The EU's Rival

So Europe is superior to us. That's what they claim. They always snub their nose at us and claim to be doing the morally superior thing and oppose our actions. Many leftists seem to buy this shit too and whenever you state the obvious that European countries oppose us on things simply for the sake of opposing America they usually reply that it's a good thing they do because the hegemonic imperialist giant (the U.S.) needs to be put in her place.

Does logic reside anywhere?

Well, Ilka Schroeder, a German member of the EU parliament, gave a speech recently that spelled it out.

"The Europeans supported the Palestinian Authority with the aim of becoming its main sponsor, and through this, challenge the U.S. and present themselves as the future global power. Therefore, the Al-Aksa Intifada should be understood as a proxy war between Europe and the United States."

Tell me this isn't one of the most disgusting, revolting, and utterly outrageous things you've ever heard. What if Rummy gave a speech at Harvard and said that the US was always opposing the EU to keep them behind us on the world stage. Tell me there wouldn't be international outrage.

EUies would be shitting their "protests" all over the EU parliament floor.

Anyway, the EU supports the PLO for the purpose of pushing herself ahead of the United States as the global super power. Is this morally superior? To be morally superior you have to support an organization with terrorist ties that repeatedly attack their neighbor and kill innocent civilians for the sole sake of one-upping your "rival"?

Look, the EU will never be a global power over America. It just won't happen. I could get into that lengthy discussion but it should be obvious. The important thing to remember is that every time the EU or European countries oppose us it is not for noble reasons as the loony left would have you think.

Of course, if you're at this site, then I'm probably preaching to the choir.

Merry Christmas

Occasionally one can get fed up with the Christmas Spirit. With the endless mobs of holiday shoppers, the insane drivers around shopping areas, and coming within three inches of falling from a ladder and breaking your neck while hanging lights on the house all in the name of The Spirit, you can find yourself quickly having enough.

But when the day comes and you get to sit by in a robe and slippers during the opening of presents you realize it's all worth it.

All in the name of one Arab Jew (whose name escapes me) who was born two thousand years ago. Heh heh.

Merry Christmas everyone. Get off the net and enjoy the day, no matter who you are or where you happen to be. Today is a day of celebration for Christians, atheists, and agnostics alike.

Orange Christmas

So now we?re moving surface-to-air missiles around Washington and using jet fighters to patrol the skies over major US cities this holiday. It?s an orange Christmas and it makes me sick. Do you really think it?s possible to defend every inch of US soil from terrorist attacks with fighter jets, missiles launchers and the best military in the world? No, we can?t. Not if the attack has already been planned and set into motion. Three terrorists could pop up at your local shopping mall with .50 cal machine guns and start mowing people down. They could load a U-Haul with C4 and drive it into a bus station. They could also strap on an explosive belt and walk through the front doors of a school and level a portion of the next generation of Americans.

Once they?ve been trained, financed, equipped and have slipped into our country we are already in deep shit. If they move on major landmarks, public buildings or major cities, we could have a good shot at bringing them down. But how is the Department of Homeland Defense going to even have a prayer at stopping a guy with a fake driver?s license, a rental car and 1,000 rounds of ammunition from walking into an elementary school in the middle of Kansas?

That?s the price of being a free country. In a police state, it would be much, much harder for anyone (especially a foreign born) to move anywhere with anything illegal. In such a case the police would hop all over anything that looked even slightly suspicious and arrest and detain at will. But our society is so free that this helps terrorists move about, plan, and execute operations. If we want our society to remain free, we have to move before they hit our shores.

Because, you see, terrorism, and more specifically Radical Islam, is a disease, a virus, a sickness that plagues parts of the world and spreads when left unchecked and untreated. Much like cancer it eats away at everything freedom lovers have worked so hard to build over the centuries. It erodes and kills without remorse, without pity. Men, women, and children are all the same as long as they?re dead to these people. They cannot be bartered with, they cannot be negotiated with and they will not stop unless they?re all dead or we are reduced to rabble third-world nation.

So what do we do?

The obvious.

We fight back with extreme prejudice. We go to the source of the problem and kill it. We rip out the heart of the beast and burn the remains. We fight, but we also take the fight to them instead of waiting for another smoldering pile of rubble with thousands of dead Americans beneath before we act.

We are doing that now, but more work must be done. We must not stop, we must not retreat, we must not relent until every last person who means to destroy us has flies dancing on their eyeballs.

Don?t make me go through the whole song and dance about how this does not apply to moderate or liberal Muslims and innocent Mid-East civilians. If you infer from this piece that I want all Muslims dead than you?re an ass who?s politicizing a major threat and you need to take a long look in the mirror and think about what we?re discussing and the severity of the situation.

What will next Christmas be? Orange again? Red? Yellow? Either way I will still be disgusted. I don?t want my child growing up with any kind of color code system. I don?t want to be old and sitting around the Christmas tree telling the grandchildren about stories of Christmas past and have to start out with ?Well, I remember it was orange that year??

I want to make this color code thingy to be remembered only in history books as quickly as possible.

Merry Christmas, folks.

The Neo-Male

On November 5 of this year Kim duToit posted an essay entitled The Pussification of the Western Male. He hit the nail on the head. I had been feeling the same thing for a long ass time and yet he summed it up concisely almost as if he took his argument, wrapped it up tight, and fired the mother-fucker like a missile straight at your head. If you?re a male and the piece angered you then thank you for proving his point, you brain washed asshat.

What got me thinking about this again was this commercial they?ve been running lately on TV for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. In the commercial this broad is driving around in a car talking about how great and convenient this service is. Then she pulls into her driveway and says it?s great for any car or truck you may need and the car morphs into a truck full of paint, lumber and everything else. Then she grabs a can of paint and hands it to her husband (who is mostly hidden from the camera) and in a perky voice says ?Your honey-do list just got a little bit longer. Sorry!?

Every time I see that commercial I want to smack that bitch through the windshield. I would never actually do it, of course, because I?m a man and a real man doesn?t hit women. But the anger is still there. Why? Because it?s sickening and degrading. My wife would never say anything to me like that. And no, she?s not ?trained? or anything, she?s just respectful. If she needs or wants something done she asks me with the understanding that I?m doing something else (even if it is watching football or tuning the bow) and I?ll get to it when I can. There?s no fucking ?honey-do? list in my home and if I ever found one it would be on the burn pile before I could get done laughing.

But the commercial, like Kim said about the Cheerios commercial in his essay, proves what has happened to the American male. We used to be frontiersmen, the bread bringers, the authority. Now we are cartoons, furballs, clueless forms of life who could never possibly make it through life without a proper women to keep him in the right direction. Today politicians have to talk about being ?metro-sexuals? to be deemed acceptable. Today we have to be in touch with our ?feminine side.?

Blow me.

In case anyone missed it, I married and live with a female. That is my feminine side.

What?s happening, I think, is that people are forgetting one simple basic thing; men and women are different. We are, I?m not lying. I?m not implying that one is superior to the other. Us men are just different from women. Men?s brains are programmed one way and women?s brains another. But, like I said, people forget this and so there is the constant push to try and make everyone equal and agreeable. Of course this means men of today have to become more understanding, more in touch, more emotional (meaning more attractive) and in the process become a chick with a penis that society would have grinded to a pulp and spit out a hundred, nay, fifty years ago.

I?m tired of it. I hate it. It?s demoralizing and it?s pathetic to think that a chick with a dick who likes poodles is going to show me how to be a better man. I?m sick of it always being the man?s fault. I?m sick of being told I?m irrelevant. I?m tired of being called a Neanderthal just because I like a whole rack of ribs with extra BBQ while I smoke my pack of Lucky Strike non-filters and drink Budweiser during the Bears game in my leather recliner. I enjoy it, and it ain?t anybody?s damn business.

To me being a man means responsibility. I have a responsibility to be good to my wife and child and see that they?re feed and taken care off. This means working a job and bringing home the money, handling the finances, installing morals in my son while taking care of any potential threat that could come to my household. This does not mean that my wife submits her responsibility entirely to me. She?s accountable for herself and she has an equal responsibility in raising the child. But she doesn?t own me and I don?t own her. We respect each other, just as it should be.

You see, this has something to do with all the anti-Bush sentiment out there. The responsibility of the Commander-in-Chief is to protect the United States from all threats. Bush saw a threat to the country he loves and is sworn to protect. He called them out and when he was told he could do nothing about by other people, he did it anyway because it was his responsibility.

That?s what these bleeding-heart liberal metro-sexuals just can?t fucking understand; that man, a real man from Texas, would do the job he swore to do no matter what. Even if it cost him his career, he would still have had the balls to blow the UN and the EU off and do his duty. That?s what a man does with responsibility, he gets it done.

To draw from two essays from two superb writers one can draw an excellent point. Bill Whittle wrote in his essay Responsibility that as time has gone by the state has taken more and more responsibility from everyday people and we have submitted to this. Kim, in is own way, mentioned that we live in a mommy state. These are both true and are connected. But I believe that not only has our government become mom, it has become the overbearing mother, and this can?t be liked by anyone, man or woman. Our government is a mother that forcefully takes as much money as it wants from us for our own good because we are incapable of doing it ourselves. Our government continually makes more and more laws and restrictions for our own good because we can?t be trusted with cigarettes, guns and everything else considered dangerous. This always makes me think of the movie Demolition Man were monitors on the walls issue tickets with fines for even swearing.

My, how sad it could become.

This is way conservatives like smaller government; we want mommy off our fuckin? backs.

I?ve watched the pussification happen in the realm of country music as well. There was a time when real country musicians like Johnny Cash, Haggard, and Willie Nelson made music that was true. Now Nashville has become so PC and manufactured that it?s disgusting. It got so bad that when a true country artist like Toby Keith came along from Oklahoma, his record company told him they liked the album he recorded but would only release it when he sung a few more love songs someone else wrote to be on the album. Toby gave them the finger, the record company released him from his contract and so he went to another label and released his album the way he recorded it and it turned out to his biggest seller. Then he came out with ?The Angry American (Courtesy of the Red, White an Blue) and Nashville, the PC filter of country music, went ballistic because Toby represented everything the industry had tried to but down over the last few decades. God forbid a country artist love America and sing about bars, women, and fast cars and pickup trucks and riding down evil doers. Toby Keith is a real man and a real country singer and it?s about damn time.

Garth Brooks, is was just as manufactured for an audience as Britney Spears, needed to go through an identity crisis to decide it was time to cheat on his wife again. Pathetic.




When did the self-confident male go out of style? When did it become necessary for a human male to confer with a women or a focus group on every fucking decision in he life? When did it become fashionable for a male to read a self-help book to reassure himself of what he was doing? Whenever the hell it happened, I must have missed it and I have yet to give a fuck.

I?m 24 and more of man and more of an old fashioned man that half the fuckheads I meet on a regular basis. I take my wife out to dinner and a movie, we go hiking in the hills, I open the door, I treat her parents to dinner. But I also hunt, drink, swear, smoke, and scratch my balls through life. I walk with a swagger and people think I?m arrogant. That?s fine. Ones enemies always misconstrue self-confidence for arrogance.

So America?s becoming pussized. What do you want me to do about it? When the males of a herd become weaker, all that means is that the true dominate alpha-males rise to the top, and that?s what will happen. I can?t change the state of the American male in anyway other than by living my life the way a man does, with fatty beef stew and cigars. If you want to join in, I?m all game. If not, enjoy your Lifetime TV and Bravo; I?ll be in the sticks with my Beagle and a shotgun.

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Pragmatic Conservatism with "Bush, Saddam, and Howard Dean"

Go forth, ye dwellers. Become enlightened.

Essay

The next essay is finished, for the most part. It is now in what I call the "fermenting stage". Basically I finish an essay, tuck it away for twenty-four hours, then come back and reread to look for changes I want to make before I post it.

That being said, it will be posted tomorrow (after the Bears game, of course).

Good point

From John Derbyshire over at The Corner

So let's see: 3/4 of the way through his first administration, George W. Bush has put two dictators out of business and, without firing a shot, persuaded a third to dismantle his WMD. And the Democrats' case against administration foreign policy is... what, again?

Kabul, Baghdad, Tripoli. On to Pyongyang and Tehran!

Bring 'em on.

UPDATE: Kathryn Jean Lopez also posted this at The Corner:

NYT: BUSH WAS RIGHT!! I would have posted this earlier, but I fainted:

"Over the past five years, by turning over two suspects for trial, acknowledging its complicity in the Lockerbie bombing and paying compensation to victims' families, Libya finally managed to persuade the United Nations Security Council to lift the international sanctions that had shadowed its economy and its international reputation for more than a decade. Those sanctions were lifted in September. This page recommended lifting American sanctions as well, but President Bush left them in place pending further steps, most notably Libya's decision to end its unconventional weapons programs. It is now clear that he was right to do so. The added American pressure worked just as intended."

The NYT admitting Bush was right on anything??

The BBC is so Lib, dude

When I read the news piece at Drudge entitled "BBC bosses have banned reporters from calling tyrant Saddam Hussein a former dictator..." I had a short moment of joy as I figured maybe the BBC took the e-mail I sent them into account and were now calling Saddam Hussein "That worthless pile of ass-crust."

But then I remembered that this was the BBC, so my joy pulled a 180 and knew right away that this story was going to be some load of crap.

Guess what? I was right...on the latter, of course.

Instead, staff must refer to the barbaric mass murderer as ?the deposed former President?.

*rolls eyes* *grabs stomach* *waits through dry heaves*

The astonishing edict was seized on by MPs last night as more proof of a Left-wing bias inside the BBC against the Iraqi war.

Or so they say. Mr. Franken had assured me on many occasions that there is no media bias. So that settles that.

Labour MP Kevan Jones, of the Commons Defence Select Committee, said: ?This shows the crass naivety of the BBC. Such political correctness will be deeply hurtful to many of our servicemen serving in Iraq.

?It amply demonstrates elements of the BBC have got a clearly anti-war and anti-Government agenda.?

Come on, Jonesy, libs don't care about the troops, but they support 'em, so don't question their patriotism!!

Labour MP Ann Clwyd, who chairs the Indict group which has dossiers on the crimes of Saddam, his sons and henchmen, was astounded at the BBC?s stance.

She said: ?It?s frankly ridiculous. Saddam Hussein is a despot, a murderer and a torturer. He will have to answer charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.?

Hey, lady, we're going to try Bush for that stuff too! Now pass the Kool-Aid and the doobie, will ya?

Tory Party chairman Liam Fox also slammed the Beeb ? which was accused during the war of giving too much weight to Iraqi propaganda. He said: ?To afford this level of politeness to a tyrant, torturer and murderer is deeply offensive to the Iraqi people.

?It is also an insult to the Coalition forces who have sacrificed so much to liberate Iraq from the evil of Saddam.?

*exhales* Good blunt, dude, oh wait...where was I? Oh yeah; colonization isn't liberation, man. Get with it.

The BBC said the email spelling out the instruction was sent to reporters on its online website, which serves a global audience.

A spokeswoman said: ?This was reiterating existing guidelines to remind BBC News Online journalists of the need to use neutral language.?

LMFAO!!! *falls on floor, flops with laughter, gets back up* That was great! I didn't know BBC had a comedy spokesperson.

Later she said the ban on calling Saddam a dictator did not apply to domestic services.

But a BBC insider said: ?This is our daftest order ever.?

Does "daftest" translate in American to "FUBAR"?

al-Qaeda doesn't like us

Al-Qaeda's new tape is out. Of course, Bin Laden isn't on it, only his lieutenant (How many lieutenants does he have anyway? We keep catching 'em and then he has a new one. "And now, a word from my new lieutenant, Ali Al-waterboy...") who declares all kind of Kool-Aid induced bullshit.

For example:

"How can we excuse you after all the warnings that we gave you? You reap what you sow,"

Well, if I recall, that's exactly what we said to Saddam, and yet you're STILL taking his side. You're so partisan it makes me wanna puke.

"Countries that helped the US attack Muslims should be ready for judgment day."

Or if not judgment day, how about new reconstruction contracts to boost the economy? Which one seems more likely?

"Two years after Tora Bora [the battle], we are still, as we had been, with the blessings of God, pursuing the Americans and their allies everywhere and, in fact, in their own backyard..."

Hey, we aren't the ones shitting purple twinkies hiding in caves and rat holes, you worthless pill of dog vomit.

"Two years after Tora Bora, the American bloodshed started to increase in Iraq, and the Americans have become unable to defend themselves or even defend their big criminals such as Wolfowitz..."

I wish I could show this guy a PowerPoint presentation with all kinds of cool graphs and explain to him the kill-to-death ratios of Americans vs. terrorists. Even if you threw in 9/11, the number is so lop-sided it's really laughable. Also, let us remind you that Wolfowitz, Bush, Rumsfeld, and Bremer are all still very much alive after hanging out in your "backyard", thank yous very much.

"Those renegades who offered the Americans military bases and support to kill Muslims should prepare for the day of settling scores because the Americans are ready to flee."

This guy's right! Now that we got Saddam we're more than ready to run like a Taliban fighter who....wait, nevermind. BTW, Al-whatever, we're not out to kill Muslims, we're out to kill people like YOU! So kindly show yourself and let us discuss this man-to-man like.

What do you say?

Hinckley

Do I need to mention how insane this shit is?

I should hope not. But it appears as though one Clinton appointed judge disagrees and thinks it's a good idea. Why not let John W. Hinckley Jr. leave prison without supervision? Sounds like a plan.

I mean, it's not like the guy tried to shoot a president of the United States or anything.

Oh wait, he did. In an attempt to please a Hollywood liberal, nonetheless.

How does this make sense? In my own mind this sonofabitch needs to be taken out back and beaten to a pulp before he does life imprisonment in Siberia without shoes. But at the very least, he should get life in prison without any chance of parole.

Hell, as much as I hated William Jefferson I would be 100% behind the same punishment for anyone who made an attempt to take him out. You just don't try and kill the Commander-in-Chief without serious consequences. I don't care if well-meaning shrinks think this guy is okay in the noggin, you just don't let a guy like this out again, EVER!

What kind of message does that send? What if John Wilkes Booth had failed and he was let out of prison twenty-one years later? What if Lee Harvey Oswald (for argument's sake pretend he's guilty) had missed Kennedy and was turned loose in the eighties?

It just shouldn't happen. Part of punishment is deterrence, people. Now let's send a message to that nutbar in his basement with an infatuation with Susan Sarandon that he can try and take out Dubya and get unsupervised trips out of prison in due time, provided he acts nuts.

Wow. I'm glad common sense won the day.

Special Announcement

Blogging is an extension of oneself. That cannot be denied. All of us who blog use it as our way of expressing ourselves, our views and as our punching bag to get stuff off our chests. We don?t do it for money, we don?t do it for fame, we do it because we love it.

When I began blogging in February last year over at the Yankee Herald, I had an aim; to express my personal take on the ongoing events as well as express my basic conservative principles.

Over time I lost part of that aim.

Granted, I continued to cover events and talk about conservatism, but I don?t feel as though I?m being totally honest with myself. Whenever I?ve written something I?ve always tried to frame it in a way that was more professional and PC than the way I would normally say it if I were speaking frankly to a friend. Yes, I have been pretty frank in some of my language, but the message I?ve conveyed hasn?t truly been from my heart. My slowly decline in readership reflects that, although I don?t blog for hits, it is a good measure as to whether your voice is intriguing or not.

I?m a Midwest farmboy who has a family, a dead-end job and a college degree I?m working on. My views need to come from that person, the real James, not some blog personality I subconsciously created over the past year.

I?ve decided to change that today.

For some of you who DO read this site regularly, you may or may not notice a real change. But for me, it?s something major. I just feel as though it's time to get back to me and to what I am as an American.

I hope I haven?t come off as fake lately; but from rereading some of my stuff here recently that?s the feeling I got.

Thanks to all of you for sticking around. I sincerely hope that my stuff is more interesting and much more honest from here on out.

Fisking...

Secretary-General Annan rejects any trial that could lead to Saddam's execution

UNITED NATIONS (AP) The top U.N. diplomat said Monday he could not support bringing captured Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein before a tribunal that might sentence him to death.

''The U.N. does not support death penalty. In all the courts we have set up (U.N. officials) have not included death penalty,'' Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a brief encounter with reporters at the United Nations.

''And so as secretary-general and the U.N. as an organization are not going to turn around and support a death penalty,'' Annan said.

Fuck you!

Time to turn out the lights...

Mrs. duToit is calling it quits. This is too bad because I'm a regular reader of her site and she always engaged in great conversations with me whenever I bothered her.

She's one of the good ones.

You will be missed, Connie.

Partisanship, anyone?

Howard Dean:

Though Dean has repeatedly criticized Bush for failing to win international support for the Iraq war, for instance, in June 1998 he defended Clinton's bombing of Iraq by arguing on the Canadian program, "I don't think we could have built an international coalition to invade or have a substantial bombing of Saddam."

During another 1998 appearance on the show, "The Editors," Dean said it was not worth trying to woo French support on foreign policy initiatives. "The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy," he said.

What? You mean he has disdain for the French? But they're the morality-o-meter upon which we should judge ourselves by. This guy can't be a liberal! And being *gasp* unilateral??? Who is this guy? Where's Howard Dean??

Oh, wait, it's cool and all when Clinton launches a few hundred missles at an asprin factory, but God forbid a GOP prez do it.

Blow me, asshole.

Shoot Around

A U.S./Israeli company has a new gun that can shoot around corners. Kim duToit probably wouldn't like it, seeming as how he's into the classical arms and stuff. I'm also into some of the classics, but I just love innovation in the fire arms industry.

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Anti-antiwar with The Iraq War Will Be a Sucsess because I concur.

Inmate Saddam

The Butcher of Baghdad has been nabbed by coalition forces!!!

BAGHDAD, Iraq ? Without firing a single shot, U.S. forces captured Saddam Hussein as he hid in the bottom of a hole in a home near Tikrit, officials announced Sunday at a Baghdad press conference. "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him," L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, announced.

"The tyrant is a prisoner," Bremer said.

The former Iraqi dictator was captured Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in a cellar in the town of Adwar, 10 miles from Tikrit, ending one of the most intense manhunts in history.

Officials showed a videotape of Saddam, the most-wanted figure by the U.S.-led coalition, as he was being inspected following his capture. He had a long black-and-gray beard and unkempt black hair. Journalists were then shown a video of Saddam after he was shaved.

Iraqi journalists in the audience stood, pointed and shouted "Death to Saddam!" and "Down with Saddam!"

In the capital, radio stations played celebratory music, residents fired small arms in the air in celebration, and others drove through the streets, shouting, "They got Saddam! They got Saddam!"

President Bush learned Saturday afternoon that Saddam might have been seized, and he got the news early Sunday that the military had confirmed that the ex-dictator was in custody. Bush had issued no comment early Sunday morning.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair hailed the capture, saying Saddam "has gone from power, he won't be coming back."

"Where his rule meant terror and division and brutality, let his capture bring about unity, reconciliation and peace between all the people of Iraq," Blair told reporters at his 10 Downing St. office.

About 600 U.S. troops took part in Operation Red Dawn, said Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top American general in Iraq. Two other Iraqis were captured along with Saddam, who was found with $750,000 in U.S. currency, Sanchez said.

The operation began after the military received tips from local residents as well as unspecified intelligence, Sanchez said. About 90 minutes after receiving the intelligence, the military launched the raid.

Troops with Task Force 2, the special forces unit set up to go after Saddam, surrounded a farmhouse and looked for the ex-dictator in two specific locations -- dubbed Wolverine One and Wolverine Two -- but initially did not locate him.

The search of the home continued and troops discovered a small hole in the ground. They found Saddam in the hole, which dropped about 6 feet into the ground. An exhaust fan had been installed, indicating the so-called spider hole was an emergency hiding spot.

Sanchez said he had no idea how long Saddam had been at the home in Adwar and could not say if anyone had stepped forward to claim the multi-million dollar reward for his capture.

"Today is a great day for Iraq and the Iraqi people," Sanchez said.

Asked about Saddam's state at the time of his capture, Sanchez said: "He was a tired man, also a man resigned to his fate."

Saddam is talkative and is being cooperative, the general said. He is being held at an undisclosed location.

A delegation of the Iraqi Governing Council hopes to visit Saddam in captivity later Sunday, a spokesman for the council said.

"With the arrest of Saddam, the source financing terrorists has been destroyed and terrorist attacks will come to an end. Now we can establish a durable stability and security in Iraq," said council member Jalal Talabani.

In Baghdad, residents fired small arms in the air in celebration, and gunfire echoed in neighborhoods across the city. Earlier in the day, rumors of the capture sent people streaming into the streets of Kirkuk, a northern Iraqi city, firing guns in the air in celebration.

"We are celebrating like it's a wedding," said Kirkuk resident Mustapha Sheriff. "We are finally rid of that criminal."

"This is the joy of a lifetime," said Ali Al-Bashiri, another resident. "I am speaking on behalf of all the people that suffered under his rule."

Once again my gratidtude and sincere thanks goes to our men in uniform and our friends in arms helping to protect freedom. You have made us all proud!

Capitalism rules

I don't remember where I got this; I know it was from another blog. I saw it, laughed my ass off, saved the image and then ran out the door to post it later with the appropriate link. Now I have no idea where it came from. If anyone knows, please tell me.

I like it!

The Axis of Weasels being shut out on reconstruction contracts in Iraq? Is that against international law?

To which Bush said: "International law? I better call my lawyer;"

I like it. The diplomatic equivalent of saying "Fuck you!"

And the beat rolls on...

I'm here folks!

Just finished up my American Lit class and only have the final to be done with it. Spent the past couple days at home getting Chritsmas stuff up around the house, playing with the son, tuning the bow, and popping off a few rounds out of my Springfield .30-06 for fun.

Back to seriousness today, though. That essay I thought I'd have up on Monday will be up over the weekend. What can I say, I was so pissed after my beloved Bears blew it to the Packers on Sunday that I haven't been able focus since. Or maybe I'm just lazy?