Maybe you should read his blog more-carefully. Fred does not seem to be much of a fan of the same substances as Hunter S., and I doubt very-much Fred's demise will be suicide. As for wannabes, I suspect Fred's more widely read online than sarcasmo & botg put-together, he's been (in)famous for years since he cracked that joke about women and changing the oil...
JMR
How that makes Fred a "wannabe." Fred's just the Fred of Fredoneverything to me. I still fail to see how you derived either illegal drugs or "wannabe" from that.
JMR
From The Patriot: "[John] Edwards is once again stranded in hypocrisy-ville, having profited from a company that foreclosed on 34 homes in New Orleans. This is a particular embarrassment for Edwards, because New Orleans was where he launched his campaign---the capital city of the lesser of his two Americas."
Can you imagine the uproar this would have caused if this had been a Republican? It would have led every newscast for weeks! It wouldn't have died down until the Republican resigned. I don't know about you, but I haven't heard very much about this on the "unbiased" MSM...
Sen Clinton has begun backing away from a lot of her leftist agenda and moving to the center. She's starting to milk the moderate cow.
In the 1990's we watched the implementation of the largest tax increase in world history. We saw pork barrel spending the likes of which we had never seen before. Socialized health care was proposed. Don't ask don't tell became a reality. All from a candidate pushing conservative issues.
After gaining the nomination, leftist issues will be left behind. While campaigning Bubba drafted Bush and the smartest woman in the world will incorporate the same plan. She has no issues to run on, is intelligent enough to realize the negatives will not work, and will plagiarize the GOP.
Unlike her rivals, she has money and power, the leftist wackos established in the late 1960's will follow her. Will her decisions affect the party?
Regarding the recently released WHO study that ranked the US "medical care" way down on the list of countries, here is a "fisking" of that study and an analysis of why it's conclusion is flawed.
The media love to trash our troops. Every crime alleged to have been committed by a soldier or Marine in Iraq is headlined until it seems that those in uniform are so busy with atrocities they haven’t got time to fight.
No accusation is too preposterous for “respected” media outlets to feature, and the left-wing press convicts our troops long before they see a courtroom. Our service members are portrayed (by those who never served) as a sadistic rabble.
But when you look at the facts - the hard numbers - a very different picture emerges.
While crimes committed by our troops can’t be condoned (and they certainly aren’t), official crime statistics make it clear that we have the best-behaved military in history - one that’s vastly more law-abiding than our general population.
The here-at-home numbers are readily available from public sources. So let’s compare some domestic crime rates with the misdeeds of those vicious storm-troopers of ours.
In the 19-month period - over a year and a half - from Jan. 1, 2006 until the morning you read this, misbehavior by our troops resulted in a total of 59 scheduled court-martials in Iraq - 21 of them general court-martials, which are reserved for the most-serious crimes (murder, rape, robbery, assault, arson and so forth). The other 38 were special court-martials, invoked for lesser offenses, such as disciplinary infractions or petty theft.
OK: 59 trials in 19 months, among an average troop population of almost 140,000. Compare that to civilian crime statistics back home, and it’s clear that any of us would welcome the chance to live among such model citizens - even though our troops are overwhelmingly within the age window where criminal behavior is most frequent.
Start with a city that Money magazine rated as “one of the 10 best places to live” in the United States: Ann Arbor, Mich. Home to a great university, the town has a population of about 113,300 - about 20,000 lower than our pre-surge troop numbers in Iraq.
In 2005 (the last year for which statistics are available), that ideal place to live recorded 1,476 crimes that, if committed by a soldier, would have required a general court-martial - plus a further 2,282 thefts and similar infractions that, depending on the details, would have been handled by either a general or a special court-martial.
Twelve months in Ann Arbor, 3,758 court-martial-equivalent trials. If all the crimes had been taken to court, which one doubts. Nineteen months in Iraq, under the complex stresses of combat? Fifty-nine court-martials. Guess that bastion of ethical liberalism in Michigan needs to go through basic training.
But let’s give peace a chance: The most dogmatically left-wing city in the United States is undoubtedly (the People’s Republic of) Santa Cruz, Calif. With a population of some 55,000 - about a third of our current troop numbers in Iraq - Santa Cruz, where the Age of Aquarius reigns, had 503 violent crimes in 2004 (the latest statistics available) and a total of 3,665 crimes that would qualify for court-martials.
Extrapolate those numbers to match our current troop strength, and you’d have a requirement for more than 10,000 court-martial equivalents. If Santa Cruz were as serious about punishing its criminals as our military is . . .
The military doesn’t do warnings and probation. If a soldier does the crime, he or she will do the time or pay the other relevant penalty - court-martials directly reflect the number of crimes committed. That means that our troops in a combat zone have had less than 1 percent of the crime rate in Santa Cruz - whose City Council in 2003 was proud to be the first in the United States to adopt a resolution denouncing the war in Iraq.
Nor are these hotbeds of peace, love and shirked responsibility alone in being criminal empires compared to the good order prevailing in our military. Take a genuinely decent American city, Lynchburg, Va., with a strong religious tradition, 11 colleges, universities and technical schools and a population in 2006 of 67,720 (about half the pre-surge number of troops in Iraq).
In 2005, Lynchburg suffered 857 criminal acts that would’ve demanded general court-martials in the military and a further 1,805 thefts, many of which would have resulted in special court-martials.
Yet Lynchburg is particularly well-behaved. The stats for many cities are far worse.
Now set those facts against the hypocrisy of so many in the media toward our men and women in uniform. Did any of the reporters wailing about the deplorable behavior of our troops in a half-dozen incidents over four years bother to put those crimes into perspective?
Our troops are performing remarkably well under difficult conditions, and our military does a solid job of screening out sociopaths. But, inevitably, some slip through (the private-for-life who recently conned The New Republic might qualify). And it’s the one scumbag among 10,000 honorable men and women in uniform who gets the press attention.
Of course, we rightly demand model standards of behavior from our troops, as we do from law-enforcement agents and officers. And today’s U.S. armed forces deliver, taking good order and discipline very seriously. We all should be proud of how selflessly and honorably our troops have served as the jackals on the home tear at the military’s carcass.
I learned an important lesson myself in digging out these statistics: I knew, of course, how decent our troops are. I served with them for almost 22 years (and testified at two court-martials in two decades). But on future trips to California - my favorite foreign country - I’ll be sure to give Santa Cruz a wide berth.
I’d hate to be the victim of an atrocity.
Ralph Peters is the author of the new book “Wars of Blood and Faith: The Conflicts That Will Shape the 21st Century.”
Just wanted to make sure i am understanding you. So the Demediacrats best kept secret is a comparison of statistics between domestic crime and crime for troops fighting in a war?
I'll be happy to revise that assessment if you can just show me one article.... or just one blurb, where you have heard this comparison made in the demedia. For the time being, I'll let that vacuum act as support for my claim.
BTW - Let me make this clear for you; My assessment isn't the story here. Now let me ask you a few questions. Any reaction to the actual story? Do you dispute the data? Do you support the demedia silence to this anomaly between civilian vs. military crimes as opposed to the demedia's non-stop, breathless reporting of supposed US military atrocities gone wild? Are you suggesting any demediacrat could not have done the math? Are you a member of the Santa Cruz city council?
I did not, nor did I try to find one. Your the first I have heard to make his comparsion. If it is your opinion, this is some sort of "revelation" so be it.
I would not say the msm is ignoring this, imo it is not newsworthy because it is like comparing apples to oranges. I am not a member of the Santa Cruz council and I am baffled why you would ask me such a question.
Well good luck to you in your mission to get the truth out there. God speed.
Of course you would not. But let me take a little time on this one. The point is not the fact that the demediacrats are ignoring this obvious disparity in crime. The point is that the demediacrats are quick to endlessly report every rumor from supposed "flushing of Korans" to supposed "air-raiding of villages" but as Ralph Peters points out; "While crimes committed by our troops can’t be condoned (and they certainly aren’t), official crime statistics make it clear that we have the best-behaved military in history - one that’s vastly more law-abiding than our general population."
No, the fact that we have the best-behaved-military in history may not be "newsworthy" but, more to the point, neither is reporting lies tarnishing the behaviour of our best-behaved-military. Yet which stories do the demedia perpetuate? You yourself imply it would be fruitless to find one demedia story pointing out the enviable law-abiding character of our military, even while they perform their job in the harshest of conditions. I'm baffled that you can't see the obvious uneveness. Which leads me to your last point;
If you would take the time to read and reply to the article I posted rather than simply react to my teaser, then you possibly would not be baffled by my Santa Cruz city council question - apparently that's a stretch.
Why don't we just cut to the chase - Do you support the demediacrats endless assault on the character of our troops while ignoring the fact we have the best-behaved-military in history?
Maybe reading isn't your thing. So I suggest watching this video before answering.
Did not mean to be tardy with my response, but I had to go out for lunch. I can read just fine acumen. My vocabulary and spelling might be as good as yours though.
I watched your video, Okay I watched the first ten minutes anyway. All I saw was a person complaining about the media and dropping a f bomb constantly.
I do not condone anyone ever smearing anybody. If the events that happenned are facts, I would want to know about it. If whisleblowers are punished because they try to get truth out there, I would want to know about it as well.
I concede the msm might not be as quick to point out a bridge being built, or a school being opened as quick as they point out the secretarian violence, but I do not see them painting our troops in a negative light like you do.
Lastly if you want to compare todays troops with past troops from Vietnam troops or Korea, to come up with your hypthesis that this is the most behaved troops in history, I understand....but the logic of comparing US troops conduct to a US city is on par with the logic of asking me If I am in a government official in Santa Cruz. Perhaps if you did your comparsion to a city like Camden,New Jersey you might have gotten a even more favorable result.
The Peace is killing people in Israel and surrounding countries.
Collateral damage in Iraq cannot hold a candle to WWII. Collateral damage in Iraq cannot hold a candle to Saddam's Rule.
With 44,000 Hiway deaths in America each year, we have our own collateral damage to deal with. BUT, this is the Cost of Feedom to drive, and not have to dress like a NASCA driver to prevent Auto accident deaths.
With 15,000 murders a year, we have some collateral damage for the Freedom to carry Arms.
We just found out to cost of flying Helecopters in a war zone last week. 14 dead.
Freedom isnt' cheap, we have to pay for it....whether it's Freedom to Drive, Freedom to own a gun, Freedom to maintain a Military.
We could pull our troops out and keep the military Safe....except when they got home from war, we'd probably lose a few to Auto accidents and murder in Philidelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, etc.....
Everythings relative, and in a shooting war where your job is killed or be killed, losing 3,000 troops in the last 6 years is an ugly record you do not want, but looking at the odds I'd join the military before I'd drive from Los Angeles to New York, it's safer.
And if I was a Black man, I'd go to Iraq before I would Visit Philidelphia for a 9 month Tour.
What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ? David Foote GoE
A new poll in California shows the Left Coasters turning on Pelosi and Congress-San Fran Nan's "approval" by her own constituents has dropped from 48 percent to 39 percent, a drop of 9 points! And Congress' approval in California is now down to 20 percent.
Once again, rumors fill the steamy Miami air. Here's my take:
If he's dead, and if the Cubans want to cause maximum harm to the USA (well, Miami...) then if Castro truly IS dead, they won't announce/admit it officially 'till about noon tomorrow.
Why? Because Miami will literally be stopped for a week, then, either by throwing a wild party or recovering from it. I'll probably be down there, too (so Brevard also loses a tiny bit of productivity!) because it's just going to be too-much fun. I hope Cuba becomes another Estonia, and that everyone doesn't assume Raul should now be dictator. With the right attitude, freedom CAN win in Cuba.
JMR
I don't have put up with Keith Overbite:Countdown to No Ratings leading up to NBC's Sunday Night Football.
-cs™
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the
lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth --
persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
Did anyone catch KO before the football thing on nbc? I turned it on about 5 minutes before it was supposed to end and I heard Chris Collinsworth asking KO if Rush Limbaugh was really the worst person in the world. KO tried to change the subject but I got the feeling that he had just completed some anti-Rush tirad. We need to let nbc know that football is non-partisan and if it had to pick one it probably leans more conservative. They should keep KO and his kooky views where they belong: on a network that no one watches.
Gonzales should be knee deep in the 2008 Presidential race....he can be the Poster child for how the Dems treat Immigrants or children of Immigrants.
He should Stump for the minorities......Dems attack minorities without provocation...etc..etc...make hay out of his prosecutions at the hands of the Dems.
What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ? David Foote GoE
Aaaaaaalberto, why dont you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin, but theres a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before its too late
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Fred on DC
August 26, 2007 - 10:55 ET by sarcasmoFred Reed briefly returns to Washington, DC, and then retreats to Mexico.
JMR
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Hey Sarc
August 26, 2007 - 11:06 ET by botgseems Fred here is a wannabe Hunter S. or Kerowac, 'wannabe' being the operative word (of course in those days the drug sub-cult had allure)
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
Fred's not the type
August 26, 2007 - 11:24 ET by sarcasmoMaybe you should read his blog more-carefully. Fred does not seem to be much of a fan of the same substances as Hunter S., and I doubt very-much Fred's demise will be suicide. As for wannabes, I suspect Fred's more widely read online than sarcasmo & botg put-together, he's been (in)famous for years since he cracked that joke about women and changing the oil...
JMR
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Sarc, LMAO
August 26, 2007 - 11:40 ET by botgmore widely read online than sarcasmo & botg put-together,
that's like faster than a speeding snail.
His approach sarc, his approach, the gonzo-cool sub-cult allure of an 'On the Road' or 'Fear and Loathing'
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
I don't see..
August 26, 2007 - 11:54 ET by sarcasmoHow that makes Fred a "wannabe." Fred's just the Fred of Fredoneverything to me. I still fail to see how you derived either illegal drugs or "wannabe" from that.
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from the article
August 26, 2007 - 12:05 ET by botgwhole country must be smoking dope
Yes, brethren and cistern
We’re afraid of trash cans? What would Davy Crockett think?
The city is like an acid trip gone bad
As i said style, Sarc, not content
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
Yep.
August 26, 2007 - 12:15 ET by sarcasmoI like his style, and you apparently-don't.
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We'll Have the Dutch Deluxe
August 26, 2007 - 11:07 ET by acumenHave it your way...
Yes, can ANYONE, ANYONE AT ALL cook up just one more Dutch Reagan deluxe, all-the-way.....make that for here. And hold the FRENCH fries.
Throwing Widows and Orphans Into The Street
August 26, 2007 - 11:10 ET by JoelCTFrom The Patriot: "[John] Edwards is once again stranded in hypocrisy-ville, having profited from a company that foreclosed on 34 homes in New Orleans. This is a particular embarrassment for Edwards, because New Orleans was where he launched his campaign---the capital city of the lesser of his two Americas."
Can you imagine the uproar this would have caused if this had been a Republican? It would have led every newscast for weeks! It wouldn't have died down until the Republican resigned. I don't know about you, but I haven't heard very much about this on the "unbiased" MSM...
Hil pushes her negative
August 26, 2007 - 11:15 ET by botgratings internationally as Malaki criticizes her and Carl Levin for their politicizing.
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
More Fun w/ Bill & Hil
August 26, 2007 - 11:44 ET by BlondeThe latest in the legion of Hillary supporters....
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
blonde
August 26, 2007 - 11:56 ET by botgthanks i've saved to favs the site, i have. Since my hard-drive crash a week ago i've been trying to rebuild my links.
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
B, Glad to help. It's
August 26, 2007 - 12:01 ET by BlondeB,
Glad to help. It's a pretty good site.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
Malaki says "I ask them to come to their senses "
August 26, 2007 - 12:14 ET by JayTeehe is talking about the Democrats...Good Luck Sir, even with 18% approval ratings we (Americans) can't get 'em to be sensible.
This could be a BAD exchange going on between Malaki and the Democraps ....... Iraq can't spell Politically correct.....
What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ? David Foote GoE
History
August 26, 2007 - 12:21 ET by JDWSen Clinton has begun backing away from a lot of her leftist agenda and moving to the center. She's starting to milk the moderate cow.
In the 1990's we watched the implementation of the largest tax increase in world history. We saw pork barrel spending the likes of which we had never seen before. Socialized health care was proposed. Don't ask don't tell became a reality. All from a candidate pushing conservative issues.
After gaining the nomination, leftist issues will be left behind. While campaigning Bubba drafted Bush and the smartest woman in the world will incorporate the same plan. She has no issues to run on, is intelligent enough to realize the negatives will not work, and will plagiarize the GOP.
Unlike her rivals, she has money and power, the leftist wackos established in the late 1960's will follow her. Will her decisions affect the party?
JDW
News media: Scoreboard for terrorists
Regarding the recently
August 26, 2007 - 11:18 ET by motherbeltRegarding the recently released WHO study that ranked the US "medical care" way down on the list of countries, here is a "fisking" of that study and an analysis of why it's conclusion is flawed.
John Stossel
moms
August 26, 2007 - 11:29 ET by botgindeed all that Stossel points out are evident from reading the abstract to the study. Therein is described the subjective ranking criteria.
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
Demediacrats best kept secret
August 26, 2007 - 12:09 ET by acumenSomething else the Murtha and the demediacrats won't tell you:
Troops And Crimes
New York Post
August 3, 2007
History’s best-behaved military
By Ralph Peters
The media love to trash our troops. Every crime alleged to have been committed by a soldier or Marine in Iraq is headlined until it seems that those in uniform are so busy with atrocities they haven’t got time to fight.
No accusation is too preposterous for “respected” media outlets to feature, and the left-wing press convicts our troops long before they see a courtroom. Our service members are portrayed (by those who never served) as a sadistic rabble.
But when you look at the facts - the hard numbers - a very different picture emerges.
While crimes committed by our troops can’t be condoned (and they certainly aren’t), official crime statistics make it clear that we have the best-behaved military in history - one that’s vastly more law-abiding than our general population.
The here-at-home numbers are readily available from public sources. So let’s compare some domestic crime rates with the misdeeds of those vicious storm-troopers of ours.
In the 19-month period - over a year and a half - from Jan. 1, 2006 until the morning you read this, misbehavior by our troops resulted in a total of 59 scheduled court-martials in Iraq - 21 of them general court-martials, which are reserved for the most-serious crimes (murder, rape, robbery, assault, arson and so forth). The other 38 were special court-martials, invoked for lesser offenses, such as disciplinary infractions or petty theft.
OK: 59 trials in 19 months, among an average troop population of almost 140,000. Compare that to civilian crime statistics back home, and it’s clear that any of us would welcome the chance to live among such model citizens - even though our troops are overwhelmingly within the age window where criminal behavior is most frequent.
Start with a city that Money magazine rated as “one of the 10 best places to live” in the United States: Ann Arbor, Mich. Home to a great university, the town has a population of about 113,300 - about 20,000 lower than our pre-surge troop numbers in Iraq.
In 2005 (the last year for which statistics are available), that ideal place to live recorded 1,476 crimes that, if committed by a soldier, would have required a general court-martial - plus a further 2,282 thefts and similar infractions that, depending on the details, would have been handled by either a general or a special court-martial.
Twelve months in Ann Arbor, 3,758 court-martial-equivalent trials. If all the crimes had been taken to court, which one doubts. Nineteen months in Iraq, under the complex stresses of combat? Fifty-nine court-martials. Guess that bastion of ethical liberalism in Michigan needs to go through basic training.
But let’s give peace a chance: The most dogmatically left-wing city in the United States is undoubtedly (the People’s Republic of) Santa Cruz, Calif. With a population of some 55,000 - about a third of our current troop numbers in Iraq - Santa Cruz, where the Age of Aquarius reigns, had 503 violent crimes in 2004 (the latest statistics available) and a total of 3,665 crimes that would qualify for court-martials.
Extrapolate those numbers to match our current troop strength, and you’d have a requirement for more than 10,000 court-martial equivalents. If Santa Cruz were as serious about punishing its criminals as our military is . . .
The military doesn’t do warnings and probation. If a soldier does the crime, he or she will do the time or pay the other relevant penalty - court-martials directly reflect the number of crimes committed. That means that our troops in a combat zone have had less than 1 percent of the crime rate in Santa Cruz - whose City Council in 2003 was proud to be the first in the United States to adopt a resolution denouncing the war in Iraq.
Nor are these hotbeds of peace, love and shirked responsibility alone in being criminal empires compared to the good order prevailing in our military. Take a genuinely decent American city, Lynchburg, Va., with a strong religious tradition, 11 colleges, universities and technical schools and a population in 2006 of 67,720 (about half the pre-surge number of troops in Iraq).
In 2005, Lynchburg suffered 857 criminal acts that would’ve demanded general court-martials in the military and a further 1,805 thefts, many of which would have resulted in special court-martials.
Yet Lynchburg is particularly well-behaved. The stats for many cities are far worse.
Now set those facts against the hypocrisy of so many in the media toward our men and women in uniform. Did any of the reporters wailing about the deplorable behavior of our troops in a half-dozen incidents over four years bother to put those crimes into perspective?
Our troops are performing remarkably well under difficult conditions, and our military does a solid job of screening out sociopaths. But, inevitably, some slip through (the private-for-life who recently conned The New Republic might qualify). And it’s the one scumbag among 10,000 honorable men and women in uniform who gets the press attention.
Of course, we rightly demand model standards of behavior from our troops, as we do from law-enforcement agents and officers. And today’s U.S. armed forces deliver, taking good order and discipline very seriously. We all should be proud of how selflessly and honorably our troops have served as the jackals on the home tear at the military’s carcass.
I learned an important lesson myself in digging out these statistics: I knew, of course, how decent our troops are. I served with them for almost 22 years (and testified at two court-martials in two decades). But on future trips to California - my favorite foreign country - I’ll be sure to give Santa Cruz a wide berth.
I’d hate to be the victim of an atrocity.
Ralph Peters is the author of the new book “Wars of Blood and Faith: The Conflicts That Will Shape the 21st Century.”
acumen
August 26, 2007 - 12:43 ET by shawn228Just wanted to make sure i am understanding you. So the Demediacrats best kept secret is a comparison of statistics between domestic crime and crime for troops fighting in a war?
Until you prove otherwise Shawn
August 26, 2007 - 12:59 ET by acumenI'll be happy to revise that assessment if you can just show me one article.... or just one blurb, where you have heard this comparison made in the demedia. For the time being, I'll let that vacuum act as support for my claim.
BTW - Let me make this clear for you; My assessment isn't the story here. Now let me ask you a few questions. Any reaction to the actual story? Do you dispute the data? Do you support the demedia silence to this anomaly between civilian vs. military crimes as opposed to the demedia's non-stop, breathless reporting of supposed US military atrocities gone wild? Are you suggesting any demediacrat could not have done the math? Are you a member of the Santa Cruz city council?
acumen
August 26, 2007 - 13:11 ET by shawn228I did not, nor did I try to find one. Your the first I have heard to make his comparsion. If it is your opinion, this is some sort of "revelation" so be it.
I would not say the msm is ignoring this, imo it is not newsworthy because it is like comparing apples to oranges. I am not a member of the Santa Cruz council and I am baffled why you would ask me such a question.
Well good luck to you in your mission to get the truth out there. God speed.
Forget reading Shawn - Just watch the video
August 26, 2007 - 13:51 ET by acumenOf course you didn't.
Of course you would not. But let me take a little time on this one. The point is not the fact that the demediacrats are ignoring this obvious disparity in crime. The point is that the demediacrats are quick to endlessly report every rumor from supposed "flushing of Korans" to supposed "air-raiding of villages" but as Ralph Peters points out; "While crimes committed by our troops can’t be condoned (and they certainly aren’t), official crime statistics make it clear that we have the best-behaved military in history - one that’s vastly more law-abiding than our general population."
No, the fact that we have the best-behaved-military in history may not be "newsworthy" but, more to the point, neither is reporting lies tarnishing the behaviour of our best-behaved-military. Yet which stories do the demedia perpetuate? You yourself imply it would be fruitless to find one demedia story pointing out the enviable law-abiding character of our military, even while they perform their job in the harshest of conditions. I'm baffled that you can't see the obvious uneveness. Which leads me to your last point;
If you would take the time to read and reply to the article I posted rather than simply react to my teaser, then you possibly would not be baffled by my Santa Cruz city council question - apparently that's a stretch.
Why don't we just cut to the chase - Do you support the demediacrats endless assault on the character of our troops while ignoring the fact we have the best-behaved-military in history?
Maybe reading isn't your thing. So I suggest watching this video before answering.
acumen
August 26, 2007 - 19:44 ET by shawn228Did not mean to be tardy with my response, but I had to go out for lunch. I can read just fine acumen. My vocabulary and spelling might be as good as yours though.
I watched your video, Okay I watched the first ten minutes anyway. All I saw was a person complaining about the media and dropping a f bomb constantly.
I do not condone anyone ever smearing anybody. If the events that happenned are facts, I would want to know about it. If whisleblowers are punished because they try to get truth out there, I would want to know about it as well.
I concede the msm might not be as quick to point out a bridge being built, or a school being opened as quick as they point out the secretarian violence, but I do not see them painting our troops in a negative light like you do.
Lastly if you want to compare todays troops with past troops from Vietnam troops or Korea, to come up with your hypthesis that this is the most behaved troops in history, I understand....but the logic of comparing US troops conduct to a US city is on par with the logic of asking me If I am in a government official in Santa Cruz. Perhaps if you did your comparsion to a city like Camden,New Jersey you might have gotten a even more favorable result.
Let's give WAR a chance
August 26, 2007 - 13:26 ET by JayTeeThe Peace is killing people in Israel and surrounding countries.
Collateral damage in Iraq cannot hold a candle to WWII. Collateral damage in Iraq cannot hold a candle to Saddam's Rule.
With 44,000 Hiway deaths in America each year, we have our own collateral damage to deal with. BUT, this is the Cost of Feedom to drive, and not have to dress like a NASCA driver to prevent Auto accident deaths.
With 15,000 murders a year, we have some collateral damage for the Freedom to carry Arms.
We just found out to cost of flying Helecopters in a war zone last week. 14 dead.
Freedom isnt' cheap, we have to pay for it....whether it's Freedom to Drive, Freedom to own a gun, Freedom to maintain a Military.
We could pull our troops out and keep the military Safe....except when they got home from war, we'd probably lose a few to Auto accidents and murder in Philidelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, etc.....
Everythings relative, and in a shooting war where your job is killed or be killed, losing 3,000 troops in the last 6 years is an ugly record you do not want, but looking at the odds I'd join the military before I'd drive from Los Angeles to New York, it's safer.
And if I was a Black man, I'd go to Iraq before I would Visit Philidelphia for a 9 month Tour.
What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ? David Foote GoE
Iraq unspun
August 26, 2007 - 12:48 ET by JDWFOX
Pace denies he'll recommend cutting troops strength in Iraq
JDW
News media: Scoreboard for terrorists
JDW.....LA times needs reading glasses ?
August 26, 2007 - 14:08 ET by JayTeeWhat...The LA TImes has mis-reported AGAIN ? !
Someone has BDS, and starts making connections between paragraphs/sentences...that are not really connected ?
Quick, Conduct Eye Tests on the entire LA Times staff, ..and... do we have a TEST for Bush Derangement Syndrome anywhere ?
Is it like the Flu Vaccines, we're totally unprepared for a BDS Vaccine ? SDS can be treated, is being treated, with a Successful "Surge".
What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ? David Foote GoE
A new poll in California
August 26, 2007 - 13:45 ET by Del DolemonteA new poll in California shows the Left Coasters turning on Pelosi and Congress-San Fran Nan's "approval" by her own constituents has dropped from 48 percent to 39 percent, a drop of 9 points! And Congress' approval in California is now down to 20 percent.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/politics/ci_6725175?nclick_check=1
Fidel's "death" or death
August 26, 2007 - 13:22 ET by sarcasmoOnce again, rumors fill the steamy Miami air. Here's my take:
If he's dead, and if the Cubans want to cause maximum harm to the USA (well, Miami...) then if Castro truly IS dead, they won't announce/admit it officially 'till about noon tomorrow.
Why? Because Miami will literally be stopped for a week, then, either by throwing a wild party or recovering from it. I'll probably be down there, too (so Brevard also loses a tiny bit of productivity!) because it's just going to be too-much fun. I hope Cuba becomes another Estonia, and that everyone doesn't assume Raul should now be dictator. With the right attitude, freedom CAN win in Cuba.
JMR
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Our future
August 26, 2007 - 18:02 ET by shawn228Who was it that said Blondes were not very smart.
???...what did she just say??
I'm so glad I'm not a
August 26, 2007 - 19:24 ET by ChriswelLI'm so glad I'm not a sports fan!
I don't have put up with Keith Overbite:Countdown to No Ratings leading up to NBC's Sunday Night Football.
-cs™
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the
lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth --
persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
Did anyone catch KO before
August 26, 2007 - 20:11 ET by Ron was RIGHTDid anyone catch KO before the football thing on nbc? I turned it on about 5 minutes before it was supposed to end and I heard Chris Collinsworth asking KO if Rush Limbaugh was really the worst person in the world. KO tried to change the subject but I got the feeling that he had just completed some anti-Rush tirad. We need to let nbc know that football is non-partisan and if it had to pick one it probably leans more conservative. They should keep KO and his kooky views where they belong: on a network that no one watches.
Predictable "borrowing" of ideas reported by predictable source.
August 27, 2007 - 05:19 ET by sarcasmoNow that Ron Paul's winning various minor straw polls left and right (to the deafening-silence of the MSM) we see that Mitt's borrowing a few of Dr. Paul's ideas, and Gambling911's once-again doing the only journalism about it. Also, in good news for bias-busters, another source has noted the media's behavior towards candidates they deigned to allow to attend, if not actually speak-at, the "debates."
JMR
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}}---> Alberto Gonzales resigns
August 27, 2007 - 08:30 ET by Cool ArrowSo without Alberto to kick around anymore, and no Karl Rove, will they go after Cheney or Bush.
~LYDSEXICS UNTIE!~
Al berto would make an Excellant Campaign Assistant..
August 27, 2007 - 10:12 ET by JayTeeGonzales should be knee deep in the 2008 Presidential race....he can be the Poster child for how the Dems treat Immigrants or children of Immigrants.
He should Stump for the minorities......Dems attack minorities without provocation...etc..etc...make hay out of his prosecutions at the hands of the Dems.
What good is a Free Press, if it is a False Press ? David Foote GoE
Transparency
August 27, 2007 - 08:35 ET by sarcasmoMakes for three strange Presidential bedfellows. (Now, which one is credible?)
JMR
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I shed a single tear for
August 27, 2007 - 09:15 ET by LeonI shed a single tear for the end of the honeymoon.
You all jumped on the Sarkozy bandwagon too quick simply because he was a consersative. Sadly, you forgot an important lesson: He's still French.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy calls for a timetable to withdraw foreign troops from Iraq.
I especially love the quote where he says that France 'remains hostile' towards the war. Hostile? Dang that's a strong word.
Goodbye Alberto.
August 27, 2007 - 09:19 ET by LeonGoodbye Alberto. Goodbye.
Aaaaaaalberto, why dont you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin, but theres a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before its too late
You and your incessant lying shall be missed.
Resigned...ooooh snap!