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Thanks to Peter Kemp, we have proof—if proof be needed—that reading Robert Fisk may lead to the purchase of a metallic chapeau:
In a radio interview with both Robert Fisk and ex CIA analyst Ray McGovern respectively, their commentary on Syria/Israel/Lebanon and the nexus of Neo-cons/Israel/Iran is highly persuasive and confirms my view that the USA will nuke Iran before the mid-term elections ...
I think he’s taking bets. Get on before the medication kicks in.
the nexus of Neo-cons
Is that like the Sultan of Brunei?
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 07 20 at 08:58 AM • permalinkFrom Fisk: “Syria has been humiliated by being forced to retreat from Lebanon under the terms of of UNSC Resolution 1559. This is Syria’s way of saying to the world, “Right, you may love Lebanon, you may love your Lebanese democracy, you may think Lebanon makes its own decisions, but we decide on the events,” and indeed they do…This is a cynical vicious thing to say and I think its true . . .” What. The hell. Is he trying to say?
The post at Larvus Prodeo is actually quite fascinating: Fisk and McGovern doing their paranoid waltz, the symbiotic relationship of these two bozos blossoming in a glorious burst of imbecility. Don’t miss it!
“the nexus of Neo-cons”
It’s cabal of Neo-cons. Sheesh.
Mr. Bingley’s right, “the nexus of Neo-cons” sounds like the exotic title of some foreign ruler.
His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Nexus of Neo-cons, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Great Master and First and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Member of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Order of Australia, Companion of the Queen’s Service Order, Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty.
I think there’s a secret handshake in there somewhere, too.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 07 20 at 09:45 AM • permalinkPeter Kemp, you are wrong. I look forward to seeing you eat your words.
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 07 20 at 09:45 AM • permalinkexcept I think I’ll be waiting a while. These guys don’t seem interested in keeping scorecards for the truth of their statements.
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 07 20 at 09:47 AM • permalink</i> The Nexus of Neocons is the Atlanta Hooter’s. Everybody knows that. We just sent them bow-tie wearing pansies from The National Review up to Washington to keep them from sucking the life out of the weekly beerfests…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 20 at 10:00 AM • permalinkI hope that we haven’t nuked Iran by the time of the mid-term elections, in the sense that I hope we never need to nuke anybody. But the political crackpots, like “famous psychics,” will get one right once in a while (even a stopped clock etc.).
I’m in the part of Queens, NY affected by power outages and lately have had occasion to talk politics with quite a few people. I’m told that the power outage was the fault of Bush & of the Iraq costs and that Bush is an unbelievable idiot. When I disagree, I’m asked whether I’ve seen Fahrenheit 911. A Republican whom I know (who was always too impressed with Tom Friedman) tells me he saw it a few weeks ago and was impressed by it. Neither he nor almost anybody else ever heard of A.Q. Khan or Libya’s surrender of its WMD program. And so on. I am told that practically everything that Moore said would happen has happened. I’m told by a different Republican that Tim Russert & Chriss Matthews are objective and neutral and prove through videotape that Bush is full of crap.
The Michael-Mooreification of NYC and, I fear, the whole USA, is much broader, deeper, and more ongoing, than I had realized. I’m feeling down (and isolated)! But at least I found one working electric outlet and am at least temporarily online.
The Michael-Mooreification of NYC and, I fear, the whole USA, is much broader, deeper, and more ongoing, than I had realized
ForNow, have you ever heard of “red states”? I suggest you move to one. Your cost of living and stress levels will go down, and you will discover that the whole world does not think Michael Moore is God.
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 07 20 at 11:45 AM • permalink#14 ForNow: Hell, those Republicans in New York ain’t Republicans; they’re just Democrats with a guilty conscience. Michael Moore is a figure of fun and/or opprobrium down here in Virginia and North Carolina, except among card-carryin’ lunatics and far-lefty Democrats (and there’s a fair amount of overlap between the two groups). You just can’t go by New York (or California, either, for that matter). Sure, it’s a bit worrisome that so many people up there and out on the left coast been drinkin’, if not bathin’, in the kool-aide; but who’s President? Tain’t Al Gore is it? Nor John Kerry his own self. And I’ll go out on a limb and predict it ain’t gonna ever be nobody named Clinton again, either. So relax, get out of the big city for awhile, and come soak up some good cheer down here in God’s country.
“I’m told that the power outage was the fault of Bush & of the Iraq costs…”
Excuse me, but unlike many rinky-dink third world countries (one of which I am a past resident of), the national government in the US does not pay for or provide electricity. That’s a local/regional responsibility, so if you’re having a problem that’s where you need to look. I don’t have a Mercedes Benz 450SL but that’s not the fault of the “Iraq costs” either.
More seriously, the leftist cocoon is thick, thick, thick! They talk in sing-song about Valerie Plame and Niger yellowcake as if it were all deductively simple, true, and utterly devastating to any positive view about Bush. And many of these same people think that islamofascism is a terrible threat that needs to be beaten back. There is a common delusion that the Dems have something to offer about this. I can’t begin to describe it. Many of these people agree with Bush’s ideas but have swallowed his demonization and dunce-capping hook, line, and sinker. I don’t even feel motivated to avoid mixing my metaphors. But I’ll get over it.
I’m told that the power outage was the fault of Bush
Life in a Blue State:
Officer: “Are you aware that you were going 20 mph over the speed limit?”
Driver: “It’s Bush’s fault!”
Officer (ripping up ticket): “I’m sorry for stopping you. Have a nice day!”
_________________________Teacher: “Johnny, where’s your homework?”
Johnny: “It’s Bush’s fault!”
Teacher: “You poor boy. Here’s a A for your effort!”
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 07 20 at 01:35 PM • permalinkIt’s not even a question of blue states, but of blue counties. If you’re stuck in a blue county, it may be very blue indeed. And Queens has gone very blue in the past ten years. Old people dying.
#22: Actually, I’ve lived in Richmond, VA for years, and have recently moved to Fairfax in Occupied Northern Virginia to be closer to work (I work in Babylon-on-the-Potomac). I was born in Albemarle, NC, about 40 miles out of Charlotte, but grew up in Cary. I still consider NC my true home, even though I don’t get down there but a couple of times a year.
Italics fixed. Check your comments before submitting them, please.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 20 at 06:18 PM • permalinkPaco, I’m taking my 54year-old friend with me to ‘enemy country’ for My Chief’s retirement ceremony at NAS Pax River. Since she’s never been to the Center of the Western Universe, he’s taking her on one of his patented tours of DC (Lincoln Memorial, Capitol, White House, lunch at the old Post Office, Korean War Memorial, the Wall & the WWII Memorial) & she’s so excited. Some of us are still impressed when we see the things in our own country we saw in our grade-school history books.
But then I’m done & I don’t plan to ever go back.
I wonder if the US will unveil their Cobalt Bomb for the predicted attack,that device has the major advantage of maximun short-term radiation kill with relatively little destruction of infrastructure.The very modest half-life of the radiation material released would mean oil production could be resumed after about 18 years.
#30, sure the cobalt bomb has a rather long half life (tiny by normal radiation standards, but still far too long for combat) of 5.26 years. But its MUCH cheaper than Gold (2.7 day half life) and prolly a lot safer in the chemical sense than Arsenic (1 day half life).
Fortunately Wikipedia provides many alternatives for the radioactively aware government. Salted Bomb
#16, You sound like a tourism company Paco, interested in flying some Aussies in for a holiday?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 07 21 at 12:44 AM • permalinkOver at tradesports.com they do futures contracts on political events. Right now the “US and/or Israel bombs Iran by Dec 31 2006” contract is going for about twenty cents. It pays a dollar if the Iranians get whacked, zero if they don’t.
Posted by Ernst Blofeld on 2006 07 21 at 01:19 AM • permalink#32, So the futures market is really like a rich mans TAB then is it?
All things considered though, I rekon 5/1 is about right.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 07 21 at 02:11 AM • permalink#29 Auntie: I agree that everybody ought to see Washington, DC once. The monuments and the museums are really worth the trip; the Korean War Memorial is particularly fine (one of my dad’s friends served as the model for one of the soldiers, or so I am told; I think the sculptor used a photo of him from a magazine). As for working here, I’m employed in an agency only a block and half from the White House (which I can see from my office window), and I’d give it up tomorrow for a chance to get back to Richmond, or (may it please God) North Carolina.
#31: Paco Antipodal Logistics Solutions (PALS), would be only too happy to fly Aussies into God’s country. While it’s undeniable that New York and California are worth seeing, you want to get into the “red” states to capture the real spirit of what’s best in the country; though, truth to tell, there are good people all over (as I mentioned in a comment on another post, some of the nicest folks I’ve ever met are from New Jersey). North Carolina is hard to beat. My mom, for example, lives on a little farm in Mann’s Harbor, just down the road from Nags Head on the outer banks. She grows vegetables, cantalopes, peaches and apples, and her place is a blaze of glory in the spring and summer, with the azaleas and camelias and every kind of flower you can imagine. My dad lives on a 75-acre spread in a rural district about 40 miles out of Charlotte, in the foothills of the ancient Uwharrie Mountains - up on a ridge above pasture land that once was a field where he labored long days picking cotton in the early 1940’s when his family was dirt poor. After he retired from law enforcement and a lucrative entrepreneurial venture, he was able to buy the place, and now he has a small herd of cattle and horses, and it’s a beautiful and peaceful setting. As Sir Walter Raleigh said, “a goodlie land”.
Shit Paco, where do I sign up?
“While it’s undeniable that New York and California are worth seeing, you want to get into the “red” states to capture the real spirit of what’s best in the country” - Yeah I know, Knob Creek Kentucky and Deaf Smith county Texas are two places on my list already. I almost forgot Bourbon Street…
Also while your telling us all about yourself what is it you do a block and a half from the white house?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 07 22 at 12:19 AM • permalink
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Nah. I think those people were ready for a padded room long before Fisk came on the scene.