The Stout Republican

Got accepted into Grad School last week. MBA here I come.

Filling out the FAFSA is a bitch, it’s like filing your taxes a second time. Doesn’t help that I also filed my taxes on a Mac using Mac Software, and regardless of what the commercials tell you, Macs are not that user field, talk about a wasted hour spent trying to figure out why when printing to a PDF I’d only have half a page…with intermittent pinwheels of death. So it made getting at my 1040 data near impossible…

So, now…3 business days until I find out how much cash I can borrow from the big bad government.

In international political news…turns out that whole basketball to Kim Jung thing didn’t work out.

The U.N. Security Council was meeting later Monday in New York to discuss what President Barack Obama called Pyongyang’s “blatant defiance” of resolutions banning the regime from developing weapons of mass destruction.

I know, we can just give Pyongyang more stuff so that they won’t do things we don’t like. You know…positive reinforcement. Let’s call it something like appeasement, then we can attach a timeline, and take some pictures, agree to peace, and then start all over again in the next 6 months.

Obama might be the only one who can give North Korea what it wants.

Paik Hak-soon of the South Korean security think tank Sejong Institute said North Korea is “putting maximum pressure” on the United States for direct, high-level negotiations resulting in a “grand deal” that would include aid, concessions and a normalization of ties.

I don’t ever know where Kim Jung got that idea that whining and crying about things you want gets this government to cave?

WMD

Listening in astonishment most of the time actually…though I did get a few good licks in. I was debating the moral and intellectual equivalencing of western and “other” religions and cultures with one of the local lefty-moonbat dhim-witted elites today and was again surprized at the absolute non-compromising blind hatred of the “RELIGIOUS RIGHT” that seethed from every pore of his xy cursed existance.
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Islam, Judeo Christian, Moonbats, WMD

I love it when people mess with Politicians…

A Freudian slip of the cigar for the clipping crew?

GoingThere

Humor, WMD, Your Government

I called the friends when I saw the Drudge teaser about a NY Times article on WMDs. I thought “By Golly They Found Them”…and the New York Times is reporting it.

I was wrong.

Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.

But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.

What’s that you say? The US gave Nuclear information to Iran unwittingly through their website? Face value, bad bad…but wait…dig deeper. Does this in fact mean Iraq had accurate, usable nuclear information:

A senior American intelligence official who deals routinely with atomic issues said the documents showed “where the Iraqis failed and how to get around the failures.” The documents, he added, could perhaps help Iran or other nations making a serious effort to develop nuclear arms, but probably not terrorists or poorly equipped states. The official, who requested anonymity because of his agency’s rules against public comment, called the papers “a road map that helps you get from point A to point B, but only if you already have a car.”

This means that Iraq documents showed not only how to build nuclear arms, but where they had failed in their own attempts? I thought Iraq had an antiquated program that was useless…right?

The irony lies in the fact that the press is relying on the accuracy of these documents (which prove Saddam was actively pursuing a Nuclear program) from the same web site that they claimed documents purporting a Saddam – al Qaeda link…were false. This should all be good for the Republicans, but it won’t be…there’s going to be the glossing over of the eyes as soon as you start ot discuss or analyze more in depth. What is it that Going There always says? That’s right “Mooers’ Law“:

An information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than for him not to have it.

Where an information retrieval system tends not to be used, a more capable information retrieval system may tend to be used even less.

Just like the NIE Document, the picking and choosing will begin, and what was originally a movement in open government and sunshine policy by sharing what we found, is going to be changed into negligence on the part of this government (read Republican) and Mr. Bush (waiting for the special Olbermann comment). The irony is thick indeed. It’s not like if this was found internally, that it wouldn’t have been leaked by someone in the department anyways (can you say epidemic?).

We’ll see where this goes. Click through to Hot Air as they’ll have far more updates than I will be able to (damn this white collar and it’s chains of…wait…I get paid tomorrow…w00t).

Iraq, WMD, msm

Say it aint so…An opinion piece in the Christian Science Monitor on reducing inDUHvidual responsibility!?

Not My Fault

How can such a simple concept as education be perverted?

(information) + (money) + (student) = OPPORTUNITY

But? Oh Yeah!? Forest?! Trees?! DAMN incestuous cultural irresponsibility norms! Arrrggggh!!!

It is looking more and more like Nero is fiddling. Guess it might be time to start investing in Marshmallow stock.

Yummy Anarchy!

We ought to be,

GoingThere (soon)

ps…why the category listing of WMD? think about it…GT

Education, WMD

Just to remind the “Bush Lied” and history revisionist crowd that continue to try to have it both ways. The official record doesn’t lie.
Historical Statements by the Democrats

HT: Expose the Left

Blogs and Alternative Media, Democrats, Iraq, WMD

Are you shocked?

Media Blackout of WMD’s by Confederate Yankee

Iraq, WMD, msm

Fox News Reports – Hundred of WMDs have been found in Iraq.

Democratic Response: “Wait wait wait….those are the wrong kinds of Weapons of Mass Destruction…we meant it has to be something that we define as Mass, like a nuke…not those little chemical weapons. Those aren’t real weapons…”

Rick Santorum’s web site has the release. Hugh Hewitt interviewed him today on his radio show, and the transcript and audio can been seen and heard on Radio Blogger. Summary at Hugh Hewitt.

UPDATE: Allah at Hot Air covers this in depth.

Iraq, WMD