I plan to resurrect this blog by increasing postings to about one per day, and opening up comments to an easier format.
So far, I have not had the time, and at the moment still do not.
Please accept my apologies, and check in here periodically.
Recently a U.S. Senator moved into my office building in Phoenix, AZ.
From his office, you’d never guess who it is:
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From Greek Mythology: Narcissus, who was as beautiful as Dionysus 2 or Apollo, discovered his image in a pool, he fell in love with himself, and not being able to find consolation, he died of sorrow by the same pool.
Or from Dictionary.com:
nar·cis·sism Audio pronunciation of “narcissist” ( P ) Pronunciation Key (närs-szm) also nar·cism (-szm)
n.
1. Excessive love or admiration of oneself. See Synonyms at conceit.
2. A psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem.
Every 12 hours, I get an email generated by my office server. It reads:
SUBJECT: Spam Report: Mon, Mar 14 2005 - Zero Spam!Congratulations… Our server did not detect any spam in your account today!
It seems to me that I get two spam messages on that account every day. There is no way to opt out of them, either.
This software must have been written by the sort of person for whom the metal ladders need to carry warnings like “Don’t put against high voltage killer zapper electrical wires.”
While going through a ghastly 1 month long repair cycle for my Dell laptop, I just heard the following canned message on my interminable, hours long sixth telephone wait:
Spyware and viruses are considered third party software and are not installed or supported by Dell.
Huh?
Aren’t you glad we don’t have this gal as first lady? One state was all that stopped her.
From the Drudge Report:
Teresa Heinz Kerry is openly skeptical about results from November’s election, the SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER reports, particularly in sections of the country where optical scanners were used to record votes.
“Two brothers own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States,” Heinz Kerry said. She identified both as “hard-right” Republicans. She argued that it is “very easy to hack into the mother machines.”
Heinz Kerry did not offer any specific evidence that votes on the machines were altered.
“We in the United States are not a banana republic,” added Heinz Kerry during a fundraiser in Seattle.
“I fear for ‘06,” she said.
We fear for the future also, Teresa, which is why the veterans have not disbanded after we helped defeat your husband, the traitor.
Now we want to stop his re-election in ‘08′
Keep worrying. The Botox people need the money.
Unexpected Whiff of Freedom Proves Bracing for the Mideast writes Neil MacFarquhar in the New York Times.
Unexpected? Do they pay attention to trends at all? The Iraqi government and the Bush administration both promised free elections in Iraq on Jan 30th, and they happened.
So what is unexpected? To the Times and the rest of the “main stream media,” any success of any policy by Bush is unexpected - the MSM cannot imagine that Bush might be right - about anything.
Just remember, these idiots are the considered the cream of the crop of American journalism.
Sad, isn’t it?
Iran and Korea have deep tunnel systems to protect their nuclear assets - tunnels too deep for us to destroy - even with nuclear weapons*.
Dr. Charles Krauthammer claims that we cannot defeat Iranian tunnel systems. Iran also threatened to block the Straits of Hormuz if attacked. The conclusion was that we will give up the military option against Iran.
Am I missing something?
Why can’t we put the tunnels out of action? Sure, we can’t destroy the deeply buried equipment and facilities with aerial bombing, but we should be able to make them inaccessible. What if we destroy all of the entrances and utility/communications links, using a combination of powerful bunker busters, and time delay bombs (or better, time delay cluster munitions if they exist) and air-sowable mines? THen e also use High energy microwave weapons to destroy electrical equipment supporting the operation and even equipment in the tunnels.
A tunnel that requires a lot o digging to reach is a useless tunnel - as long as the willingness to attack the diggers exists. Time delay weapons help increase the difficulty and time in digging back into the tunnels. These were used on the Ho Chi Minh trail at a critical mountain pass choke-point. Adequate saturation bombing of the area, or good intelligence or a pre/post attack commando or airborne ranger raids should allow entrances to be identified, and response efforts to be hobbled.
Nobody and no material would be able to get in and out for a long time - as long as we were willing to continue to attack the sites.
As for the Straits, we could and should capture the Iranian territory along the Straits if a single weapon is fired. We should provide Aegis escorts for tankers, and provide insurance if needed to guarantee continued world oil supplies.
None of this is simple, but none of it seems impossible.
None of these is as bad as an ICBM and nuclear armed Iran, an imminent prospect!
We need to start thinking like a country at war.
*In theory , nukes can reach any depth, by a long series of ground bursts. However, the fallout would be intense and the resulting humanitarian issues prevent such an approach.
The AP, like most of the MSM, needs to consistently show the Iraq war in the worst possible light. Hence, in spite of the very significant good news that the US loss rate since Jan 30th has dropped significantly, they report The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq has topped 1,500, a top headline but a totally artificial and insignificant news story (why not “topped 1536″ or 1492?).
The loss of 54 troops was “down sharply” from January.
When it comes to Iraq and the Main Stream Media, the glass is always half empty, and that’s the good news! The bad news is the glass was full of poison.
