Why We Won't Win

Until idiots start to realize that it's not a "War On Iraq" and a "War In Afghanistan", but rather an Global War on Terror, we can't win.
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I don't support McCain, but at least he gets it.

The United States Postal Service Can Kiss My Ass

If you work for the post office, sorry.

I ordered a CD last Tuesday, the 19th. It shipped, via UPS, the next day. It arrived in Austin, TX on the 21st. From there it was shipped to a city, we'll call it City A, 23 miles from my home city, City B, and turned over to the USPS. That was Saturday the 23rd. And it was there for four days. It finally shipped out today, Wednesday, to another city, City C, 41 miles away from City A, 18 miles away from my city, City B. Now, to get from City A to City C, it has to go right by my city, City B. Now here's my question. Why couldn't City A ship it directly to my city, City C? Why did they have to go an extra 23 miles first? Government efficiency at it's best.

And Hillary and Obama want the government to take care of our health care? Ah, didn't think I could work politics into this post. Did you?

Wednesday Hero

Navy Chief Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Michael E. Koch
29 years old from State College, Pennsylvania
East Coast-based SEAL team
February 4, 2008


"There are only approximately 2,500 SEALs in the Navy and they really are a brotherhood," said Naval Special Warfare spokesman Lt. David Luckett. "This is another unfortunate reminder of the risks and sacrifices these amazing warriors and their families make on a daily basis."

Koch leaves behind his parents and a fiancee. He enlisted in July 1998 and entered SEAL training in January 1999, according to The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk. He received the Bronze Star, Joint Service Commendation Medal and three Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals.

Navy SEAL Michael E. Koch died Feb. 4 after being wounded by small-arms fire during combat operations in Iraq alongside fellow SEAL Nathan Hardy, who was profiled last week.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Proof Of Global Cooling?

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years... No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

It seems that despite what Al Gore and his followers say, the debate isn't over.
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Iraqis In Charge

This journalist, Michael Totten, is in Iraq covering the war. He wrote this piece about find a cache of buried weapons.

Most of the American troops in the Fallujah area are Marines, but these were regular Army soldiers and Military Police officers culled from the Texas National Guard. They and the Iraqi Police officers have forged a straightforward agreement with the civilians in the area: we'll protect you from insurgents if you'll identify them and lead us to their IEDs and weapons caches. Someone from the nearby village of Al Bahuri had just called in a tip to the Iraqis. Their job was to find the cache and destroy it in a controlled detonation. No one had a metal detector, though, and they weren't sure where, exactly, the cache was buried.

But here's an interesting line from the piece

I walked over to Sergeant Guerrero.

"Are you going to ask the locals what they know?" I said.

"Nah," he said. "That's their deal. The Iraqi Police have their sources. We're their liaisons, their trainers. We're not in charge anymore. We're just here to help them become police officers instead of paramilitaries."

This is the kind of stuff you're not going to get in the MSM. It's long, but it's worth reading.

Put The Gun Down, Fluffy. Everything's Going To Be Okay

PETS at risk of self-harm are increasingly being prescribed anti-depressants because they cannot discuss problems in their lives with others, a leading veterinarian says.
Zoo and wildlife medicine specialist with the UK’s Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Romain Pizzi, told the Telegraph that more pets were being prescribed Prozac.

People all over the world are starving to death, and animals are getting Prozac. Anyone else see a problem here?
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Boy, that cat had good penmanship.

A Valid Question?

While the media has been engrossed with the prospect that many Republicans won't vote for McCain come this November they've, for some reason, been ignoring a similar question about Democrats. Democrats are about evenly split between Clinton and Obama. So whichever one wins the nomination, will the other candidate's supporters go over and vote for them? Many Clinton supporters don't like Obama and vice versa. Some will, but I think many won't.