Long day today, but I got a lot done, so I am off to the couch to watch some movies. In the cue are March of the Penguins and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I wonder if I will experience the rapture from the penguin movie. I am pretty sure I will watching Angelina Jolie, who …
Archives for November 2005
Things That Make Me Laugh (A Never Ending Series)
MoveOn decides to make a commerical decrying the fact that American soldiers will be overseas for the holidays, and accidentally use footage of nothing but foreign soldiers: The liberal political group MoveOn.org has yanked a video ad from its website after being criticized for using images of British soldiers to represent Americans in Iraq. The …
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Even More on WP
John Pike finally drives it home and says, on the pages of a national daily, what all this WP BS really is- anti- American propaganda: DESPITE EFFORTS to improve its image abroad, the United States has just suffered a damaging global propaganda defeat. And unfortunately, some of the wounds were self-inflicted. Three weeks ago, the …
About Damned Time
The military is FINALLY defending itself in regards to WP: The United States’ most senior general has defended the use of weapons containing white phosphorus in Iraq. General Peter Pace said that such munitions were a “legitimate tool of the military”, used to illuminate targets and create smokescreens. Two weeks ago, the US admitted using …
Bush’s Speech
Personally, I thought it was one of his better ones, and I thought his message was clear, as is the policy. We are staying until the job is done. Period. Here is the outline of the strategery. This is all moot, though, since we know that the speech was rejected by certain quarters before it …
Even More on Torture
From the Corner: am opposed to torture under all circumstances, and there should be laws against it. Those who break them, should be punished. As a former Army Counterintelligence Agent, I conducted battlefield interrogations of enemy prisoners of war as well as strategic debriefings of higher value targets, and I’ve served in bad places where …
Not Dead
I’m two weeks behind in preparing for a conference and massively pressed for time, so you won’t get much voluminous posting from me in the immediate future. Nonetheless I’ll keep tossing up stuff that I think is pertinent and/or amusing. For example, this should entertain you.