Posted on 07/07/2005 9:32:58 PM PDT by CHARLITE
There are a few laws that govern life. For example, if you drop Al Franken from the Sears Tower in Chicago, gravity will drive him into the pavement at a rate of thirty two feet per second. A diet of fudge, pixy sticks and Schlitz will eventually result in a sensation not unlike indigestion, and some shooting pains in your left arm. If you are going to be a passenger in Ted Kennedys car, wear water wings. Last but not least, a law of nature is that liberals hate the military and all who serve in it.
Asking a liberal to appreciate what the military has meant to this country is akin to asking a sloth to appreciate the branches that keep it high above the predators. For the sloth to value the contribution the branches make to its security it would require the ability to recognize a pattern. Liberals are handicapped in the area of pattern recognition. That is why the sun rising every morning still takes these folks by complete surprise.
Most liberals start every speech with the words, We support the troops. First of all, if they actually did support our soldiers they wouldnt feel the need to keep reminding us how much they support the efforts of our young men and women in uniform. Support from liberals has come in some pretty unusual forms. Bill Clinton cut the pay of servicemen to the point where a large percentage of military personal needed to go on food stamps. They followed this up by dismantling the intelligence departments through the 90s, and had the hubris to complain about the lack of intelligence before 9/11 and the Iraq war. As an encore, the Clintons along with Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright gave North Korea the very nuclear technology they are now threatening us with. There is a better then 50/50 chance that American soldiers will eventually lose their lives in North Korea cleaning up this mess. Why is it when a liberal supports our military it always resembles a swift kick to the groin??
This brings us back to the liberals pattern recognition problems. When a liberal is confronted with the undisputable results of their actions, they generally just look at you as if you have just handed them a dead squirrel. After this they will complain, at length, about Halliburton, then go and fantasize about sticking American soldiers with hat pins. This takes us to the ugliest cause and effect: the pattern they dont want us to recognize. The actions of a liberal Senator and his allies in the media have finally and verifiably caused the death of American soldiers in Iraq.
On May 9th, Newsweek published an article that described desecration of the Quran by American military personnel. Ultimately, the story Newsweek presented turned out to be a fabrication. The damage had been done, though.
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) followed this incident on June 14th with comments about prisoners held at the military complex at Guantanamo Bay. Senator Durbin compared the treatment of Muslim prisoners by American soldiers to Russian Gulags and Nazi Germany. He cited turning up the air condition and playing them hip-hop music as part of the abuse the terrorists suffered. Fundamentally, according to Dick, we made these criminals cold and played them rap music. Durbin calls this Naziesque torture (around here that is called a Saturday night in Detroit). Nazis conducted medical experiments on their prisoners and when they got bored, skinned some of them alive. Though I will agree that listening to Eminem is mildly unpleasant, I would rather sit through the 8 Mile soundtrack then be skinned and have my hide turned into leather for some SS members briefcase. The day I can purchase Arab skin shoes at my local Walmart is the day Durbin can call our soldiers Nazis.
By now these events are both old news. What hasnt been reported though is that combat deaths of American soldiers in Iraq spiked after both of these incidents.
According to CNN, the months following the November, 2004 military offensive in Fallujah saw a drop in American combat deaths. From January, 2004 to the end of November, 2004, an average of 60 American soldiers per month died as a result of clashes with terrorists in Iraq. After the November Fallujah offensive, the number of combat deaths of American military personnel showed a steady decline (55 in January, 41 in February, 31 in March and 44 in April). The average dropped to 43 per month. May and June saw an increase in battle fatalities. The number jumped from the average of 43 to 69 for May and 67 in June. This increase in battlefield deaths coincides with the Newsweek story and the comments by Senator Durbin. Both incidents were covered heavily by Al Jazeera and other Middle Eastern news sources. Do you think the liberals can see this pattern, or will they stubbornly stick to their talking points and keep chanting, Bush lied, Soldiers died!
Most hard core liberals only fantasize about killing American soldiers. Those pesky laws about murder and treason keep them from doing it themselves. They have gotten around that though, by using Muslim terrorists to do their dirty work for them. Of course they dont refer to them as terrorists. Most liberals just call them their core constituency.
Comments: cherry@therant.us
bttt
I'll vote for that, early and often!
300 pounds of ugly fat?
You beat me too it. Blatant mistakes like that bother me when the author is trying to sound educated.
That's how Cherry probably wrote it, but a copy editor, being a copy editor, probably read that and just knew it had to be a mistake....
Which doesn't mean the increase wasn't caused by those actions, either.
Thanks for your contribution.
Great Post!
Ooh! Ooh! Let's try it.
A diet of fudge, pixy sticks and Schlitz will eventually result in a sensation not unlike indigestion, and some shooting pains in your left arm.
Ooh! Ooh! Let's tr...oh, never mind, Michael Moore already is.
"Who is Al Franken?"
Stuart Smalley
Awesome post! And so true!
I'm wondering how newsweek and durbin could possible be so dumb that they didn't have any idea what their actions would lead to. It seems deliberate to me.
"Liberals are handicapped in the area of pattern recognition. That is why the sun rising every morning still takes these folks by complete surprise."
The more I think aboout that, the more sense it makes. Liberals seem totally unable to recognize patterns, until it's way too late.
No, but just visualizing it has made me decide to put off having breakfast for at least another half hour. If I have a Madeleine Albright nightmare tonight, I'm going to blame this post.
My God, don't you know what you are proposing?
An impact like that could cause a fracture in the earth's crust which could expand and spread all the way down into the mantle!
There would be sympathetic earthquakes on the other side of the world (HOLD-MUST CHECK GLOBE TO SEE IF THOSE SYMPATHETIC EARTHQUAKES APPEAR IN THE SYRIA OR IRAN OR SOMEPLACE REALLY IMPORTANT LIKE THE SOUTH PACIFIC BASIN VOID)
Etc. At the worst, we could have a natural disaster of gigantic proportions. At best, Al Franken would be a grease spot with some damage to Syria and Iran!
Worth repeating
Good article.
Thanks for posting it.
Awesome piece. First time I've seen observable metrics tied to the Useful Idioacy of the Liberals.
Everytime a liberal is in pain, an angel gets his wings
-Lazamataz
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