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Voino's weigh & Bolton's way

Doth Bolton rock or doth Bolton rock? With apologies to Lincoln Chase, LaVerne Baker, and Black Oak Arkansas...
 
Ko-fee craves the world he robs,
All Voino could deliver was sobs,
Pet-ty gossip -- Senate delaaay,
John Bolton didn’t walk awaaay,
John Bolton to the rescue,
Go, John Bolton, go, John Bolton!
 
John Bolton got to Turtle Baaay,
The stooges and the rouges been lootin’ all daaay,
John Bolton didn’t need no suiiite,
He was hip and hittin’ the beeeat,
John Bolton to the rescue,
Go, John Bolton, go, John Bolton!
 
John Bolton to the rescue -- John Bolton to the rescue --
John Bolton to the rescue -- go, John Bolton, go, John Bolton!
 
Draw five lines and just drop the pennn,
John Bolton'll fill the picture innn,
U.N. treaties with neat tricks stooowed,
John Bolton'll break the cooode,
John Bolton to the rescue,
Go, John Bolton, go John Bolton!
 
John Bolton had choppers threee,
Got a message from Miss Libertyyy,
She was stuck in some U.N. sliiime,
John Bolton didn’t waste no tiiime,
John Bolton to the rescue,
Go, John Bolton, go, John Bolton!
 
Go! Go! Go, John Bolton! Go! Go! Go, John Bolton!
Go! Go! Go, John Bolton! Go! Go! Go, John Bolton!
 
They wanted Bolton to play and seem the bum, but instead he has been and behaved as an officer, an ambassador, and a geopolitical meteorologist.
 
Voino is a vain-o. There's been an extraordinary parade of vanity-sick public figures during the past few years, and I'm starting to suspect that they're like brightly painted targets for manipulation. My guess is
(1) that some person or persons played on Voino's vanity and ambition, in order to inveigle him into opposing Bolton. They probably misinformed him too. People who concentrate on clippings and clips of or about themselves often end up under-informed and misinformable. And
(2) that something was emotionally or medically wrong with him back when he opposed Bolton's nomination and that the problem exacerbated and lacrimized his attitude.
Mere suspicions; one could speculate variously.
But, if things are as they seem, then he's found that his opposition to Bolton, who developed almost instant and likely enduring folk hero status among many conservatives, has won Voino the enmity of much of the base, and Voino may be able to remedy that, but he will never remedy their distrust, which he has richly earned.
Now Voino the vain has changed his mind under the dubious cover of another tear-jerkingly "urgent" cause -- he wants to be sure that Bolton is souped up with every last ounce of legitimacy needed in order to keep Israel from destroying Hizb'Allah (Party of God), the group which targeted U.S. Marines with a truck bomb and killed 241 of them.
When Voino opposed him, Bolton's past record in dealing with the UN had been in fact already outstanding; he'd been so effective that he even had gotten the General Assembly to repeal the "Zionism is racism" resolution.
Next, maybe Voino will be disappointed when U.S. policy continues anti-Hizb'Allah (anti-"peace"), despite Voino's oh so big-minded reversal.
Yeah, Senator Voinovich. Whatever fine sentiments balance your drink.
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The irony of what Bush actually said

A London Times article: "President Bush’s uncomplicated view of world events was laid bare yesterday...."
 
That article omits, and all the transcripts omit, and even the account at Expose The Left omits (though they have the video where you can HEAR it) a word, replaces it with "thing." Bush didn't just say:
 
"You see, the thing is, what they need to do is to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this s--- and it’s over."
 
Instead, Bush said:
 
"You see, the irony is, what they need to do is to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this s--- and it's over."
 
Watch it at Expose the Left http://tinyurl.com/pr7oz (The actual URL contains that obscene word and probably would be stopped by the auto-censor).
 
Bush is saying that a lot of complicated efforts are misdirected. The irony, I guess, that the shortest path to ending the problem is a path that many people don't want to take.

UPDATE: This other London Times online article got the quote right in the body of the article but wrong in its transcript: 
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Future Insurrectional, USA?

"Mexico leftist forecasts instability if no recount" - NY Times, July 9, 2006. Big picture may be an long-term effort to make leftist civil unrest and insurrection more thinkable here in the USA.

Obrador, Chavez, Castro, others are -- maybe not a gang, but like-minded gangs. Obrador would be merely a typical Marxist in seeking the opportunity to destabilize Mexico, and the USA is next in line. Chavez has already involved activist supporters here in the USA in the immigration debate, helping gin up the demonstrations and trying to arrange "formative political experiences" for millions of young Mexican-Americans.

IMHO.
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Hutches Afire? Firestarter & Hutch?

This has something to do with the idea that hijacked fuel-heavy jumbo jets crashing didn't cause the WTC collapse.

Yet another denialist is out to prove it's really still 9/10/01 and the shining path is:  burn poor rabbits out of their hutches and learn multi-value logic? Yeah, that'll change the world back again. He poured kerosene into an hutch, supposedly empty at the time. And what if his research style catches on?

Homeless Rabbit Population
Swelling in 'Blue' States
Scientists Intrigued, Suspect Warming and Bush

Playing fast & loose with segues is a good way to satirize his kind of mental state plus it makes for some quirky, edgy syntax, and that's a win-win, though I'll have to study a certain clever Paula's comment at the MCJ post "
Bunny Hop" some more in order to get the hang of it. MCJ also has the link to the Democrats Underground strangeness of the moment.

And it's coming up on the weekend, I hope MCJ's Anglican Investigator's adventures are coming together. He and his allies are in dire straits, he may find himself thrown into some strange company, such as some strange DU dude playing Guy Fawkes with rabbit hutches. This time around, I wouldn't put anything past the Investigator's authorial alter ego.
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Treason Train

With thanks to photobucket. And after this, I stop re-editing this post!
Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting 
Eric Lichtblau: Now I've been happy lately, thinking about the cued things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun
 
Bill Keller: Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world we've spun
And I believe it could be, some day the U.S. will come undone
 
Gail Collins: 'Cause on the cutting edge of darkness, there rides a Treason Train
Oh Treason Train take this country, come take me Marx-ward again
 
Pinch: Now I've been smiling lately, thinking about the terrorism to come
And I believe it could be, something cool has begun
 
Walter Duranty's corpse:
Oh Treason Train soundin' louder
Glide on, Treason Train
(Ah-eeah-ooah!)
Come on now Treason train
 
Noam Chomsky's Plastic Turkey Band:
Yes, Treason Train commie roller
Everyone jump on the Treason Train
(Ah-ee-ah-oo-ah-err...)
Come on now Treason Train
 
Barbra S.'s mirror reflection: Get -- your -- ooold gray bonnet, with the blue ribbon on it too
Cause it's getting nearer, it soon will be on you
 
Helen Thomas, eating a photo of Yasir Arafat: Now come and join the living, we're not so unlike you,
And we're getting nearer, soon it will all be true
 
Kathy Boudin, fleeing along 11th Street: Now I've been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating you, why can't you just give in?
 
Pinch, flunking in high school and getting rejected by Columbia U: 'Cause on the cutting edge of darkness, there rides a Treason Train
Oh Treason Train take this country, come take me Marx-ward again

All: Oh Treason Train soundin' louder
Glide on, Treason Train
Ted Kennedy, blindingly spotlit: Ah-eeah-oo-ah-err..! (crashes)
All: Come on now Treason train
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Launch bug

Beware of special characters? (I don't mean such as me.)
 
Seem unable to delete the extra listing of ¡No Pasarán! (the listing with the "à" with its accent the wrong way over the "a") from my blog roll. I was able to delete another listing from the blogroll. Maybe special characters should not be used in listings? Maybe not at all?

Will this be the fly in my ointment, the balrog (whatever that is) in my woodpile, Dr. Zachary Smith on my Jupiter 2?

The Anchoress was  quite funny the other day. What if her pineapple woman were to run into  Burgess's Richelieu? Some sort of rip in the cosmic fabric, I guess.

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