There is a lot of controversy about the Marine who killed a wounded enemy, but why was the enemy only wounded in the first place? Sounds like shoddy workmanship from previous Marines in not making efficient full-fledged kills on first contact, and, to me, that’s the real scandal.
UPDATE: Judging from comments, I think this issue shows that the right-wing community has a large lack of compassion for wounded, murderous thugs. Maybe we should work on that.
Actually, that might take some time. Let’s just play videogames instead.
UPDATE 2: There is another shooting in the news. I hope – but don’t hold my breath – that the MSM will realize which shooting is more tragic and devote the airtime to the stories appropriately.
And, if they don’t, that’s what we bloggers are here for (well, not me, but the ones people take seriously).
Archive of entries posted on 16th November 2004
A Little Late… But Damn You Scrappleface!
An extra damn you to Scrappleface for the success of his new book, so successful it’s on backorder at Amazon. Perhaps he’ll pave the way for even more bloggers to publish books of their material…
Anyway, if you’re going to order it, go to his site and click on the Amazon.com link he has for it. That way he not only gets royalties, but another 5% through Amazon Associates program. Sweet!
I Come Not to Praise Arafat… But to Dance!
IMAO EXCLUSIVE! IF USED, MUST CREDIT THE LETTERS ‘I’, ‘M’, ‘A’, and ‘O’!
Here is BBC coverage of various world leaders mourning Arafat, and only I have the audio!
Question of the Day
They say if you put an infinite amount of monkeys at an infinite amount of typewriters, one would soon produce the greatest novel ever written. How many monkeys at how many typewriters would it take for them to soon produce a column more insightful than the average tripe from Maureen Dowd?
My guess is eight.
What do you think?
The Best Option for the Democrats Now Is to Crawl into a Ditch and Die
An Editorial by Frank J.
There’s an old sniper saying for the benefit of their targets: “Don’t bother running; you’ll only die tired.”
I believe there is some wisdom there for the Democrats to learn from. Right now, every pundit and his sister is saying what the Democrats have to do now after they’ve been spit out by the American people like so much spoiled milk, and most of that advice is how the Democrats can try and be more competitive in the political arena. To me, this is just putting up fresheners to cover up the stench of a rotting corpse. Sure, some measures can keep the Democrats potentially viable for a while longer, but it’s all just delaying the inevitable demise.
“The opposition party doesn’t have enough gravitas to be circus clowns.”
How can I be so sure that the Democrats are done for? Come on; just look at them! Out of all of them, who did they pick for president? John F’n Kerry! The man was practically a walking corpse himself, only showing enough energy to shamefully pander. And who are the big Democrat supporters? Jabba the filmmaker and the rest of the Hollytards. Oh, and don’t forget all the hate-filled protestors. I’ve seen three year olds on sugar highs use energy with more rational focus.
So what we have now is a world filled with bad people who need to be made dead, and the opposition party doesn’t have enough gravitas to be circus clowns. And, while all the advice may be good intentioned, it’s like encouraging a boxer to continue who is way past his prime. If he keeps getting in the ring, all that’s going to happen is he gets whupped in more and more pathetic ways. While that might be entertaining for the sadistic, it’s just not compassionate to keep encouraging it.
Thus I’m going to give the Democrats the only real good advice they’ll hear: Find a ditch. Climb into it. Die. It’s a manageable option for the Democrats and simply the best idea. Ditches are everywhere. There’s probably plenty in Old Europe, whole countries that, if they were smart, would just nuke themselves and get things over with now.
So, you ask, what party would replace the Democrats as the opposition? My answer: I dunno; one that doesn’t suck. It would be hard to do worse. Just make sure they got the memo during 9/11 that the world changed and not to spend all their time whining about prescription drugs and crap like that. What we need are two parties that can have a reasoned debate about abolishing welfare to fund more cruise missiles. Before that can happen, though, the Democrats have to face reality and give up the ghost.
Sure, instead of climbing into a ditch and dying, the Democrats could take all that advice they were given and spend tons of energy to win maybe a couple more worthwhile elections, but, if they do all that, they’ll just die tired.
Frank J. is a syndicated columnist whose columns appear worldwide on IMAO.us – though is still available to replace William Safire if anyone from the NY Times is reading – and is the author of such thrillers as “The Kinkade Code” and “Monkeys Always Kill.”