NewsBusters has found two prominent places where liberal forces of the main stream media are actually reporting that there has been a lot of progress made in Iraq especially since the “surge”. They are even reporting that we might just… wait for it… win. I know, I couldn’t believe it either, but here they are: NBC’s Chris Matthews and a New York Times op-ed. Enjoy every last word.
UPDATE: of course some people just can’t handle good news.
I dont know everything about this guy, and of course I am open to listen to objections, but I have been regularly reading what he writes and what is written about him on his beliefs, and I have really liked what I have seen. A lot of people want to label him as someone in Hollywood taking a stab at the next big thing, which makes him sound wishy washy and without a foundation. I realize that there are some issues that he is not totally firm on. However he is a conservative who understands the problems with politics and is not afraid to stand up to them with what is right.
Here is his blog, that I have been reading now for a little while. Everything i have read so far is really good. Yesterday and today he had two especially good pieces on federalism and on eminent domain. I am more and more impressed that this guy just gets it. I’m with Fred.
These things are small, but really neat looking. Rocky over at the goat linked to them and I thought I would pass them along.
Here is an interesting take on the South Koreans who were taken hostage in Afghanistan last week: Its Christianities fault, not Islam. If those “giggling,” “naive,” Christians, who are just seeking greater “spiritual and financial rewards” would quit “competing,” “like those Japanese television game shows where the prize goes to the contestant who takes the greatest humiliation and still comes up grinning” then these types of problems seen in Afghanistan would go away. After all, these weren’t even real missionaries. According to the article these “young women who were not off to try to convert Afghan Muslims to Christianity, but to provide medical and child-care services for needy people.” The whole problem was the Christians “unfocused desire to do good” and their lack of “even the most basic training in the type of cultural quagmires they will face.”
This makes me sick.
I am not a big fan of the panic surrounding greenhouse gas emissions, but I love the outdoors and want our air to be kept clean and fresh. So hence I present to you a solution to all of automobile exhaust polution: the Greenbox.
I think that this is truly genius, especially if it goes mainstream and a system is put in place so that the sludge can quickly and easily be removed from the box at any gas station. I can easily picture a setup where, while pumping your gas, you hook up your greenbox and quickly empty it into holding tanks at the gas stations. The gas stations give you a discount for the gas you just bought, and they then sell the sludge en mas back to the oil companies. The oil companies turn the sludge back into gas which is later sent back out to the gas stations.
Now if we can only hook these things up to cows behinds, since livestock in America actually emits more greenhouse gases then transport.
Terry Moran makes a great point that freedom and prosperity actually breeds terrorists:
“This is the condition of a free mind in a free world–liberated, but in a fundamental sense, alone as our forebears were not.”
“it is a truth of our time that as the world moves rapidly from the country to the city (more than half the human population now lives in cities–a staggering social change in our species), fewer and fewer people will live amid the old certainties, and more and more will experience the dizzying possibilities of life as an individual set adrift in the human sea of the great city.”
“And they will be insecure in who they are. Not all, perhaps–the poor are insulated, to an extent, by the sheer magnitude of their physical struggle to survive, by their continued reliance on each other and on an older faith that focuses its promises on the next world, and by their isolation. But take a few steps up the social ladder in an immigrant community, or in the sprawling new cities in the Muslim world, and it’s a different story. Doctors, engineers, architects and other professionals are in the vanguard of the movement into modernity. They are immersed in a world of transnational practices, standards, collegial networks and ethics that can be corrosive of their old allegiances. They can get lost, especially if they have migrated to the west, with all of our societies’ temptations, blasphemies, materialism and skepticism.”
“That strong, egocentric communication of Westerners was nonexistent when we looked at Chinese,” Keysar said. “The Chinese were very much able to put themselves in the shoes of another when they were communicating.”
The comments are great. Here are a few of my favorite:
“I see that Reid and the Dems pulled out of the all-nighter.”
“We must really be impressing all the bad guys around the world who are watching this! And they want this group to run my Health Care? Yea…whatever!”
“It wasn’t a total wash. My daughter was fussy last night and the C-SPAN coverage lulled her right to sleep.”
“No wonder they can’t commit to win a war. They can’t even commit to winning an all night DEBATE!!”
“Code Pink, Answer, Daily Kos, thats who this all- nighter was for. The nutroots.”
“This is the result of women in politics. Now they are organizing slumber parties.”
“How about congress’ approval rating is less than half of GW’S….????…What say you hairy and nanc…???”
“Personally, I think the GOP missed a golden opporuntity when they didn’t show up en masse in footie PJs to make the point that political stunts like this are only as good as the threats behind them. Harry Reid lost the minute he didn’t really make all the Senators stay there- particularly after making repeated statements about “working all night if necessary to bring the troops home now.””
FYI the congress approval rating is at 14% now according to Zogby.
