If I Had The Manners Of The MSM ...

... I would spit in their faces. Most notably Eason Jordan's. I am d**ned tired of this relentless slander of the military.

Needless to say I'm behind Hugh all the way. As long as these MSM nutballs keep covering up this story stays near the top of my blog.

Oh, yes. And General Mattis has it nailed. If I saw a brutal thug abuse or kill a woman and I had the power to kill him there wouldn't be as much as a nanosecond's hesitation on my part. And *^^%&* straight I might say it's fun.

Except I'd be too sad at what the hateful bast*rds had done to say that. I'd have tears in my eyes and be pounding the table in righteous indignation that the putrid Eurabians have rained disaster and evil nihilism on the world.

And Eason Jordan longs to be one with them.

I've had enough. I'm going to bed before I say what I really think...

But you didn't want to see it.

The Weekend Devotional

Here's an eye-opener:

Tony Hall is a former Democratic Congressman from Dayton, Ohio, who is now the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations food and agriculture agencies, based in Rome. In his gentle, understated way, he explained how 26 years ago he moved to Washington as a new Member of Congress only to realize how "hollow" he felt.

"I didn't know God," he said, and "I was tired of my ambition."

He shared how he attended a prayer breakfast, heard others describe the process they had gone through to begin a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and how that event set him on a spiritual journey that led him and his wife to become Christians.

Hall urged religious men and women of both parties not to be shy about bringing their faith to the office and letting it be part of who they are in public. He described a trip he took to an Islamic country where he was greeted by the U.S. ambassador at the airport. "Congressman Hall," Hall quoted the unnamed ambassador as saying, "I just want to remind you that you're in a Muslim country. Don't talk about religion, or it could really set back what we're trying to accomplish here." Hall said he just nodded politely. When they arrived at the office of the Muslim leader, Hall says he was asked why he had come to the country. "I would like to be your friend," Hall said. "I would like our countries to be friends. And I would like to invite you to the National Prayer Breakfast, in the name of Jesus." The Muslim leader got very excited. He slapped his knee and, according to Hall, said, "That is remarkable. You have come all this way to be my friend and to talk to me about Jesus. That is wonderful. My mother used to talk to me a lot about Jesus when I was a child. We should talk about Jesus more often." Then the leader turned to the Ambassador and said, "Why don't you talk about Jesus?" The audience howled.

I'll patiently await examples of stories like this appearing in the NYeT. Very. Very. Very. Patiently.

And in fact we all know they'll be reduced to a local rag before it happens. So a local rag they will be...

James strikes again: "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Nietzsche

Tears -- On Kofi's Head

I don't know about you but I got tears in my eyes watching the hug between Mrs. Norwood and Safia al-Souhail. If you were as moved as me you may want to visit this page.

And if you want to know why Kofi Annan is one of the REAL war criminals in this whole mess you might want to check this out. (Hat tip Glenn)

MORE: Projection again.

Strategery In Egypt?

As I perused Hewitt's blog tonight I was struck that W may be so far ahead of the curve that even Hugh doesn't get it. Witness his (well deserved) salute to Lileks early in the post:

George W. Bush added to his many excellent speeches last night, and Lileks is right to note "And hello, Egypt! Welcome to the Axis of Damn Well Better Get Your Act Together!" Sitting in a studio last night listening to various pundits talk on, I wasn't in a hurry to jump in. The president is in complete command of the stage and the Democrats have taken the domestic bait and turned themselves into hoarse shouters of "No! Never!' Reactionaries who must feel as the Republicans of 1933 did -speaking the words of confident comeback, but aware that they are cornered for a generation as a party of obstinate indifference to change, incapable of ideas or innovation.

He then shifts his attention to Jordan Eason's one man Ra^thergate II fiasco. So down along the post appears this with nary a snarky Hugh comment:

"The reality is that we are a US-based news channel, but that doesn't mean we're American in perspective with our international service. In fact the person who oversees all our international outlets is not an American at all, he's British, and we hired him from the BBC several years ago. There are more than fifty nationalities of journalists who work at CNN International producing that service. If we were to move CNN's base to Egypt maybe they'd say we're Egyptian—you have to be based somewhere. It's the people who produce the channel and the people who provide the reporting who are really responsible for it, and those are people from all over the world, the very best journalists and program makers we can find. No matter what CNN International does, as long as CNN's headquarters is in the United States people are going to say, well, it's an American service. But the reality is that it's an international service based in the United States, and we don't make any apologies about that."

There goes W with that strategery again! After us blog monsters drive CNN to Egypt then at last W will have Christianne right where he wants her.

Well, soon after the upcoming American-sponsored democratic elections in Iran, anyway.

And only a few have commented on the interesting little twist that Iraqi exiles (even if they were mostly Baathist thugs) were allowed to vote freely in Syria -- where any local elections are pure farce.

A little food for thought for the Syrian populace, no?

The Finger Of Emerging Democracy

With thanks to Jeremy:



Strangely, the party that claims to be called the "Democrats" don't seem much interested.

That's because they're now all Comma,ists I guess...

Yes, my friends, once more Lurch insists that we have to ... reach out to the French!

Hitch strikes again: "It's an ex-analogy."

Wretchard rocks.

It calms it down and makes me respect you.

Save ELMO!

UPDATE: Even as the mission was secretly under way, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-MA, went before the Senate to call for the immediate withdrawal of 12,000 military action figures from Iraq.

Of Hats and Howard

Oh, brother. Froggy has a field day. Here's a sample:

MR. RUSSERT: Were you in Cambodia Christmas Eve, 1968?

SEN. KERRY: We were right on the border, Tim. What I explained to people and I told this any number of times, did I go into Cambodia on a mission? Yes, I did go into Cambodia on a mission. Was it on that night? No, it was not on that night. But we were right on the Cambodian border that night. We were ambushed there, as a matter of fact. And that is a matter of record, and we went into the rec-- you know, it's part of the Navy records. It's been documented by the other guys who were on my boat. And Steve Gardner, frankly, doesn't know where we were. It wasn't his job, and, you know, he wasn't involved in that. But we did go five miles into Cambodia. It was on another day. I jumbled the two together, but we were five miles into Cambodia. We went up on a mission with CIA agents--I believe they were CIA agents--CIA Special Ops guys. I even have some photographs of it, and I can document it. And it has been documented.

Uh huh.

MR. RUSSERT: And you have a hat that the CIA agent gave you?

SEN. KERRY: I still have the hat that he gave me, and I hope the guy would come out of the woodwork and say, "I'm the guy who went up with John Kerry. We delivered weapons to the Khmer Rouge on the coastline of Cambodia." We went out of Ha Tien, which is right in Vietnam. We went north up into the border. And I have some photographs of that, and that's what we did. So, you know, the two were jumbled together, but we were on the Cambodian border on Christmas Eve, absolutely.

The woodwork of your imagination, bitch. THE KHMER ROUGE WAS A COMMUNIST ORGANIZATION FOUNDED IN 1975. ALTHOUGH I'M SURE THAT YOU WISH YOU COULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO HELP THEM IN 1968, I'M PRETTY SURE THE CIA 'SPEC OPS GUYS' WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SO ENTHUSIASTIC ON ACCOUNT OF THEM BEING GENOCIDAL ENEMIES OF THE US.

MR. RUSSERT: Would you sign Form 180?

SEN. KERRY: Yes, I will. But everything that we put in it, Tim--everything we put in--I mean, everything that was out was a full documentation of all of the medical records, all of the fitness reports. And I'd call on those who have challenged me, let's see their records. I want to see the records of each of those people who have put up a challenge, because some of them have some serious questions in them, and it hasn't been appropriate...

MR. RUSSERT: So they should sign Form 180s for themselves as well?

SEN. KERRY: You bet.

That'll be the day.

Can I remind you of this chronological little analysis also?

As Hugh points out:

Yes, Kerry really did say that.

Dennis Miller looked at me like I had to be wrong when I pointed out that the blogs had begun to chew on John Kerry's assertion Sunday that he had run guns to the Khmer Rouge in late 1968 or early 1969. Miller knows, as does every other sentient being, that the United States wouldn't have been running guns to the communists who later devastated Cambodia, even had this particular group been active along the South Vietnam/Cambodia border in the period mentioned. There is no evidence anywhere that I can find that the United States ever ran weapons to the Cambodian communists, and we wouldn't have been using swift boats to send arms to the neutral government of Prince Sianouk.

I said previously that he's nuttier than a pecan plantation.

Unfortunately, that now seems a vast atrocity of understatement...

Oh, yeah. Did I forget to mention that the Dhimmis have learned the lessons of the last election so very well that they're -- Eeeeeaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! -- on the verge of electing good 'ol level-headed Howard to be the new DNC chair?

I wish them well in the desert. And I finally grok the Dhimmis dogged attachment to those desert watering holes to help illegal immigrants make it -- they're going to be needing them.

For their long wander in the desert wilderness.

Destabilization HO!

And here's an occasion where a simple "me too" suffices...

NYeT.

Iraqi Democracy Today 

How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms; by truth when it is attacked by lies; by democratic faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always and in the final act, by determination and faith." As President Bush has affirmed, freedom is on the march!

Why I call them the NYeT...

Just read Glenn today for the election round-up -- start here and keep scrolling to here. What a great day!

I have tears in my eyes too.