Never play Chicken with Someone you don't Know

Iranian "gunboats" Threaten U.S. Navy (Unh-huh)

And the american public still doesn't get it; I first got this from the business channel (CNBC?) this morning and the usually straight (worldly, joking-uncle type) Marc Haines asked "Why don't they just blow 'em out of the water?(chortle)". 

Meanwhile the oil ticker over his head shows $96.00.

Ass-hats in all sizes. "In this style - 10/6"

Okay, Robert Lindsay is the Third Coolest Commie*, ever

Alexander Cockburn is really the coolest commie after Limonov. Cockburn's end-0f-year retrospective on 07, has got me ready to storm the bastille.  On the bushes, the democrats, horowitz, dershowitz, chrisopher hitchens, imus, sharpton... down they go like ducks in a galley.

Surprising support for the second amendment, a most fair-minded (but wrong) defense of hucabee and two good Ron Paul plugs. Seriously, read the whole thing.

*living, Robert Lindsay is the third coolest living commie, ever. but only because he's temporarily sidetracked by some genome hair-splitting field trip, after which I'm sure he'll be rested up and ready to rrrawk!

update - he's back and battlin' (after the VA loan post) the bad guys.  Glad to see I'm not the only one with photo issues on blogger.

The Perfect as the Enemy of the Good Part.1

Regarding Ron Paul's Iowa Ad, and Justin Raimondo's complaint:

Steady on, guys. This is the first time I've disagreed with anything Justin said, and not on the merits, but the Silber-level cry of fire in the night. I'm sure it was a campaign blunder to go after the two dozen tancredo supporters that didn't swing to romney as directed. I bet Paul's views are closer to Vijay Boyapati's, and that Paul will handle this masterfully, if he doesn't take too much friendly fire. Geez

In Halo, when you accidently shoot you own guys, it means you're supposed to be in front of them!

Et tu, Pat?

The recent series of open letters to Ron Paul doubters on LewRockwell.com prompts me to write my own to Pat Buchanan.  I can't decide on what kind of tone I should take, though, so I'm just going to ask why he isn't loudly and enthusiastically supporting Ron Paul.

I saw him on CSPAN/Sirius's POTUS08 and he was given the opportunity to say who he favors and he did mention Ron Paul, although couched in typical "I disagree with some of his policies" tepid support.  This was after Pat explained that he (Buchanan) had left the Republican Party in 2000 and that they did not reward disloyalty.  He also said that it looks like the surge is working and we couldn't just pull out of Iraq.  He's carrying Bush's water after having opposed all of Bush's policies, when he just admitted that they never forget or forgive. 

What is Pat up to? The only thing that I can think is that he loves his present position as "cranky conservative elder" media guy and wants to maintain his credibility if Paul goes down in flames.  I don't want to believe that because the Paul candidacy IS the Buchanan revolution. I hope he's just keeping his powder dry, but c'mon eileen! I maxed my donations to the Buchanan campaign when he won NH and then the Republican establishment locked arms against him.  I remember quite clearly.  Why doesn't he?

 Pat - march toward the sound of the guns!

"The Admiral is Afraid that the Alliance knows about the Airshaft Flaw in the Deathstar"

r2d2-Justin Raimondo

c3po-Karen De Coster

Obi-Wan - Burt Blumert

(young Obi-Wan) Anthony Gregory

Laia - Karen Kwiotkowtski

Yoda - Paul Gottfried

Luke - Ron Paul

Han Solo - Lew Rockwell

Chewbacca - Pat Buchanan

Jaba - Ahmed Chalabi

Emperor - Rupert Murdoch

Darth Vader - Richard Pearl

Boba Fett - William Crystal

Darth Maul - Dick Cheney

Irritating Jaba-mascot muppet - George Junior

Stormtroopers - Free Republic

As if further proof were needed

The story was that the Army was beefing up its weapons distribution system, increasing the staff from six to seventy and bringing in a general from the Reserve. This could be for two reasons, either stuff was not properly accounted for, or it wasn't going out fast enough, or (probably) both. My theory, that nothing happens politically by accident, leads me to assert that the entire Iraq project was simply to introduce chaos to the region and to keep the military there until the chaos becomes self-sustaining. There is a plausible case to be made that circumstances were such that we needed to get cash in circulation so fast that we couldn't account for it; eight-to-twelve Billion is what I've heard. Occam's razor cuts away all but the most likely explanation, graft and corruption; however they were trying to bootstrap a dollar economy, and they needed to kill the native currency (or absorb it by favorable conversion rates). Okay, I don't like it, but I'll accept it.

It's a much different matter with weapons though. I'm assuming we're talking about small arms. If we're giving anyone heavy or sophisticated weapons, all bets are off, except it lends even more support for my diplomacy by arson theory. So we're giving arms and money to purchase arms to those we already know to be corrupt and/or infiltrated by those we're fighting before, now and in the future. The newly beefed-up supply operation is to try to direct the aid to approved individuals or groups and keep it out of the hands of all others. To me, especially considering the recent withdrawl of the British, the timing and apparent (oh, sorry Sen. McCain), the success of the surge, it looks like we're hurrying up arming the Sunnis, so that we can withdraw to the bases (or completely if President Paul takes over) and wait until the Iraqis sort things out. That is, completely destroy themselves and as many Kurds, Turks, Syrian, and Persians as possible, sign on oil deal with whoever's still standing, and start pumping! Who's your daddy?






http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/12/ap_weaponssales_071220w/

"This isn't about restricting freedom of opinion, it's about examining what the limits are."

Wikipedia Too Nazi - How much is just right? 

Maybe they can get Robert Lindsay to testify that the truth is what was edited by the last guy to shut off the computer and go to bed muttering to himself.