Wow, they sure make the Kool-Aid strong in Idaho. My blog nemesis, Adam, has a couple of posts up that just defy rational understanding.
In one post, Much Ado About Nothing, he argues that the Downing Street Memo is no big deal, because “the British clearly believed there were Weapons of Mass Destruction. They described Iraq’s capability as ‘less than’ other ‘axis of evil’ nations, not non-existent”. Of course, he ignores the point that Bush was lying to us about his intentions to wage war while telling us he hadn’t decided to go to war. Remember the Clinton-era chant, “it’s not the sex, it’s the lying”? Adam continues:
Iraq was also chosen because the Coalition believed that a democracy could be established in the Middle East in the midst of all these rogue nations. The Administration believes that Democracy and free markets can transform a society and produce economic prosperity, which will cause more people to seek freedom and less to go after terrorism.
Yes, they hate us for our freedoms. We’ll be welcomed as liberators. As soon as they get Starbucks and Wal-Mart, they’ll all love us.
Simply put, this doesn’t rise to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor. What we’re seeing is a bunch of Bush-hating grandstanders wanting to do anything they can to wreck the second term. As the opposition, they’re free to do this, but if they want to impeach the President of the United States, they better come up with more solid evidence than this.
Official government meeting minutes proving the Bush administration was fixing intelligence around a policy of invading Iraq and lying to the American people in order to send 1668 soldiers to their deaths = not good enough. Cum-stained blue dress = impeachment!
So I had to make this observation:
I’m glad you believe in the mission, Adam. Promoting democracy in the Middle East by bombing the shi’ite out of it is working wonders. I’m sure you’ve heard military recruitment is really suffering. Hey… you’re an able-bodied, intelligent, patriotic 24-year-old young man! Need the phone number of the Boise Army recruiter? Heck, you could just join the National Guard if you wanted; I did, back in the 90’s, served my six years. Trust me, it’s a life-changing experience.
I didn’t think so.
Later on, he has a post about a couple of brutal cases of children killing other children, and chalks that up to, yup, you guessed it, that darned liberal media and secular humanism and removing the Ten Commandments and general antijesusification of America:
In these two stories we’re seeing fruit of the past of the 30 years of the culture of death and the war on the family and faith in the public sphere. You’re going to see more and more of these stories in coming years because human life is being devalued. The left has exalted the selfish destruction of human life to a Constitutional right, they’ve taken the Ten Commandments out of public schools for fear of what damage they might do to the minds of children in forcing a worldview on them. We’ve seen the sexual revolution tell us to do what’s right for us, to heck with honor, family, or committment.
Its all come to roost in these two stories. We’ve got two children getting humanists educations committing these crimes because of annoyance, because of petty jealousy.
The ideology of the cultural left brought about this situation. They control the entertainment media and the educational establishment. I’m going to predict that within ten years, these stories will no longer make the news, they’ll be so common place.
Yeah, that’s it. has nothing to do with poverty or mental illness. If only those kids were praying in public school, they wouldn’t be killers. Of course, I couldn’t let that sit, either:
What else has happened in the past generation that might provide some causality to your point? Both parents having to work because of conservative dismantling of the middle class and social safety nets against poverty? Republican-led foreign policy of “might-makes-right” from Vietnam to Iraq, leading kids to believe violence is the way to solve problems? Reagan-era decimation of mental health treatment and child welfare services that would have helped psycho parents and rescued at-risk kids? Economic policies favored by big pharma, insurance, and HMO companies that make it prohibitively expensive to place a problem kid in a psychiatric care facility? I don’t know either, but trying to blame the so-called “culture of death” fails the laugh test. You are trying to imply a causality where none exists.
By the way, this “culture of death” you speak of… would that be those of us who want to save old and sick people’s lives through embryonic stem-cell research? You know, those little undifferentiated living fertility clinic embryos that you’d rather see thrown away, because they might-have-been-but-will-never-be babies someday?
Make me a deal, Adam. After you go and sign up for the Army to go fight Glorious Leader’s war for democracy in the Middle East, stop by and sign the “Culture of Life Stem-Cell Pledge”, as written below:
I, ________, being a firm supporter of the Culture of Life, and an ardent believer that we should not create life merely to destroy it, do hereby instruct all doctors to withhold from me any medical treatment derived from the embryonic stem cell research that is sure to be carried out in foreign countries. If I am to contract spinal cord paralysis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, amyotropic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, or any other affliction that may be alleviated or cured in the future through the use of embryonic stem cell lines, I refuse all such treatment and prefer to waste away in pain and die as Jesus Christ intended me to.
