We need relentless warriors, not spineless wimps, people who will go for the jugular. The urban habitat is especially conducive to relentless-warrior propagation.
And, by the way, we need people who won't get sucked into the mutual protection racket in DC. (Whatever happened to the unredacted Barrett Report, anyway? And why aren't the clintons in the slammer?)
We need citizen-politicians. People of extraordinary ability, courage and character. In the end, we won't begin to solve anything until ALL the professional pols--every last slimy one of them--are given the swift boot.
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Windsurfing in the Persian Gulf
Similarly, Kerry's statements about the Iraq War hint at cognitive and ethical, if not corporeal, absence; they tell us more about John Kerry than simply what his Iraq-War politics may be.
Windsurfing, like war, transcends the particular in its revelations about John Kerry. Although windsurfing is delicious metaphor--witness the recent Bush-Cheney ad--windsurfing in its most literal, technical sense is what best exposes Kerry for what he is--a wussy, opportunistic fraud. RIGGED Kerry's gear is the dead giveaway. Kerry sails on what boardheads call "light air,"--one just cannot escape the metaphors here-- i.e., a gigantic sail estimated at 11 square meters, and a humongous board providing redundant flotation. According to expert windsurfer, Paul Kotik:
A windsurfer friend of mine, Rod, adds this observation, "Long boards typically have something called a centerboard or a daggerboard which acts as a fulcrum for turning large boards like [Kerry's]. Daggerboards are for total weenies." Visible in Kerry's Nantucket windsurfing photo-op video is what appears to be evidence of a daggerboard--the knob on top of the board that controls dagger position. Rod continues, "Up-hauling is another weenie windsurf situation. If the wind is so light that you stand on top of the board and pull the mast up out of the water to begin sailing, there is very little wind. Water starting is... what keeps most people out of the experienced ranks... It is the only way to start in high wind/deep water conditions." Conversely, according to Rod, some wind is required in a water start. "In a water start, you are not standing on anything, just floating in deep water. You 'fly' the sail, controlling it just inches above the your head and the water, moving your feet onto the board; the sailor pops the sail up filling it with wind, which pulls you up onto the board in one maneuver and propels the board forward." Kerry's gigantic sail suggests a deliberate wind-avoidance strategy and, hence, an up-hauling, not water-starting, boarding technique scenario. Indeed, given Kerry's reflexive avoidance of high wind/deep water conditions over the years, weenie up-hauling is the only credible scenario.
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