Comments on: If you missed it, here’s Obama’s 30-minute ad

By: echo4charlie

echo4charlie — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:16:13 +0000

Thanks for the warning, PeterGunn.

For all of our safety, we’ll keep our distance while you undergo your forecast Head Explosion Syndrome, and the flying bone head chunks have cleared.

That was really a humanitarian thing to do, put all of our safety first.

Thank you.

By: PeterGunn

PeterGunn — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:14:08 +0000

Warning-Warning-Warning-Warning

A certain contributor (?) here
(And Everywhere Else)
is currently exhibiting classic signs of Head Explosion Syndrome or H.E.S

Many scientist have proposed the thought that the most sure and reliable method for predicting Head Explosion Syndrome, (HES), Is an Avalanche of Words type posting.

A blubbering babbling torrent of nonsensical rhetoric which by all accounts simply consist of
The, “Sky is Falling“ ,
The, “ Oh My God , We’re all going to die”,

The, Whimpering, Whining, feeling sorry for yourself standard type Head Explosions .

Steer Clear, Flying Bone Head chunks could cause serious injury or Death

(Yea, Even without the presence of any gray matter)

By: Pat Cunningham

Pat Cunningham — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:03:24 +0000

Mike: OK, I’ll give the Duke a rest. But what about the myth about the settling of the West, which does have something to do with what Henninger was writing?

By: Mike Carroll

Mike Carroll — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:55:33 +0000

Pat-Is it possible for you to go a week without bringing up John Wayne? Your focus on him is beginning to seem a bit, well, strange.He has absolutely no connection to anything that Henninger was writing about but , if you can’t dispute it, I suppose it is just easier to try to change the topic.
BTW, as far as myths are concerned, a comprehensive study from Baylor University “What Americans Really Believe”,found that the less religious and more secular one is the more likely one is to believe in the paranormal and pseudoscience.
Let me know when you find Bigfoot.

By: bannernews

bannernews — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:21:14 +0000

Charlie:

That’s exactly the problem. He didn’t learn. What did he learn from the 93 bombing of the Trade Center. What did he learn about the enemy, their tactics, their imagination, their suicidal devotion. What did he prepare for? Did he know who the enemy was? Hopefully he now understands.

What does the War in Irag have to do with trying to bring Osama and the Sunni terrorist of Saudi Arabia into range of our snipers.
We’re draining off blood and treasure beating up a bunch of Shia thugs. What will we really win?

Our war needs to be fought like the Mossad took care of its problem after Munich. Not by charging all over the world for all the wrong reasons blowing holes in the sand. That is where McCain is wrong. His thinking is for the wrong enemy and the wrong war.

By: echo4charlie

echo4charlie — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:53:02 +0000

Yes, that George Tenet. The one who learned, as we all did, the hard way. That experience was a great teacher, indeed. Wish it never happened, but, since it did, let’s not make the same mistake again.

By: Pat Cunningham

Pat Cunningham — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:49:29 +0000

Mike Carroll: Henninger’s essay in the WSJ is silly, mainly because it’s based on historical myths. The guy has seen too many movies. He seems to buy the fiction that the American West was settled by rugged individualists who disdained government interference and wanted only to practice unfettered capitalism. It’s all poppycock. The truth is that the West was settled by people who depended upon government at virtually every turn — welfare recipients, as it were. It was share-the-wealth government that made settlement of the West possible as a result of massive land purchases and giveaways, the Homestead Act, the Pony Express, agricultural colleges, rural electrification, taxpayer-subsidized railroads, telephone wiring, road-building, irrigation, dam-building, farm subsidies, and farm foreclosure loans. And let’s not forget the role of the federal government in screwing the Indians for the benefit of the white settlers.

Henninger’s laudatory mention of Ronald Reagan is especially fitting — a Hollywood creature who rose to fame by role-playing in a make-believe world. It’s all of a piece with the point I’ve made here before about Republican worship of John Wayne, the make-believe war hero and make-believe cowboy. Republicans love myths, which is why so many of them disdain science. Generally, they’re more likely to embrace creationism over evolution and more likely to dismiss global warming as part of an un-American plot hatched by wimps and tree-hugging hippies.
I’m betting that Henninger drives a big tricked-out SUV, which comes in handy if ever has to do any rugged off-road motoring on his way to the office or the mall. A man’s gotta be a man. He’s gotta be a rugged individualist and hates it when anybody points out that he, too, depends on government for his economic survival.

By: Milton Waddams

Milton Waddams — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:37:07 +0000

Might want to leave well enough alone with Khalidi there Dingdong… your boy gave him $450k in 1998. Here’s a link .

By: bannernews

bannernews — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:52:38 +0000

George Tenet, George Tenet? You mean the man in charge at the CIA before - during and after 9/11.

You mean “SLAM DUNK ‘ Tenet.

The guy who couldn’t find his ass with both hands Tenet.

He’s reliable all of a sudden.

Just out in time for Halloween. Boogey Man II

By: echo4charlie

echo4charlie — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:43:29 +0000

That was a great article, Mike.