Like It Or Not

Something this evening set me to thinking ...

Like it or not, I'm a child of the Cold War and can still remember huddling in a fall out shelter beneath my grade school circa 68-70, or so. That likely has something to do with my hard line when it comes to terrorism and terrorists. Basically, I don't need to be accepting of every extremist ideology ... my humanity can incorporate the notion that islamofascists just need to die. If I wanted to reason with the unreasonable, I'd teach kindergarten ... and I lack the patience for that, too.

There were some images that always gave me a certain sense of comfort as I became a few years older. Here are two combined.

Frankly, I think the whole "Tricky Dick" thing wasn't just overblown ... it was applied a couple of decades before its time! ; )

Comments

[themisses]

Awesome! I love it -
The timing is perfect; the world needs a little humor on a regular basis.....

[carol]

love it dan

[Claque]

Dan, Dan, Dan--
If'n it's only dicks we're talkin' about, yer probably right--
One guy faces impeachment for lying about having sex with an intern. This national embarrassment achieved for a paltry 50 million special prosecutor dollars.
The other guy faces impeachment for spying on Americans, authorizing break-ins, and spreading lies about the sexual proclivities of a good man-- Edmund Muskie.
One guy leaves a small stain on a blue dress.
One guy leaves an entire country blue with his distain.
Indiscreet liar, or paranoid criminal.
Ya makes yer choice, ya shows yer colors.
Democrats will usually take a compassionate man, even a liar, particularly if there's a tacit understanding that sex and the enjoyment of it is no big deal. Republicans generally will take any old criminal that will give them a tax break and test out our armaments on small nations. But the only sex in that camp is the screwing of the 99% of the tax payers that can't find a billionaire's loop hole.
Krikey, that's a lot of sex come to think of it. Trouble is I'm in the 99% that can no longer afford the cigarette after.
Godspeed lad.
Ya makes yer choice.

[Paulo]

Claque:

I realize that your message is about humor; however, "...it's not nice to fool around with Mother Nature..." I got a good ol' fashion chuckle out of your post. Thanks.

Notwithstanding the notion that it is preferable to use fasts for the legitimacy of the Real Story:

Clinton was impeached. Just not ratified by the Senate. His impeachment had little or nothing to do with the ever-so-unattractive Monica. This guy and his wife are up to their eyeballs in dirt, lest we not forget about Whitewater and the whole S&L sceme.

BTW, Monica wasn't the only person he was doing in the anti-chamber of the Oval Office. Let's see....George comes to mind real quick primarily because he was before Monica.

And as for Hilary, sit down wit DeDe Myers for an hour and she'll spill her guts on "Their Plan" and how hurt she was when Hilary went on to thinner, younger, and more lean companionship. ;)

[Not a Hand Wringer.]

When you're listing presidents who are crooked, don't forget the current one.

I'm a child of the cold war as well. But, my view on terrorism couldn't be further away from yours or the politicians you support.

If the London bombs showed the world anything they showed it this. Taking it to the terrorists in Iraq WILL NOT protect you from terrorist attacks at home.

Think about that when you are spending untold billions in Iraq each month while your own ports, borders, subways, cities etc remain poorly secured.

Killing Islamic terrorists isn't enough. You see, creating 2 new ones for every one you kill in Iraq, isn't going to get the job done....or reduce the threat now is it?

Not too mention that the War in Iraq gives the Islamic Terrorists and brain-washing clerics, just the recruiting slogan they need to turn nice law abiding Pakistani/English kids into suicide bombers.

The current crop of fools in the Whitehouse are selling you a false sense of security, and some of you are just flat out blind to not see it.

You were moved by Nixon's detente with China? Where's the detente today? Even Al Sistani....America's ally in Iraq won't meet with Americans, and much of the rest of the world leaders have little use for Bush and his War on Terror policies.

Hence the present thinning of the 'Coalition of the Willing' and the obvious omitions from it in the first place.

When it comes to politics and political discussion, you should stick to fishing.

[MrsJimiHendrix]

DAN

YOU ROCK!!

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!

[Rhod]

Hand Wringer:

Explain to me the formula which states that not resisting Islamofascism leads to peace. I don't get it. The War in Iraq was less about specific instances of terrorism than it is to begin to change the political landscape in the ME.

Since at least 1978, when Leon Klinghoffer was dumped overboard, hundreds of Americans and others have been killed by Islamic terrorists. How many is enough? Where did the policy of non-resistance lead The West but into the calamity of September 11th.

It was your side who, for years, bitched about the policy of "stability" in the Middle East, part of which was our support of Iraq against Iran, and another part of which encouraged the disgusting Arafat to advance his miserable causes while we rubbed his feet at Camp David. Every wicked and wretched dictatorship in the ME, from Saudi Arabia to Egypt to Yemen to Syria flourished under our policy of stability.

The war in Iraq is an attempt to change that policy where we can. It is seriously flawed, and it distracts us in some ways from the other threats you mention. But I also don't give a damn what the rest of the world thinks of us...it's no yardstick of their wisdom either, particularly if you begin to list the people who are upset about the war.

So instead of the usual bleat about the war, what is your alternative. Let's hear it. Now's your big moment.

[MrsJimiHendrix]

RIGHT ON RHOD!!

keep klinghoffer's memory ALIVE!!

thanks for your post!!

[Beth]

I find it hilarious to see how batshit crazy the leftards get if you even hint at politics--it's all the same post-election denial psychosis--STILL! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Really, it's so predictable it cracks me up. Bushitlerove lied!!! People died!!! Save the little brown men from the NeoKKKon Zionist Nazis!!!! Blah, blah, blah. zzzzzzzzzzzz Meanwhile, a leftard blogger is encouraging his readers to dump piles of poop on Karl Rove's doorstep (and gives directions to his house). Yeah, that's an effective argument--but all too typical.

Hey, maybe Bush will nominate Ken Starr for the Supreme Court! Or John Ashcroft! Or maybe even Ann Coulter! Muahahahahahaaaa! (Watch their eyes get all buggy now.)

[MrsJimiHendrix]

Beth

see that is why i think the hurricane was a hoax too!! the zionists created some sort of vaccum like they exploded the bomb off the coast of indonesia/thialand

but the goal here was not so much to get rid of islamics, this time it was to put bush's brother into the spotlite so that he could transition that much easier into his brothers shoes next go round!!!

; )

have a good day!!

[Beth]

Y'know, you're RIGHT! It HAD to be an eeeevil sooper-seekrit Zionist plot! And you know that hurricane Emily is another one, just to wipe out some more brown people. I'll bet they use that soooper-seekrit Hurricanizer a few more times this year! Probably even in the next couple months, just to take the focus off of Rove and the Supreme Court nominations! OMG!!!

;-)

[Claque]

Beth--
Really have their heads spinning--
Tell them Bush is gonna nom-nate you!
Muahahahahaa!
Let's not play footsie--
Let's really stick heads in the honey-bucket!
You rock gRRRRl!
;-)

[chrys]

The right side has respect for our country. If they become questionable - the move out of the way. I'm still trying to figure out what the left has done for the U.S. and the world for that matter over the last 30 years. Nixon opened China, Reagan ended the "cold war." Clinton was too busy covering his "**#", the lies, files in the wrong place?! Lies during the trial he was a defendant at. Lies to his own cabinet?! What about all those questionable deaths - worse than telling everyone who's in the CIA (since everyone already knew this!) Each time I see "When Clinton Lied - no one died!" (NO - they just built up to make a bigger noise and kill more of us "playing politics and cigar bingo" neglecting to go after OBL so he built up and hit us on President Bush's watch. NOW - (everyone knows what the CIA woman was doing for a living - remember these statements early on!) - they're working on building themselves a "watergate" - - bias media on and on and on - over basically nothing that is done by Kerry, Boxer, Polsi, Kennedy and Hillary on a daily basis?!

Thanks for this Post - makes for good "circle talk!"

[Dublin]

I remember the bomb shelters too. Ours was in the first floor hallway of a 2 story school building. We'd have the kindergartners line up along the wall in tight little balls, then the first graders would curl up on top of them as close as they could get, and then 2nd graders on top of first graders.

I remember thinking that it would be a strange way to die. If the bomb came, they'd know where to find us. Later, they just practiced having us dive under our desks. I thought that was pretty silly too. There were people building bomb shelters, and there were images of nuclear bombs but I didn't think my little desk would help save me. I guess the teachers had also realized it was sort of pointless to go through the exercise of lining us all up in the hallway.

I wonder now if that wasn't my first sense that you couldn't trust the information the government, or it's officials were giving us. The cynic in me was born.

[Claque]

Dems done nothin' in comparison to 'Pubs. Dems look slow and lazy. Sleepy almost with all their slap crazy talk. Pah. Talked us half to death. 'Pubs? Industrious. Work hard. So hard. And why, for such an ungrateful herd? Why, they've almost done too much.

[proudredneck]

About Mr. Newcomer to the Supreme Court as opposed to one of the "good old boys from the BAR," I don't know Mr. Newcomer's first name, but I do think the appointment of a strict constitutionalist, i.e., The Newt, would drive 'em crazy.

[Rhod]

During the Korean War we had bomb drills too. A couple of students were charged with the responsibility of closing the classroom windows and pulling down the shades, while the rest of us got under our desks.

Even at the age of seven...if you had already seen the newsreels of an atomic blast blowing wooden barracks away, and knocking down power lines...you knew that a sheet of oilcloth curtain and a wooden desk wasn't likely to keep you alive.
No one believed it, and I don't remember anyone traumatized by the possibilities. It was fun.

[proudredneck]

NotaHandWringer: Nobody drowned at Watergate, but someone drowned in an Oldsmobile.

[MrsJimiHendrix]

PROUD RED

very very good!!

[Claque]

Nobody had a WMD in an Oldsmobile, but someone had one in Iraq. Them 9/11 guys. Didn't they? Or were those the other guys? Where's my Mela-Toe-Nin?

[Sheez]

The mainstream media in this country are dominated by liberals.

I was informed of this fact by Rush Limbaugh. And Thomas Sowell. And Ann Coulter. And Rich Lowry. And Bill O'Reilly. And William Safire. And Robert Novak. And William F. Buckley, Jr. And George Will.

And John Gibson. And Michelle Malkin. And David Brooks. And Tony Snow. And Tony Blankely. And Fred Barnes. And Britt Hume. And Larry Kudlow. And Sean Hannity. And David Horowitz. And William Kristol. And Hugh Hewitt.

And Oliver North. And Joe Scarborough. And Pat Buchanan. And John McLaughlin. And Cal Thomas. And Joe Klein. And James Kilpatrick. And Tucker Carlson. And Deroy Murdock. And Michael Savage. And Charles Krauthammer. And Stephen Moore. And Alan Keyes.

And Gary Bauer. And Mort Kondracke. And Andrew Sullivan. And Nicholas von Hoffman. And Neil Cavuto. And Matt Drudge. And Mike Rosen. And Dave Kopel. And John Caldara.

The mainstream media in this country are dominated by liberals. For instance, did you know there is an ultra-leftist professor at the University of Colorado named Ward Churchill who wrote an essay three years ago in which he called victims of Sept. 11 "little Eichmanns"? Bet you never heard of him, as the liberal media elite likes to put the kibosh on embarrassing stories like this.

The mainstream media in this country are dominated by liberals. Look at how they all gave Bill Clinton a pass on the whole Monica Lewsinsky affair. Remember? It was never in the news. We never heard any of the salacious details. The work of his presidency never came to a virtual halt while he defended himself.

The mainstream media in this country are dominated by liberals. They have so poisoned the electorate that no Republicans can get elected. Republicans don't control the presidency. Republicans don't control both houses of Congress. Republicans don't control 28 of 50 governorships.

Last year, a lot was made of a report released by The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. The report found that 34 percent of national journalists identified themselves as liberal, 54 percent identified themselves as moderate and 7 percent identified themselves as conservative. Twenty-three percent of local journalists identified themselves as liberal, 61 percent identified themselves as moderate and 12 percent identified themselves as conservative.

These figures can be interpreted in a number of ways. First of all, if you actually read the whole report, you'd come across commentary that specifically warned against drawing any easy, across-the-board conclusions: "We would be reluctant to infer too much

here. The survey includes just four questions probing journalists' political attitudes, yet the answers to these questions suggest journalists have in mind something other than a classic big government liberalism and something more along the lines of libertarianism."
But pretend you're doing a story on the Pew report, and the nuanced comments above are not sufficiently dramatic for your medium. You need to reduce things into some digestible sound bites. If you wanted to sound the alarm bells on the right, you could say that national journalists were nearly five times as likely to identify themselves as liberal than as conservative. This would be literally true but perhaps a little misleading, as the same poll results tell us that 61 percent of national journalists identified themselves as moderate or conservative.

If you're John Gibson of Fox News, you just make up your own statistics and claim that "80-some percent of reporters are self-described liberals." If you're Rush Limbaugh, you offer up the same lie a day later and specifically cite the poll that proves you wrong: "most of them (journalists) are liberals. Eighty percent of them will admit it in the latest press poll ... ."

Just for the sake of argument, let's assume that the media in America really are predominantly recalcitrant leftists. Say you're a conservative media mogul named Rupert and you have the wherewithal to do something about it. Here are three paths you might take:

1. You could announce your belief that the reporting of news is always subjective and therefore biased, so you are going to start a news network that comes at things from your own perspective in order to balance out what you perceive to be the bias of the left.

2. You could set up your own news network that actually is fair and balanced.

3. You could set up your own news network that's consistently and demonstrably partisan, but call yourself fair and balanced.

Guess which one he chose.

This just in at Fox News ... the mainstream media in this country are dominated by liberals.

[Sheesh]

Uh oh, got a l'il crush on a clever un! Sheez, now who dunna like a bit a well crafted ironnee with a stun gun finiish?