Tuesday, April 27, 2004

I’m going to claw my eyes out.

You know, we all know about the media bias that coats the ‘old media’ like a thick layer of yellow phlegm, but I am beginning to believe, deep in my heart, that Reuters is, by far, the worst of the ‘Only News’ groups. 

Why?  Click below.

The Vietnam Syndrome

I couldn’t help but roll my eyes when heard about this:

A group holding three Italians hostage in Iraq has threatened to kill them in five days unless Italians take to the streets to publicly denounce their country’s involvement in the U.S.-led occupation.

I’m not demeaning the fact that the hostages may be killed, but for the love of Frank, that just strikes me as the most cornballish, chuckleheaded, and numskullish thing I’ve heard yet from these idiotic terrorists. And what if it doesn’t work you brainless twits, then what?

So Italians stage a protest and they release the hostages. Do you think Berlusconi is going to give in now? I doubt that he will.

Did you know…..

...that the Allies in the Korean War had 22 member nations?  Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Greece, the Netherlands, Ethiopia, Colombia, the Philippines, Belgium, and Luxembourg.  Add Sweden, Thailand, South Korea, Norway, South Africa, and the United States, and you get 22.  Many of those countries only sent token forces (Greece sent 800 or so troops, and Sweden sent a hospital unit), but this was considered a coalition. 

How many do we have in Iraq right now?  47, including the departing countries of Spain, Hondouras, and The Domincan Republic: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola
Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia,
Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia,
Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Palau, Panama,
Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Singapore, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom,
United States, and Uzbekistan.  Again, some countries are only giving token support, but they are there. 

How about nations that participated on the Allied side in WWII?  Well, if we include countries actually invaded by the Axis, and liberated by the Allies, we have 58, otherwise we have 30 nations that actually fought the Axis OUTSIDE of their own borders.  Again, some only gave token support (like New Guinea), but they were considered Allies. 

WWI? Around 25 countries were allied with the United States, and that breaks down the British Empire into 13 different nations. 

Do I need to go on?  I don’t think that the number of countries, or what international group you go through to arrange said number of countries, matters a whit. 

Remember that the next time John Kerry tells you that we have a coalition of the ‘coerced and bribed’.

The Sausage King of Arkansas

The anticipation is too much. How can we wait until June to get the memoirs of William Jefferson Blyth IV? Of course, you know him better as Bubba.

Former President Bill Clinton’s highly anticipated memoirs about his political career and scandal-plagued presidency, entitled “My Life,” will go on sale in late June, publishing house Alfred A. Knopf announced on Monday.

The book, for which Knopf reportedly paid between $10 million and $12 million, provides an account of Clinton’s life through the White House years, Sonny Mehta, president and editor in chief at Knopf, said in a statement.

$10 to $12 million? That’s pretty steep for a self-serving legacy protector. His wife only got $8 million. Maybe for that price tag, he’ll actually have written his book.