Oh, this is rich:
bq. “There was a disturbing attitude from the Pentagon toward unilaterals,” said Campagna, Mideast program coordinator for the nonprofit group. “They gave the perception that if you weren’t embedded, you covered the war at your own risk, and that U.S. troops were under no obligation to at least avoid endangering you.”
Um, yeah. It’s called war, you blockhead. Everyone is participating at their own peril. The military’s job is to accomplish the task handed to them by the politicians. More often than not, this means moving in, engaging and killing the enemy (while trying to avoid unnecessary civilian casualties; but hey, it’s war), then securing the area they now occupy. They do not have time to babysit reporters who don’t play by the rules. Those unilaterals wanted to be where they were. If you can’t stand the heat…
Tag: liberty
California’s population growth is almost exclusively because of foreign nationals. A goodly portion–some would say almost all–of those foreign nationals are coming across the Mexican border. A goodly portion–some would say almost all–of those Mexicans are illegally entering the United States.
So while we can understand the desire to come in to the greatest nation on earth to live and work, their breaking the law to do so doesn’t excuse them. Or one would think.
Rather, the Demobrats in the People’s Republik of Kalifornia would grant driver’s licenses–legally identifying documents–to illegal aliens. Can someone please explain why this is a good idea? You’re legitimizing an illegal activity, and possibly affecting future national security. Who’s to say that the next terrorist attack comes not from Muslim terrorists of Arabic descent, but Hispanic, née Mexican, terrorists of a communist/socialist bent, on par with Shining Path in Peru?
Does Gil Cedillo and the other California Demobrats honestly believe that people who have already broken the law by entering the country illegally are going to tell you they’re here illegally by showing up to get a driver’s license? Stupid, stupid, stupid. Here’s an idea: when the illegals come in for their driver’s license, detain and deport them!
I guess when you’re an ineffectual Old World power, this kind of trite, childish behavior is the best you can do.
(Thanks, Ricky.)
Awwwww. The po’ wittle U.N. buildings are falling apart, and they don’t have no one to pay to fix them up…
Guess who they want to foot the bill?
Thanks, but no thanks, United-Against-America Nations. We already shell out more money for your hostile, ineffective, do-nothing, impotent organization than any other nation on the planet. Get out of our country and go set up shop in France.
John Trever, Alburquerque, New Mexico, 19 June 2003
(Thanks, Rick)
Presidential hopeful John Kerry is running around the country talking about renewable energy, like wind and solar power, proposing we get 20% of all our energy from renewable sources by 2020. He calls it “Twenty by ’20,” or something to that effect. Yeah, I suppose that’s something I could get behind. Having seen the big wind farm at South Point on the Big Island of Hawai’i (the southernmost tip of the United States, and quite a windy locale), I think that if there’s a suitable windy location, yeah, put up a wind farm. It won’t provide all of the energy a population might need, but it would certainly help.
But will the Senator bow to the liberal elite on the proposed Camp Wind windmill farm on Horseshoe Shoal, seven miles off Nantucket Island? Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard residents are complaining that the wind farm will ruin their respective views. Awwww, po’ wittle ewitists. They whine and complain about getting away from fossil fuel consumption, but when offered the chance to do so in their own backyard, they don’t want it because it’s not aesthetically pleasing. Seems someone wants to have it both ways.
Myron Ebell, of the free-market environmental think tank, Competitive Enterprise Institute:
bq. “People think if you live in the right area you don’t have to put up with anything. Well, where are they going to get their energy? From little squirrels in wheels?”
(Thanks, Rick)
At least in New York, Brooklyn to be specific. Ronald Dixon discovers an intruder in his son’s room, going through drawers. Intruder rushes Mr. Dixon, screaming to go upstairs with him. Mr. Dixon fears there may be others in the house that intend to harm him, his wife, and his children. Mr. Dixon shoots intruder twice, wounding him.
Mr. Dixon legally obtained his 9mm pistol in Florida, before moving to New York. New York requires all firearms to be registered. (Why? To make it easier to trace them back to criminals, presumably. To make it easier to confiscate, at worst…) Mr. Dixon made an attempt to comply with the law and register said firearm, but was unsuccessful. Mr. Dixon was able to plead down to a charge of disorderly conduct, but he could still spend up to a year in jail; at least he won’t have a criminal record when he’s done.
An anonymous letter to the Brooklyn D.A. sums it up pretty well:
“If you were in the same position that Mr. Dixon was in, I would be willing to wager that you would also use whatever means you had on hand to defend your loved ones, as any of us would.
“By prosecuting Ronald Dixon on spurious charges, you are sending a very dangerous message to the residents in your jurisdiction: Defend your family, go to jail. You are also sending an equally dangerous message to the criminal element, who would realize that law-abiding citizens would now be hesitant to defend themselves for fear of criminal prosecution, and therefore make prime targets for violent crime.”
A naturalized citizen, Mr. Dixon immigrated from Jamaica, and served in the U.S. Navy for three years. He works two jobs seven days a week to provide for his family. And now his American dream has been crushed by an anti-gun, anti-personal protection, anti-liberty district attorney. Kudos, D.A. Hynes.
From the Religion-of-Peace department: the leader of Europe’s largest mosque stated support for suicide bombings against Israel in a recent sermon, as well as in an interview granted to an Italian daily.
It is so refreshing to see Muslim leaders extending the hands of brotherhood and tolerance, when so many around the world have done the same for them. I suppose the difference is that those Muslim hands hold detonators and knives…
D. James Kennedy reports on recent U.S. Department of Education guidelines “that require the Secretary of Education to issue guidance on constitutionally protected prayer in elementary and secondary schools. These guidelines clarify what it is that public school students are allowed to do on campus.”
He goes on to offer an outstanding layman’s overview of the whole “separation of church and state” issue, and why that is a complete fallacy.
Barbra Streisand is suing a fellow environmentalist. Why? Because he took an aerial photograph of her Malibu coastline estate. Along with 12,000 other pictures of the California coastline, all as part of creating an aerial photographic survey of the coastline to document erosion over time.
Shhhhhh. Don’t anyone tell Barbrat about the Keyhole spy satellites the NSA could retask to sit over Malibu if it wanted…