On The Road

I’ll be visiting family in Mexico for the next four weeks. Doubtful I’ll have the time or internet connection for blogging.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and all that other stuff.

You don’t need to read the Iraq Surrender Group report

All you need is to listen to the Sargent.

We cannot appease our enemies and we cannot continue to cut and run when the going gets tough. As it stands in the world right now our enemies view America as a country full of queasy people who are inclined to cut and run when things take a turn for the worse. Just as the Tet Offensive was the victory that led to our failure in Vietnam our victories in Iraq now are leading to our failure in the Middle East. How many more times must we fight to fail? I feel like all of my efforts (30 months of deployment time) and the efforts of all my brothers in arms are all for naught. I thought old people were supposed to be more patient than a 24 year old but apparently I have more patience for our victory to unfold in Iraq than 99.9 percent of Americans. Iraq isn’t fast food-you can’t have what you want and have it now. To completely change a country for the first time in it’s entire history takes time, and when I say time I don’t mean 4 years.

Talking doesn’t solve anything with a crazed people, bullets do and we need to be given a chance to work our military magic. Like I told a reporter buddy of mine: War sucks but a world run by Islamofacists sucks more.

At Least They Aren’t “Cheese Eaters”

The NY Post nails it.

Why would they want to do that?

Investigations indicate that the (non) Flying Imams deliberately acted like terrorists.

Huh.

Why indeed?

Let’s Say Thanks

Xerox is doing something really great. Stop by the Let’s Say Thanks web site and send a thank-you card to a random soldier.

It only takes a minute.

Taxi Shennanigans

Remember the Muslim cab drivers who don’t want to carry passengers who have alcohol with them? Turns out they’re mostly Somali, and that Somalis generally have no problem carrying such passengers. So who minds? The Muslim Brotherhood, for one, although they try to hide the fact that they’re behind it.

Omar Jamal, director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center, thinks he knows why the society is promoting a “no-alcohol-carry” agenda with no basis in Somali culture. “MAS is an Arab group; we Somalis are African, not Arabs,” he said. “MAS wants to polarize the world, create two camps. I think they are trying to hijack the Somali community for their Middle East agenda. They look for issues they can capitalize on, like religion, to rally the community around. The majority of Somalis oppose this, but they are vulnerable because of their social and economic situation.”

Associated (With Terrorists) Press

Jules Crittenden has a good point.

When a company defrauds its customers, or delivers shoddy goods, the customers sooner or later are going to take their business elsewhere. But if that company has a virtual monopoly, and offers something its customers must have, they may have no choice but to keep taking it.
That’s when the customers, en masse, need to raise a stink. That’s when someone else with the resources needs to seriously consider whether the time is ripe to compete.
The Associated Press is embroiled in a scandal. Conservative bloggers, the new media watchdogs, lifted a rock at the AP.

Curt at Floppingaces, www.floppingaces2.blogspot.com, led the charge. He thought there was something strange about an AP report, and took a second look at it, then a third look. He and others blew the lid off it. The AP is making up war crimes. But the resulting stink in the blogosphere has barely wrinkled a nose in the mainstream press. The ethics-obsessed Poynter Institute seems to be oblivious to it.

Read the whole thing.

Note: The URL in the article is to the backup blog. Flopping Aces is here.

Flying – make that Faking – Imams

Pajamas Media has the police report up.

“It was almost as if they were intentionally trying to get kicked off the flight,” Pauline said.

Gee, ya think?