Posts Tagged ‘reality’

The Nuclear Zero campaign…

Posted: April 12, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…is very funny.

Of course without Nuclear Weapons millions upon millions of Japanese and Americans would have died in an invasion of Japan in 1945. The Soviet union would likely still be occupying parts of China since the war would have dragged on. The Soviets might not have been deterred in Europe and of course it would not be 37 years since the last full scale multi nation Arab assault on Israel.

When these fools (assuming they are motivated simply by foolishness) can get Nukes out of North Korea then I will consider taking them seriously.

I know remembering history isn’t popular but might one recall how well the naval treaties of the 20’s and 30’s prevented the rise of rogue powers and ruinous wars.

Maybe its because I remember the cold war and who funded the disarmament groups that railed against the US but I suspect the idea that removing the deterrent effect that Nuclear arms on certain nations is a feature not a bug.

I’m Watching The American President this morning and noticed the “attack” scene

Posted: April 9, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…and something struck me how quintessentially liberal it was. Take a look at the scene that Rob Reiner and Aaron Sorkin (the writer) must have thought was deep and profound.

The president beats his breast because the janitors on the 3rd shift at Libyan the intelligence are about to die because he has ordered a retaliatory strike at the Libyan intelligence building for an attack on Israel.

But consider, instead of striking during the first shift when the actual planners of the attack can be killed he chooses to hit the 3rd shift because it has the least amount of people in the building. He is more concerned about his feelings than stopping people who were killing American and Jews.

Of course since he allows the planners and the pilots who struck to survive they will be able to plan the next attack. When that next attack comes, and it will since he let them live, and more Americans and Israeli’s die he, like the liberal he is, will beat his breast again and kill more janitors.

This is the essential problem with modern liberalism, it’s not about actually helping people. It’s about making people feel good about themselves. It’s about them being able to say to themselves and others “I’m a good person“. That is the primary goal, and if someone actually gets helped along the way it is a bonus extra, and if not, well we had good intentions. That’s obamacare all over.

It’s isn’t a bad movie (it’s essentially a love story wrapped in a leftist fantasy, every conservative is painted as evil or a bigot, but I’m a sucker for a story when the boy gets the girl) and the flower shop bit is really funny, but Douglas’ character was right. When he decided to kill janitors instead of murderers and their enablers it was the least presidential thing he had done.

That’s modern liberalism. Period!

Update: This post by Don Surber is exactly what I’m talking about.

Around the BlogRoll off to lunch edition

Posted: April 8, 2010 by datechguy in baseball, media, opinion/news
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I might not be in front of the computer at noontime so lets take a look at the what’s happening on the blogroll:

Ruby Slippers reports on the rubes who actually think that the passage of Obamacare means they will actually get free healthcare:

Evidently not everyone heard that bit of bad news or missed it entirely while cheering the fact 26 year olds will be covered under their parents plan. Perhaps people stopped tuning in after Obama health care speech number 563. If all else fails as an excuse blame the critics for confusing this group of poor souls who just want their free health care and they want it now:

Ironically I just got a letter from our insurance company saying my 19 year old would soon be dropped from coverage, but can get in as a full time student. Maybe congress didn’t read this bill but the insurance companies sure did.

Peg at What if Has two related posts on the same subject, the first concerns why the Democrats cry “Racist” so easily:

The other day, my good friend Professor Keith Burgess-Jackson pondered why columnists like Frank Rich rail on and on about the racism of Tea Partiers – when nothing could be further from the truth. I added a comment that I thought they did so because they cannot win in the battle of ideas. So – they then resort to slurs and attacks of “racist.”

She links to Roger Simon who uses the Civil War Term “waving the bloody shirt” She then follows up with this item quoting the Washington post:

But by and large, no one I spoke with or I heard from on stage said anything that was approaching racist.

Almost everyone I met was welcoming to this African-American television news producer.

Maybe they can try, “Vote as you marched”, oops sorry the majority of votes for Civil rights were republican ones.

David Pinto at Baseball Musings is following games but also the business of Baseball:

The Yankees are now worth $1.6 billion, keeping them the most valuable franchise. The next closest team is the Boston Red Sox at $870 million. Given that Steinbrenner’s group bought the Yankees for $20 million, he made a pretty good investment. The Yankees do have a high amount of debt, but that’s due to their using the equity in the club to keep improving it, for example, by building a new stadium.

It should be interesting to see what attendance figures are at the end of the year.

Conservatives for Palin is all over yesterday’s Rally and interview with Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann appearance, their focus is media reaction:

Update #2: Andy Barr from Politico affirmatively reports that Palin and Bachmann spoke “[b]efore a predominantly female crowd of more than 11,000 fans.”

Update #3: The St. Paul Pioneer Press effectively confirms the Politico number by reporting that Palin and Bachmann held “a raucous campaign rally of more than 10,000 fans that exceeded the size of many presidential whistle-stops.”…

-Three more local Minnesota newspapers effectively confirm what was reported by Politico and the St. Paul Pioneer Press regarding the attendance at the Palin/Bachmann campaign rally yesterday.

Update: The St. Cloud Times reports a “crowd estimated at more than 10,000.”

I saw it last night, if you didn’t they link to video here. People who don’t think these ladies are going to be a force in the GOP are deluding themselves.

“Because they know you won’t run them over”

Posted: April 8, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news, war
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I’m only just over a third of the way through Saved by Her Enemy by Don Teague & Rafraf Barrak so normally I wouldn’t comment on the book yet, but I read something that should be read by every person who lionized the enemy:

Just before we crossed the border, the soldier driving a Humvee we were following stopped to warn us, “Watch out for children lying in the road.”

“Children?” I asked. “Why Children?”

“Because they know you won’t run them over. They line up little kids, five or six years old, across the road and force you to stop. When you do, people swarm the vehicle. They smash the windows with rocks, drag people out. You don’t want that to happen.”

“So what are we supposed to do?” I asked.

“You don’t stop. No matter what.”…

Interestingly enough they only used this tactic against civilians because they assumed that military vehicles wouldn’t bother stopping.

These are the people we are fighting and still fighting. This is the same attitude that Israel faces every day. If you don’t understand this, you either haven’t been paying attention or don’t want to pay attention.

If you read Pam Geller of course you won’t have this problem.

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