Support their mission.

Wire Services…
The Office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will release a press statement tomorrow affirming that she supports the troops in such a bipartisan manner that what she was actually doing was communicating with Senator John McCain in his native Morse code.
“Speaker Pelosi loves veterans after all, and has a special less-cold place in her heart for POW’s . And what better way to forge that special bond than by honoring Admiral Jeremiah Denton during a Presidential Address,” sources quote from the text.
In fact, it will be revealed, she remained seated during the call for victory only to maintain eye contact with him and continue to convey her unwavering support, both for him and for all American servicemen everywhere in service to this nation. “United We Stand.”
Developing…

Via email from an angry MilBlogger offended that the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives sat silent on a call to victory in Iraq yet stood in ovation at the call to support the troops.’ who says; “If this is how you support us, please, just *&^%ing stop.”

Cowyoto:

Among the many reasons to cut the bull on global warming, it turns out a
staggering 24 million tonnes of annual greenhouse gas emissions are coming
from the exhaust pipes of Canadian cattle and other farting farm animals.

In the overall ecological scheme of things, that means farmyard flatulence
is contributing as much to heating the planet as half of all the regular
passenger cars on Canadian roads today.

Exactly how one coaxes Bessie into a raspberry reduction to help save the
Earth is a problem we are happy to leave to Canada’s enthusiastic new
environment minister, John Baird (although we do hope there will be pictures)…
— Greg Weston / Ottawa Sun

So does this mean that I should stop feeding the cows nachos and refried
beans when I invite my father-in-law’s cattle herd over to watch Monday Night
Football?

Support the mission. You cannot have it both ways. To withhold support for their mission is to advocate their – and our – defeat.
Finally, a poll done in the US demonstrates that a significant percentage of Democrats understand this. Ace of Spades

A full 34% of our troop-supportin’ patriotic loyal opposition flatly wishes failure upon the US military.
I suppose some people may not fully listen to the question, so within that 34% are some respondants who just figure the more “No’s” they offer the more strongly they register their opposition, and some people who add the interpretation “I don’t want the surge to succeed, because I don’t want it to happen in the first place.”
But I don’t think you get to 49% based on misunderstanding the question alone, do you?

I shudder to think what the percentage would be if such a poll were taken here.

A post that validates my decision to own three vehicles.

The faint hint of chartreuse climbing Jack Layton’s cheeks is not a reflection.

Leader Jack Layton’s call for tough emissions standards for new vehicles has hit a speed bump, with Canada’s biggest auto union warning the move could cost the struggling auto sector “thousands of jobs.”
Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove says he was “taken aback” by Layton’s comments and rebuked the federal leader for not consulting with union leaders before making his demand for the new standards.
“It would have been helpful for you to have first consulted with the CAW on this important question before making your statement,” Hargrove wrote in a letter to Layton released yesterday.

And in other Jack Layton news – reaching out to Canada’s leading online anti-semitic community to help get their message out to Canadians should be just what the doctored ordered.
Update;

This should give Crawls with Caffeine and company more to blog about now that the NDP and Liberals are also “illegally colluding with bloggers in violation of the Elections act”. There’s never enough tinfoil around when you need it.

On the anti-DDT hysteria:

President George W. Bush’s new international anti-malaria campaign has been greeted with enthusiasm by its victims, but with pseudoscience by commentators.
That is not unusual: Fallacies infect every debate about the environment and affect policy, taxpayers’ money and victims’ lives.

We like to poke fun at the global warming hysterics, but they haven’t killed anywhere near as many African children as the DDT activists.
And a group specializing in exactly that type of disinformation closer to home and making good money at it- As You Sow.

Via Volokh;

Vancouver school board trustee Sharon Gregson [publicly argues that] Canadians need to broaden their thinking about handgun ownership. “There is a thinking that guns can only be bad and related to crime, and that’s not my experience as a legal gun owner, participating in a gun sport,” Ms. Gregson said, explaining why she decided to get a handgun permit in Utah….
But some of Ms. Gregson’s colleagues have urged the trustee, a married mother of four, to stop shooting her mouth off. Trustee Clarence Hanson said her comments send the wrong message to kids. [Ed note – “stop shooting her mouth off”… how clever!]
“I was quite shocked,” Mr. Hanson said after he heard Ms. Gregson on a morning radio program yesterday, in which she argued in favour of easier access for permits to carry a concealed gun, especially for women who feel threatened. “As a school trustee, my concern is basically, we have a number of children … who sometimes feel harassed and bullied. I don’t want them to get the impression that this is the way to protect yourself,” Mr. Hanson said. “If they get a feeling that a school trustee who represents them thinks it’s okay to protect yourself in this way, … we’re going down a dangerous road, I think.” …
Ms. Gregson said she did not mean to suggest that kids in the school system be urged to carry guns. However, she did suggest that the outcome of the Montreal massacre might have been different if any one of Marc Lepine’s 14 female victims had been carrying a weapon…..

Not Lepine. Gharbi. His name was Gamil Rodrigue Gharbi.

The head of the Canada’s main gun-control lobby[, Wendy Cukier,] denounced Ms. Gregson’s comments as well …. “It’s an absurd comment. It’s completely contrary to Canadian traditions. It has no basis in fact, and for someone who is associated with schools to be making those comments is particularly alarming, especially a woman.” …

Well, Ms. Cukier… here’s a comment from a woman. I hope you find it alarming.
Not only did I shoot the gopher that graces the top of this page, I did so with what is now a prohibited firearm – the same .22 rifle I’ve used to dispatch gophers since I was 12 years old. And God willing, I’ll dispatch a few more with it in years to come.
And never mind the teachers – thinking back to the class of 16 that I graduated with, at least half of the girls I knew in school with would have proven a worthy match for Gharbi or any other nutcase intent on turning them into next year’s excuse for your precious televised candle-light marches – given half a chance and access to the appropriate firepower.
That any individual would presume define “acceptable” thought for an entire gender is completely contrary to our western democratic traditions, not to mention, an insult to all Canadian women. Suffice it to say, Wendy Cukier – you don’t speak for me.
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I don’t score the tests. I just take them*.