The Day After

Well! Sen Obama gave his speech today and as some writers put it , it was delivered in an Elmer Gantry-like , messianic way. It did not seem to go to the nub of the "problem.," though. Very convincing. It must be nice to be granted free air time to campaign over the elite and not-so-elite media. Who could ask for more than the coverage he got? And poor John McCain and Cheney are in Iraq.
I just finished watching the MNF-I Pentagon channel podcast and our troops are building more good faith in the Middle East than all of our supposed statesmen. No, they do not want us to stay, nor do they want us to leave precipitously.
I like the idea that our men and women are building bridges between religious beliefs, different ethnicities and being the people that are called upon for help if needed. Meanwhile, they are going from shop to shop and offering mini-grants to variouses, up tp $2,500, for neeeded equipment and things to get shopkeepers back on their feet. This is not someone who is after their oil, but is after their liberty.
Too bad the NYTimes doesn't ever get a reporter there or print the facts when they do.
It's time for a dose of Dennis Prager who always makes sense.
Tom

The Times Does It Again!

A week or so the NYTimes published an article slamming John McCain. It was a clever job of damning with faint praise and contained at least 56 distinct errors or implications without proof. There's a really good article detailing these.
For instance, theey list accomplishments, followed by ...but..indicating they were not real. There are at least 20 instances of statements made without attribution, i.e. "anonymous sources."
The Times has become the standard for sloppy , unjournalistic reporting, ala Jason Blair who wrote stories for them from his home, making it up as he went along. But he was a minority hire you may say. So what? Four editors were fired and they had to print an 11-page retraction/story about hime.
It seems "Punch" Sulzberber doesn't have his father's abilities, but has a very special agenda. It's called BDS or Bush Derangement Syndrome.
It's sad to read about the war when those writing haven't lived long enough to experience what it's really like.
Oh well, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will fix it all by holding up the FISA program that has protected us for years.
Too much for an old person to take.
Tom

How Do We Get The Truth Out?

Above is a link:http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/first-person-singular.htm to Michel Yon's most recent posting from Iraq. Everyone should read it as well as Bless the Beasts and Children, vols 1-3 to see who is really reporting the war and who is not.
It's interesting that Michael can photograph the AP correspondent 3.5 km from an atrocity involving 20+ bodies and the AP not only doesn't report it, but denies it happened. Then, they get two people from hundreds of miles away to talk about something far, far away from the site where Americans, Iraqis and Michael were exhuming bodies.
Isn't the press wonderful and so accurate in their reportage.
Pretty sickening.
Tom

Those Old Enough To Remember WWII Can Appreciate The Current Situation

Just like The Times, I intend to use all the news unfit to print or unprinted by reason of agenda.
Try this link:http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001517.html for an excellent part II of an Anbar story and one on Iran from the Kurd's point of view. Makes better reading than anything I can put up.
Hat tips to http://hughhewitt.com andhttp://powerlineblog.com.
Tom

A Blog a Day....

As my friends would say--wait a minute; I don't have any friends! Be that as it may I can still play bridge online and remain anonymous. But isn't that what everyone wants? To shoot off their mouth and remain anonymous? That way no one gets blamed for being wrong, stupid, biased or whatever.
Kind of like the latest generation that believes they are the smartest only because they've been told that all their lives. Imagine their chagrine when they enter the real world only to find out they are only AVERAGE! It's got to be a mind-numbing experience for the YOU generation. Companies must hire people to come in and prop up their expectations. Some day the whole house of cards will come tumling down, only to present more problems.
My biggest complaint is that very few people learn any history. That is, anything that happened before they were born. They did not have the advantage of living through WWII, listening to radio--Marshall McLuhan's hot medium--and making up a visual picture in their mind. These, along with a good English teacher who didn't diagram sentences, but made sure you learned ten new words each week, even if you were bright to begin with, are experiences not available any more.
The electronic, miniaturized world of X Box, PS2 and cell phones, along with a game that teaches nothing except frustration, aggravation and aggression does not make for imaginative people who'll be tomorrow's inventors. It's kind of sad that no one noticed the terrific shift to the left in our colleges, but it crept up on us like"fog on little cat's feet" and we just cannot do enough to turn back the tide of those who'll blindly follow the Left until there is no noticeable difference between that which IS and that which is IMAGINED.