Wit or Wisdom

I’m not going to be posting a whole lot over the course of the next couple weeks. My access to the internet is limited, as is my time, which is being spent trying to finish the school year. Hang tight.

Mr. Dingbat-in-Chief, Michael Moore, who evidently never got the memo that in the twenty-first century, we shave and comb our hair, challenged Fred Thompson to a debate.

Ahem… *cough, cough*… I feel the urge to engage in personal assassination punditry towards Mr. Moore. Naw… I’ll just let Mr. Thompson do it.

Now THAT is the kind of politician I like. He just took one of the all-time greatest lines of witty teenage comedians, disguised it as a good political point, and used it on the man who deserves it most.

*chuckles*

Mental health institution, Mr. Moore. That’s something you ought to think about.

*chuckles again*

BTW, Moore is idiot of last week.

1. Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
2. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
3. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
4. Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
5. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
6. Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

The American people are callous and unawares. They are not fighting this war. They could care less about keeping radical Islamic fascists from attacking our country. I offer this piece of junk and the subsequent comments as proof that the American people really don’t care.

The sick irony of this is that had these apparently inept terrorists succeeded in pulling off their plot, everyone would have been calling for the President’s head on a platter (as if they aren’t already). Throwing aside the fact that the whole thing was set up by an FBI operative, the fact that there are people willing to do this is sickening. Also, it’s not hard to get a gun and go on a spree, as has been illustrated by the recent VA Tech massacre. If any terrorist decides to do this, everybody’s going to want to know why the Bush administration didn’t stop him.

People such as those that wrote the post I linked to are clearly one of three things: naive, misguided, or unable to handle the truth. I have yet to figure out what it is that so deeply offends them about waging war on those who seek to kill Americans. Perhaps they like being blown into a million pieces, or just a simple gunshot to the head. Do they hate the troops more than they hate the terrorists?

Also, this ridiculous statement that the Bush Administration is acting like they caught Osama Bin Laden (in the comments). Pardon me, but I never heard any such thing or anything of that magnitude for them. I do believe it was the media that talked about this.

All this forces me to wonder if the American people really deserve to be defended in the way that the military and the law enforcement does.

An excellent post by a blog I ran across while surfing tags. It’s actually more of a link. Click the link.

Headlining Drudge tonight…

So, Mr. Mahmoud Ahmenijad, you think you want to play big league nuclear ball, eh? Well, rookie, there are several things to learn.

First of all, rookies are NOT allowed to talk smack. It’s like in the NFL… a rookie talks too much smack to an opposing player… and he’s laying ten yards backwards on his rear end the next play with a headache that his grandchildren will feel. In order to talk smack, you have to have proved it. If it’s your first home run… don’t stand there and watch it. Because you WILL get a rude awakening in the form of a baseball to the head next time you come up to bat.

Secondly, rookies must not backtalk when the commissioner is handing down fines. The fine will only get bigger. And if you EVER, EVER, EVER dare to speak in an insulting manner to a ref, be prepared. Especially if he is old and white. You will be suspended… perhaps indefinitely. This means no playing… for a very long time. Perhaps ever.

Third thing, rookies MUST, ABSOLUTELY MUST be able to sustain their existence (as in, be able to keep themselves alive), in order to play in the bigs. If you can’t… well… you generally end up with a really poor batting average… and that means the end of your career.

Just a few friendly reminders for Mahmoud Ahmenijad, aka Hitler the 2nd.

This alleged murderer wasn’t himself on the night he supposedly committed his crime, at least, according to a witness.

If I looked like that I wouldn’t want to be myself either…

Ann Coulter writes an interesting article on specifically the French, but more generally the free world, and the astounding tendency to vote conservative and pro-America in recent elections. How astounding. Were one to llisten to the Democrats and mass propog… err… media in this country, that person would be led to believe that America is the only country in the world that likes America. Perhaps the opposite is true.

In addition to France’s amazing reversal, Coulter writes about these countries that have changed course:

In Germany, pro-American Angela Merkel crushed the mincing anti-American chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in 2005.

Last year, conservatives swept Canada, making Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper the prime minister. I haven’t loved Canadians this much since the New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard is both the longest-serving Australian prime minister and — by his own account — the most conservative. As The New York Times rooted for his defeat in 2004, claiming Australians were furious with him for his support of the Iraq war, he won a historic third term.

Along with Howard, Bush’s staunchest ally in the war on terrorism has been Britain’s Labor Party leader Tony Blair. He’s about to leave office — only to be replaced by a leader from the even more pro-American Conservative Party.

Funny how often we hear the Democrats and the media claiming that this President has alienated us from the rest of the world. Perhaps the rest of the (former) governments, but not the rest of the people. People still love freedom, and in countries that are moderately free, you can’t hide the fact that America represents freedom and the socialists in power don’t.

Yes, America has alienated some people. But those people are the governments of Russia, China, and just about every Islamic nation on the face of the earth. I’d rather have those alienated. Better to know that your enemy is against you and have him stab you in the belly than to think he is with you and have him stab you in the back.

Perhaps the biggest misconception in America today is that the War on Terror and the War in Iraq (whether you believe they are one and the same or not is not my point) are failing. As I peruse the blogging universe, listen to radio, watch television, and talk to my friends, everyone seems to have a prevailing feeling that the war has failed. Miserably. And that, furthermore, there is nothing that can be done to bring it around. I have even, to certain extents, agreed with that statement. There are some things certainly not right in the country of Iraq. It is not right that there are new suicide attacks every week. It is not right that there are elements in the country, indeed, even in the government, that adhere to radical Islamic rule and law. And it is not right that the borders are so porous that any yahoo from Iran or other surrounding country can come in and blow themselves up to make a point.

However, much of the doom-and-gloom attitude about Iraq is, quite frankly, misguided. Most people either do not know, do not understand, or have simply forgotten, how much progress has been made in not only Iraq, but also the global war on terror. The best of minds seem to be ignoring the good going on in Iraq. Daily, better and better things happen, but are ignored. Take these various things for example:

The country has held MULTIPLE democratic, free elections.
There is now a government in place that has been installed in a peaceful manner when compared to the governments of most of the other countries in the world.
The Iraqi people are finally able to say what they think about the government, indeed, are free to vote against it, without being killed.
Fewer people have been either held captive or died in the last three years than would have under Saddam.
Those who terrorize now must do so under fear of reprisal… whereas before they WERE the reprisal.

And so on and so forth.

Most American people don’t realize that. I often see otherwise rational and smart thinking people say that they are not happy with what has happened in Iraq. Somehow, they find a way to blame the “successes” of those who fight with a death wish on this administration. Many people who like Bush otherwise state that they aren’t a fan of him because he has bungled this war. Why? Why do otherwise level-minded people so often criticize a war that has, by all precedent, been vastly successful.

They’ve been fed a lie. And when you hear a lie enough times, it starts to break you down. You start to believe the lie. You are pushed into blind pessimism, or optimism in other cases, because you hear it so often. The lie that Iraq is a failure has been repeated so often and so loudly by the mainstream media that it has permeated the culture, to the point where even die-hard conservatives, hawks, and the rest of the people who want our nation kept safe, have started believing it.

Put simply: the mission in Iraq has not been a failure at all. Quite the opposite. It has been a profound and drastic success.

Consider with me for a moment not only the huge impact that the war has made on the lives of Iraqis, but the amazing success that it has been in terms of its relation to America. Every prominent free world leader agreed for years and years that Saddam was a threat to security. He is gone. Yet, suddenly, because it is politically unpopular, no one seems to remember that everyone thought he should be gone once upon a time. So, presumably, what everyone agreed was a threat is no longer a threat to anyone but other ghosts. One thing trumpeted by the anti-keeping-us-safe crowd is that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. Well, I’ve linked to stories here before that demonstrate that this is not true. While, admittedly, there were not weapons to the extent that we thought we’d find them, they were still there. And, though these reports are obviously not hyped very much, there were reports of a lot of movement to and from the suspected sites before the war in Iraq. Moving weapons, anybody?

Let’s also consider the casualty count. Just over three thousand. In three years. In EVERY other war the U.S. has fought in, such a casualty count would be a battle, and in most of the major ones, a skirmish. But most definitely NOT an entire war. Also, the percentage of American troops being killed in proportion to not only the total number of troops, but the total number of citizens, is minute compared to any other war. Quite honestly, when viewed through the harsh, yet honest scope of history, this casualty count is nothing. Not to take away from the deaths of those who have given their lives courageously, but these are small numbers indeed. Yet every casualty is treated as though an entire company has been utterly wiped out, and we never hear the comparative stats about how many terrorists died in the fight that killed the soldier.

The ultimate measure of success is this: is America safer, and are others safer. Easily, America is safer. Anybody who claims it is not likely is either misguided, or has a political agenda. The terrorists recently captured illustrate that we are indeed more vigilant, more efficient, and more prepared than ever before. While it is not so easy to answer the question of other peoples being safer, I believe the answer is yes.

The American people have been fed a lie. This lie is preached daily by the news anchors at the major news outlets and hammered home by politicians who have been out of power for a long time. Unfortunately, the American people are partially responsible for having eaten this lie and digested it. There are alternatives, but apparently enough people are not taking advantage of them. So, we, unawares, sit being spoonfed by the people who really only love America because it lets them say whatever they want to say, regardless of how self-serving, hypocritical, and wrong it is.

Iraq has been a success. That’s the truth. Why that truth would bother people, unless they have their own selves to promote over their country, I have no idea.

Nancy Pelosi has now threatened a lawsuit if the President refuses to sign the Iraqi war bill compromise. Pardon me while I have an emergency commercial break to recover my composure due to a sudden and severe onset of a laughing fit.

Seriously… she’s going to SUE!!! OOOHHHHH!!! Look OUT!!! It’s big bad Mrs. Pelosi with her lawyer friends! I quake in my nonexistent little boots.

How ridiculous can you get?