We’re working on the build of WordPress, and we hope to have the archives moved over soon. I will be incorporating many of your suggestions for site improvements (if I can figure out how), and I hope—too—to offer a separate forum for permanent guest posting and commentary (called the PW Pub).
I’m also hoping soon to return to doing some video work for Hot Air– and to incorporate a weekly podcast (I’m currently in negotiations with Ace and Jim Nabors; though I’d throw them both overboard for a newly-trimmed, politcally-astute Valerie Bertinelli). I can’t do a weekly “Citizen Journalist Report” like the ones I did earlier (my camera guy and editor moved to New York, the selfish bastard), but I hope to do them on occasion, and spend the rest of the time doing things in front of a green screen.
Like maybe hang gliding.
Today, however, I’ll be gone most of the day (various doctor’s appointments). So if those with access wish to put up some posts while I’m being probed, that would be swell.
And if Commissar wishes to attack me yet again for being an unserious Bush apologist—which he seems to want to do strictly so he can push his “denialist” neologism, something he trots out so often and so ostentatiously it’s a wonder the thing hasn’t demanded a cut of the action, or at least asked to join a union—he can have at it. Self-serving traffic trolling is a blogospheric tradition. Far be it for me to try to shut out our “civil,” “substantive” friend simply for appearing a bit desperate.
At PW, this is the equivalent of a Rockies middle relief hanging curve after Clint Hurdle just removed the starter after six innings of shutout ball:
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“Swung on and crushed to deep center….”
Who wants to go first?
(I mean geez, Jeff, you could try to make this a little more challenging…)
I will not have you sullying my site with any immoral suggestiveness involving the poon, wishbone.
THIS IS NOT ATRIOS, NOR IS IT PW!
Oh, wait —
Sorry. Carry on.
But please. Keep the poon jokes substantive.
We’re all about substance, fearless leader.
And nuance.
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OH! And pie, of course.
“Swung on and crushed AGAIN to deep center….â€Â
I know you take offense when people address you directly, but “apologist” seems strong, yet basically accurate. The word has a poor connotation, but in the posts you’re arguing with Commissar about you are arguing that the US govt had a plan for Iraq and we all know that no plan was implemented….looting, disbanding the army on the fly, failure to secure military grade explosive caches, the hiring of Americans with no experience and no training to administer the country…
If this is your idea of a plan, or anyone’s, then the administration is guilty of negligent implementation of a plan, rather than not having one.
Defending them on this point seems silly. If you want a continued occupation of Iraq, seems to me folks should stop arguing about the past and start trying to craft an argument about the present.
Just my thought.
PW Pub, eh?
Of course it’ll serve only the best Scotch. And Irish whiskey. And absinthe…
“We” do? You got a duck in your pants, Timmy?
Irony meters! Get your high-quality replacement irony meters here! I know you need a new one after reading Timbot’s comment!
I thought something was up when Nabors didn’t show at the Indy 500.
I know you take offense when people address you accurately, but “useful idiot” seems strong, yet basically accurate.
Yes, timmy. I went out of my way to address the past—not Maha, the Democrats, or Commissar.
And I, or course, expressed my LOVE of the plan, not simply corrected the record about their not having been one.
It’s my fault. What with my short skirt, I was just asking for it.
And pretending that those don’t exist shows that you need to learn a new term in the English language, timmy.
“Google.”
You see, this whole “no plan” thing whether based in the past or the present is, quite simply, a lie. If we had this entire thing to do over (which we don’t), we should have added soemthign like four Army divisions and a Marine brigade right after 9/11. We didn’t and the lack of numbers (including the previously mentioned lack of the 4th ID in Turkey for a northern front) HAS hurt.
That lack, however, has not removed our ability to prevail. We only lose if we leave prematurely. And the vast majority fo the Iraqi people will lose in that outcome, too.
TummyB:
In the first place you overstate the case. I am assuming that you actually do understand that while not all caches were secured, that most were, and that the Americans with no experience and no training of which you speak did in fact have experience.
We’re accustomed to this rhetorical diarrhea from your ilk, but can you not acknowledge that having a plan does not preclude that adjustments to that plan will have to follow given the conditions on the ground? We’re not talking about a board game, after all, war and stuff are often more chaotic than Candyland.
TW: main69 . . . I swear.
Totally off topic, but Horatio J. HooDoo died this weekend while I was away from PW and couldn’t comment on it.
TW: Mary had a little18 lamb, it’s fleece was white as…blank.
Ahh, Valerie Bertinelli. Good times. Good times! Sigh.
Errr, I mean…
Is it possible to quantify the amount of weed and other substances the Krofft boys did back in the day?
Because Horatio appeared to be a bad acid nightmare of some sort.
It appears that the Iraqi army dissolved spontaneously and so there was pretty much nothing left to disband.
The worst, real failure from the military side was failing to secure or destroy ammo depots such as Al-Qaqa (or a name like that): they were overlooked during the rush to Baghdad.
You fell for that crap that the Kerry camp leaked days before the election? I got a lucky hat I’d like to sell you. It was worn by a little old senator only worn it while going to Christmas mass in Cambodia.
mishu,
Obviously it wasn’t “Bush’s fault”. However, equally obviously, American tropps passed by some big ammo dumps and did nothing to destroy them (securing wasn’t really an option). Did they have good reasons to do so? Probably, yes. But it was a mistake anyway.
Three words . . . H. R. Puffinstuff.
TW: sense69 . . . have you been readin’ my mail?
Anyone else notice Charles Nelson Reilly died on Sunday?
He WHAT?!
GUILTY, I tell you! Bring on the hangman!
Only a criminal would negligently fail to exact the war planning just so.
A) He was still alive?
B) Besides The Match Game and quite possibly Jim Nabors’ naughty-pit, what else did that man ever do?
timmah – Your most recent inane drivel is in your top 5 of Timmah’s Most Stupid posts evah … Well done.
It’s TWOO! It’s TWOO! (Sorry, watched Blazing Saddles over the weekend.)
CNR’s obit.
Go ye and find an X-Files episode called “Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space’”.
He interviewed Arriana Huffington
“The only plan is: there is no plan”
— Von Clauswitz, I think. Or possibly Attila.
“No plan survives contact with the enemy.”
— Military aphorism, anonymous
“Anyone for tennis?”
— Cream
SB: stop32
making sense
And then follow it up with the concluding Chung episode from season 2 of Millennium, “Jose Chung’s ‘Doomsday Defense’”.
The Church of Selfosophy is not to be trifled with. No sir, nuhuh.
The US military generally has a plan for the most efficient way to fold a t-shirt, and to hang your laundry bag from your bed. The idea that there was “no plan” or that “no plan was implemented” is beyond stupid.
Please contact your local plaintiff attorney to see if they will be willing to pursue this tort for you.
Do you read what you type ? Or is self-reflection simply not possible for those on the Left ?
Your singular thought. We shall expect nothing more from you today. No need to risk pulling a muscle.
Did someone say something about hang gliding?
Forget the green screen though. You have to try the real thing. Just a taste (write ups of my last 6 flights):
http://www.hanggliding.org/weblog.php?w=8
John
LMC – Something seemed a bit off when nabors was not at the track to sing that song before the 500. That imbalance was offset by bikini shots of Danica and Milka Duno, and Ashley Judd soaking wet.
JD,
You think that Franchetti sold his soul to Satan? Or does he have the greatest karma in the world?
Or is it some kind of cruel existential joke…you’re married to Ashley Judd, you win the Indy 500…then you have to have the party at your in-laws.
And your hot wife is a UK fan.
TW: did93. Not at ‘nova and not in ‘93, but we had the mascot first!
People are what people do, Jeff. Der Commissar is no exception.
Now shut up, wingnut!
LMC – He sold his soul to the Devil when Ashley Judd agreed to marry a midget. However, he and Kanaan had the best rides on Sunday, so I do not really hold this victory against him.
FWIW – I am completely phobic of midgets and dwarfs, and clowns. I have no clue what that is called, and I know it is completely irrational.
Uh-huh. Pull the other one; it has bells on it.
Seriously; you’ll want to document that claim.
Rob – You know that silly little things like facts will not keep them from trotting out their patently un-serious arguments.
Hey, hey, hey! One cannot make such OUTRAGEOUS claims without offering evidence, isnt’ that what we’ve learned from Timmy?
It’s a common45 mistake, but one easily rectified.
Naw, Jeff doesn’t give a shit about that. But if you keep treading on his shadow, he’s likely to make you pay for your drinks…
Clint – Thank you for pointing out my blunder. The pics of Danica can be found here, the pics of Milka Duno can be found here, and the wet dress photos of Ashley Judd can be found here
I can do a pretty convincing Valerie Bertinelli.
The highlight of Indy for me was during the rain delay when Brent Musberger solemnly explained that the track would take longer to dry than normal because the asphalt was laid over bricks, and wouldn’t drain as fast as normal asphalt laid over a soft subgrade. I can’t see a major network keeping that level of stupidity languishing in sports, he must be moved into the news department asap. His time has come.
B Moe, but K. Olberman has already trod down that road…
Nothing will ever come close to the time I heard Dan Rather, while waiting for the first Shuttle crew to come out, tell us that we were all “waiting for the astronauts to effect an egress of the Shuttle”. I was weeping and choking with laughter as I switched the set off and left the room.
B Moe – I agree that Musberger is almost as bad as it gets in sports announcing, but he cannot hold a candle to Bill Walton.
My favorite part of the 500 ? I would have to say that seeing the Foyt kids stay out of the wall, for the first time, was a nice change. Now, if they could just learn to be competitive.
On a different note:
Is it OK to question Adam Gadahn’s patriotism?
His dissent position is world class… and seems untouchable. The new moral high ground if you will.
Adam Gadahn’s patriotism is like Lindsay Lohan’s virginity.
Gone at 12?
Yay for WordPress! If you need a hand with any of it, email me.
Re: “the plan”–
That was Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke, and it’s a universal truth. Not that the armchair generals of “peace” on the left would understand anything from someone like that.
How about this one?
“Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow…Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance– our information infrastructure.”
–Sen. Fred Thompson (1998)
sb: army17
– nope, 18, and it was the chAir Force.
(Jeff Goldstein in an earlier post.)
I think that encapsulates the position precisely. Whether or not you were in favour of the original invasion, whatever your view on the subsequent performance by the coalition, I believe these truths to be self evident:
1. If the US pulls out of Iraq before stabilising it, the consequent mayhem will be beyond our current comprehension.
2. It would be a betrayal of every value America has held to since its founding.
3. It will bring an end to US security as you have known it for the last 100 years.
To which I would only add
4. There is only one power on earth that can bring about America’s defeat in Iraq: America.
So for all our sakes, please do not do it.