NOTICE TO NEW READERS

Bill at INDCjournal about summarizes my blog with his "NOTICE TO NEW READERS". To which I would append three clauses:

1) I'm not qualified to lick Bill's boots so don't read too much in to this please!

2) I have the integrity not to take $$$ for such weak writing skills (as differentiated from logic skills)

3) I wouldn't want to be anywhere near a profession so rife with corruption and ignorant backwardness

There you have it.

Top Ten Reasons You Might Have Liberal Debating Points

You might have liberal debating points if:

10) You believe that it's cute and spunky that your wife holds insane "October surprise" conspiracy theories that impugn the integrity of not only the President but the troops

9) You believe that all the terrorist attacks since 9/11 in Bali, Madrid, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Beslan and elsewhere would not have occurred had the United States focused all of its efforts on Afghanistan -- since there was no contemporary global criticism or protest of that invasion

8) You believe your advocacy in the Cold War of a nuclear freeze was unarguably correct and the same logic should be applied to U.S. weapons development in the terror war

7) You believe that President Kennedy sought and received U.N. approval for his actions in the Cuban Missile Crisis

6) You believe that the best way to form alliances is to insult our allies like Tony Blair and John Howard as being "bribed and coerced" -- and have not called on your campaign spokesman to retract his statement calling Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi a "puppet"

5) You believe ending every statement of seeming positional strength with a "but" clause only emphasizes your unwavering determination

4) You believe that Bush's multilateral negotiating policy with North Korea makes him a cowboy -- and that it's just a coincidence that the North Koreans support your bid for the presidency

3) You believe that you can attract vast numbers of new allies to what you publicly call "the wrong war at the wrong time at the wrong place"

2) You believe the Clinton policy of supplying Kim Jong Il with nuclear fuel has nothing to do with his current possession of nukes and that it should obviously be repeated with Iran

1) You believe all U.S. action to protect its citizens must pass the "global test" -- and that there's no fundmental contradiction involved in allocating democratic votes to dictatorships and terror-enabling countries at the U.N.

UPDATE: Well, well, well. Events have overtaken my original #1. And it will soon be another body blow ad from Bush. Here's the update:

1) You believe all U.S. action to protect its citizens must pass the "global test" -- and clearly Gulf War I didn't pass it since it was backed by the U.N. and we had large numbers of Arab countries in the coalition; so you voted against U.S. participation in that war!

GAME OVER #1 of N to come.

Columbine Cover-Update: Time To Rehabilitate Preemption

A stunner from the Rocky on the grand jury results from the recent Columbine probe.

Go read it -- I'll wait. No really. Take your time. OK, now scrape your jaw off the floor.

How about that Dave Thomas running for Congress? Writing this self-serving dung and bloviating about those serving on a grand jury appointed by Democratic AG Ken Salazar having political motives. What utter garbage.

Now read this pitiful whine.

Could have done just a little bit better? WTF over?

Columbine turns out to be even more of a witch's brew of all that's wrong with America than we thought. And the libs are fronting for virtually all of it:

1. Parents out to lunch (most likely lost in some sort of narcicistic haze although my research on this part needs work)
   
2. Abandoning their children to be shat upon by an "It's not cool to be smart" jock culture allowed to fester by other parents only slightly less out to lunch
   
3. Where the shattees are left to wallow in the Hollywood Rambo culture (where most of the profits go to the libs -- how's that for living their vision of peace?) and drift toward insanity
   
4. While a detective has an affadavit about bomb building and at least one death threat
   
5. And puts together a draft search warrant but never pushes it forward -- too preemptive you know. We must be tolerant of free speech. Freedom at all costs. And we do mean all costs. (BTW, here's where that road will eventually lead us -- Columbine is for pikers actually.)
   
6. And bomb building is free speech too. They might be "Freedom Fighters" you know. Who are we to judge them?
   

And I'm sure I've still missed at least half of it.

America the France. All rehabilitation, all the time. But preemption? Mais non!

And no "root cause" relationship to events on the foreign policy scene. Move along to ...

... the inevitable cover-up. The Dems just need to keep the lid on until Dave Thomas (D) gets elected to Congress.

Because malignant narcicism preempts integrity and responsibility every time in Bizarro World.

We must rehabilitate preemption -- and ten years ago isn't soon enough...

Fuelish Comments On The Tinfoil Apocalypse -- And Helotage Too!

Helotage. Exactly right.

Beldar's three responses. Remember, the goal is the avoid the three conjectures... Speaking of which, long may Zarqawi cherish that hope.

You can fuel me once -- but you can't fuel me twice...

Did I forget to mention the West will soon be the new Helots if Monseur Kerry gets the reigns?

A Canadian Perspective Too Close For Comfort

David Warren starts off with some killer stuff:

In the slightly retouched words of my chief Texas correspondent, who was not being entirely facetious, "There are too many Democrats on the left who would rather have their heads sawed off by a Jihadi than admit they've been wrong about everything." And my own sense is that more than a third of the U.S. electorate would vote Kerry against Bush, even if, during the debates, Mr. Kerry's eyes light up green and his head starts rotating. This, alas, has become the "Democrat base".

But then he closes with this:

The reader would be right to read into this grand seismic events. The U.S. public is splitting along religious lines, not between one confession and another, but more vastly between the religious faithful, and the rest. Messrs. Bush and Kerry have, largely without intending, become surrogates in a battle between alternative Americas, and for each side, in the coming election, almost everything is at stake.

Which may be dangerously congruent with reality. The more I think about it, people with active faith are the optimists and secularists/ athiests tend toward the depressing guilt/ nihilism axis.

Swifter and Swifter

WOW. It has now been proven that Kerry wrote the after action report that falsely reported heavy enemy fire and got him the third purple heart so he could abandon his crew. Kerry campaign not returning calls...

Hugh Is Smokin' The Debates

Just start here and scroll through the next 8 posts. I alreadly linked to some of them but you really need to read all of this to understand what happened last night.

I will be expanding this post but no time now...

Franco-Filia

Mais Oui!

How are the three Vietnams of John Kerry related to France? Well, it's a known fact that the always circumspect French keep to themselves, non? (And after following the link you might have a good guess about the etymological roots of the word "assassin". Hashshashin, eh?)

No debate about yet another mais oui!

Another "fake -- but accurate" attack from the French sycophants ejected cleanly.

And James would be worried if the U.N. wasn't angry with us -- not to mention c'est le Frenchies.

Record? What Record?

I love the MSM.

Hewitt has the best detailed scorecard. And gets the big picture right.

Noticing The Thankless Task

Ever notice the penchant of the MSM to focus on the bad and the criminal? Ever notice how absurd the arguments about avoiding military action would be if they were applied to the police? Ever notice that they are being applied to the police more and more in the form of (often trumped-up) police brutality charges? Ever notice that police brutality charges tend to be the focus of the MSM instead of crime victims?

MUST. READ. WRETCHARD.

You'll never look at terrorism the same way again...

The 60 Minutes II Presidential Debates

Rumor is that the press may unburden itself of the debate rules and do whatever it pleases.

Here's what I think that would look like:

DAN RATHER: President Shrub. Dammit, where's your proof our memos are fake? You can't find anyone who forged them, can you? Hah!

PRESIDENT BUSH: You're right. I only have the insubstantial analysis of virtually every forensic document examiner as well as the PhD computer scientist from Carnegie Mellon who was a prime mover in the invention of computer typography. The jig is up, I guess...

ANDREA MITCHELL: President Kerry. I just love the glow from your tan! It's sooo authentic! Alan is sound asleep by now -- why don't you come over for a drink?

JOHN KERRY: Weeelllllll -- I do think they've got Teresa huddled off somewhere incommunicado. But I really have to answer at least one more question before I leave -- well, maybe not...

... and so it goes ...

Pray

For the people of Iran!

Did you know they were the only country where the people held candle-light solidarity vigils for us after 9/11? Why? Because they also know hell first hand.

The cynics will say that this is just another false start and they will never succeed.

Pray anyway. You really, really don't want to know what the mad mullahs will do with nukes.

Trust me on this one.

At Last: Puzzle Answer Is...

Remember the puzzle?

Answer: Of course it's W's National Guard service. He served either 6 years (what he signed up for) or 5.4 years depending on how you count it. If it was 5.4 years then he averaged 176 service credit points per year. If you round it to 6 years then it was 159 points per year.

The required minimum for Guard duty was 50 points per year. Now that's what I call slacking off! Follow the link to understand the big picture.

Lawn darts? That's what Air Guard wives called crash prone aircraft -- like the F-102 W flew.

And I dropped a hint a while back that the F-102 may have been armed with "nucular" missiles when W flew them. No wonder flipper the little tub skipper is driven to distraction -- it's all about envy!

Projection. It's how to analyze liberals. How I wish it weren't so...

More NYeT fog? Or clarity?

Not A Puzzle

"The Iraqi insurgents are our best allies."

Now who would have said this? Could it start with an F? No puzzle involved here...

Seriously, you must have the will to read this QandO analysis of Taheri -- it is not to be missed!

UPDATE: And you didn't realize F is for FRIGHT? And backed with bazookas and rocket launchers no less...

Dog Ceremony Interlude

"Yes. I’m an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial." (Read the rest.)

Bumper sticker of the day: "Lord, help me to be the person my dog thinks I am"

Story Line Detours

Psssst... It's a secret...

And who else would comment on the "vile spectacle"?

Built with fine French ball bearings and only $19.95!

All roads lead to -- well, certainly you should know by now? Wait, what's that crinkling sound?

More Forgetfulness

You didn't realize how inter-related Guadalcanal and Golda Meir were until you started reading Wretchard -- did you?

You should make French Toast next Sunday.

In praise of John Kerry.

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Volunteered. And averaged 176. And "nucular" to boot?

Did I mention French Toast? I misspoke -- good as James is (did I forget to mention he's from my home town?), this is real French Toast.

A Reminder Why The Left Hated Reagan

That would possibly be related to Reagan's comments on treason:

CBS was forced to run a fake story so early in the campaign that it was exposed as a fraud -- only because of the Swift Boat vets. These brave men, many of them decorated war heroes, have now not only won the election for Bush, they have ended Dan Rather's career.

It's often said that we never lost a battle in Vietnam, but that the war was lost at home by a seditious media demoralizing the American people. Ironically, the leader of that effort was Rather's predecessor at CBS News, Walter Cronkite, president of the Ho Chi Minh Admiration Society.

It was Cronkite who went on air and lied about the Tet offensive, claiming it was a defeat for the Americans. He told the American people the war was over and we had lost. Ronald Reagan said CBS News officials should have been tried for treason for those broadcasts.

CBS has already lost one war for America. The Swift Boat Vets weren't going to let CBS lose another one.

Dan Rather and John Kerry -- trying to redux Walter Cronkite and John Kerry. Only this time with Microsoft Word...

MIGs? What MIGs??? WMDs? What ...

WMDs? Not here man -- we saw you coming! Maybe over there.

I remain completely fascinated that the libs dismiss as "conspiracy theory" the possibility that Saddam shipped his WMD outward bound before the war. It's not like we gave him any warning or anything.

And after all, all the countries around him hated him so, right? Well, close but no cigar. Remember that in Gulf War I Saddam flew as many MIGs as he could over to Iran even though he had just recently finished using WMD on them? (And they on him we should not forget when Iran's recent Vice President threatens Israel with immediate destruction as soon as Iran has the bomb -- which is soon to be playing at a theatre uncomfortably close to you.)

Did I forget to mention that BOTH Iraq and Iran are the only users of WMD in war since WWII (that would be US truly)? Do you really think Saddam was "getting better" to put a Python-esque point on it? If so, I have some real estate for you.

And then there's all that trouble that King Hussein in Jordan keeps having with chemical weapons popping up. They came from Syria and not Iraq right? Or could that be Iraq via Syria?

Oh, and it's just a coincidence that it's called the Baath party in Syria too? UmmHmmmm...

UPDATE: A friend sends a hot lead on the reality finally leaking out from behind the curtain. MUST. READ. NOW. IT'S. SHORT. At least for a few hours, it would mysteriously appear that the NYeT has lost its footing and slipped in a "Maybe". I wouldn't want to go so far out on a limb as to actually actually suggest it was a "Da" though. This reminds me of the theorem of entropy that states that if the entire universe was filled with nothing but boiling teakettles, eventually one of them would freeze. -_^

Unfortunately, this little NYeT gem doesn't quite address the chem/bio focus of the current post. I'm trying to hope it does but events in Jordan haven't provided much in the way of assurance...

Unilateral, Un-Democratic Bush?

How inconvenient for the BusHitler crew:

Eventually, officials say, the United States would like to see the caucus shape policy not just in the Human Rights Commission but throughout the U.N. system. As of now, that seems ambitious. Getting the democracies to coordinate their committee nominations is about as big as anyone is thinking.

But consider the long-term potential. By the time the Community of Democracies becomes strong enough to act coherently inside the U.N., it will also be strong enough to act coherently outside the U.N. It will contain most of the world's countries, including most of the strong ones. It will be unencumbered by the vetoes of tin-pot tyrannies. As it gains confidence and skill, it will attract money and authority. It may sprout an aid budget, a relief program, a peacekeeping arm, perhaps treaty powers.

In other words, the Community of Democracies may begin as a voice within the U.N. but go on to become a competitor to the U.N. Perhaps—one can dream—it may someday be the U.N.'s successor.

"United Nations" is an oxymoron. Democracies and dictatorships are mongoose and cobra, with no real hope of uniting except opportunistically. But a community of democracies—that might just work. It already works in NATO and the E.U. The new community is a fledgling, but many readers of this article may live to see it soar.

Bush -- just like Clinton -- herding us down the road to something suspiciously smelling of world government constituted of democracies? Oh well, at least we can confidently expect multilateral Jimmy Carter to throw a hissy fit that we've left out Castro and the mullahs...