. Sheesh. (via Hud)
And on a lighter note, read Mare's Halloween post.
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I am just watching news coverage of the riots in Paris. If this were happening in the US, the whole world would be criticizing our unfair social system, or George Bush. Can you say Schadenfreude?
Posted by: CaliValleyGirl at November 03, 2005 03:13 PM (Tajbv)
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