November 30, 2006
COOL
I'll be interested in reading Bjorn Lomborg's new book when it comes out. Check out this
interview with him.
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Sarah,
I have no idea why I was surprised to see this on your blog... maybe because I don't run across many who have read such authors, but with the breadth of topics you touch on, I really should not be surprised. Thanks for the heads up that a new book will be coming out.
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November 21, 2006
November 20, 2006
GO
Read
this.
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I was going to link that tomorrow morning. It's beautiful isn't it?!?! Reminds me of that post Val did over at Bablu blog after his visit.
Posted by: Tammi at November 20, 2006 05:19 PM (3UQTn)
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November 18, 2006
LINK
Let Them Eat Bullets
A nation that's defended Europe from aggression in the 60 years since World War II is asking why Iraq can't defend itself. The fact is, Iraqis risk their lives for their country every day.
Clearly the days when Democrats warned of a long twilight struggle and pledged to pay any price and bear any burden to ensure the success and survival of liberty are over, judging from remarks by Carl Levin, incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Service Committee.
"We cannot save the Iraqis from themselves," Levin opined Wednesday at a Capitol Hill press conference. "The only way for Iraqi leaders to squarely face that reality is for President Bush to tell them that the United States will begin a phased redeployment of our forces within four to six months."
"We cannot be their security blanket," he added. But why not, if it's in our best long-term security interest?
Yes, we should demand more of the Iraqis. But those who ask whether we can or should stop Iraqis from killing themselves forget that we're in this to stop others from killing us and using Iraq as a base camp from which to do it.
We've been Europe's security blanket for six decades. We are Japan's security blanket. We are South Korea's. It's been said that were it not for us, the French would be speaking German and the Germans would be speaking Russian. In 1938, the West decided it couldn't be Czechoslovakia's security blanket and sold out that country in Munich, Germany. The rest, as they say, is history.
Read the rest. Via Cold Fury and Instapundit, who says he'd like to see a phased redeployment from Europe. And how.
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I thought conservatives believed in laissez-faire economics and self-determination. The government in Iraq is too big right now, too imposing and too costly. All these social benefits we're trying to give Iraqis, like education and life, are going to create a huge debt and raise taxes. I say cut back on government spending in Iraq, especially within the security budget, and let the Iraqis be free to govern themselves.
Posted by: Will at November 18, 2006 11:51 AM (QRBGL)
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November 17, 2006
POOR CONDI
Slighted...
In the past week, there are 476 documents on Nexis heralding the magnificent achievement of Nancy Pelosi becoming the FIRST WOMAN speaker of the House.
I thought we had moved beyond such multicultural milestones.
The media yawned when Condoleezza Rice became the first black woman secretary of state (and when Lincoln Chafee became the first developmentally disabled senator).
There were only 77 documents noting that Rice was the first black woman to be the secretary of state, and half of them were issues of Jet, Essence, Ebony or Black Entrepreneur magazine.
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November 15, 2006
SET YOUR VCR
Make sure you try to see this show tonight:
Exposed: The Extremist Agenda. Glenn Beck is running footage from the Middle Eastern media. It'll be like LGF, only on TV.
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Shocked me to see such a superior piece of programming on CNN. I wonder how its ratings were.
Posted by: Glenmore at November 15, 2006 06:55 PM (c+5pw)
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I watched it - thanks for telling me about it. OUTSTANDING.
Posted by: Tammi at November 16, 2006 02:20 AM (3UQTn)
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It was excellent...of course I had to wait until the midnight re-showing in order to see the last 10 minutes. It seems Comcast our local cable company saw fit to run their local "Public Affairs" segment at that time.
I was stunned that CNN ran it. Maybe an effort to make up for their "sniper" video. I taped the midnight showwing to pass on to others.
Has anyone seen "Obsession"?
Posted by: Jim at November 16, 2006 11:17 AM (XlSqK)
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I, uh, missed this one. Can anyone sum it up? Personally, i don't know any extremists, but I do work with an Iraqi man and the more I talk with him about the current situation, the less I'm inclined to believe that democracy is possible in Iraq. They really just want strong dictators to make the big decisions for them, and religion IS politics there. The Bush adminstration had to realize this, so it makes their actions in Iraq seem even more dubious to me.
P.S. The Iraqi man is Kurdish and thinks Saddam is the devil, so he's happy that Saddam is gone. He supports the decision to divide Iraq into 3 provinces... 3 provinces each led by dictators.
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November 14, 2006
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
I missed this last week, from the always-genius Annika:
I blame Bush.
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GITCHER STEYN FIX
John Hawkins has an
interview with Mark Steyn, whose new book is apparently on Pres Bush's nightstand. Here's one interesting tidbit from the interview:
I mean this idea that it's normal for the state to be as big as it is in advanced social democratic societies is something that would have seemed incredible to anyone a hundred years ago. I mean, I remember being struck by - on September 11th - and I was writing a column a couple of days afterwards and, you know, we're all done with our initial reaction, so you're trying to think a couple of days ahead and find a new angle on it, and I happen to just notice that it was more or less (a hundred years after the) assassination of President McKinley. I was thinking, well, maybe I could tie these two things together, these two big traumatizing events and, you know, bookending the century, whatever - you know, just peck, peck, peck - we journalists always are going to peck.
So I sort of rummaged around the clippings of President McKinley's assassination and realized that while people were upset about it, they essentially regarded it as the removal of a remote figure who played a peripheral part in their lives. To that point for most people in most parts of the U.S. the federal government did not impinge on their life in any way.
So when people talk about the modern social democratic state, you know, cradle to grave entitlements, we should understand that it is, in effect, a huge experimental departure from the normal course of human history - and the experiment as we can see in almost every other country apart from the U.S. has failed.
And if you need an even bigger dose of Steyn, check out his newest column:
If they'd done a Spain -- blown up a bunch of subway cars in New York or vaporized the Empire State Building -- they'd have re-awoken the primal anger of September 2001. With another mound of corpses piled sky-high, the electorate would have stampeded into the Republican column and demanded the U.S. fly somewhere and bomb someone.
The jihad crowd know that. So instead they employed a craftier strategy. Their view of America is roughly that of the British historian Niall Ferguson -- that the Great Satan is the first superpower with ADHD. They reasoned that if you could subject Americans to the drip-drip-drip of remorseless water torture in the deserts of Mesopotamia -- a couple of deaths here, a market bombing there, cars burning, smoke over the city on the evening news, day after day after day, and ratcheted up a notch or two for the weeks before the election -- you could grind down enough of the electorate and persuade them to vote like Spaniards, without even realizing it. And it worked.
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I think America is (and will be) much better at going to war with other militarily-equipped superpowers then it is at playing these half-wars in places like Vietnam and Iraq where the American people don't understand our role and where we look like a bunch of bullies internationally.
Posted by: Will at November 14, 2006 01:49 PM (QRBGL)
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Probably true, Will. But you have to take action based on what the situation needs, not what you're best at. Otherwise, you will be like the man who looked for his keys under the lamp post (even though that wasn't where he dropped them) because that's where the light was best.
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Good philosophy David, but I think it's been duly proven that our keys are not in Iraq.
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November 08, 2006
MORE ADVICE
Varifrank also has some
post-election advice for us.
By the way, my husband is "playing" Sherman in an exercise they're doing on his staff ride today. No one else wanted to touch Sherman with a ten foot pole. My husband, on the other hand, thinks he was a pretty smart guy.
Personally, I've just enjoyed teasing him about the "Civil War reenactment" he's participating in. Hopefully he can work in a game of grab-ass.
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and whos my favorite general? Sherman.
Grants one hell of a guy though. After the war, he was visting England with his family and was invited to dine with Queen Victoria. When he was advised that his children would not be allowed to attend, he declined the offer, which simply staggered his hosts.
The Queen changed her mind, and actually had a great time with the kids(He was a devoted father to his kids...)
and thanks for visting.
Posted by: Frank Martin at November 08, 2006 04:12 PM (G+H5e)
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November 07, 2006
DANG
Woah...Neil Armstrong didn't say what you think he said!
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I've always known that what Armstrong said wasn't what he meant (or was supposed) to say. Both 'man' and 'mankind', in the context of his sentence, mean the same thing... which confounds the point of his message.
However, I've always thought that Armstong's 'flub' SOUNDS better. And every listener seems to understand the meaning of the sentence perfectly fine anyway.
Sometimes correct grammer just isn't as profound. I say that they should leave his message, flubbed and distorted and all, exactly as it is. SCREW THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE!
Posted by: Will at November 07, 2006 12:10 PM (QRBGL)
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November 05, 2006
LINKING
Here's a long
discussion on Donald Rumsfeld. Yesterday Tim asked my husband whether he thought Rumsfeld should be replaced. My husband replied that what Rumsfeld does is
way above his pay grade and he doesn't have any access to information that would make him able to make that call. My husband is a smart man.
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The husband is a politically astute man, and that's good.
Posted by: RobRoberts at November 05, 2006 09:07 AM (Oq2fc)
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JUSTICE
Suck it,
Saddam.
How quickly can we get the noose around his neck?
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As I was talking to my husband in Iraq this morning he was excited to tell me about it! He said that they put it out over the radio while on patrol.
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November 03, 2006
FYI
MaryIndiana -- FYI, there's a pupdate up
at SpouseBUZZ!
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SouseBUZZ? Cool.
My husband David just joined the US Army JAG Corps, so he's now in the Reserves!
Posted by: Nancy at November 03, 2006 07:57 PM (8i2KG)
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Awesome, Nancy. You're the target audience for SpouseBUZZ: folks who don't have an immediate military community. So we become each other's virtual community! Check us out.
Posted by: Sarah at November 04, 2006 02:19 AM (7Wklx)
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Thanks for the link,Sarah. He looks so peaceful
and contented with his little toy. Who would
ever suspect that behind that smile lays the
palate of a mini-blind connoisseur!
Posted by: MaryIndiana at November 06, 2006 11:23 AM (YwdKL)
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OBSESSION
I'm setting my DVR for a special Fox News showing of the movie
Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West on Saturday night at 8 PM ET. For more info, see
here.
I have to tape it, because I won't be home. My husband and I will be hanging out with Tim and Patti! Tim organized a book signing for The Blog of War. If you're anywhere near the Aiken Office Supply in Aiken, SC, this weekend, drop in and see us!
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HAVE FUN and tell him HELLO!!!!!
I so want to see pictures!!
Posted by: armywifetoddlermom at November 03, 2006 04:04 PM (IVwWm)
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Ohhh what a great time. Tell him we miss him here on the 'net.
But doesn't it figure? All the travelin' I'm doing lately and nothing in SC. Hmmmmm must work on that!
Posted by: Tammi at November 04, 2006 03:02 AM (3UQTn)
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Sarah,
It was so nice to see you in our Chat Room (affectionately referred to as the Big Blue Ballroom).
Glad you popped in for the interview with our favorite milspouses and hope you'll drop by again to tune in. We've a nice group of bloggers that join us everyday. You'd make a welcome addition.
I'm perusing your site and I like it -- you're a smart gal!
Andrea (& Mark)
Radio Patriots
Posted by: Andrea & Mark - Radio Patriots at November 04, 2006 07:30 AM (U+oOd)
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I read the synopsis. I feel like I'd be more scared if each instance of 'islam' was replaced with 'conservative.'
Posted by: Will at November 04, 2006 11:18 AM (QRBGL)
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Wow, Will. That's one of the dumbest things you've ever said here.
Posted by: Sarah at November 04, 2006 03:04 PM (7Wklx)
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Will, do you realize that your arrogance ensures your ignorance?
If conservatives (or non-liberals if you prefer) are really as awful as you seem to believe, and they constitute a major political force capable of winning huge numbers of votes in the United States, then by direct implication good governance through democracy is a farce. Have a little faith in your fellow human beings, and try to understand them a little better.
As evidenced by your writing style (if not content), you are intelligent enough and old enough to understand the basic precepts of courtesy and logic, if not experienced enough to appreciate their value. Come, on--step it up a bit here.
Posted by: Piercello at November 05, 2006 06:54 AM (EZcuZ)
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Sorry dad... I mean, Piercello.
Posted by: Will at November 06, 2006 11:22 AM (QRBGL)
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HUH?
Who woulda thought we'd read
this this morning?
Let's go back and clarify: IRAQ HAD NUCLEAR WEAPONS PLANS SO ADVANCED AND DETAILED THAT ANY COUNTRY COULD HAVE USED THEM.
Just when I think things couldn't get any weirder...
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I'm pretty sure the report is talking about the time right after the first gulf war... in 1991, we found (and subsequently destroyed) a nuclear program. It was a pretty big gaffe on the part of the CIA, who were completely unaware of the program.
In 2002 however, Saddam had nothing.
And I think it's hilarious that powerlineblog and the administration are hurting national security by releasing these plans... and by hilarious, I mean like, "oh, look, Bush is doing something stupid - that's hilarious." You know, not really hilarious.. just kind of sad, but funny in a 'we're-all-dead-in-the-long-run' kind of way.
Posted by: Will at November 03, 2006 10:27 AM (QRBGL)
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