Author: David

A correspondent named “Jim” quoted on Jerry Pournelle’s MAIL page observed, today:

“… the Republican Party is the party of the societally secure and the Democratic Party is the party of the societally insecure. Other than its thin crust of anti-American liberal elitists, the hard core of the Evil Party are “dependents”–“lifetime-net-tax-users”, while the hard core of the Republican Party are “lifetime-net-tax-payers”. Taxing the latter to buy the votes of the former has been the strategy of the Democratic Party since the days of the Great Society, and it was affordable due to the huge bulge of Baby Boomers of the Productive Classes entering America’s labor force just when LBJ launched that initiative.”

And the “Evil Party” suckers the “Stupid Party” to fund votes for the “Evil Party” year in and year out… No wonder the “Stupid Party” is the classic insiders’ nickname for the GOP.

Note to President Bush: no compromise. You won; they lost. Make the “Evil party” comply with the will of the people.

This is—obviously—a picture, a mosaic, of President Bush, composed of “pixels” made up of faces of service personnel who have died (supposedly in combat) in Iraq. Although there are a few more than 1,000 who have died in Iraq, total, since not all those are combat-related and the composer of the pic used nearly 1,500 faces, we can assume that more than a few were used more than once.

Nevertheless, depending upon the eye of the beholder, it is either a moving tribute to the heroic actions of our troops or (as the artist, “American Leftist” intended) a scathing criticism of Bush’s policies. I saw it as a moving tribute to the troops…

CLICK here to go to a page where you can download a large sized copy of the pic, if you wish.

(h.t. to Michelle Malkin for the link.)

It’s been attributed to Sun Tsu, Lee, Grant, Clausewitz and many others. I really don’t know the source, but that it’s attributed to so many military minds is a measure of this truism’s… uh, truth. [heh]

“No plan of battle survives first contact with the enemy.”

While I would have preferred Bush to have run a different campaign—better explanation of the War on Terrorism (and a use of that, or better terms in preference to the stupid “War on Terror”), including reasons for Iraq’s place in that war; a more complete exposure of sKerry’s record of faux liberal perfidy; a smarter decision re: Fallujah #1 (let the citizens leave, then level the place would have worked), etc—I think almost no one could have predicted the absolute stupidity of sKerry—and sKerry himself—supporters that was crucial to victory in the campaign. As Ann Coulter said,

“To Michael Moore, George Soros, Terry McAuliffe, Dan Rather, Al Franken and the whole gang at Air America Radio – you were great, guys! Thanks for the help! We couldn’t have done it without you!”

And that may explain the virtual bye Bush handed sKerry on his record. Sure, in October the Bush campaign laid bare the skeleton of that record, but they never really fleshed it out. Absent the irrational hate and obvious dirty tricks by the Dems and their loyal mouthpieces in the Mass Media Podpeople’s Army, I’m not sure the electorate would have been as motivated as it was to deny these loony left moonbats the victory they craved.

Next campaign in the war to save civilization? Dismantle and demolish the Mass Media Podpeople’s Army of loony left moonbats. That’s a job for the blogosphere and right-thinking talk radio.

Oh, and a reminder to just Go. Read.

Pournelle‘s chart of Political Axes. It may help as you think through your own political stances.

This sign from a post-election rally in San Francisco prompts me to say, “Please do. Please.”

Preferably soon. Today? In fact, how about a plebiscite on the question from the entire Left Coast?

Good riddance.

In my post about Bobby Jindal, yesterday, I said he was the first Indian-American elected to Congress. I was wrong. I forgot Dalip Singh Saund, who served as a Congressman from California in the 1950s.

Well, I’ve enjoyed Jimmy Breslin’s novels (most of them). But he’s been fading into ever weirder and weirder loony left moonbattery as time has gone on, and his columns reflect his loony left moonbat disconnect from reality. See his “retirement” column (read it and ROFL) filed and dated Tuesday calling the election a landslide… for Jean Fraud sKerry.

What a maroon.

Sad to see talent go to waste that way. But then, he was always a better fiction writer than political observer/columnist. Oh, wait. Loony left moonbat columnist=fiction writer. I really have to keep that striaght…

Check the Mudville Gazette, a blog from a guy with his boots on the ground in Iraq. If you get your Iraq War “news” from the Mass Media Podpeoples’ Army, you’re getting news from the enemy’s perspcetive, with the enemy’s propoganda twist. Get it from a source who’s really there and involved.

booboisie \boob-wah-ZEE\, noun:
A class of people regarded as stupid or foolish.

H.L. Mencken is credited (if that’s the word 🙂 with coining the word “booboisie” (after the popularity of the time of sneeringly referring to the middle class as “bourgoisie” in homage to Marx’s slur against the class). He often used it when poking holes in psedudo intellectuals’ pretentions.

Now, the pseudo intellectuals in the Mass Media Pospeoples’ Army (see: The Day the Enlightenment Went Out are predictably using the word to refer to the idiots (to botrrow from TehRAYzah) who voted for Bush.

Watch this phenomenon. It’s akin to the projection used in political campaigns when disingenuous candidates cast their opponents as being afflicted with their own worst weaknesses.

When their tank is empty and they’re sitting by the side of the road, they sneer at the guy who stops to offer them a lift to a gas station and wax snarky about how low on gas their benefactor is…

Bobby Jindall, from Louisiana, “narrowly” edged out his opponent with a 78% margin of victory [heh] to become Congressman-elect for the 1st Congressional District of Louisiana. He’s the first Indian-American (his folks are immigrants from India) to be elected to Congress.

And he’s a Republican.

Take that and stick it, tiny-umbrella Dems.

hey! I n a couple of years, he’ll be old enough to run for president, and with his qualifications (and if his performance in the House matches up with his past record), I’d look forward to a 2008 race with him on the ticket.