If this is not atypical, and the word gets out, Tunisia could expect a huge inflow of Yankee tourist dollars. It gives one hope for ultimate victory in the war.
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Another Absurdity Put To Bed
From an interview at Hugh Hewitt’s site:
“Well, on any movement we would do, we are talking four or five boats going in on an engagement, we were always within 50 or 75 yards of each other. And to be perfectly honest about it, if you were to look at an overview, if your were looking for an overview of a situation, you were better off being on another boat and looking at the rest of the other boats.”
Read the whole thing.
[Update a few minutes later]
The first movie biography of John Kerry is about to come out.
Praise Allah.
[Via Roger Simon]
[Another update at 10 PM PDT]
Along the lines of my previous observation, Gary Aldridge has a warning for the Swift Boat Vets:
…the mainstream media does not like George Bush, and they will do nothing to help him win re-election. Did you think for a minute that they would rush to cover your press conferences and report the news that the majority of Veterans cannot stand John Kerry? Did you actually believe you would be invited on
The Other Piece Of The Puzzle
Al-Reuters has a story about Bigelow Aerospace:
The hotelier-cum-space entrepreneur cites his refusal to spend public money as the single most important factor in keeping his costs relatively low.
“It’s substantially important to use private money,” he said of space development. “You can’t do it on time or on budget on government money.”
It might be nice if, in addition to what he’s already doing, he or someone else would emulate another hotelier.
A Setup For A Slander Suit?
One would like to think that there’s no lower form of life in the Democrat party than Lanny Davis. Unfortunately for hopes of a livable world, there are worse.
I watched the segment myself, and I hope that Mr. O’Neill (a lawyer himself) knows what kind of smear machine he’s up against, and has adequately prepared himself. Based on what happened this weekend, he may indeed have. I’d like nothing better than for Mr. Davis, at long last, to finally have to pay at least a financial penalty for his vicious calumnies.
What was particularly irritating about the Hannity & Colmes show (which is often the case) was how ineffective Hannity was in arguing with him.
Lanny consistently referred to the Swift Boat as a “ship” (a term that any Navy vet would find laughable). The intent is obviously to imply that Kerry was commander of a vessel in which the crew, and the crew alone, worked, ate, slept, laughed, shat, and most importantly, fought with him, and that no one else was in a position to know what happened on his “ship.”
That is nonsense. It wasn’t a ship. It was a boat (as implied by its name), and not one on which the men lived. They lived on shore with others who got up every day and patrolled by day, often in close proximity to each other.
If one accepts the Kerry defenders’ arbitrary definition of “served with,” no one served with George W. Bush except the people who flew in his (single-seat) F-102 with him (i.e., no one). One doesn’t have to be in the same squad, or platoon, to “serve with” someone. There are higher levels of the hierarchy in which people still interact, often on a daily basis. The Swift Boat Vets all served together, despite the mud you’ll see slung over the next days and weeks as this story continues to grow more legs than a mutant millipede.
The more this goes on, the more hysterical the defenders become (Colmes: “Isn’t this despicable–how can they impugn the honor of a medal winner?” Ignoring, of course, the fact that many of those testifying against Kerry have their own medals, but Alan has no problem with smearing them as liars).
As I said, this is right out of the Clinton playbook. Ad hominem, trash the accusers, obfuscate the facts, use misdirection, like any skilled magician. At least this time, the nuts aren’t sluts–they’re attacking veterans and medal winners, not women victimized by Bill Clinton…
I suspect that this time, the illusion won’t stand up.
[Update at 10 PM PDT]
I see that Snopes has already leapt to his defense, emphasizing the evidence in his favor, and ignoring any against. I hope that this will also blow up the myth about them being non-partisan.
And So It Begins
Hubble is starting to fail.
An Upcoming Flip-Flop
I don’t know what the big deal is. All Senator Kerry will have to say is “I went into Cambodia before I didn’t,” and the press will eat it up like (almost literally, considering the time frame) ice cream in August.
A Contender Bites The Dust
Maybe not permanently, but it’s clear that when it comes to winning the prize this fall against Scaled Composites, this team is out of the running.
The Thirty-Seven Year Itch
People are getting divorced at much later ages, as a result of (probably among other things) increasing longevity.
Hyperbole
Last night I heard some Democrat flack claim that the current economy is the worst since Herbert Hoover.
Are people so historically ignorant that this kind of stuff is effective? For me, it’s totally counterproductive, and just makes me want to see Kerry, and all Dems lose all the more.
Changing Faith
Via Allen Thomson, here’s a long essay on how a Christian came to become a non-believer.