tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post7192757824764251196..comments2024-03-28T00:23:01.632-04:00Comments on Lem's Levity: I couldn't have said it better!Trooper Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-74810902373564263512017-04-10T09:02:49.999-04:002017-04-10T09:02:49.999-04:00That bushel of crabs looks great.
Who knew that...That bushel of crabs looks great. <br /><br />Who knew that Troop and Kevin Williamson would be on the same page about Trump? Evi L. Bloggerladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00371362907839227149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-20579574117009156102017-04-09T13:43:54.399-04:002017-04-09T13:43:54.399-04:00The study of history is chock full of useful lesso...The study of history is chock full of useful lessons.<br /><br />It is our arrogance that stops us from taking advantage of what history teaches us.Trooper Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-80918230827590995642017-04-09T13:10:39.253-04:002017-04-09T13:10:39.253-04:00"...the study of history has no useful lesson..."...the study of history has no useful lessons."<br /><br />Entropy always wins?ricpichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01321511130788764861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-5902220650696304102017-04-09T10:13:59.603-04:002017-04-09T10:13:59.603-04:00There are no good players in Syria, but there are ...There are no good players in Syria, but there are worse players. If it causes some of the players to rethink their more heinous acts, then it's a small, fragile victory......I don't think anything good will come out of the Mideast. Assad uses poison gas on children. His opponents use children to execute their prisoners. Fuck them all. Still, it's a good thing for Assad to factor in the American response whilst pondering the use of chemical weapons.......The study of history, as someone by now must have observed, teaches us that the study of history has no useful lessons. Perhaps this will lead to further involvement. Perhaps this will lead to the suppression of the use of chemical weapons. I wouldn't bet either way. Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07837540030934495651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-14855016392292684222017-04-09T09:59:13.526-04:002017-04-09T09:59:13.526-04:00You're lucky you have Trump. If I was running ...<i>You're lucky you have Trump. If I was running the show, there would be about a million people dead by now.</i><br /><br />I know... me too!<br /><br />All the bad peoples, tho.Joe Biden, America's Putinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05802605309593881825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-53028841052074733072017-04-09T03:40:08.464-04:002017-04-09T03:40:08.464-04:00Trooper York said...
I am not panicking ed. I am l...<i>Trooper York said...<br />I am not panicking ed. I am looking at the situation and weighing the alternatives.<br /><br />When you do something that is praised by John McCain, Lindsey Graham, the Media and the Democrats you are doing something wrong. <br /><br />Did you see Lindsey Graham on Tucker Carlson? He was talking about putting US troops into Syria to take out Assad and end Russian influence. This is what you get when you buy into the globalist cuck worldview. It is a very slippery slope. He took one tentative step onto the slope. I hope he pulls back.</i><br /><br />No, the optics here is that these shit-heads are hitching a ride on Trumps call to action. It's a no lose for any of them and they look like puff pieces. Now they will have a much harder time trying to pin shit on Trump in their conspiratorial fashion. <br /><br />Senators can say all the shit they want and they often do, but it's Trump that gets the say so on putting boots on the ground and he won't send those guys in unless there is a compelling reason to. This wasn't it and I can bet you that when he talked to his Joint Chiefs, he's all the alternative scenarios he needs at his disposal.Methadrashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07828014989470539375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-18008930948317850852017-04-09T02:09:00.115-04:002017-04-09T02:09:00.115-04:00No, he was scared. The night Reagan came after him...No, he was scared. The night Reagan came after him, he was in his tent instead of the palace. That's the only thing that saved his ass.<br /><br />And Maggie sent the SAS after the perps, who died real fast.<br /><br />The fact Dubya went after Saddam reinforced the idea he could be next, so he made the big surrender on his weapons.<br /><br />All this BP stuff is BS. Megrahi was on his last legs with prostate cancer and, in fact, there's no real evidence Khadaffy did order it. There are people who say it was Abu Nidal who came up with the idea, but it's interesting to note Megrahi was the only guy arrested, so this is more of the isolationist, conspiratorial nonsense we've been getting any time something like this happens.<br /><br />PS Interesting point of CNBC (of all places). With the airstrike, <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/07/missile-attack-brings-d-c-back-to-normal.html" rel="nofollow">Trump destroyed ythe Demos' Russia card</a>.edutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15033144261502435196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-77923261266485923802017-04-09T00:25:37.826-04:002017-04-09T00:25:37.826-04:00Something did pacify Qadaffy
There was. The lifti...<i>Something did pacify Qadaffy</i><br /><br />There was. The lifting of economic sanctions.ampersandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17145013352755061465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-5449555590938315082017-04-08T22:19:02.519-04:002017-04-08T22:19:02.519-04:00Something did pacify Qadaffy -- enough to make him...Something did pacify Qadaffy -- enough to make him give up seeking nukes. I thought it was the spectacle of seeing Saddam deposed. chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-53888122694583102722017-04-08T22:13:23.383-04:002017-04-08T22:13:23.383-04:00Bullshit. He came out of his hole, ordered PAN Am ...Bullshit. He came out of his hole, ordered PAN Am 103 and UTA Flight 772 blown up. No one avenged anything.<br /><br />The Brits on behalf of BP oil dealings with Qadaffy, released the one guy convicted of the bombing on "compassionate grounds". Al-Megrahi served 9 years for the murder of 270 people. <br />Qadaffy lived happily ever after, til he got a rebel bayonet shoved up his ass. ampersandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17145013352755061465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-20796695578648292942017-04-08T21:52:22.187-04:002017-04-08T21:52:22.187-04:00Spend on money on America. On Americans.
Raytheon...<i>Spend on money on America. On Americans.</i><br /><br />Raytheon (maker of Tomahawks) is an American company last I checked.chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-2380833092652830982017-04-08T20:41:01.363-04:002017-04-08T20:41:01.363-04:00Yes, 1914 was a wonderful time. But not as good as...Yes, 1914 was a wonderful time. But not as good as 1918 and the great Flu Pandemic. Actually, the spread and damage of that flu virus was in large part due to our involvement in The Great War. Woodrow Wilson obsessed on the War and ignored the pandemic. And, soldiers moving around the world helped spread the flu. The first case was a soldier @ Fort Riley, KS. However, the medical profession was forced to step up their game and that pandemic helped bring medicine into modernity. So, that was a good thing. ndspinellihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01446291993043775612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-77987947696011637872017-04-08T20:38:59.119-04:002017-04-08T20:38:59.119-04:00Trooper York said...
Don't waste another dime...Trooper York said...<br /><br /><i>Don't waste another dime on these worthless pieces of shit. Bring our boys home. From Syria. From Germany. From Korea. Enough is enough.<br /><br />I thought Trump was with the program. The proof is in the pudding.</i><br /><br />Now you're just plain wrong. One strike, one shot across the bow, is not intervention and it isn't war.<br /><br />If Trump just wanted to make a point, he made it. I haven't seen any follow-up, and I haven't any announcement of troop commitments.<br /><br />So it looks like we do have a one off and that should be the end of it.<br /><br />ampersand said...<br /><br /><i>Someone mentioned Quadafi as someone who was rendered peaceful by Reagan's bombing raid. uh-uh. In two years he ordered the bombing of PAN AM 103. He lived out his life generally unmolested until some rebels stuck a bayonet up his ass. Both cross-eyed Bushes saw no need to avenge the deaths of any children killed in Lockerbie.</i><br /><br />I was the one who mentioned it, and I stand by it.<br /><br />Khadaffy never poked his head out of his hole again. Once his Zone of Death was penetrated, that was the end of him on the world stage. The Limeys avenged Lockerbie and that was the end.<br /><br />When Dubya went in to Iraq, Muammar couldn't give up his WMDs fast enough and pledge his desire for ever-lasting peace with the US.<br /><br />If you're going to tell the story, get it right.edutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15033144261502435196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-64427551448304215452017-04-08T19:58:36.665-04:002017-04-08T19:58:36.665-04:00Did Congress vote military intervention in Syria? ...Did Congress vote military intervention in Syria? If there are troops there they are there illegally. <br />Has it been proven that Assad used the gas? It's just as likely that IS could have.<br /><br />We have been removing despotic though secular regimes since the first Gulf War for the benefit of the duplicitous Saudis. ISIS are Wahabi fundamentalists in cahoots with the Saudis. The Saudis funded the Taliban , funded Al Qaida and certain elements funded 9/11. <br />Want to end ISIS. take out the Saudis. I don't think we have any business in Syria and I didn't think so for Iraq as well.<br /><br />Someone mentioned Quadafi as someone who was rendered peaceful by Reagan's bombing raid. uh-uh. In two years he ordered the bombing of PAN AM 103. He lived out his life generally unmolested until some rebels stuck a bayonet up his ass. Both cross-eyed Bushes saw no need to avenge the deaths of any children killed in Lockerbie.ampersandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17145013352755061465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-9431284939154312002017-04-08T19:31:18.216-04:002017-04-08T19:31:18.216-04:00The America of 1914 was a lot better than what we ...The America of 1914 was a lot better than what we have today. Except for the technology.<br /><br />But in almost every way I can think of it would be far preferable.<br /><br />Well maybe except dentistry.<br /><br />But otherwise lets go back in time. Trooper Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-88846012675773332902017-04-08T19:29:55.423-04:002017-04-08T19:29:55.423-04:00It's not.
If ISIS is gone some new bunch of ...It's not. <br /><br />If ISIS is gone some new bunch of ragheads is going to start up. Deport them. Segregate them. Keep them out of your country and your problems are over.<br /><br />That's the answer. That is what we signed up for. It won't be easy. The liberal court cunts are going to do all they can to stop it. He has to Andrew Jackson it. Trail of Tears it. That is the only thing that works. <br /><br />If you give them an inch they will be up in your business. They are like cockroaches. The only way to get rid of an infestation?<br /><br />Back to the bogus reason for bombing. Screw them. Trooper Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-91710316790107663982017-04-08T19:00:33.370-04:002017-04-08T19:00:33.370-04:001914 called and they want their foreign policy bac...1914 called and they want their foreign policy back.<br /><br />He told us he was going to eliminate ISIS. How did you think that was going to happen.Rabelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02612585516401001803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-84974361196367034372017-04-08T18:36:18.704-04:002017-04-08T18:36:18.704-04:00The Inherent Resolve coalition (mostly us and not ...The Inherent Resolve coalition (mostly us and not including Russia) has conducted over 8000 airstrikes in Syria since 2014, dropping tens of thousands of bombs. We have around 2000 boots on the ground in Syria primarily in the form of two 400 man Marine artillery units and special forces in various roles.<br /><br />We're in Syria up to our eyeballs. It's best to get on the team and support the US effort. An alternative is to get all hormonal about it and spend your time on soap opera rumors about the White House from unnamed sources. Take your pick. I'm with the President and the USA. Rabelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02612585516401001803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-32170329236477953122017-04-08T17:54:34.731-04:002017-04-08T17:54:34.731-04:00I want Omar Bradley not Patton. For peacetime. I h...I want Omar Bradley not Patton. For peacetime. I hope this is peacetime. <br /><br />Warriors fight. That is what they do. When you put a warrior in charge you get in fights.<br /><br />When I was managing a bar I had to be very careful who I hired as a bouncer. His job wasn't to win fights. His job was to avoid fights.<br /><br />Ike and Truman were the last Presidents who were not overly impressed by the brass.Trooper Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-12449138945650943832017-04-08T17:15:03.040-04:002017-04-08T17:15:03.040-04:00I think Rabel and Mama have good points.
Rabel sa...I think Rabel and Mama have good points.<br /><br />Rabel said...<br /><br /><i><b>We have absolutely no vital interests in Syria.</b><br /><br />ISIS?</i><br /><br />IS is pulling strings all over the world. That's why all the terror attacks (long gunman, truck, etc.) all look alike, but it appears Trump's decided to go the spec ops route with them (good thought IMHO).<br /><br />MamaM said...<br /><br /><i>While Ivanka may be part of the dynamic, it is Trump who is responsible for the actions he takes. He appears to me to be positioning himself to address North Korea</i><br /><br />I agree with Troop Ivanka is more Left than Trump will ever be, Mama's right when she says this has more of an audience than IS.<br /><br />Trooper York said...<br /><br /><i>I just hope that Trump is not overly impressed by his generals. It certainly seemed that way in the transition where he praised Mad Dog like he was the second coming of Patton</i><br /><br />Patton wasn't that good, either. I have to agree, when I heard all the "warrior monk" stuff, I got nervous. Show me a guy who's satisfied with just being called a good soldier (Allen, for example) and he's the guy I trust.<br /><br />Trump is always going to use superlatives, that's just him. I do think he's got a lot more brains than Jack Kennedy.<br /><br />We'll see.edutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15033144261502435196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-900065355735349322017-04-08T16:47:38.733-04:002017-04-08T16:47:38.733-04:00You're lucky you have Trump. If I was running ...You're lucky you have Trump. If I was running the show, there would be about a million people dead by now.AllenShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08848966772462502893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-31330046215996814412017-04-08T16:30:52.344-04:002017-04-08T16:30:52.344-04:00Red lines were crossed. As far as it not being our...Red lines were crossed. As far as it not being our problem? Too late.<br /><br />Note: I'm no isolationist. Isolationism is folly.<br /> I've always wanted our military to be a force for good. Joe Biden, America's Putinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05802605309593881825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-67033743973677112082017-04-08T16:12:21.755-04:002017-04-08T16:12:21.755-04:00Trump needs to listen to his true followers. Ann C...Trump needs to listen to his true followers. Ann Coulter. Vox Day. Michael Chenovich. Richard Spencer. Milo. Me. <br /><br />Stay out of Syria. Leave Syria to the Syrians. Disengage from the endless war in the Middle East. <br /><br />Trooper Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-79942728320200185332017-04-08T16:07:32.038-04:002017-04-08T16:07:32.038-04:00I just hope that Trump is not overly impressed by ...I just hope that Trump is not overly impressed by his generals. It certainly seemed that way in the transition where he praised Mad Dog like he was the second coming of Patton. That was the mistake that Kennedy made. Another rich dilettante who wanted to prove he wasn't a pussy. The key difference was that at least Kennedy served and knew that the military can screw up. The way he did in his incompetence in PT-109. Trump doesn't have even that shred of credibility. I am worried that he is going to try and gin that up with foreign entanglements. <br /><br />That was always the danger with Trump. If he abandons Bannon and his nationalistic isolationism we are in for a lot of trouble.Trooper Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-38582148274871745892017-04-08T16:05:17.327-04:002017-04-08T16:05:17.327-04:00I grew up in Damascus. When our fire and brimstone...I grew up in Damascus. When our fire and brimstone Southern Baptist preacher got up in the pulpit and told us the story of Paul on the road to Damascus, my young mind immediately wondered whether Paul was on Rt. 27 or Rt. 108.<br /><br />Today some people were wailing about "We are at war because there is a crazy man in the White House". I reminded them that Obama was gone and we, as a nation, have been at war for decades. At least since the first WTC tower bombing. That shut them up. As did "Just what the fuck has actually changed in your life as a result of who is or isn't president?" Silence.<br /><br />Next week is Welcome Immigrants week. I am undecided whether to stay home or carry a couple hundred extra rounds of G2 RIP .45 ammo with me. Either way, I plan on being prepared.The Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05354536924604187137noreply@blogger.com