Who apparently don’t know what the word “elite” means (as in Saddam’s “elite Republican Guard”). Or maybe it’s all just relative. Donald Sensing explains. Why do they do this? It can’t be simple cluelessness, because somehow, the cluelessness always ends up going in a certain direction.
David Blue also makes a good point in comments: that armies win battles, but people or nations win wars. And it’s very hard to win a war when half the people in the country don’t even really believe that we’re in one, and/or believe that their own government is the enemy.
As Clark notes, the time grows short to register for the Heinlein Centennial Celebration next month. As someone strongly influenced by him in my youth, I’d love to attend, but it’s hard to justify the time or money right now.
There seems to be a small epidemic of people driving in their birthday suits. You may or may not be astonished to learn that in at least one case, alcohol was involved.
It will raise energy prices, raise food prices, increase hunger, worsen appliance performance, make the roads more dangerous and bring back Carter-era gas lines and shortages just when we need them the least – after disasters. It’s a horrendous concoction of every bad energy idea imaginable and will impact every family trying to make ends meet around the country. It’s unbelievably stupid in its rehashing of failed ideas and do-it-yourself economics. It needs to go down in flames, and soon.
[Update about 2:30 eastern]
There’s a request in comments for a link to the bill itself. I’m guessing that it’s this one (thank Newt Gingrich for Thomas).
It will raise energy prices, raise food prices, increase hunger, worsen appliance performance, make the roads more dangerous and bring back Carter-era gas lines and shortages just when we need them the least – after disasters. It’s a horrendous concoction of every bad energy idea imaginable and will impact every family trying to make ends meet around the country. It’s unbelievably stupid in its rehashing of failed ideas and do-it-yourself economics. It needs to go down in flames, and soon.
[Update about 2:30 eastern]
There’s a request in comments for a link to the bill itself. I’m guessing that it’s this one (thank Newt Gingrich for Thomas).
It will raise energy prices, raise food prices, increase hunger, worsen appliance performance, make the roads more dangerous and bring back Carter-era gas lines and shortages just when we need them the least – after disasters. It’s a horrendous concoction of every bad energy idea imaginable and will impact every family trying to make ends meet around the country. It’s unbelievably stupid in its rehashing of failed ideas and do-it-yourself economics. It needs to go down in flames, and soon.
[Update about 2:30 eastern]
There’s a request in comments for a link to the bill itself. I’m guessing that it’s this one (thank Newt Gingrich for Thomas).
Seasoned observers have been making droll cracks about a “two-state solution” – Hamas gets Gaza, Fatah gets the West Bank. But even that cynical jest is wishful thinking. The better bet is that the West Bank will eventually fall Hamas’ way, too.
This is the logical consequence of the fraudulence of “Palestinian nationalism”. There has never been any such thing. There is no evidence anywhere in the “Palestinian Authority” that anyone there is interested in building a state and running it. In conventional post-colonial scenarios of the Sixties and Seventies, liberation movements used terrorism as a means to advance nationalism. By contrast, Arafat’s gang used nationalism as a means to advance terrorism. With him out of the way, it was deluded to assume that the “Palestinian people” would stick with a bunch of corrupt secular socialists with little appeal to anyone other than French intellectuals and Swiss bankers.
Want to see what Iraq will look like if we abandon it to the Islamists? Just look at Gaza.
Seasoned observers have been making droll cracks about a “two-state solution” – Hamas gets Gaza, Fatah gets the West Bank. But even that cynical jest is wishful thinking. The better bet is that the West Bank will eventually fall Hamas’ way, too.
This is the logical consequence of the fraudulence of “Palestinian nationalism”. There has never been any such thing. There is no evidence anywhere in the “Palestinian Authority” that anyone there is interested in building a state and running it. In conventional post-colonial scenarios of the Sixties and Seventies, liberation movements used terrorism as a means to advance nationalism. By contrast, Arafat’s gang used nationalism as a means to advance terrorism. With him out of the way, it was deluded to assume that the “Palestinian people” would stick with a bunch of corrupt secular socialists with little appeal to anyone other than French intellectuals and Swiss bankers.
Want to see what Iraq will look like if we abandon it to the Islamists? Just look at Gaza.
Seasoned observers have been making droll cracks about a “two-state solution” – Hamas gets Gaza, Fatah gets the West Bank. But even that cynical jest is wishful thinking. The better bet is that the West Bank will eventually fall Hamas’ way, too.
This is the logical consequence of the fraudulence of “Palestinian nationalism”. There has never been any such thing. There is no evidence anywhere in the “Palestinian Authority” that anyone there is interested in building a state and running it. In conventional post-colonial scenarios of the Sixties and Seventies, liberation movements used terrorism as a means to advance nationalism. By contrast, Arafat’s gang used nationalism as a means to advance terrorism. With him out of the way, it was deluded to assume that the “Palestinian people” would stick with a bunch of corrupt secular socialists with little appeal to anyone other than French intellectuals and Swiss bankers.
Want to see what Iraq will look like if we abandon it to the Islamists? Just look at Gaza.
There’s an Atlas V launch this morning, scheduled for 11:18 AM EDT. I may go out and look if it hasn’t clouded up down here–we’re expecting a lot of rain in south Florida this afternoon (and tomorrow, and into the weekend).
[Update a few minutes before scheduled launch]
Flight’s been delayed four minutes, to 11:22, to resolve some (almost literally) last-minute issues. Unfortunately it’s clouding up here, so I don’t think I’ll see it.
[Update at 11:19 AM]
Range just went red. Launch has been rescheduled for 11:45. I guess they don’t have a tight window on it. There’s not much info available on the orbit or constraints–the payloads are classified.
[Update at 11:38 AM]
Apparently, they have until noon, and then they’ll have to push it to tomorrow. The weather’s supposed to be even worse tomorrow, at least down here, though it may be all right up at the Cape.