Thursday, June 21, 2007

Loony-Left

If you're looking for a good laugh check out thinkprogress.org. It's an interesting look at inner-workings of the nutty liberal mind.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

I don't understand.

Call me old fashioned but I don't understand how the Senate has the ability to vote, sorry attempt to vote for "no-confidence" in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Eight attorneys were fired, legally. There is nothing to be found proving this was illegal. Was it political? Obviously, but that doesn't matter. No laws were broken so how can there be a problem with that. Why is it the Demoroncrats think that their $#!t don't stink? They do the same thing too when they're in power.
In essence they are doing it right now, trying to use party politics and the power they have to make their opponents lose face and power.
Honestly what's the difference? It's like fighting terrorists with terrorist tactics, it does more damage than it does good. People see right through the BS and are more upset with the schoolyard bully tactics that are being used in order to obtain revenge than with the original "offense"(for lack of a better word).
If you are going to go after a power position in the other party, fine, but don't use the same tactics you are accusing the other party of using.
It's not really a difficult concept to understand, but I guess the Democrats don't give a lot of thought to this sort of stuff, after all it wouldn't the first time.

Monday, June 4, 2007

More positioning by Iran.

While you may or may not think Israels war with Lebanon last year was justified, one thing is for certain, not much has changed.
Now let me explain why Iranian President Ahmadinejad is saying things like "With God's help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine" and "By God's will, we will witness the destruction of this regime in the near future."

Simply put, he's saying these things because the support he gains for himself at home outwieghs the offense the free world will take to these remarks. By saying these things, as well as the idea that America is waiting for the right moment to strike Iran, he can make himself appear to be the great defender and hero of Islam. If Ahmadinejad claims the United States and Israel are planning to invade Iran, and they don't, it will appear as though he scared them off. If the United States and Israel do attack(although most likely to prevent nuclear arms proliferation), Ahmadinejad will be justified in his remarks, even if he overexagerates or provokes the attack himself.

It is almost a joke for Ahmadinejad to say "Leabanon and Palestine", as though they are the same people. The Lebanese aren't currently engaging the Palestinians in Tripoli right now for nothing. The Lebanese do not like the Palestinians any more than Iran or any other Middle-Eastern nation. If anybody in the mid-east truly liked the Palestinians they would take them into their own nation, instead of leaving them as displaced refugees living in scattered refugee camps. Problem is if they did that they would no longer have the convenience of the excuse that Israel is keeping the Palestinians from having someplace to call home. And this is all on top of the fact that Iran doesn't care for Lebanon either, see when Ahmadinejad refers to "Lebanon" he is not refering to the actual nation of Lebanon, no, he actually is talking about the Iranian backed terror group Hizbollah which is based in Lebanon.

At best Ahmadinejad is simply trying to deflect interest from the fighting in Tripoli and fool the poor citizens of his nation that "everything is fine, there's nothing to worry about, Israel and the United States are our enemies." As someone who wants to destroy Israel and lead his country into superpowerdom, he must maintain the apperance that everything is fine.
Contrary to popular belief not everyone in Iran is, well let's just say "bad". There are a lot of people who realize the government is full of B.S., unfortunately they are outnumbered by the government(40% percent of the population is government employed). The government also controls the money, and in a poor country that goes a long way. The clerics who run Iran think that the best to way to run a country, for their own self-interest, use corruption and coercion just as much as politicians here in the United States use special interests and speeches. Another unfortunate result is that the religion of Islam is degraded worldwide, because of the perception that if the leaders are this bad so must be the people who support them, whether they are legitimately supported or not.

The effect is that the average Iranian is forced to accept what happens, for fear of their lives and the lives of their families. However as 2000 years of history has regularly proven people who are routinely viciously abused in an illigitimate fashion will eventually rid themselves of their slavelike domination to achieve their freedom.