tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post4028549067251091844..comments2023-10-20T09:13:15.862-04:00Comments on Swedish Meatballs Confidential (pNSFW): Iraq Between Federalism and CollapseM1http://www.blogger.com/profile/05394503964463278951noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post-66841469522068364262007-08-20T08:06:00.000-04:002007-08-20T08:06:00.000-04:00Baby talk aside, here are links to two somewhat in...Baby talk aside, here are links to two somewhat interesting articles:<BR/><BR/>NYT Op-Ed<BR/>The War as We Saw It<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/2atsmr<BR/><BR/>The Independent<BR/> Military commanders tell Brown to withdraw from Iraq without delay<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/22jhrjM1https://www.blogger.com/profile/05394503964463278951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post-21653481096711453752007-08-19T06:16:00.000-04:002007-08-19T06:16:00.000-04:00I am here to spell bad. I am here to self-ridicule...I am here to spell bad. I am here to self-ridicule. I am here to BS. And when blue moon lucky in my ubiquitous attempts, I am here to entertain. Since we are chicken-assed anonymous, bragging can't be da' game at hand - or any portion of it. We might as well be avatars and of what worth are the boasts of reality dissociated gifs?<BR/><BR/>Younome, you obviated my suspicion that you might have a law degree somewhere in your pedigree by the seemingly deformed conclusions you extrapolated from my invective. There is little if anything in my infantile tirade that can be successfully used to triangulate any of the kill shots you seem poised to take.<BR/><BR/>Can it be assumed from anything I scribbled that I left open the possibility that I am a maker of kings - or a king? Naw. That the prof. is a loser ass? Absolutely Naw. (I know he's a friendly guy and a great dad)<BR/><BR/>All I nobly do Sir, is to roll ignoble meatballs.<BR/><BR/>I do apologize for upsetting ye with any insinuation of wealth or elliptic reference to odd lot drinking buddies. Twas not my intention. Twas but to practice my Swenglish.<BR/><BR/>Nonetheless, my puppyish invective is part of a temporally broader exchange between DD and myself. I believe DD knows my style, and I his. (Geez, M1 even reads his blog semi-regularly (without trolling) to stay abreast the diking activities of the chronic wrong-doers. He is a most duteous digger of dikes for many a wrong-doer and the blow back their deeds threaten the Heimat's peace & security with.)<BR/><BR/>In conclusion, I have but two minor beefs with DD:<BR/><BR/>ONE: Most everything he claims (at BR) that can be checked against power-pointable facts and figures is wrong, and oft dead wrong at that. End of story for any of us fact checkers still out there. <BR/><BR/>TWO: I suspect that DD is part of a formal talking points collective whose mission it is to engage in domestic perception herding & management, and the buttressing of rotten hulls without respect or regard to any existent truths. The exact nature of the collective escapes me but I suspect the shadow of the hand of officialdom, or something close to it. For that there are many clues but I shall go there first when I can power point it as solidly as if it were a PDB.<BR/><BR/>Till then I might redundantly point out(for most that is) that almost all polemic generated here is done tongue in cheek. We're here for fun and games. I'd let DD buy me a drink any day, if only he would let rub his elbow patches - and I'm quite sure we will get around to that sooner than later.<BR/><BR/>But I stand firm, "Do we pull out?" ain't a real question. It's baby talk, not worthy a man of letters or his learned audience. Agree ye not? I'm all fucking ears.M1https://www.blogger.com/profile/05394503964463278951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post-82530189388266151912007-08-18T14:15:00.000-04:002007-08-18T14:15:00.000-04:00Wow! Kind of hostile there Meatball boy?!Or perhap...Wow! <BR/>Kind of hostile there Meatball boy?!<BR/>Or perhaps it was only an affected outrage? so that you could brag ever so heroically not only of your regal and copious philanthropic ways, but of your great wealth? (gee guys!! this dude <I>REALLY MUST</I> know what he's talking about!! he <I>DONATES</I> to <I>CHARITY!!</I> "amounts probably approximating your ass. prof. salary (gross, that is)"!?! golly I feel such shame... Donald, you must be beside yourself!! (you loser ass. proff!))<BR/>Tell us, oh wise one, is the 'cheap kick' you derive from healing all those victims as satisfying as the belittling and ridiculing of someone who is simply asking a question?<BR/>This: <BR/>"This of course hasn't precluded myself and a few of my close associates and friends from bird hunting and tequila shooting with a good number of the war's Anglo-American principals." <BR/><BR/>This I will be laughing at for a long time to come.<BR/><BR/>Here's another gem:<BR/>"It is not a question posed by a man, much less a man endowed with any discernible sway - at home, among peers, or in the audience of kings and their makers."<BR/>Tell me love? Which do you fancy yourself then? The king or the maker?<BR/>Really, you are hilarious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post-17252734568248414702007-08-17T10:04:00.000-04:002007-08-17T10:04:00.000-04:00Hey there Steve!Hey there Steve!M1https://www.blogger.com/profile/05394503964463278951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post-9932118473590260482007-08-17T04:54:00.000-04:002007-08-17T04:54:00.000-04:00I shall keep this exchange as an example of the ch...I shall keep this exchange as an example of the chasm between accepted cultural wisdom about current events and the actual factual world.stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13137529614319346972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post-3178158392079269582007-08-16T15:39:00.000-04:002007-08-16T15:39:00.000-04:00I'm not in Iraq. I had no say whatsoever in the wh...I'm not in Iraq. <BR/><BR/>I had no say whatsoever in the why,how, or when of anyone or anything deploying to Iraq.<BR/><BR/>I am not a <I>We</I> with juice when it comes to anything pertaining to Iraq, nor do I make claim to being such a <I>We</I>. This of course hasn't precluded myself and a few of my close associates and friends from bird hunting and tequila shooting with a good number of the war's Anglo-American principals.<BR/><BR/>I do however donate significant monetary resources (amounts probably approximating your ass. prof. salary (gross, that is))to various pragmatic programs that attempt to marginally, but meaningfully, heal people fractured by trauma come of war and torture. Some of that cash comes from good old fashion war profiteering on my part. I do not give back out of shame or guilt or obligation de tithe. I do so because I have the means to spare and I like the idea of healing - it gives me a cheap kick, maybe even a thrill. (I guess I have something in common with dentists after all.)<BR/><BR/>Nonetheless:<BR/><BR/>A question like <I>Do we pull out now?</I> expresses a pathological regressiveness teetering on the proudly infantile. It is not a question posed by a man, much less a man endowed with any discernible sway - at home, among peers, or in the audience of kings and their makers. <BR/><BR/> With victory wishers like yourself anywhere near the helm we would most certainly be bound to go down in flames. Are you near any helm? I pray not. Fifth columnists must be rooted out to the extent they haven't been kept at bay for they will insist that all that hurts us is a course the true patriot must incessantly follow. And at that they will insist using the words of babes.M1https://www.blogger.com/profile/05394503964463278951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post-50924314537011787482007-08-16T13:14:00.000-04:002007-08-16T13:14:00.000-04:00Nice post! But what are we going to do? Even a fed...Nice post! But what are we going to do? Even a federal solution may still lead to collapse. Do we pull out now?<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://burkeanreflections.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Burkean Reflections</A>AmPowerBloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18236333181889271910noreply@blogger.com