It's Never Our Fault

Joe Lieberman wants a Congressional investigation of the Fort Hood Army base shootings to see if they can be considered "terrorism."

I.e., as usual for that clod, he wants to immediately label anything bad in America as a foreign outside attack, rather than something that springs directly from our rotten core.

A US soldier kills a bunch of innocent people in Iraq: hero.

A US soldier kills a bunch of innocent people in the US: terrorist.

The military is moral relativism. But bullets and the killers who fire them don't give a fuck about our fake distinctions.

How about a Congressional investigation into whether Nancy Grace is a terrorist?

Told You So

Obama, speaking about today's mass murder at a Texas Army base:

"It's difficult enough when we lose these brave Americans in battles overseas. It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil."

Horrifying, yet utterly predictable.

Train people to kill, put them in horrible stress, promise them a prison sentence in a totally senseless, pointless lie of a war, make them kill people who look and sound like them....
and some of them will kill some of us. Guaranteed.

One of my big arguments against the Iraq War. No one cared. So shut up and enjoy dying!

Iraq, coming sooner to an America near you....

The day of this shooting, an article about the Cleveland serial killer who just had 11 corpses pulled out of his house mentioned that he's an ex-Marine--in the very last paragraph....

The more you bury the truth, the quicker it will bury you.

What's Your Life Worth?

Less than a flight across the country. Just ask Delta, whose pilots flew literally out of control past an airport with 150 lives in their hands:

"An airline spokesman said Monday the company has sent the passengers on the plane $500 travel vouchers to compensate them for their inconvenience...." (CNN.com)

Always Making the Wrong False Choice

From the New York Times, the newspaper that told us we had no choice but to attack Iraq, comes this news today:

"Congress and the Obama administration are about to take up one of the most fundamental issues stemming from the near collapse of the financial system last year--how to deal with institutions that are so big that the government has no choice but to rescue them when they get in trouble."

Here's my humble idea for how deal with such institutions: Do not assume "no choice" as a given.

If anything, I would assume the government has no choice except to *destroy* them. In the movies, when things become too monstrous due our social failure, we shoot missiles at them. Just ask Godzilla. We would have been far better off smart-bombing the headquarters of GM and AIG rather than Iraq.

Thanks for the false choice as political analysis, NY Times!

For extra laughs, here was the objection to drastic reform from Edward Yingling, professional jester for the American Bankers Association: "...you don’t want to create a system that raises great uncertainty and changes what institutions, risk management executives and lawyers are used to."

That's right! Only institutions, risk management executives and lawyers are allowed to create a system that raises great uncertainty, because that's what they're used to! They're also used to us not being able to do a damn thing about it, and get bailed out when they go belly-up.

How about public execution of anyone who charges an interest rate over 10 percent and/or makes more than $5 million a year? Would that be certain enough?

Dear Media, Re: 'Balloon Boy'

STOP MASTURBATING IN PUBLIC!

Love,
Allergic Reaction

Good Racism

Bad Racism: Rush Limbaugh saying a black quarterback is getting an easy ride from the media. Rush must be kept out of the NFL.

Good Racism: The NFL has a team called the Redskins, an overtly, unambiguously racist name. It's a classic team, its match-ups with the Dallas Cowboys lauded as a "cowboys and Indians" game. No one--no media, no blogger--even mentions this during Rush controversy. The Redskins must be considered an integral part of the NFL.

Maybe Rush should propose an all-African-American team called the Blackskins. Surely everyone would be happy.

Let's Pretend It's 40 Years from Now

Louisiana idiot refuses to marry mixed-race couple, saying it would be bad for any children. Gov. Bobby Jindal says the guy should lose his license and be investigated.

Louisiana idiot refuses to marry same-sex couples, saying it would be bad for any children. Gov. Bobby Jindal is that idiot.

A conservative is someone who believes something liberal 40 years too late.

Why don't we just skip ahead, Bobby, so you don't look like such a sophistic moron?

Hot Air Balloon

The major media, taking the word of a child, assumes another child is trapped on a runaway balloon and plays it like World War Motherfucking Three--no, make that World War Four.

Naturally, there was no one on board the balloon.

Any wonder why we're in Iraq?

Update: Major media now reporting on whether the event was a hoax as a dodge to distract us from the fact it should never have been reported on in any case.

The Hate We Love

Now that "hate" has been appropriated by thought-crime-policing leftists, it officially means nothing anymore. To wit, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn quoted on CNN.com about the apparently homophobic beating of a gay man:

"When someone is attacked for being who they are, and for being proud of who they are, there is no other explanation for that attack than hatred and bigotry."

So there is no explanation for our attacks on Al-Qaeda terrorists other than hatred and bigotry?

"Hate crime" legislation exists in its own world of circular logic, where it self-defines itself into nothingness.

Let's not forget the complexity Quinn et al. excise: And what is the explanation for the hatred and bigotry? Maybe we could end crime in fact rather than stereotype it in theory.

Small Lies Matter; Big Lies Are Honorable

A guy is arrested for pretending to be a Sept. 11 survivor AND a US Marine who served in Iraq.

AMVETS spokesperson Ryan Gallucci weighed in via CNN.com: "As a veteran of the war in Iraq, it's unfathomable that someone would propagate such a lie at a time when American men and women are actually putting their lives on the line, and American families are coping with the loss of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice."

Yes, it's unfathomable why someone would want a taste of the cheap and easy fame afforded in this "support our troops" era. But apparently, it's perfectly fathomable why the president of the United States would propagate lies to start the war in the first place.

A lie creates real honor that it is just wrong to lie about.

Well, what else to expect from AMVETS, which wants an anti-flag-burning constitutional amendment? Confuse symbols with reality, and you get all the fraud--and death--you deserve.