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They Said It Couldn’t Be Done
God Bless America.
Thank you Barack Obama, I will be proud to call you my President.
Obama Takes Iowa!
It looks like Iowans have voted for Change in their caucuses tonight. Headlines all over Google News are declaring Obama the winner! Clinton and Edwards must now pick up their pride and hope for better luck in New Hampshire. But that may not be enough to stop the message of Hope being spread across the country by the Obama Campaign.
In other news, Huckabee has been declared the Republican winner, but who reading this blog is really gonna care?
The Year in Review
I bought this little nugget of a year-end publication from Time called “The Year in Review” because it’s just been a hell of a year. Darfur to Myanmar, bridges in Minnesota to bad guys named Murray in Utah, Virginia Tech to the endless war in Iraq, America and the world has had a very bad year. I can only hope that ‘08 will bring a turn around for our beautiful country; it has been gutted long enough by the greed of the Neocons.
Rest in Peace, Democracy.
The world says goodbye to Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. A woman in power in the Middle East, educated at Oxford, and daughter of the slain Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, she defied odds set by history and by her culture to become an educated diplomat.
It’s Been So Long…
My goodness, it has been awhile. I’m running into the home stretch of this semester and I really haven’t had time to catch up on the world, much less write about it. A lot has happened lately.
This Week With the Shrew
Ann Coulter’s defense of the military’s handling of the Pat Tillman case:
Liberals will even turn a war hero like Pat Tillman into an anti-war cause celebre posthumously — so he can’t disagree. Tillman died in a friendly fire incident that occurred — unlike Max Cleland’s accident — during actual combat with the enemy.
Because they are screaming, hysterical women, liberals treat friendly fire like a drunk driving accident. But friendly fire has been a part of war from time immemorial.
Liberals have an insane, litigious view of the military: There’s been an accident in warfare, let’s sue! It’s as mad as the line from “Dr. Strangelove”: “Gentlemen! No fighting in the War Room!” Golly jeepers, accidents can’t happen in a war!
And later in the article she somehow draws the conclusion that friendly fire is welcomed by POWs. So I guess that makes it ok:
But the POWs weren’t denouncing the U.S. military for risking their lives with “friendly fire.” They weren’t crying Mommy, investigate this! Get me a trial lawyer!If their camp had been hit by American bombs, it would have been as the POWs were shouting: “God bless President Nixon!”
That’s from their own mouths; that’s what’s in their hearts. Friendly fire — to a nation that hasn’t lost its wits — is part of waging war.
First of all the dog-in-heat has totally missed the point about the Pat Tillman case. The disgusting injustice wasn’t just the friendly fire itself (although it is still horrible considering that it is so much more preventable than it was thirty years ago), it was the way the Pentagon and the White House lied about the circumstances involved, portrayed it as a daring fire-fight, and didn’t even tell the man’s family how their own beloved had been killed.
Second, she forgot a space between “lawyer!” and “If” in the second quote.
And third, friendly fire is usually caused by someone that doesn’t have their wits about them, not by a nation that has its wits.
Fourth, friendly fire is a part of war. So I guess in her world, Americans should be happy when these things happen because it is a sign we are still fighting.
And lastly, CAN YOU BELIEVE SHE SAID GOD BLESS PRESIDENT NIXON!!!!! MY GOD!!!
Lol. Ok, I’m done.
So the Guy’s a Dick…
But, despite the anti-Ahmedinejad sentiment by the students and the inherent American paranoia regarding any country other than the US having weapons to defend itself, the man participated in an open discourse regarding his country, his beliefs and his values. That, to me, says a lot about the man, especially after being insulted by the man that invited him to the University in the first place.
America Will Not be Satisfied
America will not be satisfied:
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating: “For Whites Only.” We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
- August 28, 1963
Craig defended by the….whoa….ACLU!
What do you think Republicans would say if a Democrat were caught engaging in extra-marital sexual activities that questioned the integrity of the person? Hmm. Probably bring the articles of impeachment against him.
You would think the progressive party would lash out in the same way if a Republican were caught deviating from the norm of sexual behavior. Especially if that very person in question had done nothing but deride and condemn members of the progressive party, especially organizations as -lets say- the ACLU.
