couple o' things
...cuz I'm gone tomorrow and today's a busy day.
The Texans come to town this weekend. Am I nervous about the Jaguars laying another egg? Sure I am. It always seems to happen with the Texans, and the reasons aren't consistent. It's just a fact. David Carr looks like David Carr when he plays anybody else. Against the Jaguars he finds his Peyton Manning personna. Against everyone else our defense looks like the 85 Bears (OK, maybe a bit of an exaggeration). Against the Texans, it's their offense looking like it's led by Kurt Warner against our defense looking like pop warner.
Talked to the liberal over the cubicle wall today. He, of course, is doing the happy dance and cites fiscal irresponsibility as the main reason the Republicans lost. He seems to think because we don't balance the budget anymore, voters went Democrat because they did that. Bull hockey! The simple fact is, if you want to fight a credible war against terror, it's going to cost more than giving Monica her Presidential kneepads. War doesn't come cheap. His response was Clinton tried to fight terror. He lobbed a few cruise missles into Afganistan, but people accused him of taking attention away from his personal problems. Two responses. First, who gives a shit what people accuse him of? If it's the right thing to do, you do it regardless of speculation about your hidden agenda. Second, a volley of cruise missles isn't a credible strike at terror. Its style without substance, a Clinton trademark. Bottom line (in my opinion, of course) is people voted against the war in Iraq because for whatever reason, we as a people don't have the stomach for what it takes to address the threats to freedom. The cost is painful. The Democrats offered us opium, and we started smoking. The desire to do what feels good has replaced the desire to do what's right.
I'll admit Bush has a pretty clumsy and strong armed way of doing what's right, and that makes it difficult to stay with him. Not only that, he's annoyingly smug about it, so it's easy to dislike him personally. There has to be a better way to take care of Iraq, help those people govern themselves in peace and leave. We have to finish what we started first though and not just abandon them. That in my mind, is the only way out. Get them to the point where they don't need training wheels anymore and have a realistic chance to live in peace, and then leave them to it. You don't see it on the NBC Nightly News, but that's what the vast majority of them want. I've talked to people who have been there and that's the underlying theme with all of them. If we leave before that, the video of that exit is going to be a terrorist recruiting infomercial.
The upside of that is the global warming issue will be solved. The downside is it'll be because we'll be (doing my best dubya), living in nuc-u-lar winter.
The Texans come to town this weekend. Am I nervous about the Jaguars laying another egg? Sure I am. It always seems to happen with the Texans, and the reasons aren't consistent. It's just a fact. David Carr looks like David Carr when he plays anybody else. Against the Jaguars he finds his Peyton Manning personna. Against everyone else our defense looks like the 85 Bears (OK, maybe a bit of an exaggeration). Against the Texans, it's their offense looking like it's led by Kurt Warner against our defense looking like pop warner.
Talked to the liberal over the cubicle wall today. He, of course, is doing the happy dance and cites fiscal irresponsibility as the main reason the Republicans lost. He seems to think because we don't balance the budget anymore, voters went Democrat because they did that. Bull hockey! The simple fact is, if you want to fight a credible war against terror, it's going to cost more than giving Monica her Presidential kneepads. War doesn't come cheap. His response was Clinton tried to fight terror. He lobbed a few cruise missles into Afganistan, but people accused him of taking attention away from his personal problems. Two responses. First, who gives a shit what people accuse him of? If it's the right thing to do, you do it regardless of speculation about your hidden agenda. Second, a volley of cruise missles isn't a credible strike at terror. Its style without substance, a Clinton trademark. Bottom line (in my opinion, of course) is people voted against the war in Iraq because for whatever reason, we as a people don't have the stomach for what it takes to address the threats to freedom. The cost is painful. The Democrats offered us opium, and we started smoking. The desire to do what feels good has replaced the desire to do what's right.
I'll admit Bush has a pretty clumsy and strong armed way of doing what's right, and that makes it difficult to stay with him. Not only that, he's annoyingly smug about it, so it's easy to dislike him personally. There has to be a better way to take care of Iraq, help those people govern themselves in peace and leave. We have to finish what we started first though and not just abandon them. That in my mind, is the only way out. Get them to the point where they don't need training wheels anymore and have a realistic chance to live in peace, and then leave them to it. You don't see it on the NBC Nightly News, but that's what the vast majority of them want. I've talked to people who have been there and that's the underlying theme with all of them. If we leave before that, the video of that exit is going to be a terrorist recruiting infomercial.
The upside of that is the global warming issue will be solved. The downside is it'll be because we'll be (doing my best dubya), living in nuc-u-lar winter.
John put this out here at 11:47 AM
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