Simple Question

Really, it's very simple...

When has a cease fire ever really worked?

I don't have a lot of time. Football season has started for my son so I leave the house at 6:00 am and don't get home until after 8:00, hence, my lack of posting lately. I do apologize for slacking but hey, I'm a dad first.

But would somebody please tell me when a cease fire has actually worked? All these calls for a cease fire between the Hezbos and Israel, and someone please tell me, what good will it do?

Work with me here for a second. We had a cease fire in the Korean War, but how has that turned out? North Korea can't feed themselves, they live in absolute poverty, and their head of state is a lunatic with nuclear capabilities. Sure, South Korea is doing fairly well. But have you ever been to the beach in South Korea? No, you haven't. You know why? Because it is filled with landmines just in case North Korea decides to conduct an amphibious assault. So, while there has been no actual fighting so to speak, you still don't have peace.

UPDATE: Korean Soldiers Exchange Fire Along Border Talk about strange. Last night as I was writing this post, North Korean soldiers took a couple of shots across the DMZ at some South Korean troops and the South Koreans fired back. No official word from North Korea as to what prompted the shots. Further proving my point that while there is a cease fire agreement between North and South Korea, tensions are still very high and there is no real peace.

How about all of the other cease fires between Israel and Palestine? How have they turned out? Not so good huh? Over the past 50 years of Israel's history, how many conflicts have there been? Always one more than the number of cease fires...

Here's a big one that nobody talks about and I can't believe I've not heard one political pundit mention this one. With my busy schedule, perhaps I've missed it, but how about the cease fire agreement with Saddam Hussein? What did that last? 12 years and a gazillion U.N. Resolutions? All that time and all those resolutions and what happened? He continued to defy the U.N. as well as the U.S. and we had to go kick his ass again. If we had done it right the first time and not bowed to the U.N.'s mandate of a "peaceful resolution," we would be out of there by now and Iraq would be going into their 15th year of freedom. Think about how the current war on terror would be now had we outted Hussein with overwhelming force 15 years ago.

What about the U.S. pulling out of Somalia like we did under President Clinton? We go in with our pants down, get a few soldiers killed and turn tail and run because Clinton is afraid of a Political Nightmare. This cowardice has been cited by bin Laden on several occasions as the reason he believes we are a paper tiger. This is what motivated him to carry out terrorist attacks against the U.S. including the 9/11 attacks. He believed and still believes the U.S. doesn't have the stomach for a serious conflict. And when I hear certain liberals in this country talk, they just prove him right. But wasn't pulling out of Somalia just another form of a cease fire?

These cease fires I've listed are all different forms of cease fires. And along with that, they are all different forms of appeasement. We appeased the bad guys by letting them remain in power and it always comes back to haunt us. Every single time. The French tried to appease Hitler and we all know how that turned out.

We have appeased North Korea and how's that going? Remember Jimmy Carter getting a Nobel Peace prize for his "agreed framework." You know, the deal that Carter and Maddy Albright made with North Korea that gave them food, medicine, and nuclear technology as long as they promised not to build nuclear weapons. How's that appeasement going? Not so good? Hmm...

The U.S. lead coalition, by direction of the U.N. allowed Hussein to remain in power and he laughed in their faces for over 12 years. It was made a little easier for him after paying many of them a lot of bribe money via Oil for Food, but hey why should we talk about that? A great deal of world leaders selling their vote on the security council? No, don't talk about that...

By the way, how are things going in Somalia? Somalia has been without an effective central government since 1991 and the warlords running the country basically turned on each other, carved much of the country into armed camps that are ruled by violence. And now Islamic fanatics are taking over much of the government. That's right boys and girls, al Qaida has a new home. So, not finishing the job there has really paid off. Don't ya think?

And still the U.N., and even we in the U.S., think a cease fire is the solution to the current Israel and Hezbo conflict. For the love of God people. Wake up. The Hezbos aren't interested in negotiating or any actual concessions. They have but one goal and that is to obliterate Israel. So, unless the U.N. wants to get rid of Israel, they really have nothing to offer the Hezbos that will make them stop.

Get it through your heads. Complete world domination is the goal of these Islamo Fascists. They will not stop until they are dead. Wake up for crying out loud. To hell with a cease fire. Un-leash the Iraeli army and let them take out the Hezbos once and for all.

Always remember this: The only true path to peace is through undeniable and overwhelming victory. Kind of like when we accepted the UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER of the Japanese. Have we lived in peace with Japan for 60 years? Yes. Have our two countries flourished since that surrender? Yes. Are we worried about the Japanese breaking out some Kamikaze pilots and attacking us again? No.

Victory works every time it's tried. So, really, all I am saying, is give victory a chance...

Scared Women Seek Security From an Inflatable Man

How on earth have we as a species survived this long when there are people this stupid...

"Buddy on Demand" is a blow-up man designed to make women driving alone feel more safe. Pull him out of your glove box, flip the switch, and women can now "feel" safer when driving alone. I put "feel" in quotes there to make a point I will get to in just a moment.

From the story:

"According to research by the inflatable friend's creator, insurer Sheilas' Wheels, 82 percent of women feel safer with someone sitting in the car beside them and nearly a half don't like driving alone in the dark."

82% Of women "feel" safer when someone else is in the car with them. Hmm, could that be because when you have a real person in the car with you, you are actually safer? Safety in numbers? Ever heard of it?

I'm sorry, but feeling safe and being safe are two completely different things. I just don't see how any semi-intelligent human being can even "feel" safer when they have an inflatable man sitting next to them in the car, while driving down a scary urban street in the middle of the night. See, I don't want my wife to just "feel" safe, I want her to be safe. Big difference.

I don't want Mother Goose to have a false sense of security if she's driving home late at night. I want her to have a real sense of security. What good does "Buddy on Demand" do you when a very bad man with a gun approaches your car at a stop light in the middle of the night? Not much. Because the very bad man with the gun is not going to be afraid of your inflatable Buddy.

Do you want your women to be safe? Buy them a gun and teach them to use it. Teach her some useful self defense techniques. By her a can of pepper spray. This passive aggressive approach to make us "feel" safe when were not, is really quite dangerous. Kind of like that idiot Billy Banks and his Tae Bo videos. I've watched those commercials and heard the testimonials from women who say "because of Tae Bo, I feel safe walking down the street."

You may feel safe lady, but doing an aerobic exercise where you throw punches doesn't qualify you as being able to actually throw a punch when you need to. Sure, you feel safer, but are you? I don't think so.

I'm telling you what people, we as a people had better stop focusing so much on our feelings and concentrate more on reality. This pop-psyche culture we've slipped into where everyone has a therapist and is getting in touch with their feelings is making us a nation of wussies. Forget feelings. Focus on reality.

CNN Reporter Admits: Hezbo's 'Had Control' of His Anti-Isreal Piece

A CNN Reporter allowed his report to be controlled by terrorists? There's a shock...

NewsBusters is out there combatting Liberal Media Bias, and I'm glad for it. No need for me to elaborate, the piece speaks for itself...

Read it Here

A New Friend to the Nightmare

I need more friends like this...

Bandit.Three.Six is what he goes by and he reports from the International Zone (a.k.a. Green Zone) in Baghdad. I don't know how he finds the time to write as I'm sure he's a little busy. But I gotta tell you, you need to add this guy to your favorites. Or you can just get to him via Friends of the Nightmare. Check him out often, because it is great reading.

Rock on Bandit...

Interesting Analogy

At least, I think so...

During my commute yesterday morning, listening to Quinn and Rose, America's Morning Show, a lady called in with an interesting analogy for the Middle East and Isreal and I think it's worth sharing.

"Imagine living in Rhode Island, and the rest of the United States and Canada want to blow Rhode Island off of the face of the earth and kill all Rhode Islanders."

Now, if you're on the side of Hezbollah and think Isreal is to blame here, imagine you're from Rhode Island and the rest of the U.S. and Canada wanting to kill you and all of your fellow Rhode Islanders and are taking steps to do exactly that. Think about it from that point of view and let me know if it changes you're perspective a little bit...

Newt Says 'This is World War Three'

And we need to listen to him...

OK, back in the 90's, I was a huge Newt Gingrich supporter. I read his book, "To Renew America" and I was convinced this is not only one of the smartest political minds of our time, but someone that has the right ideas to move the country forward. A few years later, his personal failures really ticked me off and I was off the Newt bandwagon. But I gotta tell you, he is still one of the smartest political minds and as far as conservatism goes, he has the answers. I'm not willing to endorse him for President at this point as speculation of a Newt campaign is growing, but I will listen when he speaks. And he has spoken.

From NewsMax.com, "World War III has begun, and the nation’s leadership is failing to deal with this reality."

Our leadership is failing us? I'm shocked...

This is where politics really pisses me off. If you ask me, it's practically 1938 all over again. There is real evil in this world and it is alive and well. And so many of us keep sticking our heads back into the sand hoping the problem will just go away. And we're sticking our head in the sand because war is inevitably unpopular. So many of our leaders in Congress do not want to face the cold hard reality that we are dealing with an enemy that wants to destroy America. They want to keep their heads in the sand, have talks with these people and find a solution to our differences. The difference thatseparatee us prevent their side from finding common ground. Their religious beliefs forbid it. Why can't we see that?

According to Newt:

Gingrich explained that "today is not the fifth day of the war, it's the 58th year of the effort by those who want to destroy Israel. As Ahmadinejad, the head of Iran, says, he wants to defeat the Americans and eliminate Israel from the face of the earth. So we should not see this event in isolation. There is an . . . Iran/Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas alliance trying to destroy Israel."

"The Israelis withdrew from Gaza to create the circumstance of peace. The Israelis withdrew from south Lebanon to create the circumstance of peace," Gingrich continued. "They now have a thousand missiles fired from Gaza, they've had hundreds of missiles fired from south Lebanon. You clearly have Iranian involvement. There are at least 400 Iranian guards in south Lebanon. Apparently it was an Iranian missile fired by Iranians which hit an Israeli warship yesterday. The United States should be saying to Syria and Iran, 'South Lebanon is going to be cleared out. We are for Israel and the Lebanese government breaking the back of Hezbollah, getting rid of all 10,000 to 13,000 missiles, and we will decisively stop any effort by Syria and Iran to intervene.'"

You need to read the entire article, but I want to make sure you read this part. Gingrich said:

"I believe if you take all the countries I just listed, that you've been covering, put them on a map, look at all the different connectivity, you'd have to say to yourself this is, in fact, World War III."

Iranian Hezbollah has stated they welcome war with the United States. I say, we give them what they want. I say bomb the shit out of them and get it over with. The longer we wait, the more we attempt to appease, the stronger they grow. I'm sure, in 1938, some were saying we should take out Hitler. Too bad the world didn't know then what we know now. Appeasing people that want you dead serves no purpose. It only makes you appear weak. And weakness in the eyes of your enemy only serves as motivation for your enemy. We stand strong, we win. It's that simple.

Greetings from North Myrtle Beach

Life is good...

I gotta tell ya, until you sit on a warm beach, sucking down cold margaritas, you just haven't lived. Mother Goose and I brought our two kids and two of their friends down here to Little River South Carolina, home of the World Famous Blue Crab Festival. This was their first trip to the ocean and they absolutely love it. We're staying in a condo that sits right on the Inter-Coastal Water way and we're about a 7 minute drive from the beach. It's amazing how good life can be when you're away from work, politics and the daily grind.

I'm sitting on the rear patio now, hijacking somebody's unsecure wireless connection and checking out the thunderstorms back home on the radar. Poor bastards... I'm enjoying a nice glass of wine, and we're heading down to the beach tonight for what promises to be a very bright moon over the Atlantic ocean.

For those of you on the left coast, I feel bad for you. The difference in water temperature here compared to out there is unbelievable. The water here is cool enough to be refreshing, but warm enough to stay in it for hours on end.

Well, I must go now, my glass is empty and I'm doing everything I can to avoid logging on to Fox News to see what Political Nightmares may be occuring while I'm away. Enjoy your work week. Oh, by the way, the crab legs here are fantastic! The shrimp isn't bad either. If you get the chance, get down here because life is better when you're on the beach...

Here's a pic of the view from our patio and the moon tonight. Yeah, life is good...

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Documents Support Saddam-Taliban Connection

Here that? That the democrats falling on their faces...

Fox News is reporting, Former CIA directed Iraq Survey Group Ray Robison has examined efforts by Hussein "to build and hide WMD, and has supervised a group of linguists to analyze, archive and exploit documents and materials of Saddam's regime." Link

From another story on Fox News, a document "captured in Iraq but never before seen by the public, offers glimmers of new insight at the Pentagon's Foreign Military Studies Office website."

Link to that website. There is some interesting info there.

From the story:

This particular document mentions two men with similar names, each with ties to Pakistani religious schools known as madrassas, Jihad training camps, the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

This original translation by my translator-colleague, who goes by the nom de guerre of "Sammi," comes from a notebook kept by an Iraqi intelligence agent. It provides evidence of a cooperative, operational relationship agreed to at the highest levels of the Iraqi government and the Taliban. The notebook is lengthy and we will present it on the FOX News Web site in a series of postings. It deals extensively with meetings between Maulana Fazlur Rahman, an Al Qaeda/Taliban supporter, and Taha Yassin Ramadan, the former vice president of Iraq, and other unnamed Iraqi officials.

I think I just heard Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore, John Kerry, and Howard Dean screaming...

Yo Mr. President, Happy Birthday

Allow me to explain, the 'Yo'...

Back in November of 2004, the morning after the election, I posted the pick below in celebration and recognition of his huge victory, despite having the hell beat out of him by the liberal media, Michael, the Schmore, Moore, and the Dems. Little did I know at that time, there's more to that picture than most might know. The President, and the man that image is modled after, of course I mean Rocky Balboa himself, Mr. Sylvester Stallone were born on the same day, in the same year, 1946. Congratulations to you both on reaching 60. Sad to say, you're both in better shape than I am.

Happy Birthday Sly and W.

Until Then

This is powerful stuff...

Click the Pic to be taken to a powerful video tribute to our Men and Women in uniform.

Stay safe, and God Bless...

230 Years of Independence, and Counting

May God grant us another 230...

230 Years ago, 56 men came together declared to the world that there are some truths that are self-evident. "That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Shakespeare himself would have been impressed with those words.

In signing the Declaration of Independenceee, those 56 men decided to risk everything they had for an idea. An idea that was considered to be treason. Think about that. I know, these days we throw that word around as a means of political discourse, but this was real life, in your face, I'm willing to die for it, treason. They held illegal meetings, conspired against a king, and then did not hide from these facts. They essentially confessed to these crimes in writing, in pursuit of something bigger than themselves.

And for that declaration, many of those 56 Patriots paid dearly. Many were captured or killed during the Revolution. Many lost their estates. Two of them lost sons to the War. And while two of the signers would later become President, and others would be Senators and Governors, they all felt the price paid by so many to give the People the right to govern themselves. They knew this going in and had the courage to carry on.

And I thank God for that courage. The courage they had then, and the courage our men and women in the Armed Forces have today. We have more fortune, more freedoms, more opportunity than in any other country in the world and courage is the reason why. It takes courage to lay your life on the line for our country. Some in our country just don't get that. I believe it was General George Patton that said "Freedom has a taste, and for those who fought for it, the taste is so sweet, the protected will never know it." Think about that today while you eat your hamburgers and hotdogs. Think about that when you watch the fireworks tonight. Remember the men and women that are protecting us. Remember those that are willing to spendthis Independenceee Day in a far off land, away from their families. Enjoy your families and remember what this day is all about.

God Bless You, and God Bless the U.S.A.!

A Joke For You

Two Arabs boarded a flight out of London. One took a window seat and the other sat next to him in the middle seat. Just before takeoff, a Marine sat down in the aisle seat. After takeoff, the Marine kicked his shoes off, wiggled his toes and was settling in when the Arab in the window seat said, "I need to get up and get a coke."

"Don't get up," said the Marine, "I'm in the aisle seat, I'll get it for you."

As soon as he left, one of the Arabs picked up the Marines shoe and spat in it. When the Marine returned with the coke, the other Arab said, "That looks good, I'd really like one, too." Again, the Marine obligingly went to fetch it. While he was gone the other Arab picked up the Marines other shoe and spat in it.

When the Marine returned, they all sat back and enjoyed the flight. As the plane was landing, the Marine slipped his feet into his shoes and knew immediately what had happened.

"Why does it have to be this way?" he asked. "How long must this go on, this fighting between our nations? This hatred? This animosity? This spitting in shoes and pissing in cokes?"