Has everyone seen this CBS-New York Times poll yet? Was this a poll of crack smokers on their opinions of Iraq? It reads like a Democrat’s dream: people don’t think we should preemptively strike, think we should wait for allies, think there should be more talk of the economy, and think that an attack on Iraq will lead to more terrorism and a broader war in the Middle East. Of course a majority does want military force to remove Saddam, so, if the poll is to be believed (it isn’t), some people want more terrorism and a larger war against all the Arabs.
I’ve had this idea for polls for a while that I think would make them more informative: include basic knowledge questions along with the opinion questions so we can get a better idea of who has these dumb ideas.
“People who placed Iraq in South America were much more likely to oppose a war.”
“Respondents who correctly answered the question, ‘Who is the Secretary of Defense?’ sided more with Bush on the issues. Those who answered the question with audible drooling were most critical of Bush.”
“Those polled who identified their hobbies as eating bananas while swinging from trees tended to side more with the Democrats on Iraq.”

It looks like the Democrats, despite their firm stance against the security of the American people, will authorize war against Iraq. Daschle says he’ll vote for the resolution, but only after trying to make it more to his liking. Now, I’m no master negotiator, but admitting he’s going to vote for it anyway probably won’t give him much leverage to change it. The Democrats have pretty much just caved in to pressure since they are now perceived as being a bunch of anti-war, peacenik hippies by everyone since everyone has eyes in their head. Democrats find all the loud noises, explosions, and moral resolve that are involved in a war quite scary, and they just want a simple life of scaring the elderly. That’s why they can’t help but be weasely with their support of the war, and thus we get statements from Sen. Bob Graham like, “If we don’t handle this carefully, including doing our domestic law enforcement as well as our foreign policy, that we could face a significant increase in incidents of terrorism inside the United States.” So, what should be the Republicans’ response to the Democrats if there is another act of terrorism and they blame it on Bush’s push for war? I think it should be kicking the Democrats in the nuts. They do it enough times, the Democrats will learn to stop making that point. Some may say that’s not a way to conduct reasoned debate. That can be answered by staring menacingly at those people for a few seconds.

I get asked a lot of questions, so I have cataloged them in a new FAQ. If anyone has any other questions to add, put them in the comments section.

Everyone seemed to like my brief history of the gun, so I have now made a histories section. Added are my brief history of Canada (60% recycled material) and of Tobacco (brand spanking new!). Perhaps one day I will be a famous historian.

I have moved; tell everyone! I have now settled down at imao.us. If you are wondering what those letters stand for, “us” stands for United States, which, in my arrogant opinon, are the best states of all.
Opinons on the new layout are appreciated. A special thanks to Rachel Lucas who not only guided me through the set up, but made me the new logo. If you don’t already read her site, then you’re some sort of idiot and I hate you.

Rachel Lucas gets hate mail from some British person who had no clue what he was up against. Foreign people are so stupid.

Muslims like our movies a lot and it makes them mad. Some Muslims just don’t make much sense to me. “I don’t like Americans, because they oppress the Arabs and Muslims. Unfortunately, all Western culture has been transported to our daily life,” says a school administrator from Cairo. Jesus tap-dancing Christ is that guy an idiot! Like Americans could ever oppress Arabs and Muslims more than other Arabs and Muslims; we just don’t have the experience at it that they do. And, maybe people wouldn’t be so quick to adopt Western culture if the Middle East actually developed a culture worth something; one that didn’t just involve being ignorant, oppressing women, and wearing sheets. Now, I’m not going to defend Hollywood culture, but knowing it makes Islamic fundamentalists mad does raise my opinion of it. Also, the fact that people in the Middle East like watching evil aliens ships get blown to smithereens with the help of a Mac computer as much as Americans do show that, deep down, we’re all the same. That’s something to be celebrated, but it seems that some Muslims are more focused on how movies aren’t portraying Islam in a nice manner and make Middle Easterners look like terrorists. The problem is, Islam hasn’t been been portraying itself in a nice manner and Middle Easterners have been making Middle Easterners look like terrorists by being terrorists. I swear, if I hear of one more Muslim working more at stopping the portrayal of Muslims as terrorists instead of actually trying to stop Muslims from being terrorists, I’ll lobby to make sure that the Middle East only get our independent films imported to them. That’ll learn ’em.

Kim du Toit, a great new addition to my blogroll, analyzes the Maryland shootings and how that state’s restrictive gun laws help something like this be possible. I could have taken a job in Maryland instead of Florida, and gun laws were a factor in my choice (they were also one reason I’d never go back to the state of California… one of many reasons).

I found this article on Clinton in the Mirror via Rachel Lucas’s website (who fisks it ably), and it is the one of the most horrendous things I have ever read. Actually, do not click on that article; I think reading it actually causes brain damage. What kind of depraved, sick, twisted individuals would praise Clinton so vehemently? If I were living in Britain, that article would cause me to go out and illegally purchase a firearm out of fear I might one day run into those people. Now, I’m all for freedom of speech, but I hope Britain’s equivalent of the FBI are watching the writers at the mirror, because it would not be surprise that someone capable of writing that filth could also be capable of becoming a serial killer.

The election of Clinton to the presidency was a travesty. His reelection was one of the worst incidents in America history, an unremovable stain on the pretty blue dress that is America. If we are to ever really mature as a nation, we must all get together as one people and hang Bill Clinton from the nearest tree we can find. Also, we should burn Hillary at the stake for being either a witch or a communist.

We’re still negotiating inspections with Iraq, like we really care about inspections. They’re just an excuse to kill Saddam, and I hope we have plenty more excuses if they actually do allow inspections. Worst off, we could just kill Saddam and not have some articulated excuse (I mean, other than the “he’s evil and a murderer” which used to work before we all became so “sophisticated”).

And what’s with this Hans Blix character I’m now hearing about? That sounds like the name of a cartoon cat. I can’t believe that the grand and powerful United States is waiting on someone named Hans Blix. Let’s just drop an anvil on him and get in gear.

And then there’s the Democrats (I think they’re not interested in the security of the American people). Gebhardt said, “We don’t want to do something alone, or with one other country, and bypass the U.N. and then, three years from now, have China or India or Russia or somebody else say, ‘You did it, we can do it.”’ Little heads up to those countries: you aren’t’ the only superpower. You can’t use our excuses. And one of you – and I’m looking at China – are evil and have an illegitimate government, so you frankly aren’t allowed to do anything without getting our permission first.

And the Sen. Carl Levin warned how military leaders think that Iraq will be more likely to use WMD’s if we attack without a coalition. That’s dumb on so many levels. First of all, we’re to believe that military people talked to a Democrat. Military people hate Democrats because all they do is whine and take away funding from the military (if the military had funding, that would help with the security of the America people, and the Democrats aren’t interested in that). And, Iraq is rational enough to know that the threat difference between America by itself and America with France behind it is infinitesimal.

I say leave inspection in Iraq to archeologist two thousand years in the future.

Misha has made the switch to MoveableType and now resides at nicedoggie.net, and, in celebration, has declared himself emperor. Perhaps soon I will have to succumb to peer pressure and make the move as well.