…is due to expire, and it’s not really on the radar.
I’d let it die and start over.
Category Archives: War Commentary
Social Media In Iran
The leader’s bizarre Twitter feed:
Iran’s ruler is doing what the Soviet Union used to do and what Hugo Chavez did more recently. Both used the West’s language of human rights as weapons against the West while resisting everything Western human rights activists stand for. Partly they were just being cynical, and partly they were pointing out the West’s supposed hypocrisy.
You could argue that I’m just doing what Khamenei is doing by saying the other guy has no clothes, but there’s a difference, and it’s crucial. I actually care about human rights, not just for Americans, but also for Iranians and everyone else. Plenty of Iranians care about human rights, too, but it’s safe to say that pretty much none of them are fixtures in the Iranian government.
He thinks Americans are stupid. And of course, he’s right, at least about the ones with whom he’s “negotiating.”
A Space Maverick
Somehow, though, I don’t think Pete is ready to retire.
Space Policy
What’s coming up this week. Sixty Minutes should be interesting this evening.
[Afternoon update]
If you don’t want to watch the show, Space News has the transcript.
Young Arabs
…think that Israel is not the biggest problem in the Middle East.
This seems like good news.
[Saturday-morning update]
Well, who would have guessed this? Turns out that anti-Israel boycotters don’t like being boycotted.
Huh.
Military Morale
If you wonder why it’s low, it’s because of things like this:
“Attendance is mandatory and if we miss it we get a negative counseling and a ‘does not support the battalion sharp/EO mission’ on our CDT OER for getting the branch we want. So I just spent $16 on a pair of high heels that I have to spray paint red later on only to throw them in the trash after about 300 of us embarrass the U.S. Army tomorrow,” one anonymous cadet wrote on the social media sharing website Imgr, IJReview reported Monday.
What has this country come to?
[Afternoon update]
Katherine Timpf points out the real problem with the march: How offensive it was to the trans community.
.@KatTimpf It's hard to get out of bed in the morning (or even stay there) these days without offending someone.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) April 22, 2015
[Friday-morning update]
a sharing website Imgr, IJReview reported Monday.
What has this country come to?
[Afternoon update]
Katherine Timpf points out the real problem with the march: How offensive it was to the trans community.
.@KatTimpf It's hard to get out of bed in the morning (or even stay there) these days without offending someone.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) April 22, 2015
[Friday-morning update]
It was female officers who made the cadets march in high heels. Seems like sexual harassment to me.
Also, Alinsky wears high heels.
[Bumped]
Space Situational Awareness
I haven’t read it yet, but this looks like an interesting paper on doing it commercially, from some people at Analytical Graphics.
Christians Thrown Overboard
…left to drown by Barack Obama. Thoughts from a fellow Democrat:
As Renzi was questioned about the incident, Obama was mute on the killings. He failed to interject any sense of outrage or even tepid concern for the targeting of Christians for their faith. If a Christian mob on a ship bound for Italy threw 12 Muslims to their death for praying to Allah, does anyone think the president would have been so disinterested? When three North Carolina Muslims were gunned down by a virulent atheist, Obama rightly spoke out against the horrifying killings. But he just can’t seem to find any passion for the mass persecution of Middle Eastern Christians or the eradication of Christianity from its birthplace.
FTR, I don’t believe that Barack Obama is a Christian. When he says he is, as with much else, he is simply lying. He doesn’t believe in anything higher than himself.
Gary Trudeau
Cathy Young punches up at him over freedom of expression:
Trudeau’s biases reflect a common left-wing mindset that sees the world through the lens of “privilege” and “oppression” based on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and/or religion: non-privileged good, privileged bad (to paraphrase George Orwell). The result is a bizarre inverse caste system in which right and wrong depend almost entirely on the parties’ places in the hierarchy of oppressions — but only in the traditional Western social order.
From this perspective, because Muslims are a “non-privileged” group in the West, criticism of even the most militant forms of Islam is bigoted “hate speech.”
The Left is insane.
When Did America…
As commenters note there, it became pretty clear it had happened in 2008, but generations of indoctrination, from K-12 through academia, have brought us to this point.