tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56189422011-07-31T02:18:09.572-05:00The War, Politics, World Affairs, The Arts and Devastating Wit...Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.comBlogger3061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-18988959657217112682009-07-10T13:07:00.003-05:002009-07-10T13:11:43.813-05:00

I will be posting a longish piece on Sarah Palin in my next post, sort of a "Palin crosses the Rubicon" bit. Basically a "where does she goes from here" piece. Tonight.

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Good God, it's been almost a month since I've posted last.Since then, we've had a near Revolution in Iran . However, I strongly believe the Fascist Circle that runs the country will be successful in maintaining power. Despite the hopes and dreams of the likes of Andrew Sullivan, the grip of the Reactionaries and the White Forces remains too profound. Aside from that fact, the incumbent fascist,

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I've seen J.J. Abrams' Star Trek twice. First when it came out, and just again today.It's a superb piece of entertainment. The pace of the film hides the plot holes and the rather forgettable villain, Nero, played by Eric Bana, does his part to add to the stakes by changing the Trek Universe forever. I won't go through the plot bit by bit here, but what I will say is that Abrams takes an entirely

section9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08956773307014115891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-11946625477723079262009-05-23T21:48:00.001-05:002009-05-23T21:51:05.155-05:00

Sorry folks, been tardy and haven't been posting!To catch up on a few things since my last post that I'll post about:1. The final and overwhelming conclusion about the guilt of I.F. Stone: Soviet Spy.2. Condi Rice and her friends and Stanford.3. The Cheney/Obama TortureFest.4. My review of Star Trek 90210.Be Seeing You,Chris

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The National Football League will be holding its Draft tomorrow and Sunday. Just a note to say that I'm looking for my team, the Miami Dolphins, to drink some Awesome Sauce and go for a serious run stopper or a linebacker in the First Round.Go Fins!!!!!In all seriousness, recent trades have depleted the Secondary of its veterans from the previous regime (something Bill Parcells, Dolphins

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Just a quick note before I turn in.This blog will change its general look so Marty and I can have a slightly more moderne look to things. Other than that, expect me to update the Condi Rice, Anime, and provide many more updated news links.Content is king, after alll.Speaking of Condi, here she is!She's out at Stanford, getting in training for her inevitable appearance at Obama's Moscow Show Trial

section9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08956773307014115891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-75368813133972204842009-04-22T15:56:00.004-05:002009-04-22T16:39:01.570-05:00

Word is she's dating Michael Phelps...I mean, Jesus tap-dancing Christ!Perez Hilton, professional gay man and all around pain in the ass, asked the Gay Marriage question of Miss California, Carrie Prejean. She answered, as nicely as she could, that she believed that marriage was between a man and a woman, but that she hoped she didn't offend anyone. Perez must have found out that she went to

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Oh, and by the way, you can see just how far back some of this shit goes. Some of Marty's stuff goes back to the Dawn of Bushism, while my stuff goes back to the beginning of the Arnold Era in California.I dropped blogging for three years, at least.Now that the Republican Party is a respectable Opposition Party again, I , at least get to have all sorts of good clean fun. Meantime, it appears that

section9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08956773307014115891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-18508316376433939672009-04-22T15:04:00.003-05:002009-04-22T15:08:07.904-05:00

Big Props to my Cousin, Marty Fugate, for getting me back on my own blog.Google Blogger lost my new email address, so I had to depend on Marty to get back on line.Thanks again, Frugate!!!What will we be doing? Well, off and on, we'll be discussing politik, kultur, movies, and whatnot.Not much more to say, except, I'm back.

section9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08956773307014115891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-85574309717716242772008-09-24T23:23:00.001-05:002009-04-13T23:46:01.931-05:00

Said award extended for “defining moment in the '08 campaign.” As in: slapping a defining label on your interview subject whether they like it or not, whether it fits or not, and making it stick.As in: SARAH PALIN, LARGE-BREASTED PALEOCONSERVATIVE SOCK PUPPET OF THE EVIL CAPITALISTS WHO CREATED THIS ECONOMIC TRAIN WRECK.Be afraid, America. Be very, very afraid.Yes, it was predictable. Yes, it was

Marty Fugatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077693961075517845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-8570664020833619672008-05-18T23:49:00.000-05:002009-04-13T23:50:39.756-05:00

Sunday night, May 11, the Israeli army was poised to strike Hezbollah. The Shiite militia was winding up its takeover of West Beirut and battling pro-government forces in the North. When he opened the regular cabinet meeting Sunday, May 11, prime minister Ehud Olmert had already received the go-ahead from Washington for a military strike to halt the Hizballah advance. The message said that

Marty Fugatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077693961075517845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-54432634798429544862007-09-05T11:25:00.000-05:002008-06-13T22:17:00.400-05:00

Was talking to an operative friend of mine who has worked Florida politics for the last 25 years.The Donks wouldn’t have done this unless they had pretty strong internal polling that told them that Florida’s 27 Electoral Votes were safely in Rudy’s or Fred’s pocket and Hillary couldn’t get them unless she were running against Hitler or Heydrich.This is huge, and that’s what this means. Crist’s

Marty Fugatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077693961075517845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-34819889927266019452006-12-13T13:12:00.000-05:002009-04-13T23:53:52.254-05:00

Or: George and Condi layeth down the smack on the Boy President!Just spotted this gem in a John Podhoretz post on The Corner today. Methinks any thoughts of appeasing the Iranians and their young client, the Boy President, just went out the window. Think of this as a vision as to how we're going to handle the Syrians from here on in. Statement from the White House on behalf of the President: The

Marty Fugatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077693961075517845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1139375510040912802006-02-07T23:43:00.000-05:002006-02-08T00:11:50.093-05:00

George and Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Bush 41 and Bar went down to Atlanta today to attend the memorial service for the late Coretta Scott King.The late Mrs. King was, by all accounts, the First Lady of Black America. So, the occasion of her passing might have been a chance for a show of unity during a time of war. Silly me, I forgot. It's a funeral. Put Democrats in a large room with a

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1121452632130219272005-07-15T13:34:00.000-05:002005-07-15T13:37:12.140-05:00

I'm back.It's been two months. I've refinanced the house, paid some bills, and settled some debts. Meantime, the Condi campaign continues, the Karl Rove scandal is about to peter out, and the London bombings signal a new effort by Al Qaeda to make its influence felt in Europe. More about all of these in the next posts.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1116878642612895012005-05-23T14:21:00.000-05:002005-05-23T15:04:02.693-05:00

in this post of his. Impact quote:We cannot become like the enemy. If we do, we will have denied ourselves victory. You can see the essence of the temptation in this passage from the Belmont Club blog:Not only the treatment of the enemy combatants themselves, but their articles of religious worship have become the subject of such scrutiny that Korans must handled with actual gloves in a

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1115844303136973162005-05-11T15:13:00.000-05:002005-05-11T15:45:03.146-05:00

Americans For Rice begins its ad campaign in New Hampshire and Florida in a little under 24 hours. We've bought radio time on WNTK-AM/FM in New Hampshire and WKAT-AM here in Florida. These will be multi-week campaigns that will be focused on early primary states (New Hampshire and Florida to start) with others to follow in their train.This has been an eventful month for our organization. A month

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1114610760205405022005-04-27T09:05:00.000-05:002005-04-27T09:06:00.206-05:00

China and Taiwan, Condi Rice as Faye Valentine, and the Ressurection of Americans For Rice. Coming this week on this blog.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1114225905122701632005-04-22T22:07:00.000-05:002005-04-22T22:11:45.123-05:00

After several weeks of frustration, we at AmericansForRice.com have found a server that appears to be halfway competent at customer care. I'll be filling you in as we go along.Now to spruce up the site. I'm told by the webmaster that we actually made it to SitesThatSuck.com. We'll be changing this as we get back into the agitprop biz.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1113100105726762562005-04-09T20:45:00.000-05:002005-04-09T21:28:25.730-05:00

...who sort of echoes what I had been saying in the previous post.Kaus was reacting to Bill Bradley's essay in the March 30th New York Times on the Republican Party's ideological pyramid. Apparently, we possess this huge financial ziggurat atop which stands, every four years, a Bush or a Dole or a Bush the Younger. Meanwhile, what is really going on is that a financial conspiracy allows the Ann

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1112999666271924112005-04-08T17:01:00.000-05:002005-04-08T17:34:26.276-05:00

...leading the blind.Please take a nice look at this graphic. What does it tell you?It's an html link that will send you to a website called, thoughtfully enough, "Thereisnocrisis.com". It's a nice picture of a gentle member of the Greatest Generation and one of her great Grandchildren. Below that is a flash banner which you can see says, over n' over n' pop over (like the Pop Tart) "THERE IS NO

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1112491639233681852005-04-02T20:09:00.000-05:002005-04-02T20:27:19.236-05:00

After a long period of failing health, the Pope died today. He was first and foremost, a champion of Christ's Church. Secondly, he was a warrior for human freedom against the twin evils of Fascism and Communism, and a scathing critic of the materialism and soullessness that 20th Century capitalism has produced.If the mid-century Conservative theorist, Richard Weaver, was correct in his central

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1110150816845898462005-03-06T18:05:00.000-05:002005-03-06T18:13:56.406-05:00

I have been helping Dr. Richard Mason configure the Americans For Dr. Rice message board, known as TEAM CONDI!. As a consequence, the blogging for the past week has been light to the point of dereliction. I have another project that I haven't been paying attention to for a couple of weeks that needs my attention, so it appears that I need to purchase a Daytimer or something like that.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1109482152028583082005-02-27T00:23:00.000-05:002005-02-27T00:29:12.030-05:00

...about the boots, that is.Apparently, Glenn Reynolds' blog buddy, Ann Althouse, gets it. She posted a reaction to Rice's Wiesbaden appearance in the Neo getup with the boots. She got a ton of mail. Upon reflection, she made this post to her own blog. It's worth the read. Money graph:But Rice's new look does not consist of very much. Surely, it is not the sort of extreme and shocking

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1109348617713761882005-02-25T10:44:00.000-05:002005-02-25T11:23:37.716-05:00

...over at Americans For Rice.com, our 527 group around which Team Condi will be built. Coming are some boffo shirts, of course (can't wait to get mine; I'll finally have an excuse to lose weight!). But of greater import is the bulletin board system that is being set up by the webmaster to facilitate communication among Rice people across the United States.A concious attempt to ape Joe Trippi.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1109164787254754682005-02-23T08:15:00.000-05:002005-02-23T08:19:47.256-05:00

...has a wonderful piece on Europe's reluctance to take up Bush's challenge to proclaim liberty across the planet. Europe has simply lost faith in its own beliefs, and has chosen to trade liberty for security, with a dollop of cynicism on top. Read it; it's worth the time. (Hat tip: RealClearPolitics.com)

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1109105503689679552005-02-22T15:21:00.000-05:002005-02-22T18:00:30.270-05:00

Look at all that long Chinese coastline....The important news of the week happened prior to George W. Bush's trip to Belgium. The European Trip is designed as window dressing to make Continental politicians feel important. The real business of state happened just prior to Bush's departure with Condoleezza Rice.A "Two Plus Two" meeting between Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld on the one hand

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1109103375958673162005-02-22T14:58:00.000-05:002005-02-22T15:16:15.963-05:00

From today's online New York Metro magazine:Tom Cruise Wants to AssistWith on-set Scientology.In the upcoming Steven Spielberg remake of War of the Worlds, one family fights for survival when Earth is invaded by Martian war machines. But on the set of the movie, there’s been an invasion of another sort: Scientologists! Tom Cruise, the film’s star and the religion’s most well-known adherent, has

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1109026517700920222005-02-21T17:11:00.000-05:002005-02-21T17:55:17.703-05:00

....committed suicide today. His body was found this morning at his Colorado home by his son. I disagreed with him politically, but in retrospect, understood his stand as a 1970's form of libertarianism. He parted company with the Left (but not by much) when it came to firearms, so the late Dr. gets huge props in my book. As James Lileks observed..File under Capote, Truman – meaning, whatever you

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1108648347229754082005-02-17T08:00:00.000-05:002005-02-18T23:45:57.316-05:00

Look Ma, no Hip Hop....While listening to Steve Conte bang out a relentlessly catchy interpretation of Kanno Yoko's Call Me Call Me, I decided to add the Condi Rice blogroll to the menu on the left side this morning. This is a young lady in a hurry, and since I know that she is running a covert campaign for President (see previous post, "44", below). What she is not doing is engaging in a

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1108384735237780812005-02-14T07:38:00.000-05:002005-02-14T08:26:32.710-05:00

Following in the footsteps of Kemal...Imagine my surprise when I found this floating around in the blogosphere, from the Rumor Department at Shape of Days:I wish I could remember where I heard this. I've been meaning to post it for a couple of weeks, and in the intervening time I've completely forgotten who told me about it. So file this one under rumors-comma-amusing.Everybody knows that the

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1107537320648376532005-02-04T13:07:00.000-05:002005-02-04T12:15:20.646-05:00

The Silent Partner of this blog, Fugstat, has strongly recommended a link to Bob DePree's blog, "Life". Bob is an old friend of Fugstat and represents a conservatism that is arrived at through rigorous analysis. I recommend it, as does Fugstat, and will place it on my blogroll to the left. Now if Fugstat would break himself away from his editorial job long enough to set up his own blog, I could

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1107436347281447592005-02-03T07:22:00.000-05:002005-02-03T08:12:27.280-05:00

Washington's rising star steps onto the world stage.It's been a long time back, but Condoleezza Rice's trip to Europe would appear to be the best start to renewing my blogging. There's an interesting analysis in the WaPo this morning by two of the paper's big hitters, Robin Wright and Glenn Kessler. The two reporters examine the European reaction to Rice, her ascent to power, and of greatest

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1106247365288290242005-01-20T13:54:00.000-05:002005-01-20T13:56:05.290-05:00

The computer is back online and I'm ready to start blogging agin'. A superb speech by Bush today at his Inaugural. BTW, an outstanding effort by Rice at her testimony, as well. Analysis later.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-71968787401188811642005-01-20T11:16:00.002-05:002009-04-13T23:18:08.221-05:00

The Major, that is.And she's ready to kick some liberal ass.As my system is back up and running, I thought I'd call the Major in off the beach. Too many Blue Hawaiians won't do this character any good. Meantime, congratulations to President Bush, Vice President Cheney, their families, and of course, Condi Rice, as they continue to guide our nation through perilous waters.

Marty Fugatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05077693961075517845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1103039992331881352004-12-14T10:57:00.000-05:002004-12-14T10:59:52.330-05:00

For the Next two Weeks... My base computer, and Apple iMac, has had some uncharacteristically MS compression problems. Rare for a Mac, but there you have it. The system needs to be cleaned and rebuilt. I should be back in time for Condi's confirmation hearings, and the beginnings of my book, Panzer Lehr, which I'll be musing about as I proceed. Until then, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1102511025430373232004-12-08T07:59:00.000-05:002004-12-08T08:03:45.430-05:00

...has a somewhat optimistic take on Iraq in this week's The New Republic Online. Worth the read. Sullivan believes that for all of the screwups, Bush's perseverence will pay off in the end.

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...of the Middle East's class clown, Yasir Arafat, has created an opening for a settlement. The leak in the past 24 hours out of the Egyptian press that the Israelis and the PA appear to be moving ahead quickly in the wake of Arafat's death appear to be a bit of bong smoking on the part of the Egyptian Foreign Office. Sharon's office has come out with a quick smackdown, but a rather soft one.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1101920701799375972004-12-01T13:01:00.000-05:002004-12-01T12:05:01.800-05:00

Before I continue my All Condi, All the Time essays, I should point out a link to a rather fascinating, revealing look at Condi Rice from the Left. Naturally, it speaks more about the writer, Professor Patricia J. Williams of Columbia University, as a representative of liberal black America than it does about Rice, but it is an interesting take nonetheless.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1101911372143645912004-12-01T09:25:00.000-05:002004-12-01T10:00:44.960-05:00

I haven't blogged up in almost a week. However, over the next couple of days, we'll be posting about the problems and possible approaches that will face the incoming Secretary of State. Until tonight then, back to reading Victor Davis Hanson's Carnage and Culture. Am doing research for a novel of World War II, Panzer Lehr. Between my research and the yearly rituals of Thanksgiving, I have been

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1101305361967764212004-11-24T08:11:00.000-05:002004-11-24T09:09:21.966-05:00

PART III: FIRST OFFICER Throughout the campaign year of 2004, President George W. Bush always believed that his turnout operation and the basic themes of his campaign (prosperity at home and victory abroad) would carry him to victory. It did; Bush won the greatest number of votes cast for any President in history, over 61 million (for his part, Senator John F. Kerry didn't do bad either; he

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1101133469174385922004-11-22T07:25:00.000-05:002004-11-22T09:24:29.173-05:00

II. THE WATCHER As mentioned in my earlier post, I suspect that President-elect George W. Bush conducted a series of consultations with his father as to the makeup of the cabinet. In December of 2000, Bush took a vacation down near Naples, Florida (the family owns an estate near Cape Coral, I believe) where he probably sat down with Bush the Elder and discussed pending appointments. I'm quite

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1101105609217311482004-11-22T01:38:00.000-05:002004-11-22T09:25:52.663-05:00

I. "THIS BLACK SLIP OF A GIRL..." The tut-tutting over at the New York Times about Condi Rice indicates that the MoDo Crowd believe that Dr. Rice is merely a Bush yes-woman, willing to believe anything that the Boss dictates, akin to Rudolf Hoess taking transcription from the future Fuhrer at Landsberg (one last tip o' the hat to the "Bush is Hitler" meme so gratuitously peddled by the Left in

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1100924960536907452004-11-19T23:25:00.000-05:002004-11-19T23:29:20.536-05:00

A lot of conservatives are up in arms about the liberals' agitprop campaign against her. They shouldn't be. Rice is a public figure, and she knows that this is par for the course. Dr. Rice is a big girl. She can take care of herself. She'll do fine, of course.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1100707080769311022004-11-17T10:26:00.000-05:002004-11-17T17:45:27.793-05:00

Porter Goss, late of the Florida delegation to the House of Representatives, is conducting a thoroughgoing blood purge at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Three top-level CIA bureaucrats have resigned since Goss took office in October, including deputy director John McGlaughlin and two division heads at Clandestine Services. This is a good thing. Why? Well, understand that Johnnie Jihad

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1100579511276085322004-11-15T22:22:00.000-05:002004-11-15T23:31:51.276-05:00

Colin Powell stepped down today. Word in Washington was that despite his willingness to serve in a second Bush term, he decided to pack it in. It has been a brutal four years for Powell. His defeats have been highlighted, while his victories have been muddled, at best. The press never forgave him for going to bat for Bush at the U.N. in March of 2003, and the sting of that has left its mark.

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This map over at GlobalSecurity.org provides the best layout of where our forces stand in Fallujah after three days of fighting. The Allied offensive kicked off Sunday evening from a line of departure along the railroad berm that runs along the north end of the city. Overall responsibility for the operation lay with the First Marine ("Guadalcanal") Division, with several units of First Cavalry

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Once again, Mr. Fugstat sends in a review; this time of Team America: World Police. As one might be aware from an earlier post, TA:WP was a huge favorite of mine, and an antidote to everything that poured out of the Left's cultural apparatus during the past election. As an aside, the movie works precisely because it is a riff on the old Thunderbirds puppet action/adventure series. Of course,

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1100046831998610372004-11-09T18:59:00.000-05:002004-11-09T19:33:52.000-05:00

Batou and Togusa ponder the case of the killer lovebots...You couldn't ask the anime industry for a better movie, at least outside of Hayao Miyazaki's shop. However, despite my admiration for this art form, I missed the screening when the film Innocence: Ghost in the Shell opened here in Fort Lauderdale. However, one who didn't miss this film was my silent partner in this blog, Mr. Fugstat. He

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...have begun. At last report, much of Western Fallujah was taken, along with two bridgeheads over the Euphrates. Updates and analysis as warranted.

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Fugstat, my silent partner in this enterprise and a Kerry voter, has laid down a challenge for me to outline the next four years. Apparently, before the war, I told him that it would go reasonably well, but did not foresee the insurgency or the missing WMD. Natch, he wants this down on paper so he can taunt me in four years, which is understandable. Over the next couple of days, I will look at

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George W. Bush has been reelected to the Presidency. While it is all over but the lawyering, Bush has 286 Electoral Votes to Senator John F. Kerry's 253. In an act of supreme gracelessness, Kerry chose not to concede the election. He did so because of a claim that Ohio's provisional ballots have yet to be counted. However, Bush closed out Ohio last night with a lead of 144,000 votes. Most Ohio

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MONTJOY: Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry, If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound, Before thy most assured overthrow; For certainly thou art so near the gulf, Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy, The Constable desires thee thou wilt mind Thy followers of repentance; that their souls May make a peaceful and a sweet retire From off these fields, where, wretches, their

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...to George W. Bush. I am detecting movement to the President in the last hours. Every blog and post on FR, as well as the happier postings over at the Kerry Spot are telling me that the inside numbers at BC04 are moving the President's way, and have been much of the weekend. When people in Red are banging out the word "Pennsylvania!" all over their keyboards, I start to feel real good.

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When the Amtracks crossed the line of departure as they approached Tarawa, Makin, or Saipan, that would be the cry among the officers: "Away all Boats!" Nothing about polls here, today. I believe that Bush is ahead anywhere from two to four points nationally. The spread will mean the difference between a razor thin Electoral Vote win or a landslide in the college. We will know early. I'm not

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I enjoyed the movie. It was Eddie Murphy's coming-out party, and it was a template for the Action/Comedy vehicle that would come to find its own niche in Eighties and Nineties filmmaking. And now, we are come to this. Forty-eight hours to the election. No links today, just my hunches. The prospect of a Kerry presidency frightens me. It will be interpreted by our Islamic Fascist opponents as a

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...is not voting for Michael Badnarik this year. Instead, she goes to the intellectual laundromat to give her reasons for endorsing George W. Bush for reelection. Read the whole thing, as always.

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...is that the bin Laden video is merely a gussied upappeal for an armistice. Money graph: It is important to notice what he has stopped saying in this speech. He has stopped talking about the restoration of the Global Caliphate. There is no more mention of the return of Andalusia. There is no more anticipation that Islam will sweep the world. He is no longer boasting that Americans run at the

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The Bin Laden Endorsement of John Kerry is producing nothing but headaches for the Massachussetts Senator, but great fun for bloggers. Bin Laden lit into Bush yesterday, using every talking point that Michael Moore had used in Farenheit 9/11, and then some. Here's this bon mot, which appears to come out of MoveOn.org's latest ad... "You astonish me. Despite the fact that we are into the fourth

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I will make a further comment on Bill Gertz's piece in the Washington Times later this evening. Suffice to say, it raises several possibilities that I will discuss at length. Bottom line: the key to the Saddam's missing weaponry may lie in the Kremlin, and with their special forces, the Spetznaz Troops.

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...sure as hell knows how to get out the vote. From the intrepid Zayed, owner of the Healing Iraq blog, comes a fine example of the Grand Ayatollah's GOTV effort for the January elections. Money graph: Sayyid Ahmed Al-Safi, a representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, reiterated during the Friday prayers sermon at Karbala the call of the Maji'iya for widespread participation and voting

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...and within 24 hours received the Fisking of his life from James Lileks at "The Bleat". Read it and weep. How come I can't write as good as this guy? Sullivan gets a sound rodgering. Read the whole thing.

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...from my favorite message board, FreeRepublic.com. About our stalwart allies, the French: Terrorism Alert in France Posted on 10/27/2004 12:32:27 AM EDT by maui_hawaii Terrorism Alert in France AP and UPI reported that the French Government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two higher levels in France are "surrender" and "

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It gets worse. I want this all to be over. The mania is tearing at the unity the republic needs to pursue this war. Part of this I blame on the President, of course. A more bipartisan approach to the war would have led to greater unity as we pursued various aspects of the campaign, but the craven desire for power among all things on the Left is the distinct memory I will take from this campaign

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...until der Tag. As usual, our good friend Ray Malone (a.k.a., the "Common Tator") hits a home run. If you look at where the two campaigns are going to spend the next week, you get an idea of whose internal polling looks promising and whose does not. Money graph: Bush is planning on spending 3/4 of his remaining campaign visits  in  states  Al Gore won. Kerry is doing much the same thing.

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...by Krauthammer. Charles Krauthammer has, like the rest of us, marveled at the fatuous assertions of John Kerry. Specifically, he has grave doubts as to Kerry's ability to get our "allies" to support our position in Iraq. But Krauthammer took a closer look at Kerry's speeches and those of his advisors. Kerry appears to have something in mind to trade for Arab and European support. Money

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Without question, bar none, this ad is the best buy of the year, by either side. It is very well produced, and stunningly effective in its own quiet way. Stepping out of my Republican shoes for a moment, it is the most persuasive propaganda I have seen in some time. "Ashley's Story" may go down in political history as the most well-conceived political commercial since the "Morning in America" ad

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Steven den Beste rises from the dead to offer his analysis of polling fraud by the Mainstream Media (MSM). This is definitely worth a read, as it tends to explain Kerry's "surge" and the lack of staying power of said "surge". The organ is definitely broken on this bandwagon. UPDATE: Gallup came out yesterday with Bush up 52%-44%. Now, anyone who is willing to buy into these numbers needs to

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For a whole host of reasons, the primary one being that Bush "gets" the stakes in the Grand War On Terror in his gut while Kerry fails to, Gregory Djerejian of The Belgravia Dispatch endorses George W. Bush for reelection. Read today's post from one of the blogosphere's consummate "realists". Which brings me to a new turn of the dial: how did a guy like Djerejian occupy the Scowcroftian/

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This movie is a must for any Republican. Jeneane Garafolo gets the top of her marionette head blown off while Michael Moore explodes in an orgy of suicide bombing. Country kitsch gets slammed, as well, but the real target is American liberals. This flick is the answer to Farenheit 9/11, and I recommend it to anyone above the age of, say, 16. There is a lot of cussin' in this film, especially the

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Hugh Hewitt has posited a question for his Weekend Symposium of bloggers. To wit: Weekend Symposium 3:  How deep a hole have John Kerry, Mary Beth Cahill and the Edwards dug for themselves?  How lasting the damage? The short answer from here at Section 9? Senator John F. Kerry killed any momentum he might have garnered from his performance in the first debate in Coral Gables. Now while that

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...the National Lampoon magazine did a spoof of American civics. One of the things they did was to give their version of the Greek source words for the English word, "democracy". According to the Lampoon, democracy is derived from two Greek words: demos-the people kraetens-cretins Literally, "the people are cretins". Anyhoo, it is in that spirit that I find that we get the kind of hip hop

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...the debates, that is. Thanks be to God, of course. My take is rather simple: Kerry won the first one, but not enough to pull ahead of Bush. This was proven by Kerry's inability to pull ahead at all in virtually all of the serious polls taken within a week after the first debate. The second debate went to Bush because he did "better than expected". The third debate also went to Bush, because

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...takes apart Matt Bai's homage to John Kerry's foreign policy doctrine in the New York Times Magazine. Read today's edition of The Belmont Club. Read the whole thing. The key to understanding Wretchard's analysis is to understand that John Kerry is offering America an old policy in new clothing. My take of Wretchard is that he believes that Kerry longs to return to the multilateralism of the

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The LAT has a story coming out in Monday's edition that states that the Administration is delaying the investment of Al Fallujah and Ar Ramadi until after the election. I believe that this story is disinformation, deliberately planted in the news media to throw off the jihadi high command to the timing and location of our upcoming offensive. The highway leading west out of Baghdad runs through

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Bush appears to be headed back to a four to six point lead. Earlier this week, as I mentioned below, Dick Cheney treated John Edwards like a man beating a rented mule. The Vice-President set the standard for his boss for second Presidential debate in St. Louis. The key tactical shift was to attack Senator John Kerry's Senate voting record with alacrity and precision. The attacks were critical

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...from Glenn Reynolds. He makes the case that the final report of the Iraq Survey Group has led to the collapse of Kerry's case against the war. It appears that the Massachusetts Senator is still in 1971, at least in his own mind. This column reinforces the difference that I see between the President and Senator Kerry. President Bush is actually fighting to win this war. Senator Kerry is

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...for not having posted over the last week. I spent so much time reading the news that I failed to comment on it. A short blurb on Cheney-Edwards. Dick Cheney beat John Edwards around that auditorium like a rented mule. Cheney sounded more authoritative and was in much greater command of his facts. Others disagree, but the consensus of the Conservative bloggers is that Cheney took Edwards'

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12652251908110616551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618942.post-1096644054160366192004-10-01T10:15:00.000-05:002004-10-01T10:20:54.160-05:00

...of the debate, in strategic terms, was W. I know; Kerry was more polished, and appeared to be in better command of the facts. The media will push the "Kerry Won" numbers as a meme over the next week. However, Kerry needed to score a rhetorical knockout over Bush and did not. The debate was, in that term, a draw. Bush wins all ties because he is ahead. Kerry will get a one to three point

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...in me can't but help to point to Christopher Hitchens' column in Slate today (hat tip: RealClearPolitics.com). Hitch makes the point that Limbaugh has been making all year-the Democrats, particularly the Kerry Campaign, are pining for bad news. Please read the whole thing. Meantime, as if to confirm their defeatist outlook, if one observes rather closely the DNC's latest ads, you'll notice

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I think not. I'll probably go in with some after-action analysis. However, the terrain going in has shifted to Bush. In both the CNN/Gallup/USAToday and the ABCNews/Washington Post poll, the President is substantially ahead of Senator Kerry. Kerry needed to close or draw even before Thursday night's debate. He has done neither.

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A very piss-poor welcome to Hurricane Jeanne. The hurricane is projected to strengthen to a Category 3 tropical cyclone before making landfall. A Category 3 means 111 mph and above in sustained wind speed. There is a possibility that as it passes over the Gulf Stream between the Bahamas and Florida it will strengthen to a Category 4 hurricane, with winds of 131 mph or more. However, that is not

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...to Art Green's blog, "Conservative Eyes". We're exchanging links.

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One of the things that fascinates me is the extent to which the Democratic nominee, Senator John Kerry, has chosen to talk down the military situation. He does this to engender a belief among Americans that the war is "lost" and is "another Vietnam". He does this deliberately, in the hopes that swing voters will lose faith in Bush's war leadership and vote him into office. It is a base and

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Al Anbar Governorate stretches from the western approaches to Baghdad to the Jordanian frontier. Al Anbar is Iraq's largest governorate, and stretches from the Syrian frontier in the north to the Saudi frontier in the south. It is mostly a vast expanse of inhospitable desert and scrubland, with most tillable land abutting the Euphrates River. In this rather sparse environment the war against

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From a Marine major at the MNF command headquarters in Baghdad, a positive assessment of where we stand. Read the whole damn thing. Add this to an AP story I saw in this morning's local fishwrapper, and I begin to be more confident in my belief that there is some serious ass-whuppin' coming on down. You heard it here first; we plan to take Fallujah in a surprise attack before the election.

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...on LTC Bill Burkett (USA-Ret), Democratic Party crank and Professional BushHitler hater. Read the whole thing. The Captain follows it up with a well-crafted screed here. As the chance of John Kerry winning this election begins to recede, you'll see more moonbattery from the press and the Democrats. This thing from Burkett is just the tip of the iceberg.

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No, not out of the Closet. Out with a poll showing Bush up by thirteen points. Two other polls, the Pew poll and the Harris poll, showed Bush and Kerry neck and neck. I am given to understand, however, that both of those polls were completed early in the week, while the Gallup organization had the advantage of not finishing their count until Wednesday. Gallup's poll may be reflecting a

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Which is why I can't post images right now. They're all stored on my account at that site. They promise a fix, probably by the weekend.

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In the 1920's and 30's, the German General Staff developed a theory of panzer operations that sought to apply tremendous mass and overwhelming force against a weak or unattended point in an enemy's line. Once the enemy's line broke, at that point, the panzertruppen would break through and run riot into the enemy's rear and flanks. That point in the line was called the Schwerpunkt. ____________

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Holy dogshit, folks. It appears that one of the pajama-clad bloggers from Wizbang point towards one Marty Heldt as the forger or peddler of forgeries. This individual is in fairly tight with Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). Harkin, you'll recall was out of the box like Jack himself when this story broke. Meantime, Tim Blair and Just One Minute appear to point to a disgruntled former TANG officer named Bill

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Dan Rather chose to stick by his story on last nights CBS Evening News. Best analysis that I've seen of his strawman defense can be found at Powerline, which has been all over this story since Buckhead broke it on Free Republic. In addition, the Kerry Spot at NRO has a superb Fisking of Dan's Defense. My take? Dan knows that he's going to retire soon. He can't go like this, so he's taking a

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The last episode of The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan's television masterwork is titled "Fall Out". In it, McGoohans character "John Drake" (known in the series as "Number Six") exposes the House of Cards that is "The Village" and finds that his entire imprisonment was a construct of his own personality. Let's just say that most "Prisoner" aficianados were dismayed with the ending and theorize that

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Stephen Hayes has an insta-article on the forged National Guard documents at The Weekly Standard site. Meantime, eager to twist the knife, ABC News looks ready to accept the Sixty Minutes II documents as forgeries. One LGF poster was watching an interchange between Jennings and Stephanopolous and they did not treat the forgery story with skepticism. Watch NBC and ABC in the coming days.

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...the guys over at Powerline were looking at the documents produced for CBS' Sixty Minutes II last night. The documents appeared to depict a selfish young officer who cared little for fulfilling his last year of duty to the Texas Air National Guard. Throughout the day, Powerline and other bloggers examined the four documents. The tipping point occured at midday when Charles over at Little Green

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He's become too damn predictable re: George Bush. His opposition to Bush's stance on the Federal Marriage Amendment has become the lodestar through which he views everything; even the war. I guess everyone has their First Principle. In the past, I thought that Andrew's was victory in this war. I guess I was wrong.

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...was a 140 mph killer hurricane some 36 hours ago. Thankfully, the Bahamas archipelago appears to have slowed it down enough for a nice wind shear to disrupt the storm. It is moving WNW at between 4 and 6 mph and retains winds of between 105 and 115 mph. Now, as to Bush's convention: a masterwork of anticipation and issue framing. I will comment in the next post, but the bottom line is that

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Okay, folks, I haven't touched this blog thing in two weeks, but since the campaign's getting interesting, I've decided to stop pulling an Andrew Sullivan and come off my hiatus. At least Andrew had the excuse of an August hiatus! By the way, what's with the little DemoDonkey on Andrew's masthead. I have resolved myself to the fact that Andrew will probably either sit out the election or vote

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(Hat tip: Instapundit) Well, I read it, and was amazed. Tacitus never fails to disappoint. Today, he peeled back John Kerry's onion on Iraq in this masterful post that parses a Kerry-Edwards interview into an admission that Kerry intends to turn Iraq into nothing less than a shameless bugout. Kerry will withdraw from Iraq anyway, no matter what the consequence. Therein lies the nub, and I

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