sucks. With teeth.
Thanks for making the last 6 years slightly more bearable, guys.

In a display of selfless solidarity and courage that will bring the Establishment to its arthritic knees and inspire oppressed people everywhere centuries hence, The Churches That Nobody Goes To Anymore (and their interfaith dupes) is organizing a one day fast to end the Iraq War.
Wow, will La-Z-Boys chairs be provided (like the ones at Gitmo…?)
As Simone Weil observed, there is nothing inherently holy about “waiting and fasting” — after all, any desperate gambler does as much.
Such self-aggrandizing, no-risk stunts, mounted by aging hippie leftists, make a mockery of the real discipline, courage and suffering displayed by 21-year-old grunts in the field, not to mention their Iraqi compatriots.

Unfortunately, folks like these are increasingly outnumbered by those human threats to national security known as the “victims” of Katrina…
“Hey, listen, back to this health care issue with HillaryCare, I told your guy there, I’ve been taking care of my wife for over 20 years through a health care nightmare, 70 surgeries, both legs amputated and $6 million. Never once have we received a dime from the federal government. What we’ve done is we’ve made choices in our lives that we would take only jobs that would cover her, we would make career choices that would cover her, everything was geared toward what we would do to make sure that her health care and our access to insurance was preeminent in our lives. Why am I being asked to subsidize those who won’t make those kinds of responsible decisions? ”
“You go back and look at Ronald Reagan, he said, ‘Government exists to protect us from each other. It oversteps when it tries to protect us from ourselves.’ You probably have seen my wife. Mrs. Bush had her open up the second night of the Republican National Convention, her name is Gracie, and we work overseas and provide artificial legs to amputees in developing countries. We’ve gone on to achieve what this country sets out to help individuals achieve, which is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not life, liberty, and, hey, give us everything we want, get the shopping cart out and let’s go get it. It just rankles me that we are fostering a generation of people who will not take responsibility for their own lives.”
(…)
“Well, people assume that my wife is a liberal, because they assume that if you’re disabled and have all these things going on that obviously you’re a liberal, you’re disgruntled with the health care system. And when she stood up at the Republican National Convention (I think she’s the first disabled woman, by the way, or disabled person, to sing at any convention like this, disabled woman, Republican or Democrat), I think it shocked people because she’s not about taking handouts, she’s about, ‘Hey, look, I’m going to deal with the cards that I’ve been dealt with and live a productive life and live a life of meaning.’ It’s very frustrating to me to be in a position where we have to subsidize people who are not willing to make the kind of choices that she’s made.
“Now they’re looking at raising the poverty level up because we have so many people that are poor. Rush, we go to Africa. We put legs on people — we deal with people who — I saw a lady carry her husband in on her back into our clinic who was an amputee. We don’t understand poverty in this country.“

Little by little the “concensus” that Anthropogenic Global Warming exists is being broken.
In what is becoming a death by a thousand cuts, AGW takes another hit:

A new peer-reviewed scientific study counters a major premise of global warming theory, concluding carbon dioxide did not end the last ice age.
The study, led by University of Southern California geologist Lowell Stott, concluded deep-sea temperatures rose 1,300 years before the rise in atmospheric CO2, which would rule out the greenhouse gas as the main agent of the meltdown.

cross-posted @ Celestial Junk
For newcomers to SDA, be sure to search the archives for “The Sound of Settle Science” or “Y2Kyoto” for a glimpse of what a thousand cuts look like. If load times are slow, try this or this.

I just can’t resist kicking this guy! I don’t know if it’s because of some “laytont” childhood need, or if it’s because he reminds me of those annoying bobble-heads people used to place in the back windows of their cars. With the advent of the hatchback, we don’t see many of those any more … unless that is if you’re unfortunate enough to turn on the Teli and watch another intellectually brilliant pronouncement from his eminence about sitting at the table of love and kisses to negotiate with the Taliban.
Update: Chuck Adler takes a kick at Layton’s Cat

You’ve all heard the terms “jihadi” and “mujahideen,” but maybe what you should have been hearing was “hirabah” and “mufsid.”

As a guest blogger I hope I don’t overstep my bounds with the following post … as it is deeply disturbing.
If you are at all inclined to nightmares, or if you suffer from depression, paranoia, or even if you find Citoyen Dion to be disturbing in a sort of psychologically twisted way … DO NOT … I repeat … DO NOT … click the provided link.
If you’ve had a good day so far, I’ll apologize right now for ruining it … as what you are about to read may plunge you into weeks of depression or even psychosis.
CLICK
I suggest humbly, as a form of therapy, that you include your own “horrors” in the comments.
ht: Celestial Junk

Here’s a series of posts from Celestial Junk … talking war:
I posted the following essay by Sgt. Eddie Jeffers several months ago. I reposted it again last week … why? … because Sgt. Jeffers was killed in Iraq:

We did Band of Mothers as well … it’s about the anti-Sheehan movement:

As I watched Cindy Sheehan and her misguided bunch in Crawford, Texas, she ignited in this mother my “protective instincts.” I raised three children myself and well, let’s just say “nobody ever messed with my kids!” I do not believe there is a force in this world stronger than a mother’s instinct to protect her children.

Then there’s the news … or lack of it:

What’s with this? Just this spring I could look forward to headlines like “Up to 200 Killed in Baghdad Bombs” … or, “Violence in Iraq Up Despite Surge” or, how about items like “Civilian Toll in Iraq May Top 1M”. You’d think Iraq dropped off the map; you’d think that just like that, over night, the quagmire had disappeared. And worst of all … I mean worst of all, is this crap about Ramadi … oh Puhlease, as if.

Put your links to The War in the comments … Islamic Terrorism; Iraq; Afghanistan; and of course our favorite dandy … Citoyen Dion.
May I suggest starting at The Torch or Mudville Gazette for great bits and pieces.