January 28, 2005

Kennedy On the Swamp of Iraq

Filed under: Uncategorized — Administrator @ 1:57 pm

Update: Great Minds think alike. Iowahawk’s “It’s Finally Time To Exit The Oldsmobile” can be found here.

I usually don’t like ad hominem attacks, but this story just writes itself…

According to this story, Senator Ted Kennedy wants us to hastily withdraw from the quagmire of Iraq. Fair enough. When it comes to quagmires and swamps, Kennedy is an expert. (Source)

In Ted’s eyes, Pres. Bush is driving at high speed with a partner - the Iraqi people - who he doesn’t know very well, but sure is pretty - bursting with youth, vitality and promise. He’s also being reckless about it by not courting our allies like he should have; kind of like a married man who drinks a wee bit too much at a party and lets his baser nature take hold. Then, very quickly he finds himself flying off a bridge into a swamp that threatens to sink his career and his reputation in the history books.

So what should he do? Well, in Ted’s eyes there is only one solution: When the car rolls over and hits bottom, get the hell out of it as fast as possible. The hell with the Iraqi people. If they can’t survive on their own, that’s plain tough. It’s not like we’re talking about a Kennedy - I mean - Americans here after all. Let them drown in the water of tyranny, have their flesh nibbled upon by the likes of Zarqawi and other Sunni nut jobs. At least we’ll come out of it alive.

And that’s all that matters, isn’t it? Nothing should get in the way of our glory - especially a setback like a little accident. We have history to write, or at least, report to the proper authorities.

Killing Madonna

Filed under: Uncategorized — Administrator @ 1:35 pm

I’m reading more of Spiced Sass these days . Here’ s a post on the slaying of Madonna by a Jewish extremist.

“…Madonna was cycling from her house to her production company when she was intercepted by her killer… shortly before 9am on 2 November last year.

The attacker shot four times before Madonna fell or jumped off her bicycle. Madonna ran across the road with the killer in pursuit, again firing his weapon.

…Madonna fell on the bicycle path and pleaded for mercy, asking the man to stop shooting.

Witnesses described how the man shot Madonna again from a distance of about half a metre. He then produced a large knife and cut Madonna’s throat before plunging the knife into her chest. He then took a smaller knife from a bag he was carrying and used it to pin a letter to Madonna’s body.” […] “..the murder was in part designed as a warning to all who defiled the Jewish religion.”

Zee, the writer, uses one of my favorite rhetorical devices: substituting elements of a story to see if our opinions change. It’ s one of the best tools to discern bias, and has strengthened some of my opinions, but changed many more.

I too have commented on the death of Theo Van Gogh, and the apparent lack of interest of his death by the media, most recently here. While Van Gogh did not have nearly the level of celebrity that Madonna has, one wonders how much of the silence is do to the celebrity of the killer and the tacit support of his religion.

I do not believe that all religions are the same in the same way that I do not believe that all people are the same. When I see Episcopalians setting off car bombs, or Hassidim beheading civilians, maybe I’ll change my mind.

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