No, no, you don't understand. The left will comfort themselves in those days by telling themselves it was the conservatives fault. That bitter pleasure has nourished them for years here; they will learn to survive on no other sustenance.
Assistant Village Idiot | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 8:45 am | #

Actually, despite all of their talk about ending racism, the Left honestly thinks that if we pulled out the terrorists would be left with nothing but camels and scimitars. For all the talk about how eeeevil AmeriKKKA is, they figure that America will pull some miracle out of its collective ass at the last moment, no matter what the terrorists manage with their camels and scimitars.
R S | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 9:43 am | #

Okay, cue the troll that accuses conservatives of fear mongering in 5 - 4 - 3 - 2...


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The Machine | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 10:03 am | #

Yeah. Beautiful post.

Something oddly familiar about it, though.

http://instaputz.blogspot.com/20...- friedmans.html
Blue Texan | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 10:10 am | #

I can't get over the fact that all this is upside down.
The Inquisition vs Reformation.

Why aren't the liberals supporting the 'Reformers'? A good dose of 'liberal Democracy' is what the middle east needs (human rights, etc.) and they decide not to take sides?
xqqme | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 10:59 am | #

I recall reading a sci-fi short story over thirty-five years ago that had a thinly disguised Muslim zealotry engaging and defeating a technologically superior society. Wish I could find that story again for a re-read.
George | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 11:08 am | #

How will the left feel under the boot? At home, as two sides of the same coin. Those who bite the hand that feeds them will lick the boot that kicks them.
Camus described the Islamofascist side of that coin well, as he lived through it. 'To those who despair of everything, reason cannot provide a faith, only passion can; and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair- humiliation and hatred.'
The effect of generosity?
Tacitus- Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred will be given rather than thanks.
HOFFER- There is sublime thieving in giving. The resentment of the weak does not spring from injustice.....but from the sense of inadequecy and impotence. They feel or generosity as oppression.
For Islamists, the alternative to hating us is hating themselves.
james wilson | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 11:14 am | #

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"Okay, cue the troll that accuses conservatives of fear mongering in 5 - 4 - 3 - 2...


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The Machine | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 10:03 am | #

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Yeah. Beautiful post.

Something oddly familiar about it, though.

http://instaputz.blogspot.com/20...- friedmans.html
Blue Texan | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 10:10 am | #"

(you didn't set that up, did you? It's almost too good to be true.)
ytba | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 11:21 am | #

When I saw the title to your post I thought it was going to be about the Beatles ;>0

Seriously though, It must be nice knowing you have absolutely no shot at winning the White House. What else explains Joe Biden's inelegant comments regarding the President's upcoming veto of the Democrat Defeat Bill?

Being a loser must be quite liberating.




http://www.foxnews.com/story/ 0,2...,269458,00.html
Jack Ryan | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 11:38 am | #

Since the thread to "TALES FROM THE DEM'S LEFTIST CANTINA" (below this article) is closed, I have to relate this anecdote here.

My daughter was less than a year old, and we had heard that when children cry and cry at night one shouldn't encourage that, because they will use it to gain ever more attention. So, being new parents, we followed that sage advice one night. Our daughter cried, and cried, and cried, until after an interminable disruption of our sleep (it was five minutes, if it was one) I broke down and went in to check on her. She had thrown up and was lying in a puddle of vomit, which is about what I felt like at that point. Needless to say, we tossed that bit of wisdom in the circular file.

On the other hand, I think it's very good advice when it comes to Leftists. If in their willful imaturity they make a mess, they should be left to stew in it until they learn it's their responsibility to clean it up. If we keep cleaning up after them, they will never learn.
ytba | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 12:03 pm | #

Yes, The Machine rules!

Blue Texan seems to think that VDH is obligated to declare the war over on 7/31 instead of giving an apparently successful tactic - the "surge" - an extended time period to prove itself. This retro, lock-box/denying-reality "logic" would extend to any other new or changed tactic directed toward victory over Islamofascism, which "surrender over 6 months" is certainly not.

The defeatist/dhimmi-like thought process displayed by the Left is only too apparent. That's their "plan", not only for the wot but also for life itself.
J. Peden | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 12:16 pm | #

It's now reached the point where leftists support the most pathological segments of Islam, while suppressing the reformers. That's what the premature withdrawal from Iraq is about: abandoning the fledgling (small 'd') democrats there who are trying to establish a working government, and opening the door for the jihadists to take over the country to use as a base for their global caliphate.

Frank Gaffney has produced a film for PBS, “Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center,” which encourages reformers to step forward. PBS, bastion of left-wing orthodoxy that it is, refuses to air it because it might offend the terrorist branch of Islam. It's a classic case of political correctness being practiced at the level of cowardice.

http://www.townhall.com/columnis...l& comments=true
GnuCarSmell | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 12:32 pm | #

George,

Wouldn't that be Dune?
R S | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 12:39 pm | #

Scratch that, Dune is hardly a short story. But it has some awfully familiar themes: A primitive society on a planet controlling a very important resource, a charismatic leader leading these primitives to supremacy over an intergalactic empire...
R S | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 12:40 pm | #

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy

http://powerandcontrol.blogspot....cy-in- iraq.html

I Support Democracy In Iraq

or if you are interested in a more animated version:

http://www.classicalvalues.com/ a...rt_democ_2.html

I Support Democracy In Iraq - The Animation
M. Simon | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 12:55 pm | #

Love it, Doc!!
It seems that we have a coalition of
pre-modernists and post-modernists. Their leaders have used demagoguery to
get the masses to stop thinking for themselves/stop taking responsibility for themselves. Both sets of leaders use
hate, victimization, self-pity [etc] to
command their followers. Both sets of leaders are adept at lies, twisting reality, and hypocrisy to keep their masses in a frenzy. Both sets of leaders are committed to the idea that the end justifies the means. Both sets of leaders gain money and power at the expense of their followers.
Both "religions" (Islam & Leftism)
"come from the pit and smell like smoke" because their spiritual origin is satan.
D.C. | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 1:09 pm | #

Since the Palestinian male seems to be limited to self-flagellation and the occasional adulterer stoning as their chief forms of emotional release couldn’t you see it in your hearts to donate a few soccer balls to their cause?

ytba,
So the rumors that the linkmeister was electrocuted in a tragic blogging while bathing accident are false. WTH have you been?
americafirst | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 2:22 pm | #

"ytba,
So the rumors that the linkmeister was electrocuted in a tragic blogging while bathing accident are false. WTH have you been?
americafirst | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 2:22 pm | #"

LOL

Not a chance. I hardly ever take a bath. (I prefer the shower).

I've missed you too, AF. How are your plantings coming along? You know, maybe you can get a contract with Gore's carbon offset company and get payed for installing CO2 purifier units, i.e., plants. Just a thought. Why not bilk the bilker, if you know what I mean.

Regards
ytba | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 2:43 pm | #

I think the root of this is fear. The "left" (broadly-speaking) fears something far, far, far more than "radical islam."

Who have they been engaging without respite in the United States, Canada and western Europe since the close of the second world war?
Simon-Peter Vickers-Buckley | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 2:47 pm | #

ytba,
Do not throw that piece of info in the round file - it will come in handy. One must use judgement, though, and only experience will give you reliable judgement - which even then may be wrong on occasion. Best trick is to learn to spy...use adult skills to check up on offspring to ascertain status of safety...that's a skill that will serve you for the next 20 years. Yeah...that long.
suek | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 3:28 pm | #

Do not mistake fear for cowardice.

The former can be a rational reaction, the latter catastrophic.



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The Machine | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 4:55 pm | #

ytba,
Good. It’s been so wet this spring I didn’t need B1. Tell Al I recycle everything. My compost feeds the rats, I send most of my storm damage up the chimney (except cedar which gets turned into benches). And ask him how to recycle the garden varmints that are starting to eat everything..

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy

Ah, the good old days - when the majority of US citizens might actually get what they wished for without needing to be careful.
americafirst | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 7:25 pm | #

with such polls, always consider the flaws and limitations of the data, which places much doubt on your conclusion.
jamal | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 8:46 pm | #

jamal,

That Arafat sure made out like a bandit, eh?

Uh.. So who do you think is gonna win that Shia vs Sunni feud?

Um.. How bout that Iranian soccer team?
americafirst | Email | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 10:00 pm | #

It's amazing how the left is always so ignorant of history. As an example, most folks think the American Civil War ended on April 9, 1965, when CSA General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to U.S. Grant. However, other CSA ground forces fought on for a few months, and one CSA warship didn't surrender until November 1865.

And even after that, the southern USA wasn't totally pacified. The KKK came into existence, and lynched blacks, among other violent acts.

And of course, during the ACW, the anti-war folks of the day, the "Copperheads" (aptly named, the poisonous snakes they were), by trying so hard to get the North to make peace with the South, actually extended the war as the South fought on in a hopeless cause, hoping that Lincoln might be voted out of office and that a "Peace Democrat" would make peace and leave the South alone. No matter that a "peace" in that situation would have left Southern blacks in slavery.

And now in the 21st Century, we have the same anti-war folks who don't care what happens to the good Iraqis who supported us over there. They wouldn't just be made slaves if we precipitously left Iraq, though--they would be slaughtered on a scale that would make North Vietnam's slaughter of the South Vietnamese look like a picnic.
Garry K | Email | Homepage | 05.04.07 - 9:44 am | #

D.C. makes the bottom line point in the last sentence of the comment.

Garry K exhibits pure Critical Thinking on the subject also.

Der Hilderbeast, on the other hand, makes speeches about "fighting like Harriet Tubman" while conveniently bypassing the fact that Harriet Tubman was -- a Republican.

"Up is down and down is up and cabbages are kings."


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The Machine | Email | Homepage | 05.04.07 - 11:37 am | #

hello, may I leave this url? I think you all may know of this.

http://tinyurl.com/yszdt3

It will give you just about everything Islamic terrorist-wise from 1969 to 2004.

There are a LOT of entries...most I didn't know, many I had forgotten about.
Simon-Peter Vickers-Buckley | Email | Homepage | 05.04.07 - 4:37 pm | #

Skeletor (skimming a Book of Ultimate Evil): This is great! This is fantastic! This is the best Book of Ultimate Evil I've ever read! Why isn't it in paperback?
Alan Kellogg | Email | Homepage | 05.05.07 - 3:15 am | #

suek | 05.03.07 - 3:28 pm |

Thanks for the advice, but whatever we've done right or wrong is done. My daughter is 24 now and my son is turning 20 this month.

But you are correct. There's no substitute for good judgement. The advice was good, it just wasn't age-appropriate for her at the time.

Regards
ytba | Email | Homepage | 05.05.07 - 11:17 pm | #

" . . . ask him [Al Gore] how to recycle the garden varmints that are starting to eat everything." -- AF

Hmmm, careful what you do with them, they may be family.
ytba | Email | Homepage | 05.05.07 - 11:20 pm | #

ytbas true identity?
americafirst | Email | Homepage | 05.06.07 - 5:52 pm | #

(Gore's family, AF)
ytba | Email | Homepage | 05.15.07 - 12:54 pm | #