April 2003
I'M
BAAAAAACK. Blah blah blah! Long weekend behind me now; I'm rested up and ready
to kick ass. Been a great weekend for the Coalition Forces, and a VERY BAD
weekend for appeaseniks, apologists, peace-o's, and all their associated
running vermin. But sod them; on to more important topics!
posted by
Alois (mit mein Luger) 04/02/03
WTF?!?!
AWARD: That would go to the New York Times for a headline story that ran over
the weekend, entitled "
posted by
Alois 04/02/03
CONSIDER
YOURSELF OUTED, COMMIE WRETCH: Remember the little quote I ran last week from
Medea Benjamin, the head of the appeasenik "soccer-mom" group Code
Pink? Benjamin was insisting that American media outlets should spend more time
talking to Iraqis who are not happy with the American military presence.
Guess
what? A little Web research turns out the factoid that Benjamin is actually a certified commie wack job with a
rap sheet going way, way back.
Soccer mom. You've just got to love these folks' being so honest and
forthcoming with their constituency, don't you...
posted by
Alois 04/02/03
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"[James Carroll's] form of moral equivalence is not rare among the radical
left in this country. But it is based on a profound moral abdication: the
refusal to see that a Stalinist dictatorship, that murders its own civilians,
that sends its troops into battle with a gun pointed at their heads, that
executes POWs, that stores and harbors chemical weapons, that defies twelve
years of U.N. disarmament demands, that has twice declared war against its
neighbors, and that provides a safe haven for terrorists of all stripes, is not
the moral equivalent of the United States under president George W. Bush. There
is, in fact, no comparison whatever. That is not jingoism or blind patriotism
or propaganda. It is the simple undeniable truth."
posted by
Alois 04/02/03
RACIST COALITION
FORCES, CAUGHT IN THE ACT AGAIN: International A.N.S.W.E.R. would remind you
that it's time to Stop War and End Racism. Good thing for these two Kenyan truckers, who
just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, that a Racist and
Imperialistic Group of British Commandos were in the vicinity and didn't mind
acting on a local's tip and busting them out of one of Saddam's "holding
facilities." Guess what? The Kenyans had been beaten, starved, and accused
of being Coalition soldiers. Imagine that.
Wonder
what International A.N.S.W.E.R. would have done for these guys?
posted by
Alois 04/02/03
..........
4/3/03:
TIME
TO VENT. Read a great article the other day--unfortunately, due to hardening of
the cranial arteries, I have no idea where I read it or who wrote it--that
basically made the point that this war is going to cause an enormous cultural
divide in the U.S. that will persist long after the last shot has been fired.
The reason is that what is being decided here is not "something that can
be politely disagreed upon by opposing parties" (paraphrase). It is, essentially,
the future of humanity: whether we will face down threats from the enemies of
civilization as they arise, or instead choose the French path of appeasement
and appeal to the good natures of (excuse me) "people" who have no
good nature. The correct answer to this quandary would appear to be a
no-brainer... but suddenly there seem to be a lot of folks out there with no
brains.
I
can see this divide looming before me in real-time; already I have become an
outcast in my liberal Democratic family because of my support for the war, and
some co-workers avoid me like the plague. There are friends I can no longer
talk to, since I now have good reason to question their very patriotism. This
war--both the war in
posted by
Alois (mit mein JDAM) 04/03/03
MY MAN ED COMES
THROUGH AGAIN! In one of my other lives--when I'm not a raving
conservo-maniac--I like to train dogs, most specifically German Shepherd Dogs (ja,
of course, der Deutscher Schäferhunden für Alois und Klaus). And one of my
heroes in that field has always been Ed Frawley, a
fellow Wisconsinite who is about as catankerous as they come. Yes, Alois included.
Ed,
who runs a booming dog-training video, kennel, and training-equipment business,
has decided that he no longer will do
business with the French. Sample quote: "I have long thought
the best part of
This
is no small decision on Ed's part; the French are dog-sport crazy and among his
best customers. But you gotta hand it to Ed. He wouldn't sell to the South
Africans until they lifted apartheid either.
posted by
Alois 04/03/03
NO DEAL.
posted by
Alois 04/03/03
ANOTHER GREAT RIFF by
Charles Krauthammer,
unearthed today.
posted by
Alois 04/03/03
..........
4/4/03:
DAILY
GAZ-O-LEEEEEEN! AWARD goes, without a doubt, to Marcus Taylor from the
"Update:
2500 Republican Guard just surrendered in
posted by
Alois 04/04/03
AND SPEAKING OF
FEMALE SUPPLY CLERKS: Rachel has a great tribute to PFC
Lynch on her site. Check it out.
posted by
Alois 04/04/03
.........
THE FAVORITE
ARGUMENTS OF AN INTELLECTUALLY AND MORALLY BANKRUPT LEFT: I've been thinking
about this subject a lot lately, because I am being exposed to these arguments
on an almost daily basis. Some thoughts:
Dick Cheney/Donald Rumsfeld/[Your Favorite Bush Administration
Person HERE] were involved in shady business dealings in the
China, North Korea, and several other African and Asian nations
are ruled by despots who routinely torture and execute people. Now THERE'S my
all-time favorite reason to do nothing about Saddam. Other than arguing that we
can hardly go to war with the entire world at once--and that
We'll enrage the Muslim world. I doubt it highly. The Muslim world
doesn't know what it thinks yet--as is evidenced by the near-silence of
moderate Muslims after 9/11. Osama bin Laden said it best: "When given the
chance to choose between a strong horse and a weak horse, people will prefer
the strong horse." Right now we are in the process of showing the world
just who the "strong horse" really is. As did many Native American
tribes, the Muslim world respects those who are not afraid to back their
beliefs up with force, if necessary. And only a fool thinks that terrorists are
placated by appeasement of any sort.
There
will also always be a Muslim element that hates us and everything we
stand for. Get used to it. And, as writer Dan Jenkins would say, "They can
just squat over there in the sand and chant a whole bunch of shit!"
Our best hope is that these Islamofascist freaks will be increasingly
marginalized, particularly by their fellow Muslims. Our best guarantee that
this will happen is by standing by the Afghans and the Iraqis while they
rebuild their brutalized nations.
We overthrew the Taliban and left
We used to arm Saddam Hussein, now we're overthrowing him? Hey. Remember
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini? Remember the hostage crisis? Remember the venomous
Shi'ite mullahs who were bent on exporting their terror to the rest of the
Muslim world? Nah, of course you don't. And even if you did, that would never
help you to understand why we might have seen any reason whatsoever to arm a
neighboring country with a secular government. Was it a bad call? Probably. But
it was an honest one. It's all so easy in hindsight, isn't it...
We have no right to overthrow the government of a sovereign
nation.
When that nation is a threat to our national security? We most certainly do.
Saddam was the "people's choice!" Sure he was. And if
a black-hooded Fedayeen put a gun to your kid's head to "remind you to
vote Ba'ath," you'd have done it too.
Give peace a chance! Oh, PLEASE. Don't insult my intelligence, or
even your own. What hole have you been living in since we wrapped up Desert
Storm? And kindly quit trying to reduce everything in life to the lyrics of
John Lennon songs. Next question.
posted by
Alois 04/04/03
HAIL,
Sam
takes questions from the media
Chirac's worst nightmare: A Euro with balls
posted by Alois 04/04/03
..........
4/8/03:
I'M
BAAAAAACK. Long weekend behind me now; I'm rested up and ready to kick ass.
Been a great weekend for the Coalition Forces, and a VERY BAD weekend for
appeaseniks, apologists, peace-o's, and all their associated running vermin.
But sod them; on to more important topics!
Think
you read this post somewhere before? You did! Just stunning how things
sometimes repeat themselves in this life...
posted by
Alois (mit mein Luger) 04/08/03
"FREE
TIBET". Had a little discussion with Klaus over the weekend about
something that seems increasingly odd to me:
Didja
ever notice how many appeasenik vehicles feature, along with the ubiquitous NO
IRAQ WAR! and GREENPEACE and I MISS JERRY bumper stickers, a smaller sticker
with a kind of rising-sun motif that says, "Free Tibet"???
Now
don't let's anybody get me wrong. I am ALL FOR "freeing
But
here's the little thing about freeing
And
here's one for the peace-o's to munch on: Could we defeat the Chinese Army
in an all-out war? Probably--especially as we begin to study Operation Iraqi
Freedom and marvel at the accomplishment and dedication of our
beautifully-trained ground troops.
But
even then, there would still be that nagging little probability of an all-out
nuclear exchange with a nation whose nuclear arsenal rivals our own. Any
winners there?
Nope.
Hey,
Alois will gladly support the right of any (terminally deluded) hawklike warmonger
to display a "Free Tibet" sticker if said warmonger really believes
that freeing Tibet is worth the sacrifice of thousands and thousands of our
young men and women at best, and the complete annihilation of the human
race at worst. But it galls me just a little bit to see a knee-jerk
appeasenik pretending that s/he is interested in liberating ANY captive nation
ANYWHERE. Why? Because as recent events have taught us, to actually accomplish
this admirable goal almost always requires the use of military force.
Try
to picture it: President Bush addresses the nation. In a grim, sober voice, he
announces:
"Taking
into account the passionate desire of many of my fellow citizens to see a free
and independent
Can
you see the peace-o's rejoicing, dancing around with their silk scarves and
bootlegged Grateful Dead tapes?
Me
either.
posted by
Alois (mit mein Luger) 04/08/03
MICHAEL KELLY: IN
MEMORIAM. His own words sum the man up, his wit and insight, better than I ever
could. From an imaginary dialogue on NPR:
Perfectly Modulated: "Now let's go to our European analyst,
Loathes
Loathes America: "Bleak, of course. And properly so. I
mean, one does not wish to say that this debacle is what America deserves for
its arrogance, its vulgarity, its bullying ways -- well, actually one does wish
to say it, doesn't one rather? Really, one just hates
--Via
The Washington Post
..........
4/9/03:
KLAUS
IST HIER! after a couple of long hard weeks in the factory, manufacturing
Weapons of Pork Corruption. Jawohl!
Screed
recently sent to a lefty friend in
The
role of oil in this conflict is that Iraq has lots of it and the revenues
resulting from the sale of it has been used, in defiance of UN-imposed
sanctions dictating that oil revenues be used for the basic needs of the Iraqi
civilian population, to finance programs for the development and deployment of
chemical, biological and nuclear weapons on one hand, and the massive enrichment
of the Hussein regime (read: Saddam, Uday, Qusay Hussein and Ali Hassan
al-Majid).
This
regime has been nothing less than a reign of terror and a holocaust upon the
Iraqi people and a regional source of fear and loathing among its neighbors. Those
who demonstrate against removal of this regime by force are expressing their
support for a Stalinist, totalitarian regime which has butchered and terrorized
its own population for 30 years. The "peace"niks would, in
This
war is not about oil. It is about standing against tyranny and terror. It is about
the unacceptable nexus of shadowy terrorist organizations and
producers--potential suppliers--of instruments of mass terror. This regime has
defied for 12 long years sanctions imposed upon it by the UN. This says much
about both the regime’s intransigence in the face of the "world
community" and the UN’s complete and utter lack of efficacy to achieve
ANYTHING.
This
war is about defense--defense of the United States and like-minded members of
Western Civilization--from the threat posed by Islamofascists whose stated goal
is the destruction of the west, the killing of all "infidels" (this
includes me and you and your family) and the creation of a monocultural Islamic
fundamentalist world order. These people can no more be reasoned with than
could loyal members of the Nazi party. No amount of people singing
"Kumbaya" or "Imagine" will reform these Islamofascists.
Look what they accomplished on 9/11 with just a few planes. Can ANYONE actually
believe that if they had access to a nuclear weapon that they would hesitate to
use it to wipe out
Eight
years of Clintonian appeasement and "agreement" writing emboldened
these people. They had good reason to expect that there would be no recourse
from their dreadful attack.
A
bit of context to contemplate here: I vote for Ralph Nader in the last general
election. I will be voting for Bush, et al in the next.
posted by
Klaus (mit mein JDAM) 04/09/03
WHAT THEY DON'T WANT
YOU TO KNOW, ROUND II: This will be part of a continuing education series to
enlighten the Clueless Morons who claim that we "abandoned"
Afghan Women Hope
Computer Will Bring New Dawn--via Kathy Kinsley
posted by
Alois 04/09/03
MY GLOAT, AS
Let's
get straight on something right now: In the time between October 7, 2001
and today, George W. Bush and Tony Blair have freed two horribly repressed
nations from brutal slavery. On the other hand, what have you done--other
than burn the American flag, sing "Give Peace A Chance," and wish for
"a million Mogadishus"???
I
think you get my drift. No, you don't. You're too stupid and deluded to.
posted by
Alois (mit mein Luger) 04/09/03
..........
4/10/03:
DAILY
GAZ-O-LEEEEEEN! AWARD goes to Deb over at Insomnomaniac for this truly priceless observation:
"Too
bad Jacques! You had your chance to share in the glory. You blew it. All you
had to do was grow a spine, a conscience, a heart and some balls, and you too
could have joined the coalition of the willing. But noooooo! You decided it was
better to whine and cry from the safety of your palais that we big bad ruffian
Americans were waging an "illegal" war--an illegal war that just so
happened to threaten your precious oil interests and weapons contracts... We
remember, only too well, that effete smug-ass with the pompadour hairdo who
mocked Colin Powell in public--Colin Powell, a man whose boots DeVillepin isn't
fit to lick clean after a walk through pig shit."
Damn,
that woman's got a way with words! I love her.
posted by
Alois 04/10/03
TODAY'S MUST-READ is
a fascinating, lucid and brief piece on American military doctrine, courtesy Joel Rosenberg.
posted by
Alois 04/10/03
NEED SOME GOOD
INSOMNIAC
posted by
Alois 04/10/03
AH, SPRING IN THE
What
a difference a few hours can make--at least, in this part of the world, in the
springtime.
posted by
Alois 04/10/03
HACK, HAR,
WHEEEEEEZE, SCORE ANOTHER ONE FOR RUMMY! Iraqi Ambassador to the UN: "The game
is over. I have no relationship with Saddam Hussein." Donald Rumsfeld:
"This isn't a game."
posted by
Alois 04/10/03
AND DON'T MISS... The
always excellent Victor Davis Hanson
on democracies at war.
posted by
Alois 04/10/03
..........
4/11/03:
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY to Marla and Carla, the Wonder Twins!
The twins
sing "God Bless
posted by
Alois 04/11/03
CRANIAL ARTERY
CALCIFICATION STRIKES AGAIN: I could have sworn that I posted this a
couple of days ago, but a perusal of the blog last night proved that I hadn't.
Anyway it was about as comic of an image of the appeaseniks as could possibly
be mustered--again, you couldn't pay an anti-idiotarian P.R. firm to come up
with better stuff than this:
It's party time
Naked
women, transvestites, dogs, dancers, singer Harry Belafonte and others joined
Rep. Barbara Lee, California Democrat, for an antiwar protest Saturday to
"praise the patriotism of the demonstrators and condemn the military
action in
"We
denounce governments that act with tyranny," Mr. Belafonte told the crowd.
"We are here to tell Nancy Pelosi to stop playing the game. We are losing
our dignity and honor as a people."
Dignity
was not necessarily the order of the day, however.
"A
transvestite fell into step next to a tall, naked woman and bared his chest in
solidarity. Stilt walkers strode confidently in time to the rhythm of drummers.
The Liberation Brass Band performed an energizing rendition of 'When the Saints
Come Marching In,'" the Tribune noted.
Ironically,
there were costumed superheroes in battle gear, too, including warrior princess
Xena, Catwoman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman and Robin Hood, along with a
performing Middle Eastern dance troupe. Vendors sold organic vegan snacks,
jewelry, Malcolm X books, peace T-shirts, antiwar pins and voodoo dolls on the
City Hall steps.
Mrs.
Lee told the crowd to "take back the U.S. House of Representatives, Senate
and White House, causing the protesters to chant, 'Impeach Bush.'"
--Jennifer
Harper in The Washington Times,
via Emperor Misha I
posted by Alois
04/11/03
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"We did it, we won one.
"'We'
is not
"And
so, at this moment, as the Mordor shadow of Saddam Hussein, a truly evil man
who, like a sociopathic murderous husband, killed everything that he could not
control, lifts from the long-suffering people of Iraq, all of us, on the left
and the right, Democrats and Republicans, America-lovers and America-haters,
Syrians and Kuwaitis and Israelis and Palestinians, owe it to our common
humanity to stop, put aside -- not forever -- our doubts and our grief and our
future fears, and for one deep moment, celebrate."
--Gary
Kamiya, an antiwar liberal, in Salon (Via Andrew Sullivan)
posted by
Alois 04/11/03
ABOUT TALK-BACK. Some
of you may have noticed that Schmaltz und Grieben does not feature any of those
nifty little talk-back features that some of the other blogs have (although,
interestingly, NOT Andrew Sullivan's). There is a reason for that.
During
the day, I am employed as a techno-nerd by a large government agency (no, NOT
the Pentagon grrrrrrrrrrrr). As it is, I get my fill of techno-geeky stuff on
the job. So I don't think that my blog needs to be the coolest, the shiniest,
or the most technically astute blog out there... it just needs to get the point
across.
In
the future, if I have the time, I may be moved to "upgrade"
this blog to something like Movable Type or another good blogger format. In the
meantime, Klaus und I do not in any way discourage commentary--and if we are
impressed by your comment (be it pro or con) we will be more than happy to post
it here. Remember that you can always reach us at graefental@hotmail.com.
We
look forward to hearing from you.
posted by
Alois 04/11/03
PROUD TO BE
PROTESTANT: Check out this hysterical, nearly incomprehensible rant
(via Andrew Sullivan) on a website for Seattle Catholics. Although I tend to
keep my personal religious feelings off the blog, this is just one more
reminder of why I joined the Reformation in 1975--probably the greatest
decision of my life.
Hey,
I'm not anti-Catholic so don't take this the wrong way--but you guys
seriously need to get your act together as a faith. Further proof that your
leadership has gone completely off the deep end.
posted by
Alois 04/11/03
AND NOW, FOR
SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: April 11--in addition to being the birthday of
the Wonder Twins--is also the anniversary of the 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado
Outbreak. 256 people died across the Upper Midwest and Lower Great Lakes
regions as 51 tornadoes raked parts of Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, and Ohio; the latter three states were especially hard-hit.
A
very fascinating look at this intense tornado outbreak can be found at Blake Naftel's Mammatus.com website.
Tell Blake I sent ya.
posted by
Alois 04/11/03
GREAT READING from Jim Hoagland
(via Vodkapundit).
It's
a beautiful day in the neighborhood and Alois is OUTTA HERE. See y'all
Tuesday... and Do Good.
posted by
Alois 04/11/03
..........
4/21/03:
APOLOGIES:
I haven’t been blogging lately. Very busy at work (and that’s no complaint when
half the people you know are unemployed), had a small emergency with my foster
daughter (everything fine now), spent some quality time with the girlfriend,
and finally Klaus und I rescued two dogs on Thursday and have been busy
integrating them into der Life auf der Kompound. But now it’s a brand new week
and, as we used to say in high school, Further Proponeth Sayeth Not, er, or
sumpin?
posted by Alois 04/21/03
SURELY THEY SEE THE
HUMOR IN THIS--but with these limp dicks, on
the other hand, ya just never know. Courtesy our local liberal, um, organ.
posted by Alois 04/21/03
VICTORY. I know I
haven’t said anything about this yet, and truthfully (other than the reasons/excuses
for not blogging listed above) it’s because I haven’t really known what to say.
Although part of me wants to rub this in to the wheedling lefties, if
the truth be told I am just not much of one for rubbing stuff in. As my ex used
to say, "You lack the killer instinct."
So
much of the whole argument about the war can be reduced to sheer pedantry
anyway. And as such, many of the real issues will continue to be obscured by
the apologists of both the left and the right. Without mindless spouting o’
rhetoric, THIS is what I think it all reduces to:
a)
The war was, in essence, a Good Thing. Anyone who believes otherwise is an
idiot who is beyond reasonable discourse.
b)
The American military proved beyond all doubt that it kicks ass. A superb battle
plan, superbly executed.
c)
Yes, there will be severe and challenging difficulties in the
post-Saddam
Nope,
those folks live in San Francisco.
(Via Andrew Sullivan)
WITH HIS USUAL ELOQUENCE: Sam Muldia takes apart the
liberal carping about the Coalition’s legion and variform "failures"
in
posted by Alois 04/22/03
AAAAAARGH. It’s a
picture-perfect day here in the upper Midwest (at LAST) and I just returned
from the
Since
I can’t believe that most of the appeaseniks are so stupid that they actually
are unaware that we did go to war with Iraq and did overthrow the
Hussein regime—although history may prove me wrong on this—I have to believe that
the point to these signs is really along the lines of a Badge of Honor, as in,
"I supported the Right Side in this war!"
O—kay.
What
truly boggles the mind, if I am indeed correct about this—and, hey, it’s either
that they DON’T KNOW that the war happened or that they are trying to remind
passersby that they were in the "right"—is this: how can NOT
removing Saddam Hussein have been construed as the "right" thing to
do???
I
looked around the Web a little bit today and found a couple of what might pass
for Explanations, from the website of the loathsome Alexander Cockburn—who deserves his surname, in spades:
"Like
it or not, Saddam Hussein was recognized by over 100 nations as the leader of
"Liberation
Four Years After: Iraqis Should Look to
"Unfolding
Nightmare: Inside the Humanitarian Disaster in Post-War Iraq."
Wow.
Those are some really convincing reasons for having left Hussein and
Milosevic in power. If Cockburn believes that those reasons actually constitute
an argument—or a "counterpunch" as he would have it—then I guess the
argument reduces to this:
The Iraqis and the Serbs were better off living under two
psychopathic mass murderers, because there was law and order and if you kissed
up to the government, you might get a good job. Now, thanks to the Allies,
Jesus.
posted by Alois 04/22/03
*****
4/23/03:
EATING
CROW: "Before the war got cranking, Sheryl told us the way to solve our
problems was ‘not to have enemies.’ Great idea, Sheryl. I couldn’t agree more.
Back in March, we had a lot of enemies in
posted by Alois 04/23/03
I’M NOT A WARBLOGGER.
In fact, I’m not even an especially political animal, at least not in
peacetime. I am registered with no political party and have no real interest in
being registered with one. Which is not to say that I don’t vote, because I do;
if the truth be told, I tend to find politics-as-usual to be deadly dull, an
opportunity for grandstanding among the same personality types who did all the
grandstanding in high school and college and do it still around the water
cooler at the office. Yatta yatta yatta—the halfwits who have an opinion about
everything and just can’t seem to shut the hell up. I tend to be deeply
distrustful of politicians as a result, but I realize that they are an
unavoidable part of living in a democratic society. Also, that the reason so
many politicians are halfwits is that they are fascinated with power (and IMHO most
people who are fascinated with power are halfwits) and hence they fill a vacuum
where the rest of us are loath to tread, busy as we are with our mundane little
lives and lack of interest in speechifying.
I
come away from the war with
So:
in this spirit, Alois’s contributions to Schmaltz und Grieben will, in
future days, examine the implications of 9/11 and the
posted by Alois 04/23/03
THIS ARTICLE,
by David Brooks, should be chiseled into a polished granite wall!
Small
excerpt:
"Then
there is the dream palace of the Europeans. In this palace,
posted by Klaus 04/23/03
*****
4/24/03:
THE
SANTORUM FLAP. Sullivan and a lot of the other
bloggers have been all over this one, much as they were with the Trent Lott
debacle. The future of American conservatism seems to be being decided even as
we speak—or blog.
It’s
easy to understand Sullivan’s profound upset; he is, of course, gay. And I
certainly understand why a writer of Sullivan’s formidable intellectual gifts
would want to dissect Santorum’s rant sentence by sentence—what we in the
blogosphere so lovingly refer to as "fisking."
To
me, however, it pretty much boils down to one issue: What consenting adults
choose to do in their own bedrooms. I have said repeatedly over the
years that this is no concern of mine, and definitely should not be any
concern of the government’s. Sullivan lucidly makes the point that there will
always be a disconnect between private and public morality, and that this is
not even necessarily a bad thing—I for one don’t care to see any demonstrations
of anyone’s little leather fetish, be they gay or straight. Where
Santorum crossed the line is in suggesting that it is private sexual conduct
between consenting adults is something that he feels should conceivably be
regulated.
And
at that point, friends, we need to ask why. "Less government is
always a good thing"—unless, ah, it comes to keeping tabs on the boudoir
behavior of our homosexual neighbors? Give me a break.
posted by
Alois 04/24/03
HATE TO BURST YOUR
LITTLE BUBBLE, BUT… Mark Steyn
goes after a few favorite postwar myths, including this one:
Rather than reforming the Muslim world, the conquest of
"Meanwhile,
Back In The Real World: I note that in October 2001 Faizal Aqtub Siddiqi,
President-General of the International Muslims Organization, said that the
bombing of Afghanistan would create a thousand bin Ladens, whereas the other
day Egypt's President Mubarak said that the bombing of Iraq would create a
hundred bin Ladens. So right there you've got a 90% reduction in the bin Laden
creation program -- just by bombing a second country! I'd advocate bombing
posted by
Alois 04/24/03
*****
4/25/03:
I
think things are going to work out real well in
posted by
Klaus 04/25/03
… NOW, if he’d only
bitch-slap Rick Santorum before it’s too late …
posted by
Alois 04/25/03
*****
4/29/03:
WOW.
Bill Whittle is always good, but his latest essay approaches
masterpiece status. Don’t miss it.
posted by
Alois 04/29/03
*****
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"I detest Hillary Clinton. On a personal level. Not even for her politics,
but just because I believe she is a liar and a manipulator. And that photo of
her new book cover makes me want to cry because Photoshop was never meant to be
used for such things.
"Also,
I still say Rick Santorum is a knob. Do not try to sway me, do not try to
explain to me his non-knobness. Because his status as a knob is eternal and
pure." --Rachel Lucas
posted by
Alois 04/29/03
*****
4/30/03:
I
love this picture—a little "March for
posted by
Alois 04/30/03
WHY
DON’T YOU JUST SAY, "I HATE
You’ve
reached a new low, Dave Zweifel—even for you. In your attempts to rake in
more loot from your pathetic audience of burned-out old hippies, hysterical
feminists, and student radicals, you now resort to dragging your country
through the mud.
Some
people will do anything for a dollar. Me? I wonder how in the hell you sleep at
night. You’re exactly the kind of guy Bill Whittle writes about, a
shameless fifth columnist—ultimately more dangerous to the
posted by Alois 04/30/03