There are many things the government can't do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people. -- Lord Acton
Friday, August 13, 2004
While I’m thinking about it
I owe a brief word of thanks to the asshat trolls who have been running around over the last few days, pretending to be me, and saying the most offensive things their limited intellect can come up with. Playing on their own fears and obsessions, they haven’t yet caught up intellectually to the rest of us, because I’ve actually gotten a new BlogRoll link out of their efforts (thanks to an e-mail I got from him, making sure that I wasn’t the troll). I even reciprocated the link.
You see, the trolls think that everyone thinks the way they do - slowly and sophomorically. (If they don’t think that way, they need to be forced to do so by the government, dammit!) They think that if they go around, pretending to be me, that everyone will have the same opinion of me that they are trying to portray.
But… what hasn’t crossed their minds is that the vast majority of people will actually click on the link (to this site) that the trolls so kindly provide. They will arrive here, read a few paragraphs and realize that I am nothing like that, nor is John, nor Steve, nor Kevin. In fact, we’re pretty smart guys expressing reasonable and rational opinions, giving links to quality sites, and sharing some humorous slices of life, and that the posts are obviously some asshat’s (read: “the trolls who made the posts") attempt at smearing me personally.
Or they will do what McGehee did, and drop me an e-mail to check. And I get a new link and lots more visitors out of the deal.
Repeat as many times as necessary.
So, thanks, you trolls! Keep up the good work! And welcome to all you new visitors…
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Michael Moore thinks he scores a point
He had interviewed Porter Goss for his latest attempt at manipulating an election (since BfC didn’t manage to discredit Bush enough for the 2002 elections), and released the transcripts of that interview.
Now the reason that Moore doesn’t want Porter Goss in the position of the head of the CIA seems to be (to be blunt) “because Bush wants him”.
From this column:
The day after Mr Bush picked Mr Goss for the top US spy job, Moore released an excerpt from a March 3 interview in which the 65-year-old former House of Representatives intelligence chief recounts his lack of qualifications for employment as a modern CIA staff member.
‘I don’t have the language skills...my language skills were romance languages and stuff. We are looking for Arabists today. I don’t have the cultural background probably,’ he was quoted as saying in an interview transcript released on Wednesday.
‘And I certainly don’t have the technical skills, as my children remind me every day: ‘Dad you got to get better on your computer.’ So, the things that you need to have, I don’t have.’
Hello? He’s 65 YEARS OLD. Of course he won’t have the language training for today’s threats, since the threat that was most serious when he was an active agent came from the Soviet Union, and the battleground was Western Europe. What is the classification of the languages used in that region? That’s right, they are called “Romance” languages.
He also doesn’t have the cultural background in fighting non-national multi-national gangs. Why? Once again, the threat was the Soviet Union, not terror groups.
Hmmmmmm…
I wonder how good a job John Kerry would do at humping a 55-pound backpack up and down a few hills, before engaging in a frantic race to dig a slit trench. I mean, if we are going to judge who runs an organization by whether or not they would be able to handle the tasks assigned to the lowest levels of the organization.
A Chief of Police who cannot run down a suspect.
A Fire Chief who cannot fight his way up twelve flights of stairs.
A President who cannot stand a 6-hour post with a rifle on a wall at Gitmo.
Of course, we could accept that he was talking about how highly qualified today’s agents are compared with when he was an agent in Europe, and that he was complimenting them, rather than belittling himself, but that would require that you accept that Bush and his advisers want the best man for the job.
You would have to admit that Bush might be doing something right.
Ain’t-a-gonna happen, folks. Look to the Dems do everything they can to block this from happening until after the election, while simultaneously claiming that the fact that the CIA doesn’t have a Director is proof that Bush was failing to win the War on Terror.
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An opposing viewpoint
Just to show that I’m not solely concentrated on all conservative, pro-Bush websites, I bring to your attention two sites. One has been on my blogroll for quite a while, and then there is this new one, which was found here.
You’re going to need to swallow any beverages you have in your mouth. As Charles says about the “My Taxonomy” link on that second site, “I laughed so hard the neighbor’s dog started barking...”
Enjoy…
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Real life versus the Internet
Found at AMCGLTD comes this little clip from Red vs. Blue.
Funny as hell, and closer to truth than I care to think about. Swallow first.
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