I was looking for this bumper sticker a few days ago and lo and behold, faithful reader Stephen sent it to me.
So now they're saying that the Jane Fonda photo with Kerry in the background may have been Photoshopped. So what? Hanoi Jane opened her big fat traitorous mouth and admitted John Fonda Kerry was there. I can just hear Kerry saying, "Thanks for the help, bitch!" BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
I went down to Green's on Saturday to buy a bottle of Champagne to give to my friend Cindy for taking care of my cats while I was skiing. I let her husband, Michael, who long time readers know works at Greens, pick it out. I was also gonna buy a bottle of Delamain Cognac, since I am almost out.
Longtime readers may be aware that Michael and I had a bet on the Dimocrat primaries. He thought Dean would get the nomination. I didn't think the Dims would be dumb enough to elect Dean who would get slaughtered in the general election. If I lost, I would give him a bottle of Delamain Vesper. If he lost, he would give me a bottle of Delamain XO. Realizing that Dean is toast, he paid off the bet. This was a bet that I wanted to lose.
Cindy took me shopping later that day. She knits me a sweater every year for my birthday. The third one she knitted me wore out on my left elbow and couldn't be repaired. She told me when she gave it to me that it had been to England, France, and California while she had knitted it. I really liked that sweater. It was immortalized on the cover of the Spinal Column, a magazine put out by Shepherd Center in Atlanta. They did a cover story on my flying and I wore that sweater for the picture. Out of the blue, she gave me a new sweater to replace it. She's taken some pictures, but she hasn't sent them to me yet so I cannot post 'em.
Michael and Cindy had me over for dinner on Saturday, so I got to help drink the Champagne that I bought her. Funny how that works out.
Occasionally I get e-mails asking for link trades. The person will link to my site if in return, I link to his (or hers). I seldom do link trades. If you like my stuff link to it. If you don't like my stuff, don't link to it. Here is how I find people to put on my blogroll. I look at my Site Meter referrals. I always follow new links back to their site. If it is an interesting read, I'll add it to my blogroll. I also look at the url's in my comments. If the person is not an obvious troll, I follow that link back. I have a few links on my blogroll who linked to me when I was only getting 5 to 10 hits a day. And, of course, I have Georgia bloggers. I have a very short blogroll. I can only read so many blogs a day.
So that brings me to an apology. I followed this link back from my referral log (And dammit! Don't go to her site and make obscene comments!) and saw that she had a post of my Miss Piggy poster (you will have to scroll down as the permalink does not work.) and said of my site that it
represents everything I hate about Republicans in America: one sided, personal attacks, uninformed and ridiculously patriotic to the extend the truth doesn't matter much.
And then she implied that I was a Christian Fundamentalist Republican which, of course, is not true. I felt very insulted! I am an atheist and a small 'l' libertarian. I support gays in the military, which is definitely not a Republican issue. I think Clinton was a coward by not implementing it. I am morally against abortion, but do not want it to be against the law. It doesn't bother me that Marieke is a lesbian journalist. Why is the fact that she is a lesbian even relevant? I am against the ridiculous war on drugs. Drug abuse is not a crime it is a social problem. Drug abusers do not belong in prisons, they belong in treatment centers. Legalize, regulate, and tax.
I admit I vote Republican most of the time but that is because they are strong on national defense. Dimocrats are the party of appeasement and appeasement never works.
Let's play a mind game. Do you really think if Israel were to move out of the "occupied territories" back to the 1967 borders, abandon all their settlements, give the Golan Heights back to Syria, and let the Palestinians have a state with East Jerusalem as the capital that there would really be peace in the Middle East? If so, I have a bridge in Brooklyn and some swamp land in Florida to sell you. Every concession that Israel has made has been seen by Yassir Arafat as a sign of weakness. Remember, the PLO charter has called for the total destruction of Israel. As part of the Oslo accords that was supposed to be eliminated. It never has been. It's still in there.
As for "one sided personal attacks", the left does that much more than the right. Unfortunately, since the lamestream American media is liberal the mean spirited stuff from the left doesn't get much coverage. I have never heard a Republican wish that "his wife would feed him high fat foods so he would die of a heart attack" as the odious Juliane Malveaux said about Clarence Thomas.
I have never heard a Republican say that we should go to Henry Hyde's house and pull him and his family out and stone them to death as Alec Baldwin said on one of the late night talk shows. Marieke, in America, most of the mean spirited invective comes from the left. I don't hear Republicans saying that they want to slap a black person. Charles Barron, a New Your City councilman said : "I want to go up to the closest white person and say 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health". That is a fine example of mean spirited thought.
Black "leaders" like Al Sharpton get a pass for anti-Semitic remarks.
An ex-KKK Dimocrat gets a pass for saying nigger on national television. If you're a Dimocrat, you're forgiven for your sins in the past. If you're a Republcan you're not.
But I got off on a tangent. Marieke made some comments on one of my posts and after seeing what she said on her site about me, I assumed she was a troll. But, all trolls get at least one post before I start going after them. I called her stupid. For that I aplogize. I do not mind dissenting views as long as the viewpoint is presented politely and kept on point. She has done that in her latest comments. She is not a troll.
She did bring up a point about the reasons we have gone to war. She states that
the USA goes to war under the blanket of World Peace but in fact only goes to war to protect its own assets. If that is true, go ahead, but at least don't lie about it. That pisses me off more than going to war.
"War is diplomacy by other means". Actually we didn't start this war. It was started by the Islamofacists with the first WTC bombing. Then we had the two American embassies in Africa blown up. Then there was the Khobar Towers bombing. Then the USS Cole. Finally we had 9/11. What the fuck are we supposed to do? You cannot reason with these assholes. They understand only one thing: Overwhelming force. Of course we go to war to protect our assets. We don't want any more buildings blown up. We don't want any more Americans killed.
We went to Afghanistan since that was the base of operations of Al Qaeda. We went to Iraq because we were afraid that Saddam had WMD's and would give them to terrorists. Just because we haven't found them yet doesn't mean they do not exist.
We also went to Iraq for another reason. To end Islamic terrorism we need to clean out the snakepit known as the Middle East. The Palestinians are running out of money to support their terrist infrastructure. They don't have Saddam to give them money anymore. We need to show these assholes that we're mad as hell and we ain't gonna take it anymore. If they want a war, we'll give them a war. You saw that Libya noticed what we did. Do you think Qadaffy would have come clean if we hadn't taken out Iraq? He didn't want to end up in a hole in the ground like Saddam.
I look at this conflict as WWIV. (The cold war was WWIII) It is a war against radical Islam. We are slow to anger, but once you get our attention we will go after you. There has never been another country on this planet with our power and we have shown restraint in how we use it. We have been very careful not to harm civilians. Of course some have been killed, but this a war.
The Islamofascists hate our way of life. They hate us. It would be nice if we could sit around a campfire and sing Kumbaya with them, but they want the destruction of our society and the implementation of world wide Sharia. Watch what is happening in France. It is a harbinger of what will happen in Holland, and Belgium, or any other country that has a large influx of Muslims. They only believe in freedom of religion when they are in the minority. Saudi Arabia allows no other religions.
So Marieke, I'm sorry I called you stupid and I'm sorry that you don't agree with any of my views. Of course, I'm right and you're wrong, but I do respect your thoughts.
Oh, she also said:
And that, ladies and gentlemen, might be why I keep checking that site. Because either way, it always makes me feel disgusted.
I take that as a compliment.
Cheers!