The foo foo foo ... French

Can we just kick the French out of the UN? Who the hell thought it was a good idea to give these losers a key role (if I am not mistaken, a "veto" on the Security Council)? I mean, what did the French EVER do in any major world conflict except crumble or bail out?

So now these losers, who promised the world that they would take the lead in the UN force in Lebanon ... show up with ... what? 200 guys? Oh yeah ... Iran / Hezbollah is just shaking in their boots ... their done for!?!

And of course ... these are the French, so while Iran/Syria-Hezbo is handing out the checks, they can just slip the French guys a few bucks and all is well, right? Worked for Saddam ... wait a minute ... wait a minute ... check under those berets ... are they *real* soldiers or just the bankers and oil men? THAT'S why they only needed about 200.

This continues a long line of the French ... promising the world and delivering nothing. Remember the Tsunami ... when the French were front page the next day promising billion$ ... and they chastised Bush for not responding. Then it turns out that in fact major rescue operations were enroute almost immediately ... Bush was too busy actually doing something to stand in front of the cameras (ala the French) and *talk* about doing something. Nonetheless ... true to form ... the French promised a bunch and delivered nothing.

So the *real* question is why the hell anybody with half a brain believes anything these slimeballs ever say. How many knives does Bush have to get in the back (remember Colin Powell and the assurances by the French he would have their support in the UN) before he finally realizes what bastards these people are?

You know ... we may not be able to change the situation in the UN, but we could just throw them out of NATO. And if the others won't go along with that ... just end NATO altogether ... what purpose does it even serve? We also need to pull our bases out of those European nations that continue to be a consistent pain in our asses ... like Germany and France. We have new friends now, and the message that yanking our bases (and billion$$) out from these places sends to these "allies" will be huge.

Defeat from Victory, Victory in Defeat

Contrast the murderous terrorists with the leftie kooks in the United States.

In the U.S. ... we can kick ass and take names, and the leftists will claim defeat. In fact, they were literally successful in manufacturing the most devastating loss in U.S. history ... namely Vietnam ... not the least of which came from the wholesale flood of lies from one Walter Cronkite ... oh if Americans only knew how they were being manipulated. We had destroyed almost their entire military capacity ... some numbers go as high as 80% ... yet good ol' Walter and his pals got on TV night after night and told us all how we were losing the war. And this traitor still walks around as a big time celebrity.

Hmmm, sounds a lot like what the cut-n-run crowd is telling us today, eh?

Contrast this with the terrorists ... despite suffering devastating losses, despite having billions of dollars in losses to the country that hosts them, despite inflicting virtually no damage at all to the Israelis (real damage, not terrorist) ... and as they face the closest thing to a *real* threat as they have had to face in at least a decade ... they are putting their ugly, bearded faces in front of every camara they can to declare victory. I had to laugh as I saw one film crew in Lebanon showing the devastation ... and some SUV with a bunch of terrorist flag waving goofs meandering down the steet shouting "victory, victory" while the driver was dodging all the debris from bombed out terrorist hideouts and facilities.

Hmmm, sounds like how the Democrats declare victory when they only lose by a few percentage points. But I digress ....

One big reason why the terrorists and thugs can do this and we cannot is because the terrorists will kill the people who speak out against them, and we do not.

Hmmmm, maybe we should learn something from the terrorists.

Hypocrisy on Parade ... again

So ... Mel Gibson is the scum of the earth, because in a (obviously embarassing) drunken fit he uttered some highly offensive comments. But not Cynthia McKinney ... nope ... her people ... completely sober, can say some extremely offensive things and nobody as far as I know even bats an eyebrow.

That's because she's a democrap ... and democraps are never racist.

What is even more laughable is that despite the fact that these hoodlums were surrounding her all night ... she (or perhaps her "people") disavow any association with them or their comments.

Yeah ... and Dick Cheney or George Bush or Newt Gingrich would get away with a statement like that ... right? Uh-huh ... I mean if you are a Republican / Conservative, you can say something nice to a 100 year old guy and you are stripped of your leadership position because you forgot that he was part of a segregationist group 60 years ago (that never burned a cross or killed anybody as far as I have heard), but as a Democrap you can be a former clansman, no, I'm sorry A LEADER OF THE CLAN and it is no big deal.

No hypocrisy there ... none at all.

The *real* effects of Pacifism

"I'd like to teach the world to sing ... in perfect harmony ... " blah blah blah ...
"I'd like to buy the world a coke ... and watch them figure out a way to turn it into an explosive!"

Woah ... wait ... hmmm ... need to think that last part ... that was not in the script for the old Coke commercial, was it? Yeah ... it was supposed to be about peace and harmony and we're all smoking a big ol' joint and sippin' some coke (perhaps snortin' a little too, right?) ... because peace and love and all that can triumph over war and evil guys and all that, right?

That was just the commercialized version of the pacifist mantra ... that if the overwhelming majority of the worlds' people just took on this view and summarily dismissed war and all that ... then there would be peace.

Seems to me like the situation in Lebanon is a shining example of just how totally full of garbage that whole ideology is. The news media would have you believe that this place was the pluralistic paradise of Christians, Jews, Muslims and others all living in this euphoric tranquility.

The truth was, and is, a little different.

What you ended up with is a situation where the really bad guys were able to commandeer a large chunk of the country in preparation for their ruthless plans, but also simply take over the governance of that nation through threats and intimidation. I scratched my head at the actions of the non-Hezbollah types ... totally unwilling to lay any of the blame at the feet of Hezbollah.

I forgot my own instincts ... when somebody that should have a half a clue acts totally irrationally, something absolutely critical is missing from the story. When the clown that is supposed to be the political leader (or whatever they call it) of that country is praising Hezbollah's efforts, that is just lunatic. However, if you think it through it makes perfect sense ... the so-called Lebanon military or law enforcement has no capability to do anything to thwart the terrorists ... the terrorists own the entire southern half of the country and play a significant role throughout ... piece together the puzzle and in Lebanon either your with the terrorists, or you (and your whole family) is dead.

Admittedly, I did not piece together the puzzle until I actually heard from several different folks through various channels about how life *really* is in Lebanon.

So what does this have to do with Pacifism (the more-or-less religion)? Simply that the Lebanon situation shows how it is total pretense ... evil and war still happen all around it, and in fact the concept actually enables a much smaller more ruthless force to create a huge amount of havoc, particularly against a rival that chooses to subdue its forces to avoid or minimize casualties among the "innocents".

By the way ... the terrorists are extremely aware of the impact of the news story about these "poor folks caught in the crossfire" amongst a pacifist public; and the terrorists and their willing accomplices in the media play it to the hilt ... carrying around dolls and toy mickey mouse dolls to drop on the site of a bombing for impact ... carrying around the dead child (now thought to have been dug up from elsewhere specifically for the occasion) to parade in front of camaras, photo ops with gullible reporters, even when the reporters are specifically denied access to information that they know looks bad for the terrorists (like missile launchers in private houses, etc)

So anyway ... the Lebanon situation is a shining example of the complete failure of the foundation of Pacifism, and teaches us that we cannot allow these lunatics to rule the day.

Definition of Liberalism

Start off with another definition first ...

Insanity ... doing something that gives you the same result over and over again, expecting a different result.

One way to define liberalism, at least its current manifestation in American politique, is by the fact that you get all the credit for your attempt to do something, and not the result. In other words ... idiots like LBJ, that gave us the ongoing disaster that is the Great Society, are heroes because he *tried* to eliminate poverty, nevermind the devastating results.

This is why a solid sound of "cease fire" is coming from the left in this country. Yes it is easy to come up with alternative explanations you hear daily from conservative circles ...

- hate bushism (Bush supports Israel and opposes a "feel good" cease fire) ... no matter what
- weak on defense
- pro-terrorist or anti-"war on terrorism"
... and on and on

However I think the roots of liberalism can just as easily explain the left's position ... you have to do something, anything ... to make us "feel good". Never mind if that something is a temporary "quick fix" that ultimately makes things far worse in the long run. You mix the "feel good - quick fix" mentality with the "anti-war" lunacy and you get "cease fire" against Israel.

You look at a lot of the problems ... terrorism, attacks on Isreal, North Korea, Iran nukes, etc. ... and you will find some "feel good" temp fix that was implemented years ago that allowed the disease to "fester". But that is nothing real new. What is new, and completely insane, is that the lunatic Democraps are overwhelmingly pushing to replace the failed policies with *EXACTLY* the same policies that failed in the first place. Terrorists ... let's treat them nice and try to understand them (i.e. buy them off) and maybe they'll stop ... been there, did that. Cease fire and get Isreal out of Lebanon and replace them with UN soldiers ... I suppose Hezbollah might be running out of missiles, eh? Again, been there, done that. North Korea started violating the Clinton / Carter deal from the word go ... so we should go ahead and negotiate another deal with them? Yeah, right!

The funniest thing is that when you actually confront a liberal lunatic with exactly the fact that what they want had already been done and failed ... they will look at you with a straight face and say "yeah, but now will be different". Yeah, now the big, bad french will enforce the disarmament of Hezbollah ... seems the French had such great success disarming the Germans in WW II, I guess we're expecting a repeat of that great Franco-success, eh? Seriously though ... how will things be different?

"Well, they just will" ... the UN will *really* mean it this time!

Mind if I puke?

Conservative "absolutism"

However, it would not appear that conservatives have much of a better solution ... at least not within the context of what we will actually do. Liberals wanted to hold Iraq at bay indefinitely ... which was obviously working against us. Conservatives wanted to take Saddam out ... well we did that be we were not willing to completely annihilate the bad guys. So now we have the cesspool ... an Iraq without a strong-armed dictator but with seemingly thousands or millions of really bad people.

Conservative solution in middle east war is to "disarm" Hezbollah. The liberals want to do exactly what failed before. Yet while the conservative solution "sounds" good, it is only possible by a bloodbath / genocide that I believe we are not willing to swallow.

So then what good is conservative rhetoric?

Mel Gibson ... are you kidding me?

Did you ever watch "the twilight zone"? It was this really weird show from way before (even) my time, but occasionally showed up on the UHF channels (that should spin some of you kids' heads) way back when. The context (at least of the few shows I watched) was that some person ... the central character of the story ... "wakes" up when some major thing is totally screwed up (like a guy who gets up in the morning and nobody in his life knows who he is ... George Bailey like ... but far "darker").

I think as far as world affairs go ... I'm in the twilight zone. I mean the French guy ... literally a government official ... says that Iran is a stabilizing force? What &^%$ng planet has this guy been on for the last 20 years? What planet ... no ... what galaxy has this guy been in. I mean the Iranians, what in the last 3 months, have made an announcement about turning loose thousands of suicide bombers all over the world? What part of stable and "suicide bombers" am I not getting?

I just don't get it ... just don't get it.

But George Bush is to blame for all the worlds' problems?

I mean ... I am not real happy with the guy ... but when you got idiots at the highest levels of government calling the world's most dangerous kooks ... who's leader denies the holocust ... who can reasonably be assumed to trigger a nuclear device as soon as they get their slimy fingers on one ... who kill their own people who oppose them ... when these idiots call that "a stabilizing force", I would love to ask them what the hell is a destabilizing force?

Please ... can we not get some of these terrorists into France? Just send some of the Gitmo terrorists in a box, give them some suicide vests ... and put them on the streets of Paris but tell them they are in New York. Nah ... they would blame that on Bush too.

But hey ... this is about Mel Gibson, isn't it?

Oh yeah ... sorry about the rant ... OK ... so I'm flipping through the radio on the way to work, and I hear good ol' Mel is in trouble for some DUI thing. Wow! But I guess I can see him being a great party-er ... so OK. I would love to party with Mel ... he just seems like such a really cool guy! I expected to hear they were crucifying him, though ... if you'll pardon the pun ... cuz he really pissed them off with the Passion movie ... bad thing in Hollywood, don't ya know.

But wait a minute ... Mel said some things against the Jews. Wow! He must have been really plastered.

Then ... I almost had to pull the car over ... I really thought that I had banged my head real, real hard and was just out of it ... this radio announcer is making the argument that alcohol is like "truth serum" ... I am not kidding you ... those were his exact words ... "truth serum". I almost died ... truth serum? Alcohol??? So now Gibson is this flaming closet Nazi because he said some really stupid things while he was bombed out of his mind???

Think this through ... I mean ... I don't know about you ... but I have said some of the most stupid things that I can remember when I was bombed, as did others I was with ... I was kung-fu master ... I was from Jamaica ... "I love you" ... ahhhhh, man, it hurts to think about it ... I once was busted for DUI (and I have not had any intoxicant in the 20 some odd years since then) and I almost fell down while I was lying to the cop.

Truth serum? Alcohol? Not hardly.

Gibson's response has been impeccable ... but that isn't going to save his ass. Nope ... he's a fairly decent guy ... big (seemingly happy) family ... goes to church ... but he made a *really* good movie about Jesus. He'd be a lot better off in that pile of dung (Hollywood) if he beat his wife, screwed around, and was in and out of rehab more than Robert Downey Jr.

If Mel has to straighten some things out ... God Bless him and help him. Let us pray for him to recover and get back to his family. And I also pray that he have some more opportunities to do the really great things that he has been doing in Hollywood ... serious and funny.