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"Democrats skipping briefings on Iraq"

But…but…they “support the troops”! From Bryan at Hot Air:

Sen. Harry Reid says that the war is lost, then backtracks.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi declares that the road to peace is through Damascus, and offers to meet with Iran’s apocalyptic pirate president but declines to meet with the President of the United States.

Together, these two and their allies are doing all that they can to de-fund the war in Iraq through the Jack Murtha “slow bleed” strategy.

Call all of that what you want, but it doesn’t amount to supporting the troops. It amounts to supporting the enemy.

Ignoring briefings on the war by Gen. David Petraeus, the commander whom Congress recently approved and whose strategy is now governing ground action in Iraq, doesn’t amount to supporting the troops either. But that’s just what the Democrats are doing:

The commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, returns to Washington this week, but last week Pelosi’s office said “scheduling conflicts” prevented him from briefing House members. Two days later, the members-only meeting was scheduled, but the episode brings to mind the fact that Pelosi and other top House Democrats skipped a Pentagon videoconference with Petraeus on March 8.

The Democrats did the same thing on April 9: Only one Democrat Senator attended a video conference with Gen. Petraeus which was an update and progress report on the war.

What can be a higher priority than hearing from Gen. Petraeus? Can’t they make Petraeus’ briefings a priority, just for show? Apparently they would rather meet with Code Pink than Gen. Petraeus.

The Democrats wanted power but didn’t want any responsibility (when do liberals EVER want responsibility for anything? – Ed.), but in winning power they have also earned responsibility. This war is being fought on their watch now, too. If they support the troops as they always say that they do, the least that they could do is treat the war as a priority worth studying and understanding, and worth hearing about from the man most responsible for its execution. They shouldn’t rely on media reports or groups like Iraq Body Count, but that’s apparently just what they’re doing.

AJ Strata calls the Democrat’s lack of attention to Petraeus’ briefings “criminal.” He’s right but it’s even worse than that. We’re seeing a complete abdication by the party in power on the seminal issue of our time. They’re running toward defeat now and running on defeat for 2008. We’re seeing a gradual abandonment of the Iraqi people, of American troops in the field, and ultimately of America’s place in the world. The Democrats are making a monumental error that will change the world for the worse. Defeat in Iraq, which is how the Democrats are casting the effort even while they dodge reports from the architect of the American strategy there, will echo for decades to come.

Why bother attending the briefings when you already have locked yourself into the defeatist mentality? If you have not yet done so, please afford yourself the opportunity now to officially question their patriotism.

April 23, 2007 Posted by | Iraq | Leave a Comment

Surprise: boy provokes croc and gets attacked!

Audition for the Darwin Awards. Hilarity ensues. From FNC:

A crocodile shot to death in south China during a search for a missing 9-year-old student was found to contain the child’s remains, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The crocodile was shot Saturday in a park in Beihai, a city in the Guangxi region, by investigators looking for the missing child. Investigators confirmed that human remains found in the reptile were that of the student, the report said.

The child, surnamed Liu, disappeared Friday after Liu and three other children climbed over the fence around a pool in the park that had been used to stage crocodile shows, Xinhua said.

“The children shot the animals with catapults and beat them with wooden sticks,” the agency said. “One of the irritated crocodiles bit Liu’s clothes and dragged him into water, where he was eaten by a swarm of crocodiles.”

Dumbass. The kids climbed a fence, antagonized some crocodiles, so just what in the hell did they think was going to happen?

April 23, 2007 Posted by | non-political | Leave a Comment

Shrillary breaks out drawl again

Having learned nothing from the ridicule she endured the first time she tried her faux Southern charm (since she has the charm of a rattlesnake with herpes), Her Highness decided to give it another whirl. Video clip here.

BEVERAGE WARNING! Put down your Coke, coffee, water, adult beverage, or whatever. You’re not gonna believe this shizit:

“We have to reform our government,” she said. “The abuses that have gone on in the last six years — I don’t think we know the half of it yet. You know, when I walk into the Oval Office in January of 2009, I’m afraid I’m going to lift up the rug and I’m going to see so much stuff under there.”

…”You know, what is it about us always having to clean up after people?” she asked. “But this is not just going to be picking up socks off the floor. …

Presumably, it won’t involve a stained blue dress or shredded billing records, either. And she wants to talk about cleaning things up? As Ian observes: “If you’re actually coming back to the White House, it might be best if you brought back all that stuff you stole when you left last time.
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MEMO TO HILLARY: When your name is “Clinton”, and you attack the ethics of the Bush administration…DO NOT MENTION THE OVAL OFFICE CARPET. Cripes. No wonder Gore’s thinking about getting in on this action.”

Stones and glass houses are coming to mind, as are pots and kettles.

April 23, 2007 Posted by | Hillary, hypocrisy | Leave a Comment

Taxachusetts college fires prof over classroom lecture

One wonders if the leftist teacher’s union will come to this guy’s aid. From Breitbart/AP:

An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some students and said “pow.”
The five-minute demonstration at Emmanuel College on Wednesday, two days after a student killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus, included a discussion of gun control, whether to respond to violence with violence, and the public’s “celebration of victimhood,” said the professor, Nicholas Winset.

During the demonstration, Winset pretended to shoot some students. Then one student pretended to shoot Winset to illustrate his point that the gunman might have been stopped had another student or faculty member been armed.

“A classroom is supposed to be a place for academic exploration,” Winset, who taught financial accounting, told the Boston Herald.

He said administrators had asked the faculty to engage students on the issue. But on Friday, he got a letter saying he was fired and ordering him to stay off campus.

Winset, 37, argued that the Catholic liberal arts school was stifling free discussion by firing him, and he said the move would have a “chilling effect” on open debate. He posted an 18-minute video on the online site YouTube defending his action.

The college issued a statement saying: “Emmanuel College has clear standards of classroom and campus conduct, and does not in any way condone the use of discriminatory or obscene language.”

Student Junny Lee, 19, told The Boston Globe that most students didn’t appear to find Winset’s demonstration offensive.

I’m guessing that had he pretended to shoot Bush, Cheney, or Rumsfeld, the man would have been granted immediate and irrevocable tenure, or possibly would have been nominated for an Oscar.

Keep this incident in mind whenever some pointy-headed pseudo-intellectual educrat claims that colleges encourage open and free discussion.

April 23, 2007 Posted by | moonbats | Leave a Comment

UPDATED: Sheryl Crow’s answer to global warming: wipe your pooper with one square!

UPDATE BELOW.

Why Hollyweirdos are better seen and not heard. Well, she makes a living singing, so she has to be heard, but you get my drift. Anywho, from Lance Armstrong’s ex, via Hot Air:

Green earth = brown hand!

Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, worth investigating. One of my favorites is in the area of forest conservation which we heavily rely on for oxygen. I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don’t want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required. When presenting this idea to my younger brother, who’s judgment I trust implicitly, he proposed taking it one step further. I believe his quote was, “how bout just washing the one square out.”

Hey, it’s “think globally, act locally,” not “think globally, act locally except for your pooper.”

Exit question one: Just how, um, tidy are Sheryl Crow’s evacuations that one thin square of toilet paper is enough to do the trick? You think the Goracle gets by with one?

Sheryl may trust her brother’s judgment, but I certainly don’t. Not if he’s telling me to wipe with one square and rinse it off afterwards! I’d like to think she’s joking, but with these Hollyweirdo types, you can never be certain.

Come on, people…you just knew I’d be back to my juvenile self in no time.

UPDATE (4/23/2007 – 9:53 A.M. EST): While Crow is imploring us to use one square of TP for our bungholes in order to keep the planet from baking, she has no objections to having four carbon-spewing tour busses, three gas-guzzling tractor-trailers, and six cars for her own personal usage. I tell you, between her and Gore and the Silky Pony living the energy-gorging lifestyles they tell us is killing the planet, they certainly don’t seem too concerned about it…ergo, why should we be?

April 23, 2007 Posted by | global warming, Hollyweirdos, hypocrisy, moonbats | 1 Comment

   

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