Either my new glasses don't work, or I'm not the one reading this wrong

Bill Quick takes notice of John McCain condemning a recent attack adconcerning John Kerry's Vietnam actions. Then he links to a Newsmax article on the subject and fires off the following:

Hey, John, you twisted sack of politicized, Bush-hating crap: I call on you to condemn your own statements against Kerry.

Leaving aside that despite his disagreements with Bush he's endorsed his re-election, and as such can't be much of a "Bush-hater", here's a line from the article itself:

In his 2002 book, "Man of the People: The Life of John McCain," Alexander says that the two Vietnam vets finally reconciled in the early 1990s after having "a long - and at times emotional - conversation about Vietnam" during a mutual trip to Kuwait. (emphasis mine)

Sounds to me like he already has done that and even further, and long before any of the current conflict was even a thought. Oh well...

Stupidity: it don't discriminate. Observe the following...

MEMRI has this letter the wife of some Jihadi nut that Saudi security forces merc'ed wrote addressing the wife of Paul Johnson. The typical jihadi garbage is in there, but check out this particular stinker:

"When your husband was taken hostage, there was much talk and the world was shaken. However, these same people did not speak half as much when America, the so-called country of justice and liberty, has been detaining more than 600 Muslims in Cuba for the past three years. (emphasis mine)

Does it not compute to this wacko that those being detained in Guantanamo Bay -- the ones that have been proven to be al-quaeda members or Taliban fighters, that is -- just happen to hold active allegiance with a group that kills civilians? Oh, wait, it doesn't matter to her because many of those civilians aren't wacko muslim extremists... Hey lady, this ain't Iraqis being detained at Abu Ghraib w/o charges we're talking about, you want to gripe then limit it to the ones that haven't done anything, the ones that have deserve no sympathy and should consider themselves lucky they're even alive.

People like this are what is holding the entire region out of the 21st century.


Meanwhile, back in the US some idiot decided that exploiting the demise of people like Nick Berg by faking his own execution was a neato way of promoting his run for some low-level office in San Francisco. Read it and puke.

It'd be hilarious if he weren't being taken seriously...

In the midst of an article on recent fighting in Najaf w/ al-Sadr's Mahdi Army comes the following chestnut from El Screwball himself:

Al-Sadr on Friday blamed all the violence in Iraq on the United States, which he called "our enemy and the enemy of the people," in a sermon read on his behalf at the Kufa Mosque near Najaf.

Really? *sarcasm* Oh my, I was not aware that it's US troops that have been going around fire-bombing liquor stores & "protecting" Iraqis from pornography by blowing up video shops! */sarcasm*

Amid the violence, which began early Thursday, al-Sadr's aides called for a return to the truce

Truce? What truce? Nuts to that one, bud...

and asked for the United Nations and the government to step in.

LMAO@the UN. I thought they were foreign infidels an' all?
As for the current Iraqi gov't, sure they should step in. More accurately, they should break their collective foot off in some Madhi arse once and for all, calling that a "step" is an understatement.

A public service announcement

Paranoia sucks. It does not mean you're "enlightened among The Peons", it does not serve as any sort of badge of honor. It just makes you look stupid, and encourages sane people to laugh at you. For example:

Atrios: *looks at this shirt*..."Hey...It's a coded RACIST message!!"
Fellow anti-2nd-amendment alarmists/lefty nuts: "it's even WORSE!!"
Kevin, of Smallest Minority: LOL@these moonbats
Me: considering buying that shirt...

Why the hell is this being swept aside?

North Korea, now w/ range to hit the continental US...

If this isn't a certified "AAaaaaargh!!!" moment, I don't know what is. Glenn caught quite the corn-laden log from Kerry in the midst of an article.

The article excerpt:

On domestic issues, Kerry gave a "rock hard" pledge not to raise middle-class taxes if he becomes president, though he said a national emergency or war could change that.

Reminded that the country is at war already, Kerry said, "We're going to reduce the burden in this war, and if we do what we need to do for our economy, we're going to grow the tax base of our country."

And here's the pitch...

"Reminded that the country is at war already"? I wish the Democrats had nominated a guy who didn't need to be reminded.

*thwack*...it's outta there, folks.


If this is any indication of what to expect, it's looking like we're in for somethin' downright nasty no matter what. I can't be the only one scratching my head as to just how someone that would unleash such a brick is running for the WhiteHouse -- were the Dems asleep? Stinking drunk?

Geez, enough of this comes out between now and election day an' we might end up looking at a Bush landslide. It's almost like John Kerry woke up one morning and said to himself "hmm, I think I'll scare the living crap out of people entertaining thoughts of a return to divided government by suggesting I'd get them killed".

My initial view of the presidential election -- that I'd go for a protest vote, while hoping for Bush's defeat -- has been founded on a firm belief of mine that other than the gridlock effect that a Dem president facing a newly-angered GOP congress would have in slowing down our national decline, whoever took office would be a wash domestically. Foreign policy wise, I've felt that the current global terrorism concern would register as a universal "no duh", where regardless of the occasional rhetorical bone thrown to some loon on the fringes What Needs To Be Done generally would come to pass. So in the end, we'd be no worse off at the least, w/ the potential for improvement because we'd have an opposition party again.

That sound you hear is the above formulation beginning to crack.

I'm not saying I've changed my mind. That depends on what else comes out in the next few months. What I am saying is that I have this nagging feeling in the back of my mind that maybe, just maybe, we might have someone naive/crazy enough to blow it on defense sufficient to sweep to the side the homefront issues that made tossing Dubya worth even remotely batting an eye at for a libertarian when really no one fulfills our views. Much as I'd love to be able to pull the lever for someone campaigning to put the Nanny-State out of its misery AND respond to jihadist nutjobs w/ all the boom they deserve, sadly, I don't see that on the ballot...

Post-Convention bounce? Nope. A brick could've got more vertical.

No surprise though. That quite possibly may have been the most vapid convention there's ever been, and Kerry got himself skewered before his gums even finished flapping.