Open Threads

Victor Davis Hanson has a nice little essay on what ungrateful bastards the Kuwaitis have become. When I was over there in 1991, they were very generous and nice to us, the American soldiers who saved their behinds. Now they have turned into your run-of-the-mill anti-American schmucks that you frequently find in other Muslim nations and at EU headquarters.

This all reminds me of a joke from when we were in the gulf:

What are the National Anthems of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait?

Onward Christian Soldiers.

Islam, the Peaceful and UNGRATEFUL Religion

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Must reads:

Jeff Jarvis on his reflections of 9/11, 6 months later.recent Operation Anaconda.

Larry Miller on the Olympics:

I DON’T KNOW how many sour-pussed Olympics-haters we have in our country. I don’t know what percentage of Americans is unmoved by the work put in, the opening ceremonies, the personal stories, the pride in being host, and the struggle for individual and team glory. I don’t know how many sneer at the whole panorama. I only know this: I’m one of them.

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Every time I hear George Bush use the letter ‘r’ in a sentence, I think to myself that “I bet he slurred like hell when he was drunk.”

Listen for his r’s the next time you hear him speak.

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William Arkin has become so increasingly and reflexively shrill and anti-Bush in recent months that I think the only reason Chris Matthews invites hiom on Hardball is to make himself look calm and knowledgeable by comparison.

At an rate, if I hear one more thing about this ‘nuclear use doctrine’ or whatever the hell it is called that was ‘leaked’ to the LA Times last week, I am gonna explode. Note to paranoid newscasters and alarmist editors. The U.S. has people that work in the Pentagon. One of their jobs is WAR-GAMING. When you WAR-GAME you come up with new ideas that might lead to new doctrine or could become CONTINGENCY plans. You try to GAME out new scenarios, likely scenarios, and then you try to determine UNLIKELY scenarios. Just because something appears on a piece of paper somewhere with a Pentagon address does not mean we are going to nuke the next Palestinian to attack Israel or the next Russian who slaps an import tariff on Smirnoff.

BTW- you fruity bastards at the LA Times can stoip digging your fallout shelter. If you think this is the first time the government has ever looked at utilizing nuclear weapons, you are as DUMB as you are NAIVE.

Steve Den Beste has another take on the issue..

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The folks at Protein Wisdom award Charles Barkley with their Al Sharpton Award for Idiocy in Race-baiting for his comments in the latest Sports Illustrated. I get SI, and I gotta admit that those remarks stood out as stupid, but they were a very minor part of the entire story. Charles had some other great quotes, including this one about Enron:

“Almost all those politicians took money from Enron, and there they are holding hearings. That’s like O.J. Simpson getting in the Rae Carruth jury pool.”

You folks at Protein Wisdom go easy on the Round Mound of Rebound.

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Does anyone know why they are lighting the twin towers of light ( I am not sure what they are called) for 32 days? I can not figure out the significance of 32 days…

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I watched the CBS special on 9/11 last night (Does anyone know what it was called? Maybe just 9/11), and I have several comments.

– For some reason, I twinged every time I saw 9/11, brought to you by NEXTEL. I am not one of those fruity anti-capitalist bastards who rails against industry, but I just don’t think that if I were a Nextel officer I would allow that sort of word association to be a possibility.

– The Fire Department reminded me of my old platoon. Buncha tough guys with big hearts doing jobs no one else will do for less money than they should be paid. That kinda comaraderie is hard to find anywhere outside the military and para-military groups).

– The sound of the impact from the jumpers was horrifying.

– The two Frenchmen that filmed the show reminded me what I had already learned when I lived in Germany for three years. Most Europeans are good people, and very much like us. They love America just like we love Paris and we love London. There really is no great animus between us or towards each other. It is their leaders who are the twerps we despise….

– All I could really think when it was all over (despite being drained and thinking it had been VERY tastefully done) was thos F

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