Drumwaster's Rants

April 2004
S M T W T F S
       1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30  

Members:

Login | Register | Member List

Search


Advanced Search

tracker

Archives

July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
December 2004
November 2004
October 2004
September 2004
August 2004
July 2004
June 2004
May 2004
April 2004
March 2004
February 2004
January 2004
December 2003
November 2003
October 2003
September 2003
August 2003
July 2003
June 2003

Category Archives

Recent entries

Rockets Red Glare
O-bortion!
Happy Independence Day!
The “New” Old Battlefield
The Fall of the Old Grey Lady
McCain’s Greatest Hope Was Also Bush’s
The Media on Iraq: “Damn It, Damn It, Damn It!”
Book Plug
The “F” Doesn’t Stand for “Fantastic”
The Dust Has Settled and Out Steps…

Categories

Syndicate

RSS 1.0
RSS 2.0
Atom

All e-mail submissions and comments are subject to publication or parody at the sole discretion of the authors of this site, unless prior arrangements have been made.

Take the MIT Weblog Survey




Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -- Barry Goldwater


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.


Posted by John Cross at 03:19 PM | (0) Trackbacks
Category:

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.

Posted by Drumwaster at 06:18 AM | (0) Trackbacks
Category: War on Terrorism |

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’.

Posted by John Cross at 06:07 AM | (0) Trackbacks
Category:

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.

Posted by Drumwaster at 05:33 AM | (0) Trackbacks
Category:
Page 1 of 1 pages