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Flip-Flop

by John Cole|  August 19, 200410:20 am| 5 Comments

This post is in: Democratic Stupidity

Who said this:

”I will have significant, enormous reduction in the level of troops [in Iraq]. We will probably have a continued presence of some kind, and certainly in the region. If the diplomacy that I believe can be put in place can work, I think we can significantly change the deployment of troops, not just there but elsewhere in the world — in the Korean Peninsula perhaps, in Europe perhaps.” (ABC’s This Week, 1 August 2004)

Now- who was it that said this:

And in a related note, is there anything that Kerry and the Democrats will not politicize in their quest for the Whie House?

Oops. That was me who said that. Make sure you read the silly comments the Kerry supporters in the comments section.

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More Nonsense

by John Cole|  August 19, 200410:08 am| 2 Comments

This post is in: Politics

I forget who it was the other day who was foolishly challenging me that the Kerry campaign had renounced the tactics of the MoveOn crowd, and Bush should do the same by renouncing the Swift Vets. Bush has already renounced all 527’s, those that help himand those that hurt him, so it really should be Kerry moving to catch up. Regardless, this is how the Democrats ‘renounce’ smears about the President:

Kerry, to be sure, labeled as “inappropriate” Tuesday a new commercial by his shadow campaign, the far-left folks at MoveOn.org, which accuses President Bush of having “used his father to get into the National Guard and when the chips were down went missing.”

The Democratic candidate, acting at the instigation of GOP Sen. John McCain, also insisted that “this should be a campaign of issues, not insults.”

Which is all well and good

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Chavez

by John Cole|  August 19, 20047:02 am| 11 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs

A familair refrain in the past few months has been that the United States has replaced Saddam Huseein with our own strong -man, Iyad Allawi, and that Bush and this administration have done nothing to promote thedemocritization of the world. Let’s take an example to look at the Democratic ideal of Democracy, pace Jimmy Carter:

Within one hour of the gathering, just over 100 of Lt. Col. Ch

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HDTV

by John Cole|  August 18, 20049:30 pm| 9 Comments

This post is in: Media

I just got HDTV, and I now have ten channels in High Definition. I was wondering a few things:

1.) How many of you have HDTV?
2.) Did your viewing habits change when yo got it?
3.) Are you more likely to watch shows you have never watched before, simpy because they are in HD?

Personally, I have found myself watching anything in HD. I am actually having a soccer renaissance, since I get to watch so many games in HD. baseball is unbelievable, as are INDY car, Nascar, and football. Usually I am only interested in football and baseball.

Also, I get these two cable only channels, INHD and INHD2, and they broadcast all these IMAX movies which are just amazing.

The other thing that stuns me is how good old movies look.

At any rate, since I have ABC, CBS, and NBC, I notice that CBS seems to have more shows in HD, but NBC has a whole bunch of shows coming out inthe fall line-up in HD. I wonder how much my viewing habits will change.

I do know one thing. If the Hitler channel comes out in HD, I can cancel my social life.

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Service Details

by John Cole|  August 18, 20047:04 pm| 9 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads

Jeff Quinton is asking which bloggers served when and where. My info:

1990-1992- United States Army, 19K-Combat Armor Crewman, 11th ACR
1992-1996- West Virginia Army National Guard, 12B-Combat Engineer, Co. C, 1092nd ECB
1996-1998- West Virginia Army National Guard, 19k-Combat Armor Crewman, 197th RTI

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Kerry’s Peech IMspediment

by John Cole|  August 18, 20045:11 pm| 22 Comments

This post is in: Democratic Stupidity

Bush can’t say nuclear (and a helluva lot of other words, for that matter), but what the hell is ‘withdrawering.’

At any rate, that wasn’t even the dumbest part of the speech to the VFW. This was:

For example, why are we unilaterally withdrawing 12,000 troops from the Korean Peninsula at the very time we are negotiating with North Korea

Kerry’s Peech IMspedimentPost + Comments (22)

Why, Roger? Why?

by John Cole|  August 18, 20041:50 pm| Leave a Comment

This post is in: Open Threads

Why on earth would anyone swear off camembert?

Why, Roger? Why?Post + Comments

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