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Guest post by: 1389AD!
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. – Matthew 24:6 (King James Version)
In his new article, The Immorality of the Moral High Ground, Sultan Knish explains why Israel and the West keeps losing, and the jihadis keep winning. It’s because we have been manipulated into trying to claim the moral high ground in a struggle that leaves no room for morality. The eventual result is capitulation to evil.
We can’t win the War on Terror so long as we hold to liberal definitions of the Moral High Ground. We can’t even begin to really fight it. What’s worse, is that not only does this warped understanding of morality result in more American deaths, it results in more deaths of both fighters and civilians on the enemy side. Because where the soldier understand that the most moral way to win a war is, quickly. The bleeding heart liberal thinks that the most moral way to win a war is, never. To a liberal if we must fight a war, we should do it with our hands tied behind our backs, and after a decade of senseless bloodshed, we’ll finally come to realize that war is a bad thing.
As the Biblical quotation reminds us, war has always been, and always will be, part of the earthly human condition. Violent conflict is a part of the fallen nature of mankind, which is the very thing that the “progressives” attempt to deny by insisting that they can perfect mankind by perfecting the structure of society. This is why the efforts of so many people to prevent war, or to legislate rules for fighting war, serve only to worsen it when it inevitably happens.
Putting liberals in charge of determining what soldiers can do in a war is like putting die hard big government advocates in charge of privatizing the government. Not only will they see that the whole thing fails, they’ll make sure that it fails as painfully and horribly as possible in order to serve as a lesson to any future government that might flirt with any similar notion. They did it with the War on Terror, intimidating military interrogators with threats of legal action and exposure, while helping the terrorists realize that all they need to do is claim torture in order to be set free. They did it brilliantly in Iraq, subverting the reconstruction in the aftermath of a successful war, from within, until the entire thing collapsed into squabbling factions. They did it on Iran, feeding false claims that there was no nuclear program long enough for Bush to leave office.
But of course, the liberals never apply the same moral standards to our enemies.
Why? Because they want our enemies to win, that’s why.
Why does Israel have a terrorist problem, and not Jordan, which has the same Arab population that Israel does? It’s not simply because Israel is mostly Jewish and Jordan is mostly Muslim, though that is a contributing factor. A primary focus of Islamists is to take over countries with majority Muslim populations in order to build the Caliphate. The reason is because in 1970 when the terrorists began hijacking planes and declared that a part of Jordan belonged to them, King Hussein sent in the army. He didn’t kill a mere 52 Palestinian Arab terrorists, as Israel did in Jenin. Or a mere 107 in Deir Yassin. Not even the 800 or so killed in fighting between Arabs in Sabra and Shatilla. No, according to Arafat, King Hussein’s troops killed an estimated 25,000 Palestinian Arabs.
This wasn’t some sort of unique event by Middle Eastern standards. When the Islamists tried to stage an uprising in Hama, Syrian troops killed somewhere between 20,000 to 40,000 people. When Arafat sided with Saddam during the Gulf War, Kuwait expelled 400,000 Palestinian Arabs. Why did they do it? Because by 1990, Kuwait had some 564,000 native Arabs, and some 450,000 Palestinian Arabs. So the Kuwaitis began bombing Palestinian Arab neighborhoods, top officials boasted about “cleansing” Palestinian Arabs from Kuwait, and tanks and troops were sent into Palestinian Arab neighborhoods, setting up checkpoints, killing, imprisoning and torturing thousands. There were plenty of atrocities that got brief mentions in the media, before the Palestinian Arabs were gone from Kuwait, and everyone moved on.
Just to grasp the sheer scale of the double standard here, in the same year that the Bush Administration was pressuring Israel to negotiate with the PLO in the name of human rights, President H.W. Bush gave a blank check to the Kuwaiti royal family to do anything they wanted to the Palestinian Arabs in their country. He told the Kuwaiti ambassador, “The war wasn’t fought about democracy in Kuwait” and justified everything the royals were doing, saying, “I think we’re expecting a little much if we’re asking the people in Kuwait to take kindly to those that had spied on their countrymen that were left there, that had brutalized families there, and things of that nature.” The Kuwaiti government newspaper Sawt Al Kuwait, featured Bush’s comments under the headline, “We Would Be Asking a Lot, If We Asked Them to Show Mercy.”
And that just about says it all. The same Western governments which think it’s asking a lot to expect Muslims to show mercy, make those demands of Israel all the time. They make those demands of their own forces, while never expecting Muslims to show mercy.
Sultan Knish explains what we must do instead:
…In the same way, stamping out the first terrorist attacks will save you from engaging in a prolonged struggle. That means doing it with decisive finality. This is a simple truth that every Middle Eastern country, but Israel understands. And a simple fact that every Muslim country understands, but the United States does not. Throw a dart at any major Muslim nation, and you find repression, mass graves and even genocide. Indonesia, Sudan, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Turkey– it never ends. There’s a very simple reason for that. In Islam, force is the only real morality.
Mohammed is not the Prophet of Islam because he offended the Meccans and got killed for it. He’s the prophet of a worldwide religion, because he killed everyone in his path. And then his followers killed everyone in their path. And then their followers went on doing the same damn thing for over a thousand years, right into the present day– where Muslims are still killing and making war on everyone who isn’t a Muslim, and refuses to become one. Islam has only one real revelation, death. But it has to be death with a purpose. The purpose is the triumph of Islam. If victory is possible, then the Islamists have plenty of volunteers to die, because they believe in the Islamic paradise and its 72 virgins. If on the other hand, the Islamists get stomped into the dirt, their religious credibility runs at an all time low. When victory is impossible, Islam withers and goes into the long sleep of cultural hibernation to awaken in a more permissive time.
There’s only one way to defeat terrorists. To fight them without any more restraint than they impose on themselves. Under such conditions, superior force and technology makes the victory of the civilized side inevitable, and creates an incentive for the uncivilized side to become civilized, or pay the price. The Moral High Ground, the whole idea that restraint toward those who would kill you is the essence of morality, is one of the most perniciously self-destructive ideas ever coined. It is suicide with a slogan. The Moral High Ground is not moral and it is not the high ground, it is the way by which civilians go to their death over the cliff of their own warped ideals.
There is only one Moral High Ground that that can defeat, the moral high ground of standing up for civilization, against those who would drown it in the ichor of their own hate, the stench of their own greed, the lust of their own power and the blood of their endless murders. It is not moral to let your family be murdered, rather than harm the murderers. He who slays those who kill his loves ones, stands on the true moral high ground. The only true Moral High Ground that there is.
Sadly, it is not only the dhimmis in the Obama administration (and in the administration of every US president since Reagan left office) who are to blame for our current predicament. It’s the fact that the US has let itself be fooled by the leftist elite, not only in Washington DC, but also the Ivy League, the think tanks, the NGOs, the Hollywood left, and the rest of the mainstream media. As Sultan Knish also mentions, Israel has its own left that exerts a pernicious influence, to the detriment of Israel’s security and survival. And as Gates of Vienna tells us every day, the same is true in the EU.
Perhaps most of all to blame is the UN and all of its pomps and all of its works. As I personally tried to warn everyone over a decade ago, Israel would be next in line to suffer the condemnation that was visited upon the Serbs for daring to defend themselves against the jihadi onslaught. And so it was.
There is no joy in pointing out that I was right, after it is too late to mitigate the damage. At least for me, to say “I told you so” is not so much a temptation, as Thomas Fleming once warned, to the sin of pride, but to that of despair.
-1389AD
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Thanks for posting this!
Great thread 1389AD. Very insightful.
Yeah, no more sincere looks of concern and understanding while the barbarians are sawing of heads.
No where is this more evident than in our show of sensitivity and community spirit by building a mosque near ground zero. 1389, this is a great post. It is a heavy topic for a Friday night and probably will not get the comments it deserves.
Thanks very much, Snowcrash and Chickadee, but Sultan Knish really did most of the work here. Everybody reading this thread, please be sure and go over to read Sultan Knish’s original article. There is much more in the original article than shown in my excerpts here, and other worthwhile articles on Knish’s blog.
If you want the moral high ground – then surrender. If you want to win – kill your enemies.
The most telling thing abt. the sinister goal of the muzz is that they are the only immigrant group that has ever come to America with no intention of assimilating into our culture. No other group establishes NO GO zones and tries to impose their own legal and social system on our country. They don’t come to be part of our incredible Democracy, they come to pervert it, to undermine it, to kill it.
Apologies for dragging Daedalus business over here, but there is some serious nick-jacking action going on over there.
Speranza wrote:
I think taking the “moral high ground” is an act used by a lot of libs just to hide their cowardice.
They tremble at the thought of going up against the head choppers. Better to throw in with them and hope for mercy than make a principled stand against evil.
Has the war on terror been mismanaged? Of course, war in not a science. The biggest mistake IMO was not using tactical nuclear weapons at Tora Bora in 2001. We had a window of 3-4 weeks when we could have used them and the world community would have sympathized.
I don’t mean to be a (huge) pain but…
the McCain-Hayworth-AndSomeOtherGuy debate starts in 10 minutes!
you can listen live on http://www.kfyi.com
When you wage war, I think you have a moral obligation to wrap it up as quickly as possible, you know the General Sherman strategy.
@ Kirly:
Kirly it is currently 110 degrees. LOL
MrPaulRevere wrote:
True; however, unless I’ve missed something, I think the miscreant probably has left by now.
Kirly wrote:
Everytime McCain says “My Friends”….DRINK!
Okay, I’m outta here gonna catch it on the radio in the car on the way over to Macker’s.
@ 1389AD:
Hopefully, but they smell blood and will be back.
omg! look at this. this website is run by someone on the JD Hayworth campaign… seems McCain thinks it’s ok for his staffers to snoop around from work – ie, while being paid with our tax dollars!
http://www.icarizona.com/2010/07/hello-to-mccain-government-staffers.html
I agree with caller. McCain must explain his position on amnesty and border control. Hope Hayworth can debate.
snowcrash wrote:
yep. and?
lol! that’s pretty normal for midJuly! oh, and a storm appears to be rolling in. kewl.
The Osprey wrote:
no way! i’ll be falling down drunk in the first 15 minutes!
teehee. i wish you guys could SEE this on the simulcast on television! McCain looks really puny next to JD and SomeOtherGuy (Jim Deakin) looks downright tiny! he is. i’ve met him in person. i don’t think he was 5 ft tall!
MrPaulRevere wrote:
I agree. It saves lives and is the best way to end suffering in an on going war.
Pat McCain on the head and give him his gold watch. I for one am disgusted by gerontocracies, these foggy headed old men who are addicted to power make me want to vomit.
it’s true, the NRA supports McCain BUT that is only because they are a single issue organization. grrrrrr
MrPaulRevere wrote:
me too! BARF!
Hayworth helped write the Bush Tax Cuts which McCain voted against! ha!
The future is really going to suck major donkey turds if the cowardly majority continues to surrender to a violent minority.
McCain said “institutions are still too big to fail”. the man is clearly not a capitalist.
chickadee wrote:
100% correct, and it sends a message to future potential adversaries.
omg! mccain just said “oh, and by the way, i never supported amnesty” and chuckled! liar! he voted for it in 1986 and led the charge in 2007! liar!!!
Kirly, I havent heard McCain in a while. I didnt realize how angry I still am at his feeble performance in the presidential election. To hear him get all mavericky and full of fight for this race hacks me off.
snowcrash wrote:
tell me about it. i’m moving into near hatred of that jerk!
you’re lucky you can’t see his arrogant face.
@ Kirly:
Sadly, I think the fix is in for McCain, the party apparatus is behind him. It’s too bad he didn’t have the good sense to retire.
MrPaulRevere wrote:
i believe you’re correct in your assessment but i am NOT voting for McCain ever again for anything!
for the record, i’ve always liked this Jim Deakin fellow… The Other Guy.
@ chickadee:
Think about it…would the Soviets have invaded Afghanistan (obviously the genesis of our current problem) if we had done whatever it took to prevail in Vietnam? Highly unlikely. They smelled weakness, and they were right.
I like McCain and commend him for his service but he is just not appropriate anymore for what we are up against. He needs to retire now. Just get out of the way.
@ MrPaulRevere:
What happened in Saigon in 1975 came back to haunt us in NYC on 9-11-2001.
Speranza wrote:
I say kill them and then seize the high ground.
Tactically sound that way.
Kirly wrote:
No, he is a Crony Capitalist.
MrPaulRevere wrote:
The Soviets knew damn well that the worthless peanut farmer would do nothing more then wring his hands and look (more) stupid.
MrPaulRevere wrote:
Maybe, but I think they smelled weakness in Carter more than anything else. And the reek of weakness from this white house is overwhelming
intersting article on mccain here.
http://nymag.com/print/?/news/politics/67144/index6.html
he said Sarah Palin wouldn’t even return his calls last summer. ha!
it starts off a big slow but gets better as it goes along.
MrPaulRevere wrote:
Truman learned that lesson of war well, and had no qualms about dropping the bombs.
interesting article on mccain here. says palin wouldn’t even return his calls. hahah.
http://nymag.com/print/?/news/politics/67144/index6.html
if this is a sort of duplicate comment, i’m sorry. i thought it blasted me for some reason.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Barry is making Jimmah look like a rogue cowboy running roughshod over foreign policy.
Kirly wrote:
We had a real ripsnorting storm last night with a lot of flash flooding. This morning, the sand had washed away from under the right front tire, leaving it buried about 6 inches in the ground. The retractable front step was almost at ground level.
We went out to do some job-hunting errands and, when we got back, we told the RV park office we needed something to be done because we were in danger of getting stuck.
The RV park office said they could not fix the hole over the weekend, but that we could move to another lot, so we detached everything and moved the whole shebang. After we moved, we looked at where we had moved from. Turns out that, under the inner rear wheel on the right side, there had been another hole maybe a foot deep, that we couldn’t have seen without crawling under the vehicle.
The motorhome is a fairly heavy one, and had it been left to sit on the damp ground with the other right rear wheel next to a foot-deep hole, the ground would have caved further and all the wheels on that side would have been buried. We probably would have needed a heavy-duty tow truck to get back on level ground. And we can’t just leave the RV parked lopsided, because the refrigerator (that we just had fixed at much expense) will NOT run if the vehicle is off level.
@ Nevergiveup:
I thinks it’s a mistake to pin the perception of weakness on Carter exclusively. Of course he was weak and they had his number, but our failure to at least come to a stalemate ala the Korean war sent a huge message.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Yeah i agree
chickadee wrote:
I respect McCain for his military service, but I have nothing but disdain for his political views and time as Senator. He is pissing on Goldwater’s and Reagan’s graves, laughing the whole time.
Kirly wrote:
Any institution that is supposedly “too big to fail” is actually too big to SAVE.
chickadee wrote:
Any honor McCain won for himself in Vietnam he has squandered ten times over as a two-bit RINO whore. I have zero respect for that POS.
lacking a last minute lightning bolt from the Almighty, one can always hope for a major stroke.
MrPaulRevere wrote:
Yeah I didn’t really disagree with you. It certainly was a combination of all those things.
@ 1389AD:
holy cow! that sounds like such an unpleasant ordeal! i’m glad you moved!!!
wth?? mccain said he led the fight against obamacare in the senate! i hate liars!
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
As much as I am disappointed in McCain’s behavior as a politician I can’t wish that on anybody who wore this country’s Uniform with Honor.
@ Kirly:
McCain prevaricates with immunity because he knows the fix is in. That’s the way they roll.
MrPaulRevere wrote:
are you listening to this guy?? holy crap. he led the fight against, well, apparently, everything. sheesh!
The moderator is doing a good job. The questions are pointed and follow up is good.
Why is McCain channeling Reagan with the “there he goes again”. He isnt fooling anyone.
Kirly wrote:
He certainly is leading the fight against us, the citizens that care about this country being free.
snowcrash wrote:
yeah, frank camacho is a good guy. been around in local media for EVER. well, at least for the 22 years since i moved here.
snowcrash wrote:
i know. it’s pathetic. but, the lazy idiots will just believe him.
@ Kirly:
I just tuned in…
A law that makes it illegal to lie about being a war hero is unconstitutional because it violates free speech, a federal judge ruled Friday as he dismissed a case against a Colorado man who claimed he received two military medals.
Rick Glen Strandlof claimed he was an ex-Marine who was wounded in Iraq and received the Purple Heart and Silver Star, but the military had no record he ever served. He was charged with violating the Stolen Valor Act, which makes it a crime punishable by up to a year in jail to falsely claim to have won a military medal.
U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn dismissed the case and said the law is unconstitutional, ruling the government did not show it has a compelling reason to restrict that type of statement.
And the kicker, he is a Bush appointee?
Kirly wrote:
Usually, RVers in campgrounds don’t worry that much about flash flooding, because most RVs are up on wheels high enough to stay dry when the ground gets wet. But if it’s so bad that the ground washes away, all bets are off.
There has been at least one storm (i.e., what happened recently in Arizona) where, on account of the topology of the area, flash flooding has concentrated in the RV park, resulting in fatalities.
“My friends”! 11 sheriffs!
Kirly, Hayworth is holding his own. Is the third candidate going to be the spoiler for Hayworth or McCain?
@ Nevergiveup:
I happen to agree with the judge. There is nothing in the Constitution that says making an ass of one’s self is illegal.
Let these feckless flaming assholes make their false claims, and suffer the humiliation of being shown up for the liars they are.
@ 1389AD:
oh, yeah, that was awful! people clinging in trees for hours! it hit during the night. some folks never knew what hit ‘em.
we had a flash flood hit in the slot canyons near lake powell some years back. nightmare. many foreign tourists died. antelope canyon i think it was. beautiful place but dangerous during a storm. and they can come up very quickly here. and, the flood can be caused by a storm far away that you don’t even know is occurring. yeeesh!
snowcrash wrote:
most likely he’d pull votes from Hayworth. unfortunately. i like him so far. if Hayworth wasn’t in the race, i’d vote for Deakin.
Kirly wrote:
Makes me glad I live in active earthquake country.
Yes, Western Washington is as geologically active as is CA.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
I am not so sure. They can benefit from getting jobs and benefits usually reserved for vets.
you guys should see this on the television! hayworth, who was once a sports and weather guy, keeps turning towards McCain so that they show McCain smirking and taking notes in the foreground and Hayworth looming tall in the background speaking TO McCain! it’s really a good tactic.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Don’t we have laws against FRAUD?
Nobody makes claims like that unless they hope to get something of value for it, which can be anything from a roll in the hay with somebody, intimidating or discrediting opponents, a cushy job, possibly even election or appointment to public office, to book sales and who knows what other advantages. FRAUD.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
i know that! Seattle area is scary to me!
Nevergiveup wrote:
That’s b.s. and wrong.
Only the lowest scum do that. The compelling reason to stop these thieves is because stealing is a crime. And honor matters.
Nevergiveup wrote:
We don’t need more knee-jerk legislation that ends up penalizing the truthful and adds another layer of bureaucracy, just for the sake of one asshole making unearned claims. There are already more than enough ways the unscrupulous can game the system, they skate free without this law.
Kirly wrote:
Seattle scares me, but not because of the potential of earthquakes.
Fooking Libs and Hippies! Patchouli oil stench!
*BLEGH*
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
It is NOT an isolated problem.
@ 1389AD:
@ Kirly:
That brought back memories of the flash flood back in June 1972 in Rapid City, SD. It caused 238 deaths when it hit a large campground at night and over $100 million (1972 dollars) in damages to the surrounding area.
Nevergiveup wrote:
And having yet another law that more than likely will be unenforced is miraculously going to make the problem disappear?
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
i was a little girl then and so was not aware of it at the time. what a horrible event. very sad indeed.
MrPaulRevere wrote:
Not with me….the Lily there is the Lily here.
I don’t nic-jack….don’t think it is right. Might change my nic…
I didn’t post as Lily at lgf…..
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Why do you think it will be unenforced? And yes if people started suffering consequences I do believe it will help make the problem go away
chickadee wrote:
There are already laws against fraud, so why do we have to add yet another law that more than likely will be as unenforced as scores of other laws are. Enforce the existing laws, don’t write more useless bandage laws so as to have the faint patina of caring and doing something about a problem.
Kirly wrote:
If you are hiking or camping where you have reliable digital cellphone coverage (and that’s by no means guaranteed) you can get text warnings of flash floods and other severe weather. But that won’t help if you’re asleep or not paying attention to your phone, and there are a lot of false alarms.
As you know, flash flooding is often caused by rain that fell many miles away, causing a stream to crest. You don’t want to be in a slot canyon unless you KNOW there is no water coming at you anytime soon through what looks like a dry arroyo. I have read that more people die from DROWNING in deserts than from thirst, because desert soil is often hardened and prone to rapid runoff.
omg! JD just got off a zinger on McCain! something like… we’ve all heard of the 7 year itch, you’ve perfected the 6 year switch! hahahahahaha.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Yeah, whatever!
Like your part of town is all that great… not too far from The Aroma of Tacoma over in Lakewood…
Nevergiveup wrote:
There are already laws against fraud, and claiming military service for gain is fraud. Enforce those laws before writing another bandage law just to show something is being done.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
There are specific laws, outside of the general fraud laws, for saying you are a Dr., Lawyer, etc… There is precedence for this type of specific law.
savages_girl wrote:
The Aroma ain’t been around for quite a few years since the smelter and paper mill were shut down.
Now all we have to put up with is the sounds of the boys at the joint military base playing with their toys.
@ Kirly:
)
It was the week I graduated from HS, it was all over the news.
(I’m giving away my age here.
1389AD wrote:
i don’t know the statistics but i do indeed know that the desert soil does not absorb much water and so yep, the flash floods can be quite bad.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
I can go along with that, as long as they interpret “gain” as ANY kind of advantage, tangible or otherwise. For example, I don’t want some a**hole getting laid by claiming to be a war hero when he isn’t.
@ 1389AD:
Thank you for posting from Sultan Knish. Can you see that printed as an op-ed piece in the NYT? Can you hear the shout of ‘islamaphobia’ ringing through the air. By letting the Muslims smear all non-Muslims, they intimidate the average person. They bump it up by using Saudi money for lawfare. In Canada, they go after individuals and publications using the taxpayer-funded ‘Human Rights Commission’ We already have enough laws to prosecute people. Then you have to defend yourself with your own money as per Ezra Levant and Kathy Shaidle of ‘Five Feet of Fury’. There are only a few brave souls out there who can come up against our comfortably leftist country.
@ Nevergiveup:
If laws prevented people from committing crimes, we wouldn’t need courts or prisons.
Doesn’t mean we don’t need laws, though…
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
We’re roughly the same age then.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Just because there is precedence doesn’t require you let politicians run rampant writing more laws. Don’t you want less government? I sure do. And striking down this law as unconstitutional is a move in the right direction.
Disagree all you want, I won’t stop you or hold it against you, just don’t expect me to roll over and play dead accepting your point of view on this issue.
Nevergiveup wrote:
I agree. It is simply time for him to retire.
@ 1389AD:
lobo91 wrote:
I just think this particular law was superfluous, excessive, and un-needed.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
The fact that one district court judge decided it’s unconstitutional doesn’t make it so.
The 10th Circuit will probably reverse him.
don’t debaters usually shake hands at the end?? McCain just walked off the set! he came back but he was looking for something and made NO effort to even look at his opponents! how rude!
lobo91 wrote:
That is more than likely. Still doesn’t change my dislike for this particular law.
Kirly wrote:
I’m not positive about this, but I don’t think McCain shakes hands with people very much, because of his war wounds.
Lily wrote:
I have to disagree in part with what you said. I think it is PAST time for him to retire.
Kirly wrote:
Watch out, or Bigfoot will eat you…
@ lobo91:
ok but just walking off the set so abruptly like that was just weird.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Yes it is past time, but I don’t wish for him to have a stroke.
yenta-fada wrote:
I have a few articles about censorship in Canada on my blog (click here and scroll down through the articles if you’re curious). But nothing that recent. I stopped blogging for awhile because of (1) family responsibilities and school and (2) my discouragement, verging on despair, when the 2008 election came down to Hillary, Obozo, and McCain. Earlier this year, I took it up again, but I am no longer trying to keep up on topics that have already been covered elsewhere.
My main topics are: (1) defending Serbs (2) combatting efforts to censor conservative/counterjihad bloggers (3) jihadi and other enemy infiltration into the US tech industry. I have other bloggers on the team who send me counterjihad material on Australia, the Balkans, and elsewhere, and I post it as time and energy permits. I mostly try to stay with material that other people haven’t adequately covered on other blogs.
Kirly wrote:
It does seem like it.
lobo91 wrote:
Bob Dole shook hands quite regularly, just had to use his left hand since his right was useless from his war wounds.
McLame is just being the petulant whiny asshole RINO I can come to know and loath. I find it so hard to believe the man was such a hero during his military service he shows such childish behavior. Next thing you know he will be scratching his cheek during debates with his middle finger.
snork wrote:
Hey! I do not eat people!
lobo91 wrote:
Laws aren’t there to protect us from virtuous people. People who want to do what is right aren’t the ones who need laws to keep them in line.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
I’m aware of that. It’s because he was shot in the right side by a machine gun in Italy.
In McCain’s case, both his arms are messed up, from being tied above his head by the North Vietnamese.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
How do we know? You always want us to pull your finger…
@ 1389AD:
Thanks for letting me know your interests. Any one of those topics needs several full time researchers. What some people manage to do, like Pam Geller, takes astounding time and energy. I just like to include Canadian content sometimes because it has its own dynamics.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
There is great value in claiming to be a war hero. Doors are open for such thieves possibly to the detriment to real soldiers. And the Stolen Valor Act is important beyond that criminal aspect because it preserves the honor of real soldiers who served. That is sacred. We need to respect that.
Look at this fcker in Connecticut running for office claiming to be a Viet Nam War hero. He needs to be prosecuted under the Stolen Valor Act. This asshole has no sense of shame. In fact he is on the offensive saying he will not have his service (National Guard) tainted just because he “misspoke” multiple times abt. being in viet nam,, when he was NOT.
Throw him in jail.
yenta-fada wrote:
I used to run a big mailing list in the days before blogs, and back in 2007/2008 I blogged like a maniac, trying to influence the political scene for the better. It takes a very LONG time for one’s efforts to pay off, and there is never any way to quantify for sure how much influence any particular blog has had, even after the fact.
For a good part of the time, I was working full time during the day and spending all my time at home on the mailing list (and later the blog) and that took too much time away from family and other responsibilities, not to mention taking a heavy toll on my health.
I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I can’t cover any of those issues with the thoroughness that they deserve, and I don’t have the energy I had over a decade ago. I don’t have the resources to hire researchers, and I do not want to solicit contributions (other than articles) from people, or blog for anyone else in return for money, because that would give the appearance of compromising my independence. So I just do what I can and hope it will be good enough in the long run.
@ chickadee:
I see it as another “feel-good”, ultimately useless law that would be better served by enforcing the existing laws already on the books.
Getting rid of this law wouldn’t slight my honor for having served one iota.
chickadee wrote:
Once again you said it. Could not be more true.
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