11.28.07
Posted in Republicans at 19:22 by Toby Petzold
Thompson seems a little nervous. Or maybe drunk.
Everybody’s unloading on Giuliani, but there’s a lot of people who will find his moderate positions appealing.
McCain is more moralistic than he should be.
“Out-Tancredo Tancredo”? Ha! A man who’s comfortable in his own marginality. But he’s a bellweather. One of these goddamned parties had better get on the right side of this or they will fail. I guarantee it. Good on you, Tom.
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Posted in Republicans at 19:14 by Toby Petzold
Uh, oh. Romney’s scoring off of Giuliani.
But then the roundhouse sucker punch. Yikes! Neither of these cats will ever be the other’s running mate.
Romney’s pushing it. And wonkishly. Zzzzz…
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Posted in Big Media, Republicans at 19:07 by Toby Petzold
Well, that’s what the governor called it.
They’re bringing them on talk-show style like they did with the Democrats last time out. It’s a measurement thing out there on the catwalk, baby.
I hear Huckabee’s hot in Iowa. I still think he’s slightly gooberish, though.
This format is perfect for the Clinton News Network to fuck with the candidates but good.
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11.27.07
Posted in Big Media, stupidity at 17:05 by Toby Petzold
I was just listening to Loudmouth Matthews talk to David Ignatius, and Matthews’ analysis of everything about Iraq is absurd, embarrassing, and profoundly stupid.
Matthews has irreversibly trained himself to mistake the flatulence of his own opinion for the prevailing wind of historical wisdom. To finish his interview with the observation that Ignatius is “too moderate” for his tastes is bizarre. Clown, meet journalist.
Contrary to what Matthews claims, we will not have lost the War for Iraq if our troops remain there –even if for another half a century. Whether we keep a military presence there is not the standard by which such judgements are made. The Korean War essentially ended in a ceasefire. Guess who’s still there. Guess who really lost that war. And what of our presence in Germany, Japan, and Italy? Sixty years on —and it’s been a measure of what our country lost?
Matthews, you are an ignorant, partisan turd with a mouth like a jackpotting ass of whatever comes to mind.
UPDATE: Oh, yeah: our military’s not in Viet Nam, but we’re about balls-deep into that society, anyhow. The kids? They love us long time.
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11.21.07
Posted in America at 22:56 by Toby Petzold
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is unConstitutional.
The people who are defending it (e.g., Leahy, Feingold, Feinstein, et al) are attempting to abrogate the President’s authority as vested in him by the Constitution of the United States.
These wretched liberals fancy themselves the defenders of our civil liberties when they are, in fact, performance artists trying to win the approval of people who hate this country. They believe that Islamofascists have the same right to our Constitutional protections as any actual American who isn’t trying to commit mass murder against our citizens.
America knows who its enemies are. Some of them are on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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11.18.07
Posted in America, Big Brother, Democrats, Eminently Occidental at 01:08 by Toby Petzold
Is Hillary’s nomination —if not the general victory— such a foregone conclusion that this culture would indulge itself in its indulgence of her as some sort of Catherine the Great riding through these debates like Potemkin villages? Are we at such a post-modern moment that the obviousness of her grasping control freakery becomes just part of the charm?
I didn’t watch the last part of the Las Vegas debate, but I didn’t know there was even a doubt that the audience questions were scripted and rehearsed. At least that older, nervous lady’s question was certainly recited.
It’s all a bunch of phony crap. CNN is definitely the Clinton News Network from here on in. Better watch them, if watch them you must.
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Posted in History, moonbats at 00:46 by Toby Petzold
With thanks to Jonah Goldberg, check out this excellent post by writer Oliver Kamm in which the ridiculous liberal Eric Alterman gets his ass kicked. In reaction to the recent death of Gen. Paul Tibbets, the man who piloted the mission in which we utterly destroyed the city of Hiroshima, Alterman wrote in The Nation:
When Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets died November 1, the New York Times repeated Tibbets’s contention that “It would have been morally wrong if we’d have had [the atomic bomb] and not used it and let a million more people die.” That virtually no reputable historian would put the casualty figure for a US invasion of Japan anywhere near that high (leaving aside the question of whether an invasion would have been necessary) was not mentioned in the story.
To which Kamm replies:
What can you say? The most charitable explanation I can give is that Alterman is (unlike the late General Tibbets) sufficiently ethnocentric not to take into account the deaths of Japanese civilians that would have resulted from a conventional invasion and blockade of the home islands, sufficiently casual not to distinguish between deaths and casualties, and entirely unaware of research by American and Japanese historians published in the last 20 years concerning the conclusion of the Pacific War. I can name off the top of my head at least a dozen leading historians in this field who would concur with Tibbets’s judgement, owing to their knowledge of Japanese military preparations on Kyushu, the Americans’ experience of battle at Okinawa and Iwo Jima, the casualty estimates used by the Truman administration, the number of American medals struck in anticipation of the appalling costs of a conventional invasion, and other factors.
At the turn of the 20th Century, people who called themselves progressives believed in —and unreservedly supported— a robust foreign policy that said America’s ideals were universally desirable and that what we stood for was worth committing our bravest to make possible. That belief and support persisted for many decades until Communist subversion and other degeneracies began to weaken the patriotic spirit of the classic American liberal.
Today, Leftists and liberals presume to call themselves “progressives” and “the reality-based community” when, in fact, they are incoherent liars motivated solely by hatred of their own country.
Mrs. Tibbets’ son was an American hero. Harry S Truman was absolutely right to use the atomic bomb. And there are a great many liberal assholes out there today —arrogant, ignorant laptop Leftists— who owe their very grandfathers’ lives to those two men and countless others.
Remember Pearl Harbor.
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11.16.07
Posted in Austin, beauty, personal, stupidity at 18:51 by Toby Petzold
I’ve actually been a little bothered today by the news that the lovely Michelle Valles of KXAN was arrested and jailed last night on suspicion of drunken driving.
She’s a native of my birthplace of El Paso and a graduate of my alma mater here at UT Austin. And she is almost preposterously beautiful. If she’s on the TV when I’m in the room, it’s an automatic 100 points off my IQ. It doesn’t matter that she’s not particularly skilled at what she does; but it does matter that there should be women who are so perfectly pretty that they make you happy just to behold them. And, anyway, she’s a sweetheart. A truly good person.
I think I’ve emailed her three times. Like some sort of goofy-assed teenaged girl pawing through Tiger Beat while writing a perfume-soaked letter to Shaun Cassidy. On the second email, I asked her for an autographed picture. There was no response until almost exactly a year later. Bizarre. I have no idea if her backlog of requests from other pathetic 35 year-old men was that huge, but she assured me that she was going to send me one right away.
It never came. [cue the 50's-era sitcom "sad horn" leitmotif]
Anyhow, I strongly disapprove of drunken driving. When I was a young man, I was guilty of much stupidity myself and other politician-like euphemisms. No one has any right to endanger the lives of others with the impaired control of thousands of pounds of metal, glass, and fuel.
I am grateful that Michelle is okay and that she hasn’t harmed anyone. And I am hopeful that she will succeed and put things right in her life. But I needed to say tonight that I am a disappointed admirer.
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11.15.07
Posted in Democrats, personal at 20:34 by Toby Petzold
Smooth move, CNN. Using a mother to —oh, to hell with this thing. My beloved aunt just called and some old bridges are about to be rebuilt.
Good night. Good night, indeed!
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Posted in Democrats at 20:15 by Toby Petzold
Campbell Brown’s talking about piling on Hillary. The gender card, the winning card, the post-sexual feminurdliness card.
But Campbell just served up the fattest, sweetest softball Hillary could have ever dreamed of. No more talk about pulling a Russert. That was a fucking campaign ad she just jacked out of the park. Smooth.
Edwards, you woman-hating bitch!
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