Posts Tagged ‘reality’

They’re just asking for it

Posted: January 19, 2009 by datechguy in war
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Surprise surprise Hamas intends to re-arm:

“Do what you like, but manufacturing holy weapons is our goal,” masked spokesman Abu Obaida said at a Gaza press conference on Monday.

Where was the press conference held? Under the hospital, behind a schoolyard?

Again the ball is in the court of the people of Gaza. Are they going to put up with these loonies again or not? If they decide to do so at what point is Israel going to just say the hell with it and crush the lot regardless of what is hit? (I suspect that point will never come.)

Hamas is weak now and unpopular if there is ever a time for a change it is now. If it doesn’t happen and the rockets continue or return then Obama in the house or no Israel is unlikely to sit back and take it. The Jews have aptly demonstrated that they are not going to sit back and die just so the rest of the world can feel good about themselves.

Meryl Yourish’s site elaborates on the defiant Hamas. As long as they think that Israel won’t hit back they will talk tough. Will the people fall for it?

Oh and between Hotair and Israellycool the blog has had the busiest day since I started it. Hamas and their inane toughguy poster gets a good chunk of the blame.

Still waiting for that elusive Instalance but I’m still fairly young.

Let it on the bus

Posted: January 19, 2009 by datechguy in catholic, opinion/news
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Via Hotair it looks like the bus ads have spread to Italy, not:

The city was targeted because it is home to the head of the Italian Catholic Bishops Conference Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, an outspoken opponent of artificial insemination and gay marriage.

Cardinal Bagnasco was said to be ‘furious’ about the plans and had his assistants write to the bus company and the advertising firm in charge of the £13,000 campaign to express their opposition.

At the last minute the campaign was cancelled. A source said the cardinal was ‘delighted’.

I disagree with this move. Christianity is more than strong enough to compete in the marketplace of ideas. It has hundreds of centuries of experience in delivering its message and it has the added advantage of being true. As always speech should be answered by more speech. If the church with the power of Christ behind it can’t compete with this message then you need different people delivering that message.

As a purely free speech move lets cut to the chase:

The Bus company has a perfect right to accept these ads and take the cash.

The Cardinal has a perfect right to object to these ads loudly.

And the customers of the bus company have the perfect right to give or not give their business to them accordingly.

That’s how it should work. In my mind you can’t argue for Churches in Arabia and argue to repress this speech.

All right we’ll call it a draw

Posted: January 19, 2009 by datechguy in war
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via Israellycool on the Hamas English site you have this Hamas poster:

Where are the kids to hide behind?

Where are the kids to hide behind?

This is very funny. Where are the kids they hide behind, where is the cowering under a hospital? Show this to any actual soldier and say this is supposed to be Hamas and they will die laughing.

It’s as python as you can get.

They’ll call it a draw for a week then they will call it a victory. Just you wait.

UPDATE: Didn’t even take a day.

Update 2: Welcome friends from Hot air. Take a gander. Today we are saying thanks to President Bush, shaking our head and Morning Joe and to our shock agreeing with Bob Herbert.

We even fix computers!

Update 3: This one is even more ridiculous and made for kids.

It’s all smoke

Posted: January 18, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Drudge and Michelle Malkin have noticed the Pelosi tough talk about trials:

“I think you look at each item and see what is a violation of the law and do we even have a right to ignore it,” the California Democrat said. “And other things that are maybe time that is spent better looking to the future rather than to the past.”

Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced Friday he wants to set up a commission to look into whether the Bush administration broke the law by taking the nation to war against Iraq and instituting aggressive anti-terror initiatives. The Michigan Democrat called for an “independent criminal probe into whether any laws were broken in connection with these activities.”

Patterico suggests a preemptive move:

Pardon anyone and everyone in your Administration who participated in wiretapping, interrogations, detentions, and related efforts. Don’t depend on the vague, indecisive words of Barack Obama and his surrogates. Just as you depended on them, the people who helped you combat terrorism are depending on you.

I disagree. Not only is it a bad idea but it is a politically foolish idea. The democrats are all talk and smoke on this subject. They will try to go though some motions to mollify their guys but there is no way at all they will pursue this. It is a high risk move at a time or crisis with the only upside being among fanatics.

My explanation is here, my money quotes:

You can take this to the bank: Any successful attack on American soil during an Obama administration is going to be wholly owned by not only that administration but the Democratic party…

…Any kind of trials will be drawn out affairs and would likely be still going on during a successful attack. How much worse will it be for those who failed to protect the country if those who succeeded in protecting the nation are on trial during their failure?

It was my opinion at the time that the President would offer the pardons as he cares not what the press think. From what I’ve seen about the way the press and the news has been treating not only the incoming president but the outgoing crew even in his last days, I think the smirk is going to win. He is savvy enough to know what this would do to the Democrats they will be forced to either engage their far left base or take the risk I said above. These people won’t do it and it they did it would destroy them. It will be his final victory against them.

Not necessary. Not gonna happen.

Update: Talkleft gives a reasonable view on this from the left.

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