Category: Rants

Bill whipple writes another excellent essay on conspiracy theorists and “truthers”:

My father was interred at Arlington National Cemetery in 2002. I will never forget that day. It changed my life, and was the event that started me writing here at Eject! Eject! Eject!

The man who coordinated that service was on a hill about a half-mile from that side of the Pentagon on the morning of September 11th, 2001. He told me that they had been informed that something was going on in New York that morning. Then he heard something that he said he thought was a missile attack – a roar so loud and so far beyond a normal jet sound that he looked up at that exact moment expecting to die.

What he saw emerge from the trees overhead, perhaps a hundred feet above him, was American Airlines Flight 77 as it went by in a silver blur, engines screaming in a power dive as it hit the near side of the Pentagon. He told me – to my face – that body parts had rained down all over that sacred field. Just like red hail on a summer day. Those body parts are buried in a special place at the base of that hill.

Now. If Rosie O’Donnell and the rest of that Lunatic Brigade is right and I am wrong, then that man – that insignificant Army chaplain and his Honor Guard of forty men – are all liars. He is lying to me for Halliburton and Big Oil. That Chaplain—and all of those decent, patriotic young men in the Honor Guard, and all the commuters on the roads who saw an American Airlines jet instead of a missile – ALL of those people are liars and accessories to murder. And all of the firefighters who went into buildings rigged to explode were pre-recruited suicide martyrs dying for George W. Bush’s plans for world conquest.

Remember: NOTHING that happened on September 11th needed any more explanation than what was obvious from the second impact…namely, that Islamic terrorists hijaked four American aircraft and flew three of them into their targets. To try to convince people of missile attacks and rigged explosives and mystery jets is nothing more than an intentional assault on reason and common sense, one that damns the innocent and protects those mass murderers with our blood on their hands.

It’s an obscenity. It’s a filthy, God-damned, criminal obscenity.

Nothing less.

Orson Scott Card writes an excellent essay on the Church of Global Warming:

If you pay close attention, you’ll find that Global Warming alarmists are not actually saying “Global Warming” lately. No, nowadays it’s “Climate Change.” Do you know why?

Because for the past three years, global temperatures have been falling.

Oops.

CBC 2 news led with the following story all day yesterday:

U.S. Marines fleeing an ambush/suicide bombers indiscriminately fired on civilians yesterday in Afghanistan, killing 23…

The wilful and ingenuous ignorance that fuels this tendentious spinning top of a story is mind-blowing. Later on in the story we find out that it was a “convoy” that “barreled down the road”, shooting at random passers-by.

What, exactly, is a “convoy” supposed to do in the event of an ambush? Stop, suck it up and keep taking punishment?

The correct tactic when confronted by an ambush — as has been known for at least the last four thousand years or so, ever since the Hittites swept through the Middle East with their shiny new chariots — is to keep moving. To counter-attack, and if you’re guarding a convoy with some kind of important materiel, like, say, fuel, or food, or medical supplies, to say nothing of self-important journalists, to get the hell out of Dodge. To stop and sit still is simply suicidal.

As for killing civilians, it is very clear under the laws of war that those who hide behind civilians to do their dirty work bear the blame for the civilian casualties that result when their targets have the temerity to fight back and/or use suppressing fires to allow their convoy to escape an ambush. The record of the Taliban and associated types has been a continuous tale of using human shields and outright slaughtering civilians. The record of the U.S. Marines, while by no means perfect, has in general been one of extraordinary professionalism and discipline in adhering strictly to the law of war.

Later in the story, we hear the claim that journalists on the scene had their pictures deleted by military investigators. First of all, given that the media in general seem to have made it a priority to expose sensitive details of military operations even if, nay especially if, they could result in harm to Coalition soldiers, I’m not exactly shedding tears for those “journalists”. Which leads to the second point: how do we know they were “journalists” at all? How did they know to be on the scene? How do we know they weren’t taking pictures so as to document the effectiveness of the ambush & weapons, and the Marines’ tactics in response? They don’t seem to have been detained or harmed in any way — they’re front & center on CBC — it’s just that their pictures, which could have contained such interesting military information, were deleted. I say they got off easy.