The “Welcome to the Recovery” from Geithner’s editorial keeps making me think of “Welcome to the party, pal!” from Die Hard.
I hope our baby’s first word is “pwned”.
Of course, right after she’s born, I’ll probably call her “n00b” a lot.
Get off Obama. How was he supposed to know those census jobs weren’t permanent?
Who are the political class and why do we suffer them to exist? From the surveys of their views, they scare me more than the communists. They’re like a weaponized form of liberal.
Information wants to be free. Like most criminals.
I think the Japanese’s biggest mistake in WWII was assuming we didn’t know how to explode atoms.
Obama says the GOP will put the economy in reverse. Wouldn’t that be a really good thing at this juncture?
Making me help set up for a baby shower I have to attend is like making me dig my own grave.
SarahK figured out what was wrong with my iPad. That’s like one of the cats debugging it.
Now that we’re done with marriage rights, are we going to work on Bar Mitzvah rights?
“Daddy’s little…”
Buttercup
Sugar Lump
Sweet Pea
Sweetie Pie
Honey Bun
Cream Puff
Noobie? Noooooo!
As long as we’re picking out pet names for Princess Buttercup – I vote for “Kitten”.
“Ahh…here’s the problem – you’re out of tuna.”
I beg to differ with you Frank. Your daughter will think her name is No! No! No! No! Noooooooo! That is after she gets old enough to explore.
At least communists like us when we’re useful!
I think the Japanese’s biggest mistake was fighting us. Their next biggest mistake was thinking they didn’t need that anti-submarine warfare deal. Think again, Tojo.
Maybe you are?
I assume the problem was that you hadn’t smashed it with a rock. A cat would urinate on it. I cannot decide which method is superior.
Random thought: I’m going to Maine on Friday! It’s nice up there, but there are a lot of hippies – and Obamas – too! When I last was in Bar Harbor in 2006, one of the bookstores was selling books about Our Mother the Earth and Our Estranged Father the Shower. Only the first title is real.
Random thought: The proposal to build a casino near the hallowed ground of the Gettysburg battlefield now goes to the PA Gaming Control Board. Thank goodness, more screening by politicians is exactly what we need! We’re saved.
Although, I now recall that the original proposal to build a casino on the other side of town a couple of years ago was shot down by the PGCB. Maybe more politicians are exactly what we need!
Let me guess: the screen was dirty and she cleaned it? Women are good at cleaning things.
I have a good guess! She set the oven to 350, sprinkled some cheese and potatoes on top, and turned the timer to 25 minutes! Why do women insist on Au Gratin? Blech!
I was hoping you would reuse a classic of yours that stuck with me, loosely:
-“To hear the Japanese tell it we were having a nice little war until the Americans took it way too far.”
-snap! On the reversing the economy.
-Information, criminals, and willies want to be free.
-We western Men really messed it up when we made skirts and robes women only territory. The male movement will start by burning tight underwear and jeans. We would appreciate the breeze and room far more then they do. Mini-skirts of course would have to remain female only territory and would need to sign a capital punishment law to that effect.
-Back about 2005 I started telling my republican friends that they urgently needed to start giving power back to the states, make some sort of health-care price reform, start closing overseas bases and rebuilding them in America along the borders. Oh yes they all got defense and wrote me off as a liberal. to paraphrase Ralphie… being right tastes sad.
While that is a very good point on their history revisionism. We did drop leaflets warning civilians to leave. On the serious side of the same coin:
-I have watched some severe documentaries on the bombs dropping. It is horrific what it was like. Those not immediately killed Your whole head/body swells like a giant blister ballon with eye and mouth dark spots as if colored in with a sharpie. People couldn’t speak or recognize each other. A bunch of elementary schools were hit. Most people died from burning and radiation over a painful series of a day to a few weeks. The relief workers got sick and many died also. People dragged themselves into the rivers and streams to drown themselves in huge numbers. To where there they were full with bodies. There are still a lot of very scarred older people with terrible health problems in Japan. In all seriousness Nuking a population is something we should never ever do except under the most severe situation. And even then I frankly would rather face God having erred on the side of not using it and died in a war.
-Which is why shows of strength like Nuking the moon is my preferred option. I would be willing to wear a t-shirt to that effect.
Be careful what you wish for. The only thing she can fool you with at that point is if she is a he. Then again, it might not be so bad; you’d have to name him the Dread Pirate Roberts.
Cats may not be so bad at debugging. I have a dog that tried to debug a new PocketPC by chewing on it. Dogs are always hopeful, especially Labs. Sometimes, I think that dogs keep chewing on something because they’re hoping that the tasty candy filling is inside.
It just doesn’t matter. The concept of “created or saved” doesn’t include the concepts of “lost, eliminated or outsourced.”
Their greatest mistake was thinking that we couldn’t beat the snot out of them while fighting nearly alone with both our hands tied behind our back in the European theater.
-If America collapses rest assured while you are getting to live instead of play “Fallout 5” that the political class will be chased and hunted down like dogs even by democrats.
-Marriage is a religious ordinance like baptism.
-The only reason the left has any of this power was because way back the right kept trying their own bit of social engineering and “convenience” If marriage and state had been separate this whole thing and its subsequent trouble would not have happened.
-When you make a law or legislation after your done fantasizing about all the good you are going to do with it start having nightmares about what the other b@#$rds are going to do with it.
-That advice goes double for the left. Everything they hated about Bush could not have happend if the left had not on purpose and through great effort spent the last 100 years neutering states and consolidating all power to the federal government.
My cat actually discovered something in Windows that I had never seen – and I bet most of you haven’t either.
He was playing with the mouse when he clicked on the desktop “My Computer” icon, dragged it to the top of the screen and released the button. He did it all by accident (as far as I know) but I was surprised at the result.
BTW: it’s harmless and easily reversible.
@shiggz: Yes, the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki suffered greatly. Still, using the bombs did hasten the end to the war. And saved thousands of American lives. Which is what matters, since our prime concern should have been American lives and not Japanese lives.
Some general who tore the hell out of one of my ancestor’s farms in Georgia in 1864 said “War is hell.” He was right. It is. And if inflicting a lot of casualties on the enemy brings it to a successful conclusion, then it sucks to be the enemy.
“Who are the political class and why do we suffer them to exist? From the surveys of their views, they scare me more than the communists. They’re like a weaponized form of liberal.”
Yeah, those people are so utterly out of sync with the people it’s amazing. “Weaponized liberal”, how appropriate. And these are our supposed rulers. Can you say, hunt the bastards down?
Isn’t this the bus versus baby dilemma? Short of the use of nuclear weapons, there were likely at least a million who would have died during bombing and invasion — American and Japanese. Then, there are the millions more, Japanese and American, who would have never existed had we not used a weapon at our disposal.
Shiggz, the estimates for American, British, and ANZAC casualties from Operation Downfall were over a million and some generals considered that conservative. The estimates for Japanese casualties were over ten million. I would say this is more than severe and quite enough to justify Truman’s decision.
At this point I’d say no. I don’t think anything can fix it short of all out failure. If you really want the economy to recover it must first be allowed to DIE! It will take decades, maybe lifetimes to recover from the damage done by the Clintons and thee Obama.
Quick ‘political’ fixes are why we are in this mess.
“SarahK figured out what was wrong with my iPad. That’s like one of the cats debugging it.”
Good thing it didn’t need despidered.
In short I think nukes are a last ditch weapon for survival not for winning wars.
Ill tell you where I try to draw the line. Invasion. If say Chinese troops were invading America then I would support dropping a nuke on their homeland. I find WW2 Japan complicated since they were brutally invading many countries like Philippines and China. I know of no such plan where Japan was intending to invade America. Did America have to invade Mainland Japan? It seems like that is never questioned. Could we not have pulled our fleet back defended our shores, built up our land forces, and ready our nukes to prepare to repel an invasion in case they tried it.
I have wondered what if the Europeans escaping Hitler and Stalin had escaped to America and we made America a strong fortress while Socialists and Communists killed each other while their ideologies collapsed. Today America would be stronger then Ever probably 500million refugees with socialism and communism more discredited then ever. Europe would be rebuilding today. Instead, today both US and EU are collapsing under ideologies thought dead 10 years ago. When you fight an ideology if you win to quickly it will make the enemy appear as the victim and you may lose the larger war. That is where we are today. America could survive a hundred pearl harbors and hundred 9/11’s but we wont recognizably survive this one generations socialist insurgency.
I understand that modern weaponry and situations like “Pearl Harbor” make this more complicated. But, still I think the principle stands as necessary. After the Revolutionary war (pretending nukes existed) I would have been for nuking the British while they were invading America. However after they retreated home I would not have supported following them back to Britain and Nuking them there at a time when they had no British soldiers on America soil.
Yes they might build up their forces and try an invasion again. But I think if you are going to use a weapon of that magnitude that noone else on earth has I Binary thinking has its uses but long term and big picture it so often is counterproductive.
(sorry no time to clean it up , short on time, but these are the ways I am thinking about it.. please dont confuse me with a leftists with the mantra: “American nukes are bad mmm kay”)
This is where I draw the line. We’d use a nuclear weapon if our leaders could not in good conscience look all the loved ones — of all those fallen servicemen — in the eye and say that the invasion was worth it.
Reports are that Truman was on the fence until this was suggested to him.
@hwuu: That was so good, on so many levels.
First rather then telling people what they should think I just tell them why I am thinking something. Its not my issue what they do with it after that. I dont think I am disagreeing with your or saying that we definitely should not have bombed them. I am trying to make a few big picture points that I think we need to keep in mind as we come to our own crossroads. Lest we lose the silent battle or create the new monsters of tomorrow. We keep winning battles and losing the war. I think its because we keep charging into traps that are seductive for our ego and bad for our country.
-I really think we on the right have got to change gears to the threat at home.
-Did we trust in the arm of flesh first and let God be relegated to the back benches? We won the battle against the Nazis but we have already lost the battle against the secularists.
-Nukes are so inconceivably awful that to drop them on a general population had better have a very very good unambiguous reason that even the propagandists will struggle to confuse. Lest you create a new numerous enemy more insidious at home. There will always be some but shrewd planning will shrink their numbers.
-Invading Japanese mainland would have cost many many lives, how many Japanese lives would it have taken to invade America? They almost certainly would not have tried. Killing a few wasps in your house is one thing going to the hive and banging on it a whole other situation. I think its a good question did we really have to invade Japans mainland?
-We beat violent nations but was successfully painted as having martyred ideologies. Guess which one was the bigger threat?
-I worry we get obsessed with the equivalent of injuries from bar fights, car accidents, falling down stairs etc.. that we have missed the quietly growing fatal threat… like brain cancer also called a generation of revolutionary socialist sympathizers. Who’s ideology and justification is based on their seeing America as the aggressor in foreign wars.
-We lost this propaganda battle and today we pay for it and tomorrow our children will pay for it. Let us pray it is stopped there. Today there are millions of these sympathizers fed on decades of far left propaganda now in this country infesting many vital organs of government, media, and education. They will no sooner believe socialism is murderous and tyrannical then you will believe that your mother secretly hates you and wants to kill but she is biding her time.
-Where were we over the last decades when it still could have been rooted out without killing the patient? Obsessed and distracted with every little tussle that was not a live or die situation for America. Where will the cause of Freedom in a few decades be with America collapsed from an internal menace?
-N. Korea, China, Russia, Iran, Venzuala. Sure funny odd characters now with modern America acting as a dam. But, the entire world and fate of humanity for thousand years or more like last time is hinged on an American titanic in a field of icebergs if she hits bankruptcy, 2nd civil war, gutted exhausted military from discretionary overseas conflicts, or an America with not enough oil etc.. any one of these is enough to open the door for the totalitarians and that is all they need because our allies are all neutered.
-One single country being steered by a competition of Obama/Pelosi/Reid/Anderson Cooper/Katie Couric/ Michael Steel. There is no other power on the horizon who could even come close to pushing them back. If we fall everyone everywhere better pray Jesus shows up otherwise it really will be a new reign of the dark ages.
-When Rome collapsed the fallout was so awful that another Republic or Democracy did not really happen again for one and a half millenia. The people all over the earth lived in darkness and oppression. Between a newly militant Mohammedan strain of Islam and Statist Catholic church. How many lives and souls were lost in there? I guarantee more then were lost in any Roman Battle that was so important at the time that they ignored the enemy at home, wore out their military, and bankrupted their empire to fight it. Rome did not have to collapse. They ignored the enemy at home. What filled its power vacuum is indescribably dark and awful. All the pieces are lining up where it could happen again.
History doesn’t actually repeat itself. People repeat themselves history just records it.
Just remember, ‘You can’t beat your child with nuclear arms.”
It would be better if Buttercup’s first word was “quote.” Then there’s always the possibility that her last word will be “unquote.”
“The “Welcome to the Recovery” from Geithner’s editorial keeps making me think of “Welcome to the party, pal!” from Die Hard.”
Makes me think of “See you at the party, Richter.”
“I think the Japanese’s biggest mistake in WWII was assuming we didn’t know how to explode atoms.”
Ummm… Frank? Didn’t we actually IMPLODE those atoms? Not that I’m a nuclear physicist, but I’m pretty sure them was implosion bombs.
My grandbaby’s first word was “uh-oh.” And, lots of dead enemies are better than lots of dead friends.