Follow-Up To "A Challenge"

Here are my comments in reply to a rabid Moonbat:

"Against the war? Yes, still. War is the health of the state and never justifiable under any circumstance."
"never justifiable under any circumstance." ? WTF kinda logic is that ? By that logic we could not have responded to Japan attacking Pearl Harbor ! "never justifiable under any circumstance." ? This is BS in it's highest order !

"Self-Defense is not war-mongering, and this was not a war of self-defense.
"Really ? Saddam's regime rewarded and harbored Terrorists. This was an act of self-defense. Again, WTF kinda logic is that ?
"If it is okay for you to viciously remove a vicious man from power what keeps someone from doing the same thing to you, after all, you feel it is right to wage war on those who disagree with you? By your own morality, you are now fair game."
Yes, It's OK to viciously remove a vicious man from power.
I took the libery of correcting you spelling. We viciously removed Hitler. We viciously removed Tojo. I see, so liberating a nation from a brutal Dictator that rewarded and harbored Terrorists makes us the same. Again: WTF kinda logic is that ?
"John, believe me, I understand the desire to right the wrongs of the world but forcing other people to use their money and lives (represented by their taxes) to enact your will is wrong. If you think these things are right, you pay the price, you fund it. But, don't make me do it. If somehow this war was fought to rid Iraq of an overlord and free their people, why are you so willing to enslave me to do it? Don't you see the basic illogic of that?"
Oh I see, so our forced contributions to the failed policies of the Socialists (The Democrats for those of you that don't know) for fifty years were not enslaving us ? The policies that have us working half the year to support, programs that we don't believe in, never voted for and are prime examples of failure ? Again: WTF kinda logic is that ?
"Or am I just another stupid moonbat?"
Yes. Yes you are..
"It's that kind of unthinking, emotional response that only perpetuates the violence and recriminations on both sides, both here and on the ground in Iraq."
You're the ones that help perpetuate the violence and recriminations. You're the ones that find nothing good in anything this country has done in the past fifty years. You are the ones always eager to blame America first. Americans are sick of that message. We reject you and all you stand for.

"I don't begrudge you your war-mongering. I don't like it, but that is just what it is. Please stop begrudging me (and, by extension, others like me) my desire for a peaceful and voluntary solution to the problem."
This is not "war-mongering". This is self preservation. I invite you to read this: Religion Of Hate. If you have the nerve and the "Open Mind" you so often claim you have and we lack.

"peaceful and voluntary solution to the problem"
Read the above link and tell me how the hell that's possible ?

Microsoft Bashing Is More Than Getting Old

I for one am sick of the "Microsoft is the root of all evil groups". It's even more tiring and old than the "Blame Bush for everything" groups. There were ample opportunities for other companies to overtake MicroSnot. From Dr DOS to OS/2 to Lotus, To Ashton Tate to IBM to Borland. All of which had MicroSnot reeling at one time or another. MicroSnot won. They had the better business plan. They had what the market demanded. Yeah it's buggy. But it's what the consumer bought. The fact is the EU can't stand Capitalism. They can't allow the consumer to make a choice. If I were Bill Gates I'd take a page out of "Atlas Shrugged" and say "Fine. We won't sell Windows in the EU. Find something better A-Holes."

Follow up: I wouldn't be surprised if the EU took another page out of "Atlas Shrugged" and forced MicroSnot to sell their product at a loss under a different name. Much as Reardon Steel became Miracle Metal.

Happy Birthday !

Richard (Dick) B. Cheney (1941):


Vice President of the United States who has served three Presidents as an elected official. Cheney earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Political Science at the University of Wyoming, and caught the attention of Representative Donald Rumsfeld while he was doing a fellowship for a local Republican congressman. Rumsfeld was so impressed with Cheney’s character and intelligence that he hired him to assist the Office of Economic Opportunity under President Nixon. A rising star on the political scene, Cheney served on Nixon’s Cost of Living Council, and with the advent of the Ford Administration in 1974, Cheney became one of the youngest men ever to be named White House Chief of Staff. When Ford left the White House, Cheney returned to Wyoming to be elected to Congress, and in 1989 he was named Secretary of Defense by President George Bush. For his leadership during the Gulf War, Cheney was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991.

Our nation owes a lot of gratitude for your service sir. You have been one of the most effective Vice Presidents in our history and I for one salute you.

This Day In History

• 1798 - The first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives was witnessed by legislators. Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fought on the House floor. Are you ready to rumble ?!?!
• 1815 - The United States purchases Thomas Jefferson's library as the nucleus of the Library of Congress. Jefferson's more than 6,000 books help replace those burned by the British during the War of 1812. You think Vietnam was the most unpopular war in American history ? You must have gone to public school. Ironic that this war almost caused secession by several states prior to the civil war, and was the war that our National Anthem arose from. Some times what some people call the wrong war can cause the right things to happen. Something for those on the left to remember.
• 1862 - The U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", was launched.
• 1933 - "The Lone Ranger" was heard on radio for the first time. The program ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955. Not many people realize that the Lone Ranger was the Green Hornet's Grandfather. Not that it matters really, what with them both being fictional and all. But hey ! Bruce Lee kicked ass !
• 1948 - Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi. The political and spiritual leader of India's independence movement, Gandhi staged numerous nonviolent -- and highly effective -- protests against British authority. His assassin, a Hindu fanatic, objected to Gandhi's tolerance for the Muslims. Most people point to Gandhi as the way to bring peaceful settlement to any political situation completely ignoring that if he would have tried this against, oh say the Nazis or the Italian Fascists or the Communists. He would have been dead the first day. Still, he played on the conscience of the British populace and succeeded in winning Indian Self Rule. Which was a great accomplishment. I can't help but think of that old Bob & Tom Bit though... The New New Delhi Deli.
• 1972 - In Northern Ireland, British soldiers shot and killed thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers. The day is known as "Bloody Sunday." Which U2 turned into a number one smash hit song.
• 1973 - G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord, former President Nixon reelection campaign members, are convicted of breaking into and illegally tapping Democratic Party headquarters (Watergate hotel). Which was pretty f'ing stupid of them. Nixon's poles at the time suggested he would win in a land slide. It was totally pointless to do it. It's something that tarnishes the Republicans to this day.
• 1981 - Nearly 2 million New Yorkers turn out for a ticker-tape parade honoring the freed American hostages held captive in Iran for 444 days before being released January 20. The reason they were released ? Ronald Regan was elected.
• 1997 - A New Jersey judge ruled that the unborn child of a female prisoner must have legal representation. He denied the prisoner bail reduction to enable her to leave the jail and obtain an abortion. ?? A New Jersey judge that had a soul ? Must be an aberration.
• 2002 - Slobodan Milosevic accused the U.N. war crimes tribunal of an "evil and hostile attack" against him. Milosevic was defending his actions during the Balkan wars. Actually, I'm starting to think he was a scapegoat. The Religion Of Hate had invaded his country and the rest of the EU is starting to feel the same strain. He recognized that his nation would no longer exist if the Religion of Hate were allowed to prosper. I direct you to the Required Reading portion of this Blog before leaving comments.

Wow, busy day in history.

GWB OR JFK? An Inaugural Twist

Galvin does a good job here. Seems that at one time... long long ago... Democrats stood for something. Who knew ?

Site Layout

I made some minor changes to the layout of this Blog over the weekend. I added a synopsis of the Giant Overlord War® Section (The war the Main Stream Media doesn't want you to know about.) and a Required Reading Section over on the right.

OMG ! Finally ! Trackbacks !

I guess I've finally arrived !
Not only did I get my first ever Trackback, I got three in one day !
(wipes tear of joy from cheek)
Excuse me, I... I can't talk just now...
No pictures ! No pictures please !

Kerry has a fix for Social Security: Raise Taxes

This is but one of many reasons he lost.

Election Reaction

Superhawk has a good roundup and some preditions.

And So It Begins

Iraq Voters Defy Threats, Boycott Calls


Good for them.

You know, the MSM and the Demoncrats predicted disaster for this election just like they predicated disaster for the Afghanistan elections. Actually they seemed eager for disaster. In both cases they were proven incredibly wrong.

I'll bet they still won't get it. I bet the MSM will still wonder why their ratings continue to plunge and the Demoncrats will still wonder why more and more Americans reject them.

It's because they are wrong an incredible amount of the time. Only the most thick skulled person can keep seeing them be wrong time and again and continue to think they're right.

Even now, the MSM continues to focus on what little bad happened during the voting. Forty four deaths. It's unclear if they count the terrorists as part of the count but they usually do. That's pretty much a normal daily body count in Iraq. I'm not saying the deaths weren't tragic, but it's nothing like the blood bath predicted by the Demoncrats and the MSM. The point here is they continue to focus on the wrong part of the story. The big story is the success of the election. They can't even get the focus of the story right.

This is a great day for Iraq.
This is a great day for America.

I Have Met the F*CKTARD, His Name is Nick

I laughed a long time after reading this. Warning, strong f'ing language.

I'm About Done With Blog Explosion

In all the surfing and credits et all, I've only gotten 3 visits from the directory, 1 visit from searches. I've only gotten one comment. 11 clicks on my banners. What's the point ? I visit other sites, leave comments, trackbacks. What do I get ?

So I'm surfing On Blogazoo...

And my credits go down ! WTF ?

Follow up: They responded as follows:

Noah,That is because more people are reading your Blog, and the credits are going out faster than you can read other Blogs to keep up. This is NOT a bad thing, as your Blog IS being seen A LOT!As more Blogs are entered into the system (which I am currently approving about 50+ an hour), this will slow down a bit.We now have almost 500 members (in less than 3 days), so your Blog will get some excellent exposure here.If you have any further questions, please contact us again.

I responded as follows:

Excuse me ?
The credits I've earned should not be subtracted before I assign them !
I assigned only 50% for auto !
I went from well into 200 credits to 6.5 !
How in the hell does that make sense ?

Further follow up:
You can't reply to their e-mails. It's an invalid address. How are you supposed to carry on a dialog with people that won't give you a means to reply ? I had to go back to their contact us page and start all over. This sucks.

Further Further Follow Up:

"Noah,My apologies. I did not know you had not assigned them from your first contacted added 200 credits to your account, and our programmer is currently looking into any possibilities. Thus far, your problem is the first one of it's nature. Please monitor the added credits to ensure they are not used without your assigning them.Try as we can, we can not anticipate every possible problem, but we can work to fix them once identified.As to contacting us, there are 4 of us maintaining this contact system. By using this system, we can track each request, and insure it is taken care of. Direct e-mail to an individual does not allow verification or database tracking.We are adding 3 more means of Support over the next 24-48 hours. This will include live voice conferencing, a Forum, and a Support Blog. We are also looking into a full featured help desk with live text chat.You can access the voice conference from this page (Removed By Me For SecurityResons) and talk to us directly if you wish.We intend to offer superior support and service. We are always looking at ways to improve it. Your opinions are taken into account in this.Richard TaylorBlogAzoo Admin Team".

I don't know what happened here. Maybe I did something wrong. But I feel a lot better about Blogazoo. I still don't understand why they give an invalid return e-mail address though. "Direct e-mail to an individual does not allow verification or database tracking." ? Excuse me ? How can anything allow for more verification or database tracking than an e-mail address ?

Follow Follow Follow Up:
Maybe it's the lack of sleep and maybe I assigned those credits and forgot. At any rate the people at Blogazoo have responded quickly to my concerns. They have been very attentive and eager to address my complaint. I may have screwed up. I may be in the wrong. I feel much much better for their responsiveness and I have no problem with them at this point.

Stop Bitching Start A Revolution

This is a real eye opener. They want a revolution ? Too bad we're the ones with the guns. Bring it on Moonbats !

Follow up: I keep watching this over and over. It is so funny !

Carl Rove is the Anti-Christ ! ROTFL !

Haz She Drowned In Naked Chocolatey Goodness ?

She hasn't been heard from since ! What a way to go !

Wow

Hauntingly beautiful.

What Happened To The Kennedy's

It's good to know that not all of our nation's youth are worthless hippies. ;-)

Missiles Anyone?

From Alekstheblogger.

Thank You Hollywood!

Found on ZEBRA REPORT.

Religion Of Peace

This should be required reading for everyone.