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2006-08-26 Home Front: WoT

I Hope And Pray We Don't Get Hit Again-BUT.....

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Posted by tipper 2006-08-26 06:50|| || Front Page|| [19 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ummm... are you mad? What makes you think electing another Clinton to office would improve this situation. If that happened then I would truly be afraid. You do make a valid point of why we might be attacked again though. I am sure... anyone related to the axis of evil would not want to see another four years with the United States led by a government that when push comes to shove... would be willing to use force.

Blackvenom-2001

Posted by Blackvenom-2001 2006-08-26 07:15|| 2006-08-26 07:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Remember, kids, don't try this at home. Ariana has years of experience being an idiot that keeps her safe.

Posted by Perfesser 2006-08-26 07:33|| 2006-08-26 07:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Whoops, sorry, that's Russell Shaw. But it's still HER blog.

Posted by Perfesser 2006-08-26 07:40|| 2006-08-26 07:40|| Front Page Top

#4 What if another terror attack just before this fall's elections could save many thousand-times the lives lost?

Stop right there! Chiroptera Lunae alert!

If 5% of the "he's kept us safe" revise their thinking enough to vote Democrat, well, then, the Dems could recapture the House and the Senate and be in a position to:

Appease terrorists in a fashion previously unknown to mankind?

Block the next Supreme Court appointment, one which would surely result in the overturning of Roe and the death of hundreds if not thousands of women from abortion-prohibiting states at the hands of back-alley abortionists;

Mebbe so, but the important issue of women's self-actualization takes a back seat to fighting the predominance of a religion that would mutilate women's genitals, confine them like sheep and allow for the wholsale slaughter and abuse of them like some sort of unique farm animal.

Be in a position to elevate the party's chances for a regime change in 2008. A regime change that would:

(Oh f&ck, here it comes)

Save hundreds of thousands of American lives by enacting universal health care;

That is paid for by who? Our government can barely pay its way as it is. Do you really want to hand over the reins of what would surely be one of the most cost-intensive programs in all history to a bunch of money idiotic grubbing politicians?

Save untold numbers of lives by pushing for cleaner air standards that would greatly reduce heart and lung diseases;

How so, pray tell? By outlawing SUVs? By restricting the sale of gasoline? By legislating against cow farts?

More enthusiastically address the need for mass transit, the greater availability of which would surely cut highway deaths;

Sure enough. Amtrak (however important America's rail system might be) can't make a thin dime. Where is all this "mass transit" financing going to come from? Who is going to administer it? Politicians? [spit]

Enact meaningful gun control legislation that would reduce crime and cut fatalities by thousands a year;

Better judged by twelve than carried by six. 'Nuff said.

Fund stem cell research that could result in cures saving millions of lives;

Sure thing, ethical stem cell research is just around the corner. Finally, a half-way reasonable proposition.

Boost the minimum wage, helping to cut down on poverty which helps spawn violent crime and the deaths that spring from those acts;

The minimum wage has nothing to do with crime. A false sense of entitlement (something liberals know lots about) does.

Be less inclined to launch foolish wars, absence of which would save thousands of soldiers' lives- and quite likely moderate the likelihood of further terror acts.

OH F&CK, where to start on this one? Decline to address a paramount threat in the foolish hope that it will simply go away of its own accord? Need I go on?

I am not proud of myself for even considering the notion that another terror attack that costs even one American life could ever be considered anything else but evil and hurtful.

Then why the hell don't you STFU and crawl back into your hole until you have something of substance to say? BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

You have to spout off with these half-baked propositions in order to make sure that people continue to be mislead by socialistic nanny-state horseshit ideology. FOAD.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-26 07:47|| 2006-08-26 07:47|| Front Page Top

#5 If we are attacked again we should just go nukular.

Posted by Hupailing Ebbuns2352 2006-08-26 07:48|| 2006-08-26 07:48|| Front Page Top

#6 remember who and what Arianna was - wife of a supposed conservative Republican running against Feinstein for the Senate, except he wasn't. He was a gay liberal masquerading. So was Arianna. Her current Eva Gabor of moonbat politics is just another schtick. Bemoaning global warming, SUV's, too large of a home for the little people, while she flys in a Lear jet, drives an SUV, and has a huge home, courtesy of the divorce. She's a patent liar, demagogue and political whore....and not even a good writer, commentator, or speaker.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-26 08:03|| 2006-08-26 08:03|| Front Page Top

#7 C'mon Frank; don't sugar-coat it. Tell us what you think. [snicker]

Posted by Bobby 2006-08-26 08:18|| 2006-08-26 08:18|| Front Page Top

#8 She's a patent liar, demagogue and political whore....and not even a good writer, commentator, or speaker

And this disqualifies her as a liberal in exactly what way?

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-26 08:41|| 2006-08-26 08:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Russell belongs in Brussells or some similarly "enlightened" Euro town. He sounds just like one of them, a nanny state pinko that doesn't understand economics, and who never met an aggressor he couldn't appease.
I find it difficult to accept there are Americans who think this way, yet here it is in black and white.

Posted by JerseyMike 2006-08-26 08:58|| 2006-08-26 08:58|| Front Page Top

#10 This is how these people think. The most important thing in the universe (to them) is the electoral success of the Left. If it costs a few thousand lives for them to get power, well, you gotta break a few eggs and all that. (It's easier if they're people you don't know personally, of course. If any of them are registered Republicans, so much the better.)

Posted by Mike 2006-08-26 09:57|| 2006-08-26 09:57|| Front Page Top

#11 Lovely. I wonder if he would support this hypothetical slaughter of 100 innocents if they all happened to be drawn from the pool of Mr Shaw's family, friends and acquaintances? I mean, it's for the common good, right?

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-08-26 09:59|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ] 2006-08-26 09:59|| Front Page Top

#12 By this thinking he is hoping and praying there *is* another attack. Dispite the headline.

"Just think of all we can do if only a few thousand more innocent americans are killed!" is the gist of his article.

Sick M-F.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-08-26 10:10|| 2006-08-26 10:10|| Front Page Top

#13 i.e. If only Neville Chamberlain had remained PM in 1940 rather than that war-monger Winston Churchill.

Posted by DMFD 2006-08-26 12:01|| 2006-08-26 12:01|| Front Page Top

#14 M. Shaw is much like any other political, intellectual, or cultural elite in any other country.

Because of their few-ness, better living standard, better security, they know they are relatively safe. Becaus they are safe, they can blithely figure the casualties of an attack, civil strife, or pomgrom will be under-weighed by the long-term benefits that result.

History is littered with the results of such thinking.

Posted by Fordesque 2006-08-26 13:44|| 2006-08-26 13:44|| Front Page Top

#15 It occurs to me that the currently nameless author of all the "John Titor" time travel stuff was thinking along the same lines, but thought it would produce the exact opposite effect than described here.

(And before anyone asks, I still think it was a hoax).

Posted by Phil 2006-08-26 13:54|| 2006-08-26 13:54|| Front Page Top

#16 One of my colleagues at work, very liberal, challenged me about 9/11: "why do you feel threatened, after all none of the planes hit Chicago."

I recovered sufficiently to retort, "am I supposed to wait until they take out the Rockefeller Chapel here on campus?"

That's the mentality we face today, folks.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-08-26 16:03|| 2006-08-26 16:03|| Front Page Top

#17 The Athenians had it right. Democracy needs an exile mechanism for those who so blithely betray fellow citizens. But in Shaw's case I recommend sell him into slavery. Sudan sounds good.

Posted by ed 2006-08-26 16:27|| 2006-08-26 16:27|| Front Page Top

#18 Steve,

Are you at the U of C? Cuz that's where I is, two!

Posted by Dreadnought 2006-08-26 18:24|| 2006-08-26 18:24|| Front Page Top

#19 So I guess this guy would consider Binny and the boys as the equivalent of, like, what, Democratic activists? Hillary Clinton supporters? Lamont campaign workers?
"I hope and pray we don't get hit again"? Bullshit. You pop wood just thinking about it, you demented fuck.

Posted by tu3031 2006-08-26 21:33|| 2006-08-26 21:33|| Front Page Top

#20 Dems have always been willing to do anything to control whose first at the feeding trough. As for gun control, when these wimpy f**ks decide they are willing to disarm the street gangs and the drug lords and actually do it, then they can talk about gun control. Until then, they are just poseurs.

Posted by RWV 2006-08-26 23:41|| 2006-08-26 23:41|| Front Page Top

#21 Tell ya what, Russ. If they wanna wipe out say, I dunno... Portland, Oregon... Oh, you're from Portland? Well, whaddya say? Still wanna put your theory to the test?

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