In My World

The White House now says it can build a coalition against Iraq without the help of the U.N. As Ari Fleishcer recently said at a press conference:

“F–k them. F–k them all. Why the hell do we need the U.N.’s help? Give me a .22 target pistol and I could invade France, so why do we need those goddamn c–ksuckers’ backing of our military? We’re America! We’re one bad motherf–ker! If we need other countries to back us, we’ll just conquer some areas and set up our own friendly countries. We can do that. We can do whatever the f–k we want. Just to make things clear and make sure that I’m not misquoted, we have complete contempt for other countries and their opinions. Come to think of it, why I am explaining myself to the press? I hate you f–kers! I’m outta here.”

France and Russia stated they were unhappy with the U.S. position. France has been especially uneasy with America since Donald Rumsfeld tried to strangle their ambassador for “looking at him funny.” They want war with Iraq to be the last option, while America wants it as the first option and diplomacy only as a final option. In the U.S. resolution, the ordering of steps taken against Iraq will be war, then a nuclear strike, then biological warfare, then childish name calling, then an embargo, and, finally, diplomacy if none of the previous efforts worked. France’s resolution was diplomacy followed by surrender to Iraq. War would only be allowed if unconditional surrender was not accepted. “France will attack anyone with unholy vengeance who prevents them from surrendering,” said a French diplomat, probably named Pierre, before being strangled by Donald Rumsfeld.
Okay, once again I didn’t really read the article I linked to. Reading is for losers.

It’s Takes a Commie to Catch a Commie?

Bush is looking for Jiang Zemin’s help in disarming North Korea. I dunno if that’s a good idea, since they’re both Commies and thus both want what’s worse for the world. Yes, North Korea is crazier and their dictator is much more funny looking, but you never trust a Red. Maybe this is just Bush’s plan to get both Jiang Zemin and Kim Jong II in the same room as part of negotiations. When he has them both alone, he’ll whip out two .45’s, yell, “You can continue your negotiations in Commie hell!” and then empty the two guns into the surprised dictators. He’ll then drop the guns, and calmly walk out of the room remarking, “I was tough, but fair.” It will make a great anecdote for his autobiography.

Usually It’s the One with the Gun Who Gets to Ask the Questions

You know who is the best public? The American public, that’s who. According to this poll, most know that more gun control isn’t a solution to stopping a sniper. Also, despite the media’s constant attempt to make the NRA look worse than the nazis, the NRA still has a higher approval than disapproval rating. I doubt any other country is as pro-gun as America, and I bet they’d get vastly different polling results.
American Polltaker: I wish to ask you some questions about guns.
Frenchman: Ahh! Guns! Do not hurt me, American! Paris is yours!
American: No, I just wanted you to answer a poll about guns.
Frenchman: Well, I hate guns, you stupid American. I’m not some thuggish cowboy wanting to shoot at everything. We French are much more sophisticated. For instance… Ahh! An insect! Save me, American!
American: It’s just a butterfly.
Frenchman: Quick, kill it with your gun! It is your duty, American!
American: It flew off.
Frenchman: Once again my non-violent diplomacy triumphs!

First the North Koreans, Now Al Gore

Gore says we should have a stronger defense against bioterrorism, but you should hear the way he said it.

“I was a bit bitter when you denied me the presidency which is rightfully mine, but I won’t hold it against you, the American people. Oh, and by the way, you might want to strengthen your defense against bioterrorism… though it will be too late! Muh ha ha ha!”

I’m starting to believe that Al Gore is actually the supervillian Tree-Man that the police have been warning about. He looks like a man, but he has the powers and personality of a tree. Police caution that he is an extreme psychopath and should not be voted for under any circumstances.
Okay, I didn’t read the above article, but it was about Al Gore. What are the chances there would have been any important information in it?

Some Lucky South Koreans Are About to Wind Up with Beach Front Property

North Korea wants a guarantee that America won’t invade them before they are to dismantle their nukes. We won’t even give Canada that guarantee, and evil Commie North Korea wants it? And they said what caused them to nullify the Agreed Framework was Bush labeling them as part of the axis of evil. Yeah, we really feel sorry for calling them evil now that they’re threatening us with nuclear weapons. And they won’t dismantle their nuclear weapons before negotiating, as their state-run “news” agency said, “…how can the DPRK counter any attack with empty hands? Their assertion is little short of demanding the DPRK yield to pressure, which means death.” Oh, so now they think their nuclear weapons means they can take us on? Do the goddamn Commies think they can really put up a fight that will do anything other than piss us off even more? Bush better not negotiate with these people. If North Korea really wants to press its luck and not do what we tell it, then South Korea gets to be an island.

Links of the Day

Camille at IMFO thinks she actually encountered the sniper last night. Freaky.
Mean Mr. Mustard has a reminder of who we are fighting. I tend to avoid making serious post and thus I haven’t commented much on acts of terrorism committed against our allies. Still, I pray that these hostages in Moscow can be freed without anymore killing (well, I won’t shed tears if the terrorists take a few shots).

Time to Get Tough on Those Who Support Terrorism

What’s up with Russia holding up the Iraq resolution? They say they don’t like the part about the use of force that the U.S. put in there. Why do formerly evil countries like Russia and Germany act all peacenik now? Because they’re still evil, that’s why. They’re busy selling weapons to terrorist nations, and they don’t want to offend their customers by helping America attack Iraq. I’m starting to realize that, if we’re really serious about ending terrorism, we’re going to have to take out most of the world’s government, not just those in the Middle East. If we don’t start regime-changing Europe first, they’re just going to coddle even more countries into becoming terrorists. “But who are we going to replace their governments with,” you ask, “since most of the people in Europe are whiny?” Yes, most are whiny, but I believe there are two or three people in each European country who share American values (maybe four people in some of the larger countries). We will make them kings in exchange for their allegiance. If there isn’t anyone in those countries that we like, we’ll just put some Texan in charge. “But don’t the Europeans have modern militaries that will make it hard for us to just quickly overthrow them?” you also ask. That’s just silly. Why would they have militaries? They never want to use force no matter how right the cause. I’m sure all the European countries defunded their militaries years ago in order to pay for sub-par universal health care and crap like that. Taking over countries in Europe could probably be done with one harshly worded phone call. Additional cost saving could be made by making it a collect call. “Should we call them using 1-800-CALL-ATT?” you inquire. No, that could save them money, and we need to take a harsh stand with them. Also, I don’t want to encourage Carrot-top. “So when do we get back to taking on the countries in the Middle East? I really don’t like those countries.” Soon, after we finish rearranging Europe more to our liking. First, we’ll blow up the Eiffel Tower. “Why blow up the Eiffel Tower?” Because it’s French. Stop asking so many questions.

Extremely Useful Idiots

Jeb Bush has had ads attacking McBride for all his new spending plans for Florida and saying he’ll have to raise taxes for them (perhaps adding the dreaded income tax which Florida thankfully lacks). McBride responded by saying his tax will only be a 50 cent increase on packs of cigarettes. This is a neat new concept: take a group you don’t like and make them pay for everything. I say, though, instead of smokers, we should make liberals pay for everything. Have an extra tax on books by Michael Moore and a subscription to The Nation. The great thing is that they shouldn’t complain since they are supposed to like taxes. We should also force them to clean roads and fill potholes, and, if they complain, that makes them hypocrites since they are supposed to enjoy community service. We should also have liberals pull us around the streets in rickshaws for free. They shouldn’t complain because they should think it’s great people are using pollution free transportation. We should also make them mow our lawns. They can’t complain because… uh… we’ll then lash them with a whip if they do; I want free lawn service and I don’t like liberals.
I used to think we should chase all liberals out of the country; don’t I feel stupid now.

Links of the Day

My arch-nemesis Scott Ott reports on the Democrats new strategy. I’m just glad it’s a parody, because that might actually work.
Rachel Lucas has a German professor who thinks that the atomic bombing of Japan is equivalent to the Holocaust. She also has a giant number of comments. I didn’t write a comment because of my lack of knowledge about history (we had a 2nd World War?), but, in general, I’m of the opinion that anyone the U.S. bombed deserved it plus.
John Hawkins notices how racism against blacks is okay if you’re left-wing. Good news for the KKK. He also got mentioned in Soldier of Fortune magazine. Kick ass.

Afterwards, They Were Going to Hit Denny’s

This story was entitled “Al Qaeda planned to hit Asian bars” on the CNN.com mainpage. I know the feeling. Every once in a while I just throw up my hand in frustration and say, “I’m going to go hit some Asian bars.” It ends up, though, that the CNN story isn’t about Al Qaeda giving up terrorism and going bar hopping, but instead about them attacking nightclubs. CNN should entitle their stories more carefully.

Collegiate Musings

I was just thinking, is there any reason for the word “dictionary” to be in the dictionary? I mean, if someone uses a dictionary to look up the word dictionary, then they obviously already know what a dictionary is. I guess they have to have it in there for the sake of completeness, as they do a number of other words. For instance, no one is ever going to look up what “the” or “of” means, but they still had to define them. And, though everyone who has even a slight grasp of English understands those concepts, the words themselves are really hard to define. I bet the least senior people got that assignment; think of spending all that time trying to explain “the” while knowing no one is ever actually going to read it. And did the person have to refrain from using “the” in the definition to keep it from being circular? Are there lots of disgruntled dictionary people? Maybe they get some cool benefits, like, after being there a long while, you get to make up your own word. Oh, and was the aardvark named that simply for prominent placement in the dictionary? If that’s true, that’s kind of pathetic. Then again, I guess that makes the aardwolf even more pathetic. And is there an authority they go to for defining slang and swear words, or do they just reference their foul-mouthed uncle Louie?
I gotta stop looking up words in the dictionary; it’s distracting.

We Should Take All Their Oil and Put It on Top of the Refrigerator So They Can’t Reach It

Since we’re fingerprinting Saudis coming into our country, Saudi Arabia is now fingerprinting U.S. citizens coming into their country. Gawd, it’s like dealing with four-year-olds! Like our people are going to kill thousands of Saudis… well, unless, of course, they are ordered to by the U.S. military when we finally get tired of the Saudis’ idiocy.
Why do we even have to deal with those idiotic governments in the Middle East? They’re all illegitimate, and I’m tired of hearing about them. I’m going to demand my congressperson finally take care of them. You hear that, Weldon? You get a free pass this election, but all those governments better be gone in two years or you’re losing a vote.

What We Need is a Schizophrenic Foreign Policy

Bush has decided to give diplomacy another try with dealing with Iraq. I guess he was intimidated by Iraq receiving 100% of the vote from a 100% turnout. To me, I would think that means we would have to kill all the Iraqis, because they are all now complicit.
I believe diplomacy means they will take another shot at killing Saddam in his sleep and making it look like a heart attack. Or maybe they’ll make his mustache fall off in public so that he must commit honorable suicide as is the custom in whatever region Iraq is in. I’m just afraid that, by going back to diplomacy, we’ll make Saddam think we’re not serious. The best solution would then be to invade France thus giving us two votes on the U.N. Security Council as I’m sure is dictated by the U.N. charter which I have never read nor heard reference to. Here’s the catch: we’ll use France’s vote to vote against the use of force! At the same time, we’ll cruise missile a random palace in Iraq. This we’ll show Saddam that we’re so serious about using force in Iraq that we’ll defy the U.N. even when that means defying ourselves. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Saddam!