“Where always is heard / A curmudgeonly word… “

As I get the hang of it, I may comment less and post links more. (Yeh, right. Those who know me know I came by my honorary Ph.D.B.S. honestly 🙂 Might work out to be managable and still satisfy my desire to encourage involvement in the Global War to Preserve Civilization.

BTW, the “home front” in the Global War to Preserve Civilization involves as part of the effort spiking every lie from post modernist deconstructuralist commie wacko leftists that it’s possible to spike… concerning everything from social “welfare” to education to the so-called “GWOT”…

…And encouraging those who have the ability to vote intelligently to be informed and to vote while gently discouraging those who are too stupid to find their way home from the grovery store without wreaking havoc driving slow in the fast lane from attempting to express their worthless opinions in the polling booth…

(I still think Neil Bootz’ idea of three qualifying questions before being allowed to vote is a good idea. Those who cannot name the Vice President, their Congressman and Senators would get shunted to non-working voting machines. Works for me.)

🙂

We does what we cans…

Lies, damned lies and CBS-quality “reporting”

By now you’ve probably heard the cannard that Cheney said Iraq was responsible for 9/11. The MSM (main stream media, or, as I prefer, mass media podpeople) have been going ape over this lie, based on a Meet the Press interview with Tim Russert on September 14. In fact, many of them have been showing a clip they say has Cheney saying that very thing.

Not so. You can look it up yourself (the transcript is online here), but here’s the part from the September 14, 2003 Meet the Press quote that the MSM, and their partners-in-crime in the Democrat party, disingenuously clip to create their lie…

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VICE PRES. CHENEY: Tim, we can do what we have to do to prevail in this conflict. Failure’s not an option. And go back again and think about what’s involved here. This is not just about Iraq or just about the difficulties we might encounter in any one part of the country in terms of restoring security and stability. This is about a continuing operation on the war on terror. And it’s very, very important we get it right. If we’re successful in Iraq, if we can stand up a good representative government in Iraq, that secures the region so that it never again becomes a threat to its neighbors or to the United States, so it’s not pursuing weapons of mass destruction, so that it’s not a safe haven for terrorists, now we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11. They understand what’s at stake here. That’s one of the reasons they’re putting up as much of a struggle as they have, is because they know if we succeed here, that that’s going to strike a major blow at their capabilities.

MR. RUSSERT: So the resistance in Iraq is coming from those who were responsible for 9/11?

VICE PRES. CHENEY: No, I was careful not to say that. With respect to 9/11, 9/11, as I said at the beginning of the show, changed everything. And one of the things it changed is we recognized that time was not on our side, that in this part of the world, in particular, given the problems we’ve encountered in Afghanistan, which forced us to go in and take action there, as well as in Iraq, that we, in fact, had to move on it. The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it’s a global operation. It doesn’t know national boundaries or national borders.
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Thx to Polpundit for checking the facts.

No Pajamas

A “native” informed me when I moved here to Southwest Missouri nine years ago that I’d just moved to “America’s Third World County“. Well, he’s moved away, and I’m still here. Yeh, it’s rural and sometimes a little primitive (no, I’m NOT going to get started on the tech infrastructure, but get out in the piney woods sometime to see what I mean… ), but there is no more beautiful countryside and the people are real.

And I guess that last comment is the reason I fell into this blog. (“Help! I’m bogged in a blog!”) Real people who know their neighbors, who have a strong connection to their community and the land are classic “Red County” flyover folks to the pinko, radical left that have hijacked the Democratic party. Here in America’s Third World County, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of Kedwards campaign signs I’ve seen on lawns. Folks here are just too real to easily fall for such blatant phonies. Yeh, you can fool a rural SW Missourian with a phony smile and a glib tongue, just not many of ’em and not often. “Trust but verify” is just a variation of “Show me” 🙂

We’ll see if I have anything to say or of this is just another lame diary. I give it a slight chance of ocassional moderate substance.

Should anyone find this page, here’s some suggested reading:

The Pournelle Political Axes, http://www.baen.com/chapters/axes.htm

Back later, when I’ve (hopefully) figured out how this blog format works… or not.