A graphic difference between McCain and Obama.

Second part

Cheering for one side in a war is cheering against the other side. No getting around that simple fact!

Barack Obama is not the Messiah; his new title is Master of the Obvious (MotO).  For example, there’s this little nugget of wisdom from Mr. MotO—wait for it—an American president can’t just snap his fingers and erase generations of religious and ethnic tensions in the Middle East.  How does the man sleep at night when he knowingly withheld this earth shattering information?  If we’d known about this, the whole Middle East thing would have been solved years ago.

And most interesting of all, Mr. MotO dropped a dime on Iran.  Did you know a nuclear armed Iran poses “a grave threat”?  I’m flabbergasted.  All this time I thought one of the world’s largest oil exporters really needed the nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.  How wrong was I?

No wonder the media worships the ground Mr. MotO walks on.  With pearls of wisdom like this, we’re in for a bright and glorious future under his leadership.

The Woodchuck roams through the literary venues selecting the most current and popular global offerings for the reader’s edification. Here is a choice selection, a favorite among the elite in the sandland tents and the DNC of the USA.

I wonder if Obama gets his subscription delivered at home or at the office?

Senator Chuck Hagel sounds more like a blame America first leftist than a Republican senator:

SPIEGEL: You are, then, an advocate of America relying more on soft power than on the military?

Hagel: That’s the way we will make progress. We have to use our economic and also our cultural strength. Trust is the crucial currency in international relations. We willfully diminished the value of this currency and we now have to rebuild it. Trust is more important than anything else. North Korea was a part of the Axis of Evil, but now the United States is using the instruments of diplomacy in the Six Party talks.

We “willfully diminished” the value of trust in dealing with nations like North Korea and Iran? Bill Clinton trusted the North Koreans, but they continued their uranium enrichment activities anyway.   Hear, see, and speak no evil is the coin of trustworthy international diplomacy after all.

Hagel certainly sounds like a man bucking for a job in the Obama administration. It’s depressing to see the country club Republicans throwing in the towel.  No wonder conservatives are abandoning the GOP.

Festivus poles or memorial poles

Who killed all those Iraqis? Hint: It wasn’t our troops.

For those of you who like to fudge words,

• Do you support the troops but not their fighting the war?
• Do you support firemen, but not their putting out fires.
• How about police support, as long as they don’t enforce any laws?
• How should we support Hitler, since he only killed 6M, instead of 20-25M as Stalin did?
• Do you support the UN’s goal of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia? Bill Clinton did, since he prevented the Serbs from ending that war to Serbian satisfaction.
• Do you support the Janjaweeds killing of unarmed persons in Darfur? Who will stop them? Not our army, according to the mushwit liberals here, our Armed Forces are terrorists.
• Do you think we should fight Iran?

For extra credit:

Sitting at the UV Mall food court with your latte one pleasant day, when suddenly a normal member of the Religion of Peace leaps up, starts beheading mothers and kids in a dervish fashion. With whom do you wish to be sitting, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or ME. Any 14 year old going on 37 can figure this one out.

I see no upset with my first post concerning the rotters that trashed the Noble farm. Or how the gun totin’ Woodchucks lived around there and never broke a window.

How hard should we slap the 17-year-old’s wrist for that “prank?” Should he get severe time out? Ripton used to be a standing joke about the hillwilliams living up hillside. What’s living up there now changes nothing

Yeah they’re Festivus poles although the original pole was steel. I cannot speak for other former military; this is one wardog who is renaming them.

Putting lipstick on a pig, changes nothing and produces an ugly pig.

Via JustOneMinute:

Let me see if I understand this - John Edwards and the Krugman Democrats want to negotiate with the Iranians and North Koreans but not the drug companies or health insurers.

Well, as long as we are clear who the bad guys are.

Speaking of Iran, it looks like they almost got more than they bargained for when provoking US Navy warships this weekend (HT: Gateway Pundit):

In what U.S. officials called a serious provocation, Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, threatening to explode the American vessels.

U.S. forces were on the verge of firing on the Iranian boats in the early Sunday incident, when the boats turned and moved away, a Pentagon official said. “It is the most serious provocation of this sort that we’ve seen yet,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.

White House spokesman Tony Fratto said: “We urge the Iranians to refrain from such provocative actions that could lead to a dangerous incident in the future.”

…There were no injuries but the official said there could have been, because the Iranian boats turned away “literally at the very moment that U.S. forces were preparing to open fire” in self defense.

The official said he didn’t have the precise transcript of communications that passed between the two forces, but said the Iranians radioed something like “we’re coming at you and you’ll explode in a couple minutes.”

We should have given them an express ticket to meet Allah.

Works as well in Iran as it did in Vermont.

Inflation Fuels Anger Toward

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A sharp rise in inflation has provoked fierce criticism of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad—not only from his reformist opponents, but also from senior conservatives who helped bring him to power but now say he is mismanaging the economy.

Ahmadinejad was elected in 2005 on a populist agenda promising to bring oil revenues to every family, eradicate poverty, improve living standards and tackle unemployment. Now he is being challenged for his failure to meet those promises. [snip]

Like all others walking this “feel good” path, nothing of the promises ever works out as projected. Taken from the Democrat playbook, there will be a pot for every chicken, good times for all and a joker in every deck. Most of the time that is the only card in the deck!

They have nothing to fear but fear itself, and in Iran, there is a surfeit of that on a per capita basis.

Mohsen Rezaei, the conservative former commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards, said the injection of huge amounts of liquidity was the main cause of increase in prices.

“The intention was to improve the economy but it backfired because the government ignored expert views,” he said.

Here’s a real economic maven; he got his degree at Sandhurts U. The Libs of every stink believe their own press releases.

Republicans probably don’t deserve another chance to run Congress after botching it so badly, but it looks like Democrats are determined to open the door for them:

The U.S. House voted along party lines Tuesday to send a resolution calling for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney to the House Judiciary Committee, where it likely won’t see daylight any time soon. 

The impeachment resolution, sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, an Ohio congressman, accuses Cheney of violating his pledge to protect the U.S. Constitution. It says that Cheney misled the public about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s regime, as well as by making threats against Iran “absent any real threat to the United States.”

They’re rejoicing at the Democratic Underground and the Daily Kos, but impeaching the vice president wasn’t a huge priority in most voters’ minds last November.  And they know this issue won’t move their mid 20ish approval ratings, which is why they voted to table it.   However, I do agree with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.:

“I am surprised that Republicans would treat an issue as important as the potential impeachment of a vice president of the United States as a petty political game,” he said. “It is beneath the dignity of this institution.”

Yes, it is a serious charge.  That’s why you should explain to the American people why you brought it and present your evidence.  But tabling it told every intelligent voter all they need to know about the substance behind these charges.

Kucinich Questions Bush’s Mental Health

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich questioned President Bush’s mental health in light of comments he made about a nuclear Iran precipitating World War III.

“I seriously believe we have to start asking questions about his mental health,” Kucinich, an Ohio congressman, said in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer’s editorial board on Tuesday. “There’s something wrong. He does not seem to understand his words have real impact.” [snip]

Count on Kucinich to demostrate his mental powers with a blast of idiocy. He opens his mouth and dumb falls out.

        Maybe you should have sent your Propeller Beanie!

Ex-President and still active dung beetle Jimmy Carter speaking about the Iranian hostage crisis to XM Radio’s Bob Edwards on October 10, 2007…..

“….I have a specific regret in not having one more helicopter when I wanted to rescue our hostages.  If I had had one more helicopter they would have been rescued.   I might have been re-elected President.”

Well, what would  YOU do?  Your books are platitudinous piles of remaindered crap.  Your only friends are found in the world’s thugocracies, in the leftist media and at the Democrat Party’s fire dances.

 You’re the model for all the social-climbing white trash political donkeys of the old, racist, anti-Semitic American South; for that species of spiritless, humorless, sewer-trout evangelicals normally found only in fiction.  Your pole-star is Revenge.  With your bulging, gelatinous eyes, your yellow Chicklet teeth and your blast-wound mouth, you’re the most physically repugnant figure in public life (next to Jack Murtha).       

You were elected President in a macabre accident of history, and launched the most luminous record of American humiliation, cosmic incompetence and  buffoonery in American history.  In a corner of your mental cell you approved speeches written for you by Chris Matthews.  You gawk and grin, shambling stooped and stupid in the company of dictators.    You were joined on the public stage by your wretched harridan of a wife, the silverware and china trademark inspector, Rosalyn.  So what do you do?  What DO you DO?  You go on XM Radio for an interview and say you “would not wanted to have changed anything” about your Presidency.

“….Carter…thinks that the Oval Office isn’t nearly as sweet a gig as his own humanitarian efforts at  The Carter Center.  After all, if he had  had that extra helicopter which would have rescued the hostages (wildly presuming, of course, that the Delta Force commanders were able to pull of a daring rescue of the more than 50 US citizens being held in Teheran) and thus help re-elect him President, Carter said, “in that case I probably wouldn’t have had The Carter Center, so in balance I would not want to have changed anything”.

Does this yammering fool have a clue about what’s going on in the world?

Pelosi and MoveOn have a somewhat quirky idea of statecraft, not what “Foggy Bottom” normally produces.

Earlier this year, the Senate passed a measure to brand Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization. Pelosi refuses to bring to the House floor any vote on that matter.

However,

now the House (Pelosi) decides to take a swipe at a NATO member over an occurrence 90 years ago, which will damage our standing with the Turks. More importantly, much of the war materiel we use in Iraq transits this country through Ircilik airbase.

What would possess her to be so anti-US?

Lets see; Iranian guards attack US troops, supply al-Qaeda with IED’s and terrorize their own country’s dissenters now. Turks acted naughty 90 years ago. I fail to see the connection.
Nevertheless, by her logic, in 2097, we’ll insult the Iranians.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio)…“no question that the suffering of the Armenian people some 90 years ago was extreme.” However, he added that those events “ought to be a subject for historians to sort out, not politicians here in Washington.”

“Bringing this bill to the floor may be the most irresponsible thing I’ve seen this new Congress do this year,” Boehner said.

Well, it is close; I’d have to deliberate for a while to be sure.

This editorial in the NY Sun seems to cover all the bases; only the diseased left thinks otherwise. Why? It ends with victory.

The Next Nobel

Vice President Gore is being mooted for the Nobel Peace Prize, but our nominee is General Petraeus. This is only a slight departure from our annual editorial calling for the Norwegians to award the prize to GI Joe. We’ve been advancing that idea ever since reading about it in an essay by Neil Kressel, a professor in New Jersey. It has seemed to us that the American GI is the greatest force for peace in the world today, and we say that without the slightest bit of irony. GI Joe and GI Jane always go overseas for reasons not of conquest but of liberation, to secure the hope of democracy, and always with the intent of returning home. [snip]

It is true that General Petraeus doesn’t seem to hate President Bush, which in recent years has seemed to be one of the pre-requisites for winning the prize. [snip]

No, General Petraeus is just trying to save the nation of Iraq from the competing death cults of fanatical Shiism and fanatical Sunnism. [snip]

Lest we sound cynical about the prize itself, let us just say that we recognize it has had many magnificent recipients, from Theodore Roosevelt and Menachem Begin and Henry Kissinger and Elie Wiesel to the founder of the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, the Iranian human rights lawyer, Shirin Ebadi, and the Burmese freedom fighter, Aung San Suu Kyi. General Petraeus’s accomplishments are in the tradition of George C. Marshall, Lech Walesa, and Andrei Sakharov. These men did not seek peace at any price or without any cost. They took enormous personal risks. They stood on principle. They understood that true peace is earned in victory.

All across Iran many faithful houris came to try out for the last opening on the Paradise Virgin Team. Many called, few were chosen in the Fortuitous Festival. Devotees of martyrdom had their last chance to vote for their choice of eternal doxies by detonating their pants.

Here Fatima showed her licentious agility, after which she was brought back to vertical by a front end loader.

  Next a puff piece in Vanity Fair, a marriage proposal from Rosie and            a  turn on the catwalk doing “I’m Too Sexy For My Rat”!  

Baghdad -  Radical Shi-ite eye-candy “Mookie Borgnine” Moqtada Al Sadr is seeking a truce among rival Shi-ite militia  elements in Iraq.  Sadr, whose urban stronghold, nicknamed Sadr City, was an open sewer of despair, feces, disease and sadism until American forces cleaned it up,  declared a cease-fire with all his enemies in August.  

He’s now playing the odds of survival with his chief Shi’a rival Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim,  head of The Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq  (do they have a convention in Atlanta each year?)  who has replaced Sadr as the go-to toga with the Maliki government.  For anyone not already bored comatose by the intrigue, jostling and other doings of these Qu’ran thumping simians, check the details at BBC Online for October 7th. 

Probably the pertinent fact for the Shi’a in Iraq is that they represent a majority only in Iraq, Iran and a couple other tiny regional sand boxes.  Worldwide they’re 15% of Muslims, and it’s safe to say that Sunnis and their fanatical factions hate them more than they hate the world of Donald Trump, Huge Hefner and Steve Winn.  Strangely, their conception of the afterlife could have been designed by either of the aforementioned, but that’s another subject entirely.