Month: November 2004

Target for the holidays? I say Scrooge ’em!

It’s all over the web, the blogosphere and even in the mouths of some few Mass Media Podpeople: Target has given the Salvation Army “ringers” the boot.

Do your shopping elsewhere for the holidays… and perhaps even beyond. And tell Target you’re “Scrooging” them with an email or a call.

guest.relations@target.com

1-800-440-0680

Be polite, but be assertive. I canned my first couple of tries at an email cos they spoke my mind too clearly. [heh]

Take aim at target. Fire away (with some “Scrooge you” messages… 🙂

All the bloviating by LLMs and MMPs about a marine shooting a supposedly unarmed and wounded terrorist in fallujah and a “RCB” (Red Curtain of Blood) threatens to descend over my eyes. Placing these folks one at a time in a pool of hungry —unarmed and wounded—sharks seems to be the only proper response.

“Terrorists wear no uniforms, and answer to no government; under all the Laws of War they may be shot out of hand. The only reason to preserve their lives is for the information they can give, or as an act of grace by civilized people to barbarians. And this be law… “ Jerry E. Pournelle

Idiots who can’t tell the difference between an accidnetal shooting of an unarmed civilian by police in an American city and shooting a terrorist combatant who is feigning death (as so many of his comrades have done while holding armed grenades, etc.) are less than Loony Left Moonbats; they are idiots who ought to be cleaned from the shallow end of the gene pool by being fed to the sharks.

And they’d probably even give sharks indigestion.

Citing the Geneva Convention only demostrates how idiotic they are. Sure, if the terrorists would sign the accords and abide by them, they might be afforded some of their protections, but even under the Geneva Conventions, it’s legal to kill an enemy combatant who is feigning death in order to facilitate an attack… But since they are not signatories or the representatives of signatories and are themselves of a class of combatants outlawed by the Convention and completely outside of any protections it might otherwise offer, NO SOLDIER is obligated IN ANY WAY to place themselves at greater risk by giving them a pass because they have feigned being dead…

So there, idiot LLMs. Go put a rag on your heads and play dead in Fallujah. Please.

Update: Well, more of an addendum. I am disappointed that the marine filmed shooting a terrorist is “under investigation” at all. Ideally, everyone in his chain of command—all the way up to his CINC, President Bush—would have said to the LLMB and the MMPA, “Tough noogies, losers. It’s open season on terrorists. A bullet (or five or six) is the best that they can reasonably expect. Spread the news. I say again: it is open season on terrorists. Hands in the air, playing dead, unconscious, wounded, unarmed: no matter their contemporary condition, they are under sentence of death. Should any soldier decide it is safe to spare a terrorist in hopes of gaining information on where to find more terrorists to kill, well, we’ll allow a certain amount of thyat, but the rule of engagement is this: dead terrorists are preferred 100 to 1 over live ones.”

Now, that would be an appropriate response to the weenies in the LLMB and MMPA who want to excuse the barbarians.

Of the two best things about four more years of a Bush administration, I’d be happy to give up four more years of lower taxes if it would contribute to four more years of (many more) dead Islamic jihadist terrorists. Hands in the air, playing dead, unconscious, wounded, unarmed: dead is the preferred condition. And as many of them as possible.

They’re slow learners (besides being about 80% illiterate). But “evolution in action” might, just might teach the few that remained that their idea of Islamic jihad is just plain counter-survival.

You noticed no blogging yesterday? Yeh, well. My “blogging” comp is under the weather. You know the old saw about the cobbler’s kids needing shoes? Yep. The comp guy’s computer needs a new mobo. Soooo…. I’m getting what lil bit I’m doing on comp done on two other machines not situated in my “nesting zone” but elsewhere on the lil network here (could be larger network, but the cobbler’s kids don’t get new connections, eh?).

Light reading suggests that Bush’s re-election is the gift that keeps on giving.

Powell out at State. Was a good general and indifferent Sec of State. Sure, he had lotsa dead weight to push/pull in the Dip Corps(e), but he was NOT the consumate team player COndi will be. Dems are already bad-mouthing her appointment cos some are saying she’s “too close” to the President, reads too much from the same page. Well, of course that’s pure and simple bullshit. The State Department has too long been an advocate of other countries’ agendas and MUCH too much in the pocket of the Saudis, kissing up to the French and so many of the other “Hate America First” crowd. It’s about time someone rattled their cages.

And similarly for the CIA (ought to be re-named CYA [heh]). I do very sincerely hop that a crackdown by a new head of th4 agency DOES result in mass self-firings. Badly needs a shakeup. Badly. Can anyone say “Valerie Plame”?

I’d have been even happier, in terms of shakeup potential, to see Rumsfeld at either post, but there’s only one of him to spread around. As it is, Condi at State makes it possible to groom her for 2008, at least for the VP slot.

And boy, will it put Chirac’s panties in a knot! (BTW, lotsa grinning going on over Chirac’s need to hang onto the presidency of his beloved cash cow because it shields him from prosecution for his corruption… )

Lotsa good stuff going on. Check the Belmont Club and Chrenkoff regularly for the real news from Iraq.

Apparently, Kerry supporters couldn’t find any Jewish folks who actually read Hebrew…

From the Protocols of the Yuppies of Zion came a link to this, at INDC Journal:

A reader [of the INDC Journal] e-mails:

Have a good friend in NYC who’s a hebrew scholar. He sent me the following about his dad wearing the button below. Kerry’s campaign apparently “misfired” again. I’ll let the story speak for itself:

“Did my father tell you about his Hebrew Kerry button? The democrats, trying to drum up more Jewish vote, printed campaign buttons with “Kerry” spelled phonetically in Hebrew. Unforturnately, no one told them that that spelling happens to be a Hebrew word. It means: “Seminal discharge”! Maybe we can save them for Clinton rallies…”

Apparently, there was a ‘dishonorable discharge’ after all …

[heh]

Now, while I do not have independant verification from an Hebrew scholar (the only one I know personally left the field and went into… lawyering [shudder] :-), this is at least humorous enough to attempt spreading the “discharge” meme a little…

After all, it sure beats the LLMB/MMPA/sKerry meme of talking terriosists into being nice guys and treating Islamic jihadists blowing up civilians as a “nuisance.”

IMAO has a great sendup of Demo underground conspiracy theories. I particularly enjoyed this part:

Hacker1: Yeah, there’s no fooling those guys [the Democratic Underground]. They’re on top of everything. Luckily, Rove had a plan for them too.

Hacker2: What he did was get all these mental patients – total schizos – and brainwash them about how evil the Republicans are. Then he gave them internet connections.

Hacker1: Now the schizos that Rove planted totally rule the Democratic Underground discussion forum. They’re the most prolific posters. Instead of getting anywhere on all the evil plans we have, they waste time blaming a Democrat event being rained out on Karl Rove.

Hacker2: Which is stupid because our weather machine is only 60% complete…

[heh] Just read the whole thing.

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2004/11/blue_state_blue.html

Blue states “invaded” by red state Dollywood values. An excerpt:

” …In one recent three-week period, fourteen high school students in Portland, Oregon were suspended for distributing pork rinds; a Burlington, Vermont high school was briefly closed for decontamination after janitors found a bible hidden in a restroom; and forty-six undergraduate coeds at Swarthmore were expelled for staging clandestine Mary Kay cosmetics parties.”

Dangerous trend, indeed… [heh]

Yeh, well, I kid you not… Go download/see the answer to Michael Moore-onic’s Fahrenheit 9/11 that this guy’s posted at his site. (It just about darned near requires Windows Media Player [spit!], but it’s a telling indictment of the Moore-ons in the LLMB and MMPA.)

As he says, since it’s composed of actual comments made by LLMs,

“***Warning — NOT INTENDED FOR KIDS OR BOB JONES GRADUATES.”

[heh]

A sample post from “The Discoshaman” whose site motto is, “Gentrifying the Christian Ghetto Since 2003″–

“One thing you can say for Calvinists. . .

Anyone who says that man is totally depraved couldn’t be all bad.”

Oh, [heh]

🙂

…Launched from a site near Baghdad, the Predator UAV carried a Hellfire missile. Its crew and its video feeds were back in California. A few weeks earlier, the Watchdogs had employed Predator to hit a moving pickup with a mounted machine gun—one robot leading another robot to the target. NFL games on television allow the viewer to see the same play from different angles. But the digital pipes for battlefield imagery weren’t large enough to permit the Watchdogs and the Predator crew in California to see each other’s video. Instead, the Predator and Pioneer crews used e-mail chat and GPS coordinates to align their platforms….

Now, this is what Rumsfeld, et al, have been talking about when trying to pound sense about military transformation and the strategy of technology to the MMPA and LLMB, although, of course, Rummy tries to avoid the big words when speaking to the mental half-packs in the LLMB and MMPA… (h.t. to Bill @ INDC Journal)

“The Watchdogs of Fallujah

From: Bing West
Subject: How the Pioneer Robot Plane Helped Win an Artillery Duel
Thursday, Nov. 11, 2004, at 11:37 AM PT

…The two-story cement house where the insurgents were hiding between rounds had a dome roof, a large courtyard with an outside wall, and an overhang at the front door, where a sentry was posted. The Watchdogs had counted five men outside, assuming it was the same sprinters making the round trip to the mortar each time…

…The courtyard door opened, and a man walked to the truck and slowly drove away.

“Boot muj sent out to get the Coke. Luckiest bastard on the planet.”

Both video screens suddenly flashed bright white, as if a fuse had blown. There was a collective Damn! from the watching Marines. The center of the roof was now a huge black hole…

Now, that’s a transformation I can get behind: Predator crew in California teaming up with the boots on the ground = smoking hole in Fallujah. Sounds good to me. Can’t do that with draftees. (Well, you could, perhaps, but by the time they are trained it’s time they got out… and they’d likely leave as fast as they could.) Need to have highly-trained specialists, and that means all-volunteer, there for the full ride kinda guys. Not unwilling mutts dragged in off the streets.

OK, that should be “Blind Hypocritical Bigots to the Left of Me,” but that just doesn’t scan as well…

Betsy Newmark (OK, I’ve told you and told you to bookmark her Betsy’s Page blog. So when are you going to do it, already?) points to an article by George Neumayr that contains this nugget:

“The Democrats are far more interested in subduing Christianity at home than defeating militant Islam abroad. They can write acerbically about Southern Christians as jihadists, then eulogize real jihadists like Arafat as peacemakers. They can bring a very benign interpretation to Islam, insisting that the founders of Islam held the same liberal values and views as the editorial writers of the New York Times — watch PBS’s documentaries on Islam and you would think the early Muslim sultans were PBS liberals — but offer no such generous understanding to Christian teachings.”

James Taranto (Best of the Web, Opinion Journal) sees the following lil
epigram by Hillaire Belloc as applicable to Arafat:

Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician's corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

Hmmm... can anyone think of a few others that would fit? ("Git the rope, Ma.
A buncha us guys are going down to 'welcome' that  politician who came to
town, today.")  Brings to mind one of my favorite quotes by a famous Missourian:

"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself". Mark Twain

Of course, congresscritters do not, in the 21st century, comprise the sum total
of the class, "idiots," in our society, as Twain impies they did in the 19th century.
We have the rest of the LLMB and the MMPA to take up the slack, there.