Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Compare and Contrast
For comparison’s sake, take the carefully-prepared Amnesty International hair-splitting er, uh, let’s say it’s a rather limp-wristed “Call To Action” I was carping about yesterday. Review…
Amnesty International condemns the torture or summary killing of anyone who has been taken prisoner and reiterates that such acts are absolutely prohibited in international humanitarian law…Those who order or commit such atrocities must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law without recourse to the death penalty.
Got that? They deplore the torture and murder of our brave soldiers, but in our punishment of the wicked we are to abstain from the death penalty. Should we have to choose between subjecting the villains to the death penalty, or letting them go free, I’m not clear which course Amnesty International prefers. It appears they won’t say.
There’s something damned disturbing about this. Like, Amnesty International, and other people who aren’t supposed to be cool with what happened to these two soldiers, if they were really uppity and angsty about it, they’d be saying and doing things just a tad differently. Kind of reminds me of…of…
Now let us cleanse our collective palette of this half-assed weasel-wording, and lay our eyes on the not quite as cool-headed, but far more refreshing, words of Robert Stokley, proud father of KIA SGT Mike Stokley (IED, 8/16/05) (H/T The Thunder Run via Sneakeasy’s Joint via The Rottweiler — Bless you all).
We must hunt these dogs down and eradicate them from the face of this earth.
This moment in time takes me back to my last instructions to Mike � don�t let them take you alive son, for they will execute you anyway, so go down fighting and take as many as you can with you � I was concerned about him being taken prisoner by these barbaric and cruel assassins who push aside all ethical and moral considerations of human dignity. To slit the throats and then put it on for display is a horror no family should suffer. It is a moment like this that I feel our family is extremely lucky.
Let us not forget this and let us seek maximum retribution to teach them and those around the world who would dare contemplate such acts a lesson. Let us not forget and let us deal harshly with those that lend assistance to such individuals in any way, at any place, at any time.
My point? Absolute statements do have a home. And one of the places where absolute statements are most appropriate, is within the issue of deterrent effects. As I was pointing out yesterday, you just can’t supply an adequate deterrent effect when you say “don’t do any more of A, because if you do, we’re going to do B and C and maybe a little bit of D. But rest assured that since we’re trying to set a good example, we’ll never ever do E F G or H, even though you’re doing them all the time.”
Lectures like those, examples like those, don’t quite set up the deterrent effect. The deterrent effect requires an absolute to be effective. And what more noble purpose can there be for a deterrent effect, might I ask, but to deter people from beheading, castrating and mutilating our soldiers?
Remember back in the eighties? Even left-wing Hollywood weanie types, made movies that were all about how some monsters can only be stopped by other monsters, and good men must become monsters themselves in order to carry the fight. Whatever happened to the days when even our Hollywood liberals understood this?
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