Easter post
Little Green Footballs links to a Washington Post article describing the life of a liberal blogger:
In the angry life of Maryscott O’Connor, the rage begins as soon as she opens her eyes and realizes that her president is still George W. Bush. The sun has yet to rise and her family is asleep, but no matter; as soon as the realization kicks in, O’Connor, 37, is out of bed and heading toward her computer. ... She smokes a cigarette. Should it be about Bush, whom she considers “malevolent,” a “sociopath” and “the Antichrist”? She smokes another cigarette. Should it be about Vice President Cheney, whom she thinks of as “Satan,” or about Karl Rove, “the devil”? ...
“WAKE THE [expletive] UP,” she writes next, and this time, instead of pausing, she keeps going, typing harder and harder on a keyboard that is surrounded by a pack of cigarettes, a dirty ashtray, a can of nonalcoholic beer, an album with photos of her dead father and a taped-up note — staring at her — on which she has scrawled “Why am I/you here?”
LGF says: "It’s amazing how closely this matches my mental image of these lunatics."
In the interests of comparison and contrast I've taken a picture of my own workspace, with the photo of the liberal blogger faintly visible onscreen. The setup isn't much better than the Maryscott O'Connor's. Here's a description of the objects in the picture. One software box of Norton Ghost (yellow carton). One regular phone with handsfree headset. (You can see the Plantronics mike sticking up to the left of the monitor). Nineteen inch screen. Keyboard. Logitech trackball. Video camera. Multiple USB adapters in a spaghetti tangle. Computer headset with microphone. Pencil case with mostly out-of-ink pens and working mechanical pencils. Hairbrush left on the table for no apparent reason. Powerbar. Luxo lamp. Cables leading to router, broadband modems, peripherals. The really important stuff is off camera. Coffee-bean grinder. Coffee plunger. Water heater. And the software in in the computer, which is a handbuilt AMD box with Frankenstein parts I've nicknamed Old Sparky.
It would be interesting to know what setups readers have. Maybe in basements, living rooms, attics, garages. Somehow I think that attitudes aside, most people have a lot in common with Ms. O'Connor.
Happy Easter everybody.
posted by wretchardthecat at 4/16/2006 05:01:00 PM
181 Comments:
Currently two computers in the family room connected via a router; when the two older kids get home from college we'll have three down here, and one upstairs in the dining room.
Wretchard, trying to change the topic?
Liberal no doubt a Greenie in her own mind, yet right-wing reactionary Wretchard is the one with the Power-Saving Monitor.
Luckily, she can't afford a Gulfstream.
Here's my current setup for blogging from the Garage.
(No power saving monitor here!)
Somnambulist,
Interesting link. Many of the comments at LGF express amazement at the level of hostility certain people have for GWB. It's almost incandescent hatred.
My own guess is that if GWB didn't exist he would have to be invented. In fact, GWB always had his historical counterpart. Nixon. Reagan. GWB is simply the latest incarnation of whatever archetype he represents. If I'm right then four years into the future the obsession will be with something else.
Exhelodrvr, it's possible that many readers will have more in common with Ms. O'Connor's furniture than with the lady herself. Which is amazing in a way.
Laptop. 801G network. LOS broadband at 780 mb/s off the watertower in the nearest town 8 mi away. I also have a Treo to get email on or for quick web checks.
I have a very nearly complete set of software tools, documentation sets, a large code base, e-books, and several VMware instances with several O/S on my laptop.
I can work from home on VLDBs for clients around the USA or go into the office. I make extensive electronic notes and keep lists in word and excel and do little handwriting now.
Work space is kitchen table which I share with my wife who finishing her degree. Sometimes its a queen bed or the sofa. House is surrounded by thousands of acres of open pasture and we can see for miles. We don't have TV.
A locked and loaded .243 wssm rifle with a scope is by the bedroom door along with a digital camera.
A half-dozen unread books lie by the bed - including the most recently acquired "Faith and Betrayal" which is quite interesting when juxtaposed against the Muslim Fanaticism of today.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140004135X/sr=8-2/qid=1145233244/ref=sr_1_2/104-2013367-0746346?%5Fencoding=UTF8
ADE,
Watch out for bandwidth thieves. You'd be surprised how far your wireless router throws out a signal. I took a laptop and walked a long ways down the street before it lost the connection. Always enable encryption.
Wretchard - have you ever seen a contested divorce with kids?
That can descend into madness much worse than the hatred for GWB.
FDR was hated on the same level by many as well.
Red River,
I knew a South African with an invincibly sunny disposition who was instantly transformed into an embittered caricature of a man once the subject of his ex-wife and alimony came up. Amazing change.
"I am this close to being one of those muttering people pushing a cart."
Wondering if there's anything I can do to help her finish that journey.
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Anyway. 17 inch Mac G4 Powerbook, with a 12", a G5 desktop, and a Toshiba PC as backups.
Encyclopaedia Britannica and Oxford English Dictionary on bookshelves over writing desk.
Maps of Iran, Iraq, Israel, and Middle East on walls.
American Flag on other wall.
Books. Currently had to fill a duffelbag to capacity and death-march to Powell's new/used books to sell some of my old titles and hopefully forestall power shutoff. Not to worry, you can still hardly see my floor and the couch is entirely invisible. Audre Lorde, Haim Harari, Ghazal Omid, Nechama Leibowitz, Ursula K. LeGuin, Samuel R. Delany, Shakespeare, Feynman, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Alan Dershowitz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Langston Hughes, Borges, William Gaddis, Pat/Patrick Califia, Rita Mae Brown, Jane Austen, Arthur Goldschmidt, Irshad Manji, Bernard Lewis, Rashi, ibn Ezra, Yehuda haLevi, Asimov, Bradbury, Robert Frost, Edwin Arlington Robinson ...
Who says I live alone?
I have a windows 95 machine from 1996, and on a lecturn on the left, a modern $399 Dell laptop as a camera accessory.
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Once a person fixates on Mr Bush as evil incarnate, it becomes very difficult to see Ahmadi-nejhad as who HE truly is, sneering at the west's crippled helplessness, after 27 YEARS of DEMONSTRATED REFUSAL to adhere to internationally-accepted norms of civilized behaviour, including the illegal acquisition of nuclear weapons for the stated purpose of 'wiping Israel off the map!'
Hey, Moonbat! I gotcher "Anti-christ" rightcheer!
My set-up is a Dell laptop and wherever I can get wireless access. If it's in the morning, I have coffee beside me. If it's in the afternoon, water. In the evening, Vodka and Tonic. If I'm really serious, Jack on the Rocks.
Eggplant. Cool!!
Take a gander at VMWare GSX server to get your other O/S to run smoothly within your linux systems.
Eggplant, heh ...
The Anti-Orientalist
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We could do w/o the Anti-Feline Bigotry, Mr. Eggplant.
esp on W the Cats Site!
Happy Easter wretchard. I always enjoy reading your blog.
Bob (the Wilsonizer)
hk vol, great collection! "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is one of my favorite pieces of American religious writing. Hope to have the chance to read Edwards in depth some day.
College student- I live in a small dorm room, and set an aging Dell Inspiron 8500 hooked up to a Sony flatpanel. It sits underneath my bed, next to a few overflowing bookshelves that are sadly filled not with wonderful works of human literature, but drap textbooks I haven't sold back to the school yet.
I can identify with the USB mess- my laptop only has two USB 2.0 ports, and thus I'm connected to two chained hubs to keep everthing going. (Yes, I realize chaining hubs slows down everything ;)...) External harddrive, etc.
Altogether an unimpressive setup, but on that I think works for me. Hopefully in the future I'll be able to write about my MacBook Pro or other new upgrade, but for now, its get through school and get a job.
Hairbrush left on the table for no apparent reason.
You have hair. Fantasic!
[/Dr. Who]
My bedroom set up is an Apple G4 laptop on old TV cart, including an external hard drive and detached webcam. The cart has with shelves on which I store programs. Another cart with scanner and printer. Unopened USB cable and book titled "Teach Yourself Visually HTML." Shelves contain programs and supplies.
Side table with lamp piled with books: The Tiger's Way, Tactics of the Crescent Moon; Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; The Shadows of Power; The Camp of the Saints; The Dawning of a New Dark Age; The Purpose Driven Life; The Legacy of Jihad; John Dewey and the Decline of American Education; Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England; The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades; Those Terrible Middle Ages; Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand; How the World Really Works; Winning the Long War; The Unknown Story of Mao; Eurabia-The Euro-Arab Axis; Albion's Seed.
My faithful Rottweiler bitch is at my side at every step.
I share a wireless routed system with my husband whose setup is in another room.
Happily I have nothing in common with Ms. O'Conner except for her apparent gender.
Happy Easter.
Paul, maybe you could blog your experience with the laptops on Radio Free Vodka .
I like having more than one for recording audio from the net, and etc.
Plus, I still like 95 for some things.
Tired of burning all this expensive electricity with my present set up.
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Didja ever hear "Coyle and Sharp"?
Hilarious:
"Mrs Bessinger has learned to live with misfortune because it's the easiest thing to do."
...or was that Bob and Ray?
Danmeyers,
"Couldn't get past the 1st page on your link... A synopsis would suffice, I think."
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I was thinking maybe you'd do it for us!
Wonder what THAT woman is like, living with a guy that humps Muslim men?
Eggplant: 'meoowww...'
I hear you.
And my setup here is again being threatened by a thunderstorm. Saturday's close lightning FRIED two hard disks, and I just got back up and online Monday, 0730 BKK.
"It LIVES! Igor, it lives!"
"Yeth, Mawthter..."
So I'll see you later, or my Frankenklutz hammer-and-tong aberration desktop here is liable to get whammied yet AGAIN, and that's no kool a tall!
I live alone. Small bungalow in the rear, ham antennas on the roof. 3 PC's networked, & high speed internet. 1 PC for video projects & graphics, one for 3D and related utlities, and an el cheapo PC for email, etc. Laptop I can take to work with a Verizon Wireless card, and a Windows Pocket PC/cellphone also with Verizon Wireless. 1 bookcase with program-related books, 1 bookcase with miscellaneous pubs including some from Ann Coulter. Holder for my 150+ DVD's, 27" Sony HD TV, sofa. Table for my ham radios, and to hold my Canon digicam & camcorder.
The Baron and I now live in Blog Marriage paradise.
We recently went from one desktop computer and a 26.4 dial up to a Wild Blue internet wireless with a router my son came over and installed. Wi fi heaven!
So the Baron uses his desktop in the office and I sit on the bed across the house with a Dell laptop (with a 17 inch screen --heavy sucker) and a small black cat who likes to bat at some of the iamges. She used to lie on top of the big computer and look at it upside down.
All this wonderfulness hasn't necessarily improved the quality of our blog (though guest posts by Fjordman and Mr. Zamp did that) but it sure has produced domestic tranquility.
We get together for meals and gardening and the occasional bicker over whose turn it is to do what...
...but the books? They lean in precarious topples everywhere.
Eastertide greetings to all.
(Wretchard, the word verification for this one end in "cat."
Maybe soon Intel/Apples will run a VMware-like app?
Sure would be nice.
eggplant,
866 meg intel, 512 meg ram, 64meg video,126 gig ide drives, un pc 21 in. monitor, Slackware 10 w/2.6.11.7 kernel. No MS. LILO for multiple kernels main kernel listed above. Rest of the room is 10 lbs of [blank] stuffed into a 5 lb bag. A blivot to be precise.
Kid got the Apple Mini to save juice at home. (13 watts?)
Knows BSD inside and out so is at home there.
Secures the Supercomputer peripheral networks by day.
Decades of study of the ins and outs of applied neurology tells me:
The Great Majority (bell curve plus two standard deviations both sides) of humans have EXCELLENT hardware, but our differences are in our firmware and software.
Language is the software of the human brain, and we can ALL improve our programming...
But having said that, I still assert that some of the Chiroptera lunis freaks, AND their Islamazoid counterparts, have SERIOUSLY mal-programmed their inputs and deranged their own knowing and loving capacities, embracing ignorance and hatred, while calling them knowledge and love!
"usually in these cases no one coherently disagrees with the target of ridicule."
"Should it be about Bush, whom she considers "malevolent," a "sociopath" and "the Antichrist"? She smokes another cigarette. Should it be about Vice President Cheney, whom she thinks of as "Satan," or about Karl Rove, "the devil"? Should it be about the "evil" Republican Party, or the "weaselly, capitulating, self-aggrandizing, self-serving" Democrats, or the Catholic Church, for which she says "I have a special place in my heart . . . a burning, sizzling, putrescent place where the guilty suffer the tortures of the damned"?
Darfur, she finally decides. She will write about Darfur. The shame of it. The culpability of all Americans, including herself, for doing nothing. She will write something so filled with outrage that it will accomplish the one thing above all she wants from her anger: to have an effect.
"Darfur is not hopeless," she begins typing, and pauses.
"Ugh," she says.
"You are not helpless," she continues typing, and pauses again.
"Weak."
She deletes everything and starts over.
"WAKE THE [expletive] UP," she writes next..."
Well, what's the MATTER with you people? Why isn't anyone coherently disagreeing with that?!?
11:13 PM Karridine,
Just like an MD to put down Chiropractors like that!
...and my firmware is doing just fine, thank you!
Lucky the Strikes did not Flash your Bios into Amnesia.
Be sure not to miss USCitizen's LINK .
Very nice!
Gotta get back into playing with pictures.
Disregard if that nik stands for USC.
Although they did graduate Lynn Swan, Pat Hayden, and my dad.
Hey!
USCitizen is the place to go for Immigration Links, SC or not!
Well Done, USC!
A road-warrior w/ a four year old Dell Latitude C610 with 1gb ram (memory is / remains speed and longer battery life), w/ built-in WIFI. I regularly upgrade the built in disks (purchased w/ 40gb, now at 120gb, soon to be 160gb).
I keep two batteries in the machine (besides 5-6 hours of life, makes it a much heftier weapon late at night when walking back to a hotel in big cities, esp. DC).
I've dropped (really launched) the machine from airplane overhead storage three times,. Each time expecting (almost looking forward to) buying a replacement. But the Dell seems to work even better after the abuse. Go figure.
USC links a good Captain's Quarter post on Immigration.
Getting A Head Start On Amnesty
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Cynic's Comment:
The Bush-bots should check out what the Commander in Chief plans with his Security and Prosperity Partnership with Mexico and Canada. I see the creation of a North American version of the EU (which started as a few "free-trade" agreements. There is a Council on Foreign Relations report calling for one effective security perimeter around North America with a common tariff, unhindered cross border traffic and a taxpayer funded bank to rebuild Mexico. Welcome to the North American Community.
We will NEVER see any real security on the border, much less a wall or fence.
Posted by: vinceman
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I just hope we get a new president, or attack across the border before GWB has a chance to give the country away.
Doolz 6:07 AM,
Blame the Birds for your Caffeine Addiction.
Fine!
Fiend.
NOW THEY BLAME US FOR THEIR CRIMINALS! Get this--now Central American countries are angry at the U.S. for its surge of criminal activity.
You see, it's our fault because actually do deport many illegals who committed violent crimes here. Read this amazing piece!.
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LA TIMES CONTINUES PUSH FOR ILLEGALS:
It's almost laughable how "open borders" the Los Angeles Times is in all its coverage of illegal alien issues. Read the latest.
- Laura Ingraham
Mac G4 laptop, wireless that carries signals to both my adjacent houses (no neighbors for a long way so no real worries about bandwidth thievery).
Two large libraries with many hundreds of books: on physics, biology, poetry, Greek and Latin classics, and technical subjects; and ornithology and neurosciences (the only subjects I have anything like an "expertise" in).
Doug,
Yes, Coyle and Sharp were hilarious; I sent for their CD two or three years ago and Coyle's widow (I think it was) sent me a very nice note in the package. I especially like their "In Living Hell" piece.
They worked at a time when people in San Francisco still had a sense of humor. The latter died in the late sixties; I think the "Flower Children" killed it.
Jamie Irons
By the way, reading today's posts it's evident to me that most of you work at a much higher high tech level than I do. I wonder if most right-of-center people are technically quite adept, or if this impression of mine is an artifact of Wretchard's blog?
(FWIW, before 9/11 I was left-of-center.)
Jamie Irons
doolz,
Here we have a "Coqui Frog" Invasion from Puerto Rico.
Evidently makes a horrible racket, trying to eradicate it before it takes over.
(don't have it where I live)
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Control of Coqui Frog in Hawai'i
" Demotivator framed print with pictures of pyramids:
"Achievement: You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination and an endless supply of expendable labor "
Ny Times has a piece on the new craze for Mausoleums in this country.
...can't find it:
Still trying to go to sleep.
Couldn't be Caffeine or Sudafed.
It's the damned Computer!
Doolz:
I think I misplaced my copy, but I really enjoyed 'The Frogs'...
Brek ek brek ek, koax koax...
say the Hyla regilla outside my window and up the canyon this very wet spring morning in Napa Valley...
;-)
Jamie Irons
Wow,
Thanks for the Coyle update Jamie:
Remember Les Crane and Jazzbo Collins?
Les Spoke to the Campus Communists at Beserkley!
...a friend and I went to hear him then left when he did, to the derisive comments of the Commies.
Jamie,
I gotta ask my (Jewish) Cardiologist what he was typing on when I did a stress test:
Had a green monochrome Monitor, and a keyboard from the 80's!
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Most of the newer junk is just time-wasting if you need to get something done!
"The flower children killed it" LOL! Check that, 'sobbing out loud'. Yes, that's it.
doolz,
Someone said Vancouver Island is an unrecognizable multicult shadow of it's former self:
True?
We stayed up off Quadra Island when you could watch the Eagles, Salmon, Loons, etc.
Salmon fed the Eagles, Loons entertained us.
7:06 AM
Not funny, Bud.
SF used to be a hardscrabble Dem Union town.
At least they had Law and Order, Irish Whiskey, and humor.
...and Alioto did a house to house search once to get some vicious perp who will go unnamed, since I caint remember.
Or Sleep.
No, it's not funny--you're right. I liked it best during the Gold Rush, when i was just a kid.
:-)
Age does have it's rewards.
...listening to Hillary,
at a younger age my BP would be sky high.
Ah well.
Actually, I WOULDN'T BE LISTENING to Hillary at a younger age!
Crap.
Gracie Slick, Buckminster Fuller, Stewart Brand (Whole Earth Catalogue). The Age of Aquariums.
We saw Gracie in SF courtesy of Phil Grahm.
(details because I can't remember the "famous" venue where it happened)
...I was in the Army at the time, I believe.
Girlfriend had a neat appartment on 17th not far from ...
(place where the hippies, then the gays moved it)
Jamie would know.
(I would too, with a nites sleep)
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AVALON BALLROOM!
Your Texas Gal is still my favorite tho.
...again the memory fails:
Greatest Song:
"White Rabbit"
Ah, those were the days.
Avalon Ballroom, SI!Plumbing in Dubuque, NO!
Ingraham has some devastating Sound Bytes with Bob Simon:
"People" bragging about killing Israeli Children.
...60 Minutes.
doolz,
But what about my Loons and Multicult questions?
Jeez!
Eight dead in falafel cafe suicide bomb this morning in Tel Aviv. This one isn't Hamas, tho. Nosiree, this one is the other guys, al Fatah. FoxNews running video. Young folks wandering around bloody. Ambulance crews frantic, running to and fro, victim to victim. People, arms outstretched towards the heavens, screaming, shouting. The Death Cult, feeding.
Doolz,
Sure,
Since Victoria has better weather than Hawaii.
...along with Port Angeles in the USA.
I used to know what we called it in Climatology:
20 inches of Rain, I remember.
Love Victoria.
Wife's French Friend does too.
Uh Oh!
Bud 8:03 AM,
Ingraham says we've lost more in Iraq so far in April than all of March?
SHIT!
bragging about killing women & children, that takes real men, doug.
Trouble is they have been both killing and bragging, for decades.
The Israelis now want to release a killer and braggard in echange for a spy. Who'da guessed.
The political news is worse than bad.
Mr Bush has tanked, his Immigration Policy a shambles,
the Iraqi War a quagmire, ten major cities in need of a Summer Security Offensive while Mr al-Jaafari still stands tall.
Social Security is unreformed and no longer mentioned.
Medicare payouts for perscription drugs may hold Florida for the Jeb and the team, but the Program will be bankrupting the Federal's future budgets.
Robert Kaplan of "Imperial Grunt" fame called the Bush Admin incompetent, today.
Dick Morris compared him to Jimmy Carter, today. Second time in two weeks I've seen THAT, Mr Bush compared to Jimmy.
The first time was, as I recall, written by Mark Styen.
Mr Barone believes the Republicans can hold the House in November, barely. Maybe a 5 seat majority.
Oh, and Iran, it's enriching away.
As Mr Steyn said yesterday
Manana is not a policy
"Mr Barone believes the Republicans can hold the House in November, barely. Maybe a 5 seat majority."
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So he doesn't watch Football?
Doesn't know the fate of the Prevent Defense?
Bring on that Lesbian/Italian Professor!
We need some Balls!
(I predicted this, on the morning of 9-11, unfortunately)
...I know, banned from Belmont.
Apple and Tree,
etc
The only thing worse than a stalled DC is a DC going full speed ahead the wrong way.
steve at threatswatch had an item
"UN Commission on Disarmament elects Iran as deputy for Asian nations"
which took, even me, aback.
Read his summary of the Event
Read it yourselves, if you wish.
better would be a DC going in the right direction:
Bring back FDR!
Rat,
"Steve," aka USMC_Ret, no longer posts here.
I will not read.
Not Correct.
stalled is one thing, buddy, but rolling backwards down the hill, the brakes not yet catching...
It's cause for concern, a change of course or perhaps some new crew, is due.
You are saying the steve speaks in selfserving falsehoods, or that since he quit the Club he's persona non grata?
Mr Roggio is no longer affiliated with that site, perhaps another reference by default?
We used to go uphill backwards in a Model A on my Bros friend's Ranch.
Maybe that would work?
Gravity feed gas, ya know.
Bush thinks we run on "Good Vibes."
aka,
"Compassion"
Crap #2
"Bring back FDR!" --what, prop a coffin up behind the POTUS lecturn?
I can see the headlines, "Presidewnt Continues To Have No Comment".
8:32 AM
Wow,
Didn't know that.
Will be sure to check it out.
... and keep in touch w/ "Steve"
Always liked "Steve," made some stupid comment about an EMP post he made, even tho I know nothing about effects of EMP.
...Make lots of stupid comments.
Oh, well.
I was going to post on the rise of emotivism as an effect of German romanticism and irrationalism, and how one can distinguish emotivists online by their fondness for CAPITAL LETTERS and exclamation points!!!, but then I came across Wikipedia's definition of emotivism and realized I had nothing to add:
Emotivists suggest that they [ethical statements] are expressions of emotional response, desire and aversion, approval and disapproval: under this view, the statement "Killing is wrong," for example, can be paraphrased as "Boo to killing!" or "Down with killing and killers!". Statements such as "helping people is good" can be paraphrased as "yay helping people!"
That, my friends, is perfect.
yay, helping people by killing them is wrong!!!
"Boo to killing!"
I CAN DIG THAT!
(after we wipe out the bad guys)
Font styles are extremely expressive. If you don't have 'em, what's left but CAPITALS???? They're inversely effective, though.
Don't forget italic.
Hand built AMD, of course. All the cool kids do it.
http://flickr.com/photos/bmcusick/117800756/
Don't be fooled by the picture. It was not that neat the day before, and sure isn't today either. At the moment:
Coffee mugs (3)
Civilization: Call to Power CDs (2)
Civilization 4 CD
Watch (2)
Cellphone, wallet, keys, etc.
Essay printouts for editing (2)
Tax paperwork
ASUS Motherboard box, which I really need to ship to my Dad since its his and has all his drivers in it.
desert rat, 8:08 AM
"The Israelis now want to release a killer and braggard in echange for a spy. Who'da guessed."
You did, of course!
allen said...
And coming soon to a southwest border town near you,
Palestinians: Tel Aviv Bombing Legitimate
AP - 56 minutes ago
TEL AVIV, Israel - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up outside a fast-food restaurant in a bustling area of Tel Aviv during the Passover holiday Monday, killing eight other people and wounding at least 49 in the deadliest Palestinian attack in more than a year. The Palestinians' new Hamas leaders called the attack a legitimate response to Israeli "aggression." Israel said it held Hamas ultimately responsible ? even though a different militant group, Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility ? and would respond "as necessary."
Of course, we must all remember to respond proportionately, compassionately.
Mətušélaḥ, I'm wishing you well.
buddy larsen, 8:03 AM
"The Death Cult, feeding."
May I say again,
"It is tough being an Arab warrior, quite apart from being an oxymoron. The unfathomable protozoan impotence must be unbearable. Week-in, week-out, the son of Mohammed must endure the ringing harangue of the imam to go forth in the name of Allah and rid the caliphate of the offspring of pigs and monkeys (these would be the dirty, dimwitted, conniving, cunning Jews). Yet, for 48 years, despite the best efforts of Allah and the promises of Gabriel, he and his brothers have been unceremoniously driven from every battlefield by the self-same cowardly, yet vicious, miscreants; invariably reduced to seeking sanctuary behind the skirts of their ululating women and unkempt wailing children. Yes, the life of the proud Arab warrior is tough. One can readily appreciate the sympathy of the good Doctor and her Department of State."
I made some comments and posted pictures from my current and old blogging environment here. My stuff has always been a lot less cluttered.
Certainly no red wine without a good 120oz cowboy ribeye ... at 0630 hours.
Ms. O'Connor smokes. That suggests she'll die a lot sooner than I will.
I wonder what's going to happen when enemies of outfits like Hamas cross the same moral boundaries they do. If Hamas thinks attacking civilians is legitimate, what would happen if neigborhoods voting for Hamas were systematically bombed? Or Hamas legislators systematically killed?
One essential paradox of the electoral victory for Hamas is that America gains a nuclear deterrent if we are nuked by al-Qaeda. That is, Hamas gave out candy on September 11 to celebrate the genocidal attack. So, an elected Hamas government can be seen to have some presumptive responsibility for any attack against the United States in the future, especially if it is nuclear.
Given that "mutual assured destruction" doesn't work if our enemies desire mushroom clouds, a nuclear attack against us would put us into a bind. Either we would retaliate with nuclear weapons (or their incendiary area bombing equivalents) or we would find our nuclear deterrent broken.
The possibility of nuking Gaza and Nablus should be considered in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States, especially since these targets would (unlike Iran) have the ironical advantage of a terrorist government and a population supporting that terrorist government.
I take Ahmadinejad's statements in favor of destroying Israel at face value. I think he means it (although he seems to be fighting to the last Palestinian so far). I'm not so sure Mr. Ahmadinejad quite realizes that databases exist cataloguing every single radical cleric and mosque preacher, and every member of the Basij. His ruling class is not quite so safe as he would like to think it is.
Alexis,
Prove it!
dan, 12:34 PM
"U.S. Condemns Tel Aviv Bombing"
"It is a despicable act of terror for which there is no excuse or justification," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said."
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/mideast_conflict
Right you are, Mr. McClellan. After you finish with the Palestinians, would you be so kind as to have a talk to the Departments of State and Treasury. Like some generals, they don't seem to be singing with the choir.
On the 7th of April, the Department of State, at the close of business, announced plans to support the "Palestinian people" through extra-governmental channels.
On the 14th of April, the Department of Treasury made a similar, although far more convoluted statement.
It seems that the Bush administration has found a way to support the sponsors of terror (Palestinian voters) without supporting terrorists (the PA Hamas government). Or have I missed something?
yeah Allen, you are missing something. It is something which you abhor many others doing - that is condemning a whole group of people for the actions of a few.
Allen, your "Arab warrior" post reminded of these lines from GK Chesterton's "Lepanto" (about another great Muslim invasion of the West):
They rush in red and purple from the red clouds of the morn,
From the temples where the yellow gods shut up their eyes in scorn;
They rise in green robes roaring
from the green hells of the sea
Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be,
On them the sea-valves cluster and the grey sea-forests curl,
Splashed with a splendid sickness, the sickness of the pearl;
They swell in sapphire smoke out of the blue cracks of the ground,—
They gather and they wonder and give worship to Mahound.
And he saith, "Break up the mountains where the hermit-folk can hide,
And sift the red and silver sands lest bone of saint abide....
ash,
No, I abhor a factual vacuum.
If someone wants to say that in his opinion the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was inexcusably negligent, have at it. If on the other hand, a person says or implies that the attack was a purposeful, wanton act, perpetrated by the government of Israel, then, I expect a high level of proof. When someone says that Israel is responsible for more American deaths than is Iran, well, tell it to the Marines!
As to the Palestinians, Hamas was overwhelmingly elected. Moreover, every poll done of the "Palestinian people" indicates overwhelming support for murder-suicide. Now, are there Palestinians opposed to terrorism, yes, I'll bet there are. But, wars are not fought because of the basic decency of some number of adversary’s populace (Who knows how many kindly grandmas were incinerated in Dresden?) No, wars are fought to defeat the enemy's homicidal tendencies, minority opinion, notwithstanding. If in the process of defeating Hamas, the innocent Palestinians you reference are injured, they will be in my prayers.
Nothing like a tightened definition.
buddy larsen,
Lepanto
Salamis. Those were the days my friend.
dan,
(or have they)
While many EU politicians have the well remarked capacity to lie out of both sides of their mouths at the same time, as I read it, European governments are using the same backdoor tricks as we. The Russians, on the other hand, seem openly supportive to Hamas.
2:18 PM
Torpedo Sandwiches
"On the 7th of April, the Department of State, at the close of business, announced plans to support the "Palestinian people" through extra-governmental channels."
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SO?
We're going to raise the standard of living of Latin American Peasants and Drug Dealers through the channel of the American Working Class tm.
Power to the (other)People!
WSJ Uber Alles!
And he saith, I may be a Hermit, but I ain't no crab.
(Crabby, Yes)
...or, Si!
Crabby, See?
I just finished having my morning movement.
We should treat everybody else like we do the results of an Enema.
Alexis 12:39 PM would be more fun than merely flushing them.
buddy larsen,
Rauch and "Jihad"
No disrespect, but removing jihad from Islam would be the equivalent of removing Sinai from Judaism or Easter from Christianity.
Looking at all the hot spots on a world map, I have the impression that Islam is not on Mr. Rauch's wavelength. Moreover, there does seem some historical correlation between Islamic quiescence and major military defeat; that is, Islam comes to peaceful terms following a "Come to Jesus" meeting.
I think the real enemy we face is a religion. It is not Islam. It is the cult of suicide bombing. Suicide bombing in and of itself has become the real deity of the enemy. Sure, Muslims who lionize suicide bombing may claim to pray to one god, but their principal deity is not Allah, but suicide bombing itself.
Alexis
doolz,
Great response. It was a rhetorical question, of course (since it's hard to coherently disagree with someone who's not coherent to begin with), but great response.
LINCOLN TO A GENERAL
Executive Mansion,
Washington, D.C., January 26, 1863.
Major General Hooker:
General, -- I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appears to me to be sufficient reasons. And yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier, which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable if not an indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. But I think that during General Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong both to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard in such way as to believe it of your recently saying, that both the army and the Government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear the spirit you have aided to infuse into the army of criticizing their commander and withholding confidence from him will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it. And now, beware of rashness! beware of rashness! but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Yours, very truly,
A. Lincoln.
shoshanna,
Agreed
Gen. Hooker, of course, replaced Gen. Burnside after B generaled against Lee's great victory at Fredericksburg. Gen. Hooker then generaled the Union during the following showdown, Lee and Jackson's greatest victory, Chancellorsville.
I and mat, believe the Israelis attacked the USS Liberty, deliberately.
He said it was justified.
That the US was spying on Israel, from International waters.
Read the whole thread.
The Israeli Government said the USS Liberty was misidentified as an Egyptian frieghter, flying the Stars and Stripes.
The Israelis made repeated attacks against the USS Liberty, while flying the Stars & Stripes.
You never, allen, posted a link to your story line. I have twice. The Citation for the Commanders Medal of Honor is enough for me. Pasted that in yesterday.
You a free to disagree, but apologize for telling the inconvientent truth, never.
The Jewish people seem to carry grudges for millenium, me, I just go back to '67. You see, I believe the crew, not the whitewash.
The Marines in Beirut were killed by Iranian proxies, Hezzbollah, not the Iranian armed forces, just as the Hostages were taken by "students", not representitives of the Government.
That is the way the US told the story, then, I'm stickin' to it, now.
I have no hatred for Jews or Israelis, just an appreciation of history and the strange bedfellows and enemies it produces.
If the US were to attack Iran, preemptively, how many of the Iranian people would turn against US?
People that could be proUS or, more importantly, antiMullah
I VOTED FOR BUSH TWICE
The first time because he was not Al Gore. When his contract came up for renewal, I wanted to let him go, but not to replace him with Mister Mrs. John Heinz, RIP, Kerry (Has there ever been a time in recorded history where a widow hyphenated her new married name with her dead husband?) I have a personal grudge against Kerry and I did not like him and I think he was too cautious to make a good president. There was no question that George Walker Bush would never have been nominated if his name had been George Walker. But nepotism seems to be locked and loaded into the American political system. After 9/11, when I saw the face of George Bush sitting in that kindergarten with Andy Card giving him The News, I got sick, feeling the man was not up to muster. That evaporated when he grabbed the microphone on the tower heap and solidified in my mind when he threw a strike at Yankee Stadium.
NOW I AM NOT SORRY, I AM PROFOUNDLY WORRIED
It is not just Iran, contemptuously double daring the US to do something, nor the hapless chaos in Iraq. It is not Hugo Chavez boldly going where no Latin leader dared since Daniel Ortega, but with mucho petro dinero. It is not China economically occupying both ends of the Panama Canal and linking its future to a global economic link indifferent to US interests. The steady erosion of any US coalition in Europe continues. It was somewhat amusing, but no longer. In Southeast Asia where a stalwart ally Australia is aligning itself as an Asian country, there is not much good news. And Islam, the HIV of religion, continues to spread the infection. It is a smug thug, the KGB G-8 Czar of Transparent Soul remaking a new Russia/Soviet State. I am worried big time. The model is broken. It is not working. It is obvious. Something has to change.
I always keep my Wayfarers on, with the retinal projectors constantly displaying about 20 screens. I use the artificial depth setting to fly among the screen galaxy to drill into areas of interest.
I always have my Brass Knuckles keyboard fidgeting in one hand, usually in my pocket if I'm in public. It's a rounded hex cylinder, with 8-point rockers keys along one side for each finger, and the thumb gyro control key (the joy stick for flying between screens in X-space). It takes a couple of days to learn to type this way, but it's like playing the piano ... you're always happy you can do it.
that is wild, tony.
almost sounds like the science fiction of my youth.
20 screens, that would make my stomach a bit queezy, I'd venture.
Saw on FOX News that the Iraqi Parliment was almost called into Session, but at the last moment the Shia anti Mr Al-Jaafari that had promised to "break away" from the UIA fell back into line.
The leadership of Mr Sistani holding firm?
or fear of Mr al-Sadr's militia?
Mr al-Jaafari remains the UIA's choice, regardless of what others may like or think, at least for a few more days.
Darfur update (instapundit link). Russia and China back the Janjaweed against Britain and USA ?
Tony,
Are you for real?
(in a VR sort of way at least)
If so, I'll have to show my son and he can ask you for particulars to get similarly outfitted.
I'm already nuts, so no need.
for want of a nail, the Nation was lost
It is Worldwide, active & asyemetric.
War or retreat?
Manana, siempre manana.
tenamos basta de eso
There have been sunnier Easters.
(got a page full of censored posts so as not to wear out my welcome at the Bush Booster Club.)
OK,
It needs no further wear to qualify.
Andrew C. McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor writes in the National Review about more of those Iraqi documents that are being translated.
He says the docs make the case for a considerable connection between aQ and Saddam.
But the President's Team will not make the case.
It is interesting if a reader needs either proof or validation that there was a connection.
Iraq Is the War on Terror
As the administration stays curiously mum, the evidence that it was right mounts.
Amen,
The Liberty was accidently hit, like Gerald Bull accidently getting a hole in his head. I hate it when you call Israel on something and get branded an anti-semite Jew hating red neck republican bible thumping red state cro magnum something or other. That is one good thing about being English, you can say anything about the queen, the food etc. etc. but there is no English word for being anti-English.
Acting, premptively, against a percieved threat.
That is a Strategic Policy supported by many Posters, here at Belmont.
The Israelis made a strategic choice, that in the "long war" has made little difference in US Support.
The First Crusades of the 21st Century are in full cascade.
Either that or the IDF was made up of incompetent idiots and fools.
That was not the case, then or now.
I have a theory. It was the longest "accidental" attack in the history of US naval history, almost an hour and a half. the theory is the obvious, someone in Israeli intelligence, maybe a rogue, maybe not wanted the Liberty shut down. Shoot first and ask questions later.
2164th,
That's not your problem.
It's just that you don't hang on to the good vibes of the trash heap and the strike long enough.
Stay the course.
Your 5:38, that is.
And I do not want to be-labor the point, but in 1967 from RAF Lakenheath a flight of US Phantom FR's had the stars and bars painted over and were flow to Israel. There was no mis-identifcation there and there was none on The Liberty. Please do not insult the men who are there and common sense. It is what it is.
sorry that was from RAF Bentwaters and NOT from Lakenheath.
and of course the were F4's and not FR's and I blame that on a rather fine Gran Reserva Rioja of which I offer no apologies.
desert rat, 4:09 PM
Yesterday, you made statements that I asked to validate. I suggested use of the U.S. Naval record. You obvioulsy did that. When it did not substantiate you, you then obfuscated by asking me for a citation that would disprove you. That is not how debate works.
When you make a statement in debate, science, or anywhere else where rules are recognized by adults, it your responsibility to prove your facts. You can say, for instance, that Mars is populated by small, red-furred, three legged rodents that eat dirt and crap gold nuggets. If you wish to be believed by serious people, you have to prove what you say. It is not the responsibility of others to disprove you. It is precisely this inability to reason rationally, utilized so effortlessly by so many folks today, that explains the mega-industry of conspiracy theory; any fool can have one, and any number of fools will believe it.
But I waste time. You see, unbeknownst to you, you have answered my objection. You would not know of a so called "white-wash" if you were not also aware of the official naval record, exonorating Israel from purposeful wrong-doing. So come on, just tell the audiance what the report said. I know everyone is on pins and needles, just waiting for you to tell the truth. It will be good for your soul.
Now, you say, "The Jewish people seem to carry grudges for millenium". Wow, and you know this, how? Oh, yeah, just an opinion, right; no need to trouble yourself with facts, right? Well, you haven't yet, so, why start now, right?
If i recall my History Channel, the USA, Russia, UN, et all were furiously trying to stop the war, and UN have given a cease-fire date to which all parties had agreed. The Golan assault was pushed hard and fast to take the objective before the cease-fire. If Liberty was in the way, well, as rat points out, things are as they are. Who knows but what she wasn't stuck out there by the LBJ brain-trust just for either stopping the Golan attack, or proving that US didn't wish it? LBJ was already embroiled in Nam, and starting to skew weird--who the hell will ever know?
Look Churchill ordered the sinking of the French Fleet because he did not want it to fall into the hands of the Nazis. That is war. He made a tough decision and accepted the consequences. Quit trying to twist what happened. It was a call made in the heat of a war for survival. Maybe it was a mistake, maybe not, but US military men died serving their country.
Desert, Doug, so nice to see youse. almost sounds like the science fiction of my youth.
It's not fiction if it's just technology evolution, same as it ever was.
Unlike airplanes, we haven't hit the limit of the human interface yet. The Wayfarers are sci-fi, the X-space view was on the apple web site ten years ago.
As Doug points out, VirtualReality was the Next Big Thing years and years ago. So many years ago that it probably works by now.
3-D navigation of Info, seems only natural. Right?
Wish the Pope would tell us how he really feels.
If only GWB would do that.
But then, it would be a different message whenever it conflicts with the Holy WSJ.
6:06 PM,
But do you REALLY experience it or not???
Wait a minit. Doug asks: 6:06 PM,
But do you REALLY experience it or not???
Is this the Writing / Philosophy class, I forget what time it meets. It's Prof. Wretchard, right?
I thought maybe I had too much wine. I wish to revise and resubmit and have a little more.
2164th, 5:38 PM
I ask the same of you as whit asked of those below.
I asked d'rat for a simple citation. How did that devolve into the rant you laid out? Oh, well, why ask?
"whit said, 5:35 PM
If you know something about the real reason Israel pulled a sneak attack the on US, let's hear it.
Same with you bobal,
But your theory doesn't make sense."
6:06 PM,
But do you REALLY experience it or not???
HELL NO. Do I look like some kinda geek?
Do they have a bartender here? It's getting to be a bit of a dry argument. ... Makes squeaking noises, pointing to his neck, like the Tin Man in need of an oil can....
shorter allen, be more concise, you lost me half way through your rant.
Tried as I might, just could make it to the end.
The second link had the Egyptian freighter story on it, allen.
You did not even look.
It is not up to me to retell the entire tale.
You will still miss the point.
The reaction to the attacks
as well as the length of the anamosity created by them.
That is the moral of this story.
Hell, my Lawyer is Jewish.
Well, Tony's tired of this, but ignoramus that I am, I'm just curious:
Is it agreed the Liberty was flying the flag, or no?
desert rat,
"Hell, my Lawyer is Jewish."
Given your inability to argue rationally, I'd hold on to that lawyer.
Some things can never be settled to the point of removing the emotions from them. The best that can be done is to place the context. The context, and the players. LBJ was an inveterate game-player, and I've always thought of the Liberty incident as somehow flowing from that. Otherwise the communications would've prevented any such incident. You'd think.
Damn Texans!
Good thing Army, Delay, and some of those guys don't excercise their right to carry, what with all the Hatfield and McCoy stuff that's gone on down there:
Quite a bit of blood woulda been let about the time Newt departed.
As it was, B-1 Bob became the first officially confirmed victim of the illegal vote while the internecine stuff carried on.
Now the B..... rotten commie sister's been voted in by the "citizens" of LA.
LBJ reportedly complained that the NY Times buried the Story.
Damned MSM.
Read all the stories and perspectives, allen, believe what you want, don't matter to me.
If what I believe matters to you...
Buddy,
The first time you dinged this meme, I thought it was just me, so I resisted typing ....
Now you harmonize again on the still unheard chord - Tonkin Gulf - this was the mirror chord, the opposite . Tonkin was the key unstruck but heard round the world, Liberty was the key that was struck but stays unheard.
Picking individual notes and chords out of the unending symphonies of war. It's all bad.
None of us are FOR WAR, right? We're all agreed on that. Just discussing how much war is necessary to end war, at least in our particular neighborhood.
Smile when you say that.
What do you BELIEVE to be the answer to my flag question, 'Rat?
If I was a lawyer, I'd call that "determinative" or some such about whether it was an accident or not, apart from all the rest.
Trish,
But according to Gen Conway, once they had begun, they considered it a serious mistake to stop in the middle, right?
Bennet had a Post Link that I remembered reading at the time.
Straight from the horse's mouth.
doug, 6:33 PM
The USS Liberty was, on 8 June 1967, flying the American ensign. It was repeatedly attacked by the armed forces of Israel. The American crew, as always, behaved with conspicuous bravery. These facts were never in question. What is in question is whether the Liberty was purposefully and wantonly attacked by Israel and, if so, according to what motive.
As to the flag, do recall, the American and Israeli experience with Muslim warriors at Fallujah and Jenin, for instance, where "white" flags of surrender were conspicuously displayed and then abandoned, duplicitously. Because a vehicle of any kind has a red cross, red crescent, or another distinguishing mark, when operated by Arab warriors, does not mean that is its purpose.
At the time of the attack, the Israeli air force and army were in the process of destroying an Egyptian army some 15 - 20 miles distant.
The Egyptian navy was believed to be working the area off the Sinai, in 1967.
The USS Liberty was a refitted cargo vessel, purposely maintaining that facade as cover.
The US Navy Sixth Fleet was operating the area. Not Fleet command, not the Egyptians, and not the Israelis were given a heads up about the presence of the USS Liberty.
The government of the United States exonerated Israel from any taint of purposeful wrong-doing.
______________________________________________________________________
___2164th, "hate it when you call Israel on something and get branded an anti-semite Jew hating red neck republican bible thumping red state cro magnum something or other."
Say what? I take it that this statement was given with the same considered forethought as desert rat's, "The Jewish people seem to carry grudges for millennium."
Trish:6:43 … of most direct relevance - was the correspondent on the ground in Fallujah in April 2004 . His reporting from Fallujah infuriated the American military and contributed to the early termination of that campaign."
What abu aardvark doesn't say is that the infuriation of the American military was beside the point. Scared the bejeezus out of the administration, which then decided to abort it.
Wretchard: April, 2004 – Gradually, the Marines will infiltrate Fallujah until the enemy is paralyzed. More than likely the press will interpret these indirect tactics as proof that Americans are afraid to advance or declare that the Marines have been pinned down. Never mind. The job at hand is to win an overwhelming victory at the lowest cost whatever its impact may be on the ratings. It is war, not entertainment.
Operation Valiant Resolve, Fallujah, April 5, 2004
doug,
Sixth Fleet,
Oh, just a little something else think about. Why did not the Fleet scramble to the defense of the USS Liberty?
Although it was not by a long shot the longest naval battle in history, as suggested by 2164th, it was of sufficient duration that fighters could have come to the aid of Liberty in minutes.
Oh, yeah, how silly of me. Of course, now I SEE, Admiral McCain was part of the Jooooish conspiracy that authorized and then "white-washed" the attack.
Allen,
I have no idea what was really going on, I just wonder if it is agreed it was flyng the flag in international waters.
If so, it would seem, something other than an accident happened, regardless of who was culpable for what.
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, September 13, 2004; Page A17
FALLUJAH, Iraq,Sept. 12 --
The outgoing U.S. Marine Corps general in charge of western Iraq said Sunday he opposed a Marine assault on militants in the volatile city of Fallujah in April and the subsequent decision to withdraw from the city and turn over control to a security force of former Iraqi soldiers.
Tony, the note was definitely in the minor key. Trying to point to the Fog of War, in an attempt to harmonize the discord, hoping the clash of symbols will signify a coda.
Tonkin Gulf, ahhhh...the two USN vessels *were* attacked, right? I never doubted it. The sailors, you know.
The Marine assault on Fallujah in April ended abruptly after three days. Conway expressed displeasure at the order he received from Sanchez to cease offensive operations, a decision that culminated in the formation of the Fallujah Brigade.
"When you order elements of a Marine division to attack a city, you really need to understand what the consequences of that are going to be and not perhaps vacillate in the middle of something like that," he said. "Once you commit, you got to stay committed."
Noting that six Marines were killed and six wounded in those first three days, he added: "We were quite happy with the progress of the attack on the city. We thought we were sparing civilian lives everywhere and anywhere that availed itself to us. We thought we were going to be done in a few days. That's the Monday morning quarterbacking
doug, 7:32 PM
Thanks for an imminently sensible response.
This conversation began to devolve with the statement, "Israel & Iran, both have attacked US assets, Israel has the higher direct body count of US dead." 6:57 AM
Is that flag question radioactive, or what?
Didn't see your post, Allen, I was ribbing Buddy.
Allen,
I wondered which one Aristedes might have thought was over the line!
buddy larsen, 7:46 PM
Codetta?
Soda?
doug,
"Aristedes"
This one or that one?
Surely you jest!
I feel just a bit more anxiety about the Mullah's getting Nukes than the Israeli's already having them!
“A U.S. Army tank fired a 120 mm shell at a small white mosque where about 15 insurgents were shooting at the Government Center,
Lt. Col. Stephen M. Neary, commander of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, said it was the fourth time in the past 3 1/2 weeks that insurgents had used the mosque to fire on the government building.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060417/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_060417204935
Muslim warriors are honorable, kind, and true. They would never dream of flying a false ensign.
The Army probably knew there were Journalists in there.
...or stringers, at least.
doug, 8:07 PM
Do you work for the AP or Reuters?
Allen,
I was so busy finding the Conway article, I missed your 7:12 PM post til now.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Roto Rooter.
A cheerleader of sorts.
For those who think the dispute here has lacked civility, check out Michelle Malkin - THE MOONBATS STRIKE BACK.
"You WILL burn in hell you disgusting cunt." - Joe Smith joejoe90211@yahoo.com
"You are a fucking slanty-eyed cunt." - Michael McPherson michaelmc123@comcast.net
But, I am spoiling the fun. Forgive me.
ATTENTION DRIVE-BY MEDIA:
Click here for full audio and transcript to aid in your misquoting, distorting and taking out of context...
Video:
Rush and Rummy
Is Allen some kind of Feminist Sympathizer, or what?
Just when I think politicians cynical, humorless opportunists, one rises to the occasion. Hope springs eternal!
“Meanwhile, French President Jacques Chirac pledged France's support to Israel in a letter of condolences to his Israeli counterpart Monday.
The attack "sparks horror and reprobation," Chirac wrote to President Moshe Katsav, his office said.
"More than ever, our determination to fight terrorism is intact," Chirac wrote. "France is at Israel's side for this new trial."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/706793.html
doug,
"Feminist Sympathizer"
I once watched a girl burn her bra, and am ready to do so again. Onward and upward, sisters!
I hope Chirac means it.
mətušélaḥ & rufus,
Some hard things have been said here. Hard times call for hard men (no snickering allowed, this is serious business).
___Mətušélaḥ You are supposed to help me out. I’m standing here alone. For Christ’s sake, forget you’re a dentist; pick up your hammer and act like a Maccabee. That was wrong, wasn’t it? Get over it; I’m not a politician. You have a moral obligation to help me out, not pout. Show yourself a man; don’t act like the stereotypical Jew.
___Rufus, if you don’t get your surly, red-necked, curmudgeonly rear-end back on over heyah, this Jew boy is going to think that you are no more than a beer swill’n, bayou paddl’n, poon-tang sniff’n cracker; and that’s for Sunday dinner at Momma’s. As a gentleman of the South, you have now been called on out. En Garde, Mutha!
rufus,
Where we left off, for some great maps, look at,
http://www.gregcroft.com/area2indexmap.ivnu
Pay particular attention to, "Reports": Area Index Maps 1 - 4.
But the question is, do you look like your nuts when you blog? If not, then you're quite a bit different from Ms. O'Conner.
Guys, wonderful entertainment. I printed out all the comments. I am going to take them to the coffee shop this coming Sunday for all the guys to read. Should be a fun morning.
I might even save them and come back here next year about this date and time and re-post them for all of us to muse over.
Till then...keep plugging..er..commenting.
Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
Living in a single in a frat house.
Computer on a table with nothing else save the car keys, wallet, and cell phone.
Floor littered with library books, weight training stuff, old papers, and 2 bottles of vodka.
The vodka to make sense of the library books, and entertain the female company. *wink*
Don't feel like uploading a snap of my lab...pretty grim. Bits everywhere. Two old bottle Trinitron 21", a Pentium D tower, one of those $99 Fry's Semprons, an Ultra 2, a 10, a SunFire v250, a SS2; coouple DEC Multias; half a dozen Apples of various vintage. A 15" LCD really only useful for a spare; I need the screen real estate.
Oh, a T41p in my briefcase and I just gave my dad my old T22. Gaming router, cable modem, bla blah blah. Just got a Treo 650 and am beginning to play with Bluetooth, what joy.
Many, many, many bits, spares, drives, cables, chips. Oh, and lots of papers, too many papers. And books, oh, say 30, 40 feet of books.
Anybody need anything?
As for the USS Liberty, it's funny how on the one hand the US government narrative is good enough for whitewashing Iran but comtemptible for putting the issue to rest regarding Israel.
That aside, indeed, what part of "false colors" don't you understand? Should the suicide bombers wrap themselves in American flags on their way to the pizzerias?
Would it be an act of war for Israel to shoot such people? Would it be a declaration of war by the US on Israel if they got through?
But it's great that somebody has a Jewish lawyer. I'm sure the Jewish Green Beret Special Forces medic I heard on the radio the other day has a redneck accountant, now we're all square.
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