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Monthly Archives: April 2007
France Goes To Run-Off Election
With neither candidate getting over 50% of the vote, France’s presidential election will be decided in a run-off election on May 6. Nicolas Sarkozy, characterized as the pro-west, pro-capitalism candidate got 30.44 percent of the vote and Segolene Royal, the socialist candidate got 24.79 percent of the vote. The French people now have a stark choice before them.
But don’t expect that the runoff will produce the same outcome. Royal had a significant opponent, François Bayrou, a centrist candidate who got 18.31 percent of the vote. The determining factor will be where that 18.31 percent chooses to hang their hat. Â
They each have their views on how to save the French economy. Sarkozy’s idea is through capitalism and by reducing taxes from 60% to 50%, and have more flexible weekly work hours. Royal, on the other hand, wants to spur the economy by increasing the minimum wage by 20 percent and adding half a million government subsidized jobs and a shorter work week, more holidays, more benefits, less employer autonomy.
What Sir Winston Churchill said:
| We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. |
Here’s hoping the French people will see that the Sarkozy ideology will be their best bet for whatever they think ailes them.
Islamofascists, The Elephant In The Room
Suspects v. Christians, What? More evidence that the so-called religion of peace extends its influence into the media, this CNN article (buried in the World section) can’t seem to identify the religion of the murderers. They call them suspects. However, the three people who had their throats slit were properly identified as Christians.   This PC crap is masking terrorism and the scope and scale of it. Don’t you think it is time to quit ignoring the elephant in the room?Â
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Eleven suspects in the slayings of three Christians at a publishing house in eastern Turkey were charged with murder Sunday, court officials said.
The three victims — one German and two Turkish men — were tied up and had their throats slit on Wednesday at a publishing house in the town of Malatya that was at the center of protests by some nationalists because it distributed Bibles.
Pensacola Mourns Loss Of One Of The Blues
On this day, and in days to come, our prayers go with the family of Lt. Cmdr. Kevin J. Davis, a 
native of Pittsfield, Mass.. Kevin was piloting the F-18 Blue Angel number 6 when it went down Saturday during an airshow in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Pensacola loves the ‘Blues.’ They’re all family in Pensacola. Our prayers are also with the rest of those who make up The Blue Angels; all the pilots and families and everyone else that is a part of the squadron.
Blue Angels spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Garrett Kasper said the team will return to Pensacola this afternoon.
“We will regroup,” he said.
Miraculously there were no other fatalities.
Dems Out Front With Defeat
Watch how senate majority leader Harry Reid supports the troops. Trouble is, it’s not our troops he is supporting by comments like this one, “this war is lost.” Can you think of a better al Qaeda recruiting tool than the current bunch of democrat leaders?
Signs that the ‘surge’ is working has caused Reid to get out in front of defeat. They own defeat. In their own perverted and political way, they see defeat in Iraq as a victory. Under no circumstances now can they allow or facilitate a victory in Iraq.
Outside of the blogosphere, have you seen this monumental statement adequately covered in the ‘news?’ Of course not.
related: Thomas Sowell, Dangerous Demagoguery
The New Car Bomb Network
Have you noticed all TV networks merged to become the Car Bomb Network? Â
I Give Up, What’s Better Than Independence?
The United States is co-sponsor of a bill in the United Nations that could lead to Kosovo’s independent State status. Currently they are wards of the ‘state.’
Kosovo, a province of Serbia, is administered by the United Nations under U.N. Resolution 1244, passed in June 1999 when a NATO campaign drove Yugoslav Serbs out of Kosovo, halting years of violence and human rights abuses.
One would think that a country’s chance to move from a provisional government to an independent state would be great news. Right. Amazingly, this bill is the first sign of something happening with actual bi-partisan support. Is it bi-partisan or bi-polar? Tom Lantos seems to say yes it’s a great idea, ‘shaped with wisdom and patience.’ Then he says that he would have preferred something different. Something different? Does oppression sound better? Or is he referring to the tried and true ‘can’t we all just get along’ foreign policy of appeasement and submission and genocide?
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Tom Lantos (D-Ca) said the Kosovo proposal appears to have been “shaped with wisdom and patience†by Ahtisaari.
“Clearly, this is not a perfect solution,†Lantos said. “I would have preferred something different. But there is no better settlement in sight. There is no more time to wait.â€
What did Tom Lantos, House Foreign Affairs Chairman, have in mind for ‘something different’ than a chance for independence for Kosovo?
Dems New Tone: Us First, Then The Troops
Remembering we are war, not the one between the Democrats and Bush but the one between us and the terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Democrat majority leaders insist on playing the role of Commander-In-Chief and have drafted a war appropriations bill to prove it. The bill will end the war, not win it. And this delay in funding the troops is already having its effects on the troops, the same troops that you will hear them say they support, and its not good.  Meanwhile, according to al Qaeda, Iraq is a great place to learn how to be a terrorist. It has become their university of terrorism.
Seems like the Democrat leaders of today are the only ones who don’t see a terrorist problem in Iraq. Either that or they just want to lay down the welcome mat for the terrorists upon our premature exit. Don’t know about you, but the notion of a Democrat Commander-In-Chief makes me feel less safe. Much less safe.  Its no wonder they also liked the ‘pretend’ Secretary of State Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to the Middle East.
Why Victory In Iraq?
What winning in Iraq will mean, and what will it look like? This answers some questions posed by Rick at RicksBlog concerning the war in Iraq.  The war in Iraq is what I call the Iraqi front in the global war on terror.  What follows is the answer to those questions. Â
Israel has been fighting Arabs for over half a century and still doesn’t have peace. We are entering our fifth year in Iraq. How can we expect peace in another year or two?
To the impatient and the microwave/video-game-war generation I say, if what it takes to make future generations safe from radical Islam is one or two, or five more years, then you’ll know what it costs to defend us and what it costs to defend freedom in our time.  It’s such a cliche but in this case, is also true, freedom is not free.
Time is on the side of the insurgents – or what Bush calls “terrorists†or what some might label “freedom fightersâ€. We can’t kill them all.
This picture gives a whole new meaning to the term ‘freedom fighters.’ The “some who might label” terrorists as “freedom fighters” are part of the problem, if not the terrorists themselves. They don’t want freedom. They say as much all the time. The only freedom I’ve heard them advocate is the freedom to kill Americans.Â
Here’s the administrations view of the three stages of victory in Iraq, from the blog.
Short term, Iraq is making steady progress in fighting terrorists, meeting political milestones, building democratic institutions, and standing up security forces.
Medium term, Iraq is in the lead defeating terrorists and providing its own security, with a fully constitutional government in place, and on its way to achieving its economic potential.
Longer term, Iraq is peaceful, united, stable, and secure, well integrated into the international community, and a full partner in the global war on terrorism.
As far as what victory in Iraq would look like? First of all, don’t expect it to be over in a year or two. The GWOT will last decades. We waited almost a decade before responding effectively, which didn’t help us.
Then, don’t expect that WE are going to kill all the terrorists because WE won’t. It’s the governments of the countries the terrorists operate in and train in that will do the killing every time they raise their ugly head. It’s a different war than any other we’ve been in for sure.
As far as similarity to Vietnam goes, it is similar in that the anti-war groups of the 60’s are now in positions of power and attempting to relive the glory days by micro-managing the war until it cannot be won, like what happened in Vietnam. To this bunch, a loss will be perceived as a victory, just like Vietnam.
And another thing, 
, in Vietnam, the commies did not have as their goal the desire to kill all ‘infidels’ (Americans) and everyone else that didn’t have the same view of ‘Islam’ as they. They’ve already demonstrated how viscous they can be.
IMHO, the only question is not what victory in Iraq is, but how many dead Americans are acceptable before you decide to deal with the problem?
This war won’t be won by playing defense. It’s going to take nations around the world to be on offense.
No Charges In Gov. Jon Corzine (D-NJ) Crash
This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘getting hit with a liberal.’ Its reported that the governor was not wearing seat belts. An illegal act in New Jersey. Just imagine seeing Corzine come flying at you with nowhere to go and no time to get there.
Neither the driver (a State Trooper) or the governor will be cited for seat belt violations. The AP story does mention that the driver of the vehicle that caused the accident will not be charged either.