Comments Posted By daveinboca
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The Eason Jordan ethos persists at this joke of a cable operation. Why not do Fox debates? They couldn't handle the situation worse than CNN did.
Comment Posted By daveinboca On 29.11.2007 @ 09:42
Re your comment on a Lebanese Mafia analogy. After Tony Franjieh, wife and infant child were murdered in the late seventies, Phyllis Oakley told me that Tony's family had stayed with her and hubby Bob in Maine the previous summer. They had all gone to see The Godfather and Tony left the theater shaking.... "That movie is about my family and my country." His one-year old toddler was killed by tying a grenade to his bib and pulling the pin.
Great country.
Comment Posted By daveinboca On 24.11.2007 @ 10:04
This is just another milestone in baseball's long descent from America's Pastime to just another ESPN sport to cover. Giving awards like the Cy Young to Sabathia instead of the obvious winner, giving the rookie award to a loud-mouth like Braun [& I'm a Brewer-backer] and I could enumerate a few more of the thousand cuts that baseball has inflicted on itself just this year.
Yes, ticket sales are booming and salaries are skyrocketing, but the game needs to kick BBonds out today---no ifs, ands, or buts. K.M. Landis may have been a nasty hypocrite, but he knew how to administer tough love. Bud Selig should go back to selling cars.
Comment Posted By daveinboca On 16.11.2007 @ 08:43
THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO COLUMBIA
"Ahmadinejad is not a criminal"
Sorry, Rick, he actually is. My FSO fellow language student Kathy Kolb tells how Ahmadodojihad was one of the nastiest kidnapper/guard/prison guard at the US Embassy in Teeran in '79-80. Other FSOs and American prisoners attest to his being one of the guards. As Kathy says, you don't forget a person who upbraids you for showing a bit of forearm when you are walking in the Embassy courtyard & threatens you with a gun.
Tell me, Rick, what is the difference between this now head of state & other prison guards who were prosecuted for guarding concentration camps during WWII even though they might not have even wanted to do so? Ahmadodojihad was one of the instigators of the kidnapping according to recent accounts of the events leading up to the Embassy takeover---the author of Blackhawk Down touches on it.
John Limbert, another FSO colleague of mine and a fluent Farsi speaker, also thinks A....d was one of the guards. Is there a statute of limitations for kidnapping/prison guard? Or did the US prosecute the hapless prison guards in Nazi-occupied areas by mistake?
A....d is a wily fanatic who preys on the gullible silly chattering-class libtards who believe talk will disarm this violent reactionary.
Comment Posted By daveinboca On 24.09.2007 @ 06:34
I know this may sound a bit superficial, but until Baghdad gets a steady supply of water and electricity, I don't think many citizens are going to think well of ANYTHING going on there.
Comment Posted By daveinboca On 10.09.2007 @ 22:14
Fred is the real deal, but may be a bit past his personal peak. At least to me, he looks peaked, pardon the pun.
Unlike Fred, Mike Huckabee is flakey on illegal immigration, which is slowly changing the demography of our country. As is Rudy. Fred is adamantine in his resistance to pandering to a so-called "Hispanic vote" which itself is very divided about allowing border-sneak citizenship through amnesty.
And the timing thing is just a bunch of over-caffeinated policy wonks and junkies hyperventilating. Does anyone outside the blogger/wonk community really care yet about the election? As Fred said to Jay Leno, most people regard politicians like dentists.
Fred was being very kind.
Comment Posted By daveinboca On 6.09.2007 @ 11:42
I have lived ten years in the Middle East [Egypt, Saudi, Lebanon], visited all the countries in the Arab League save Libya and Djibouti, & read/speak Arabic [3+,4] having learned it in the Foreign Service Institute.
It never ceases to amaze me how the shallow vapid vacuous lefties who confuse wishes for wants and wants for necessities have traits that resemble the Arab mind so closely they could be kissing cousins---which in the Arab world means MARRIED!!! The Dhimmi-crats cut slack for Islamists who reflect the hatred in the MSM for winners and America's success across the board [25+% GDP of THE ENTIRE WORLD].
Last night I had a perfesser for "Conflict Resolution" through the use of group dynamic theory over for dinner. In the end, he was smart enough to admit that most problems are near intractable. But I still think reading Toynbee & Spengler beats psychology & sociology classes on group dynamic conflict resolution when it comes to strategic judgments.
Most of the people around the table were polite and sophisticated liberals, not ultra-lefties. But the irreducible core of the left subsists on the large segment of loooozers & angry academics/know-better "helping-profession enablers" who want to reduce this country to a high-taxed soup of mediocrity [Canadian style]. The Arabs are already totally mediocre [and believe me I know]. Hence, the Dems/loons unwittingly want us to become Arabs!!! And they ask us to therefore not knock the CA-RAAAAZY Islamists who want to forcibly convert us to Islam and make our women into SLAVES. Are there any smart women on the left who have put two and two together?
Comment Posted By daveinboca On 26.08.2007 @ 14:23
BLOGS MISSING THE REAL STORY AS USUAL
Actually, perhaps a Mexican standoff in Iraq could be in the offing. The realization of the Sunni tribal leaders that AQ is a bunch of Taliban crazies has turned them back toward sanity. The only thing, the elephant in the parlor, resisting a solution is the persistent mistrust Shi'ites have of their Sunni persecutors of more than eighty years [1920-2003] and this may keep the end-game of resulution from happening.
The left is so heavily invested in defeat that it is a shibboleth/mantra in their campaign rhetoric. As in Vietnam, they may play an active role in bringing about American defeat, even though Petraeus's strategy is beginning to get results.
Comment Posted By daveinboca On 8.08.2007 @ 07:47
Rick, I missed O'Reilly last night, but trust you did a better job on commentating than your brother Terry. Hope you become a regular as your common-sensical take on the weirdness abroad in our land is sorely needed on the BIG TUBE.
Comment Posted By daveinboca On 7.08.2007 @ 16:47
Yeah, Rick, we do get high sniffing our own flatulence from time to time, But someone has got to prick the gaseous balloons the MSM hoists every day, that "gonfalon bubble" of the Tinker-Evers-Chance ditty that keeps the Giants and their NYC/LA axis of agitprop pumping air. [metaphor alert]
I gake your point, and now I restrict myself mainly to commenting on others' blogs rather than concoct my own redundant blather.
Comment Posted By daveinboca On 7.08.2007 @ 11:27
