Archives for 2003
Coward, Liar, or Mooch?
This is what a coward, a liar, and a mooch looks like. He used the military to further his personal goals, and now, when the nation needs him, he is turning his back on those who got him where he is now. The press should not be allowed to refer this twerp as a marine. Kick him out, and take back every penny that the military has given to him in college aid.
Then, get rid of conscientious objector status in the all-volunteer military- and for the exceptionally stupid, force all recruiters to tell potential recruits that they just might have to kill someone in the future.
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John Scalzi has some trenchant remarks regarding Mr. Funk:
You have to be a really interesting sort of ignorant not to know that the Marines kill people from time to time. Your first hint: The big rifle so many of those Marines carry around. Your second hint: All those movies, books and television shows, widely available to the general public, in which Marines are shown, you know, killing people. Your third hint: The fact that the Marines are widely acknowledged to be a branch of the military of the United States, and militaries are likewise widely known, by most people who are smart enough to stand upright on two legs, to kill other people on occasion (typically members of other nations’ militaries, though sometimes they’re not so picky, depending on country and context).
Maureen Dowd- Idiot
There is something about a war that provides a real clarity and fresh perspective- bullets have a tendency to do that. That is why Maureen Dowd seems dumber and even more irrelevant than ever:
The president and his war council did not expect so much heavy guerrilla resistance in Iraq. And they really did not expect so much heavy guerrilla resistance at home.
??? The NY Times has been waging a guerrilla war against this administration since the election. OF course they expected it- they just didn’t think that anyone would really pay attention to the prognostication of Howell Raines and Gail Collins and a few retired Generals with political agendas.
So it should not be a surprise that the troubled opening phase of the war has exacerbated territorial and ideological fissures in the administration and the Republican Party.
Anyone else tickled that the day Dowd discusses the ‘troubled opening phase’, we smashed through the Republican Guard, destroying them, and we are now on the outskirts of Baghdad?
Is there really any point reading the NY Times op-ed page anymore?
Saddam- Dead or Alive?
Caption Contest
Ipse Dixit usually runs the best caption contest on the web, but I could not pass up on this image (swiped from Drudge). Place your entries in the comments section below.
Democracy, Whiskey, and Sexy
Via Sullivan, this quote in the NY Times:
In the giddy spirit of the day, nothing could quite top the wish list bellowed out by one man in the throng of people greeting American troops from the 101st Airborne Division who marched into town today. What, the man was asked, did he hope to see now that the Baath Party had been driven from power in his town? What would the Americans bring? “Democracy,” the man said, his voice rising to lift each word to greater prominence. “Whiskey. And sexy!”
Works for me.
Congrats are In Order
Everyone head over to Matthew Yglesias’s site and extend him a hearty congratulations for being newly hired as a writer for The American Prospect.