A View from the Eye of the Storm

Don't. Miss. It. Courtesy Spock.

Secondary explosions, elections, etc.

Reagan, Multi-Lateralist

"What kind of people do we think we are? Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well." -- The formerly stupid, hateful, warmonger Ronald Reagan who is now portrayed as an easy-going, tolerant team-player in order to contrast how stupid and hateful George Bush is now...

Where did the quote come from? From a speech by Joe Lieberman. What? A Democrat quoting Reagan? Yes -- that's right -- an honest Dem so not a prayer in h-e-double hockey sticks that he would be allowed within a light-year of the White House any more...

Don't become a defenestrated flibbertigibbet!

On Investigating

The 911 commission! I'm still completely amazed that Jamie Gorelick -- the implementer of "the wall" -- is on the commission rather than being its chief subject.

Spock applies non-local logic to Reagan's critics -- and it ain't a very pretty showing by the teleologists needless to say...

And dovetails nicely with my previous post on Reagan revisionism.

European Rocket Scientists

Lifted whole from Best of the Web since I still can't even begin to absorb this and it is the only way you can't avoid seeing it for yourself:

Belgian Justice

"A Belgian jury on Thursday convicted a former electrician of kidnapping, raping and killing girls eight years ago, ending an agonizing 16-week trial and closing the book on one of the most disturbing criminal cases in the country's history," the New York Times reports from Paris:

Marc Dutroux, 47, faces a life sentence for the abduction, abuse and deaths of four girls, two of whom were apparently drugged, wrapped in plastic and buried alive. The other two died of starvation in an underground chamber where he left them while serving a three-month sentence for car theft.

Mr. Dutroux was also found guilty of kidnapping and raping two girls who survived. Their testimony and their return with the jury to the dungeon where they had been held provided the most dramatic moments of the trial.

Because he committed these horrific crimes in Europe, Dutroux won't get the death penalty. That would be "barbaric."

Nuance finally understood... Sorry it took me so long.

Reprise

With all the liberal re-writing of history going on about how Reagan was a multi-lateral pacifist compared to the evil GWB -- here's the antidote from Andrew.

To repeat: The future is known, it's the past that's always changing. (An old Soviet "saying of the people" second only perhaps to "they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.")

Quotes of the Day

Some memorable quotes from Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), 40th President of the United States:

"A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets rough."
-- December 5, 1990

"I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other."
-- April 11, 1984

"... there is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit."
-- January 21, 1981

The price of blood.

The future is known, it's the past that keeps changing...

Careful what you ask for...

I remember,

and therefore I will resist.