Sunday, October 31, 2004
The Mighty And Egregious Charles' Yard Sign
{The Mighty & Egregious One's face is blurred as a courtesy, until I'm able to contact him for permission.} Update! The Mighty and Egregious One Wrote: ----------------- Feel free to use my face. As Kim du Toit said, "Apparently, these terrorist assholes are going to target "people who voted for Bush" for their attacks. Here are a few words for this prick on the video: 1. Unlike you, I'm not going to hide my face behind a tea-towel, you cowardly puddle of pus. My pic is up at the top of this page, for easier identification." Regards,Charles -----------------
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Posted By: geekWithA.45  
Whoa There! Hold The Phone!
Powerlines is reporting that MEMRI has identified a MISTRANSLATION of the Osama pleading.
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The tape of Osama bin Laden that was aired on Al-Jazeera(1) on Friday, October 29th included a specific threat to "each U.S. state," designed to influence the outcome of the upcoming election against George W. Bush. The U.S. media in general mistranslated the words "ay wilaya" (which means "each U.S. state")(2) to mean a "country" or "nation" other than the U.S., while in fact the threat was directed specifically at each individual U.S. state. This suggests some knowledge by bin Laden of the U.S. electoral college system. In a section of his speech in which he harshly criticized George W. Bush, bin Laden stated: "Any U.S. state that does not toy with our security automatically guarantees its own security."
The Islamist website Al-Qal'a explained what this sentence meant: "This message was a warning to every U.S. state separately. When he [Osama Bin Laden] said, 'Every state will be determining its own security, and will be responsible for its choice,' it means that any U.S. state that will choose to vote for the white thug Bush as president has chosen to fight us, and we will consider it our enemy, and any state that will vote against Bush has chosen to make peace with us, and we will not characterize it as an enemy. By this characterization, Sheikh Osama wants to drive a wedge in the American body, to weaken it, and he wants to divide the American people itself between enemies of Islam and the Muslims, and those who fight for us, so that he doesn't treat all American people as if they're the same. This letter will have great implications inside the American society, part of which are connected to the American elections, and part of which are connected to what will come after the elections."(3)
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Come on, Pennsy! Let's lure some Jihadis into range!
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
We've been long suspicious...
Of what happened in Paris when Kerry came back, spouting the NVA's 7 point plan for peace.
Well, it looks like he and his crew were getting their marching orders from Hanoi.
Discovered papers:
Hanoi directed Kerry
Recovered Vietnam documents
'smoking gun' researchers claim
Hanoi Approved of Role Played By Anti-War Vets
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The first documentary evidence that Vietnamese communists were directly steering John Kerry's group Vietnam Veterans Against the War has been discovered in a U.S. archive, according to a researcher who spoke with WorldNetDaily.
John Kerry testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971.
One freshly unearthed document, captured by the U.S. from Vietnamese communists in 1971 and later translated, indicates the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese delegations to the Paris peace talks that year were used as the communications link to direct the activities of Kerry and other antiwar activists who attended.
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The Documents
The man.....disgusts....me.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Miscellania
Freedom Rifle
Works perfectly. :) Same rifle, just more evil than before.
There's something about AR types that never fails to get a grin. When I shifted from the rifle to the pistol range, it was pretty much filled up with a dad, his two sons, 3 of their friends, and associated dads, all learning how to shoot .22s. After striking up a conversation, a wicked grin crossed my face, after I learned that Jim was former coast guard.
"Say, I've got an AR in the trunk. What say we make the kids day?"
You can't buy smiles like those.
You just can't.
I do believe I've made yet another batch of devotees of the Evil Black Rifle.
Priceless
Pot of candy sitting on the doorstep: $30
Doggy Costume for Pooky: $25
Ladybug Costume for Boo: $25
Watching kids bounce around the house whacked out of their minds on sugar: Priceless.
Counting Bush/Kerry signs: Free
Realizing Bush signs outnumber Kerry signs 12 to 3: Priceless
Eating Democrat's candy in their foyer, knowing they'd shit their shorts if they knew what was in my pockets: Infinite Bonus Points
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Range Day!
{Bleep} The World. I'm goin' shewtin'. :)
{to the tune of the William Tell Overture, aka the Lone Ranger for you underedumacated gun freaks ;) }
Blastity, blastity, boom! boom! boom!
Blastity, blastity, boom! boom! boom!
Blastity, blastity, boom! boom! boom,
Bababoom,
bababoom ba boom.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Ba! Boom!
Right then, off with me. :)
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Doc's Osama Insights...
are worth reading
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What all of this points to is basically a pitch by OBL to the American electorate that terrorism is not the huge threat that we perceive it to be. He is trying to convince us that a nonviolent solution can be had. With Spain, Al-Qaeda used violence, with America, they are using guile. OBL is trying to calm us down, not threaten us.
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Reading the rest will show you where Doc goes with this.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Swift Geese Veterans For Truth
Put down your drink first.
And thanks to Publicola for tipping me off.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Cronkite Goes Senile In Public.
Here's the Transcript, if ya don't believe me
Basically, Cronkite asserts that we either have to make peace with Osama, or Rove put him up to it.
That's right. Our choices are surrender, or unmask the administration's collusion with Osama, who obligingly provided a story to get the non missing explosives off the front page.
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KING: OK, Walter. What do you make of this?
CRONKITE: Well, I make it out to be initially the reaction that it's a threat to us, that unless we make peace with him, in a sense, we can expect further attacks. He did not say that precisely, but it sounds like that when he says...
KING: The warning.
CRONKITE: What we just heard. So now the question is basically right now, how will this affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing. The advantage to the Republican side is to get rid of, as a principal subject of the campaigns right now, get rid of the whole problem of the al Qaqaa explosive dump. Right now, that, the last couple of days, has, I think, upset the Republican campaign.
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When anyone gets that addled, I'd say it's time to let them retire in peace.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Winning Still Matters...
A timely reminder from Victor Davis Hanson
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So why do the now-surrounded and desperate insurgents in Fallujah think they can prevail, especially after the rout of the Taliban in six weeks and the implementation of a consensual government in less than three years in Afghanistan?
In a word, the jihadists and their fellow-travelers are once again convinced that this time it will be different because the West, and the United States in particular, have neither the patience nor the will to endure their primeval killing of a post-Saddam Iraq.
Beheadings, suicide bombings, mass executions, and improvised explosive devices are not intended to destroy or even defeat the U.S. military. Rather, they are aimed at the taxpaying citizens back home who fuel it. In a globalized world of instant communications, a bin Laden or Zarqawi trusts that most of us would prefer to take out the garbage than watch a blood-curdling video clip of yet another Western hostage kneeling before a half-dozen psychopaths as they begin to saw off his vertebrae. They hope that we the sickened ask, "Why waste our billions and hundreds of lives on such primordial folk?" — wrongly equating 26 million who wish freedom with a few thousand criminals and terrorists.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Friday, October 29, 2004
What Osama Really Wants:
Al Jazeera Transcript
Summary:
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Osama wants us to change out policy.
Osama just wants us to leave his "free people" alone.
He wants us to throw Israel to the wolves stop supporting Israel, and to continue allowing them to create their despotic sharia hellholes where they can continue hatching their plots in the shelter of a state stop oppressing his free people.
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Umm...lemme think about this a minute.
Hmmmm.
No.
I don't think so.
Too bad Osama only read American history back as far as 1982. Perhaps reading up on December 7, 1941 would have served him better than watching the feckless Clinton cave in because Osama's pal Aideed managed to drag a few dead soldiers around the streets of Mogadishu.
Dear Osama:
We're going to find you and kill you. In the process of doing this, we will implement America's root war doctrine: To eliminate the enemy's ability to make war through the use of overwhelming force.
You see Osama, we're not going to leave it up to you. It's no longer your choice. We've already captured and or killed 75% of your key guys, and we'll do the same to any who take their place.
Sure, you might sneak a few commandos onto our shores here and there, but that's OK, we've dealt with commandos before. Heck, you might even achieve your wet dream of lighting off a nuke.
Osama, the cold hearted truth is that we have cities to spare. We'd rather lose a few than give a monsters like you the satisfaction.
We're Americans, and we will not dance to the tune played by every two bit thug who comes along with a gun, a bomb, or a boxcutter.
No deals, fuckhead.
Die.
Sincerely,
America.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Some Quotes:
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“your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.”
-Osama Bin Laden
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Yup. {looks at hands}
Looks like dual .45's, loaded with 230 grain Cor-Bon +P hollow points, and a pocketful of spare mags.
-GeekWithA.45
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As the talking heads on Fox argued about Osama's intent with respect to the election, the truth came out:
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"It doesn't matter whether you're a Republican or a Democrat. They hate us all."
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
OBL Tape From Al-Jazeera @ 4pm!
Tune to Fox (the TV news station), they're on the case.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Shields Up & Stand By.
It's possible...just maybe possible, maybe, that we have confirmation of a Kerry Less Than Honorable Discharge.
Tune in at Swiftvets
and
Powerline
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
I've Been A Lazy, Bad Blogger...
Who's finally gotten around to updating his blogroll, over on the right.
Unlike many bloggers, who neatly alphabetize, or use blogrolling services, I pretty much just punch them into my template by hand, in the order that they strike me.
The blogosphere is full of many fine minds and thoughtful folks, and I'm sure I've missed many who are totally worthy, and for that I do apologize.
I'm reminded somewhat of one of the few Trek conventions I attended, at which Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. Riker) was the speaker. He was a warm, personable, interesting speaker on stage, and one of his anecdotes was a bit of apology.
Approximate Quote From Memory:
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Early on, I was accused by the fans of being standoffish and aloof, because I wasn't making convention appearances. You see, when I took the job, I thought the convention gigs were optional. {laughter}
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{Sidebar: apparently, most of the cast spent most of the first season completely lit, stashing cocktails all over the bridge when the cameras rolled :) }
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Thursday, October 28, 2004
@ 6:30, ABC Will Run The Terrorist Tape...
Wherein they will threaten to run the streets red with blood if we elect Bush.
I'll take this opportunity to remind them that we are not Spain.
We are Americans, and we don't negotiate with terrorists, especially those who seek to meddle in our affairs.
We hunt them down and kill them.
There can be only one.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
More Videos...
Reader Ian, apparently having taken leave of his sanity, is now hosting 3 different versions of Stolen Honor on his site, just for gwa45 Readers.
Here they are!
For those of you with low bandwidth, or limited time, excerpts can be seen here:
Swiftboat and POW Vets United For Truth
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Whoa!
Massad Ayoob: Armed civilians can help fight terrorism
Finally, a respected national figure states the obvious and puts together a supporting case.
Summary:
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Gun up, America. It makes sense, and it's been shown to work.
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Self-reliant people prepare for storms even if there haven’t been any for a while. There hasn’t been a real storm on these shores since 9/11 at this writing, but the storm warnings are clear and urgent.
The Federal government is preparing for the next wave of attacks. So is local law enforcement.
This means that the rest of America needs to prepare for it, too.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Random Musings...
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Drudge's Siren is spinning, the headline reading that the CIA and FBI have authenticated the latest Al-Q tape.
Yawn.
Al-Q's been threatening to top 9/11 ever since, well, 9/12. I do believe that they would truly love to top themselves, and that if they could lay their hands on a pony nuke, they'd use it ASAP. Nonetheless, this tape isn't really news, is it?
Al-Q wants to make American streets run red with blood. Duh. we know that already
The really interesting question, of course, is whether they retain any capability of making good on their promises.
I don't want people to take the wrong message from this, Al-Q remains committed and deadly, but I can't help but think that this tape is more about yapping in the wind in the face of the election than anything else.
Nonetheless, I think I'll be keeping the Freedom Rifle in my trunk for a while. {Note to self: Absolutely, positively DO NOT wander into New Jersey!}
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380 3 tons of explosives.
I've not commented a whole lot on this, but I'll make another grenade analogy. Basically, I'm of the opinion that the whole thing is a big informal collusion of the press {you might have noticed they want Kerry to win} Kerry {who wants to win} and the Internationalists down @ the UN {who want Kerry to win, because they don't like it when they're shown up}
Kerry's internationalist buddies down at the UN provide the press with a firecracker dressed up to look like a grenade, Kerry's gang prepares their roaring, and the press pulls the pin, with an eye towards letting the fuse burn down a bit before they toss it, so it'll blow up in the Bush camp, without a chance to toss it back during the election.
Then, holy cats, all hell breaks loose.
The grenade's got a short fuse, and blows up in the presses' hand. Kerry's boys hear the *pop*, and swing into action, spewing denunciation all over the place.
But it's too early! The press is standing their, shame faced, burnt powder all over their face, and more details begin to emerge:
* The originator of the whole thing had a political axe to grind
* The explosives don't appear to have been there till after we arrived, having been spirited out by Spetznaz to Syria...in full accordance with the parts of the Duelfer report the press loves to ignore
* The explosives weren't nearly as much as what was being talked about and...
* IEDs, for the most part, are McGuyvered out of more pedestrian munitions like artillery shells, anyway.
In short, Kerry and his internationalist pals look like complete morons.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Tritium Sights In Fog...
Farnam notes that tritium sights will give your position away in a thick fog, and I presume smoke as well.
Worth noting.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Talked Briefly With The Gang @ NRA News Yesterday...
They're been busy running amok, prepping for the election. Turns out that they're going to doing live coverage of the whole thing from 8pm 'till the wee hours of the morning, with special emphasis on the various Senatorial races.
The Congressional races typically get under reported by the legacy media during a Presidential election, but in a snoozing SCOTUS environment, they're RKBA critical.
Freedom House will be having an all night election fest for nearby friends and family, complete with media extravaganza involving multiple TVs and WiFi web feeds. Make sure NRA News.com is one of your election night feeds!
(Incidentally, if you know me personally, and are in range, gimme a ring if you're going to make it, so I can gauge how much chow to get.)
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Monday, October 25, 2004
Libertarian Founder Endorses Bush...
For essentially the same reasons I do: this is not the time to fuck around. A Kerry win will catastrophically sabotage our goals, and the Libertarian vote could make the difference.
Here's the Article of Dr. John Hospers open letter, and the letter itself
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"The forthcoming election will determine whether it is the Republicans or the Democrats that win the presidency. That is an undeniable reality. If the election is as close as it was in 2000, libertarian voters may make the difference as to who wins in various critical 'battleground' states and therefore the presidency itself. That is the situation in which we find ourselves in 2004. And that is why I believe voting for George W. Bush is the most libertarian thing we can do.
"We stand today at an important electoral crossroads for the future of liberty, and as libertarians our first priority is to promote liberty and free markets, which is not necessarily the same as to promote the Libertarian Party. This time, if we vote Libertarian, we may win a tiny rhetorical battle, but lose the larger war."
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Author J. Neil Schulman concurs.
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But if you think the President of the United States just might have power that could affect your life sometime in the next four years ; if you take the State seriously as a threat to your freedom -- you might want to consider shooting off a ballot on November 2nd and voting for the president likely to injure you less.
George W. Bush is vastly more protective of libertarian values than the other guy who might be elected to sit in the Oval Office for the next four years.
President Bush is not the best of all libertarian candidates in some theoretical contest where actually having to be president doesn't count, but compared to John F. Kerry, George W. Bush is without question the more libertarian of the two presidents we will end up with.
That's why I'll be voting for him, and I urge you to do so as well.
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Bindinotto points out David N. Mayer's The Libertarian Case for Re-electing President Bush, which is worth reading entire.
I'll skip the 9/11 related bits, and jump to the domestic agenda:
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If the need to keep a steady hand on the wheel of the ship of state during a time of war isn’t enough reason to support George W. Bush this year, further justification can be found in domestic policy, where Bush and the Republicans in Congress offer real differences in public policy, compared to Kerry and the Democrats. In domestic policy, libertarians especially (more than “average” Americans) ought to understand how absurd it is for Democrats to portray themselves as the party of “change,” when in fact they seek to maintain and even to expand the status quo of the 20th-century regulatory/welfare state. As I’ve noted above, although President Bush and the Republicans in Congress fall far short of libertarian ideals, in fact they do propose a number of reforms that would finally begin moving U.S. public policy in the right direction. I’d add that, pragmatically speaking, a second Bush term would be the best opportunity we libertarians would have to begin bringing into practice the kind of reforms we’d like to see.
Many libertarians fall into the trap of valuing philosophical purity over practicality when it comes to politics. As a result, they fail as political activists, for they’d rather be right than to win! Political change, especially in democratic societies like the United States, does not happen suddenly; it happens slowly, with incremental changes, as “public opinion” (meaning the sum total of the opinions of all individuals in society) evolves. That’s how the modern regulatory/ welfare state (which libertarians justifiably abhor as a betrayal of the fundamental principles of the American Revolution) came into being. It wasn’t suddenly a product of FDR’s “New Deal,” although the 1930s saw perhaps the most dramatic expansion of government powers (especially national powers) in American history. The so-called “New Deal revolution” really began in the early 20th century, during the so-called “Progressive era,” when activists began pushing for a greater regulatory role for government, at all levels. (Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt ought to be blamed for the rise of “Big Government” in America as much as Franklin D. Roosevelt.) And the “New Deal revolution” didn’t stop with World War II; it continued into the 1940s and `50s (during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations), the `60s and ‘70s (with not only JFK’s “New Frontier” and LBJ’s “Great Society,” but also Nixon’s unnamed yet huge expansion of both so-called “entitlement” programs and the regulatory state), and beyond (why the “Reagan Revolution” wasn’t, and why Bill Clinton’s famous declaration that “the era of big government is over” all depended on how you defined big government!)
History teaches us that it will take at least as long to dismantle the regulatory/welfare state as it did to create it – and probably even longer, because of the corrosive effects it has had on people’s moral character. Not only have welfare programs made the recipients financially dependent on government “entitlements” such as Social Security, but they have undermined significantly the ethos of self-responsibility which is essential to a healthy, free society. As David Kelley so nicely demonstrates in his splendid little book published by the Cato Institute, A Life of One’s Own: Individual Rights and the Welfare State (1998), the notion that people have a “right” to things such as Social Security benefits or medical insurance is not only destructive of the concept of rights, properly understood, but also is fatal to the principle that each individual is responsible for his or her own life – a principle that’s an absolute prerequisite in a free society. To inculcate that principle (which means, in a very real sense, reviving the American Revolution), will require not only a change in American public policy, but a change in the law – indeed, far-reaching changes in both substantive law and the legal system as a whole – but also, ultimately, a radical change in public opinion, in (John Adams’s words from the time of the Revolution) “a change in the minds and hearts” of the people.
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Bindinotto also points to this Victor Davis Hanson piece that illustrates the bona fide crossroads we stand at, an honest to god nexus in history.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Takin' The Day Off
Still cooking an Essay, it's not soup yet.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Kerry Lied. Again.
This looks like the story that's been hinted at all weekend:
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U.N. ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Security Council just a week before voting in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq.
An investigation by The Washington Times reveals that while the candidate did talk for an unspecified period to at least a few members of the panel, no such meeting, as described by Mr. Kerry on a number of occasions over the past year, ever occurred.
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One of Kerry's big sales pitches for himself was that he was more in tune with the international pulse, having spent so much time with these guys, when Bush wouldn't listen.
Well, apparently not. It looks like they've got him red handed. :)
UPDATE!
Speaking of red handed, here's Kerry, on video, lying to our faces.
Note Bush's shocked expression.
Like a lot of others, I was a tad underwhelmed, expecting pictures of, oh, say, Kerry Fucking a Goat, either in the metaphorical or actual sense. Where was my shock? My anger? My sense of moral outrage? Why was I so blase about another politician lying his ass off? After all, we'd already caught him before, in objective lies, having been seared, seared! into his self evidently faulty memory.Had I been burnt out on Kerry outrage?
Then it hit me:
It wasn't a picture of Kerry Fucking A Goat.
It was Video of Kerry Fucking America.
Again.
Recently.
At least he's consistent.
{Hmm...it must be late. I hardly ever drop the F bomb around here, and there's what...3, 4 of them? Sleepy time. Gnight}
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
For Those Of You Who Haven't Heard...
Stolen Honor is available online free.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
When I Read Something like this...
When I read something like this, in a pessimistic moment,
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Somin suggests that widespread political ignorance may be, in one sense, "rational": Since no individual's vote is ever likely to be decisive, no voter has an incentive to work hard at acquiring enough knowledge to make an informed choice. But by that argument, voters shouldn't bother showing up on Election Day, either. Many don't, of course, and we hear endlessly about the need to increase voter turnout. But more alarming than the tens of millions of non-voting adults are the tens of millions of adults who do vote despite knowing next to nothing about the candidates and the issues.
It was not ever thus. A century and a half ago, ordinary Americans grappled with public controversies at a level of sophistication that would be unthinkable today.
In 1858, tens of thousands of Illinois voters, many unschooled, crowded fairgrounds and public squares to watch Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas debate his Republican challenger, former congressman Abraham Lincoln. The topics they wrestled with were among the weightiest in US history -- the expansion of slavery, the authority of the Supreme Court, the limits of popular sovereignty. The candidates spoke not for 90 seconds at a time, but for 90 minutes at a time. There were no spin doctors, no instant polls, no TV talking heads -- only thoughtful candidates and serious voters and the clash of ideas in the public arena.
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I cannot help but wonder if our society is primarily populated by degenerates, which would make us inevitably a degenerate society.
My darker musings inquire if we are living the answer to the age old question, "what of the last men of wisdom, insight and integrity in the Roman Empire?"
The answer will not be known for a generation, but we'll have a solid barometer reading in about a week. In the end, there is much beyond our individual control, but we must remind ourselves that there is much that is. At the end of our days, as we slide down a tunnel of light, how satisfied will we be at how we comported ourselves in this fascinating time? Did we measure up to our noblest vision of who we are, and what we can be?
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
I'm Speechless:
Powerlines asksWho designed this ballot?
Spoons opines:
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This makes the Palm County/Pat Buchanan butterfly ballot seem like a model of clarity.
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The problem? You have to check box 4 to vote for Bush, but the arrow points to box 14, while Kerry's arrow points to his box.
The Donks are most assuredly trying to steal this election.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
High Profile Gun Bigot Rosie O'Donnel...
Uses the first amendment to declaim her ignorance to a teeming crowd of a dozen or so people:
EW DOZEN TURN OUT TO HEAR ROSIE O'DONNELL ELECTION PREACH
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"Every single thing this White House has done goes against the foundation of what our country was built on. For us to tell the United Nations we would ignore their doctrine and their resolutions, for us to say that we will not adhere to the Geneva Convention during this war.
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Last time I checked, (and you can too!) The foundation of this country was
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
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But, hey, I might be misinformed. Was there an amendment that revised the Constitution to suggest that the foundation of our country was compliance with whatever the thugs down at the UN thought?
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Might Lawrence O'Donnel Shouting "Liar! Liar!" for 5 minutes...
Be an example of the leftist bias of the legacy press?
Go watch the meltdown for yourself and decide.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Freedom Rifle
OK, I promised photos, and y'all have been asking for them, so here ya go!
Before:
After:
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Pajamahadeen! Heads Up!
Kerry Funded By KLA Terrorists?
I'm still reading and doing my due dilligence, before I form an opinion, but I wanted to get this out fast, so as others can perform sniff tests in parallel.
It looks like Kerry has accepted funds from terrorists.
The story broke here at Australian blogger House of Wheels, and has been commented on at Captains Quarters
Frontpage mag weighs in from a different angle.
Might this be the big deal set to break Monday morning that RedState alluded to?
{Hat Tip: Reader Ian}
Update: My Opinion
My opinion is that this has mixed merits. On the one hand, that these unsavory characters made a contribution is well documented, but on the other hand, it's pretty easy for a campaign to dismiss it, and impugn the dubious sources, as the amount in question is relatively small and apparently not an ongoing, systematic thing. Captain's Quarters comments more on that.
The infinitely more disturbing thing about it is the apparent level of chumminess between high level members of the DNC and the KLA, a grim reminder of what a fuckaroo the whole Kosovo/Balkan thing is, and a foretaste of what we can expect from a Kerry administration.
I believe it was a THR member stationed over there as part of the Nato/UN mission who saw firsthand that folks who turned in their arms one day turned up dead the next.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
More Amusing Election Related Flash Media
Bush and Kerry sing their version of the Bohemian Rhapsody.
Amusing, but not quite up to the standards of Jib Jab's stuff.
:)
{thanks to Reader KB!}
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Friday, October 22, 2004
It Is Done...
I have installed my long awaited "evil" parts, and in the process I've converted my Homeland Defense Rifle into a Freedom Rifle now illegal in many more states than it was a mere hour ago.
I'll have to get a picture online. The end result is actually pretty cool.
My Freedom Rifle started out as a Jersey legal Bushmaster A2 Dissipator:
to which I added a holosight:
a First Samco tac grip:
a telestock,
and a vast supply of brand new 30 round mags marked LEO/GOVT/MIL/EXPORT Only, filled with xm193 and SS109.
The end result is a trim, and slightly nose heavy little rifle suitable for blasty plinking fun, or local SHTF duty.
Life is good.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
{Takes Deep Breath. Reloads "Civil Discourse" Module}
I'm gonna take one last stab at the WoT issue. In participating and lurking in a number of interactions ranging from actual debate to grenade tossing contests, I've seen and heard a vast amount of chatter and argument that's really all tantamount to a central thesis:
That the war is invalid because (check all that apply) __Bush Lied __Saddam didn't attack us ___there was no WMD ___The war was planned prior to 9/11 by a secret right wing cabal ___Bush is a(__dummy __nazi __cocooned __etc), ___The UN didn't approve __Russia/Germany/France didn't approve ___etc.
What I have NOT heard in any of the thousands and thousands of lines of discourse (and I use that term loosely) is anyone making a coherent or valid case for any alternative.
In this war on terrorists who use Jihaddi Islam as their pretext, there are fundamentally three cases to consider:
__The Null Case:
Do not engage in warfare at all.
__The Moderate Case:
Carpet bomb Afghanistan into oblivion, send our best sniper after Osama, and tell him not to come back without his head or a jarful of DNA, make some speeches, invest in homeland security, declare victory, and call it a day.
__The Maximal Case:
Pursue a comprehensive, multi pronged global strategy designed to drain the swamp, deny terrorists state sponsorship, fracture their bases, funding, and ability to make war against us, while simultaneously promoting an indigenous generated culture of broad freedom and prosperity in the middle east, with the ultimate goal of destabilizing the mullacracies by fostering an attractive alternative generated from within the culture.
Right now, our policy is to pursue the Maximal Case. While there's room for criticism of this case, and the current implementation of it, very little of the online gibbering is actually responsive to the actual issues, and I have YET to hear any coherent argument, after all these months of people poking, prodding, and evaluating, that strongly suggests that either the Null or Moderate cases would be a superior method of dealing with the threat at hand.
Simply put, many people advocate the Null and Moderate cases by doing their damndest to invalidate the Maximal case, but none have been able to demonstrate the superiority of the cases that would remain.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Free Speech Means...
That you're free to make a complete ass of yourself in public, and parade your ignorance and inability to access or process facts around for all to see.
Free Speech. It isn't always pretty.
{via Drudge}
Quote:
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EMINEM: 'BUSH LIKE A DOG CHASING ITS TAIL'
Fri Oct 22 2004 13:45:08 ET
Rapper Eminem bodyslams President Bush in the upcoming edition of ROLLING STONE, publishing sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
President Bush is "like dog chasing its tail," the Hollywood-bound Eminem tells the magazine, set to street during the first week of November.
RS: You get deep into your feelings about President Bush and Iraq on “Mosh.” Do you think the Iraq War was a mistake?
E: He’s been painted to be this hero and he’s got our troops over there dying for no reason. I haven’t heard an explanation yet that I can understand. Explain to us why we have troops over there dying.
RS: There is no good answer.
E: I think he started a mess. America is the best country there is, the best country to live in. But he’s f**kin’ that up and could run our country into the ground. He jumped the gun, and he f**ked up so bad he doesn’t know what to do right now. He’s in a tailspin, running around like a dog chasing its tail. And we got young people over there dyin’, kids in their teens, early twenties that should have futures ahead of them. And for what? It seems like a Vietnam 2. Bin Laden attacked us and we attacked Saddam. We ain’t heard from Saddam for ten years, but we go attack Saddam. Explain why that is. Give us some answers.
RS: Are you voting?
E: This is the first year I’ve registered to vote. And I’m gonna vote. Bush is definitely not my homie, but I’m still undecided. Kerry has been known to say some things that’s caught my attention, made a few statements I’ve liked, but I don’t know. Whatever my decision is, I would like to see Bush out of office. I don’t wanna see my little brother get drafted. He just turned eighteen. I don’t want to see him lose his life. People think their votes don’t count, but people need to get out and vote. Every motherf**kin’ vote counts.
Developing...
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If this set of statements seems reasonable to you, if it resonates with where you're coming from, if you don't or can't understand that larger concerns are play in the world right now, you need to sit down, transcend the limitations imposed on you by your public schooling, and figure it out, right away.
Yes, people are dying. DUH. It's a war, stupid, and no, it's not Vietnam II: The Revenge of the Jihaddis. It is an intelligent global strategy designed to drain the swamp, deny terrorists state sponsorship, and promote an indigenous culture of broad freedom and prosperity in the middle east, with the ultimate goal of destabilizing the mullacracies by fostering an attractive alternative. It is ultimately an attempt to help Islam find its own way to come to grips with the modern world, because it is no longer morally or pragmatically acceptible to allow it to wallow in anti western Jihadism, and act out on its deadly premise.
No, there will not be a draft. We don't need one, we don't want unmotivated conscripts hiding behind heroes. We want smart, dedicated, courageous and honorable professionals who are willing and capable of making shit happen.
There, Eminem, you've asked, I've explained it to you. Whether understanding the answer is within your range of capabilities is no longer my concern. Now get your head out of your ass, stop watching McNews, and go learn something.
God, I am sick and tired of having to spoonfeed this to otherwise intelligent, passively beligerent adults who act like children. Maybe there's a point beyond which additional tolerance and patience is pointless.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
More Donk Crushing of Dissent
Although I do recall folks picketing Michael Moore's propaganda piece, I don't recall them causing the showing to be canceled, or preventing folks from seeing it. If I recall correctly, there was a beating, but in that case it was a Moore fan beating someone who wasn't sufficiently enthusiastic about F911 for his tastes.
Bush and Kerry supporters go nose to nose, film canceled
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Election determines fate of nation
Found online Read Here
This text is of national importance, and since it will only be preserved online for 6 more days, I have tucked it away on my hard drive, and may elect to display it here when the copyright owner is not longer interested in preserving it online.
Teaser:
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In that this will be my last column before the presidential election, there will be no sarcasm, no attempts at witty repartee. The topic is too serious, and the stakes are too high.
This November we will vote in the only election during our lifetime that will truly matter. Because America is at a once-in-a-generation crossroads, more than an election hangs in the balance. Down one path lies retreat, abdication and a reign of ambivalence.
Down the other lies a nation that is aware of it's past and accepts the daunting obligation its future demands. If we choose poorly, the consequences will echo through the next 50 years of history.
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This isn't a game, and we've expended our leeway to fuck around.
It's time for a serious people to attend to serious business.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Public Service Announcement:
From Gun Owners of America:
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Contact Your Representative on the "Government Terror Bill"
-- Tell him or her to oppose National ID cards and other Big
Brother programs that could affect gun owners
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Friday, October 22, 2004
H.R. 10 -- the so-called 9/11 bill -- has passed the House by a
two-to-one margin. It is now in conference committee to iron out its
differences with the Senate-passed version (S. 2845). GOA has
already alerted you to the most alarming aspects of the House bill.
Just to review, H.R. 10 would:
(1) Create a massive government database containing personal
information on every American man, woman and child [section 2173].
This database would be within the exclusive discretion of the
bureaucrats, but could include medical records, confidential
financial records, library records, and gun records.
(2) "Standardize," (that is, nationalize) the process of issuing
drivers' licenses -- an action which takes the final step toward
creating a national ID card [section 3052].
This is a huge concern because these federal standards can easily be
used by a future Hillary Clinton administration to keep certain
groups of people (such as gun owners) from receiving these National
ID cards. Even the Bush administration has supported legislation
(PATRIOT Acts I and II) that could be used to designate groups like
GOA and NRA as terrorist organizations (see
http://www.gunowners.org/fs0307.htm for details). If the feds can
set standards that keep you from getting a "National ID card," then
your life has just become very difficult -- as your ability to write
a check or buy a gun becomes next to impossible.
(3) Set up a system whereby any employer or industry identified by
the Attorney General would have to submit employment applicants to
the government for approval -- complete with fingerprints or other
"biometric identifiers" [section 2142].
You can go to http://www.gunowners.org/hs0405a.htm to see a more
detailed analysis as to why these areas should concern gun owners.
The Senate bill is better in many respects, but does contain a
national ID card provision quietly added by anti-gun Senator John
McCain on the Senate floor when no one was paying attention.
It's also ironic what is NOT in the bill. One would think that a
"9/11 bill" which seeks to correct shortcomings prior to the terror
hijackings of three years ago would expedite the process for arming
pilots. But the bill does nothing in this regard.
This legislation now goes to the House-Senate conference.
ACTION: Contact your Representatives and demand that he or she works
to delete the anti-gun, anti-freedom provisions in sections 2173,
3052, and 2142. Even if your legislator isn't on the conference
committee, your message tells him that this bill is UNACCEPTABLE as
long as those provisions remain. You can use the pre-written message
below and send it as an e-mail by visiting the GOA Legislative Action
Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm (where phone and fax
numbers are also available).
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Representative:
As it goes to a House-Senate conference committee, you should be
aware that H.R. 10 would:
(1) create a massive government database containing personal
information on every American man, woman and child;
(2) "standardize" (that is, nationalize) the process of issuing
drivers' licenses -- thereby taking the final step toward creating a
national ID card;
(3) set up a system whereby any employer or industry identified by
the Attorney General would have to submit employment applicants to
the government for approval -- complete with fingerprints or other
"biometric identifiers."
Please work to get these provisions deleted -- or make sure this
totalitarian monstrosity is scuttled entirely.
Sincerely,
****************************
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Like A Kid At Christmas...
Tapco reports that my evil parts should arrive today!
I take perverse pleasure in reporting that they have been routed through New Jersey.
I take even greater perverse pleasure in lawfully performing the harmless and innocuous act of assembling a new NAW (not assault weapon) which used to be a felony, and yet again more pleasure in owning something that strikes such fear and loathing into the heart of your average gun bigot.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Donk Infiltration?
{via Instapundit}
GayPatriot -- the musings of a gay conservative: GayPatriot Exclusive: Log Cabin GOP Political Director Unmasked As Former Edwards Campaign Operative
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Nelson Ascher Tells Us...
Why he won't vote for Bush.
Like the guys atLittle Green Footballs say, just go read it.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Totally Over The Top Political Ad
From David Zucker
Slick piece, with a "holy shitness" factor of 100%!
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Memri Roundup
Iran says no to Euro Nuke Fuel, thus shooting down Kerry's vaunted plan, apparently cribbed from the Euros, regarding what to do about nuclear Iran.
{side note: Give nuclea | |
