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(links fixed)
While you’re there, check out the other fabulous stuff from Damian Brooks, in Kandahar.
(And hit his tip jar!)
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(links fixed)
While you’re there, check out the other fabulous stuff from Damian Brooks, in Kandahar.
(And hit his tip jar!)
Morning Kate, the first link takes me to the “I concede” link.
Link for the T-shirt messed up?
The undertaker always has a line-up, too!
Just like a Lefty, highwaydick. No respect for the people covering your ass and making your disgusting little life safe for you.
Greeting from the land of black and white, perv boy.
Hey, Phanturd…
I was covering your pathetic “black and white” ass before it was even born, A-HOLE! And, I still am!
This war is nothing but an American spin-off, and you’re still an idiot.
If that’s the best you can contribute Highwayman, find another place to comment.
Yes Kate, please make Highwayman “roadkill”.
Ah, so the lady herself appears!
Kate… why don’t you analyze the comments directed toward me, and you might realize that I never initiate anything but a point of view. That seems to be all it takes to incur abuse, here, and make no mistake, I don’t take anything from anyone, just like you!
It’s your blog… you want alternate views or yes-men/women? Lord knows the latter prevail in cyberspace, these days.
I think the rule is: No Whiners Allowed.
In our R.C.Legion branch we started a jar Months ago, Buy a Forces Member in Afghanistan a coffee.
It has been emptied & forwarded on quite a few times now, Even our bartenders have been contributing their tips to the jar.
Support Your Troops
Hate troll baiting (well, really, I don’t, Kate does, I see it as sport), but hwyman, 2 things – dropping a link to garthdotca in a driveby is going to get you laughed out of any party, and, after looking at your blog, “not a deep thinker” comes to mind… Quit professing to be a conservative, you don’t even know what that means. I used to have a bigoted, racist old army father-in-law who used to talk like you write, except his excuse was he was drunk most of the time.
Thanks for fixing the link, Kate. I really want one of those t-shirts. Although I sold my AR, I’m not armless… Damian can maybe use those as a springboard for some financing if he get some over here. I know at least one blog group in Canada who’d buy hundreds.
highwayman, the problem with your ‘point of view’ is that it is mere prejudice rather than an analyzed conclusion.
For you to reject the Afghanistan War as ‘nothing but an American spinoff’ reveals that you made your decision based on the mechanical reaction of pure anti-Americanism. No thought or reasons, just prejudiced bias.
Your comment to Phantom, which I won’t repeat, is equally a mechanical reaction – without content, evidence or thought.
As far as ‘yes men/women’, these prevail everywhere not just in ‘cyberspace’. It’s always easier to go with the crowd who have, presumably, already gathered all the data, analyzed its content, and arrived at supposedly truthful conclusions. Most of us operate that way, and I wonder how your anti-Americanism, a common Canadian attitude, is any different.
What was the point of your ‘Highway of Heroes’ picture?
Highwayman
I do feel sorry for families who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan but we should put the loss of 100 Professional soldiers over several years into perspective.
Our losses during several years in this war are the first hour at Juno Beach, Bomber Command bombers colliding with each other at the North Sea rendezvous points on a single 1,000 plane raid on Nazi Germany or a single convoy destroyer escort torpedoed in the North Atlantic.
Freedom demands one price and is the blood of our soldiers.
How many soldiers are killed right in Canada practising, I hate to see the loss of just one soldier, but I am sick of our MSM and the droning on and on above the strains of Amazing Grace constantly. Thank you people in service, you are the greatest people for what you do, and to some , it is not Bushes war, look at todays headlines, 21 dorks dead on the Afgan border, was the order no given by your hero obama, give it up!
Thanks for the link Kate.
Major League Infidel politically incorrect? Infidel is loosely translated as invader. So infidel, FYI would apply to nearly 100% of the players in the ‘Ghan. Not just Nato but Al Queada too.
Yeah, Bartinsky, there is a perverse element in society, these days, that equate unthinking compliance with patriotism. I doubt that there are many here that understand what true patriotism is. This is just a hobnobbing place for the simple to sit around stroking each other’s egos, where they don’t have to think all that hard, because everyone will agree with them, anyway, or at the least tolerate them to spite the hated “libs”.
And, I’m not pretending to be from any faction, never mind conservative, although if given an ultimatum, I’d sooner be liberal, where there is at least an attempt at understanding and tolerance. I’m a former card-carrying conservative that saw the light about partisan politics – that it is merely a game to keep the masses engaged in fighting each other, while the elitists go about the business of running the world. Actually, I admire the elitists, because they really are so much smarter than the proletariat.
I, myself, was a soldier, many years ago, and it offends me that simpletons so willingly send their young off to the slaughter. ALL wars in history are rich men’s wars, and none of them would have been possible without the compliance of the masses. The dupes flatter themselves that the rhetorical nonsense spouted by their ‘leaders’ is actual fact, and they immediately cite “king and country” in their headlong rush to trample all over the sovereign rights of other nations, merely because they live and govern differently. The totalitarian mind cannot fathom any other kind of life other than what it, itself, envisions, and it will never rest until the whole world marches as one under it’s flag and philosophy.
The point of the picture was to supply another view of this war, which will never be welcome here, I know, but there is, nevertheless, many that feel the way that I do. The totalitarian mind, however, cannot allow diverse opinion, and anytime I ever attempted to deviate the least iota from the status-quo, here, I was immediately attacked, and then I am the one accused of starting trouble! Hey… I’m not whining… I am no stranger to the mocking of non-thinkers, and I never thought for a second that my comments would be welcomed! Canada, after all, is not a place of free speech, anymore. Too bad, too, because the coffins coming home aren’t buying anyone any freedom when a person can’t speak their mind without immediate censure.
There is a part of me that really doesn’t give a shit about what happens to society… it has brought calamity upon itself, with it’s apathy and orgasmic materialism. It seems that my ilk aren’t wanted or needed, but my message is just as important as anyone else’s, and I suspect that, even here, there are those afraid to speak out that agree with me, and need validation.
I’m here to do that for them.
So,Highwayman.How do you wrap your head around the “censorship” you find here,compared to the HRC’s in this country? What’s the difference between the mild rebukes you may or may not get here,compared to the rebuke you get from an Islamofacist to an apostate,or any of us infidels??
Go visit some “leftie” sights,and see how “tolerant” the left is to everybody that are not own their side.
Of course war is a rich man’s game.I just thank God,and my grandfathers,and many others,that I am not speaking low German right now.
And I highly doubt that any regular poster here needs any validation of anything,including their feelings.We seek facts,not emotions.
Another thing… I’d make a damned poor liberal, because I’ve spent the better part of the last five years slamming elitist connivances like “Global Warming”, and I believe I made an allusion to this in another post on this very blog. I have no use for the homosexual agenda, unrestrained immigration policy, organized labor, or any such socialist program associated with the globalist agenda. I’ve been fried on many liberal blogs for these, all the while critiquing the globalist expansion and acquisition of territory through invasion of US and allied troops. They called me what you say I’m not!
Trouble is, no one here has demonstrated any kind of faith in an ultimate agenda by elitist rulers to benefit from understanding exactly what “Global Warming” is intended to do for said elitists… in terms of consolidation of power, and, of course, rake in tons of $$$ for the globalists. So, what we effectively have are a bunch of rednecks hopping around in circles like one-legged men in an ass-kicking contest, getting nowhere. Bitching and whining and squabbling is what the “libs” do very well, and neocons aren’t really any different in this capacity.
Exactly what the elitists were… and have… banked upon.
“And I highly doubt that any regular poster here needs any validation of anything,including their feelings.We seek facts,not emotions.”
I don’t doubt that any regular poster wants anything different from the way things are, now.
And, they, of course, won’t be seeking anything else, either.
If getting slammed by bloggers is the worst that can happen to you for stating an unpopular opinion, then thank God for small miracles. Free speech has never been free, anyway. I don’t know what happened that made you take such a jaundiced view of our society, but it’s really a sad sight to behold. How can you admire elitists while condemning totalitarianism?
You mean, free speech has never existed!
Jaundiced view? That’s YOUR view of my view.
I admire intelligence, and the elitists are intelligent, unlike those that presuppose everything and mock.
highwayman – you pontificate, but you don’t debate and you don’t provide facts. And you rely for the ‘weight’ of your comments on fallacious tactics of debate.
You haven’t explained why you consider the Afghanistan War ‘nothing but an American spin off’.
Your comment that the majority are usually not themselves critical but accept authoritative views is hardly a novel statement. But it is irrelevant to this thread, unless you want to claim that we are in that Set.
You assert, without proof, that most of us don’t understand patriotism. Yet you don’t provide us with your understanding of it. Therefore, your claim is unfounded. To substantiate your view that YOU alone have understanding, you then declare that this site is just for the simple minded. Again, assertion without proof. That’s an invalid argumentative mode – bombastic is the term that comes to mind.
Actually, the Liberal Party is the party of elitists. It supports Big Central Government which acts as an elitist Set of bureaucrats who Know What Is Best for You. The State moves in to determine and operate and oversee all aspects of life, from industries, to health care, to caring for one’s children. As the Liberals have said, the populace are just ‘beer and popcorn’ mentalities and must leave governing and decisions up to the Liberal Elites.
Do you seriously make a claim that wars are merely ‘rich men’s wars’ – and what the heck does that mean anyway? As for ‘compliance’ of the masses, what’s your point? Do you think that Hitler and Stalin’s rights to govern should have been respected?
Do you seriously think that a dicatator governs by the will of his people? Did Saddam Hussein govern by the will of his people or against their will? What about the Taliban in Afghanistan? Was it the will of the women to reject going to school, to reject going outside without being accompanied by a male relative and heavily veiled? Was it their will?
You are quite right about totalitarianism, whether it be that of fascist Germany, communist Russia or the Islamic fascists, but then, don’t you think it is just and right for people who believe in freedom to fight against them?
So – these wars to which I refer – they were just ‘games to keep the masses busy’? Have you ever heard (and I’m very sure you haven’t) of the concept of a ‘Just War”?
Don’t you think that our soldiers who fight to defned both our freedom and that of others are fighting a Just War? Do you believe that there is such a thing as ‘natural moral law’- and that one must, if one has to, fight to retain and ensure these universal morals? Freedom to live, freedom of speech?
As for being open to diverse opinion, certainly, the totalitarian mind rejects it, but it seems to me that it is YOU, who have that totalitarian mindset. When anyone rejects your viewpoint, you react and insult them, calling them ‘perverse’, ‘simple’, non-thinker’ etc.
As for your assertion that there are people here who accept your viewpoint, but don’t say so because they are ‘afraid’ – I think that’s pure speculation on your part. Kindly prove it. What is there to fear from speaking out?
But I think it is quite arrogant of you to set up a mysterious and so-far absent group of followers and put yourself up as their Chief and Spokesman. I think you should confine yourself to speaking only for yourself until and unless this Absent Group actually speaks up and votes you in as their Leader.
I’m not trying to mock anyone–you just seemed rather negative, and the intelligence you speak of is one of the nastier strains out there. It seems to work for them (and only them) and I don’t find much to admire in it, but that’s just me.
“Trouble is, no one here has demonstrated any kind of faith in an ultimate agenda by elitist rulers to benefit from understanding exactly what “Global Warming” is intended to do for said elitists… in terms of consolidation of power, and, of course, rake in tons of $$$ for the globalists. So, what we effectively have are a bunch of rednecks hopping around in circles like one-legged men in an ass-kicking contest, getting nowhere. Bitching and whining and squabbling is what the “libs” do very well, and neocons aren’t really any different in this capacity.”
What are you talking about, Willis? Did you just discover what most of us have know for eons? This is a blog, bud, what the heck do expect people to do here, but talk? The circle jerk is coming from you, lad, not the rest of us. Be interested in hearing how you define “elites” (well, only mildly interested). Personally, I think you need to up your lithium.
Try focusing on one rant at a time, it’ll be easier to discuss.
Thanks for posting this Kate, and thank-you Damian for going to Afghanistan. The reporting and the photos are both excellent. I am one Canadian who thanks our soldiers, they are the force that keeps us from terror and they are the force that will give the people of Afghanistan a chance to live and build their nation without being terrorized and beaten by an enemy without mercy. The trouble with people like the Highwayman (posting above) is that they have no imagination. A person must imagine being an Afghan citizen to appreciate our soldiers and the mission of mercy that they have taken on; for their own country and for the tortured country of Afghanistan.
Thank-you brave soldiers, you make all true Canadians very proud.
Alright…
The first thing that you all need to do… seriously… is develop the mindset necessary to learn. You are all conditioned to ‘tell’, and not listen. That is what people do, these days… they tell. You are all the recipients of a lifetime of programming, first from your parents, then your schools; themselves, the recipients of generations of socialism and elitism. Right now, anything I would try to say would be scoffed at. People learn when the time is right for them, and usually best on their own.
The trick is to use the most powerful tool known to man… the Internet, or “The Tubes” as it is referred to in “lib” circles. This is not to push liberal ideology, it just happens to be true.
See, I could provide you with a thousand links to a thousand sites that would support whatever I might say, because I learned from them, or from the same sources that they did. That, however, would be counterproductive. You are all standing there, your arms crossed, demanding I justify myself. This just the time to slam the highwayman, not learn.
I like the example of Christ, Who didn’t just deliver up the answer the Pharisees wanted WHEN they wanted it. He was silent. After all, they’d had thousands of years to study and know the truth about God and Himself. It was always there for them, they were just too lazy and arrogant to search for anything that didn’t benefit them materially or immediately, or suit their particular agenda. They wouldn’t have believed anything He said, anyway, or would have twisted it to serve their own purposes.
The first step, as I’ve said, is to develop the mindset or curiosity to think that, perhaps, there might be something to what he’s saying. Now, armed with that knowledge, you apply your new-found curiosity with a powerful search engine, and type in some key words… like say, “The Order”, or maybe “Rothschild”, or “New World Order.” Just an example… use your own imagination! Maybe you’ve heard a term that I haven’t, and never bothered to check on it.
But, like I said, without the mindset, you won’t even make the first step. I’m not going to spoon-feed anyone… tried that, failed miserably. Then I remembered how I began… 36 years ago, when there were no ‘tubes’ only libraries and hopelessly-long searches and waits for material. But, I had the mindset, and an inner voice that kept telling me that something just wasn’t right about society and the world. The opposition I encountered only fueled that desire to know.
I will, however, make a prediction right here and now. Ninety-five percent of those that read this will scoff, and immediately write me off as a nut. Four percent will shrug, and ask the wife what’s for supper… they couldn’t care less!
One percent… the ones that never speak… might start thinking. A dangerous thing to do, these days, but it’s not going to get any safer, what with the way the world’s going! There has never been a better or more opportune time to search for truth, what with the information we have available through cyberspace. Nevertheless, the elitists are working to curb that through more and more restrictions on the web… all in the name of “national security”, of course.
Well, it’s been a day. Nice to have chatted. I’ll be around… walking through the Earth, and up and down in it…
😉
highwayman: sure you’re not eric margolis?
Ignore it,guys/gals.Highway man is just a link whore,trying to get SOMEBODY to go to its site….never once debated anything,just gave the leftard “I know all,see all” line of socialism.
Shame it had to spoil this great post from Kate about Damian,a TRUE man.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and unfortunately in bad taste.
As well, the site owner can choose to edit/delete/ censure anything.
I too believe that Canada fighting in Afghan was good like many of you, but the moment the bastards had free elections, they implemented Shariah Law! That’s respect for the job we are doing over there.
So now after that moment we are there protecting a government that rules by Shariah.
The Taliban ruled by Shariah with no “democracy”.
The current government rules by Shariah via “democracy”.
What’s the difference now? Democracy.
I mean really! What is the difference?
If we’re fighting for Shariah over there, why not fight for it over here? It’s good enough for them, but too good for us? Let’s put it into the next bill!
Bring the Military home and save lives. We fought the good fight and the Afghans chose their form of government. Let them stew in it.
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الإسلام
So many illuminating highwayman comments…
“I’d sooner be liberal, where there is at least an attempt at understanding and tolerance.”
That’s the best of ’em all! Good grief, man! The most intolerant people on earth are liberals. They love “diversity and tolerance” of anything but thought and free speech. Do some reading, fellow, before doing pratfalls like this.
“I admire intelligence, and the elitists are intelligent, unlike those that presuppose everything and mock.”
Actually, I admire the elitists, because they really are so much smarter than the proletariat.”
You must be absolutely GLOWING at the thought of your intellectual masters algore and maurice strong planning how to change your lifestyle and freedoms in order to inflict the new world order of AGW.
Grow up. If not, at least think twice about publishing such rot on the internet; some part of you must be a little embarrased by your own comments.
mhb23re
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“Grow up. If not, at least think twice about publishing such rot on the internet; some part of you must be a little embarrased by your own comments.”
The only thing that embarrasses me is having to live on the same planet with assholes like you. Otherwise, I’m good with whatever I say.
And publishing your email address doesn’t spark any desire on my part to converse with such a closed mind.
Get over yourself.
Justthinkin…
You need to get another name.
Posted by: The Highwayman at January 25, 2009 2:27 PM
Thanks – sincerely – for that little rant. You couldn’t have proven my point any better had I wrote the script for you.
You’re obviously “attempting” some of that liberal “tolerance” that you claim to admire. Er, nice try, anyway.
And your ad hominem dropping the “a-bomb” clearly identifies you as an “elitist”; I, as one of the “proletariat”, thank you for your wisdom and consideration.
No need to continue this any further, though, as I doubt I could compete with any more of your highfalutin’ erudition.
Ta,
mhb