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I’m not with Josh Marshall much…

Posted: April 8, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news, war
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but this paragraph concerning a certain qatari diplomat with a nicotine fit perfectly fits my thoughts:

I mean, are we really to believe that this guy took his having diplomatic immunity as free rein to crack a joke about need to light his shoe bomb? I’m curious whether under international law a diplomat can be expelled from a host country simply for being a raging c@#k.

Michelle Malkin is on the same page as Josh, that doesn’t happen often either:

If there’s any “misunderstanding,” it’s not from the air marshals who took their jobs seriously, it’s from the arrogant jerk who thinks treating national security with sarcastic shoebomb jokes when questioned by our homeland security watchdogs has any place at all on a plane in flight over American skies.

This fellow needs to be declared Persona non grata fast.

Yet another side effect of Obamacare

Posted: April 7, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news, war
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In my Liz Carter article, I mentioned the incredible tale of the NAACP distrusting the Main Stream Media.

FireDogLake found themselves on the opposite side of the MSM during the great Obamacare debate and found themselves questioning the media as well.

The signicifance? Once you start questioning the media you stop taking certain things on faith, such as our troops as murderers:

I want to first start by saying that Wikileaks has really misled the public on the details of this video. They made it sound like it was an unprovoked massacre of unarmed civilians, and so it angers me when I wasted my time watching this video to see nothing like that.

Now in comments people are taking different sides but the very fact that there are people taking sides here is incredible. The times they are a changin.

No wonder CNN is suddenly trying the truth about Tea Party rallies.

I’m not a professional press secretary …

Posted: April 7, 2010 by datechguy in Afghanistan war, war
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but If I was asked about the ally question I would have said:

“Yes but even allies have disagreements and arguments on occasion. That’s just life.”

How hard is that?

I suspect that the Russian Response to the bombings in Moscow…

Posted: March 29, 2010 by datechguy in war
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…will not be as restrained or as nuanced as the American Response to 9/11.

I don’t expect to see soul searching or worries about the niceties. Putin is KGB and they certainly are not going to worry about keeping the US or international press happy, and the Russian Press certainly isn’t going to call for kid gloves.

And lets not pretend it is not Islamic:

While the Chechnyan conflict started off as a political rebellion, it has been an Islamist affair for most of the last several years. The “Black Widows” took part in the infamously botched seizure of a Moscow theater in 2002, when Russian authorities gassed the hostages and terrorists in an attempt to disable them, but wound up killing many of them instead.

This will not be pretty. Nor should we expect it to be.

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