Showing posts with label wingnuttery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wingnuttery. Show all posts
Friday, December 31, 2010
Monday, December 07, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Friday, June 05, 2009
....And Fuck Jim Inhofe, Too
When I was growing up in Dallas, there was an old riddle:
Why is North Texas so windy?
Cuz Oklahoma sucks!
Why is North Texas so windy?
Cuz Oklahoma sucks!
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Friedman IS a Unit!
Four more years of Cheney as Obama's veep? Is he nuts? Yes, that is a rhetorical question.
Greenwald responds.
Greenwald responds.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Friday, September 21, 2007
HaHa!
While Dumbfuck was grumbling at the chutzpah of MoveOn.org for DARING to besmirch poor, innocent lil Gen. Petraeus, and the Senate was moronically condemning them for the ad (Feinstein! You moron! You, me, the alley! NOW!), MoveOn was busy laughing all the way to the bank. Apparently, they took in $500,000+ in donations yesterday, their largest one day total ever.
Let Me Get This Straight
Two rightwing positions on Iraq:
1) The Surge is a HUGE success, so we need to keep on a'surgin'!
2) If Blackwater can't function, then no one is safe to leave the Green Zone.
The math here misses me. The surge has made Baghdad safer, but it's so dangerous American personnel can't leave their Fortress of Solitude without armed mercenary columns to protect them? Of course, it's two rightwing positions on Iraq, so we know it's all shit anyway.
1) The Surge is a HUGE success, so we need to keep on a'surgin'!
2) If Blackwater can't function, then no one is safe to leave the Green Zone.
The math here misses me. The surge has made Baghdad safer, but it's so dangerous American personnel can't leave their Fortress of Solitude without armed mercenary columns to protect them? Of course, it's two rightwing positions on Iraq, so we know it's all shit anyway.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Maybe Cuz He's Not Paying the Price?
John "I'm A Moron" Boehner is quoted on CNN as saying the War in Iraq is small price to pay, if we defeat Al Qaeda. There are so many problems with this this that I don't even know where to start.
Let's start with the big fallacy first. We're not fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq. Oh, yeah, we may be engaging with a 'faction' of Al Qaedi there, but it's not Al Qaeda. If this tiny fragment of insurgents called itself Ford Motor Company, would we be fighting Ford? The best indicators are that AQI is maybe 1% of the total insurgent population, more likely a lot less, so if we're fighting AQI, we're wasting a lot of time fighting other people instead.
Second, I'm sure most of the families of the dead and massively wounded of the Iraq War don't think they've paid a 'small price'.
Third, in a time of major tax cuttery, the war is costing up to $3billion a week. A WEEK! Assuming there are 300million people in the US, that's a a cost of $10/wk per capita. $500 a year. Assuming that 1/3 to 1/2 of the population is actually paying taxes (factoring kids, students, retirees, etc) that works out to $1000-1500 a head each year. But we're not paying it, we're borrowing it. Foisting the cost off on our kids and grandkids (and ourselves in our retirement); regardless of the outcome, we'll be paying for this war for at least another generation (and I'm not talking political or economic costs, just the actual expenditures. Do we hate ourselves and our descendants more than we hate Al Qaeda?
Lastly, probably the most important cost overall, is the cost to the US in reputation and prestige. We are no longer the 'shining city on the hill', we've become the artillery battery from over the hill. Our moral superiority (whether real or imagined, it was always there) is gone. Our ability to influence other nations, short of through intimidation, is pretty well shot. Our ability to use military force, if needed (see previous point), is diminished, since our military is stretched to the breaking point (maybe beyond) in our war against 1% of the insurgents in Iraq.
I won't even get into the absurdity of our many, contradictory and mutually exclusive goals in Iraq. Even if we get what we (say we) want in Iraq, achieving Goal A means can't achieve Goal B, and since we can't achieve Goal B we can acheive Goal C, the achievement of which would preclude Goal D, and on and on and on and on.
John 'Brain Boner' Boehner can proclaim all he want that the war in Iraq is small price to pay. After all, he isn't paying it in a way shape or form.
cross posted at DailyKos
Let's start with the big fallacy first. We're not fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq. Oh, yeah, we may be engaging with a 'faction' of Al Qaedi there, but it's not Al Qaeda. If this tiny fragment of insurgents called itself Ford Motor Company, would we be fighting Ford? The best indicators are that AQI is maybe 1% of the total insurgent population, more likely a lot less, so if we're fighting AQI, we're wasting a lot of time fighting other people instead.
Second, I'm sure most of the families of the dead and massively wounded of the Iraq War don't think they've paid a 'small price'.
Third, in a time of major tax cuttery, the war is costing up to $3billion a week. A WEEK! Assuming there are 300million people in the US, that's a a cost of $10/wk per capita. $500 a year. Assuming that 1/3 to 1/2 of the population is actually paying taxes (factoring kids, students, retirees, etc) that works out to $1000-1500 a head each year. But we're not paying it, we're borrowing it. Foisting the cost off on our kids and grandkids (and ourselves in our retirement); regardless of the outcome, we'll be paying for this war for at least another generation (and I'm not talking political or economic costs, just the actual expenditures. Do we hate ourselves and our descendants more than we hate Al Qaeda?
Lastly, probably the most important cost overall, is the cost to the US in reputation and prestige. We are no longer the 'shining city on the hill', we've become the artillery battery from over the hill. Our moral superiority (whether real or imagined, it was always there) is gone. Our ability to influence other nations, short of through intimidation, is pretty well shot. Our ability to use military force, if needed (see previous point), is diminished, since our military is stretched to the breaking point (maybe beyond) in our war against 1% of the insurgents in Iraq.
I won't even get into the absurdity of our many, contradictory and mutually exclusive goals in Iraq. Even if we get what we (say we) want in Iraq, achieving Goal A means can't achieve Goal B, and since we can't achieve Goal B we can acheive Goal C, the achievement of which would preclude Goal D, and on and on and on and on.
John 'Brain Boner' Boehner can proclaim all he want that the war in Iraq is small price to pay. After all, he isn't paying it in a way shape or form.
cross posted at DailyKos
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