Pinwheels and Orange Peels

Apple Liberals

It's sad but true: I've been using Apple products for about 5 years now, and I always get an icky feeling when I hang out on sites like MacDailyNews reading the comments.  Sure enough, someone always manages to turn the latest Apple news into a wacky liberal Bush-hating rant.  Now some researchers have gone and released a study claiming to show that "Mac People" are more open-minded and liberal than the unwashed, Windows-using masses.  To that I say "meh."

I think it gives Apple the wrong stink, and it's a shame because the products are fantastic, be you conservative, liberal, or somewhere in between.  I figure the only thing to do is continue to praise and use the products around my not-so-liberal friends, and someday we might change the culture of freakiness that still clings to the company.

Child Abuse

Friends don't let friends give their children to sweaty commies.  Eww:

Plus, what does this photo have to do with the nut banning beer trucks?

Ticked

I am sick of Sheehan and her idiocy.  I have refrained from posting about it until now simply because she is way, way overexposed already.  Her latest statements concerning the "protest crosses" demand a response:

"I just want to say that what happened last night is very disturbing to all of us and it really should be very disturbing to America, because no matter what you think about the war, we should all honor the sacrifices of the ones who have fallen,"

Excuse me?  Driving a truck through a field of "protest crosses" does far less to dishonor our fallen than her obscene crusade does.  When I first heard about her little hissy fit my first thought was "what a betrayal of her son's memory."  Then she has the gall to say the above?!?  Hypocrisy of the highest order.

Go ahead, show your true colors

Thanks to a tip from CQ anyone can see what CNN Netscape is really thinking of the reelection of President Bush. As of 1903 Guam time the file name of the shot of President Bush is "a**hole.jpg." In case they change it, I did a screen capture:

If you want to see it for yourself, follow the link and right click on the photo, then select "view image" or something similar.

Always nice to see these slimeballs self-destruct.

UPDATE (2200 Guam Time): The file name has been changed to a nicer, friendlier name. Too bad for them I've already got it!

Don't feed 'em

Troll came back and called me and my brothers-in-arms babykillers, so every shred of credibility it might have had is now gone. There is no reasoning with the far left. I pray the cycle of ignorance on the left would be broken, but until that happens please don't feed the trolls.

Troll Spotting

Thus saith the troll in comments to this post and a comment I made on Quiet Reverie:

mmmm biscuits

So far so good. Can't argue with biscuits.

so anyone that disagrees with you is "not very smart"?

duhhhhhhhhh

You said it, not me. It's not about disagreement, it's about facts. The liberals complain about Bush's "lies," yet there are none. It's the left that spouts the constant stream of lies in an effort to regain political power at the expense of the American people.

they brainwash you military people and you can't see the truth. the truth is that we are hated around the world because of our arrogant with-us-or-you're-with-the-terrorists president.

Yeah, just the other day we were sitting in the mass brainwashing session and I thought "You know, we really ought to think about skipping these and finding out the truth." I got over it, though. Oh sure, babykilling practice is rough for the first couple of weeks, but then you get over it. And stealing oil is great fun. Blowing stuff up is really cool, too. Heh.

Just so you know, I joined while Clinton was still disgracing the office of the Presidency. We didn't have brainwashing sessions then, and we don't have them now. Most military guys are pretty apolitical. We have to be because we've sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and follow the orders of the officers appointed over us, including those of the President (whoever they might be). No one tells anyone else who to vote for or who to support. So my views are my own. I was not ordered or coerced in any way.

And we're not "hated by the world." The little old ladies with the bakery in Germany were happy to see me and my money every morning, and the Japanese people I spoke with last year had great respect and admiration for America.

we have alieneted ourselves from the world. bush went to the UN for its stamp of approval and when he didn't get it he said we don't need their permission to invade and occupy another country.

Oh, get over the UN already! We acted only because they refused to back up multiple resolutions and because they allowed the oil-for-food program to become Saddam's own petty cash fund. We invaded and occupied a country screaming for relief from the evils of a very, very sick regime. A regime that funded terrorists in Palestine and elsewhere.

the united stated thinks that US way is the only way, and that's why we are nearly universally hated around the world.

you can delete this now.

Another lefty tactic--repeating the same lie until everyone believes it. We.are.not.universally.hated. And why would I delete your post? A wise man once said, "Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and be shown as one."

oh...one question...why do christian bloggers post about cars so much?

Take a close look at my banner. Second word in the subtitle. Cars. I like 'em. Can't say as I've seen much from other christian bloggers though. Hadn't noticed, maybe.

:-)

Back at ya.

Rumble Rumble

I did my daily stop at the Bleat and read this rather cryptic line:

So: do you think the guy who wrote that article called up this site today, hoping he’d find a foamy-mouthed point-by-point reply? Maybe. Who cares?

Hmmm. Wonder what that's about. Googled Lileks and found this "article" by a loony lefty. Meh. Allow me to summarize:

Rant Rant Rant Mumble Rant Rant Jingo Mumble Rant

Uh huh. You just wasted 15 minutes of my time.

Visited Cold Fury, which isn't blogrolled due to my self-imposed language guidelines but is rather good nonetheless. Mike does an excellent job fisking the article:

Of course, on the heels of such phony concern about Iraqi civilian deaths, which this guy apparently was not nearly so upset about as long as it was Saddam feeding them into the shredders and filling the mass graves, we’ll always get the old saw about how Bush rushed so eagerly into war with Saddam that the rest of the world barely had time to complain. As if over a year of dithering, threatening, wheedling, cajoling, and so forth trying to get Saddam to live up not only to 18 different UN resolutions but to the terms of the decade-old Gulf War 1 ceasefire agreement weren’t enough.

Then visited the Instapundit and found this article with constantly updating links from the rest of the warbloggers. Read it all.

The Party of Hate

Via PardonmyEnglish's news feed: When Angry Democrats Attack!

Judge dismisses Streisand

Judge dismisses Streisand Lawsuit

What?!? An LA judge ruling against one of the shrillest women in the business? California is wackier than ever.

Not Suprised

Outrageous. That's the only way to describe this report from Joyful Christian. Apparently we're giving full military honors to Howard Dean's brother and his friend, who hiked into Laos and were killed by the Vietcong. They were civilians. I don't have any other info, but some questions present themselves:
1. What were they doing there? Protesting? Fighting? Providing humanitarian aid?
2. What are the standard procedures for civilians killed during the Vietnam war?
3. Is this an exception or the rule for JPAC repatriations?
I'll follow up on this when I return home next week.