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</img></a><br><br><a href="http://www.prophetofdoom.net/quotes.aspx?g=405" title="''A Religion Of Peace''? BULLSHIT!!!">“Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.” - koran 9:5</a><br><br>YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.comBlogger279125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-12446622373533084162007-07-01T02:51:00.000-04:002007-07-01T04:06:18.397-04:00WOW...I've always thought highly of the blog <a href="http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com">Vanishing American</a>. And that <span style="font-style: italic;">WILL NOT</span> change.<br />VA I've always liked and respected you.<br />As you can see below, <a href="http://americanfreedoms.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html#715734569326474456">I've quoted what I (honestly) thought were ''his'' words</a>.<br />Then I got a surprise, <a href="http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2007/06/question-answered.html">VA <span style="font-style: italic;">is not a man</span>!</a><br />For the record, ''Your Image Here'' <span style="font-style: italic;">IS</span> a man. BTW, the cat in the pic (Sam) is also male.<br />That said, I understand. Like my own psudonym, yours is genderless.<br />VA, I apologize for using male pronouns to refer to you. You never intended to mislead me, and I never intended to offend you...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-84376080121697025662007-06-10T21:00:00.001-04:002007-06-10T21:02:15.265-04:00RAIN ON ME...Thank God it's finally raining...<br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DeLEo318Yec"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DeLEo318Yec" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-7157345693264744562007-06-03T03:02:00.000-04:002007-06-03T05:14:13.042-04:00''Legalization''...I was over at <a href="http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/">Vanishing American</a> and saw this:<blockquote>Of course illegal is bad; that should go without saying. But because illegal is bad, does it automatically follow that the same thing is good as long as it is done legally?<br /><br />There are some countries, notably in Europe, which have to most intents and purposes legalized drugs, the drugs which in our country are illegal. Many in this country, notably many libertarians, and many baby-boomers and Gen X and Y people, say we should make all recreational drugs legal. Suppose we did that. We may, one day, if this country keeps going more and more towards a libertarian/hedonistic society. Would heroin be good for us once it's legal? There are many things which in and of themselves are harmful, regardless of legality. Just making something legal does not automatically remove any harmful aspects of it.</blockquote> His point here was actually about <a href="http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2007/06/finally-somebody-says-it.html#links">the distinction between 'Legal' and 'Illegal' mass immigration</a> (I.E the ''I have no problem with mass immigration so long as it's legal'' train of thought).<br />The subject of ''drug legalization'' came up. I <span style="font-style: italic;">used</span> to be one of those who supported it from the (alcohol) ''Prohibition didn't work'' point of view.<br />What changed my mind is what used to be derided as ''the numbers racket'' (A.K.A. ''<span style="font-style: italic;">bolita</span>'').<br />The term for illegal lotteries about 30-40 years ago. Fast-forward to today and what has happend? ''The numbers racket'' is legal, state-sponsored, available just about everywhere and heavily advertised.<br />And you know what? The harm gambling can and does do has not changed. Just now the State ''gets it's cut of the action''. I know folks that spend <span style="font-style: italic;">at least</span> $100 week after week on ''Lotto''. This is money that could have been used to pay bills or saved for the future <span style="font-style: italic;">BLOWN</span> (and that's the correct term) on ''Lotto''. And while Joe Shmoe might ''win'' relatively small sums here and there overall it's just money that disappears down a rathole.<br />And even when someone wins ''the great jackpot'' <span style="font-style: italic;">they still lose</span>, because the sudden wealth basically destroys them and often their entire families.<br />The other side effect of ''legalized gambling'' is that the same people that would have once decried ''the evils of gambling'' now are either silent about it or worse claim ''it's just fine <span style="font-style: italic;">because it's legal</span>''. I used to listen to ''Dr. Laura'' and used to respect her. One of the things that changed my mind about her was the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/05/05/bennett.gambling/index.html">Bill ''The Book of Virtues'' Bennett's ''gambling scandal''</a> broke out while I was still a regular listener. The very day after the story broke she was on the air to shriek (<span style="font-style: italic;">and she does indeed</span> like to shriek, another aspect of her that I tired of) that Bennett ''wasn't hurting himself or his family, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">what he was doing was legal</span>, and his critics are merely picking on him''. Well ''Dr. Laura'' he <span style="font-style: italic;">DID</span> ''hurt himself'', pretty much since the story came out his credibility as ''Mr. Virtue'' <span style="font-style: italic;">is gone</span> and can never be completely regained:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://cagle.msnbc.com/news/Bennett/main.asp"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXB8Udum_97UJ_f_Vj9E82CQzGDy6vMUSy4-Ee8Bu8npscefHaxanmk5fjvluLDm00O_vdbpm_8yFhOHST3KFChI4fyD2adeG3CS4-iTF98lIfm3uS44JAq-HbsFH1iMmkohii/s400/ramsey.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071748976524931682" border="0" /></a><br />Like it or not, it pretty much says it all.<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Full Disclosure Time:</span> Have I ever been in a casino (''legal'' or otherwise)? No, I can honestly say I never have. Have I ever played ''Lotto''? I'd be lying if I said I never have. I have not participated in any form of gambling (or as it's proponents call it, ''gaming'') in many years. I see it as a waste of my time and money, ''legal'' or not.<br />The rush (no pun intended) to defend <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/limbaugh/101103_limbaugh.html">Limbaugh after he entered rehab for drug abuse</a> (YES, that <span style="font-style: italic;">IS</span> what it was) appalled me. His defenders wanted to preserve the <span style="font-style: italic;">image</span> of him as ''a paragon of morality and virtue'' when IMHO he was merely one of ''the rich and famous'' who had a ''Dr. Feelgood'' to perscribe him all the ''dope'' he wanted. ''Legally'', of course.<br />When it came out that he was likely buying more ''dope'' on the black market because what he was perscribed was not enough to satisfy him, he ''checked into rehab''.<br /><a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/orl-bk-nasaastronaut0507feb05,0,6104316.story?coll=orl-home-headlines">When the recent ''crazy astronaut'' story came out</a>, I said sarcastically in a chatroom:<br />[Your Image Here] Let me guess, she'll blame it on booze, and check into rehab<br />[fellow chatter] Seems to be the trend these days, doesn't it?<br />BTW, it's true. <a href="http://www.askshow.com/">If I were to sign into that chatroom</a> as my real name, no one would know who I was. My psudonym is my name there. The sarcastic comment was of course <a href="http://americanfreedoms.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html#115967898831322209">in reference to the Mark Foley ''scandal''</a> that was <span style="font-style: italic;">one</span> of the reasons we now all use the phrase ''Speaker Pelosi''.<br />The frustration that comes with ''the right'' crashing and burning depresses me...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-91599547789859515592007-06-02T18:26:00.000-04:002007-06-02T18:57:30.468-04:00I'm hanging my head in shame...I voted for him as Govenor of FL <span style="font-style: italic;">TWICE</span>:<blockquote><a href="http://www.redstate.com/stories/featured_stories/jeb_bush_ken_mehlman_illegal_aliens_will_vote_republican">Jeb Bush, Ken Mehlman: Illegal Aliens Will Vote Republican</a></blockquote>Go ahead, click the ''comment'' link and chew me out. <span style="font-style: italic;">I deserve it</span>.<br />When I saw <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118057904673319633.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">this</a> I started crying. I <span style="font-style: italic;">thought</span> I was doing right for my State when I enthusiastically voted for JEB <span style="font-style: italic;">TWICE</span>.<br />I KNOW ''Sorry doesn't feed the bulldog'' but I offer my apologies anyway.<br />I made a mistake <span style="font-style: italic;">twice</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Now that I know I screwed up</span>, I will learn from my mistakes...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-32225287768743443332007-06-02T16:29:00.000-04:002007-06-02T17:51:44.949-04:00''Support the President''? Surely you jest...Quote of the year: (Americans) ''<a href="http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTU5N2YzOTRhYTc4OWFjMzlkMmExYTI5NzZkNzYxZTE="><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">don't want to do what's right for America</span></a>''.<br />If <span style="font-style: italic;">THIS</span> isn't proof of the President's hatred of America. I don't know what to say.<br />We have a President that has SQUANDERD the lives of over 3200 Americans in A FUTILE effort to ''transform'' a Moslim land into ''America II'' <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Wood/patrick22.htm"><span style="font-style: italic;">and is desperately trying to</span></a> <span style="font-style: italic;">RAM</span> 'amnesty' down America's throat!!!<br />You <span style="font-style: italic;">KNEW</span> that was part of his agenda even <span style="font-style: italic;">BEFORE</span> 9/11 didn't you? <a href="http://americanfreedoms.blogspot.com/2006/06/wal-mart-ticked-me-off-part-ii.html">I did</a>.<br />You <span style="font-style: italic;">thought</span> ''<a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/McLean/chip11.htm">Hey, Bush is a conservative, and LOVES America</a>'' when it became clear that in 2000 and 2004 that our choices were between A LIBERAL and another LIBERAL.<br />But Bush is ''a cowboy'' you say. And I say ''And so was Marion Morrison'' (Google that name, see what you get).<br />I see right through his <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007936.html">portrayal</a> </span>of a staunch defender of America. It's gotten so awful <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/28/AR2007052801053.html?hpid=opinionsbox1">that even genuine LIBERALS see him as <span style="font-style: italic;">actually</span> one of their own</a>.<br />''The worst President America ever had'' was how Jimmy Carter described him. I remember his Presidency and how terrible it was. I can only say ''No, <span style="font-style: italic;">SECOND</span> worst, it would take a complete collapse of the US economy to knock you off your throne''.<br />When Hillary Rodham is sworn in as President <a href="http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007933.html">the GOP will take the blame</a>. And rightly so.<br />Watching my country ''crash and burn'' is a terrible thing...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-81909203585284446442007-05-19T15:18:00.001-04:002007-05-19T16:05:46.672-04:00Thought for today...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwVdNzS2DhnxoaRZgbdvrZhPGHOv-wHSnKDDyTHye3fenfveG2Ih1xyNAGetosGNVHcoL-WTf31Az-DwnMws6cm-_hXtJhOpXQJPt7YlPaxMAjm8u_od7woA0LvGJT16EcmOUM/s1600-h/SUMMERS.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwVdNzS2DhnxoaRZgbdvrZhPGHOv-wHSnKDDyTHye3fenfveG2Ih1xyNAGetosGNVHcoL-WTf31Az-DwnMws6cm-_hXtJhOpXQJPt7YlPaxMAjm8u_od7woA0LvGJT16EcmOUM/s400/SUMMERS.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066353451737209682" border="0" /></a><br />And Americans are getting killed and maimed in ''iraq'' for <span style="font-style: italic;">WHAT</span> reason again?<br />We <span style="font-weight: bold;">CAN</span> get ''iraq'' under control. The question is <span style="font-style: italic;">do we have the will to</span>?<br />But we can't just <span style="font-style: italic;">WISH</span> control over ''iraq'', we have to <span style="font-style: italic;">TAKE</span> it. It's the only way ''the surge'' can be effective. We thought the ''iraqis'' <span style="font-style: italic;">could</span> govern themselves, four bitter years of experience have <span style="font-style: italic;">PROVEN</span> that untrue.<br />Yes, I know Vice President Bill Clinton went over to ''iraq'' to wag his finger at 'the iraqi people' and tell them 'to straighten up and fly right'. But it was all speaking loudly and carrying no stick.<br />It's ''crap or get off the pot'' time in ''iraq''. We can either TAKE CONTROL OF IT or take our leave of it and allow 'the iraqi people' to sort out their problems however they choose to...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-7094499213036305752007-05-19T04:37:00.000-04:002007-05-19T06:32:12.627-04:00I guess this makes it official...I now officially begin the YIH FOR PREZ campain. I'm running as a Republican (Why not? Both of my cats are seeking the R nomination as well).<br />Considering that except for <a href="http://www.teamtancredo.com/">Tom Tancredo</a> and <a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/">Ron Paul</a> the current slate are merely wasting oxygen, I figure I might as well jump in too.<br />My (and my cats) platform is:<br />1. Right after I'm sworn in as Prez, I will (as CINC) order ''our troops'' to get off their lazy butts and <span style="font-style: italic;">BEGIN</span> ''the war in iraq''. <span style="font-style: italic;">THEY</span> will have ''benchmarks'' and ''a timetable''. ''Our troops'' will be unleashed <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">to win the war by any means nessessary</span>.<br />Campain slogan; ''Let them FIGHT, let them WIN so they can come home''.<br />2. As ''our troops'' return home their service to America is unfinished. There is a significant number of Moslims in America. Uncle Sam is suffering from constipation, he needs a laxitive:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://saberpoint.blogspot.com/2007/05/muslim-extremists-kick-bums-out.html"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyNPv_agPbj1eV4RglNhgKgRZARKjBonyWidwG8DZuFKqzYpimy-1-D3b-m3ccVhrPP6Vl_Zr2bYX6P3RZ3-44EbVcG1lTxMdHbyTD16o8fdJlLKpP90OmdKXuHSIhTVO57IMX/s400/kickthebastardsout.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066212877457611586" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">There is no such thing as Moslim-Americans</span>. Sura 9:5 of the koran makes that quite plain.<br />3. While ''our troops'' BEGIN ''fighting the war over there'' I will see to it that The US Secret Service arrests, detains, and brings straight to the Oval Office Nihad Awad of CAIR.<br />I'll make a presentation of it, full orchestra and choral group playing and singing ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' <span style="font-weight: bold;">as I personally behead</span> Nihad Awad of CAIR. And Google WILL BE REQUIRED to post the thumbnail and link to the YouTube video...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-89080043665328881582007-05-14T00:08:00.000-04:002007-05-14T00:50:56.835-04:00Yes, I know about ''the hostages''...The solution to this problem is so plain it's not funny. Our Marines should just grab the nearest ''iraqi'' by the hair, lift it up and put the barrel of his sidearm to it's head and say ''OK, where are they?'' if it gives us <span style="font-style: italic;">taqqiya</span> (the moslim obligation to lie to non-moslims), we merely pull the trigger and send that moslim to it's ''allah''.<br />We repeat this procedure until our missing soldiers are found. No matter how many ''iraqis'' have to have 'their ticket (to ''allah'') punched'. We ARE fighting a war in ''iraq'' <span style="font-style: italic;">OR ARE WE NOT</span>?<br />So our Marines have to step over THOUSANDS of dead ''iraqis'' to recover our fellow Americans that those foolish moslims have captured. <a href="http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/dwest.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I don't have a problem with that!!!</span></a><br />It just might convince the moslims that taking Americans hostage <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">might not be a good idea</span>...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-68500297833805359722007-05-13T14:29:00.000-04:002007-05-13T16:43:08.895-04:00Please stop calling it ''a war''...Every time I hear some random lefty call ''iraq'' ''Bush's war of aggression'' I want to vomit. But I also feel nauseous when I hear some Junk Food Conservative™ say ''we need to win this war''.<br />Because I'll put it bluntly, our affairs in ''iraq'' <span style="font-style: italic;">ARE NOT A WAR!!!<br /></span>Frankly, I would like it to be one <a href="http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/dwest.htm"><span style="font-style: italic;">but even the Bush Administration</span></a> doesn't have the stomach for that. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">CAN</span> we win in ''iraq''? To quote <a href="http://americanfreedoms.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_archive.html#114943936293485139">Bush's favourite people; <span style="font-style: italic;">Si se puede!</span> [Yes we can!]</a>.<br />Using Old West stereotypes in regard to the Bush Administration have been popular since before he was elected President the first time and I'll use one now; ''The new Sheriff in town''.<br />Why should we care if the ''iraqi parliment'' <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070503/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq">TAKES A TWO-MONTH VACATION</a> in July? Why should we care what spews from the mouth of Al-Sadr's Tony Snow Al-Maliki? (Al-Maliki is no more the President of ''iraq'' than Tony Snow is the POTUS). LET the ''iraqis'' just screw around, pretending to cooperate with us if it serves their own personal agendas. Why should we even care?<br />We have over 160,000 ''Marshall Matt Dillions'' in ''iraq''. <span style="font-style: italic;">IF WE START</span> treating ''iraq'' as a war <span style="font-style: italic;">where WE IMPOSE law and order</span> on the savage frontier I do indeed believe we can get ''iraq'' under control.<br />And that's the rub, we don't have the stomach <span style="font-style: italic;">to seize control of</span> ''iraq'' and rule it as a harsh despot. We want to continue to live in the fantasyland of ''if we just give them some more time they'll work their problems out''.<br />WHY SHOULD THEY? The way they see it Americans are social workers that they can BS to get whatever they want.<br />It's time for us to give ''iraq'' a deadline to clean up their act <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">OR ELSE</span>. Our only realistic options are <span style="font-style: italic;">IMPOSE law and order upon</span> ''the iraqi people'' or tell them; ''We gave you a chance at freedom and civilization and the vast majority of you just sat there twiddling your thumbs. SO BE IT, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016023.php">keep twiddling your thumbs, deal with life after we leave</a>. And don't come whining to us for help 'cause we're leaving the phone off the hook''...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-53879334190968815102007-05-02T06:04:00.000-04:002007-05-12T11:33:26.407-04:00This should help explain ''Seperationism''...It has been said ''in comedy there is truth''; And this was intended to be dark comedy:<br /><a href="http://www.abum.com/55422/Village-Sniper.html">http://www.abum.com/55422/Village-Sniper.html</a><br />The points this makes are quite plain. You <span style="font-style: italic;">CAN'T</span> ''make friends'' (''win the hearts and minds of'') people <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">THAT ARE ALSO OPENLY STATING AND ACTING</span> as though they are at war with us.<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">UPDATE</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">I KNOW, I KNOW!!!</span> I too was getting sick of that stupid video clip auto-playing whenever this blog was accessed. I haven't been able to post lately due to problems beyond my control. I deleted the code for the video clip and replaced it with it's link.<br />IMHO, this video was a parody of this insane push for ''diversity'' where the locals of this British village were pleased to have this 'croatian sniper' to 'invigorate' their sleepy little hamlet were good. Even when the statements and actions were plainly lethal in their intent.<br />Not unlike those Moslims in London who brazenly hold up signs saying ''behead those who insult islam'' and ''islam will dominate'' or the mexicans who march here shouting ''Si se puede!'' [Yes we can!] when the intent of that statement is ''<span style="font-style: italic;">Yes, we can</span> stay, continue to invade, and take over your country!''...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-20624376882227376172007-04-27T17:12:00.000-04:002007-05-06T17:39:53.594-04:00I don't drink Bush's kool-aid...A while back I was informed of this Powerline post (I'm reproducing it in total to maintain a record of it):<blockquote><a href="http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017215.php">Iraq: A pessimistic assessment </a><br /><br /><br />One of our hometown heroes serving in Iraq has written to provide his assessment of the situation there. He writes by way of preface:<br />It's not pretty but it is reality. My job as a Human Intelligence collector provides me with uncommon situational awareness regarding, not Iraq as a whole, but much of southern Iraq. I meet with chiefs of police, I have been to the Provincial Security meetings, I have questioned terrorists of all stripes, I run sources, and collect the information to put bad guys in jail. I also read a lot of classified reporting from all over the country. What I say I don't say lightly and I say with regret. But as someone who has been separated from my wife, friends, and family for 20 months already (with four months to go thanks to the surge) and as service members continue to lose life and limb I feel that I can no longer hold my tongue.<br />Here is his assessment:<br />We want to succeed in Iraq. Because we want to succeed we continually look for ways and opportunities to contribute. This desire to succeed also spawns an eternal optimism that maybe somehow someway things will get better. Wanting to succeed though is no excuse to ignore reality, and the reality in Iraq is ugly.<br /><br />The Iraqi government and security forces are so thoroughly infiltrated by the Shia militias that you could say that the militias are the government and you would not be far off. Iraqi police in Southern Iraq are not in the fight against the militias at all. Top CF targets walk the streets freely in every city. In most cases police stations are manned by JAM members in police uniforms who actively aid the terrorists. On the rare occasion that a Shia terrorist is actually arrested by an ISF unit, he must be turned over to CF immediately or he will be released by the police or courts.<br /><br />In addition, politicians from the city council to the CoR, if not Maliki himself, make calls and appearances on behalf of the terrorist, often threatening the job (if not the life) of the offending ISF leader with the audacity to actually do his job. Imagine our Congress, and governorships, and police departments staffed with members of the Crips and Bloods. Imagine being a citizen, a victim of or witness to a crime committed by one of these gangs. What would you do? Where would you turn? Ignoring for the moment the systemic corruption, this is the “government” we hope to turn this country over to.<br /><br />The situation on the American side is not much better. The careerists in the Army and DoD have leaned that not taking chances and reporting only good news up the chain are the ways to advance their careers. Just look at General Casey. The army is first and foremost a bureaucracy intent on taking its processes, forms, procedures and top down decision making with it wherever it goes. The Army is not flexible enough or well trained enough to win a counterinsurgency.<br /><br />Then there’s the domestic political situation which I won’t rehash except to say that it’s crippling to the war effort. We’ve been in country over a year and there have been Democratic calls for timetables and withdraws the entire time. Would, should, any rational person bet his life helping CF when you’re expecting them to leave at any time?<br /><br />We have mismanaged Iraq in ways too numerous to list here for four years. In order to succeed on the ground we would have to scrap everything we have done and start over....<br />For more, go to <a href="http://nine-sixteenths.blogspot.com/">Nine-sixteenths</a> and <a href="http://www.findingmytelos.blogspot.com/">Living Intentionally</a>.<br /><br />To comment on this post, go <a href="http://www.plnewsforum.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/17177/">here</a>.<br />Posted by Scott at 07:44 AM</blockquote>Complete with all links in the post intact. I linked nine-sixteenths on my sidebar, and for two weeks it was a fully-functional blog. Then I clicked on it one day and got something I've never seen before, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Blogger's 404 page!</span> Because the Blogger 404 page is such a rare sight, <a href="http://www.geocities.com/newsveiws/404.htm">I've reproduced it here</a>.<br />Blogger has (at this posting) replaced it's 404 page for <a href="http://nine-sixteenths.blogspot.com/">Nine-sixteenths</a> with a <span style="font-style: italic;">very</span> generic-looking ''placeholder'' page. <a href="http://www.geocities.com/newsveiws/nine-sixteenths.htm">I have a copy of that one as well</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.findingmytelos.blogspot.com/">Living Intentionally</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">still</span> 404's. Both were fully-functional blogs from our fellow Americans over in ''iraq'' that suddenly disappeared. I DON'T KNOW WHY they suddenly disappeared, <span style="font-style: italic;">but that is exactly what happened</span>.<br />This is only the beginning of this story (not unlike those early reports that Pat Tillman died fighting the taliban in Afghanistan). Where it leads I do not know, but I will continue to follow it.<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">UPDATE</span>: More actual info about those wonderful ''iraqi people'' that we are fighting any dying for:<blockquote> The problem with the central government I began to describe is that it is dominated by Shia religious parties. Where someone in Anbar doesn’t see the results of that, at least directly, they do see Sunnis who don’t buy into the political process as a result of the Shia domination but that’s a different problem. In Babil Province and across Southern Iraq we see local and provincial governments actually run by JAM <span style="font-weight: bold;">[ED: Joint American Mission]</span> and Badr <span style="font-weight: bold;">[ED: Al-Sadr's Badr brigades. His personal army]</span>. There are 30+ Sadrist CoR members. City and provincial politicians are almost always SCIRI but when they’re not they’re Sadrists. Even when a “neutral” or unaffiliated official such as a police chief is put in place, it is quickly made clear that they will play ball or they and/or their families will be killed.<br /><br /> I don’t think it’s well understood how significant it is that Sadr has 30+ CoR members and (I believe four) governmental ministries. When I said to imagine having Crips and Bloods in the government, I wasn’t kidding. That’s really what it’s like. How can you have JAM death squads killing and displacing Sunnis at the same time there are JAM politicians in the government? How can you have Sadr calling for attacks on Americans while he controls government mistires? How can we tell people to go to the police to report a JAM related crime when JAM controls the police? As an aside, most militia activity is directed against the population in the form of kidnappings, extortion, robberies and old fashioned intimidation.<br /><br /> The situation here is extremely complex and it’s impossible to address fully in anything resembling a brief fashion. Almost every paragraph above could easily spawn at least a page of explanation. I’ll try to respond elsewhere as time permits.<br /><br /> Sincerely,<br /> Mike Honeycutt<br /> a/k/a H<br /><br />Sergeant Honeycutt's observations are consistent with the pessimistic assessment provided by the soldier serving with our hometown heroes in Iraq.</blockquote><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">UPDATE</span>: Now when you click on 'nine-sixteenths' instead of the Blogger 404 page or that NZ rugby 'placeholder' page now Blogger spits out a weird error message:<blockquote><br />We're sorry, but we were unable to complete your request.<br /><br />When reporting this error to Blogger Support or on the Blogger Help Group, please:<br /><br /> * Describe what you were doing when you got this error.<br /> * Provide the following error code and additional information.<br /><br />bX-h1f3s1<br />Additional information<br />uri: /blogin.g<br />host: www.blogger.com<br /><br />This information will help us to track down your specific problem and fix it! We apologize for the inconvenience.<br /></blockquote>This whole situation is getting curiouser and curiouser...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-21590010324411054192007-04-27T04:42:00.000-04:002007-04-27T08:20:26.907-04:00It ''jumped the shark'' long ago...Over at Right Wing Nuthouse Rick Moran posted ''<a href="http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/04/26/did-day-by-day-just-jump-the-shark/#comments">DID “<span style="font-style: italic;">DAY BY DAY</span>” JUST JUMP THE SHARK?</a>'' about a comic strip there that caricatures Hillary Clinton in 'blackface'.<br />And yes, I do have <span style="font-style: italic;">many</span> problems with it:<br />First, I <span style="font-style: italic;">DO</span> tend to ''get technical'' at times. For me it comes with the territory, I know my blogs 'inside and out'. And that is the first thing that bothered me about Rick's post, <a href="http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/">he 'hotlinked' the strip from Chris Muir's site</a>.<br />Chris Muir <a href="http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/week_2007_04_22.php">seems to encourage this as a way to promote ''<span style="font-style: italic;">Day by Day</span>''</a>.<br />I understand this, I have the same arrangement with <a href="http://www.ironictimes.com/">Ironic Times</a>. They allow me to 'hotlink' their ''<a href="http://www.ironictimes.com/museum01.html">banners</a>'' and <a href="http://www.ironictimes.com/">I give them the best ad space available here to promote their website</a>.<br />The problem 'hotlinking' Chris's strip causes is that <a href="http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/042707.jpg">he designed it to change with each new strip he posts</a>. This is the comic strip in question:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3FO_K5_SsPD9-1GEgSTGj1IP9th1Hn4EfO0xEQi1X7BGw4D3E-MEI0nYTUpX0JGmrkPOAYr3trd68pND9cswn46Kysq5cOAaSPv_sp_J2xaRJMxsPj_BXt7eTQXl9CzmLPg-z/s1600-h/Hillary.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3FO_K5_SsPD9-1GEgSTGj1IP9th1Hn4EfO0xEQi1X7BGw4D3E-MEI0nYTUpX0JGmrkPOAYr3trd68pND9cswn46Kysq5cOAaSPv_sp_J2xaRJMxsPj_BXt7eTQXl9CzmLPg-z/s400/Hillary.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058026118135196834" border="0" /></a><br />I saved a copy of it as a file and uploaded it to Blogger. This can also be done with other blog servers. This prevents it from changing.<br />When I was made aware of this kerfuffle <span style="font-weight: bold;">THIS</span> is what I saw:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE1dbMfUvE5KHmBhyphenhyphenLLYi6iW_gE_krdShIk-hToSubT5paMXnKXDjngUT_IW7u6beY4jfZ60eVNfJ4yItt6pfV3oXwkxtZfArbtQ5i0GGR6U5toRokewievbaVQBAM-epo9YeL/s1600-h/Sleeze.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE1dbMfUvE5KHmBhyphenhyphenLLYi6iW_gE_krdShIk-hToSubT5paMXnKXDjngUT_IW7u6beY4jfZ60eVNfJ4yItt6pfV3oXwkxtZfArbtQ5i0GGR6U5toRokewievbaVQBAM-epo9YeL/s400/Sleeze.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058026680775912626" border="0" /></a><br />Second, this has become WHY I <span style="font-style: italic;">don't</span> support ''<span style="font-style: italic;">Day by Day</span>''. <span style="font-weight: bold;">IT'S SLEAZY</span>. It jumps into cheap sex jokes readily.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I can actually hear</span> the ''Junk Food Conservatives'' vomiting their nonsense now; ''Duuuh, you won't run <span style="font-style: italic;">Day by Day</span> 'cause it's a right-wing strip''. Which <span style="font-style: italic;">if I wanted to</span> I could easily do.<br />I don't publish a newspaper, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">but even if I did</span> I'd tell him ''WHAT?!?! You want me <span style="font-style: italic;">to run this?</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">AND</span> you want to get paid for this? Forget it.''<br />I <span style="font-style: italic;">might</span> run the strip on one of my blogs. <span style="font-style: italic;">IF</span> I can be bothered to do it. But I'm in no hurry to help. But I could consider SELLING him <a href="http://qwikhitz.blogspot.com/">ad space on QWIK HITZ!</a><br />And last but not least, this absolutely cowardly, craven attitude by Caucasians vis'-a-vis' non-caucasians. <span style="font-style: italic;">A cartoonist for God's sake!</span> If we let the third world dictate what we can and cannot say and can and cannot draw ''the terrorists win''...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-13105074121069088892007-04-22T19:31:00.000-04:002007-04-22T20:54:36.347-04:00Um, Vox...<a href="http://voxday.blogspot.com/">Vox Day</a> recently posted '<a href="http://voxday.blogspot.com/2007/04/bringing-iraq-to-town-near-you.html">Bringing Iraq to a town near you</a>' noting that ''iraqi refugees'' are on their way to America. While <a href="http://washtimes.com/world/20070417-101214-9988r.htm">the Washington Times article he linked to and quoted from is saying the number may likely be 25,000</a> some of us <span style="font-style: italic;">are indeed</span> up to speed on this subject.<br /><a href="http://americanfreedoms.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html#116762500906031212">Such as myself</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=refugees+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Famericanfreedoms.blogspot.com%2F+&btnG=Google+Search">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=refugees+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Famericanfreedoms.blogspot.com%2F+&btnG=Google+Search</a><br />I've literally been blogging extensively on this subject since the beginning of the year. As I mentioned in a comment there I know exactly what this means, the same people that are attacking Americans over there will be brought over <span style="font-style: italic;">to attack Americans over here</span>. I've heard suggestions that ''oh, we'll screen them, we'll vet them''. I know how that will work, the screening process will be to say in broken English ''I want to refugee''. The first 25,000 who do that get a trip to America, complete with welfare, food stamps, medicaid, ect, ect. Not long after they are settled here some of them will begin to construct ''roadside bombs'' to deploy against Americans.<br />Here in America. And when the first IED explodes here IT WILL be our esteemed President's fault. Also sharing the blame will be his tireless cheerleaders <a href="http://www.vdare.com/malkin/index.htm">like the Malkin family</a>.<br />I'm glad Vox is now on the same page, I just wonder what took him so long.<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">UPDATE</span>: Yes, I do know his real name, and if he begins to post <a href="http://voxday.blogspot.com/">to his blog</a> or <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=175">World Net Daily</a> using it I will start referring to him that way. Until then I will continue to use his 'nom de plume'.<br />He was, after all, the guy who dubbed me ''<a href="http://americanfreedoms.blogspot.com/">Your Image Here</a>''...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-61981946266138032722007-04-22T15:43:00.000-04:002007-04-22T17:02:37.889-04:00OJ, not the killer, the beverage...<a href="http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/">Vanishing American</a> has blogged about <a href="http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2007/04/tainted-food.html#links">the current food safety situation</a>. He suggests the 'tainting' my not have been an accident. <a href="http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21276052.shtml">Well, the FDA is concerned that it just might be true</a>.<br />Much of his post is about Orange Juice. He happens to be in luck, one of his regular readers happens to have lived in FL for the past 30 years. That of course, <a href="http://americanfreedoms.blogspot.com/">would be yours truly</a>.<br />To put it bluntly, citrus is not all that viable a business here anymore and hasn't been for years.<br />When <a href="http://www.citrustower.com/main.html">Florida's Citrus Tower</a> opened 50 years ago you could take the elevator to the observation deck and with the exception of the City of Clermont itself all you could see in any direction were Orange groves. This was true 30 years ago as well. If you visit there today however, what you will see in every direction is no longer the tops of Orange trees but the rooftops of tract housing.<br />What happened were a combination of hard freezes in the mid 80's which killed off a large number of Orange trees and the skyrocketing value of FL land. Since then the old citrus farm families found themselves squeezed (no pun intended) between the rising cost to maintain their groves and competition from South America (primarily Brazil, which is where most OJ now comes from). So if that can, bottle or carton of OJ label reads ''from concentrate'' (which is typical) it's likely from Brazil.<br />Those who've stuck it out now grow for the fresh citrus market. That gift box of 'Oranges from Florida' were indeed grown here. If the product is labeled 'From Florida' by state law <span style="font-style: italic;">it has to actually be</span> from Florida. And that law is enforced due to the fact that Florida still prides itself in it's citrus production. Despite the fact that both tourism and real estate development both long ago surpassed citrus as the #1 and #2 businesses here.<br />What were once vast Orange groves now are vast housing developments. Many old citrus families started 'to cash out' and take the large sums that developers were offering for what was once ''cheap Florida land''. Can't even blame 'em, the choice they had was either to eke out a living in the citrus industry or go into a very comfortable retirement on the value of their land.<br />BTW, so far I've been lucky, the dry food I feed Sam has not caused him any health problems.<br />But the idea of ''Cat Food russian roulette'' does indeed piss me off. The idea of playing ''russian roulette'' with food of any kind outrages me.<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">UPDATE</span>: Yeah, a swear word popped up here, and I don't apologize for it. It conveys my feeling in this regard <span style="font-style: italic;">exactly</span>. Any regular reader knows I <span style="font-style: italic;">very seldom</span> swear here...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-11117660192491979302007-04-21T17:44:00.000-04:002007-04-21T18:52:22.259-04:00''The Detroit Madman''...That would be Ted Nugent. A mounted deer head was nicknamed ''Nuge'' by Rush Limbaugh on his TV show (back when he had one).<br />The problem is Ted Nugent is a hardcore libertairian. A true believer in libertarianism.<br />The problem I have with that is the disconnect from reality that libertarianism espouses.<br />Just like communism, it reduces Human Beings to mere 'economic units'.<br />The Achilles heel of communists is Human Nature and that's the Achilles heel of libertainism as well.<br />In both Theologies, (which is what they both are) there is no right or wrong, human existence is reduced to Capitalism 101, purely buy and sell.<br />I use Michael Jackson as a perfect example. The parents of the children that Michael Jackson most likely did 'abuse' saw it as merely a way ''to cash in''.<br />The old joke ''will you 'sleep with me' for a million dollars, OK, will you 'sleep with me' for $20?'' comes to mind. The punchline of course is: ''Well, we already decided that, now we're merely discussing price''.<br />To use myself as an example, for a dollar or a billion dollars I <span style="font-style: italic;">won't </span>'sleep with you'. I'm ''priceless''...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-50507742823131437322007-04-21T01:49:00.000-04:002007-04-21T10:32:40.390-04:00Homecoming....Nothing like coming home to a big red lettered sign that says:<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Peligro</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">!!!<br />No Entre!!!</span><br />The literal translation is:<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Danger!!!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">No Enter!!!</span><br />Complete with the skull and crossbones symbol.<br />Not to worry, I can read both English and Spanish.<br />The company that fumigated my home did a very professional job. Just like 2003 I waited until I was given the OK to trip the main.<br />Gotta give Dr. Andrix's staff credit, Sam and Whitey got TLC. A bit pricey, but worth it.<br />I had to live in a motel room (the microwave and empty mini fridge were at least useful).<br />I'm glad to be home.YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-78566425166488875172007-04-17T14:41:00.000-04:002007-04-17T15:02:08.442-04:00This one will have to be short...After I post this <a href="http://qwikhitz.blogspot.com/2007/04/in-everyones-life-little-rain-must-fall.html">I will be away from my computer for a few days</a>. Feel free to comment but I will not see them or be able to update this until Friday evening.<br />I quite aware of the situation that happened at VTU. Info at this time is rather sketchy but it seems the shooter <a href="http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2007/04/17/update-on-korean-immigrant-gunman/">was a Korean who came to America as a child</a>.<br />While <a href="http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007674.html">it would be easy to go off on a disjointed anti-immigrant rant</a>, I won't.I suspect what we are looking at is another Columbine. An evil, nihilistic piece of garbage who wanted to commit a spectacular suicide. I don't see race or immigration status as particularly important details in this case. East Asians who come to America (especially as children) DO tend to assimilate into modern American culture. ALL aspects of it, good and bad...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-33126705449798832782007-04-12T04:20:00.000-04:002007-04-12T07:17:14.916-04:00I know it's a dead horse...But I can't help beating it. Over at my friend and fellow blogger <a href="http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/">Vanishing American</a>, he wrote <a href="http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2007/04/few-extremists.html#links">an excellent post on ''iraq''</a>. In it he says:<blockquote>My regular readers will have noticed that I seldom -- almost never, really -- blog about Iraq and the war. I find it too frustrating.</blockquote> I stand as witness to the truthfulness of that statement.<br />I know I tend to harp on the subject, as I too find it completely frustrating. There is a mentality among talk radio and it's listeners that claim that anything that's not positive about ''iraq'' is a grand conspiracy between 'the liberal media' and the Democrats ''to destroy Bush'' and ''to betray our troops''. A phrase I continue to use is the old saying ''Do not try to teach a pig to sing, it does not work and it only annoys the pig'' which I believe fits our situation in ''iraq'' perfectly.<br />This false definition of 'victory' in ''iraq'' (a unified, 'westernized' ''iraq'' that is not governed by islam <span style="font-style: italic;"></span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">is at least somewhat</span> pro-American) IS IMPOSSIBLE.<br />It doesn't matter how long ''our troops'' stay there or the effort (and lives and limbs) that are spent trying to ''get the pig to sing'' the pig will not sing. It is a pig, pigs cannot sing.<br /><a href="http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2007/04/few-extremists.html#links">Vanishing American</a> also notes:<blockquote>Stories such as the two linked above, [<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">NOTE</span>: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6537861.stm">this one</a> and <a href="http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=71257">this one</a>] oddly, fail to convince some supporters of the war in Iraq that perhaps it's time to leave the people of that benighted country to their own devices. The usual knee-jerk response is that 'there is good news in Iraq, but the MSM just won't tell us about it.' Incidents like the behavior of the demonstrators in Najaf, pictured above, fail to convince these stubborn people. They insist that the media simply plays up any incident like this, because they want to turn Americans against the war, and against the President.</blockquote>What turned me against this so-called ''war'' is that we plainly cannot ''fix'' the ''iraq'' we have ''broken'' <span style="font-style: italic;">and we will never be able to</span>. There have been many surveys of 'the iraqi people' (outside of the Kurdish region) where anywhere from one-half to two-thirds of ''iraqis'' support attacks on Americans. Just <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">HOW</span> are we going ''to win the hearts and minds'' of these people?<br />One of the arguments of leaving ''iraq'' is ''<a href="http://nine-sixteenths.blogspot.com/2007/04/on-off-chance-that-i-get-any-repeat.html">but it will be a bloodbath there IF we do</a>''. My response to that argument is ''Please use the correct word, it's not <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">IF</span> but <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">WHEN</span>''.<br />The D's want us out <span style="font-style: italic;">before</span> Bush's second term ends and the R's want us out <span style="font-style: italic;">after</span> Bush leaves office. BOTH for purely political reasons. If Hillary (or Obama) is our next President the D's get blamed ''for losing iraq'' and if one of the many Bob Dole clones is our next President HE will be blamed ''for losing faith in the Bush doctrine''.<br /><a href="http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2006/08/20/iraq-quit-or-commit/">On Sept. 20<sup>th</sup>, 2006 Rick Moran wrote</a>:<blockquote>Yes I can understand why he has not admitted past mistakes and errors. The political climate wouldn’t give him “credit” for doing so. The situation in Iraq has gone far beyond the politics of the moment and now engages the future security of the United States. If he can’t be a man and take the inevitable finger pointing and name calling, then all hope is lost and we should start bringing the troops home now. The whispers in Washington <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">that the President wishes to simply “hang on” in Iraq and leave the denouement to his successor is possibly the most immoral, cynical thing I’ve ever heard</span> – which leads me to believe that it is not true. But it is equally immoral to simply apply more of the same prescriptions to a war that is now clearly out of control. Drastic changes are necessary. And if the President is not willing to apply them whether out of fear of the political consequences to his presidency or the Republican party, then he doesn’t deserve to sit in the big chair.</blockquote>Emphasis mine.<a href="http://rightwingnuthouse.com/"> Rick</a>, I FULLY AGREE. <span style="font-style: italic;">IT IS</span> ''the most immoral, cynical thing I’ve ever heard''. What outrages me is that it's also true. <a href="http://rightwingnuthouse.com/">Rick Moran</a> I'm <span style="font-style: italic;">completely</span> convinced that Bush IS that immoral <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">AND</span> that cynical.<br />I <span style="font-style: italic;">cannot</span> believe the President is SO dense <span style="font-style: italic;">that he cannot understand</span> ''the American people'' ARE OPPOSED to ''comprehensive immigration reform''.<br />Even his talk radio cheerleaders are cynically saying ''I fully support President Bush except for amnesty for illegals''...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-67291661942725243682007-04-08T19:14:00.000-04:002007-04-08T19:45:51.018-04:00Farewell Johnny Hart...Although the <span style="font-style: italic;">Slantinel</span> dropped the strip many years ago (Florida Today still runs it). I've always enjoyed ''B.C.'' by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Hart">Johnny Hart</a>. He passed away today.<br />According to Fox News; <span id="intelliTXT"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,264856,00.html">"He had a stroke," Hart's wife, Bobby, said on Sunday. "He died at his storyboard."</a>. If that doesn't bring tears to your eyes, nothing will.<br />I couldn't find <a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_14_118/ai_74439261">the Easter (April 15) 2001 strip that produced so much controversy</a>, but I did find the Easter (April 8) 2007 one:<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-4f8HOJEme3Ab96tCiJKhc9aAEIvk4HHZ3KVPS4_BXWPTsly9SPY5pyxF-0RUIoV9FeJ1vCz2WDDnSa00ZRAWp7mIo447H6ep5Eo54-6FLgfHDAaaw7ps2gpz6NaeTJ9nDGoZ/s1600-h/3237_image.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-4f8HOJEme3Ab96tCiJKhc9aAEIvk4HHZ3KVPS4_BXWPTsly9SPY5pyxF-0RUIoV9FeJ1vCz2WDDnSa00ZRAWp7mIo447H6ep5Eo54-6FLgfHDAaaw7ps2gpz6NaeTJ9nDGoZ/s400/3237_image.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051206479863024402" border="0" /></a><br /><span id="intelliTXT">This might be the last. A worthy farewell...<br /><br /></span>YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-35168392170403322752007-04-08T15:59:00.000-04:002007-04-08T16:34:40.721-04:00Mmmm, Hassenpfeffer...Don't tell me that rabbit I caught this morning was - <a href="http://savetoby.com/recipes/1.php">UH OH! Oops, sorry folks</a>!!!<br />No, I don't think it will transcend death. Rabbits generally don't do that. <a href="http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/othrwhtmeat/index.html">Especially when they're in my belly</a> (I'll be punished, I'll likely have nightmares of rabbits bursting out of my abdomen as in the movie <span style="font-style: italic;">Alien</span>).<br />But on a lighter note, <a href="http://americanfreedoms.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_archive.html#114500241459926144">last year's official Easter Bunny</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">has</span> <a href="http://savetoby.com/">been saved</a>!!!<br />I like rabbit, it just seems wrong to eat ham today...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-86842250178638103432007-04-06T12:35:00.000-04:002007-04-08T16:41:56.958-04:00TOM TANCREDO FOR PRESIDENT...I <span style="font-style: italic;">AM</span> endorsing a candidate in '08. Kinda obvious who it is.<br />As I'm writing this I'm listening to puke pukeitt's audio feed via ''townhall.com''. Puke opened up bashing Tancredo even before he put him on the air. Once Puke <a href="http://www.townhall.com/talkradio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=5">put Tancredo ''on the air'' he viciously attacked him</a>. As soon as Tom realized that he was there to be a <span style="font-style: italic;">piñata</span> for Puke he bailed out (quite sensible).<br />Vanishing American suggested that <a href="http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2007/04/tancredo-vs-hewitt.html">Puke Pukeitt deserves the ''Junk Food Conservative'' epithet that I invented</a>. And I don't disagree, but Puke made it clear that he supports treason...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-84271604329028267122007-04-06T03:40:00.000-04:002007-04-06T06:24:53.218-04:00''My you live in interesting times''...I a previous post I mentioned <a href="http://americanfreedoms.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html#2154057676101823618">that someone had noted ''Is Tony Blair a [wimp]?''</a> (I paraphrased due to the fact that I generally don't use that kind of language here).<br />Now I see that <a href="http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/004896.html">it has been suggested that Iran has achieved a victory</a> in the situation over the captured and now released British Naval personnel. Which I agree, they did.<br />That would be like looking over the hands of two poker players and seeing that players ''A'' and ''B '' each have ''no pair, king high'' and ''no pair jack high'' and then looking at player ''I''s hand and seeing ''three 4's, a 10 and a 7''.<br />The proper strategy would be for players ''A'' and ''B'' to either fold or bluff as best as they can. In this hand player ''B'' folded and player ''A'' lamely attempted to bluff. Player ''I'' saw through that attempt to bluff and called. Player ''I'' takes the pot.<br />That is another drawback to having our forces in ''iraq'' in a futile attempt to 'nation-build' it. It presents about 100,000 Americans and thousands of British in a position to be attacked first by Iran's shi'ite proxies (Al-Sadr, the <span style="font-style: italic;">de facto</span> ruler of about 60% of ''iraq'') with the ability to be quickly and easily reinforced with Iranian military if that should be necessary.<br />I've noticed that Iran has had little or nothing to say about our presence in ''iraq''. The reason why is Al-Maliki (the figurehead ''president of iraq'') is merely a puppet of Al-Sadr and Al-Sadr is merely a puppet of Iran's ruling council.<br />Let's say for the sake of argument that Bush had been able to talk Blair into likely sacrificing those 15 Britons in a missile/air strike on Iran. As soon as Iran confirmed the attack came from US/UK forces they would contact Al-Sadr and say ''We would like you to see to it that as many American and British are captured alive as possible, but if you can't capture them alive kill as many as you can''. It wouldn't matter to them ''that CNN helped them'', telescopes and trajectory <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">alone</span> would give them the needed information even faster than CNN could!!!<br />''President'' Al-Maliki will tell Bush what he wants to hear: ''The IDF is doing everything it can to get the situation under control'' while Al-Sadr's Badr Brigades are actively trying to capture or kill as many Americans and British as possible.<br />I do not see the sense in keeping 160,000 Americans so conveniently right where Iran wants them to be.<br /><br />Do I advocate the US/UK as well as the token forces from other countries leave ''iraq''? ABSOLUTELY.<br />Is there ''a timetable for iraq''? Of course there is! Likely February 2009...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-82537096798120152162007-04-01T19:52:00.000-04:002007-04-02T08:45:11.322-04:00APRIL FOOL...I've done this before. I've ''put a new set of clothes'' on <a href="http://americanfreedoms.blogspot.com/">Your Image Here</a> (I've made it look exactly like <a href="http://radiopatriot.blogspot.com/">The Radio Patriots</a>).<br />This ''new set of clothes'' is a bit more ambitious. This is what <a href="http://qwikhitz.blogspot.com/">MY OTHER BLOG</a> looks like. My goal was to make both blogs neither look like one another or how Blogger would like them to look.<br />It worked.<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">UPDATE</span>: April 2, back to normal...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-62316529947290512112007-03-30T17:13:00.000-04:002007-03-30T19:20:21.611-04:00My philosiphy...I hear this again and again ''We (America) have to 'save' ''iraq'', and Afghanistan, and Bosnia, and Somalia, and ''the palistinians'' and Rwanda, and ''Darfur'', and Zimbabwe and the rest of the world so they won't attack us''.<br />But you know what? <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">WE CAN'T 'SAVE' THEM</span>!!!<br />America is NOT ''the world's superhero''. We can't 'save' them from themselves. Yes, I KNOW ''iraq'' is a disaster. And to put it bluntly, we made it that way. But ''iraq'' is a Moslim land (<span style="font-style: italic;">dar-al-islam</span>) and nothing we can do will change that.<br />The only time we had a sensible foreign policy in recent history was Rwanda. We left them alone to settle their issues as they saw fit. We didn't involve America in their problems.<br />The reason was <span style="font-style: italic;">Black Hawk Down</span>, we went to Somalia with the noblest of intentions, ''Stop the violence, stop the bloodshed and feed the starving people''. What happened? American Marines that went there to ''feed the starving people'' were slaughtered and their bodies were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. If we'd interfered in Rwanda it would have been the same result, Americans would have died needlessly and the fighting would have happened anyway.<br /><a href="http://zradio.com/index/events/calendar/?page=wc03032007.htm" title="Even my hometown has ''a stage name'', might as well start using it...">Recently in the park in ''Pleasant Valley'' there were a handful of liberals (scroll down for the entry)</a> who had a ''sing-in'' to ''help the starving people of Zimbabwe''. NO, <span style="font-style: italic;">they weren't</span> ''moonbats'', they had their gathering, sang some folk songs, collected some donations, and even cleaned up after themselves.<br />It was peaceable, good-natured, good intentioned, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1064589.stm">and ultimately a waste of time</a>. Let's say for the sake of argument, most if not all of that cash raised (as a courtesy, I gave 'em a dollar) makes it to Zimbabwe or buys food to be shipped there. Money will wind up in some Zimbabwean government official's bank account or the food will wind up in the bellies of Mugabe's cronies (or sold for quick cash).<br />I can hear the liberals now; ''but, but, those poor people are hurting, <span style="font-style: italic;">they're starving</span>'' and understand that but I know <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">there's not a damn thing we can do about it</span>!<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">WHAT</span>, do we invade Zimbabwe, capture Mugabe, put him on trial and hang him for ''crimes against humanity''? Stop me if you've heard <span style="font-style: italic;">that</span> story before.<br />I'm sick and tired of being seen as ''the world's social worker''. Even Jesus didn't feed the whole world with the loaves and fishes <span style="font-style: italic;">and he was doing an actual miracle</span>!<br />In my opinion the only thing that can be done with ''iraq'' is to tell them ''we gave you a chance, now you're on your own. Welcome your newcomers all of CAIR, 'the flying imams' and your fellow Moslims that won't touch plastic-wrapped bacon with gloves''. And if you want to be ''refugees'' there is Saudi Arabia to the south and Iran to the east. NOT America...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20187073.post-21540576761018236182007-03-29T17:44:00.000-04:002007-03-29T20:38:20.926-04:00Getting to the root of the problem...I came across a comment on a blog that asked the rhetorical question ''Is Tony Blair a wimp?'' (in regards to those British soldiers who were taken hostage by Iran).<br />My response is ''<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">And you thought he wasn't?</span>''. When the Bush administration began pushing 'Get Saddam' (as if Saddam <span style="font-style: italic;">were actively working with al-quida</span> to commit 9/11) they needed <span style="font-style: italic;">another</span> reason to get other nations to join in.<br />So the strategy became: Not ONLY are we doing this because the world is under dire imminent threat from ''Saddam's WMD's'' but we are <span style="font-style: italic;">also</span> ''freeing the iraqi people from Saddam's vicious, tyrannical rule''.<br />And <span style="font-style: italic;">THAT</span> is what brought Labor Party (the British equivalent of the US Democratic Party) PM Blair ''on board'' with 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'.<br />To refresh your memory of March 20, 2003:<blockquote><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030319-17.html">President Bush Addresses the Nation</a><br />The Oval Office<br /><br />10:16 P.M. EST<br /><br /><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030319-17.html">THE PRESIDENT: My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">to free its people</span> and to defend the world from grave danger.</a> </blockquote>Those words above in italics <span style="font-weight: bold;">IS HOW AND WHY</span> 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' played out as it did. That is what <span style="font-style: italic;">we sold</span> to the British, the Italians, the Spaniards, the Polish, the Danish, <span style="font-weight: bold;">and even the Japanese.</span> The post-WWII Japanese Constitution <span style="font-style: italic;">explicitly forbid</span> the deployment of Japanese Military outside of Japan. We encouraged them to change it ''for humanitarian missions'' which is what <span style="font-style: italic;">and why</span> they did.<br />After it was made undeniable (to other than some whiny talk radio hacks) that ''iraq'' <span style="font-style: italic;">DID NOT</span> present any threat to America it became the whining ''but they're poor and helpless so we gotta help them so they don't attack us''.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What does that actually mean?</span> WELFARE for ''iraq'' FOREVER. We've attached ''iraq'' to the US Government teat until <span style="font-style: italic;">at least</span> January 20, 2009. When ''W'' is finally a former President.<br />At THAT is what has really produced MY hatred for the President. ''The Surge'' is to tamp down criticizim of how badly 'Operation Iraq Freedom' has gone.<br />At best, ''the surge'' can be maintained for 24 months. Which is all Bush needs, keep it under the rug until 1/21/09.<br />''Make the NEXT President take the blame''. Bill Clinton taught him well.<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">UPDATE</span>: What do <span style="font-style: italic;">I</span> think of the Democratic House and Senate ''attaching timetables and benchmarks to spending''? It's all they have, and I doubt Bush will veto anything that makes it to his desk (If you think I'm wrong, see that link to 'comments' below? TELL ME WHY).<br />There should be no warning of our exit from ''iraq''. In fact, those American soldiers who have not been assigned passage on board airliners leaving Baghdad MUST BE ORDERED to tell ''iraqis''; ''Not to worry, there will <span style="font-style: italic;">more</span> Americans replacing those who are leaving''.<br />Would that be Americans using taquyya against Moslims? GOOD.<br />Meanwhile, those Moslim cashiers employed by Target that won't even touch plastic-wrapped pork with gloves should be given a new home in ''iraq''. As should ''the flying imams''...YIHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06583574414478646952noreply@blogger.com0